When Women Make Fashion with a Future: An A/W 2010 Review

*lead picture, Lou Doillon in Anthony Vaccarello on StyleBubble

I haven’t been to fashion week since 2005. And that was after more than ten years of attending the New York shows. The biggest reason for stopping: I was bored. Mostly the fashion press is what really pushed me over the edge. But now I realize, fashion is a little bit like god and religion. I believe. But inundate me with too much proselytizing and I forget the main act.  In other words, whimsical and masterful fashion design is something truly beautiful and even more so when everyone sort of shuts up, folds their hands in their lap, and looks on in respectful silence at the mastery of the production.

Here are my picks:

1. The GreenShows in New York. Designers  Samantha Pleet, Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart / Vaute Couture, Melissa Kirgan & Xing-Zhen Chung-Hilyard / Eko-Lab, JoAnn Berman, Lizz Wasserman / Popomomo.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WQrkWsSmV4

Tesco (UK grocer) joins with Florence & Fred fashion label to launch line of recycled clothing - (read more on the Guardian)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxZ-uhVDfIs

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhrkzl88ICk

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvIzBTrrFvE

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liKu3G0kDHQ … noting Cassette Playa’s ‘enhanced reality’ specifically here and not so much the clothes themselves. push envelope push.

Dorothee Hagemann & Annalisa Dunn make up Cooperative Designs

<<Read more about Cooperative Designs on Grazia.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS93VRMPcpg

Ada Zanditon website

TreeHugger covers all the ecofashion from the week with a salute to designer Ada Zanditon.

and last but not least, the Times Online addressing the feminist issue in Fashion after Miuccia Prada calls herself a ‘former’ feminist.

To see some really funny cool fashion week coverage in London (lets face it, this is mostly London) check out Amelia’s magazine. Reminds me a little bit of vintage Girlonthestreet.