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Iceberg Fall 2011

fashionologie — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:14:58 PST

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Milan Fashion Week: Iceberg Fall 2010

coutorture — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:32:23 PST

Milan 02/28/10 WireImage

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Milan Fashion Week: Iceberg Fall 2009

coutorture — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:00:00 PDT

Milan 02/28/09. Photos by Daniele Schiavello/Catwalking/Getty Images.

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Fall 2009 Milan Trend Report: Statement Fur

coutorture — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:02:16 PST

From Left: Iceberg, Blugirl, Pucci

Despite Tim Gunn's best efforts it seems the Fall 2009 season is fully stocked with statement fur. We saw plenty of unabashed examples in New York and although London's offerings were less plentiful, Milan has compensated with some of the most statement-making options yet. Whether by way of bright color of sheer volume, these furs are certainly hard to miss.

Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno Causes Mayhem at Milan Fashion Week

fashionologie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:28:46 PDT

>> Bruno is in Milan - that's Sacha Baron Cohen's gay Austrian fashion show presenter alter-ego - and he's filming for his upcoming movie at Fashion Week. It all started Wednesday, backstage at Iceberg, where he threw himself on the floor, dragged down a rack of clothes that stuck to his Velcro-trimmed outfit, and appeared to tear off his clothes until security removed him.

Yesterday morning, he tried to hit up Dsquared, but was blocked by security, and yesterday evening he tried to crash Versace, dressed all in McQueen, but was denied again - the Italian Chamber of Fashion has sent out a press release to designers, warning them not to accredit Cohen's film production companies, after all.

Unfortunately, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada didn't get the memo . . . »

Chanel Fall 2010: All Faux Fur and Icebergs

fashionologie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:14:09 PST

>> For the six days leading up to the Chanel Fall 2010 show, Karl Lagerfeld had the thirty-five person team who sculpted The Ice Hotel in Sweden brought in to carve a 265-ton iceberg, also imported from Sweden, in the middle of the Grand Palais. The room was chilled to 25 degrees Fahrenheit, and the iceberg was hidden from the audience under a large wooden box that mechanically rose when the show started.

Four models - Brad Kroenig, Baptiste Giabiconi, Abbey Lee Kershaw, and Freja Beha Erichsen (the latter two who are reportedly set to appear in the Chanel Fall 2010 campaign) - in furry yeti suits opened the display, "milling about in a daze" before dispersing, and giving way to a train of models sloshing through water from the melting iceberg; some even left shoes which came loose behind in their wake.

“Global warming is the issue of our times. Fashion has to address it,” Lagerfeld said afterward. And fur was everywhere - boots, skirts, pants, bags - but all faux. Karl said he went with faux fur for two reasons: first, Fendi does the best real furs and he doesn't want to compete, and second: “Technical advances are so perfect you can hardly tell fake fur from the real thing. Fake is not chic - we have got a new Chanel tweed to stop copies - but fake fur is.”
*image: source

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going for the gold

philleif — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:54:00 PST

>> Not silver, not platinum, brass or copper, but gold seems to be the metal of choice for fall. It was everywhere at Gucci, YSL, and Dolce & Gabbana, just to hit on the tip of the iceberg. And let's not forget at Dries, even the catwalk was golden.