Some of the dresses from the Krizia’s new Spring/Summer 2010 collection look  as italian you can get. But that’s  not a bad thing at all. And this collection has some classic uplift on them.

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Well, it’s Milan Fashion Week and a lot of “old-timers” are making it as a freshy approach as you possibly can. By making it with a clean “side tour” via retro-revival… Not at all a bad thing I think. Burberry icon Chris Bailey are making a new kind of burberry from the old stuff but there’s plenty of nice collections for men this year to wear. Burberry Prorsum for the Fall of 2010 maybe says it all.

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Time to time you come a cross to a thing you don’t know what it basically is and you scratch your head. Alban from Vernato approached us and said: “We are a new brand that focuses only on world cultures. We are two Europeans that came to the US at an early age. We looked around and there were no brands that designed what we had in mind. We went ahead and build a whole brand on the message of Cultural Meaning, or Meaningful Culture. Every piece of t-shirt that we introduce has a cultural meaning behind it.”

Message of cultural meaning? I’m a little bit lost there but nonetheless I think the basic consept should be rethought a little bit. Personally I think the culture and cultural meanings go deeper than just a word of the nation in question and some plain national symbols. Some of the shirts (like Russia) might even go a littel bit to the unbalanced surface of nationalism… Well, you can judge it for yourselves above.  But good luck to guys anyways.

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Very talented young designer, swedish Sandra Backlund, is releasing her new collection for S/S 2010. The knitwear is awesome as always and with a boost by the italians White Club collective, Backlund will reach a bigger audience for her beautiful work. Snadra says in her bio: “I build my garments by hand from a couple of basic bricks which I multiply and attach to each other in different ways to discover the shape that I want. In that sense I approach fashion more like a scupltor than a tailor.” And boy does she chisel beautifully.

www.sandrabacklund.com