The manicures coming down the Milan Fashion Week runways have been rather nonexistent, but we spotted nail jewelry on the Aigner Fall 2013 catwalk. The nails were kept bare except for the golden rings that decorated a few of the models' fingers. We want to know what you think of this nail jewelry. Would you wear it?
Donatella Versace's punk-rock Fall '13 could safely supply the fashion set with a number of appropriately themed gowns for this year's Met Gala. It could also easily (and further) incite homage to '90s-era grunge from the street-style crowd with its nostalgic references — chains, nails, studs, and spikes as choice accessories for the season. While Donatella never shies away from the subversive or the sexy, this is clearly some tougher stuff. Click through for a look at the full collection now.
Donatella Versace is having fun with portmanteaus. Her Fall 2013 collection is named "VUNK" — a mashup of Versace and punk — because the offering imagines what punk clothes would look like if the cultural movement had only just begun today.
Read on for more about Versace's Fall 2013 Vunk collection.
The Milan Fashion Week crowd knows how to work a standout accessory, and it shows. While NYC and London street stylers stuck to their tried-and-true Céline and 3.1 Phillip Lim bags, this batch of attendees opted for over-the-top opulence and one-of-a-kind pieces. Think feather-trimmed bags, lavender spiked pumps, and luxurious textured colorblocked boots. Basically, these are the kind of accoutrements we wish were in our own accessory arsenal. See the very best jewels, bags, and shoes from the streets of Milan Fashion Week right now.
Veronica Etro's Fall 2013 collection explores the tension between how to dress for today while showing respect for the past.
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Is there anything better than a front row full of fashion's biggest fans? Maybe. But that doesn't mean a style-studded front row doesn't get our hearts racing. From London to Milan, this week's shows were packed to the brim with chic attendees, and not only did they bring their fashion A-games, but they also appeared to be having a grand old time doing it. After all, if P'trique is at Fashion Week, it can't not be fun, right?
Click through to see those, plus all the most gorgeous looks from the pre-Oscars parties in Los Angeles and the Brit Awards in London — and more — right here, in our weekly best-dressed roundup.
For all the tartan, kilts, and handbags worn like sporrans in Moschino's Fall 2013 collection, Rossella Jardini could have moved her show from Milan to Edinburgh. Jardini has been influenced by her Anglophilia in the past, but this show opened with a series of looks that celebrated the Scottish Highlands. Blazers, coats, and dresses cut from a variety of tartans came down the runway first, some of them paired with oversize riding helmets, or accented with crests and flower embroidery. Other looks were sleeker, like a pair of gray pinstriped suits and a black dress accented with what looks like white stitching. But by and large, this ode to British fashion had a buttoned-up sense of playfulness and fun that's sure to sell well from Rome to London and beyond.
Imagine what the patrons of a glamorous '40s-era Parisian jazz club would wear, and you're not far off from the Fall 2013 collection from DSquared2. Designers Dean and Dan Caten sent out a series of looks that ran the gamut from masculine (Cara Delevingne walked the runway in a double-breasted suit with full-cut trousers) to ultrafeminine, like the silk gown trimmed in ostrich feathers that opened the show.
If that doesn't sound luxurious enough, there was plenty more.
After seasons of bringing her customers conceptual, highly themed collections, Miuccia Prada's Fall 2013 show took a sharp turn to focus on things she simply likes. Prada likes fur, and so there was fur. Prada likes a cinched-in and belted waist, and so there were cinched-in and belted waists. And Prada loves an interesting skirt (she said as much in the Met's Impossible Conversations exhibit), so of course the skirts were decorated with sparkly flowers or finished with asymmetrical hems — or both.
If those hemlines felt a little undone, so did the models' hair: Prada tasked her stylists with making her girls look like their hair was wet, and some of them wore their dresses, whether cut from wool or brightly colored Vichy checks, off the shoulder. Letting go, ever so slightly, of the laser-focused precision of the past few seasons is just one of the things that makes this collection approachable, wearable, and elegant.
Call it wanderlust on fire. Roberto Cavalli's Fall 2013 show for Just Cavalli took its audience on a walk to exotic locales across Asia. But the journey was briefly interrupted when an antifur protestor stormed the catwalk — a long, raised black stage with digital flames licking the sides — holding a sign with the slogan "Your Fashion, Their Death."
After security removed her from the runway, the show progressed with wild pattern combinations: one cream sweater had sleeves cut from a quilted pagoda print and was paired with tiger-print trousers. Some looks were accented with colorful tassels worn as necklaces. A few pieces in a blue peony print looked sweet, but the red dress depicting a gold dragon swimming through orange flames had a decidedly tougher aura.
As for the fur pieces that were being protested, there was no shortage of those. A blue-and-cream colorblocked fur coat came down the runway, and red strands of fur trimmed a parka in a red and black brocade.
