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A few days ago I went to see the movie Coco Before Chanel which depicts how Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, an orphan turned cabaret singer found the inspiration to become the international designer she was known to be.

The most memorable moment of the movie for me was the catwalk show at the end of the movie in the infamous staircase of the historical Chanel shop of rue Cambon in Paris. The audience is left to guess the date of this event as the collection could be from any decade, from yesterday as well as from the middle of the century. It reflects how influential Chanel has been to 20th Century fashion as well as the impact it continues to have.

A definite must-see!

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This is Now in Fashion. For this Spring-Summer collection, the Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf performed a video with an unique model in the show: Sharlom Harlow, instead or making the classic show with an audience. The entire world could watch the video at the same time. In the designs, new materials, new volumes, geometric shapes and a big work: some of the dress took four weeks to be finished due to the craftwork with Swarovsky crystals.

Have a look at the photos from the show: here.

To see more Fashion, visit the blog http://www.mepasoeldiacomprando.blogspot.com/, written by Chloe

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I already did a post about the obsession for sunglasses in the spring, so I thought I’d follow it up with another spring-obsession many people tend to get (including me): Shoes.

Obviously shoes are an “all year around thing” but it’s now, during the spring and the summer I find that the most people go crazy about shoes. I suppose that’s logical, it’s at this time of the year you have the widest range of choices. You can still wear sneakers and boots as well as peep-toes and high heels.

My ‘now shoes’ are the really high heeled platform shoes that you can see in every store and on every girl in Stockholm, both day and night. That’s the kind of shoe I just assumed is ‘now’. But since I moved to London I’ve had to do some thinking: Is a shoe ‘now’ when it’s Carrie Bradshaw’s latest addition to her shoe collection? Or is a shoe ‘now’ when the rest of the city wears it? I mean what’s the definition of now really?

When I look around at people in London, it’s not the heels I see the most, it’s the ballerina shoes (even in the evenings). So the question is am I wrong and the ballerina shoe should be the ‘shoe of now’ or am I and the girl I once heard saying: “If the shoes don’t have high heels they are not worth the money” right?

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After reading a blogpost written by NoCrowds, one of the This is Now Twitter followers, I decided to head off to the Victoria and Albert Museum (the V&A) to visit the Hats exhibition.

Hats: An anthology by Stephen Jones is an hommage to the V&A’s very first fashion exhibition which took place in the early 70’s: Fashion: An Anthology by Cecil Beaton. It put fashion on the museum map: ever since, it has become a very important part of the season programme at the V&A and in other museums all over Europe. For example a few years later, the Museum of Fashion opened in Paris to collect and display creations that have marked the development of historical and contemporary fashion and has been showing major fashion exhibitions ever since.

This year the V&A has invited famous milliner Stephen Jones to curate an exhibition around what has been dubed the ultimate fashion accessory: the hat.

The magical and Baroque garden setting of the exhibition displays historical hats from all around the world as well as some of Stephen Jones’ own creations for prominent fashion designers (like Vivienne Westwood, Christian Dior, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Marc Jacobs and Comme des Garçons…). It creates astonishing parallels between eras, materials and style and helps us understand the importance of hats throughout history.

The exhibition is briliantly organised so that hats aficionados and newbies alike can appreciate the beauty of hats (whether it is about making them, wearing them or just admiring them from afar). It was even more interesting for me that hats were not a topic of fashion I was particularly fluent in before visiting the exhibition. Even though everyday fashion has somewhat forgotten about the delicious art of hats, I have to say that the exhibition showed me that it was very much ‘now’. And since my visit it seems that I’ve been seeing hats everywhere, in every shops windows, at work and in the streets.

To conclude, if I had one piece of advice it would be to hurry up and to do whatever it takes to get to the V&A before the exhibition closes down on the 31st of May. You really won’t regret it.

In-between make sure you visit the Hats Off page if you want to know more about Hats: an anthology: several films, a 360° panoramic tour of the exhibition as well as drawings, photographs and interviews will give you all the behind-the-scenes informations you need to know.

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There is nor trendy nor new fashion in This is Now days. Although fashion is like art, which means it would improve itself to be original, it is not.

We look at the past, we copy it, and then we think that we have invented something new. Inspirational design crisis is grown tremendously. We can see hippy clothes, nineties’ jackets, XVI centure signs in suits as well as Ancient Greece’s ornaments.

Those mets mentioned in classic literature must have lelft alone fashion genious designers changing their harps for Guns and Roses’ electric guitars, and turning their solft clothing into eighties’ leopard skinny trousers.

Lorentzo Antúnez.

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La moda de este comienzo de siglo no es moderna, ni vanguardista. El estilo contemporáneo no es para nada original ni mucho menos adelantado a su tiempo, como cabría esperar de esta vertiente artística que es el diseño.

Miramos al pasado, lo copiamos y creemos estar inventando algo nuevo. La crisis inspiracional de diseñadores  está cada vez más a flor de piel. Cuando no es moda hippie, son chaquetas de los 90, vestidos inspirados en el siglo XVI o reminiscencias de la Grecia Antigua.

Esas musas tantas veces retratadas en la literatura clásica parecen haber abandonado a los grandes de la moda. O al menos, han cambiado el arpa por la guitarra eléctrica de los Guns and Roses y la sencillez de sus prendas puras por pitillos de leopardo ochenteros.

Lorentzo Antúnez.

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I’m Claire from the fashion blog The View From Here and I’ve been asked to guest-blog for the This Is Now project – honoured to do so! I’ve been examining my definition of what “now” is as regards to fashion. For me, despite being slightly bizarre and apparently unrelated, fashion is defined by the photo above.

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Bear with me – the image above is spiky, colourful, layered but also subtle. The thing that drew me to this image though is it’s variety. There’s a mix of colours and shapes and sizes. Fashion now is full of variety. This can manifest itself in individual outfits – it’s no longer unusual for one to wear couture with high street, high fashion with vintage, whether charity shop or a hand-me-down or a vintage store. You can wear a mixture of designers and different patterns, shapes which don’t go together and items of clothing which would never once have gone together.

Fashion’s variety doesn’t just show up in one outfit – it can be prominent in the styles with which a single person chooses to dress. Gone (at least to a larger extent than in the past) are the boundaries and cliques to which a person belonged and thus dressed like. From day to day, you (and certainly I!) can vary between nu-rave, goth, preppy, rock chick, jock, homeless chic, Glamazon, Rah, grunge, monochrome, vintage, country, structural, classic etc without any repercussions. Because you can just play with what you want to wear, much more so than before. Inspiration is gained not only from magazines, but from the catwalk directly, street style, fashion blogs, clubbers and lots of different shops, more accessibly than before.

Fashion is based on a spectrum, just like the image I chose. The items we choose to wear and the way we mix it up are all different, yet connected. Ultimately it all goes back to the beginning – This Is Now in fashion.

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