PATUNA SS2017 Haute Couture Collection - LIVE From Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

 Apparently disparate, Patuna SS2017 Haute Couture Collection  inspirations comes from GOD's creation Eve who wanders in her very own secret garden. mylifestylenews reports live from Paris.

After her visit in Versailles, Patuna had the initial idea to transform each of her creation in one piece from the infamous and significance summer palace and the vibrant colors found their by its origin.

Patuna unifies the silhouette and cut with the choice of single thread and creates the invisible link symbolizing the distance between Paris and Tbilisi.

The collection signifies a woman of power, a woman in motion and extracting herself from her condition by acceding to the world.

Silk and velvet satin are used and appeared as a whole and woven in to serpent on each creation that adding the touch on Eve as her  guardian or perhaps the devil's allure.

vivid colors are used contrasting the raw and unfinished look adding the dramatic style in the each creation.

Seductive yet wearable haute couture pieces on each creation makes the style identical from her identity.

The flow and the silhouette from the evening dress seemingly expressing the rebellious of Eva ready to flee by night by meeting Adam.

Patuna SS2017 Haute Couture Show

HÔTEL NORMANDY

2017.01.23

15:30H

ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA Introduces Monterubello Travel Watch

During its centenary in 2010 Zegna established its partnership with Swiss Manufacture de la haute horlogerie, Girard Perregaux. The two and a quarter century old watch manufacture has resulted in some of the most elegant timepieces of the current decade; including the Monterubello Solo Tempo, the Monterubello Chronograph and of course the Centennial watch. Now another horological milestone has been passed as together with Girard Perregaux, Ermengildo Zegna presents its most discriminating clients with the house’s first moonphase and GMT. This watch is conceived and designed to be an elegant companion for the well-dressed man as he travels the world. The style is in keeping with the design vocabulary established by earlier models in the series.  The sober, opaline, vellum coloured dial, embellished with the characteristic Zegna herringbone pattern, makes for excellent visibility and is the perfect backdrop for the elegant applied gold Breguet numerals and feuille hands. In accordance with the Zegna design philosophy, beauty is balanced with practicality and the resulting timepieces delivers its complication in an understated way: the large date is clearly legible in the upper half of the dial, balanced by the presence below of two symmetrical subdials: one presenting the time of day in the wearer’s preferred second location the other displaying the phases of the moon and passing seconds . 

Comprising 297 components and yet only five millimetres in height, the movement that powers this timepiece is perfectly suited to today’s taste for discreetly stylish timepieces and every care has been taken to ensure the watch gives years of pleasure and performance to its wearer. The GMT function is clean in design and simple in operation; simple to read, it is controlled by a pushpiece located discreetly in the case wall at four o’clock: a single press on the pushpiece advances the second timezone by one hour. The moonphase system is directly connected to the barrel rather than the wheel train thus ensuring it moves smoothly and continuously, while the meticulously calculated gearing of the system ensures that only once 122 years and 45 days elapsed will the movement require correction by just one day.

The big date display changes instantaneously at midnight in an operation taking just 15/1000ths of a second.  Moreover, considerable trouble has been taken to ensure that there is no visible line between the two numerals, with a completely transparent disk just 1/10^th of a mm thick overlaying the lacquered metal disk carrying the first number. As with Monterubello’s preceding prestige timepieces, The Big Date, Moonphase and GMT will only made in small quantities, with a total, production of  a mere 25 pieces.

KENZO 2017 Chinese New Year's Pick

 KENZO celebrates the 2017 Chinese New Year, the year of the rooster by introducing their annual capsule collection of sweaters featuring their most popular emblems – the Tiger and the Eye. Since the arrival of Creative Directors, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim both icons have seen great, and are now proud mascots of KENZO.

For a few months only, the Tiger and the Eye will be reinvented with gold, silver and rooster red prints or yarns. Arriving in store for mid-January, each icon will be em- broidered onto a line of exclusive molleton or cotton sweaters and slip-on sneakers and printed onto exclusive new teeshirts and dresses.

Michael Kors Spring 2017 Ad Campaign

 Michael Kors Spring 2017 advertising campaign is about powerful romance. Shot by Mario Testino. “The combination of strength and femininity was at the core of the collection, and Joan Smalls was the perfect embodiment of that spirit,” says Michael Kors. Testino captured Smalls luxuriating in a classic car, wearing the season’s standout prints. In hues of azalea and nutmeg accented with white-hot accessories, the bold florals bring chic optimism to the sun-kissed campaign.

FENDI 2017 Chinese New Year's Pick

FENDI celebrates the Chinese New Year with the start of the year of the rooster launching an exclusive Capsule Collection worldwide. The collection is inspired by the FENDI Rainbow Studs, signature of the Maison, and the red colour, symbol of good luck for the Chinese and of this special time of the year. The collection features modern and cool FENDI bags and small leather goods such as Micro Peekaboo, mini backpacks, clutches and obviously Strap You, all created in soft red leather for a new festive look. The FENDI Rainbow Studs add a unique and shining touch, decorating all-over this simple yet sophisticated collection with a joyful mix of multicolor studs in conical and squared shapes.  

ZENITH x LAND ROVER @ Two Legends Celebrate An Iconic Year: 1969

Explosive, creative and entirely natural: such is the long-term partnership commitment undertaken between Zenith and Land Rover. Two names, two legends with entwined destinies. In 1969, Zenith unveiled its fabled El Primero chronograph. That same year, British car manufacturer Land Rover introduces the prototype of the very first luxury off-road vehicle: the iconic Range Rover, which hit the markets in 1970. Fired by the same pioneering spirit and the same ability to explore new horizons, these two original creations achieved legendary status. Half a century later, their inventors are entering into an exceptional long-term partnership inaugurated by an El Primero Range Rover Special Edition. The El Primero and Range Rover models are trademarks. Cornerstones of their respective fields. Desirable. Luxurious. True pioneers. Their brilliant creators – the watch Manufacture Zenith and Land Rover, the world leader in the realm of luxury sports utility vehicles are uniting in a partnership to celebrate two legendary creations that have made an indelible imprint on watchmaking and automotive history. To launch this partnership, Zenith is presenting a first exclusive El Primero Range Rover Special Edition, a distinctive timepiece that is equally at home on city streets as it is on rugged is terrain. Zenith and Land Rover are natural front-runners. Since 1969, which witnessed milestone launches by both companies, their destinies have been entwined. That was the year the Swiss Manufacture presented the famous El Primero chronograph movement, the most accurate in the world; and the British carmaker Land Rover unleashed the first luxury four-wheel drive, the iconic Range Rover. Three years later, the two adventurers crossed paths when explorer John Blashford-Snell crossed the Darién Gap – an inhospitable marshland and virgin forest area on the border between Colombia and Panama – at the wheel of an early Range Rover and with an El Primero chronograph on his wrist. During this Trans-Americas expedition, both models demonstrated their extreme manoeuvrability, their durability and their exceptional all-terrain capabilities. Since this epic shared adventure, almost 50 years of innovation and fine-tuning have raised the original concepts – that were at once simple, sturdy and ingenious – to the rank of timeless icons that have lost nothing of their authenticity.