This 2011 has been a busy year as the world of fashion. Controversial, layoffs, lawsuits, parties and awards: we review all "momentazo fashionistas’ this year.
1. Galliano Case
Undoubtedly, the designer John Galliano asked Gibraltar to a 2012 Kings quieter this year. In late February, Galliano committed the worst mistake of his career . Nothing to do with a bad pattern or a collection misplaced but occurred far from the catwalk, in a cafe in the Marais district of Paris. The designer uttered racial slurs to a couple hours after a video of a visibly drunk Galliano came to internet and this "fashion faux pas" cost him the post of creative director of Christian Dior .
Publicly repudiated by his superiors in the maison , Galliano checked into a rehab clinic but this did not save him from sitting on the bench of the court of Paris, where he acknowledged his triple dependence of alcohol, psychotropic drugs and sleeping pills . He was sentenced to pay a fine of 6,000 euros , but its worth it in the fashion world was much higher: the discrediting of their own, the loss of his own firm and media persecution. Nine months later, his position is still vacant and the signature is no substitute . Some people still wonder whether the dismissal of the designer was a matter of opportunism or ethics , as it appears in LVMH (the luxury group that owns Dior) he "had wanted" some time.
2. The triumph of the "rare"
2011 has been characterized by a bet by a different beauty in the world of fashion. This year has been the "crowning" of Lea T , the first transgendered model to reach the top of fashion , Givenchy muse and star of Fashion Week in Rio de Janeiro.
It was also the year of Andrej Pejic , the male model that has revolutionized the beauty cánonces because you feel so good that a dress suit. Fashion experts refer to it as the first "femiman ‘(mixture of" feminine "man" in English) or Mr. Unisex. Moreover, the magazine "Out" considered the Man of the Year 2011 .
Rick Genest
The third place "weird" of the Year was Rick Genest , the preferred model designer Nicola Formichetti (Thierry Mugler) and tattooed from head to toe like a skeleton. Gold had its moment in the fashion week in Paris man in January. Shortly after it was Chrystal Renn the protagonist (unintentionally) of a new controversy in the scene. When everything pointed to the return of women with curves, the model was complaining about the pressure he was being subjected to not lose weight.
That’s right: this year we have seen mature models succeed (as Carmen Dell’Orefice , who at 80 years added a new cover to its curriculum, or the return on a high note of the supermodels of the 90: Claudia, Naomi, Cindy and Kate have joined a few magazine covers.
3. Pippa vs Catalina
Katherine and Pippa
On 29 April, Prince William and Catherine of Cambridge were given the "do want" more media at the wedding in history. The image was the most sought after bride dressed in white , with a design of Sarah Burton Alexander McQueen that was kept secret until the last moment, the duchess won the hearts of half the world. Immediately, the design was copied endlessly by low-cost firms, and the outbreak of the "Katemanía" . Everything gets Catalina, immediately runs to the shops. From his trips to Canada and the United States, or their commitments in the UK, Catalina has deployed its "weapons fahiosn" has earned the nickname "The Fashionable" .
The only one able to shade the Duchess is her younger sister, Pippa Middleton . dazzled all the actual wedding day with the same designer dress finished soon "clone" in stores . Pippa has become the "gold single kingdom" and the new benchmark of style in the street.
4. Two editions of fashion "Made in Spain"
Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week is undoubtedly the most important annual event in our country. The February catwalk collections presented the Autumn / Winter 2011 and the one held in September showed us the trends for the coming Spring / Summer 2012. In both editions, I tell you everything from backstage, the runway and surrounding area.
5. Jesus del Pozo Goodbye
The saddest news came in August. The designer Jesús del Pozo died in Madrid at age 64 due to emphysema. A reference to the Spanish fashion in recent decades, leaving a bitter taste to the 53 edition of Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week, held just a few weeks later.
6. Finally, Balenciaga in the museum
On 7 June, the Queen opened in the Museum Guetaria Balenciaga, after years of complicated steps to get it opened. The exhibition features 90 pieces (70 garments and 20 accessories) , made ​​to fit the person for whom they were designed, and have already visited numerous celebrities and authorities, as Albert of Monaco , who traveled in November to Guipúzcoa to see suits of his mother, Princess Grace, who gave to the Foundation.
7. The "affair" L’Oréal
Madame L’Oréal
This year came to an end the legal battle waged by Liliane Bettencourt , heiress of the empire octogenarian L’Oréal, and her daughter, after years of fighting in court for control of the family fortune. Although Liliane reaffirmed always be fully able to manage your estate, a judge ruled that Madame L’Oréal should remain under the guardianship of his eldest grandson . His daughter Françoise out winning the dispute, but the old woman threw in the towel: "If my daughter takes care of me, I’ll drown" , threatened before knowing the decision.
8. Haute Couture comes to the desert
In one of the most serious economic crisis in history, it seems incredible that firms make haute couture fashion continue to maintain their business. Who is willing to pay thousands of euros for a dress hand made ​​with luxurious materials world? The answer is no longer the great fortunes of Europe, but in the Middle East , from a modest background, Arab women have become major customers of the luxury fashion world. They can buy up to 30 dresses just for the "wedding season" and do not tremble to pay 50,000 euros to look radiant . Your social life and your pocket will become avid buyers of luxury.
9. The diet of the "angels"
The top Adriana Lima made ​​a slip to reveal a strict diet to which the models are subjected to parade in the "shows" of the lingerie firm Victoria’s Secret . After the controversy, pointing out that it was all a "misunderstanding", but as she told the Telegraph and prepare the "angels": Nine days before the parade, the girls have to follow a liquid diet based on protein shakes and egg powder , and twelve hours before the "show" can not drink water . They must also exercise twice a day to three weeks before the big day.
10. Donatella Versace for H & M
Versace for H & M
On November 17 was repeated image begins to be common once a year compared to stores H & M : hundreds of people lined up at dawn waiting for the exit to the sale of the collection capsule Donatella Versace for H & M .
The Italian, who presented the collection with a parade in New York (with concert Prince included), had rescued the most iconic pieces of the jellyfish house prices "lowcost". It was all: the glitz, glamor and excess of the golden years of the Italian house. "We all need to feel the luxury" , he said Versace.
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