Fall Winter Top

Thanks to Faith Akiyama @ tfs, here's the full list of the top catwalkers.

Top 10 in 4 cities (NY, London, Milan & Paris)

10. Sophie Srej (55 shows)


9. Alana Zimmer & Iris Strubegger (56 shows)


8. Kasia Struss (57 shows)


7. Tao Okamoto (59 shows)


6. Shu Pei Qin ( 60 shows)


5. Constance Jablonski ( 61 shows)


4. Hanne Gaby Odiele & Lisanne de Jong (63 shows)


3. Anastasia Kuznetsova (65 shows)


2. Frida Gustavsson, Monika Jagaciak, Sigrid Argen (70 shows)


1. Jacquelyn Jablonski (74 shows)


Top 5 Openers

5. Anja Rubik, Ann Kenny, Frida Gustavsson, Iris Strubegger,
Keke Lindgard, Kelsey Van Mook, Kristy Kaurova, & Mirte Maas (4 shows)


4. Jacquelyn Jablonski & Karmen Pedaru (5 shows)


3. Karlie Kloss, Natasha Poly, & Sigrid Agren (6 shows)


2. Abbey Lee Kershaw & Freja Beha Erichsen (8 shows)


1. Monika Jagaciak (13 Shows)

Top 5 Closers

5. Iris Strubegger, Natasha Poly, & Siri Tollerod (5 shows)


4. Anastasia Kuznetsova (6 shows)


3. Sigrid Agren (7 shows)


2. Freja Beha Erichsen (10 shows)


1. Monika Jagaciak (11 shows)


(pics from style.com)

Asian Supers at Givenchy; Lily & Raquel walked exclusively

The casting of the models at this season's runway is just so surprising. The VS angels are appearing at big shows, shows that you don't expect to see them. Think Prada, Giles, Louis Vuitton etc. All this might be influenced by the brand that started this trend : Givenchy (for casting Adriana Lima for Fall 2009). Again, Givenchy surprises us this season with the model casting - the variety of the models are amazing-equally enough black models and Asians- more surprisingly- two Asian supermodels walked for the show- Ling Tan and Ai Tominaga.

After all the surprises, I wonder how next season will be. Will we be seeing the likes of Daria, Hana, Gemma, Isabeli and Liya returnig to the runway or perhaps more Caroline, Sasha, Coco, Hilary and Raquel. Speaking of which, Lily Donaldson finally appeared at Louis Vuitton and Raquel did only Chloé this entire season.

(pics from style.com)

They're Back!

It's near the end of fashion month and at the final stop at Paris, these top models are making a return back at the runway for top designers and big fashion houses like Givenchy, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier, Dior, Loewe and John Galliano. Apart from Anna J who walks for Givenchy, Jessica Stam, Coco and Caroline Trentini starts off the Paris week walking for Giles who have a standout casting almost all the top models with a few surprises like Karoline Kurkova (who opened and closed) among many others. So glad to see these girls back on the runway. Hoping that all of them will show up at Chanel.

(pics from style.com)

Madame Dior

Oh, I so love the dramatic makeup at Dior.

And, to be honest, John Galliano finally did a decent collection for Dior. I thought of the worse, but it is nice.

(pics from style.com)

Models on break

Last season, Sigrid, Raquel and Anna Jagodzinka did not walk. Although both Raquel and Anna J also seems to skip this season, Sigrid has by far dominate the runway since her comeback. To add to this season's missing models are top models Lily Donaldson, Jessica Stam and Caroline Trentini. All three are nowhere to be seen since fashion week started.

The missing trio -Jessica Stam, Lily Donaldson and Catoline Trentini

Two other fashion darlings are skipping this season too- Toni Garrn skipped the entire fashion week because she is concentrating on her exams and studies and Imogen also did the same thing after the London fashion week ended- she twitted that her finals are near- this mean that we won't be seeing her at Milan and Paris. However, Imogen's model friend, Nimue Smit is just getting started- she skipped NY to focus on her exams and now it's over, we'll be seeing her everywhere.

Model friends Nimue Smit and Imogen Morris Clarke

However, there's still some hopes. Catherine McNeil returns to the runway at Prada yesterday and Jessica Stam twitted that she'll be at Paris.

(source: Imogen's and Jessica Stam's twitter, pics from models.com)

Come and gone

First, New York then London.

Milan fashion week starts as I'm writing. I truly do not have time browse through all the collections but two London shows that I really like is Burberry and Julien Macdonald. Nice collections.

Off to Milan now. Hope to catch as many shows as I can.

(pics from yahoo news)

End of Fashion Week

No more models spotting. No more anticipation of designers shows. No more chaos, crazy backstage photos. I still can't believe that Spring Summer 2010 fashion week has ended. It was just recently that all this chaos started at New York, then London, by the time it reach Milan- it was all craziness and then it hit Paris and now it has ended. Overall, I have to say despite all the recession going on, the shows goes on especially at Paris where all the big branded major brands still delivers. Among all the things that I missed most is the finale walkout of all the models showcasing the clothes of each designers. I, personally thinks that that is the highlight of each show. It is where it all comes together whether the designer stick to the same theme and created like 40 clothes under the same influence or when they failed and each clothes does not resemble one another and when it just a random idea.






(image from yahoo news)