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Latest Victoria Beckham's Fashion collection 2011


Latest Victoria Beckham's Fashion collection 2011: The 'banded minidress' from Victoria Beckham's spring/summer 2010 collection has proved a resounding hit with A-listers on the red carpet. Most recently, Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger (left) stepped out in the design when making an appearance as a judge at the X Factor auditions in Manchester. American actresses Jennifer Hudson (centre) and Blake Lively also couldn't resist the peplum creation, with its quirky, three-quarter-length sleeves

Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Nicole Scherzinger;              Jennifer Hudson; Blake Lively
Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Naomie Harris; Jessica Simpson; Trudie Styler

The sleeveless variation of the 'banded mini' has proved just as popular. On British actress Naomie Harris, the dress looked super-sleek, while Jessica Simpson and Trudie Styler took pleasure of its generous pockets!

Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Victoria Beckham; Katherine Jenkins

Victoria Beckham has made the perfect transition from popstar to fashion designer, acting as the ultimate ambassador for her range. She has worn this elegant flared skirt dress on several occasions, showing its versatility on and off the red carpet. Katherine Jenkins was spotted at Wimbledon in the red version, epitomising smart, summer glamour

Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Melanie Chisholm; Victoria Beckham

Posh Spice's former band mates have also been flying the flag in support of her creations. Melanie Chisholm cut a fashionable figure when she attended the Laurence Olivier Awards earlier this year, in the 'Perault' body-skimming dress from Beckham's autumn/winter 2009 collection, a gown which Victoria herself has also stepped out in

Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Emma Bunton; Victoria Beckham

Fellow former Spice Girl Emma 'Baby Spice' Bunton, took a shining to the graphic-print dress from Victoria Beckham's spring/summer 2010 range. While she opted for a draped version, designer Victoria championed the strapless style

Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Selita Ebanks and Victoria Beckham

Model Selita Ebanks, a former Victoria's Secret 'Angel', looks a dead ringer for Victoria Beckham as she stepped out in the waist-cinching, cut-out dress from the spring/summer 2010 range

Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Victoria Beckham; Carol Vorderman; Mary J. Blige; Elle Macpherson

They say imitation is the best form of flattery, and it was the 'Carmontelle' dress that has proved to be Mrs Beckham's pièce de résistance. The sought-after style has been pictured on countless number of celebrities, who fell powerless to the snug-fitting, cashmere creation with peplum waist. After admiring V.B in the grey number, it wasn't long before Carol Vorderman, Mary J Blige and Elle Macpherson formed a polite queue to get their hands on one

Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Brooke Shields; Elle Macpherson; Victoria Beckham

Asserting herself as a true fashion icon, Victoria Beckham knows first-hand that everyone needs a fail-safe little black dress. So she created her own simple version, nipped in at the waist and with her signature, below-the-knee style. Brooke Shields and Elle Macpherson (again!), couldn't resist having one of these in their wardrobes

Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Drew Barrymore; Katherine Jenkins

The list of A-list fans just goes on and on. Both Drew Barrymore and Katherine Jenkins loved this deep purple, silk corset dress ...

Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Carrie Preston; Taraji P Henson

... a style which wasn't too dissimilar to this royal blue origami-style cocktail dress, which American actresses Carrie Preston and Taraji P Henson donned to their red carpet engagements

Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow, Hollywood superstar and red carpet bombshell, gave her nod of approval to Victoria Beckham's foray in to fashion by wearing her creations on more than one occasion.

Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Heidi Kulm; Victoria Beckham

Supermodel and mum Heidi Klum is also partial to Beckham's frocks. Looking chic in this low-cut design, Victoria demonstrated how to accessorise it with a furry, cropped jacket to keep out the cold.

Celebrities wearing Victoria Beckham's designs - Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz has also discovered that her slim but athletic physique is given the instant moviestar glamour-factor whenever she chooses Victoria Beckham collection.

London Fashion Week: The 'F' Factor



I wouldn't go so far as to call it a feminist movement, but London Fashion Week has certainly seen the birth of a new breed - let's call her the "Feminista". She's female, has her own label, and an instinctive grip on what suits her and her customers.

The reality of women fashion designers becoming a modern force not just to be reckoned with, but one which is now shaping the look of 21st-century dressing, took hold at the last round of designer catwalk shows in March, in Paris, when Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo at Céline and Hannah MacGibbon at Chloé, formed a troika which delivered a grown-up, rather than girlie, wardrobe for this autumn/winter. So it was classic; so what? The reason it worked so well was because two of them (McCartney and Philo) are married and mothers, and all three wore their own designs, giving them hands-on experience of what works. They are the ideal role models for generations of women torn between trends.


The concept has caused something of a mini-revolution at London Fashion Week. More than half of the designers who are showing their spring/summer 2011 collections are women. That statistic is hardly earth-shattering, except that it is in a city where the future of style was once predicated on the sexual legacy of legions of male designers, not least John Galliano, the late Alexander McQueen and Hussein Chalayan. "Who will be the next Galliano or McQueen?", used to be the cry, not "Who could be the new Vivienne Westwood?"

No fashion critic would dream of discounting the impact of directional designers such as Christopher Kane, Erdem, Jonathan Saunders, Richard Nicoll and Burberry's Christopher Bailey. Then there is Giles Deacon, whose return-to-London show on Monday, after two seasons in Paris, starred the 71-year-old supermodel, Veruschka, and the "aristo" model, Stella Tennant, now 40 and a mother of four.

But it's the "Here come the girls (and women)" contingent who are indulging in romantic inspirations that, at times, beggar belief, yet never stray into the realm of costume.

Take Mary Katrantzou, 27, and Holly Fulton, 32, the print wizards who lend their graphic insight and surreal vision to clothes that are sculptural and shapely. See Louise Amstrup, too, whose designs were inspired by an exotic desert mood. Although Louise Gray's pieces may not always be wearable, her catchy recycling and sense of colour is inspiring, as is the tonal vibrancy of pieces by the Felder Felder twins, Annette and Daniela. Meanwhile, Roksanda Ilincic moved on from quirky draping to a kaftan/djellaba-inspired volume.

It was not just the edgier, younger designers who were breaking the mould, either. Betty Jackson took flight with a feathered fantasy, which included the most delectable pair of black, ostrich-feather trousers I have seen. Nicole Farhi stunned followers with a foray into the fetish world, using Latex for bustiers, pencil skirts and kimono-sleeve dresses because "it's clean, shiny, modern and sexy." Maria Grachvogel focused on dramatic lightning prints in liquid silhouettes, and Vivienne Westwood, forever young-at-heart, strode the catwalk, singing to Elvis's cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone, after showing some of the most wearable dresses and trouser suits of the season, even if the "waistbands" were lowered to crotch-level to show off boy-like boxers in floral prints. Anything the boys can do…

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Fashion designers: Luella - Autumn-Winter 2009/2010 at the London Fashion Week


Fashion designers: Luella - Autumn-Winter 2009/2010 at the London Fashion Week

Luella Bartley launched a collection inspired by school uniforms, a little military, and with a British punk touch. Although it is not so remarkable as the collection for spring-summer 2009, which is outstanding and charming, this new collection has really nice details like the particular zippers (or zip fasteners) with beautiful shapes, and sheer fabrics mixed with other fabrics to create a great effect.


It is very probable we will see the English It-girls wearing these garments soon. English It-girls include Alexa Chung, Daisy Lowe, or the Geldof sisters (the younger of them paraded in a Luella collection). It is very likely we will see them wearing some of the tweed, classic-cut coats or Prince of Wales checked coats (true British spirit), or maybe some of them will prefer the lovely mini dresses that were shown at the London Fashion Week.

Other memorable looks from the collection are the velvet jacket with tailored pants, the trench in shades of red with a sort of blue leggings and lovely patterned cardigan with a classic checked pencil skirt that has zippers that adorn it.

luella collection

Crystal-bedecked gold stockings are part of many looks of the collection. They add an irreverent and elegant touch in a punk style for the most preppy looks.

preppy style