Fashion flourishes




Not one but two fashion illustration exhibitions upcoming for the end of the year. DIOR ILLUSTRATED: RENE GRUAU AND THE LINE OF BEAUTY opens at Somerset House on 10th November, celebrating the inky lines of Gruau and featuring specially commissioned work from six UK illustrators that will draw inspiration from Gruau and the House of Dior. Not familiar with Gruau’s work? Here’s a reminder:



Meanwhile, DRAWING FASHION at the Design Museum (from 17th November) is an in-depth look at fashion illustration from the 20th and 21st century, from the collection of expert Joelle Chariau. Co-curated by Colin McDowell, it will feature film clips, news reels, clothes, music and photography alongside the original artworks. I can’t wait to see the Antonio Lopezes close up. As we move further into the digital age, we need to be reminded of the art of putting pen/pencil/gouache to paper.

Antonio Lopez illustrations:




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Cerruti concept store



As a fan of bricks and mortar shopping, I like to see brands doing things differently and Cerruti has done something bold with its newly relaunched Paris flagship boutique. Embracing brands with a similar sensibility, it now sells Philip Treacy hats, Frédéric Malle home fragrances and Pinel & Pinel trunks alongside its luxury tailoring. This sort of curated concept store only works if the mix is perfectly realised. Too many obviously similar brands and the result is blah and even damaging, but a clever, unexpected mix can increase footfall and create a buzz.

Cerutti isn’t a brand I take notice of but I’d make a trip to the store just to check out how they’ve selected and merchandised the complementary brands. In fact, any store selling old-school, luxury luggage would get me through the door, particularly when it’s as fancy as this…

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How to rock a bourgeois blouse



Jamie Bochert cavorting across the pages of Vogue in leather jeans and bourgeois blouses? Scorchio. And the ultimate proof that it’s not what you wear but how. Could those blouses look any less conservative? Bochert’s dandyish take on rock chick (since the Balmain aesthetic is pretty much OVAH, or it is if you’re Christophe Lemaire), is the perfect romantic-bohemian mix and exactly how I like to see blouses worn now.



They’re also how Hamilton-Paris‘ Sophie Hamilton wears her blouses (below). The aristocratic designer and her Paris-based design partner Charles Sebline are experts at cutting the perfect waterfall blouse and Hamilton wears hers Bochert-style, with cut-to-the-bone jeans, ankle boots and the requisite handsome hanks of wavy dark hair.
The dandy blouse look can be easily achieved with a long skinny silk scarf (I favour an Hermes Cravate Foulard), but for the real deal, check out Hamilton Paris’ luxe silk blouses…


[Jamie Bochert pics by Hedi Silmane for Vogue, The Fashion Spot]

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