Bottega Veneta Fall/Winter 2011-2012 Ad Campaign | Isabeli Fontana & Nicholas Ripoll by Robert Polidori

 

Isabeli Fontana & Nicholas Ripoll by Robert Polidori for Bottega Veneta  Fall/Winter 2011-2012 advertise campaign.

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Nicolas Ripoll by Robert Pollidori for Bottega Veneta Fall 2011 Campaign

An image emerges from Bottega Veneta’s gorgeous fall 2011 campaign, featuring Nicolas Ripoll photographed by Robert Pollidori.

Best Collections From Spring/Summer 2012 Season

Paying attention to the latest fashion trends can only be beneficial so take a peek at the top 7  fashion collections for the spring summer 2012 season and find out which style will most definitely be a part of your new spring wardrobe collection!

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Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2012 Collection

Tim Blanks review

Anyone who still imagines fashion remains willfully oblivious to current events would probably be surprised to learn that Tomas Maier was inspired by 2011's Arab Spring, when he conceived the latest men's collection for Bottega Veneta. The Arab world's pursuit of democracy got him thinking about the integration of different sartorial traditions in a way that was about genuine synthesis, rather than banal ethnic influences. By the time they reached the catwalk, Maier's creative impulses had been well and truly sublimated. A casual overview might suggest that relatively conventional two-piece tailoring ruled (even if the suits were crumpled). Still, a residue of the Great Elsewhere lingered in the unplaceability of a number of the clothes, neither Middle East nor Midwest, but with an undertow of both. The buttoned-up-tight mandarin-collared jackets and matching pants had a military mien—add sunglasses, a general's cap, and a hundred kilos, and you'd have yourself a best-dressed dictator. That control was contrasted with a shopping list of fabric treatments: washing, creasing, over-printing, over-dyeing, dip-dyeing. Checks were bleared like they'd been hand-blocked. A tweed was really a printed cotton. Just a fashion illusion, but here it poked as much as it pleased.

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