The anti-red carpet red carpet dress

While most Hollywood starlets (or wannabe starlets) often get confused between an awards ceremony and their 1990s prom (Jennifer Love Hewitt, I'm looking at you), here's the perfect example of when  straying off the beaten track is the best. thing. ever. Tilda Swinton in Jil Sander spring '11. Of course, only Tilda (and her white gold locks) could pull this off. And with that wink, I think she knows it. This woman is cool. Period.

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Waist(less) Coats

With all this talk of masculine tailoring, the most obvious (and easiest to wear no doubt) is the omission of the waistline. While a cinched waist will always remain a classic, the looser fit allows for a modern take on separates, especially where proportions are concerned. As seen in many a pre-fall collection, including Celine, Stella McCartney, Jil Sander and even Alber Elbaz's females-should-dress-as-females Lanvin - the last inclusion showing that this shape can be as much for the girls as it is for the boys. And it wouldn't be a waistless season without the drop-waists at the house that Coco built - Chanel. 

Take style cues from ex-EiC of Vogue Paris, Carine Roitfeld, for whom tights and obligatory heels create the streamlined opposite of her coat. Or make like model Martha Streck, whose waist is ever so sightly nipped in under her camel coat, or Natalia Alaverdian, whose lengthened silhouette is helped by a form-skimming maxi skirt. By combining a voluminous coat with more fitted pieces, big (and even baggy) shapes are suddenly a far cry from manly. 

via: Style.com, the Sartorialist and StockholmStreetStyle

Bright skirts and white shirts

Raf Simons for Jil Sander spring 2011. Minimalism's inverse. Maximalism. Couture Giganticism. Terms all considered by Simons himself when it came to describing the inspiration behind his latest collection in which no colour was spared. Fuchsia. Bright orange. Blue, green red. And in every combination imaginable. After the bright and ballooning skirts, whose tailored volume was played down with plain white tees, came the colour-blocking. A pink button-down tucked into orange flares finished with a royal purple coat. A cropped coral blazer over a magenta shirt with a burnt orange peplum. Purple over red and then pink cigarette pants, hidden beneath a green coat; red tucked into blue layers, and a splash of yellow for good measure. Colours that might otherwise be overwhelming were pulled off in the surprisingly simplest of ways. The tailoring was nothing but clean, and the cleverness was found, aside from the tricky colour combinations, in a fitted tee tucked into a puffball skirt, stiff collars with silken oxford shirting, and of course the voluminous lengths of it all. I'm not usually one for excess, but when maximalism becomes minimal - stripped back to the very basics of colour and shape and line - I'm all for it. 

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Mirand-a for Jil Sand-a

As hinted a few weeks ago by the newly married Mrs. Bloom (yes, her and pirate-beau Orlando yesterday tied the knot) in an interview with Modelinia, she's nabbed herself yet another high-fashion get, this time with the latest campaign for Jil Sander. Also featuring int. runway regular Kasia Struss, the streamlined campaign was lensed by Willy Vandeperre, who also shot Miranda for i-D and V's summer issues. Although I think Miranda makes the transition from smiley VS model to edgy super quite seemlessly, not everyone does. One reader in particular disagreed with my sentiments, saying she looked more like Clark Kent. Hey, she mightn't please everybody in the high-fashion stakes, but at least one thing is agreed upon, and that is the link between herself and supermanmodel.

pictures: Fashion Gone Rogue