Polimoda Fashion Show 2010

This year's Polimoda fashion show is on again at the Saschall Teater along Lungarno Aldo Moro. 45 students presented their collections, some of which were really eye-catching. There were two shows, one in the afternoon around 6, and this one was the second, at 21:00 on Wednesday this week.

From the very beginning, the theme of "protectionism" or "millieum survivers" seems to be extremely clear. Though of course this is only my personal opinion. There are masks, tattered jackets, large over coats, thick boots, breast plates with a different translation, backpacks, multiple pockets, metallic materials, last but not least, protruding shoulders seems to be widely adapted in this show. This last above reminds me of Iman in a blue dress with a white dove mould at the breast. Which year was that show??? I have looked all over Style.com and google and I just couldn't find it...

We have a couple of summery cruise collections... Good, finally some color.
Now, this one above is Eye Poping! Model boys in highheels and bras... Omg it was awesome to watch them walk, as if they could be walking the same distance to hell. Every step was a breath snapped inwards... When they finally all staggered off the stage, I was only like: phew.
As always, this is a student fashion show remind you, so there just has to be some more likely "student projects" than other. For example this collection with tophats. I mean please..... no variation whatsoever with the designs, every one looks like they are about to hit the music with hip hop and comes with some jazz...Ridiculous.

This one here is one of my favorites. The designer was a genius to decide to use huge swirls of red wool and bind them together at the shoulders, use as head dresses, tangling around the body and the dresses. The effect as amazing. Napoleon in a way, but more casual at the same time. The last model basically came out full nude. She had a patch to cover the bikini bottom area (let's just say), but the cape of red wool was not meant for gathering at the front.

This last one was number 2 in the afternoon show, but because of it's "special effects" it was put last during the night show. Every model came out with a mannequin on top of their shoulder, and the last two acting as I have no clue what, one is white the other in clue, with high sticks (is that how you call them?).
Generally speaking it was a successful and beautiful show. Some of the desingers I have already seen before, and they proved to be amazing. There was one collection that I loved very much but was not able to capture with my camera because of the high exposure, but I will think of way to find it otherwise.