New Styles in Fashion

For those of you who don’t know, Sienna Miller and her fashion designer sister, Savannah are behind label Twenty8Twelve. I have some issues with this label, first, you don’t name any kind of company after four numbers and then mix up the spelling with letters and numbers. Secondly, the new Fall 2010 line looks like something I can see on any street corner in the Mission, worn by a lady who paid a fraction of the price for a similar outfit. I understand that Sienna says she doesn’t claim to be a designer and feels she’s been misinterpreted, but when you own a clothing line with someone who has had formal training in fashion design, like her sister…I’m sorry, like it or not, you are a designer.

Back to the Fall 2010 collection, it’s not high-end, and the clothes, while doubtless fun for a certain kind of British girl to wear, don’t display the kind of skill that have won critical acclaim. In this collection, there were some neat pieces, such as the trippy colored giant cardigan, lovely black tops and dresses with fringed shoulders, and a red minidress.

Sass & Bide’s Fall 2010 collection debuted at London Fashion Week, and was anything but stale. The collection was as confident and bold, drawing on some of their signature cuts, bustier necklines and sharp-shouldered blazers. The color palette was very fall, consisting mainly of blacks, grays and nudes. Several of the pieces featured an updated version of the tribal-chic trend we saw during Spring 2010 but nothing about this collection feels dated.