Legends of the Fall...

Hello and welcome to my blog. This is the first ever post, so I thought it would be fitting to talk about the coming seasons in relation to our favorite accessory.
Lately a good deal of fashion designers have been trying to revamp the headscarf in various ways: Kelly, Classic, Rear Tie, there have been a lot of models with their heads nicely wrapped. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to translate very well in the streets but one can always hope...

Noa Noa has had a great Autumn collection this year, classy and timeless, with a couple of Kelly and Classic wraps worn in a perfectly natural way by their models.

However the most daring show so far has been presented by D&G, who had almost all their models in a Classic headscarf on their F/W 2008-2009 ready-to-wear collection.
Here we see Caroline Trentini and Jessica Stam in some really elegant outfits that are nicely complemented by their scarves.

"We wanted to revamp the headscarf... Give it a new life and introduce it to a younger generation. Our aim was to give it a modern and cool twist." Domenico Dolce explained.

Those headscarves certainly look cool and classy, but for any young woman it would still take some nerve (and a rainy day) to wear one without attracting some curious looks, alas.
Designers cannot certainly be blamed for not trying, however. This year, Pink Tartan’s Spring/Summer collection was all 1960’s and Kelly-style headscarves.





And who can forget Derek Lam’s Spring 2006 ready-to-wear collection, retro-inspired just enough and with a couple of nice Classic headscarves as worn by Lindsay Ellingson and Vlada Roslyakova.
Unlike D&G’s and Pink Tartan’s runway shows, those were the only two in the collection but were memorable enough.
In fact, there has probably never been one year when the headscarf didn’t feature in one collection or another in some form, practical or not. Rag & Bone, Paul Smith, Vera Wang and many others.

 Those particularly charming wraps as worn by Emina Cunmulaj and Asia Pulco for Christian Lacroix’s Spring 2006 RTW collection are probably a little too complicated to tie on for anything but formal wear. 

Fall is almost over, Winter is coming fast and there will be plenty of occasions to get the head covered. We’ll see!