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Versace Eros… please don’t!

Versace Profumi launches Versace Eros, a new fragrance for men. Although we are used to a certain baroque style from the italian brand, here the only thing we could say is: hopeless....

Best Fashion Moments 2011

The Best Fashion Moments in 2011

From super stylish parties in Cannes to ultra-sexy Victoria's Secret models, FashionTV remembers the greatest fashion moments of 2011.

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This year, FashionTV highlights the style moments that took our breath away and transformed beauties, visions, and inspirations into works of art.

Who can forget Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, and the other sexy girls of Victoria's Secret as they sashayed down the runway for the 2011 fashion show in stunning superhero costumes and sequined disco numbers?

What about Sarah Burton's rise to the top at Alexander McQueen when FashionTV and the rest of the world learned she designed Prince William's bride Kate Middleton's wedding dress? Just a day later, she was being honored as part of the McQueen label by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala!

Fashion shows like Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui in New York, Burberry and Vivienne Westwood in London, Dsquared2 and Roberto Cavalli in Milan, and Prada and Balmain in Paris left us clamoring for Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 trends and not just because their front rows were packed withcelebrityandfashion heavyweights.

Which Fashion Week was your favorite?

The dapper duds of Mad Men met high-fashion on the Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2011 runway at Paris Fashion Week, where pussy bow blouses, pinstripes, and gloves took center stage in the return of 50s sophisticate trends. Hats, gloves, and retro prints were also imitated in major boutiques.

For haute couture, Elie Saab reigned supreme with his clever composition of beautiful embroidered bodices and frothy feminine gowns. Gucci's Milan Fall 2011 collection was so popular it was seen on Tokyo model Ai Tominaga and actress Jennifer Lopez.

With statement-making style like Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton in a

Beach Bunny wedding bikini

and pearls, FashionTV caught sexy swimwear and beautiful beachwear in Miami, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo. In Rio and Sao Paulo, models like Isabeli Fontana, Aline Weber, and Caroline Francischini took center stage in vibrant colors and geometric prints.

FashionTV partied around the world with the best of them, hitting up bashes like the Flavio Briatore's Billionaire Club during Formula 1 Grand Prix in Monte Carlo and store openings like the Jean Paul Gaultier concept shop in Ginza, Tokyo, where the designer dressed up as an astronaut. At the celebrity soiree from De Grisogono during the Cannes Film Festival, guests like Bianca Balti, will.i.am from The Black Eyed Peas, and Carine Roitfeld made appearances, and FashionTV had the exclusive!

Campari or Pirelli: Which 2012 calendar is hotter?

FashionTV also featured the best fashion photographs with an inside look at major photoshoots like the sexy 13th edition of the Campari Calendar with Milla Jovovich featuring Milla in many sexy costumes and an “end of the world” theme and a behind-the-scenes peek at the making of the 2012 Pirelli Calendar with models like Joan Smalls, Lara Stone, and Kate Moss posing nude for fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti. Photographer Giuliano Bekor stunned with his photos of model Jessica Perez wearing leopard print for Shape magazine's June 2011 issue.

One of the biggest trends for 2011 was the intertwining of fashion and music. FashionTV honed in on this milieu right away, as models mixed with music stars and celebrities at major events. Duran Duran showcased the top supermodels of the 90s in their Girl Panic video with Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Helena Christensen making highly anticipated appearances. The super sultry Etam lingerie show featured models like Monika “Jac” Jagaciak, and Karolina Kurkova, but also Karen Elson, DJ Mark Ronson, Boy George, The Kills, Beth Ditto, and more. The Victoria's Secret fashion show had models Adriana Lima and Chanel Iman swaying their hips alongside musical acts like Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Maroon 5. The

Versace for H&M fashion show

with models like Natasha Poly and Lindsey Wixson featured guests Nicki Minaj and Prince in the audience, who later riled up the crowd with rapturous performances at the Versace for H&M after party.

For fashion, 2011 was full of memorable moments that will last a lifetime. FashionTV wants to relive those moments with you this month!

What’s your favorite fashion moment of 2011?

Versace unveil gothic shoot for autumn/winter 2012 collection

Versace unveil gothic shoot for autumn/winter 2012 collection

After a summer of pastels, will we be ready for something a little darker come autumn? Versace certainly think so. Their women's A/W 2012 collection, unveiled in Milan earlier this year, saw gothic brocade usurp the trend for lighter colours which dominated summer collections. While the men's collection had flashes of colour, the seriousness of military tailoring was still present. Calling the collection 'bold, strong, iconic', Donatella Versace claimed that the Byzantine crosses used in the collection were in reference to her late brother, Gianni, who used them in previous designs

Are British men ready to wear prints?

Prints for men, by D&G, Prada and Burberry Prorsum

Prints for men, by D&G, Prada and Burberry Prorsum.

Gather round, men: your plain shirts and discreet dark jeans are looking a trifle tired. This season, it's all about print. From Hawaiian shirts to floral Dr Martens, patterns are on everything. Not since the 1980s – when it was all about the Manchester indie-rave scene and Versace's baroque designs – has print in menswear made fashion headlines.

Cut to now and Prada is selling floral trousers that riff on golfing slacks and printed shirts that whiff of 1950s Americana. Topman's retro paisley-print catwalk pyjamas sold out in February. Clumpy Dr Marten boots have been given a floral print remix for Liberty. Burberry is backing tribal print trousers, GQ has included these in its patterned trousers spread this month while Zara is selling Aztec-inspired backpacks. To say that print is enjoying a comeback is an understatement.

As the rain pelted down Tuesday, Marks & Spencer reported that men are buying rather a lot of lemon-yellow and rose-pink chinos, and perhaps even more surprisingly, Hawaiian shirts. Tony O'Connor, head of menswear design at M&S, says that "Hawaiian and vintage-looking prints, even in this adverse weather, have gone off really well", helped no doubt by George Clooney pulling off a decent Hawaiian shirt look in The Descendants. (OK, he was in Hawaii at the time, but the point remains.) "Guys are buying into colour now," says O'Connor, "so print is the next logical step."

Gareth Scourfield, fashion editor at Esquire, thinks we're all going to be shocked at how enthusiastically men embrace print. "When the block colour look started to come in, I remember wondering if men would get it. But from a designer level right through to the high street, everybody started to do well with bold colour jeans and chinos." Scourfield thinks that menswear has been mostly pared-back since the 90s, so perhaps it's time for men to have "more fun with fashion".

Topman's flagship Oxford Circus store is rammed with a dizzying array of prints, from Aztec- to African-inspired designs, floral to 50s kitsch. "For the British male, wearing print still requires quite a lot of confidence," says Gordon Richardson, Topman's design director. "It works on holiday, on the beach. But in dull British weather, prints are more difficult."

Versace Baroque designs … Versace. Photograph: Versace

The weather doesn't seem to be worrying the buyers, though. Asos will offer 60 styles of printed shirt this season and next month rolls out 60,000 printed products. "I've never seen this much print in menswear before," says John Mooney, the company's head of menswear design. He reports that the look is a particular hit with the 18-to-mid-20s demographic. "These guys are confident and cocksure, and there's a massive trend for standing out from the crowd and impressing your peers."

So why now? "I think we were definitely in danger of menswear becoming a little bit dull," says Topman's Richardson. "We went through this period of smartening up, of heritage-inspired clothing. Then colour infiltrated chinos. So to look individual, you almost had to try to explore print in some way." Now it covers a range of Topman products from caps, bracelets and wallets to T-shirts, shirts, bags, belts, vests and knits.

River Island's menswear design manager Elizabeth Taylor thinks the look has its origins in the success of last season's patterned knits, such as ironic Christmas jumpers and busy Fair Isle styles. "Men are getting used to bolder designs," she says.

In London, there is also emerging momentum for printed men's fashion from both established fashion week designers, such as Jonathan Saunders and Christopher Kane, and up-and-coming names such as Agi & Sam and Kit Neale. For Agi & Sam, whose buzz catwalk collection for autumn/winter featured rooster and duck prints, print "gives your brand an immediate identity, and originality. It also feels like you have created everything."

Neale, whose work also caught the eye during London fashion week, based his autumn/winter collection around his dad's allotment. Cue jolly vegetable and insect prints on T-shirts, bomber jackets and jeans. Among his friends, he says, there is an enthusiasm for both 1980s Moschino and vintage Versace, both known as loud statement labels. "The current preppy look has dominated men's fashion for too long," he says. Last year's collaboration between H&M and Versace welcomed a new and enthusiastic audience to the brand's archive. Donatella then put classic Gianni-era Versace prints back at the heart of the label during the spring/summer men's show, including patterned trousers, a look also shown by Paul Smith and Burberry.

This element of the print comeback, though, is perhaps a harder sell. "I think the look will be a slow burn and probably take a season or two to filter down," admits Robert Johnston, associate editor of GQ. "I suspect the Burberry-esque batik prints will be the first to become popular. And it will be a long time before most men will feel brave enough to wear Prada florals."

But with the backing of the high street, it seems that print is a look with legs – even if those legs aren't likely to be covered in floral patterns any time soon.

"There are so many ways to do print," says Dan May, style director at Mr Porter. "It covers the most adventurous guys. Or you can just pop in a print scarf or a tie so you address the trend but in a minimalist way. That's really the beauty of print, you can hit it as hard as you like."

Versace Mobile phone: boring

Hi, this week, Versace revealed a Versace mobile phone called Versace Unique. It was developed in partnership with Mobilabs, a expert company on customized phones. Basically, they took a LG mobile phone and they have customized for the brand.
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