"Christopher Bailey didn’t look far when it came to casting for Burberry’s fall adcampaign. All of the actors and models shot by Mario Testino, including Felicity Jones, Cara Delevingne (younger sister to Poppy), Jourdan Dunn and Edie Campbell, all hail from Britain. “I was inspired by iconic British portraits and our own archive campaigns from the late 1960s of Jean Shrimpton using her trenchcoat to shelter herself from the poetic and romantic British weather,” said Bailey. “We wanted to create a group of portraits celebrating British actors, musicians and models.’’ The campaign will run across all digital platforms, including the brand’s Web site, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter". -wwd
South korean artiste Lee MinHo attended a press conference in Seoul to announce the filming of a new drama serial titled City Hunters. There's something about someone smiling and being happy which brings out the best in their looks. I thought minho looked amazing in that rust colored trench coat from Burberry Prorsum Spring/Summer 2011, paired with the marbled print top.
The newly signed New York Knick, Carmelo Anthony, arrived to this past weekends NBA All-Star game wearing a green Burberry Prorsum trench coat from the Spring 2011 Collection. The jacket features everything we’ve grown to love from Burberry coats and is distinguished with tan leather detailing at the shoulder, collar, and sleeves.
Model and actor Douglas Booth attends the Burberry Prorsum Show at London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2011 in Burberry Prorsum spring/summer 2011 trench coat at Kensington Gardens on February 21, 2011 in London, England.
Select model Sacha M’Baye enjoys a well-deserved breakout moment in Burberry Prorsum’s latest campaign images photographed by Mario Testino. Starring alongside Jourdan Dunn, Sacha sports the edgier side of spring’s collection with a little leather and studs.
Japanese footballer/model Hidetoshi Nakata was recently spotted in paris with the above Burberry Prorsumspring summer 2011 tumbled leather double breasted biker jacket.
Approaching the fall/winter 2011-2012 season with endless color and exaggerated proportions, Burberry Chief Creative Officer Christopher Bailey looked to a coat for all seasons. Creating his very own weather boy, Bailey’s outerwear stole the show as usual. Embracing the unexpected, the 60′s provided the inspiration for slick raincoats, quilted finishes and a rainbow of checks. Gathering pleats and reworking tweed, Bailey once again delivered an easily cool showing for a timeless label.
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There is, in case you haven't noticed, a royal wedding about to go down in London, so it was tempting to extract regal references from Christopher Bailey's latest collection for the most heritage-based of all English fashion companies. The neat little coats were the sort of thing young princes might have sported in days gone by, and the ermine-look fur trim had obvious royal connotations, even it was in fact something called "jaguar mink." But the real backstory was both bigger—and smaller. Small first. In the bottomless Burberry archives that are such an inspiration to him, Bailey found an ad campaign from the early sixties where every single image was photographed in different weather conditions. And that—cue the big picture—instantly led him along to the current, utterly ga-ga global weather situation.
Bailey is nothing if not focused. He decided on a coat for all seasons as his theme for Fall 2011, and that's exactly what he offered. There were myriad accompanying permutations of skinny pants, suits, and knitwear that was lacquered or cable knit in combo with furry doeskin. But the Main Event was The Coat in weights that were variously suitable for rain or wind or snow. Here's testament to focus—just as with Bailey's aviator jacket collection last Fall, almost every single coat was an object of lust, from the buffalo-check biggie that opened the show to the "jaguar mink" coat that closed it. Bailey used color astutely—an orange duffel, a pea-green military coat—but he also nailed subdued city camels and tweeds (fur-collared for luxe). And he closed his show with a full-on catwalk rainstorm, courtesy of his special-effects team. The only other designer who dared corral the elements was Alexander McQueen. In his own, much more subtle way, Bailey is as daring.
The kicker for the whole event is that every coat is available on Burberry.com until January 23. "Personalizing technology" is Bailey's game plan. "It makes the whole world smaller, more intimate," he said after the show. Sure, it's a spur to sales, but it goes beyond that; Bailey's acknowledgement of the universality of what he's doing is as timely as the inescapability of the climactic conditions that inspired his latest work.
