Category archives: Fashion & Style

Lana Mueller Couture

8. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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This week, everything on Readthetrieb revolves around stunning gowns and couture dresses. Garments which many of you have been dreaming of since childhood. Princess’s dresses that are usually worn on the red carpet. Such Hollywood-like dresses are also made by couture label Lana Mueller, a young label founded in 2015. Exclusive,...

Glamour from Brazil by Ivan Aguilar

7. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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Prestigious, famous and infamous - Brazilian fashion designer Ivan Aguilar tells a story with his extraordinary creations. In his designs, he focuses on the needs of a modern woman, putting them together into almost spectacular designs. His fashion combines wearability with drama, glamour with earthiness and elegance with street credibility. The...

Surfer Looks for Him & Her by Colcci

6. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear, Menswear
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Brazilian ease is the most frequent stylistic device used by fashion label Colcci. The spirit of the Brazilian In-brand ranges from sensual and feminine to significantly masculine. Floral and botanical prints can be always found on the garments, especially in the summer collections. For the winter, trendy denim pieces are...

Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein

6. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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The renowned fashion brand Calvin Klein enjoys worldwide popularity and is famous for sensual advertising campaigns, but who is behind the look of the label? The face behind Calvin Klein is the Brazilian designer, Francisco Costa. The talented designer is the creative mind of the Calvin Klein’s women’s collection. He was...

Brazilian Beach Wear by Amir Slama

5. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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Founded in 1991, the Brazilian brand Amir Slama developed into one of the most important beachwear brands in Brazil. The brand and the eponymous designer behind it enjoy great international popularity. The urban models are known and loved far beyond the borders. Amir Slama designs impressive pieces for the beach and...

Green Fashion by Movin

5. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear, Menswear
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Movin is a very special fashion brand established in Rio de Janeiro. The label creates current trends from recycled materials and organic cotton, thus being a part of a fashion revolution while taking a proactive approach against the mass production and the thoughtless use of resources. It's about sustainable and...

Cantao, the modern version of the 70s

4. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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Cantao is fashion which is so colorful, expressive and affectionate that it stirs every woman’s blood. The Brazilian label Cantao comes along with refreshing designs. The style is casual with a bit of hippie-chic meeting a playful bohemian look. The result is splendid with enchanting outfits dominated by colors and...

Black & White @ Barbara Casasola

4. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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In her winter collection, Brazilian designer Barbara Casasola places everything on black and white, while staging them with rare, colorful elements. She has a modern and sophisticated, fancy and yet restrained style. Her creativity results in voluminous silhouettes that flatter the body of the wearer despite everything. In the collections, the...

Shopping in Rio

4. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear, Menswear
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Rio de Janeiro is a dream for all holidaymakers. The Brazilian metropolis offers stunning scenery and captures the imagination of uncountable visitors each year. It’s a cosmopolitan multicultural city which the traveler enters. Explore the legendary Sugar Loaf Mountain and Corcovado Mountain which tower above the skyscrapers. Visitors can relax...

OWLOON Valentines Day Collection

3. February 2016
Fashion & Style
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OWLOON is known for their traditional dirndl dresses with a modern twist. Unique fabrics with beautiful colors and patterns are used to create the ideal and stylish Dirndl, which is going to get you all the attention on every Oktoberfest and other festive events. The latest collection of OWLOON features extremely romantic pieces ranging from blouses to short...

Gowns and Cocktail Dresses by Carlos Miele

3. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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Brazil is a colorful country, which is also reflected in the local fashion. Brazilian designer Carlos Miele adds the refreshing variety of colors in his collections and with that, he hits the bull's eye. He appeals to the modern woman, reinventing her over and over again. Sometimes, she is seductive,...

The Brazilian Look

3. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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Powerful colors, lots of accessories and preferably a broad smile on the face – this is the Brazilian look. As the fifth largest country in the world and the largest country in Latin America, it has a determining influence on fashion which has been steadily developing since the 90s. The...

Alexandre Herchcovitch

2. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear, Menswear
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Young, talented and creative is what defines Brazilian designer Alexandre Herchcovitch. With his collections, he captures the audience regularly at runway shows. He creates collections where elegance is used for urban street wear and vice versa, in other words, where nonchalant elements add a more casual touch to refined pieces....

Brazilian Beach Fashion by Lenny Niemeyer

2. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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Brazil is the place to go when it comes to swimwear and there’s no other designer who has influenced it more than Lenny Niemeyer. The designer moved from Sao Paulo to Rio, where she discovered her talent and began designing unique swimsuits. After over 10 years in the fashion industry,...

Meskita gone Royal

1. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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Behind the Brazilian label Meskita  stands the eponymous designer Alessandra Meskita. Born and raised in Sao Paulo, she was already inspired by fashion at a tender age. Inspired by the artistic side of both her mother and her grandmother, she learnt a lot about designing when she was 15. With...

Sao Paulo Fashion Week

1. February 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear, Menswear
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Brazil represents a very colorful fashion where vibrant colors have the supremacy. Often, different colors are mixed together. The resulting look is full of passion and usually accompanied by many accessories. Brazilian fashion stands for an intentional overdose of glamour. The Brazilian world of design is colorful, versatile and extraordinary. Here...

Shoes by Tamaris

30. January 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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Shoes, handbags and accessories are what the label Tamaris is about. Here, you’ll only find women’s items. I particularly like the variety that exists in terms of winter shoes. Tamaris combines contemporary, current trends with timelessness, and with regards to that, she creates models that impress with fashion-consciousness and durability....

Sport Couture @ Dirk Bikkembergs

30. January 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear, Menswear
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At Dirk Bikkembergs, everything is about the perfect combination of sportiness and haute couture, which is why he calls his collection “Sport Couture” to which a fine selection of shoes also belong. There you’ll especially find sneakers which can be worn at any occasion. With his sneakers, he displays his...

Sadak - tradition clashes with modernity

29. January 2016
Fashion Week News
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The autumn & winter 2016 collection, designed by Sasa Kovacevic in collaboration with HRH Prince Fahad bin Faisal al Saud is translating the elements of folk symbols and disrupting traditional technique into digital contemporary design. HRH Prince Fahad al Saud and Sasa Kovacevic were exploring the darkest obsessions through powerful...

Mariana Jungmann presents her new collection ...

29. January 2016
Fashion & Style
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Mariana Jungmann takes inspiration by the works of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and sculptor Monica Piloni for her latest A/W 16/17 collection "Deshecho". Just like the two Latin artists, a strong yet unsettling aesthetic is playfully reworked by Jungmann into something beautifully unexpected. Jungmann's way of using very feminine design alongside traditional tailoring...

Shoe Trends: Visual Highlights by Nicholas Ki...

29. January 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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In 2005, British designer Nicholas Kirkwood  founded his own shoe brand. And with it, he went on a journey through the world of luxury shoes. With his outstanding talent, Nicholas Kirkwood has been working with architectural silhouettes and sculptural shapes since then. The focus is on the purist design, especially...

Rupert Sanderson High Heels: From Classic to ...

28. January 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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Celebrities love Rupert Sanderson, which is why the shoe label has become an integral part of Hollywood. Cate Blanchett and also Nicole Kidman love to be photographed in the label’s designs. It's needless to mention that the collections are full of breathtaking beautiful pieces from the classic high heels to...

The Perfection of Design by Francesco Russo

28. January 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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Parisian shoe designer Francesco Russo stands for innovative and young design and traditional crafting, making women happy every year thanks to his pioneering visions. The current winter collection speaks volumes, and the purity of the aesthetics stands for maximum elegance. Francesco Russo pursues the perfection of design and discovers the...

Shoes by Gucci

28. January 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear, Menswear
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"Made in Italy” is written on Gucci’s accessories such as handbags and shoes. The large shoe collection provides women, men and even children with sophisticated designs. Gucci turns creativity, craftsmanship and quality into an impressive shoe collection full of surprises, perfect for trendsetters and fashionistas who love to rediscover themselves...

Charlotte Olympia presents Hollywood Glamour

27. January 2016
Fashion & Style, Womenswear
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Charlotte Olympia makes those of you who can’t live without accessories get your money’s worth! The collection includes mainly shoes besides bags, leather goods and stockings. Charlotte Olympia Dellal is the designer who draws her inspirations from old Hollywood glamor and yet focuses on the current zeitgeist in her luxurious...
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