Dolce & Gabbana anyone?

Over the summer, I visited the Dolce & Gabbana store in Bond Street, London to check out the menswear for autumn/winter 2011. I'd already looked at the new collection on www.style.com and just thought it'd be nice to visit the actual store seeing as I've never seen it, or Bond Street before. Wow, it was so nice! I felt like a celebrity (haha) The whole row of designer shops on Bond St are brilliant. There's Alexander McQueen right next door too so I popped into there to have a quick browse. (I was praying I wouldn't see anything I wanted because I didn't fancy being bankrupt so close to Christmas!)

I picked up the lookbook they had near the counter in Dolce & Gabanna and have to say the pictures in it are beautiful. So crisp, with a classic compilation of black and white photographs gracing the cover. I could just rip out a page and frame it! So I scanned some images into my computer and thought I'd upload them on here.

 Typically for Autumn/Winter they show no bright colours, just neutral shades of black, grey, tan and white mainly. There are a few leather pieces in there, like casual jackets, bags, belts and shoes which are gorgeous, but I noticed the majority of the garments are made from heavy suiting material. Well Dolce &

Gabbana are a classically styled brand

aren't they? They're not famous for bonkers designs or anything and their signature style is sophisticated and well groomed, so there's no suprise they've created a vast collection of clean cut single breasted blazers for men in grey, pinstripe and black. There's one in particular that I love and its like a charcoal grey with black piping detail around the jacket lapel (picture below). It's gorgeous for a glam ocassion. If I was a guy, I would definitely be buying it. They sell the matching trousers, which really would be a package for an important ocassion, but I love the juxtaposition of formal wear and casual wear such as teaming the formal blazer with bleached jeans. Sexy. A lot of men are wearing that look now though aren't they? Same with the geek chic, everyone's doing it. I still like it though, I think it's a really cool look. And as usual, I'm always drawing, so to the left is just a charcoal sketch of one of the formal blazers featured in the look book. And guess what? I accidentally tipped a pint of coke over it as soon as I'd finished hence the brown tinge! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, I was like oh my god that took me two hours... But then realised it had actually given it an old, authentic feel! phew. Some accidents are actually meant to be. Who would have thought.

Looking at the casual section in the D&G lookbook, there was a variety of leather jackets, checked shirts and fleece's, scarfs and zip up bomber jackets, all in dark, wintery shades. I think the burnt crimson colour leather is really classy. The guy on the far left is wearing a nice cream and black checked jacket, perfect for a shopping trip or a day out in Decemeber.