| The lingerie issue In this issue: new trends, new editorials, and a round-up of our coverage from the best fall 2012 lingerie collections. Scroll down to the second half of the newsletter for your lingerie fix. Leather skirts: toughening up a girly staple If your wardrobe is engaged to marry florals and pastels for fall 2012, then we’d like to alert you of the side-affair its having with leather for this season, as well. This sometimes elegant, other times edgy fabric is known to awaken the wild side in an ensemble, and trust us, it’s doing the job really well. To counteract blinding brights and a party of prints, leather skirts are paving the way to find a warm and goth-inspired corner in the closet. But when you pair this intense fabric with a feminine silhouette, you're asking for a killer androgynous mash-up to be part of your wardrobe. This season, leather and skirts are teaming up in an array of cuts, styles and colours to banish the habitual image of a skirt with one that's made for a contemporary and modern woman. Fashionising.com has dished out all the new styles we're expecting to see in the coming season, only to make your fall 2012 wardrobe planning a whole lot easier. Find out more after the break. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Leather skirts: toughening up a girly staple' Colored jeans: the key denim colors for fall Blue jeans are famous as workwear, as a staple of America’s Old West; they were a symbol of youth culture and rebellion in the 1950s and 60s and they’ve been sung about by the likes of Neil Diamond through to Lana Del Rey. But as much as we still love to get our blue jeans on, keeping denim alive means mixing it up. And in so far as fall 2012′s fashion trends go, that means colour. But what colour jeans to invest in for the coming cold months? Read on to find out. 
Click to read 'Colored jeans: the key denim colors for fall' Alexander McQueen’s plexiglass visor: from show to shelf Sarah Burton has some big shoes to fill - specifically some oversized, McQueen-style, armadillo heels. Luckily the baby steps that she has taken in them since May of 2010 seem to be favorable, culminating in Burton winning Designer of the Year at the 2011 British Fashion Awards. The victory appears to have further spurred her on as she continues to define the new direction of the luxe fashion house. In her latest move, Burton announced that the enigmatic visors displayed during the women's autumn/winter 2012 show would be made available for purchase. 
Click to read 'Alexander McQueen’s plexiglass visor: from show to shelf' Queen of the collar: Tania Zekkout Has ever the line between fetish and fashion been more blurred? Perusing the ‘collars’ category of a luxury boudoir supplier like Mise en Cage, you might expect to find only leather bondage chokers and restraint collars. Those are, indeed, there – but there’s something more. These utterly fashionable collars, handmade by Tania Zekkout from a mix of leather and muslin. 
Click to read 'Queen of the collar: Tania Zekkout' Why women in China wear ski masks to the beach: weekend read "A woman should always have fair skin," she said proudly. "Otherwise people will think you're a peasant." It’s been true throughout much of history: perceptions of what constitutes wealth have a strong impact on trends in beauty. This also goes for trends in body shape, if you consider that in some times and cultures plumpness was synonymous with being able to afford to eat well – a trend now largely reversed given the mass availability of fast food, and the high cost of a lifestyle filled with organic vegetables and gym memberships. Similarly, Western perception sees tanned skin as the golden glow of a wealthy and luxurious lifestyle. It’s an enviable position, to be able to jet off to some Mediterranean resort when the weather is less than brilliant at home. But it turns out there are masses of women in China who see things differently: a tan, to them, is something you get from working out in the fields. It suggests you’re a peasant. 
Click to read 'Why women in China wear ski masks to the beach: weekend read' Latest Collections / Runway Showings Fashion Trend Inspiration Fashionising.com not only brings you all the latest fashion trends, we constantly bring you inspiration on how they can be worn and styled too. Here's the most recent inspiration: Current Fashion Sales If you'd like to advertise a fashion sale follow the link. Featured Editorial The Lingerie Round-up Monica Cruz brings out her inner sex kitten for Agent Provocateur (video) In the battle to be the sultry, luxury lingerie brand that gets the most attention (and sales) Agent Provocateur have a few advantages: time (they’ve been going nearly 20 years) and budget. The latter allows casting of the kind of names that get press – like Kylie Minogue, Kate Moss, or – in this case – Penelope Cruz’s little sister Monica Cruz. The campaign is called Wilhelmina and, like most Agent Provocateur campaigns, it has a fantastical story attached to it. Cruz plays a woman in Victorian England that goes to have her photo taken by a man with a magic camera. The camera shows one’s “true self”. Her true self, turns out, is rather a libidinous lingerie-wearing vixen. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Monica Cruz brings out her inner sex kitten for Agent Provocateur (video)' Aubade lingerie carries on the French art of loving Aubade – n. a morning love song. One of Aubade’s claims to fame is that they started marketing lingerie as an item of pleasure, at a time when underwear was seen as functional. That was the 1960s, though Aubade’s history goes back much further than that, and since then the idea of lingerie for pleasure’s sake has become so ingrained we wouldn’t even question it. For Aubade the concept is also deeply tied to the brand’s birthplace: France. Whatever it is about the French way that so seduces and romances the rest of the world, we may not have a singular adjective to describe it, but it’s wound up in every fibre of every top tier French lingerie brand. It’s a kind of seductiveness that’s as effortless as it is glamorous. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Aubade lingerie carries on the French art of loving' Lingerie made erotic: Lascivious Lascivious’ lingerie pieces don’t just look good; they’re fire that fuels the erotic imagination. Cheeky cutaways expose body parts in reverse, and the clean, modern design means fabrics hug the skin in the most flirtatious of ways. For fall 2012 the brand builds upon the styles which, since its founding in 2004, have become modern classics. ‘Isla’ reworks one of Lascivious’ classic styles with the addition of patent leather eyelet-studded trim. The ‘Lola’ collection introduces a geometric mesh fabric that’s so on-trend the basque is basically begging to be worn as outerwear. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Lingerie made erotic: Lascivious' Giving lingerie an exotic twist: Les Jupons de Tess Lace-cup bras, silk camisoles, and cut-away knickers that have a surprise addition of showgirl sparkle banded across the back. Oriental fashion may have had a runway moment this year, but there’s little in Les Jupons de Tess’ autumn / winter 2012 lingerie collection that feels particularly inspired by the East. But underwear is, at its core definition, the foundation of an outfit and thus malleable to whatever theme you choose to dress it up with. Les Jupons de Tess describes itself as a brand that celebrates the coquetterie of the 18th century woman – they’re all for bows and frills and lace and trims – and, as the fall 2012 look book shows, that woman can take her inspiration from whichever exotic place she pleases. 
Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Giving lingerie an exotic twist: Les Jupons de Tess' La Perla lingerie: East meets West (video) “East and West, silk and lace… The grace of a geisha and the Italian sense of elegance.” Thus begins the description for La Perla’s fall 2012 lingerie collection, titled the Oriental Suite. It’s a collection that takes the iconic imagery of the East – “obi belts, kimonos, lacquered screen patterns, fans” – and reconstructs them as the basis for garments that adorn the body with a stylish eroticism. The marriage of East and West is a clear but not a cliche one: bamboo canes are embroidered on tulle, nude fabric inserts create trompe-l'oeil illusions, and embroidered tulle “wrapped” in a sheer layer of smooth tulle nods to the Japanese “furoshiki”, or wrapping cloth. 
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