Burberry

There was something sincerely special for me in Burberry's Fall 06 Men's Collection. It's colors and cut were beyond perfection. More to the point, they drew me in to be a Burberry, or rather a Christopher Bailey fan.
While the Women's Fall 06 Collection was outshined by the Men's, this season it was nice to see the opposite happen.









Here is what my fave fashion site had to say about the collection:
MILAN, September 25, 2006 – Christopher Bailey's formula is to find a piece of British iconography to match the mood of the season, and then apply it to the fundamentals of Burberry's heritage. For spring, like many other designers, he's thinking about making things "lighter and more joyous," and he found the key while leafing through a book of Cecil Beaton's photographs.It was Beaton's whimsical early portraits from the twenties that caught his eye most: "The ones where he used cellophane, feathers, and sequins in studio photographs of his sister Baba and other debs." Bailey took that as a cue to give the familiar Burberry trench a new treatment, puffing gentle volume into the shapes, and working a palette of palest beige and silvery metallics into lace and high-tech brocades made from lightweight aluminum and silk." Sarah Mower style.com