Marni for H&M inspired necklace DIY

Marni for H&M on Vogue Russia

Another H&M designer collaboration wll hit the stores on 8th of March. It's the turn of Marni a sophisticated luxury italian brand. H&M abandons the big names of the fashion industry known by the masses and chooses an intellectual fashion house. We could say that H&M goes radical chic in fact it also picks Sofia Coppola to direct the tv commercial. Marni is known for prints and patterns with a vintage feel and for big statement jewels. The collection designed for H&M has Marni written all over it. It's tribal, vintage and also bohemian and bauhaus. The full lookbook has been disclosed only a few days ago.
See the full Marni for H&M lookbook here. Will you queue outside H&M stores?

Now let's get back to today's diy project. I think that  jewelry is the best part of  this Marni collection.   Every piece looks like a 70's jewel and it's either in wood or in plastic. The plastic leaves necklace you see above are my favorites.  I can make a similar one with just a lighter and an empty bottle. See how I made it.

H&M continua la sua collaborazione con i grandi brand e l'8 marzo sarà il turno di Marni. H&M abbandona i grandi nomi del fashion industry conosciuti dal grande pubblico e sceglie invece un brand di nicchia e più intellettuale. Potremmo dire che quella del colosso svedese sia una scelta radical chic sottolineata anche dal nome di Sofia Coppola scelta per la regia dello spot. Marni è conosciuto per le sue stampe dal sapore vintage e i grandi gioielli e la collezione disegnata per H&M rispetta il dna della maison. Si potrebbe definire una collezione dal sapore vintage con influenze tribali,  sia bohemien che bauhaus. Il lookbook completo è stato svelato da poco, cliccate qui per vederlo. La collezione sarà disponibile solo in negozi selezionati. Che dite? Farete la fila fuori?

Ma torniamo alla collana diy di oggi. A mio parere i gioielli sono la parte migliore di questa collaborazione. Sono tutti molto vistosi  in legno o in plastica, in particolare la collana in foglie arancioni qui in alto è la mia preferita. Possiamo realizzarne una simile con una bottiglia in plastica e un accendino. Vediamo come.

A colored bottle

I didn't care what was inside the bottle, I picked this orange juice only for the color of the bottle (is it weird?).

By the way get a plastic bottle. 

Scegliete una bottiglia di plastica

empty it and cut it

vuotatela e tagliatela

Cut out a leaf shape and get a lighter

Ritagliate una foglia e prendete un accendino

Now this is the fun part: warm up the plastic leaf with the lighter. Keep it a little far from it. You'll see the plastic leaf bend and become tridimensional. It will look much more like a real leaf. These 3d leaves will add volume to the statament necklace.

Ecco la parte divertente: scaldate la foglia con l'accendino mantenendolo ad una certa distanza. Vedrete la plastica piegarsi e assumere un aspetto tridimensionale che servirà a dare volume alla collana. In più otterrete una foglia molto realistica.

here's the first leaf
ecco come appare la prima foglia

Cut the bottle in pieces
Ora ritagliate tutta la bottiglia

Curl all the pieces
e piegate tutte le foglie

Insert one leaf after another
Infilatele una dietro l'altra in un filo

these are three layers 
qui in alto tre strati sovrapposti di foglie

I then added a couple of beads and then I finished the necklace with  thread and crochet using the romanian macramè technique I used in the Stella MCartney diy dress.

Ho aggiunto un paio di perline ed ho ultimato la collana con  filo e l'uncinetto realizzando la fettuccia rumena che già ho utilizzato nel vestito diy di Stella MCartney.

Lanvin for H&M New York secret show

Lanvin had its own secret show at New York.
Have a look at the pictures of the event.

Even Anna Dello Russo modeled

The designer was present

Sketches exposed

All pictures by Style Bubble

Watch the whole fashion show:funny an extravagant, i like the film they shot,this unconvetional runway, but please now we had enought, let us shop these dresses and move on.

Lanvin at ASOS

€59.71
ASOS Exaggerated One Shoulder Pencil Dress

Today i wanted to find out how original is the Lanvin collection at H&M. The question is: can we find similar dresses anywhere else if we can't make it the 23th of November?
This is my first find the puffy one shoulder dress. This one is by asos; compared to the Lanvin one is pretty similar, do you agree? You can choose between three colors: mink, coral and black. The price difference is not this big, it costs 30 Euros less than the lanvin one but you can buy it if you can't get the lanvin one

Lanvin for H&M unvealing the whole collection

After talking and waiting for this collection here are the pieces we're going to buy hopefully at H&M the 23th. There are a lot of lovely pieces, if i could i would buy them all but the truth is that it will be hard to get one.
All these rules and selected stores thing is insane. If you haven't read them yet here they are:

• first thing arrive early (will see if the queue will be overnight)

• you have to be one of the lucky ones that catches a bracelet (there are 320 in total)

• wait for your turn

• then you have 15 minutes to shop the collection and you can buy one for each piece of the collection
  

if you don't catch the bracelet you'll have to wait the end of the 320 queue and then you can shop the remaining pieces.
If you can't reach one of the chosen h&m you can pay these dresses for double on ebay the day after.
Let me tell you this shopping session seems more a battle.
Maybe all these complicated rules are made for distracting us from realizing we're buying overpriced h&m dresses.
These capsule designers collections should be sold in every h&m, this won't make them less exclusive and wanted.

Lanvin at H&M: backstage of the lookbook

While we're waiting for the 23th of november, the launch of the Lanvin for H&M collection in selected stores have a look at this video made during the shooting of the lookbook:

Lanvin for H&M preview

Lanvin at H&M will be hitting selected stores the 23th of November and the full collection will be unveiled in 2 days, meanwhile watch this video for an anticipation.