New Arrivals!

Welcome to a fresh new image!

We've given Haute District a face-lift and it doesn't stop there. We've added new stuff you will absolutely fall in love with.

Check out these new babes on the block:

The Selena Dress

The Daisy Dress

The Lulu Necklace

Click on the pictures to start shopping!

The Bold and the Beautiful

(Dress above from Christian Dior Fall 2010 Couture show)

FYI, to all you die-hard fashionistas out there, the Couture shows are now in progress.

Pronounced 'koo-too-ur', Couture is the art of designing and making fashionable and custom-made clothing for women (merriam-webster.com). My definition - clothes made with passion, the embellishments and details on each couture piece is alike the music notes Mozart arranged to reflect his soul. Couture clothes are the peeking holes into the artistic genius of the designer.

What the world would do if John Galliano holding the reins of the house of Christian Dior held back during Couture week? Complete, utter chaos! But here he is, at it again. His Dior show held nothing back. He decked out sweet confections of dresses made for princesses and displayed the highest degree of opulence in every layer of silk that floated on the runway.

While each couture piece from Dior is definitely going to break your bank for a lifetime, Haute District has offerings that is uncannily similar though wearable and at prices you will love.

Notice the similarities:

The Katherine Dress

The Clara Dress

Each Catherine D. dress here at Haute District is one of a kind and is only available here online or at our participating boutiques. So, get a little 'couture' of your own. Check out our range of Catherine D. dresses here by clicking on the Shopping links on your right.

Now, who says Couture isn't affordable?

Skirt Lengths Dropping for Fall?

Don't panic. Doesn't mean you've got to ship all your mini skirts and baby-doll dresses to the Salvation Army. Yes, designers in the fashion heavens have decreed that skirt lengths need to fall - fall at the knee or slightly below it. But a few exceptions here and there is perfectly ok (sigh!).

Alright, but I'd like to shed some light on how to wear these new lengths and not look like you've aged 20 years!

The Fall season as you know means more somber colours mixed with nudes. Black, grey, maroon, blue (not pastels), red and camel is the order of the day. Christopher Kane leads the way (dress above) in that, he cuts the dress to just skim the body while embellishing it with bold embroidered floral designs.

Next in line is Micheal Kors that showed a strong Fall collection 2010 incorporating typical American wear. The dress below is a camel/nude ensemble but notice how he cleverly dips the neckline and finishes off with strong double leather belt to hold it all together. A little feminity and masculanity together sends a very sexy vibe.

Love Dries Van Noten's work. He loves mixing up colours and challenges our expectation of the norm. However, I found this one piece in his Fall 2010 collection a little disturbing - well in a good way, really. Because it has only ONE colour, grey. The dress is in no way brilliant from an artistic point of view. But its simplicity and classic cut is actually cleverly done to make it look chic and youthful.

The crowning glory of this trend just has to be (drum roll....) Victoria Beckham. And I'm not saying this because football fever is in the air. Victoria's style has always been body hugging pieces - as if the dress is second skin. For Fall, she had stolen the show by splashing colours like salmon and bright blue. This piece below is truly stunning and goes to show that just because you're not flashing your thighs, doesn't mean you can't look hot when the temperature (and skirt length) drops!

Miu Miu's Resort

This is a continuation of my previous blog when I predicted that polks-dots will be big next year. Sure enough, Ms. Prada had the same thought on her mind (i'd like to think both she and I are on the same wave length!).

Always imaginative, always playful and always interesting, the Miu Miu label has never failed to deliver excitement on the runway. Resort 2011 had given birth to some very ingenius creations, first from Valentino, then Moschino and now Miu Miu.

Notice the use of those sweet circles printed on each heavenly piece (all pictures here are Miu Miu). Each of them dipped in sweet and sticky candy colours - apple greens, berry pinks and sorbet blues.

Then for a moment, the polka-dot carnival stops and makes way for persistent stripes, this is just a tiny pause before, the dots continue on taking shape in the form of pants and hot hot pants!

Oh! Who can resist this collection. You're right, no one can. At least not until the credit card well dries up!