34 posts tagged “fashion”

Time passes so quickly that we often don’t notice how seasons change each other. But if you are a woman of fashion you have to go step in step with seasons as the fashion industry does.

Trends for the fall 2009 and winter 2010 are not much different from what we had the previous time but still there are some new things to mention here.

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Post-industrial waste, snarling dogs, and temperatures soaring to 40C are all part of a day's work for model Angela Lindvall.

Angela Lindvall, model, actress and mother of two, has just returned from the Telegraph Fashion shoot – a typical day of post-industrial waste, snarling dogs, and temperatures soaring to 40C at Le Mirage, a dried lake two hours from LA. Coincidentally, she was recently called for a second audition for a part in the remake of George Miller’s Mad Max, which was the inspiration for this photoshoot.

‘I think it is an omen,’ Lindvall says. ‘I’m hoping it means I’ll get the part.’

 
In 2007 she was one of six models photographed for Louis Vuitton’s s/s 08 ad campaign. It marked a return to the power of ‘the supermodel’. Lindvall sees that campaign as a eureka moment in her life. Being chosen to pose alongside Claudia Schiffer, Stephanie Seymour, Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova and Natalia Vodianova was, she says, a great honour.

Raised in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, Lindvall says modelling was never even a passing thought when she was growing up. It was after her father enrolled her in a modelling school for fun during the summer holidays when she was 13 that her life changed.

 ‘There were about 30 girls and we put on a fashion show for agents from New York,’ Lindvall says.

 IMG, the agency that still represents Lindvall, invited her to New York for test shoots. Her agent then sent her to Paris, where she was booked on jobs for W magazine and Italian Vogue. ‘I sacrificed the rest of my teenage years to work in the industry,’ she says. ‘But I saw it as an investment. I worked hard and it has paid off.’

These days she lives with her children, Dakota, seven, and Sebastian, four, in a house with seven acres of land in Topanga Canyon, LA. Neil Young lived there and performed at the Topanga Corral, a nightclub that also saw performances from Emmylou Harris and Etta James. Lindvall takes her dog wherever she likes and her children run around dressed as wizards. Despite working in one of the most glamorous and artificial industries, she seems to live rather a boho home life.

She is an ardent environmentalist.

 ‘It drives me crazy to think that when I run my kitchen taps it goes down the same drain as my septic,’ Lindvall says. ‘I am replumbing my house so that all waste water, apart from the toilet, goes straight into my garden.’

Her next investment will be solar panels. Eight years ago she established the Collage Foundation, which promotes environmentally conscious choices among young people. She is also fronting a project called Clean By Design – an initiative to make manufacturing facilities for the fashion industry in China more sustainable.

There is no doubt Lindvall could have sacrificed more to have a bigger modelling career. But she is not driven by fame. Last season, when she was the star of French Elle magazine’s fashion issue, she found it odd to see huge images of herself on the walls at the launch party.

 ‘I still think it’s weird to see images of myself manipulated into this fantasy. I can’t help but ask, “How did this happen?”’

By Georgia Dehn 

via http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion

Birds of a feather flock together, so why not fans of birds, too?

CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist Waris Ahluwalia has taken inspiration for his forthcoming Omnia Vincit Amor (”Love Conquers All”) collection (see a making-of video here) from the photographs of birds in his friend Andrew Zuckerman’s forthcoming book, BIRD, and for Fashion’s Night Out, both Ahluwalia and Zuckerman will be at Barneys New York to give shoppers a preview of their avian artworks.

 “For the collaboration, I chose seven birds from Andrew’s book and made a limited-edition collection of seven pieces in enamel on silver,”

explains Ahluwalia (who—not so coincidentally—also makes a cameo appearance in Zuckerman’s Sundance-screened short High Falls).

Zuckerman will be signing copies of his book at Barneys, and the first 150 folks to show up at the event will receive limited-edition House of Waris pins; fans of the Omnia Vincit Amor pieces will have to wait until November to get their hands on them, however. In the meantime,

Fashion’s Night Outers taking wing to the Meatpacking District can get their urban bird watch on at the High Line, where Zuckerman, in conjunction with Friends of the High Line, will be projecting video shot in tandem with his BIRD snaps. Word is that a major New York City designer helped organize the installation, and that the same designer will be using images from BIRD in a collection TBD. (As the saying goes, a little birdie told us.) 

1. Admit it – There you’ve done it! You took a long, hard look in the mirror and put yourself asleep. Stop snoozing behind the style wheel and do something about it. There is absolutely no reason to look boring, unless you intentionally want to be perceived that way. Here, is where we could use your social worker skills for some.

2. Believe that you can be beautiful – Looking great is not only the best revenge, it’s the best self-confidence booster! Way back when, I began writing my Focus on Style column because so many women who I came across sadly thought that they could never be as beautiful as the models I worked with as a fashion stylist. Beauty is subjective. Looking gorgeous is a state of mind, plus some effort to make the most of what you’ve got! Every woman deserves to be her own favorite supermodel of loveliness.

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I wouldn’t be mistaken if say that you have heard at least one fashion rule your mother and grandmother considered unbreakable.

Among those could be: Shoes and bags must always match; Never wear tights with open-toed shoes; etc.

You’ve probably heard them so often that even now when fashion has completely changed you still believe these rules are applicable.

However, if you want to be trendy you have to understand that most of those fashion rules are outdated and false. Forget about these once and for all.

Here is a list of rules you can safely break now:

• Shoes and bags must always match.

We have already written about this and now repeat once again: shoes and bags don’t have to match!

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When you get extremely cold you usually forget about how you look. All you want is to find something that can make you feel warmer and don everything you lay your hands on.

As a result you might look terrible but feel happy about getting warmer. To prevent such situations think of them in advance!

Try to choose the things that will really help you to be protected from the winter cold.

Here are some of the tips on how to dress warm but remain stylish.

In November 2008 the Toronto (Canada) based label Chopper Couture presented the new spring/summer 2009 collection dedicated to ethical fashion named "Rock n'Soul!".

"Pairing the word "fashion" with the word "ethical" or worse, "organic" has perpetually conjured images of shapeless potato sacks or itchy, poorly woven fabrics. But more designers are splashing out with edgy, sophisticated takes on eco designs," Arlene B. Queen, Chopper Couture.

fig.: "Emma" hoodie by Chopper Couture spring/summer 2009; on the sleeve you can see the sanskrit symbol for Om or Aum - you know it from yoga "Ohmmm". The sign "Aum" is the most important Hindu symbol as it stands as a universal sign (includes day, night, dreaming, ...) for God and is used in praying for transcending.

Chopper Couture uses eco-friendly fabrics, sustainable printing processes, and pays workers fairly "is no longer unfashionable," says Irene Zingenberg, designer of Chopper Couture. "We're still struggling with the belief that ethical clothing won't be up to scratch - that you can't dress somebody for the Oscars in an ethical dress."

Zingenberg uses bamboo, organic cotton and high-tech threads such as Tencel, an Austrian produced lyocell made in a no-waste process using sustainable farmed beech.

I find smart manufacture the most challenging and creative of the ethical fashion principles," says Zingenberg. She has total quality control: from the cutting room table throughout the entire manufacturing process.

via fashionoffice.org

What’s so good about fashion trends? One of the greatest pluses is that they make a comeback over time. Now we often see celebs donning retro-styled clothes and accessories, putting retro-inspired makeup and doing hair in a retro style.

One of the greatest fans of retro chic is the one who kissed a girl and liked it - Katy Perry - who says 1940s style was “unique”.

Everybody had their own kind of deal, it wasn’t like walking robots wearing one label or having to wear one thing because it was the coolest, trendiest thing,” she explains.

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