Sunday, October 31, 2010

Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel Fashion Show Paris 2010

The Spring/Summer Collection by Karl Lagerfeld. At the Chanel spring/summer fashion show in Paris Karl Lagerfeld really did not adorn himself with borrowed plumes.

There was no need: featherlike details were a big part of many of the outfits from the Chanel spring/summer collection. Model Karmen Kass paraded along the 350 meter long cat walk wearing a dress with the floaty featherlike material.
The show was bombastic and pompous as always: models like Abbey Lee, Lindsey and Freja presented Karl Lagerfeld’s newest Chanel creations for the coming summer season in a replication of the Jardins de Versailles.

In accordance with the setting live music was played by a classic sym.

Elle Magazine Celebrates it's 25th anniversary

One of the top fashion magazines in the world, ELLE magazine celebrated its 25th anniversary in New York on Tuesday night, Oct. 26, with the launch of a new book, “The ELLEments of Personal Style,” featuring advice and wardrobe suggestions from 25 of their favorite style icons, and a performance by Grammy Award-winning artist and ELLE icon Estelle.

Featured icons in the book, like Diane von Furstenberg and Padma Lakshmi, offered up their style advice and secrets on the red carpet.
“I think the only style advice I can give or receive is just to being happy with who you are and just go with it,” said von Furstenberg.

Designer Nicole Miller said she loves Penelope Cruz, and would follow Cruz’s style advice without thinking.

Christian Siriano, the young designer who has been dressing top stars left and right as of late, including Estelle and “Mad Men”‘s Christina Hendricks, has his own favorites when it comes to personal inspiration.

Rising Designer: Angela Chen

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A Fashion designer named Angela Chen wasn’t even born when the movie The Blue Lagoon came out in theaters in 1980, but just one viewing inspired the Vancouver designer’s spring collection. “I saw the movie this summer and fell in love with it right away,” Chen said. Taiwanese-born Chen, 27, moved to Vancouver at age seven and originally launched her line as Orange in New York in 2007 after graduating from Parsons the New School for Design. This was a labor of love she worked on after-hours, even managing to sell some of her pieces into Soho boutiques and onto a few of the famous. Chen says that Kirsten Dunst, Allison Pill and Chloë Sevigny have all worn the line. Three years and several successful fashion shows later, Orange has been changed to ‘OR’ by Angela Chen, with the spring collection hitting the runway at LG Fashion Week in Toronto.

One doesn’t often think of The Blue Lagoon as a fashion movie. Child star Brooke Shields’ character Emmeline relies on a loincloth and, for modesty’s sake, her long hair to make a fashion statement. But it wasn’t the one makeshift dress Emmeline fashions from her lone trunk that inspired Chen. It was the actress herself. “It was the first time I had seen Brooke Shields when she was so young and not just in pictures,” she says of the early Shields who was all gangly tanned limbs, wild hair, strong eyebrows and innocence. Although the palette of Chen’s Spring/Summer 2011 OR collection was also inspired by the movie’s sun-drenched sky, sand and sea, the cold, rainy weather that welcomed Chen to Toronto on the eve of her runway show was less than sun-drenched. Models huddled in the drizzle outside her publicist’s downtown office, anxiously waiting for this interview to be over and the runway casting to begin.
To evoke a carefree island mood, the collection relies heavily on fine French linen, sourced at some expense through a fabric rep who had seen her Vancouver Fashion Week collection. It’s pretty and ethereal, but in a nod to Chen’s pragmatic side, doesn’t rely on less than practical floaty chiffon tricks to convey the carefree mood. Instead, there are fluid flax-colored linen gowns for beachy weddings and details like delicate spaghetti straps, intricate smocked bibs and tiny pleats. One demure dress pools around the knees; another is a floaty, ankle-grazer in pale ombré, as though the bottom had dipped into a lagoon of blue dye. For fun, there’s a little romper.
In addition to usual sources like Carolina Herrerra, Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui, famous New York fashion studios where she worked before moving back to Vancouver, Chen says she pays close attention to Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong fashion. “I love all their really simple things, the Zen feeling of design and the little detail here or there.” That’s reflected in Chen’s own taste for asymmetric pleats and draping. They’re also the kinds of slightly off-kilter designs that Shield’s Emmeline might have fashioned out of those Victorian linen dresses that washed ashore, since she’d never laid eyes on a fashion magazine.

KEITAMARUYAMA by Keita Maruyamaon at the Japan Fashion Week

Keita Maruyama, a young Japanese Fashion Designer showcase her collection during the Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo held on October 19.

A graduate of Bunka Fashion College (Bunkafukuso Gakuin), Maruyama has had a fascination with fashion since childhood. After working as a freelancer designing clothes for entertainers, he debuted as an independent designer in 1994 and has his first show in Paris three years later.

Maruyama’s designs are quite different from those of the older established Japanese designers. In this sense, he is not so readily recognized as a Japanese designer in Europe. He uses more obviously Oriental motifs and “introduces the essence of the kimono” into his designs. He would like to increase the popularity of the kimono among young Japanese, and launched a kimono collection in the autumn of 1999, although he is aware of its limited practicality in modern life.

Maruyama’s line are designed to “end up in an antique shop rather than a museum”, being passed on rather than simply consumed. Abroad, his designs are available in the US and Europe as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Siren Shoes' new model: Jennifer Hawkins

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Former Miss Universe 2004, Jennifer Hawkins has signed a new deal with a fashionable shoe outfit. One of Australia’s young women’s fashion footwear players, Siren Shoes says it has strategically positioned itself for significant growth after securing Jennifer Hawkins as the new face of its national brand. She, who has been voted one of the world’s most beautiful women and is already the face of Myer and recently launched her own line of lingerie called Lovable, has entered into a three year contract with Siren which will see her become the face of the brand. Cube Footwear, the owner of Siren, group director Michael Emanouel said Jennifer Hawkins portrays everything that the brand stands for. “She’s beautiful and ambitious with a bold outlook on life,” he said.

“The Siren target customer will be able to relate directly with Jennifer, and we are immensely proud to be working with her.” Hawkins will also collaborate with Siren on the development of her own signature range of shoes: “JLH for Siren”. The “L” stands for Jennifer's middle name, Louise. “I’ve always wanted to design heels. I am truly obsessed with them and know what a woman wants in a heel,” the beauty queen said.

Emanouel said Hawkins was passionate about fashion and shoes and was thrilled to be part of the design process, from idea generation all the way through to market. Jennifer officially launched the range at a special parade in Sydney yesterday and she features in Siren’s upcoming Spring Summer 2010 national campaign which was shot at a luxury location in Sydney.

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