By Maura Lynch
America's top salons divulge their most requested Hollywood 'dos
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Best Celebrity Hairstyles for 2010
By Maura Lynch Elle
America's top salons divulge their most requested Hollywood 'dos
Good hair is contagious! For the fourth year, ELLE polled the country’s 100 best salons to reveal the most coveted celebrity styles from coast to coast—and how to copycat them with ease.
Norwegian Wood Dressed in Tube
By Yuri Ahn Swide
We are thinking ahead. When we will be flaunting style in ski-resorts or in low temperatures around the city. D&G’s advice for this winter is to keep it warm and add a bit of feminine mystique.
There is something tender about Norwegian knits, you want to cuddle by the fire. What if you also want to fire up your attire? This winter, knits take different decisions, they cut, they dress, they veil. Something is always bare in case you are attending a soirée in altitude.
Knitted tube-dresses in traditional Northern prints are accompanied by comfy large scarves leaving bare the shoulders.Rouge. Evening-wear in winter and especially when temperatures drop add up on fabrics but don’t leave the glam back in the city. Tube-dresses shaped as elegant bustiers on top. Soft, leg-warmers are the key accessory. A luxurious detail full of sophistication that focalizes attention.Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour, the inspiration for the white chiffon shirt worn with a black ribbon tie. Taking the good girl image and adding to it something out of a northern fair-tale.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Miller Harris First Rate
WHAT do you give the woman who has everything? That must have been the question faced by Samantha Cameron (probably not far off claiming the same moniker for herself) when preparing to meet Michelle Obama. Cameron answered the question by heading to the Miller Harris boutique in Notting Hill, and promptly added some of the brand's luxurious natural wax candles to her selection of gifts for the First Lady. The brand's Figue Amère candle has been a long time favourite of the Vogue beauty team, and it's great to know it has the White House seal of approval now too. From £31;
Minerale
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Gisele Bundchen Brazilian supermodel
Name : Gisele Bundchen (Gisele Caroline Bündchen)
Born : July 20, 1980
Country : born in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Lives : USA
Gisele Bundchen Bio..
Gisele Bundchen was born on the 20th of July, 1980 in Brazil and is one of the best Brazilian supermodels in the world. Her nationality is Brazilian, but ethnicity is German, as her parents are Valdir and Vânia Bündchen, and both are from Germany. She has three sisters: Rafaela, Graziela and Raquel.
During her childhood and teen ages Gisele was hoping to be a volleyball player. However at the early age of 13 Bundchen started classes for modeling and was soon discovered by fashion agents at a volleyball competition. Gisele was sent to different fashion and beauty contests where she began to develop her career as a professional model.
Gisele Bundchen is one of the Victoria's Secret Angels and has appeared in the The Victoria's Secret lingerie Fashion Shows since 2001, working alongside such supermodels as Adriana Lima, Heidi Klum, Alessandra Ambrosio, Karolina Kurkova, and Tyra Banks.
She was on the cover of the fashion magazine Vogue in the year 1999 which opened up many new opportunities for her. Bundchen also appeared in major fashion magazines, such as Vogue USA Vogue Italia, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Allure, Cosmopolitan and Rolling Stone. Gisele Bundchen is mainly known as a fashion model, however she has appeared on the TV screen by playing a role in the movie "Taxi", which came out in the year 2004.
Gisele has been doing quite a number of fashion designer shows, such as Bvlgari, Chloe, Valentino, Versace, Gucci, Christian Dior, Ralph Lauren, D&G, and Michael Kors.
Gisele Bundchen has been seeing the famous American actor Leonardo di Caprio since 2004.
Body measurements:
Gisele Bundchen height: 180 cm
Gisele Bundchen weight: 57 kg
Gisele Bundchen breasts: 86 cm
Gisele Bundchen waist size: 61 cm
Gisele Bundchen hips: 86 cm
Giuliano Fujiwara: Inventive Mastercraftsman
MILAN, Jan 19, 2006 (Updated May 14, 2009) / FW/ — Established in Milan in the late 1980s, Fujiwara Design Studio was the brainchild of Giuliano Fujiwara, of his lucid perception of the potential of blending Japan and Italy, their design and manufacturing traditions, on the somewhat testing ground of menswear.
A confluence that crystallized into a powerful, graphic concept. Targeting a refined, niche audience, Giuliano Fujiwara’s collection was always pure. Distilled. At the designer’s death, his wife Kyomi Fujiwara took over to ensure solidity and continuity to the project.
In 2005, Giuliano Fujiwara was incorporated as a brand by STEADFAST, a Japanese company engaged in activities outside the fashion business, but with a growing interest in the area. The new partner’s entry has coincided with the brand’s relaunch and global updating.
Once more, Kiyomi Fujiwara acts as figure ensuring continuity through change, while design matters are put under the care of twenty-five year old, Japan-born, Swiss- and British-educated Masataka Matsumura. A long-time committed follower of Giuliano Fujiwara’s work, Masataka Matsumura has also been the main driving force behind the new visibility and global updating plan.
While still faithful to the original concept of a blend of Japanese design and Italian manufacturing, the relaunch has also involved a dramatic, uncompromising turn to modernity, striving for an idea of luxury that would not be confined to mere formalism, but rather entail a resolute quest for perfection and creativity in detail and finishing. Important ongoing collaborations with upmarket companies like Borsalino and Loro Piana testify to the high profile of this work-in-progress.
The design studio still retains its Milan location. Masaka Matsumura commutes between Tokyo and Italy, where most of the production is carried out, by those very laboratories and technical staff that Giuliano Fujiwara had employed in the first place. Some specific items, such as denims, shall instead be manufactured in Japan.
As part of the relaunch, a whole new world is being built around the brand. A flagship boutique is under construction in Tokyo, in the Aoyama area. Agreements for manufacture under licence are already operative with Optical Design and Calzaturificio Vigens, for an eyewear and a footwear line, respectively. A small-scale series of black diamond and silver jewellery is being manufactured in Japan, and another one in Italy. Future prospects also include clothing and accessories in limited series for exclusive sale in our flagship store.
Website: www.giulianofujiwara.com
- Address:
C. so Genova 11
20123 Milan
ITALY
Tel: +39 (02) 89 40 59 12
Fax: +39 (02) 89 40 61 01
Sex workers put on fashion show to fight AIDS
Sex workers sought to raise awareness about discrimination and AIDS with a colourful fashion show on the margins of the world AIDS conference on Wednesday.
Strutting sexily -- or shyly -- down an improvised catwalk, sex workers and activists drew a large crowd at the Global Village where NGOs have set up booths for the week-long conference.
The collection featured skimpy yellow shorts with thin braces, a mini-skirt over red fishnet tights and frilly dresses, with condoms in bright packaging sticking out of bodices or pockets as a reminder of the theme.
It was designed by Daspu, a Brazilian label set up in 2005 by a former prostitute now involved in defending sex workers' rights and named from "das putas", which means "from the whores" in Portuguese.
For prostitutes, "AIDS prevention is an instrument for working," Friederike Strack of Davida, an association working Daspu in Brazil, told AFP.
The prevalence of HIV among this group is significantly higher than in the rest of the population but criminalisation of sex workers meant access to information and treatment was limited in many countries, Strack said.
"It's important that the sex professionnals, the sex workers, know how to use condoms, and they are the best to make HIV prevention: they have contact with the clients," said Strack.
"Visibility of our population is very important to get less discrimination, violence and negative attitude against our group," added Camille, a transgender sex worker and model for the day.
Colour Bomb this season collections
This season's collections were an explosion of breathtaking brights
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Beauty Trend:
Beauty Trend:
Autumn/Winter 2010-11
LAUDED as one of the most wearable Couture Fashion Weeks in recent memory, the shows at Paris Couture Fashion Week for autumn/winter 2010-11 saw designers including Chanel, Valentino and Christian Dior present stunning collections that we could see ourselves wearing. Hair and make-up looks were equally as manageable with a focus on natural skin, and a strong lip or eye.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Fashion as a Barometer of Cultural Changes
How we perceive the beauty or ugliness of our bodies is dependant on cultural attitudes to physiognomy. The accepted beautiful female form that Rubens painted is subliminally undesirable nowadays, if we are to be thought beautiful in a way that the majority accepts in the 21st century.
Today an inability to refashion and reshape our bodies whilst constantly monitoring the cultural ideal leaves us failing the fashion test. Those that pass the fashion test invariably spend their lives absorbed in a circle of diet, exercise, cosmetic surgery and other regimes. This includes the rigors of shopping in search of the ultimate garb.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
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