Chanel presents the Spring Summer 2015 Eyewear ad campaign starring Kristen Stewart and shot by Karl Lagerfeld. Look at the images from the ad campaign and the gallery with all the others for the house starring the actress.
The first time she posed for Karl Lagerfeld, she had an uncompromising expression and modelled with nonchalance the looks from the Chanel Métiers d’Art collection presented in Dallas in December 2013. In the campaign images, the actress wears cowboy jackets and boots, coats and fringed bags, full layered skirts and metallic tops with fur sleeves. Continue reading
Category Archives: BREAKING MODE
FRANCESCO SMALTO DIED YESTERDAY
The famous Italian designer, Francesco Smalto died in his sleep in a hotel room in Morocco at the age of 87. He passed away of natural causes at the hotel Mamounia in Marrakech.
Morocco for Smalto was actually a second home. The designer has constantly visited the country for a few decades and even had been the own tailor of king Hassan II. Note that the name of the designer was associated at the glorious history of the fashion house of Francesco Smalto, which he founded in 1962. Continue reading
RED HEADS AND BRUNETTES
Red heads, blondes and brunettes. Who has more fun? Apparently blondes do. And in second position? Red heads are still considered the sexiest.
In my office the other week, during a break, a conversation took place about a recent report that sperm banks no longer want red-headed donors. Apparently, sperm from red-headed donors is in demand in Ireland and to some degree in the United States. Why? People want their children to look like them, and tall of course.
In the best of all possible worlds, all children would be a blessing, and it would not matter what color their hair might be (or how they were conceived). But in the real world, there are all sorts of reasons why parents want their children to look like them physically, including a wish to avoid comments and questions, some of which might be rude Continue reading
ADVENT DAREL
We assist to the return of the American funds in Europe. Blomberg has just announced the sale of the French house that produces the Gerard Darel and Pablo brands. It would seem that the American private-equity firm Advent International, the majority shareholder of the French company since 2008, has declared that it was the right time to put it back on the market.
Advent International is looking at taking advantage of Continue reading
YOOX PLAYS RICHEMONT
The Italian online fashion retailers Yoox and Richemont’s Net-&-porter confirmed merger talks and, thus, creating an industry leader in the fast-growing online fashion market. This merge will enable both companies to fight a fierce competition from the bevy of online fashion retailers that have emerged in recent years, particularly in Asia, and from upmarket department stores such as Bergdorf Goodman which have boosted investments in online trading and services.
Much of the growth in online fashion retail has been driven by buyers in Asia and the United States, hunting Continue reading
KOMONO
The KOMONO CORE collection is in a class of its own: original accessories that allow you to express your individuality. Authentic designs created to merge the classic and the new, design and fashion, minimalism and colour, accessories and lifestyle.
The most interesting places are often the places in between: the unclaimed territory when you pass from one point to the next. That moment when you’re still carrying your previous destination within you, even though you are already moving on to whatever comes next. This is the essence of a journey: not the starting point but the journey itself. Continue reading
VIONNET PARIS 2015
ERIC TIBUSCH
The show started with a slow and majestic long music? Alice in Wonderland Theme ‘Tell me what you wear and I will tell you who you are’ could be the name of the 2015 Spring/Summer Eric Tibusch show. Influenced by China and the 1950’s, the collection is glamour and revealed a feminine and beautiful woman which will make you dream of her and for whom you would like to write and who will make you happy.
I love this blue and silver colour accented by a black necklace as a provocation. I love this deep neckline styke and simply open up the desecration that lets me see the beauty and the promise of a soft and warm night. I love simplicity in sophistication. I love beautiful. I love what is simple. Continue reading
CHATTY FALL WINTER 2015 PRAGUE
A CHANEL SUPERMARKET
This week the media reported that you could observe long lines formed at Chanel stores in commercial hub Shanghai and shopping mecca Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China due to word spread of deep discounts.
China is widely considered the world’s biggest luxury market as a rising middle class and corrupt officials drive a shopping frenzy, but domestic prices are high due to hefty import taxes and huge retail mark-ups.
McQUEEN BE BRITISH
Sarah Burton had clearly floral ideas on her mind when she came up with her collection this season. It was interesting to see that Burton had decided to go back to the “Conciergerie” this season.
Alexander McQueen also once showed his “Supercalifarilistic” collection that famously featured models walking with wolves on the catwalk. It was as if Burton was finally starting to show a different aspect of herself and the house she now leads.
Delivering authentic modern luxury, serenity reintroduces the finest of textiles, and creates the most opulent style of luxury brand. This unique design demonstrates the levels of creativity.
New rules, new ideas and new goals, this is probably the begining of a new start, and we like it.
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GIVENCHY WINTER PARIS 2015
REBIRTH OF EMMANUEL UNGARO
Fausto Puglisi militates for the disappearance of the color! My life in white and black. Fausto’s creativity is between shade and light. He showed their variety and diversity in texture. For him, YSL is the re-interpretation of tuxedo.
Puglisi’s work is a study in bold contrasts and reflects both his Italian origins as well as his fascination with every facets of the American culture. Stefano Gabbana has been invited by Puglisi to take part in their retail project “Spiga 2” which featured a mix of young and unknown international designers.
Women are appearing covered in polka dots on a floor-length skirt. Although this focus on black and white became what the French call ‘find a style’ was expertly done and gives a fashion face to a brand that had been blanked out.
Puglisi, like Emanuel Ungaro before him, is quintessentially Italian in his unabashed enthusiasm for body-conscious clothes. We love this collection, and we have probably a new St Laurent Designer on the way.
IS THE END OF THE FRENCH FASHION?
Who is Anonymode? Nobody knows. “I love fashion and yet, I could not called this text “No-Fashion”. It is a professional manifesto, the finding that a radical change takes place in the mode that makes the current fashion system completely obsolete in France.
We can notice that “the fashion industry has dug his grave” and led to its destruction. It starts with the malfunctioning of fashion schools supposed to form industrial designers, they are not; economic pressures creators and pushing them to diversify with shoes, perfumes and handbags, focusing less on clothing; the profusion of journalists and Continue reading
VALENTINO WINTER 2015 PARIS
DIOR READY TO WEAR FALL WINTER 2015 PARIS
LOEWE PARIS 2015
CHRISTIAN WIJNANTS
Born in Brussels, Christian moved to Antwerp in 1996 to study fashion design at the Royal Academy of Fine Art. His graduate collection won the Dries Van Noten Award for best collection in 2000.
After graduation, Christian presented his collection at the prestigious Festival d’Hyères, where it was awarded the Grand Prix and picked up by stores including Colette (Paris), Pineal Eye (London), and Via Bus Stop (Tokyo). After working with Van Noten in Antwerp and Angelo Tarlazzi in Paris, Christian launched his eponymous label in 2003.
Christian Wijnants presents his collections in Paris during Paris Fashion Week and is sold at 100 boutiques and department stores worldwide.
Christian is for us a very promising designer, and he could be the new Marc Jacobs in Europe.
So read my lips Mr. Duek and come to Milano Fashion Week.
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BALMAIN PARIS 2015
FASHION WEEK PARIS 2015
GUY LAROCHE PARIS 2015
BETTINA GRAZIANI DIED
Bettina Graziani was one of the most famous models in the 1950’s. She became Aga Khan’s son mistress, Ali Akan, after his divorce with Rita Hayworth till his death in 1960.
Muse of Jacques Fath, she then becomes a famous model thanks to photographs and american magazines like the Harper’s Bazaar which make her famous. She personifies the chic and the free parisian woman so different from the female of her time. In 1952, she helped Hubert de Givenchy to create his house of Haute Couture. She presented the collection and looked after the press relations. She was known and knew especially from Paris.
Fashion Icone, most of women today could take this extraordinary woman as an example. We present our sincere sympathy to her family.
SALVATORE FERRAGAMO
DOLCE & GABBANA, THE NAME OF THE ROSE
Once upon a time, there was a flower called, the Rose and a child named Dolce & Gabbana. One day whereas he was walking in his garden dotted with thousands of flowers of all colors, with a thousand sweet perfumes, he was attracted by one of them, a very pretty pink Rose. A Rose… a child… freshness, escape and dreams. What pleasantly distract us from a prosaic daily, whose gravity affects us always more.
A Rose of March, to keep it alife as long as possible, I put it in water and I hide it in the bottom of my desk. Every moment I contemplated … He escaped from this senacle a fragrance that was floating in my house a surprising burst of dream and desire. Continue reading
JOHN B FAIRCHILD DIED
John B. Fairchild passed away Friday morning at the age of 87 after an accomplished career in fashion publishing.
Mr. Fairchild served as the publisher and editor-in-chief of Women’s Wear Daily and was the founding editor of W magazine. His death will likely spark a celebration of his life and accomplishments and drive attention to the publications he impacted throughout his lifetime.
He was feared by generations of fashion designers. However he always was considered as fair and most of them listened to his wise advices.
Fashion icon, Mr. Fairchild became the European
FENDI MILANO 2015
