Scandinavian artists have always had a special view which defined them as totally different from anyone else in art and fashion world. Being totally different they put their accents on some other things that are not always mentioned by other European designers. This time I got impressed with designs of Swedish designer and artist Emma Lundgren whose works show a new angle on theme of folklore.
As Emma says she has created a hand-crafted folklore collection for the future, by combining time-honoured Swedish tradition, with contemporary East London flavour. You can clearly see Lego motifs as one of major swedish inventions of all times. Emma redesigns them by mixing old wall hangings and tablecloths with shiny plastic materials, strong colours and oversized accessories, so the feeling of past and future works together. She calls it a new generation fashion puzzle. I suppose it really is.
I had no opportunity to touch those creations but I think that if they are comfortable and soft I’d like to own of those. Way to colour! And nobody is bored with 21st century fashion.
Oh, that is so cute! This AD is funny and nice. You do already want such a helmet, don’t you?
The helmet company is joining forces with the Karl Lagerfeld brand to inaugurate its “Multiples” collectors helmets in editions of 12. The coming together of Les Ateliers Ruby founder Jerome Coste and Karl Lagerfeld led to the creation of the motorcycle helmets featured in the Karl Lagerfeld Autumn/Winter 2009-10 Collection.
Remember the show? It was great and futuristic. Karl always thinks about the future, but never about the past.
When I see spring-summer 2009 Tom Ford eyewear campaign I enjoy the felling of happiness, I’m thrilled. Mostly, it’s because of shimmering make-up created by Regina Harris. Her love to disco and shining element in make-up is not always at the right place while in this case there couldn’t be anything more suitable.
Fall-winter 2009-2010 Tom Ford eyewear camapaign is definately sexy and represents Tom Ford’s style better, but it doesn’t awake any emotions. It’s very trite, especially for winter.
You can choose Jimmy Choo or H&M, even there is a collection Jimmy Choo for H&M.
Whoever will say that collaboration of two companies gives women a chance to buy wonderful pair of shoes for lower price will actually lie. The truth is you pay just for the name Jimmy Choo, which doesn’t actually cost even $100, but comfrotable shoes do. H&M shoes whatever is written on them are not that good to pay $200, you’d better save for a while and get a really fabulous pair of your Jimmy Choos.
This short video tries to tell that shoes and accessories for H&M are glamorous. Well… If we count some crystalls under glamour they are, but if we count on luxury, they are not. The choice is yours while there is really Jimmy Choo or H&M and you’d better think what you’re paying for.
Giorgio Armani launches his third mobile phone coopting with Samsung. The firsr two weren’t that impressive, especially when you realize that his touch-phone is a copy to Prada phone made on LG platform. The new one Giorgio Armani phone is a total surprise for me. With all my respect to mister Armani and his significant role in the world of fashion, he’d better find a better company for making his brand-name phones or stop doing it at all.
It’s obvious that this haute couture phone is copied fron Nokia N97 phone which was released recently. Take a look.
Whatever name is written on the phone the disgn and technology of it stolen from Nokia, so I’d better have original Nokia phone than fahe Armani-Samsung one.
As it is very fashionable to have your own label of clothes, perfume, accessories, it seems that almost every celebrity has one. So, the news that Paris Hilton is broadening her label and launches sunglasses and swimming clothes line were not surprising at all.
But here I have just one question – how much does her mane cost? The price of her products is aimed to teenagers or fans, and the price is not high. But this price includes all the expenses on boutiques and advertisements and it also includes a part for her name. Actually, I think it’s the biggest issue in forming the price. No any misunderstfnding, but why does someone needs those cheap plastic sunglasses to appear on the market? Isn’t Paris busy enough with her dogs and pink sport cars? Why does she need to be a designer? Hopefully she’s even going to do some design degree at least in Instituto Marangoni.
As someone can be bored by using the same colours season after season, another one can be enjoying using the same colours. The second one is Karl Lagerfeld. You can never say that using of his beloved black and white is boring, because they are shown differently every single time. No wonder Karl Lagerfeld spring-summer 2010 collection for his own label is black and white shaked by two red looks which are surprising, knowing that Lagerfeld hates the red colour.
Shorts and jackets together with chiffon ties look so familiar and so new at the same time. Classy Karl’s looks are mixed with fantastic mirror high-heeled shoes and flats which remind of cosmic girls from comics and amazing glove-bracelets.
High heels and tight belts covered with arrows are bit of a rock style. Little arrows are pinned to the jackets and such a look says “hey, I’m feminine, but I can do everything myself!”.
Famous Lagerfeld playing guitar picture became a decoration for bags and trenchs as well as guitar itself found its place on sunglasses.
Mix of rock, classics and cosmic elements made Karl Lagerfeld’s collection unique. It’s probably the only one collection where every single thing can live its own separate life.
In a longtime history of fashion (I mean fashion not a costume history) there has always been a place for a hat. It was the kind of an accessory every woman from a respectable class should have. Those hats were enormously beautiful but uncomfortable to wear. Then there was a time of Coco Chanel when she replaced hats with birds, fruits and flowers by the simple and chic hats which made women even more sophisticated. Even though there was a non-hat period in the 20th century, hats have been back again. Right now it’s difficult to say what kind of hat is fashionable – fruit-bird-like or simple and little, but we can say that hats are in fashion.
Fall 2009 season will be all about hats: little, big, black and screaming-bright, bandaids and hair accessory which replace the role of a hat. Almost all the designers made place for a hat in their collection. Even in haute couture collections:Chanel, Lacroix, Dior, Givenchy, etc. Though you’re not supposed to wear them in the street some women do.
Ready-to-wear collections will make you buy some of those lovely hats for sure – there’re many-many of them – and you can go for any kind you like from gloves-made Dolce&Gabbana to simple and round Chanel, or if you’re not a hat-type person you can check with some head accessories from Zac Posen, Louis Vuitton or Yves Saint Laurent. Armani also went for tiny hats which make one newly elegant.
It seems that time of birdy-fruit-like hats came back or at least that it’s time for extreme hats such as you can find at Dior or McQueen.
Whatever you will wear next season there should be place for at least one hat. You don’t have to be that McQueen extremal to wear a hat you may be that Lacroix simple, so go for it and the title of fashionista will be yours.
Henriette Lofstrom is an accessory designer based in London. In her works though you can still feel where she is originally from. Henriette is from Denmark. That’s why her designs seem so extravagantly cold at first sight and then they make woman look amazingly feminine.
Taking inspiration from medieval warriors Henriette manages to create special things for modern women.
It takes from 18 to 24 hours to make one Hermes Birkin bag which is made by hand from cut to metallic details. What makes people to become a number two thousand something in a waiting list for a bag and why do all women in the world are dreaming to have their own original one?
Takashi Murakami collaboration with fashion house of Louis Vuitton lasts for many years and he has made plenty of bags and accessories, books and outstanding cartoons for LV. His influence on the style of Louis Vuitton is unbelievable.
This year collaborations finds another way of expression which is totally Murakami’s style, but I doubt whether it is style of Louis Vuitton. Takashi Murakami has created Plush Panda figure for Louis Vuitton.
As Takashi Murakami says the Japanese will love it. I’m sure they will, but what about others? I think it’s cute though it’s not something associated with Louis Vuitton.
It exists in two sizes – the big one as a real toy and the little one for your mobile phone or bag.
It comes out with the certificate of authenticity and in a classical Louis Vuitton cotton-bag, but this time the bag is covered by Murakami’s paintings. The little one comes in a paper box and with metallic identity pendant.
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