Fashion Blog

Today early morning I ran into an article “Why do I hate fashion” by Tanya Gold in Guardian. To clear everything up from the beginning – this woman is one to hate fashion, I’m not. I love fashion and I can separate commercials and business from art which is obviously a huge part of fashion that makes it incredible all in all.

Going through her memories and different situations Tanya Gold makes just awfully unlogical conclusions, so narrow-minded. First of all she points out that there were one 16-year old woman who had fallen between two carriages in West Sussex because of her high-heeled shoes. Point taken – high-heeled shoes are bad. Are they? What about the statement that the night was icy? What about this girl could fall wearing flats as well? What about if one has to die there is no way to blame the SHOE? I suppose grownup person has to have some logic. How much did this 16-year old girl pay for her shoes? – Tanya Gold asks. Come on, some hundred pounds, but not her life, definately. One falls between the carriages not because of the shoes but because of ones fate and circumstances working on it all together.

The other thing is that Tanya Gold probably was never, ever fashionable enough to realize the real value of fashion. Once changing her look for better she started to enjoy, but later than her look has changed for worse she started to laugh at runway shows because she can’t wear anything from the runway. I can be too snobby here, but why does famous designer has to care about you being fat, while making his collection of inspirational looks? Do you want to wear it? Than get thin. If you can’t than just don’t blame fashion for that.

A big part of my text is written under the emotion being terrified by people who just don’t get the world of fashion, who never contributes to it – their blaming articles don’t count, but it still has some point, at least to those who love fashion as much as I do. How someone can say that high-heeled shoes are bad? I’m wearing them the whole time and I’m comfortable in them, and many women are. Of course not every woman has the right feet for the shoe, but at the same time that’s also her problem because such as Sergio Rossi does shoes for all types of legs, they’re universal in a way.

To blame shoes and fashion for one’s death or weight or whatever one has to be a total psycho. I’m not saying that Tanya is, but I’m certain that she is not a person from a fashion pool, than why she hast to blame it. She reminds me of those american girls who eat lots of sandwiches during the day and in the evening cry over Vogue that there is nothing for them in there. Maybe it’s not Vogue, may be it’s you, who has to be blamed for being out of fashion standards?

The one to hate fashion is the one without any sense of it and the one non-existent for me. Sorry, Tanya. I still will be reading Guadian, but not your column.

You can understand fashion or not, but you can’t blame fashion for you being oversized! At the beginning of The September Issue Anna Wintour (one highly appreciated women in fashion world, I hope you know that, Mrs. Gold) says that some people mock fashion because they’re intimidated by it. Anna Wintour is absolutely right in that. For one more reason I do respect the woman who makes one of the greatest magazines about fashion in the world, which Tanya Gold unfortunately torns into pieces.

D.K.

When Katie Grand started to make the new magazine with a sensed name LOVE under patronage of Conde Nast everybody has already known that this magazine is going to be provocative, fresh new and very stylish. As the first issue of LOVE with naked Beth Ditto on the cover popped out almost everyone was shocked. Being a perfect stylist and trendhunter, I would say, Katie Grand knew exactly what public needs – some disproportional person on the cover to catch their eye. By disproportional I only mean Beth’s outstanding personality and her screaming music, that obviously not everyone will love to listen. But as we speak about LOVE’s love – Beth is one of the top beloved.

When the second issue covered with 13 years old blogger Tavi has appeared in the stores it was impressive, it was fashionable according to the last time attention to Tavi, but it was a bit weird to see on Katie’s cover someone who has already appeared on Dasha Zhukova’s POP magazine cover, the exact magazine Katie was editing before LOVE.

At some point it semed that Katie was just joking trying to make her first two issues as imressive as she could, but when the third issue with naked Lara Stone on the cover has appeared there were no doubt left that she wasn’t joking, she wasn’t even a bit of joking. She was that damn serious to shake the whole industry. She actually did.

LOVE is one of the most prominent magazines that Conde Nast publishes, oh, not just Conde Nast. It is one of the most prominent magazines in general. Speaking of creativity, I suppose that Grand will never rich that point when she can actually stop.

While she’s not stopping, I’m enjoying the whole beauty of LOVE.

The British house of Burberry has finally launched its project Art of the Trench, which was promoted since September.

This stylish and dynamic project basically created for young people can be considered as the ordinary promo site of some iconic Burberry product, while it’s an actual brilliant idea. This project shows neauty of real people wearing Burberry. An this is what the whole idea of fashion is about – to show people beauty and to make them feel beautiful and young. Street fashion photos shot by Scott Schuman depict the mood of Burberry brand, the brit-rock by The Kooks is a perceprion of young people wearing Burberry trenchs, at list I do feel this way.

It will a social network soon and it’s believed that there will be a lot of young and creative people there, so don’t miss it. By now watch The Sartorialist photos and download yours, who knows may be you’ll be next photographer for Art of the Trench project. 

I’m sure those of you who still don’t have Burberry trench will buy one after visiting this site. To watch the site trench to have trench is not obligatory, but you definately will need during rainy days, any londoner can prove!

Yvan Rodic known for his street fashion blog FaceHunter has launched new blog where he posts only photos. Can you imagine how many photos does he have? In Yvan’s ne blog there are not only street fashion photos, what makes it really interesting.

YvanRodic.blogspot.com

Photos from fashion weeks (bu now New York and London), beautiful people in the street and other interesting photos somehow related to fashion industry.

London-based brand Burberry known for its classic trenches launches unusual site artofthetrench.com to promote the iconic trench among young fashionable people. It will be kind of a social net but at frist only looks of people in Burberry trenches will be posted on the site.

Looks will be made by Scott Schuman famous the world over for his street fashion site The Sartorialist.

Now you can watch inspiring video that explains the idea of the project and subscribe to updates.

The influence of fashion bloggers grows every day. Since deisgners have started to invite them to their fashion shows and send them their look books  we can say that there is a connection between what bloggers write and what designers do.

Famous fashion blogger Garance Dore is one of that bloggers who definately influences fashion society. At first she started to work for famous magazines such as Vogue where her view is largely appreciated and now she’s started to collaborate with famous brands. Garance has been invited to decorate pop-up Gap boutique in London with her drawings and put some of them on the limited edition of Gap t-shirts. The reason is Gap’s 40th anniversary.

From these little steps can born a huge impact which one day can become more heavy than that of fashion magazines. The reason is that bloggers usually write what they think but not what their ad sellers tell them to write. Whether these Gap t-shirts will be a page in history or not, it doesn’t matter. What does is that Garance Dore will be on the pages of fashion history from this moment for sure.

Gap pop-up boutique will be opened from September,10 and during 19 days after on the Carnaby street, London. Hurry up, to pick up your Garance’s t-shirt!