London Fall Season celebrates ALEXANDER McQUEEN

 Fashion Work of art: Models had gravity-defying sculptural Hair Military-inspired

MCQ by ALEXANDER MCQUEEN: A MILITARY-THEMED CATWALK DEBUT THAT ELEVATED THIS LABEL TO HIGH FASHION

In light of this season, a fashion enchanted forest, the floor carpeted with Fall  fallen leaves, Sarah Burton unveiled the first ever catwalk show for Alexander McQueen McQ label – and she chose the brand’s hometown of London to do it. The fashion shows major departure from McQ’s previously street style vibe – there was no denim, no tartan. Instead, there was high fashion. Military style coats in black and forest green had cinched waists but wonderful volume, created by layers of tulle underneath. Prom dresses, slim leather overcoats, thigh-length boots. Elsewhere, more tulle – this time on an attitudey prom dress, sewn with thousands of colorful petals. Lapels were wide, jackets were neat. There was velvet, wool and heavy embroidery: luxury fabrics that took this label to a new level. I loved the military belts with gold chains, the perfectly cut coats and the luxurious velvet – and of course, that gravity-defying hair very McQueen inspired in the Crystal Palace. – - DEBORAH ARTHURS

A carpet of leaves created a forest feel inside the London venue

‘M. Patmos’ designs Layers Bright Knits and Textures Fall 2012

M. Patmos can be found at Barneys New York, Kirna Zabete, and Browns of London hosted here by Milk Studios, NYC

The presentation took place at New York’s Milk Studios ©E. Grady

New York’s runways are buzzing with New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2012. Find all of our exclusive coverage of the hottest green fashion here. Bright knitwear, multifunctional garments, and textured layering pieces are the sound of the season for M. Patmos who revealed its fall 2012 eco-fashion collection on Thursday. ©Emma Grady says: “I think everything in the collection is something you can wear right now,” Patmos told TreeHugger. “That’s the goal really, to find something new that you just want to buy because you don’t have that exact thing but want a new, unique version of it.”

Related articles

• New Fall 2012 Shows: Kaelen, Peter Som, M. Patmos, and More (nymag.com)
• EcoSalon at NYFW: M.Patmos (ecosalon.com)

'M. Patmos' designs Layers Bright Knits and Textures Fall 2012

M. Patmos can be found at Barneys New York, Kirna Zabete, and Browns of London hosted here by Milk Studios, NYC

The presentation took place at New York’s Milk Studios ©E. Grady

New York’s runways are buzzing with New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2012. Find all of our exclusive coverage of the hottest green fashion here. Bright knitwear, multifunctional garments, and textured layering pieces are the sound of the season for M. Patmos who revealed its fall 2012 eco-fashion collection on Thursday. ©Emma Grady says: “I think everything in the collection is something you can wear right now,” Patmos told TreeHugger. “That’s the goal really, to find something new that you just want to buy because you don’t have that exact thing but want a new, unique version of it.”

Related articles

• New Fall 2012 Shows: Kaelen, Peter Som, M. Patmos, and More (nymag.com)
• EcoSalon at NYFW: M.Patmos (ecosalon.com)

Did I mention ….?

New York Fashion Week 2012? New York Fashion Week 2012 (NYFW Aka Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week 2012) runs from Thursday, February 9th through Thursday, February 16th. That’s right one full week of incredible collections, jewelry, makeup, models, designers, and pure raw fashion! Trends for fall 2012 – ©ourtesy of DV8 Modeling Agency - Read more

For ALL You Stylish Girls

House Music de Dimitri From Paris – Une Very Stylish Fille

Dimitri From Paris “Une Very Stylish Fille” from Fashion week soulful grooves. Dance music from Ibiza Lounge deep house, soulfull grooves music. Popular catwalk theme originated dj by Dimitri, born Dimitri Yerasimos, dj sneak does this one just for you very Stylish Girls. Hail to Paris stylish girls SACREBLU..!

Related articles

• Rita Ora: Stylish, Talented, and Exceptional (despinamoda.com)

Fashion Week streaming LIVE

Live From the Runway sponsored by Maybelline & the YouTube Channel

Welcome to New York Fashion Week for Autumn, 2012. Stay tuned live from the runways of Lincoln Center in New York City fashion week for Mercedes Benz Fall 2012 Collections. New York Fashion Week fashion show ‘streaming live’ on this official youtube channel for the latest fashion designers showings, like Christian Siriano, Alexander Wang, Richard Chai, Anna Sui and many other fashion industry favorites streaming live while setting those new fashion trends. Besides New York Fashion Week, you can also view, right here on the youtube channel network find highlights of other fashion designers setting the trends at London Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week for French Fashion Icons like the House of Dior, Channel and Balmain. Have fun and hope to CHAT with you.

Related articles

• Twitter to Get First Look at Several New York Fashion Week Collections (mashable.com)
• The Absolute Best of New York Fashion Week! (fabsugar.com)

2012 Women at SAG Awards

Screen Actors Guild Awards – The Women & their Designers

Like the Golden Globes last week, Hollywood turned out yesterday at the Shrine Auditorium for the SAG (-ing) awards ceremonies. Everyone present brought some glamour while gearing up for the big one, The Academy Awards. On the Red Carpet, the arrivals witnessed some extraordinary SAG Fashions and some SAG-eek fashions. Let’s just wait to find out today, which one of our girls made the worst dressed list, DARN. Of course there was the lovely Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (couple of the Year), Diane Lane, Emily Blunt, Emilia Clarke, Diane Kruger, Emilia Clarke, Jessica Chastain, Natalie Portman, Kate Winslet, Katy Perry, Kaley Cuoco, Kyra Sedgwick, Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep,  Jessica Lange, Viola Davis (Lead Role winner), Octavia Spencer, Jullianna Marguilles, Julie Bowen and the list goes on and on. We saw a  Dresses from Badgley Mischka, Zac Posen, Ralph Lauren, Carolina Herrera, Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Elie Saab, some a red Valentino gown, Versace, Tom Ford and others. The Men weren’t looking too shabby either. Christopher Plummer, Guy Pearce, George Clooney, Stephen Colbert and a few others kinda stood out. So. Let’s us all sit back and wait for the usual media thrashing of the celebs. It’s always good for a few laughs. Don’t feel bad guys, one day we’ll get our chance at thrashing them as well, after all, there just a bunch of wannabees anyway. It’s just a matter of time before someone comes up with that list. Congratulations to the winners of awards season, 2012.. – - follow more ©My Dress.My High Heels.My Style

Related articles

• Emilia Clarke, Kaley Cuoco: Screen Actors Guild Awards Fashion (celebs.gather.com)
• The Help’s Win, Love For 30 Rock and Modern Family, a Scorsese Drinking Game – Highlights From the SAG Awards! (popsugar.com)

Miss Piggy 'stylin' for Premiere

Miss Piggy: A style icon for 2012

For last night’s UK premiere of the Muppets Movie, Miss Piggy stepped out in a silver leather dress made especially for her by British designer Giles Deacon

Miss Piggy is fast becoming the style icon du jour – obviously, she never looks less than the true embodiment of perfection, but recently she has raised her fashion game to a whole new stratosphere. Out on the red carpet to promote her latest starring role in the Muppets Movie [Kermit: Hey, the rest of us are in it too!] the best-dressed pig in town wore a bespoke creation by Giles Deacon. It’s a fitting match: Miss Piggy is obviously the shiniest, most dazzling [Kermit: Keep going with the compliments, you’re going to have to lay it on a bit thicker than that…] most effervescent star on the planet, and Giles Deacon is an incendiary talent in the London design scene. One of the leading lights of London Fashion Week, Giles’ Spring/Summer 2012 collection featured silver laser-cut leather dresses, which served as the basic inspiration for Miss Piggy’s red carpet look. Of course, her dress was far superior to his standard catwalk designs – her shimmering silver fringed frock was the talk of the city [handbag.com: Do you reckon that’s enough? Kermit: Yup, that should just about do it.] Don’t know if Jim Henson expected his muppets to be such icons. But. We ALL know and love Miss Piggy for many reasons. My favorite is her fashion doll looks. – - ©Handbag.com |

Related articles

• Project Runway All Stars: Miss Piggy To Guest Judge on Project Runway All Stars Tonight (racked.com)

Versailles ’73 Black Supermodels

Introduced ©By Audrey J. Bernard

Bold, Beautiful and Black models are reunited at the special luncheon at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Amina Warsuma, Norma Jean Darden, Pat Cleveland, fashion designer Stephen Burrows, Charlene Dash, Alva Chinn, China Machado, Billie Blair, and Bethann Hardison. (Not pictured: Barbara Jackson, Jennifer Brice, Ramona Saunders ((deceased)) (Photo by Mike Coppola / Wireimage)

——————-

Back in 1973, The Palace of Versailles played host to a fundraiser orchestrated by American fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert and Palace of Versailles curator Gerald Van der Kemp to raise money to restore the aging structure to provide exposure for American fashion.The time was right to introduce and celebrate some of the hottest Black Models of the Day like the ones so featured. French Fashion Designers as well as Italian Designers have long featured minority models for their shows. Myself and several other Models, walked the Runways of Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy 1969 for Valentino’s ‘Black on Black’ Fashion Show, with creations by Silvano Malta. It was an ALL Black cast of Models with Everyone wearing Designs that were in the Color Black. It was Wonderful. These Shows showcased the Beauty of All People to the Industry as well as The Public. It paved the way for today’s successful Black Models and other Minorities as well who work constantly without having to worry about being typecast. People like Naomi Campbell, Iman, Tyra Banks, Alek Wek and so many more, have these Women, like the Versailles bunch, to thank for helping to make the job of Modeling a little easier and friendly. It’s the same way Josephine Baker made show business more receptive for many other minorities of the times. Even before the models mentioned above walked the Runways, French Designers like Christian Dior, Jean Patou, Ungaro, Pierre Cardin and a few more, hired Women of Color to walk in their Catwalk shows. Now, it is very much mainstream for fashion shows to be filled with  Models of different cultures. In the 70s, particularly, Henri Bendel featured Stephen Burrows clothes, exclusively. He remains innovative to Fashion as Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, Carolina Herrera, Ann Klein, Tracy Reese, Nicole Miller, Donna Karan, Bill Blass, Prabal Gurung are today. All of these fashion designers represent American Fashion, worldwide. French fashion designers somewhat rely of America for setting the trends. France Fashion Catwalk shows in Paris, many times, reflect many American Signature styles. New York Fashion Week is an example of Haute Couture and American Sportswear for the masses. Like Europe’s Pret-a-porter, American clothes is marketed with the intention of clothes being affordable. Fashion events like Fashion Week New York City, FW London, FW Paris, FW Milan and others is a prime example of the American Fashion industry‘s impact on the rest of the World. – - Find out more

Stephen Burrows – ABC news from NewsMark PR on Vimeo.

Related articles

• For Your Viewing Pleasure: Versailles 73 (chiclittleblackdress.wordpress.com)
• Fab Read: Pierre Cardin, 60 Years of Innovation (fabsugar.com)

Blockbuster exhibition Display Hollywood Costumes

©ourtesy dailymail.co.uk By Sadie Whitelocks

Women still hanker after the simple black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s. And, millions of other ensembles seen on the big screen continue to influence fashion. Now recognizing the power of the Hollywood costume, a major exhibition will showcase more than a hundred of the most memorable wares for the first time. Items such as Dorothy’s blue and white gingham pinafore dress from The Wizard of Oz, and Scarlett O’Hara’s green ‘curtain’ gown worn in Gone with the Wind will be displayed alongside items from more recent releases including Consolata Boyle’s costumes for Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady. The exhibition, launching at the V&A this October, has taken more than five years to pull together. Clothing was sourced from across the world and has been borrowed  from costume houses, museums, film studios and private collectors. A Footnote: Hollywood studios focus on the designers interpretation of the natural history of scripts. Los Angeles County has long been a haven for film production in California. Studios like Warner Bros have long featured the work of the Costume Designer in many film production movies and previews. Edith Head always stands out as a pioneer in breaking down the costume plot with emphasis on historical costumes for the hollywood film. It was pure genius what she accomplished. Fashion design schools more and more are introducing Costume Design as a major. The American Film Industry by far is a part of a staple of good film making, Internationally. The costume designer jobs have been celebrated by the Academy Awards since its inception. Even Independent film makers relish the Costume Designer in the movie business as well as Major Film Studios. Oscar nominations doesn’t necessarily mean an Award but it’s close. Sandy Powell a seasoned Costume Designer has brought the art of Costume Design to a level of greatness. This years oscar nominees for films like War Horse Steven Spielberg’s epic, The Descendants with George Clooney, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Hugo directed by Martin Scorsesse, are all a shoe for the Academy Awards. Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre has been playing host for the presentations in the past few years where winners like SOCIAL NETWORK, THE KING’S SPEECH and THE SOCIAL NETWORK were all costume design contenders. Just think, back when it all started the Hollywood Roosevelt was host. Now it’s a great part of Oscar History. Don’t forget the many other categories: Art Direction, Best Supporting Actress, Best Actress Oscar and so on. Film Schools in LA are now very prevalent and talent from all over the globe go there waiting for their day in the sun. French actors, British actors and of course our American actors all await being an Oscar Winner whether they admit or not. Period costumes for The Silent Film “The Artist” inspired great artistry and performance by a great assortment of Talent from various parts of the World. Wow…good Old Hollywood! – - Read more

Related articles

• Edith Head: Hollywood’s Successful Costume Designer (lyndseysweeney.wordpress.com)
• Hollywood Costumes at the V&A (winningreview.wordpress.com)