Kiehl’s 'Love the Earth' supported by Greek Celebrities

Kiehl's organized an information campaign in honor of World Earth Day. It took place in three shop-in-shop Kiehl's in April, with success and the presence of friends of Kiehl's.

Kiehl's goal is to raise awareness of simple habits and ecological solutions to save energy and to protect the limited energies of the planet.

Among the good friends of Kiehl's who supported the initiative were Konstantinos Markoulakis, Nadia Boulé, Mary Sinatsaki, Alex Kavdas, Savvas Poumpouras, Orsalia Parthenis, Alex Kavadias, Elena Syraka, Georgios Carabellas and Dimitris Petrou. See here a photo review and the eco tips of the celebrities.

Respecting the historic company's commitment to the environment and drawing inspiration from the growing customer demand over the years, Kiehl's remains true to its worldwide promise:
• To minimize use of packaging materials.
• To convert a lot of recycling of the bottles returned in new, functional objects for future use in stores
• 90% of suppliers are board certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
• Many of the plastic bottles Kiehl's use 100% recycled PET helping to minimize our environmental impact.

Source: Press Release Kiehl's, photos courtesy of Kiehl's

Burberry opens 1500 square meters in Taipei !

Burberry opened on the 26th of April a new flagship store in Taipei, Taiwan.

The shop of 1500 square meters was also the backdrop for the kick-off of Burberry World Live, a special digital "experience". On a screen of 360 degrees was the story of British heritage, but also of British weather, music and fashion. The whole thing was a combination of digital and physical effects. Like true leaves falling down, at the same time it happened on the screen.

It's all about orange - Happy Queensday!

Today in the Netherlands the Queen is celebrating her birthday and everything is turned orange.
Dutch embassies all around the world are celebrating this day too and guests are wearing orange and enjoy dutch food and drinks.

And as tradition the national hymn is song by all the guests.

Vicky Kaya supports World Wish Day by Make-a-Wish

Today is World Wish Day, initiated by the organization Make-a-Wish.

The mission of Make-A-Wish is to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.

The creation of Make-A-Wish was inspired in the U.S. in 1980 by the fulfillment of a wish of a 7-year-old boy with leukemia named Chris Greicius, who wished to be a policeman. On April 29th, his mother, several friends and a group of police officers, with the cooperation of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, granted his wish with a custom-made uniform, helmet, badge, and helicopter ride. Chris's magical wish touched the entire community and inspired the beginning of the Make-A-Wish .

In Greece Vicky Kaya supports the organization Make-a-Wish, last year she fullfilled the dream of a young girl participating as a model in a fashion show. Vicky Kaya taught Katerina how to walk as a model and this young girl had the honor to wear a dress by Sophia Kokosalaki, accompagnied by Orpheas Papadopoulos, to participate at the Athens Exclusive Designers Week.
Here a few photos of training and the event.

This year Vicky Kaya will grant the wish of another girl, Diana. Diana was captured by fashion photographer Genevieve Majari as a model at Fashion Workshop. For photos see here.

Presenting Mousse à Boom by Dora and Eleftheria Papadaki

Dora Moudatsou presents her collection Mousse à Boom. These are no sweets...



And Eleftheria Papadaki hers

Photos courtesy of Dora and Eleftheria

Dora graduated architecture in Patra but her first contact with jewelry started at an early age cause her father has a jewelry shop in Santorini. Inspired by the variety in his shop she started to create jewelry for herself and her friends. Her education in architecture was an excellent base to develop and improve her skills in jewelry. Her love for sweets made her specialize in miniatures of these delicious temptations, handmade of polymer clay and porcelain.
Eleftheria loves to observe and write about fashion but also to create. She is also writing children's books, after her graduation as accountant.

The two young women met on a trip to Santorini and decided to join and develop inspiring collections of jewelry.Their goal is to have jewelry that will be of excellent quality and meet the requirements of this time. To see a part of the collection of Dora visit Mousse à Boom.

Or feel free to contact them on DMOUDATSOU@gmail.com or eleutheriapapadaki@gmail.com

A fashion shoot at Syntagma square

Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure to meet the team of New School Athens at Syntagma square in the center of Athens.
New School Athens is all about photography from food to fashion and architecture and from commercial to fine art photography.
It aims to help creatives, amateurs and professional photographers gain those extra photography skills that make working with digital cameras and software easier, quicker, and more satisfying. They offer advanced photography short courses and workshops that are tailored to the particular skills and techniques. For more information visit the website.

So yesterday it was all about fashion...Not having my camera with me, I only took some snapshots...

Keira Knightley by Mert & Marcus for Interview

Keira Knightley is captured by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for Interview magazine. In the April 2012 issue she covered the American one, in May 2012 the German one and here I also share some of my favorite editorial shoots of Keira Knightley.
Styled by fashion editor Karl Templer, make up by Lucia Pieroni and hair by Paul Hanlon.

Anja and Karmen by Glen Luchford for Self Service

Glen Luchford captured Anja Rubik en Karmen Pedura for Self Service magazine. Glen Luchford's love for cinema is so recognizable in this editorial.
Marie Chaix did the styling, make up by Lisa Houghton and hairstyling by Kevin Ryan.

Self Service magazine is a Paris-based fashion and culture biannual.

Issey Miyake wins Design of the Year Fashion Award

The Japanese designer Issey Miyake won the Fashion Award for Designs of the Year 2012 for his fashion line 132.5 ISSEY MIYAKE, made ​​from recycled polyester folded into origami patterns.

Photo: Frédérique Dumoulin / Issey Miyake

 

All of the winners and nominations, among them also Mary Katrantzou, are on show at the exhibition in the Design Museum until the 15th of July 2012 in London.
To see all the winners in all the categories, click here

Laetitia Casta by Mario Testino for Vogue Paris

Laetitia Casta is captured by Mario Testino for the May 2012 issue of Vogue Paris.
Make Up by Charlotte Tilbury and hairstyling by Christiaan, all styled by Emmanuelle Alt.

For Vogue Paris Mario Testino created also a small film of the shooting, see here.