Bruce Weber for Vogue's 'Meet Me In Montauk'

Bruce Weber captured Jean Campbell for the October issue of Vogue.

Bruce Weber photographed the eidtorial 'Meet Me In Montauk', introducing the new model Jean Campbell. According to Vogue Jean is an ethereally beautiful Scottish teenager whose freckles and Brady Bunch hair perfectly encapsulate the carefree mood of the season.

Jean Campbell is styled by Joe McKenna, make up by Diane Kendal and hairstyling by Bob Recine.

Vintage Fashion Festival @ McArthurGlen Designer Outlet Athens

The Vintage Fashion Festival returns to McArthurGlen Designer Outlet from October 11th until November 3rd 2013.

Travelling from Naples, Rome, Venice, Milan and Florence and after the huge success of 2012, the Vintage Fashion Festival returns to the Designer Outlet in Spata, Athens, presenting clothes and accessories that made history and are still fashionable.

McArthurGlen Designer Outlet is working with A.N.G.E.L.O., a known collector of vintage pieces in Italy and owner of the largest vintage stores internationally, bringing the magic of the most timeless trends through a unique Vintage Fashion Festival.

The lovers of vintage - and not only - will be able to admire a unique collection of over 1500 pieces of the '40s to the '90s! The whole history of fashion will be at the Designer Outlet representative timeless pieces of fashion houses such as Hermès, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Dior, Gucci, Valentino and more rare, unique options that will steal the impressions of those who are looking for something more.

During the festival you will be able to admire the unique collection vintage car models with luxurious automakers , which will host McArthurGlen for your eyes only ( free admission ) .
During the festival, visitors will have the opportunity to admire and browse the unique compilation ANGELO entitled "Timeless Style". A unique combination of beloved clothing and accessories such as Bamboo bag Gucci's and Yves Saint Laurent safari jacket, along with pictures of international stars who wore them and gave them a place in the books of world fashion of the last century.

The history of fashion awaits you at McArthurGlen Designer Outlet to travel the world of fashion through the Vintage Fashion Festival and get memorable tracks from the past decades . And do not forget your favorite designer brands at discount village are 35 % -70 % throughout the year cheaper .
Fashion invites you to this journey!

Minju Kim at H&M - Behind the scenes

Yesterday I informed you on the winner of the H&M Design Award 2013, Minju Kim, and presented her collection items.

Let us now have a closer look at the making of the photoshoot!

H&M Design Award 2013 – the winning collection by Minju Kim

The winner of the H&M Design Award 2013, Minju Kim, has developed pieces from her collection with H&M to be sold at selected H&M stores this autumn.

Minju, a 27 year-old graduate from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, was selected by a jury of international fashion experts for her collection which transformed characters into outfits.
As part of her overall prize, nine women’s pieces and two accessories have been developed with the H&M design team.

The collection will be available from October 17 at selected H&M stores in Sweden, Denmark, the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany as well as online.

It will also be available at Opening Ceremony in New York, Los Angeles and London, the first time an H&M collection will be sold at Opening Ceremony stores.

“Creating this collection with H&M has been an amazing experience. My designs are about turning characters into outfits, and it’s exciting to think that these characters will soon be worn by people around the world. Winning the H&M Design Award has given me a unique insight into the global fashion industry,” says Minju Kim.

“I’m so happy that pieces from Minju Kim’s winning collection from the H&M Design Award 2013 will soon be available. Minju has such a unique design signature, one that combines playfulness, fantasy and optimism with great creativity and technical skill. These pieces by Minju Kim show H&M’s commitment to the future of design and to helping move fashion forward,” says Ann-Sofie Johansson, H&M’s Creative Head of Design.

"Minju Kim is a shining gem and a real treasure. She is a girl with great imagination and skills, and has a unique personal vision and approach towards fashion. It has been a pleasure to work with her,” says Walter Van Beirendonck, Head of the Fashion Department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.

Minju’s pieces for H&M bring the dream world of Manga to life with unique cuts and clever fabric combinations. A collarless coat in vivid yellow, a short jacket in two contrasting jacquards or a cape made of black wool creates a sweet rounded silhouette. The textured heavy knit links the sleeves to the body with cartoonish curves, while a neoprene-fronted sweatshirt is printed with Manga-inspired images drawn by Minju herself. A paneled minidress mixes matt with shine, while jacquard trousers keep their structured shape. To complete the look there’s a black and white wedge platform lace-up and a characterful turquoise leather collar.

Minju is a designer from South Korea who graduated in spring 2013 from the final Masters year at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. She won the H&M Design Award 2013 with her collection titled “Dear My Friend”, inspired by Japanese Manga cartoonist Junji Ito, and received a €50,000 prize, a show at the Mercedes-Benz Stockholm Fashion Week in January 2013 and the chance to develop pieces from her collection with H&M.

The H&M Design Award, an annual prize launched in 2012, was established to encourage and support young fashion graduates as they set out at the very beginning of their careers. For the 2013 awards, graduates from nineteen design schools in eight countries were considered competing first to be the local winner before showing their work to a grand jury. The jury, which included H&M’s Creative Head of Design Ann-Sofie Johansson, designer Jonathan Saunders, editor-at-large Tim Blanks, blogger and photographer Hanneli Mustaparta, fashion journalist Kristopher Arden-Houser, stylist Leith Clark, photographer Sølve Sundsbø and H&M’s creative advisor Margareta van den Bosch, chose Minju Kim as winner of the 2013 H&M Design Award.

TOMS fall-winter 2013 collection - My favorites

Last week I introduced to you the Nepal boots by TOMS, and now I am sharing my favorites of TOMS collection for fall-winter 2013-2014.

 

And these ones for the young ones!

Luxury Cashmere Accessories From Plum & Ivory

Plum & Ivory introduce a luxury cashmere and silk accessories line in gorgeous new colours for AW13 including long wrist warmers/ fingerless mittens and unisex loose knit beanies.

 

Simply pure practical luxury for the outdoor girl, long cashmere wrist warmers and loose knit beanies that come in a variety of gorgeous colours.

A great unisex hat that suits almost everyone ...a very easy stylish shape thats easy to pop on and off.....leave it in your coat pocket for when you get caught with a chill, great for the school run, a sports match, Saturday shopping or apres ski...and because it is loose knit you never feel too hot, just warm and stylish.

Available in north sea green, plum, dark navy, gloxina (bright purple) and purple haze 100% cashmere. One size

The long cashmere silk wrist warmers come in 100% cashmere or a 5050 cashmere silk mix this season.

Great for fishing, texting, dog walking etc or as an an extra layer over old gloves in coming cold weather!

A great present that will always be loved whatever age. Desirable to own and a pleasure to give.

Award Winning Designer Ada Zanditon launches fashion film

Award Winning Designer Ada Zanditon launches fashion film Spring Summer 2014 'She who changes'.  Directed by Thomas Knights - Starring Karin Park (Opium)

'She Who Changes' stars and features the music of the beautiful and extremely talented singer Karin Park, as the Goddess Myrtos - Goddess of Sea Turtles. Plunging into the water, she begins her life at sea - danger threatens her - she must learn to live a nomadic existence - traveling where the currents take her - through Kelp forests, Coral Reefs and into the never ending blue of the deep ocean. She evolves, continuously adapting - her identity in flux, - until she realises her true destiny and returns to where she was born.

Directed by Thomas Knights, this exquisite fashion film beautifully set to Karin's incredible track preview of Opium, is a sensuous underwater experience where flowing printed silks, delectable swimwear and powerful showpieces captivate our imagination. The collection and swimwear features Ada Zanditon's stunning prints, made from her watercolour paintings and ink sketches when traveling in Sri Lanka last November. She visited the Kosgoda Sea Turtle Conservation Project amongst many and was also inspired by surf culture and the use of colour in Sri Lankan Truck Art. The eco swimwear made in the UK is a collaboration with Auria and is a capsule range of separates and one pieces called Auria for Ada Zanditon. The film also features the innovative and unique jewellery of Modular Minds.The film was debuted at London Fashion Week and screened in the main catwalk tent in the courtyard at Somerset House in the Canon Cinema on Monday 16th September.



The film was successfully funded through crowdfunding website Audacity of Fashion and the brand is very grateful to everyone who pledged and delighted to have had the opportunity to collaborate with their audience using this innovative new platform.

Credits
Directed by Thomas Knights
Music - Opium
Performed by Karin Park
Written by Karin Park/David Etherington/Tina She
Appears courtesy of The Eye recordings
Brand/Producer/Styling - Ada Zanditon
Editing - Paul Moth Final Cut
DOP - Greg Taylor
Hair & Makeup - Oscar Alexander Lundberg & Ann-Marie Lawson
Movement dance coördinator - Jamie Firth
Swimwear Auria for Ada Zanditon
Jewellery - Modular Minds
Assistants - Resham Moorjani, Rickyy Wong, Thibault La Droitte

Guests at Salvatore Ferragamo Spring-Summer 2014 fashion show in Milan

Salvatore Ferragamo presented spring-summer 2014 collection at Palazzo Mezzanotte in Milan.

Among the attendees were Alice Eve, Francesca Eastwood, Dominik Garcia, Michelle Chen, Jane Tienphosuwan, Hofit Golan, Alessandra Mastronardi, Carolina Gawronski, Sveva Alviti.
Here some photos of the guests.

 

 

  

 

Salvatore Ferragamo designed Ron Howard's "RUSH" wardrobe

The exclusive world première of “RUSH”, the new film directed by the Academy Award Winning director Ron Howard, opened internationally on 13 September.

Based on a true story, “RUSH” is set in the epic 1976 racing season, at the pinnacle of Formula 1’s golden era, and focuses on the legendary rivalry between two great opponents: Niki Lauda played by Daniel Brühl and James Hunt played by Chris Hemsworth, both iconic sportsmen of their time.

The story explores the no-holds-barred rivalry of the two drivers, who are chalk and cheese in terms of character and lifestyle: on the one hand the cold and methodical Austrian Niki Lauda and on the other the unpredictable British playboy James Hunt.

The costumes worn by Niki Lauda’s and his wife Marlene Lauda’s characters were designed by Salvatore Ferragamo.

Daniel Brühl as Niki Lauda

Alexandra Maria Lara as Marlene Lauda

Massimiliano Giornetti, creative director at Salvatore Ferragamo, explained “I created Niki Lauda’s character’s wardrobe for the film with his most distinctive traits in mind, an extremely determined sportsman, obsessed with perfection, never leaving anything to chance, whether it be a strategic move or a stylistic detail. To reflect his strong and unyielding character, I chose exclusive fabrics, clean cuts and sharp forms for his clothes: from impeccably tailored fitted Prince of Wales jackets to short suede jackets with leather trim combined with denim. A stylish and subtly refined allure that is also the epitome of pure intrinsic elegance. All of which imbued with the unmistakeable fashion sense of the 1970s, which remains a source of highly modern inspiration”.

A reinterpretation of contemporary luxury for a style that weaves together the culture of yesterday and the speed of today in a totally unique manner.

Vanessa G “Art’Outure" - A luxurious expression of Art & Fashion - launch event

Vanessa G, the womenswear label that is fronted by South African entrepreneur Vanessa Gounden, presented Spring-Summer 2014 collection at the Arts Club, Dover Street in London.

Unique pieces of fashion, transformed into timeless classics which have been handcrafted for individuals who are equally passionate about the Arts and Fashion. Vanessa G is aiming at the contemporary woman of today that has an appreciation of the arts and wants her clothes to reflect her sensibility .

At the launch were guests like Olivia Inge and Noelle Reno.

Here a photoreview

Noelle Reno in a dress by Vanessa G

Vanessa Gounden & Olivia Inge in a trenchcoat of Vanessa G SS14 collection

Clym Evernden & Olivia Inge

The guests received a goody bag including a bespoke printed scarf from the designer and also walked away with a unique personal illustration from award winning artist, Clym Evernden.

About Vanessa G Fashion Label
Historically and by its definition, “Fashion” and “Art” are separate disciplines in the creative space. Taking into account the subtle similarities in the discipline of Art and Fashion, and boldly merging the creative traits of Art and Fashion to create a unique fashion experience, is Vanessa G’s point of inspiration.

That is the school of thought that best describes the Vanessa G Brand philosophy wherein Fashion and Art are treated as one discipline, expressed through different mediums and thus taking different forms.

Every garment of “Vanessa G” endeavours to look like a piece of art, an ultimate statement of luxury that is not only unique in looks but also creates a unique, wearable, character defining fashion statement.

Exquisite, unique clothing pieces from Vanessa G, in addition to bespoke accessories, will be positioned for the upwardly mobile, affluent and well-heeled women of today that may have satiated their appetite for traditional luxury brands, and longing for a new bespoke experience with this unique offering of style, quality and intense design. This Customer knows that there needs to be something more to set them apart, and at the same time retaining a sense of bespoke individuality, hence their connect with Vanessa G‘s “Art’Outure” - A Luxurious expression of Art and Fashion.

This luxury brand clearly has that something more, and will satiate yearning and simultaneously proliferate it; one piece will never be enough.

The Label is positioned as a high end (designer price points) luxury line where Vanessa is the Label’s Creative Director.

Photos courtesy of Vanessa GText Source: http://www.vanessag.co.uk

Stathis Samantas Spring-Summer 2014 collection

Stathis Samantas presents his spring-summer 2014 collection of shoes, from stilettos to flat shoes, from bold colors to pastels and nude.

Key features of the greek shoe designer are the clean, strict lines and geometric shapes, accentuated by bold colors or by calm pastel colors to highlight another detail in the design.

 

Concentric circles with different diameter, zigzags and lines ending in spirals coming out of the known limits who wants to touch the straps over the foot. An orgasm of geometry.

Heels follow the linear aesthetic of the collection. They are thin stiletto of 13cm, descending to 10,5 cm heel with a very heavy base, result sharply to dagger, giving the impression of an "inverted balance'' and of course summer flat shoes .



The materials and colors are combined in such a way to support the possible outline shapes . The nude shade in conjunction with pvc gives a sense of transparency , purity, and quiet strength.

The black and green suede give a feeling of weightlessness and luxury combined with leather silver mirror, whose glare finally leveled the satin sheen soft Sevres .

The skins very thin and soft, have smooth surfaces without stamps and give a smooth image on the shoes, avoiding many visual information and highlight patterns and lines.

Stella Tennant for Altuzarra

Stella Tennant is captured by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for Altuzarra's fall-winter 2013-2014 ad campaign.

Stella is styled by Melanie Huynh and Vanessa Traina, hair by James Pecis and makeup by Tom Pecheux.