NEW GENERATIONS’ FASHION LINES

Save the dates for the new generations of fashion design in Athens!
On the 18th and 19th of March Stalexpo in cooperation with Fashion Erotokritos organises a fashion event full of new talent. The historic building of the Old Stock Exchange in Sofokleous Street in the center of Athens will be the place to be!

Stalexpo organises a platform for new fashion designers to present their creations to fashion lovers, but also to buyers and to the press. Two days full of talent and inspiration.

Among the new designers and fashion labels are Bold & Locked, Natasa Tantoula, Dimitrios Ordoulidis, Julia Selalmazidi, Nella Ioannou, Valia Georgiadi, Erotokritos Kimionis and Menelaos Theodosiades.

The line up promises a diverse scenery for men's and women's clothing. From haute couture to casual to swimwear. Feminine or androgynous, elegance or bold, colourful or not but always interesting and full of creativity,
So don't miss this promising fashion event with the presenting of the new generation.

Stalexpo is known for organising events, among them the Bridal Fashion Week and Expo at Zappeion.
For the best new designer the University of Piraeus will offer a scholarship for Master in Fashion design.
More will be announced soon at Stalexpo.

Fashion & Catwalk Photography by Patricia Reports - The Book

Saal Digital offered me to review its photo book. For me an opportunity to select my favourite photos   and to create my first book full of fashion and catwalk photography.

Saal-Digital has its own software and it is easy to install. It offers a lot of templates and formats so you can create your own style.

As I didn't read how to use the software it was easy enough to get around the software. I imported my photos and 'play' with them to make the perfect combination of photos.

I downloaded the photo book to check if everything was OK but here I missed to browse through my book. All the pages were in a pdf so I scrolled down to see it all. I prefer flipping through it.

Before going to order your book the software reminds you if you made any mistakes or when you changed the amount of pages it asks you to review your cover. Also it reminds you as soon as you upload a photo if the resolution of the photo is of high quality.

I was happily surprised how fast my order was send to me. Ordering it on Tuesday I received it by courier on Saturday morning.

By opening the envelop I was amazed by the quality. The photos are sharp, the colours are great and the paper is of high quality. It made me very proud to see my photos in such high end quality, a great choice for my portfolio of high end fashion photography.

After ordering books from CEWE and Albelli my next photo book will be by Saal-Digital again!

David LaChapelle for Diesel Spring-Summer 2017

David LaChapelle lensed the new ad campaign of Diesel with a statement: Make Love Not Walls.
The new campaign is about tearing down the mental and physical walls that separate people, and let all sides come together in the name of unity and love.

The American photographer LaChapelle is known for his glossy and colour-saturated photography. And with Art Director Nicola Formichetti he delivered a great job full of the power of people.

Dancer Sergei Polunin performed in the short film and the ad campaign.

“At Diesel, we have a strong position against hate and more than ever we want the world to know that, to use our voice for good, love and togetherness is crucial in creating a society we all want to live in, and the future we all deserve.” Nicola Formichetti – Diesel Artistic Director

Coded Couture, a data dress especially for you!

Dress to impress is now possible with a dress especially designed for you. With Coded Couture by Ivyrevel it will be possible. Coded Couture developed with the help of Google a technology that allow them to create a unique outfit for you. Based on your personality, on how you live your life and to boost your confidence.

Kenzo Zouiten, co-founder of Ivyrevel in her Data Dress by Coded Couture

Later this year Code Couture will launch an app. By following you for one week of your life they will present you their data dress, especially designed for you and for the occasion you need it!

At the moment the app is only available in closed beta stage, and is currently being tested by selected global style influencers including Ivyrevel’s co-founder Kenza Zouiten. The film below follows Kenza as she creates the first ever Data Dress.
Over the coming months, other influencers will share stories as their very own Data Dresses are created, and how their lifestyle has been captured by technology in a dress for the very first time.

Interested? You can register at Coded Couture as they are looking for early adopters and you will have a chance to win your first data dress!

Coded Couture is an initiative by Ivyrevel's Fashion Tech Lab. Ivyrevel is the world's first digital fashion house and is founded in 2013 with the ambition to merge fashion creativity with technological innovation, committed to shaping the future of fashion.

Source: Press Release

Coco Rocha for Harper's Bazaar

My eye caught the impressive cover of Harper's Bazaar featuring Coco Rocha.
The model is lensed by Zhang Jingna and the photo reminds me of a painting of an Old Master in pastels.

I loved the colours, the combination of the light blue, the light green and white. The setting like a portrait from the 18th century, also the make up with the red blushes on her cheeks. The attitude of Coco makes the work complete.

Zhang Jingna did the cover and an editorial for Harper's Bazaar Vietnam and now the photo is also used for the cover of Harper's Bazaar Poland March's issue.

Harper's Bazaar Vietnam used this photo of Zhang Jingna for its cover but for me it doesn't ring the bells of art like the one used for the Polish issue.
What do you think?

Photo credits:
Phuong My - Fashion Editor/Stylist
Linh Nguyen - Hair Stylist
Tatyana Harkoff - Makeup Artist
Nori - Manicurist

H&M loves Coachella feat. The Atomics

H&M kicks off the festival season with its collection H&M loves Coachella. Even if you are not travelling to California, the latest collection brings you in a festival spirit. And festivals are worldwide!

This year’s campaign for H&M Loves Coachella will feature an exclusive video by The Atomics, the alternative pop band of Lucky Blue Smith and his sisters Pyper America, Starlie and Daisy Clementine.

In the music video, The Atomics cover Let’s Live For Today by The Grass Roots.

The women's collection includes a sheer black lace spaghetti-strap dress, worn with a faux suede studded choker and pink heart sunglasses. Lace-trimmed slip-dresses, floral-embroidered denim jackets, a metallic body with a sheer powder-pink pleated mesh skirt, a hoodie and a metallic anorak.

For men, it’s about the perfect tie-dye T-shirt with matching tie-dye drawstring shorts. A white cotton tank has gothic Coachella graphics on the back and the cut- off denim shorts has biker details at the knee, for a sharp Coachella mix. Meanwhile an Ikat printed short sleeve shirt makes the perfect layered look together with a pair of faded festival jeans.

The H&M Loves Coachella collection will be available in the US from March 23 and globally from March 30 in all H&M stores that carry Divided, as well as online.

Source: press release H&M

MANGO committed, all about sustainable fashion

Sustainability is the keyword for MANGO Committed collection. In March MANGO will launch its new collection at mango.com and in selected stores worldwide.
The MANGO Committed is for men and women, made up of garments manufactured with sustainable materials.

Raquel Zimmermann and Mathias Lauridsen are captured by Josh Olins with the collaboration of Aleksandra Woriniecka in the styling. The venue chosen was the iconic Maison Gaudet, a masterpiece of organic architecture by Antti Lovag, located in Tourrettes-sur-Loup, southeastern of France.

The fabrics used in the collection are environmentally-friendly: organic and recycled cotton, recycled polyester and Tencel ®. They are dyed with environmentally-friendly inks in a palette of neutral colours. All garments in the collection have international certificates guaranteeing their sustainable origin and are manufactured in nearby factories in Portugal, Turkey and Morocco.

MANGO continues its project Take Action, aiming at creating a business model based on  sustainability criteria and more environmentally-friendly processes. MANGO committed is one of these projects.

Take Action project MANGO is aware of the importance of carrying out its day-to-day activities adopting environmentally-friendly and sustainable development criteria in all areas of its business. This is why, for some years now, it has worked on various initiatives which are now included in the Take Action project.
All leather and fur garments in the MANGO collection are manufactured respecting animal rights, and exotic, wild or endangered species are never used. Such hides always originate from animals destined for the human food chain.

Source: press release

Franco Pagetti for Dolce & Gabbana SS2017

Franco Pagetti captured the Italian spirit for Dolce & Gabbana. The spring-summer 2017 advertising campaign for Dolce & Gabbana is an invite to Capri, to Italian holidays, to 'La Dolce Vita'.

Zendaya, Sonia Ben Ammar, Thylane Blondeau, Cameron Dallas, Brandon Thomas Lee, Presley Gerber, Luka Sabbat, Rafferty Law and Gabriel Kane lined up for the new campaign and you just want to join them!

And who can resist Italian Ice Cream? 

For more photos of the spring-summer 2017 campaign visit Dolce & Gabbana!
Source: Dolce & Gabbana

Don't forget the friendly faces @ Amsterdam Fashion Week!

"It's a wrap!" Iris Ruisch, creative director of AFW starts her newsletter with it, "I'm still full of all the shows, the fantastic audience and all the nice comments".
Amsterdam Fashion Week was full of surprises and new talents as you could read and see in my previous posts.

The organisation was excellent and the atmosphere was great. So also a big thank you for all the people behind the scenes and of course the friendly hosts and hostesses.

All dressed in Wrangler.

See you next season!

Did you get your copy of RE FUSE magazine?

RE FUSE is a glossy fashion magazine,  launched during Amsterdam Fashion Week and is looking for sponsors to spread the word. By ordering one copy, 10 more can be printed and so the word can be spread.

It is created through collaboration between artists and refugees from many different places leading to another aesthetic and positive view on the refugee issue. An initiative by Olfa Ben Ali.

Dutch fashion designers Bas Kosters, Esther Meijer and Liselore Frowijn among many others contributed to this glossy.

During the launch Saro, a refugee and artist told an impressive story, Geertjan de Vugt quoted a piece of text he wrote for the magazine and the enthusiast Olfa Ben Ali won our hearts.

The drawings on the print are by refugee children at Bijlmer AZC

Created with original life vest fabric from Lesbos

Refuse Magazine is aiming to give back dignity to the people who left behind their scarce and wet belongings at the shores of the Mediterranean.

Interested? Order your copy on Voordekunst.nl

Beyonce's pregnancy photos inspired by art

Almost everybody has seen the photos of Beyonce's pregnancy. As more than 10 million liked her photos on instagram. But what made this photo so special?

According to Ellen de Generes Beyonce was inspired by the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, according to Wim Pijbes, she was inspired by the flemish painters Hendrik van Balen, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Breughel the younger.

Jan Breughel The Younger                       Virgin Mary of Guadalupe                              Peter Paul Rubens       

The garland of flowers stands for fertility and it is a great way of announcing her pregnancy in this way. As Ellen de Generes says she is expecting the savior, twice! Looking for a better world...

So a lot of hidden messages in this photo! Making it the talk of the world.

The use of well known art works is common in photography. Well know photographers are also getting their inspiration of it and art directors in fashion shoots.

Also Beyonce's interpretation of Venus van Urbino by Titian is worth to examine.

And the inspiration.

Titian took his inspiration from Giorgino's painting. So even in old days well-known artists copied or better to say got inspired by previous work.

Watch Wim Pijbes review on De Wereld draait door (only in dutch).

 

Photos of artwork via pinterest.com

Photos of Beyonce via Beyonce.com

Michael Barnaart van Bergen @ OBJECT Rotterdam

Michael Barnaart van Bergen presents comfortable knitted dresses with graphic design at OBJECT Rotterdam.

As I showed you in my sneak preview of the design fair I was eager to see his dresses with my own eye and to touch them.

Michael decorated one of the cabins of the historic cruise ship SS Rotterdam. He presents here his pieces of art, that are produced in limited editions. His work can be seen on the street but also in musea.
Like the Mondrian dress, which was on display at the Barbican Art Gallery in Londen as part of the exhibition The Vulgar, Fashion redefined. And from the 3rd of March to be seen at the Belvedere Museum Winterpalais in Vienna, Austria.

The dresses have a comfortable touch and at some dresses the skirt part is double knitted for better fitting but also because the design isn't printed but knitted.

Besides his dresses he created also these broches.

The design fair OBJECT Rotterdam is open until the 12th of February!