A model walks the catwalk at the Dimitri spring/summer 2012 show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate on July 6, 2011 in Berlin
Monday, 25 July 2011
Fashion photos of the week
Top fashion images from the runways of the world: This week, highlights from the Berlin fashion week spring-summer 2012 collections
With this frock
From busy and bejewelled meringues to stripped-down stunners, the bride brings with her a frisson of excitement. Weighed down by somethings old, new, borrowed and blue, the history of marital fashion is heavy with symbolism. As the ultimate wedding party comes to Bendigo, an enduring fairytale is set in train.
Kim Kardashian has psoriasis:
New Delhi: Socialite Kim Kardashian has been diagnosed with psoriasis, say media reports.
Being a socialite and in perpetual media glare, the red marks on her skin sent gossips flying. The Life and Style Weekly called it the skin condition called psoriasis.
The skin condition is marked by red or white patches on the skin which are often flaky. The condition is not contagious.
According to the report, Kim’s mother Kris Jenner also suffers from the condition, which is characterized by dry skin. Kardashian said to the media that she has heard of the skin condition because her mother has always had it, but she did not have red flaky dots all over.
The disease has a largely genetic component involved in it. The condition, as doctors say – is manageable with a variety of treatments available. If properly taken care of doctors say that psoriasis patients have a perfectly normal life.
Kim’s thoughts on the condition will be featured in an upcoming episode of her reality show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians’. With her wedding around the corner, it would be interesting to know how she deals with the diagnosis.
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The area to watch
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 22.03.2011
If there's one area of fashion trends, both for men and women, that you should be keeping an eye on, it's trousers. After years of low-rise, skin tight jeans and trousers being the predominant, 'in' style we fashionisers are gradually experimenting more and more with new styles. Hence you have the rise of wide leg pants for women and flared jeans for both sexes.
That experimentation gives birth to look such as this: bow belted, pin stripe trousers that sit somewhere between being wide legged pants and bell bottoms.
Experimenting with trousers
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 29.03.2011
If we had to make a definite statement about women's fashion in the last decade we'd say that skinny jeans and pants influenced the its silhouettes more then any other look. Women wanted skinnies, and most everything else was cut to work with them. Styles get tired however and while we might still all love our skinnies, there's an undercurrent of experimentation amongst the fashion forward collective, each of them looking for something else, each of them looking for what's next.
Hence, when it comes to this decade's emerging fashion trends so many of them are experimenting with the 'standard' silhouette of pants. As a result we have emerging, neo-trends in the return of bell bottoms and wide legged pants. There's one more style we're certain will join that list, however, making it something of a trend trinity: pleats.
Amaya Arzuaga's architectural curiosities
Wearable geometry of urban designs is the main signature of famous Spanish designer Amaya Arzuaga. Her latest collection for the fall 2011 season presented in Paris fashion week; the designer's hallmark architectural fascinations presenting the new definition of chic looks with sculptural femininity. The palette of the collection is saturated with bloody red, turquoise, orange, stone and grey colours accompanied with black or showcased solo. The selection of merino wool, felt, silk, knit, stretch leather and transparent jersey composes the modern vision of woman with the DNA of Amaya Arzuaga. The collection is predominantly inspired by fashion mathematics of shapes, curves and surfaces ranging from linear pieces defining the silhouette, osseous structures, ovoid and elliptical profiles, and wavy pleated figures to butterfly volumes and outfits resembling the delicate structure of an Arthropod shell. The designs amaze with the discreet fusion of practicality and a futuristic touch.
Candice Swanepoel outside Dior
At this point, we're all used to seeing Candice Swanepoel in next to nothing. So why is it that when she was photographed outside Christian Dior fall 2011, she was even more provocative than when donning the standard Victoria's Secret uniform of bra and panty? Perhaps this is due to the fervor incited in us by her crocheted black bra top with diamond webbing wrapping up the decolletage, layered underneath a simply perfect sheer seamed black shirt with raw edge sleeves. Carrying what looked to be an equally lush fur coat, Swanepoel’s upper half left little to the imagination, but much to be coveted.
Louis Vuitton men's reborn
The aesthetics of Louis Vuitton's menswear past offerings have often sat uneasy with me. They've had their place, but that place seldom felt like it should have been under the moniker of a luxury fashion house with such pedigree. To be certain the quality was there, but the overall look could come off a little too rough-and-ready, a little too casual for my liking.For Spring 2011 Louis Vuitton promised something new, not the least because designer Kim Jones would taking the reigns as the house's menswear Style Director. Young and well travelled, Jones has a good background having previously been the Creative Director for Alfred Dunhill; a directorship that saw Dunhill reborn.
It would appear that he's done it again.
It would appear that he's done it again.
Victoria’s Secret Lingerie Bombshell Summer 2011 Collection
Sunday, 24 July 2011
At The Lake and Stars
Renato Campora's hands move quickly; and in mere seconds a model walks away with a side ponytail of perfect barrel curls. We're backstage at the New York fashion week American Express presents CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Cardmember Only Show and Renato, lead stylist for Frederick Fekkai, is making the night's softly glamorous hairstyle look almost too easy to create.
The desired effect, Renato explains, is a look that's both young and effortless, but also sexy - with a deep side-part that frames the face, and the hair swept aside at the back showing off the nape of the neck, a sensual body part Renato reminds us.
Below you can find some how-to instructions of how to recreate this hairstyle for yourself, along with photos from backstage of the Frederick Fekkai team at work.
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