Addressing the theme color of the little black dress

NOTE: The Style Black takes many shapes and sizes, such as an exhibition celebrating the power remaining LBD revealed GROW, I did not think of black as a color appealing. If you misbehaved in black religious habits, wielding officers charged to you. If one parent is deceased, my mother wore glittering black rayon. When my great-aunts Irish for the wealthy American families work went, they wore black uniforms maid. Our family dog, Scottie, someone wearing only black, and my brothers in their prom tuxedos. Hermes Kelly 32CM Handbags Black was the color of despair, decay, death, nightmares and vampire cape. It was the color, the priest warned that your soul would be, if you have sinned. But part of being a woman, the mythical power of the little black dress is to be realized. It makes you slim and chic, what is the delay of your fashion sense, and you dash. I saw in old movies: Rita Hayworth vamping in black satin bustier in Gilda and Marilyn Monroe nestled in a little pearl Orry-Kelly in Some Like It Hot, winning Natalie Wood with the heart of a Steve McQueen black low-cut dress in love Foreign properly. And of course, wore the stunning black Givenchy cocktail dress Audrey Hepburn grab a cake in front of Tiffany's, one morning - a look so ingrained in the DNA of American culture that it evokes feyly Tina Fey on the cover of the new week with entertainment, upswept hair, long gloves, cigarette holder and cat wrapped around his neck. Hermes Kelly 35CM Handbags Others believe that the image of the shimmering height LBD or little black dress. But this is not André Leon Talley, the imperious impresario of a new exhibition on colored her eponymous gallery in the Art Museum of the Savannah College of Art and Design. "This is not done, the most important or iconic little black dress ever," says contemptuously Tsar mode, which promotes itself as comfortable yurts clothes and size-15 Uggs. (He owns nine pairs of uggs black bark.) Strains in the direction of a LBD, it is much more convincing. I'm amazed gussied see a male model in a dress see-through black lace over spanking boxers, white socks and black shoes, Louis XIV, the Carrie Bradshaw have taken his time dazzled. "This is what Marc Jacobs Costume Gala worn a man-dress Comme des Garçons Met," says Talley. "It was a crucial moment to go in the style of a man perfectly accessorised with rhinestones black matte leather buckle shoes court that he conceived." No doubt about it. Talley, the editor of Vogue, and Entertainment Tonight correspondent, said he was inspired by the show, after he installed Anna Wintour in a classic black Chanel dress, now framed in a shadow on the wall cherry. It was Coco Chanel and Vogue, after all, who popularized the "little things" as they were called, the first October 1926, when the magazine published a picture of a black jacket in crepe de Chine jacket, the prediction that every woman would aspire to have in their closet, as every man wanted a Model T Ford in the garage. "Chanel craved the power and independence of the people," says Gioia Diliberto, who wrote a novel and a play on the seamstress who contributed an essay to the exhibition catalog. "So, in his creations, she borrowed the palette ease, comfort and cushioning for men's clothing in order to create a sleek elegance of the women who were free of frills and froufrou candy." Talley said he received a cavalcade of designer dresses for her friends in materials "neoprene fabric diving latex chicken feathers" (actually ostrich feathers). In the ranks of black glamor find Chado Ralph Rucci caftan are Whoopi Goldberg - a snake necklace strangle the neck of the dummy, Sarah Jessica Parker Prabal Gurung butter pleated leather; own design L'Wren Scott, wool and sexy lace number she wore to the Golden Globes is based with her boyfriend, Mick Jagger, Tom Ford and Chantilly lace and pearls concoction on Goya's portrait of the Duchess of Alba. "Lady Gaga, that helped with the blue hair," says Talley. Renee Zellweger wore a navy ribbon-candy-style dress. "Sometimes you must wear dark blue and black," says Talley. I'm starting to feel paranoid when my friend Talley offers an essay about how a "good black" color compared to a "bad black", and where blacks do not fit identify. I guess black was black. "You do not want a hard black or black death, an old bunker that was after years of neglect oxidized in a warehouse sterile similar," he said. "A good black level is a black electric. Should.'s Dreams of beauty" The look on my green shirt, Talley murmur contempt ", meerschaum, I guess" before the inanimate models, but much more attractive. "When in doubt, go to your best little black dress, not your wimpy, algae, sea foam overseas or your unfortunate fall lemon." It summarizes the endurance style black with a straight film noir: "It's just something you know is right, even if it is wrong."

Rice Consolidated outmuscles Yoakum

The offensive line pushed the rice Yoakum defensive line, because it creates a lot of space to run around his back and defensive line prevented Raider rushing attack to a 87 meter Yoakum as Rice came away with a 21-13 victory on the Bulldogs (3 -2) on Friday night at Bulldog wet field. "There is no doubt that this game was decided in the trenches," Yoakum head coach Brent Kornegay said. "You have to tip the hat rice. You did a good job of moving the football. Indeed, they dominated us forward." Chanel Outlet Store Minor problems in special teams, dogs ", including two 60-yard punt and rice yields and for 7 yards Yoakum, has further complicated the matter on the side of the house. The kick return gave the Raiders (2-3) briefly areas of less than 30 meters to work with, and the visitors took advantage to finish with two hard blow. Chase Hermes finished 4-of-14 passes for just 45 yards, an interception and a touchdown. Yoakum ground game was grounded with less than 100 meters, with a height of five meters '36 Tre wears in his head. "We were inconsistent on offense," said Kornegay. "We were sporadic. We have some good things and bad things, which we would do." Yoakum had some injuries occur in the game with Hermes, the quarterback for several plays and half defensive lineman. Willie Hights leaving the game in the fourth quarter due to health problems Yoakum has opened this week and will use the time to make corrections and get the players healthy. Rice opened the game with a kickoff return of 64 yards to Justin Semora "Dogs 25th James Garner had to work a draw game 9 to 16 meters, a transfer for 3 yards and two run games straight for a touchdown from 8 yards with David Esquivel added the extra point for a 7-0 advantage Raiders 10:18 left in the period. Yoakum got two bars and a 2 meter Hights Myron incomplete pass before leaving Hermes rice 10th This time with 90 meters in front of them only had rice in their 36 and kicked the ball Yoakum. Terrance Hall 47th got the ball on the first two pieces and a gain of 14 yards for rice Yoakum only as much as 35 before Todd Nicholas caught a pass Hermes. Jordan Johnson quart rice practically moved the Raiders with the Guardians of options and rising behind the line, all the way to the dog 33 of their 35th Johnson later exchange Yoakum and escape back to his 33rd The "dogs were not able to get a first down, as they called for illegal motion on third-and-match-1 and Hermes an incomplete pass. Things got worse when Yoakum manages a 7-yard punt only their 44 . Rice managed only 10 yards despite another short field and Garner was stopped for no gain on fourth down. The next Bulldog drive looked dead when Hermes was dropped with a loss of 8 yards to the 29th On the next play, he rolled left and managed to climb a deep pass before they returned. The ball flew into the hands of Keith Ratley at a gain of 34 yards the 37th to the rice Braden Drozd then performed for 12 yards and from 0 to 25 years and then had a Hermes scramble 10 yards. Myron and Ratle Hights, with a short jet sweep pulled Yoakum 7 where powerlifting champion Willie Hights scored a touchdown for the second game. Run two-point conversion was no good, so the dog is 7-6. Reasons Everitt returned 61 yards from the kickoff to the 24 and Yoakum Johnson ran for 17 to 7 He scored on quarterback taste three plays later ran in the two-point conversion for a 15-6 advantage Rice. "Dogs encourage opened the second half with a punt return, you go to their 48th Hights Tre came at quarterback in the second set and had a 5-yard run, but sought. Yoakum retained possession and Hights Tre ran for 17-30 and Rice gained 20 yards on an option play to the 10th Hermes Hights Several pieces later met with a short 2-play action passes and TJ Reagan Jacobs added after the point about "dogs playing within 15-13 with 8:46 Third Period . Rice sealed the win early in the fourth quarter after a punt at its Yoakum 37.Johnson muscled his way for a touchdown to cap 4-yard games and a new drive consumes more than four minutes of clock, an advance of 21-13 and the Raider final margin. The next match will be the 12th Yoakum October at the opening of District 28-3A play with a trip to Smithville.

Crown seeks three-year sentence for man with Glock inside Louis Vuitton purse

A black man in a restaurant in Surrey count with a Glock in her purse Louis Vuitton arrested has a mandatory three-year sentence to serve at least, argued prosecutor Friday. Prohibited Crown prosecutor Lesley Ruzicka told Surrey Provincial Court Judge James Bahen circumstances the conviction Glenn Harley Sheck for possession of a loaded weapon to justify a mandatory prison sentence. Chanel Cross Body bags "Mr. Sheck had hidden the gun on himself in a crowded restaurant," Ruzicka said Friday Sheck and his followers sitting in the public gallery. "It was moving in the community, have a loaded gun and hides a gun." Ruzicka noted that in Canada, judges have weighed on firearms in the growing problems -. Especially handguns - for public safety Sheck defenders Elizabeth Lewis asked that. Mandatory three years in prison to be unconstitutional as cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of the Charter right to freedom Sheck If the minimum rotated, the more appropriate term would be closer to 18 months, Lewis said. So far, no judge in British Columbia has one of the penalties mandatory firearms taken adopted by the federal government in 2008. The minimum requirements to be unconstitutional in the past three months, the case of Ontario. Ruzicka said Friday in its opinion on the proposition that the cases are not in Ontario under similar circumstances to this Sheck that bring the public in danger if he loaded his Glock brought near 152nd Street in Earl to 101 Avenue at about 7 clock, 3rd November 2010. The fact Sheck, 31, was hidden in a busy public place with a loaded gun that an aggravating sentencing, said Ruzicka. In a preliminary decision last February led Bahen arrest revealed details of the 2010 survey police Sheck. The police after November 2010, because he was a suspect in the attempted murder of a couple of months before her new boyfriend ex-spouse, Bahen noted in the previous decision. Gang Task Force and had information from a confidential informant that Sheck often got a gun in her black Louis Vuitton man purse, said Bahen. Sheck was not charged in the attempted murder in June 2010 and had no previous convictions, to. Condemnation of firearms Although no evidence of gang associations Sheck was offered by the Crown at the hearing Friday, the troops gang unit Joint Crime Investigation outside the courtroom Sheck was written. And during the morning break Sheck had a friendly conversation with gangster Sukh Dhak, which ended at the courthouse in Surrey with a partner, although not. With a scheduled appearance The Vancouver Sun has documented the presence Sheck last May at the funeral cocaine smugglers international Gisby Tom, who was shot in Mexico.

Louis Vuitton: Goodbye Argentina

Excluded in Argentina, a country by a president with a penchant for glamorous couture to luxury brands like flies. The nearest shop is located at Louis Vuitton, finely misted by Cartier, the bend his early release with Emporio Armani, Salvatore Ferragamo, Escada, Calvin Klein and Yves Saint Laurent known. Ermenegildo Zegna has shrunk and Polo Ralph Lauren said it has temporarily closed shop. Hermes Handbags Outlet Why? Now makes a raid on imports life difficult when you try to put in luxury abroad. A lot of foreign exchange control matters. Difficult for buyers that the latter is an implicit limit on purchases in dollars heading for Argentines abroad economically after the opposition newspaper El Cronista Comercial And inflation in Argentina has made this expensive country for foreign visitors. Since 2001 default on nearly 100 billion dollars in debt the country has almost international credit cut, Argentina implemented a policy of "Lo Nuestro vivir con" or "live with what we have." Even though it has returned more than 90 percent of the debt and other obligations forced (with the exception of the rather large Paris Club), his dubious inflation statistics and policy increasingly unpredictable restructured make a virtue of such an approach. Which should explain the reaction Enrique Meyer, Minister of Tourism, the exodus of foreign luxury brands. Here is nothing to fear, he estimates. No, what matters is the month of March, Argentina marks abroad, he said, such as clothing makers Cardon and Pampero, Freddo ice cream brand and El Noble, maker of the beloved and blocks Cardon - has even opened its doors in China.

Shinan: The maison that Louis (Vuitton) built

  It was Ga?tane Verna, shed new leader of the Power Plant, which has already drawn in Toronto to Montreal a few months ago, and it is a scene-amp if it ever was.

"There's just too much to do," she said, as the official part of the new Louis Vuitton filled in YYZ the other night. After a short calendar data compared, and the decline of the social season back - Ga?tane looks around as stylish as the brand umlaut in her name - she joked she can begin to make an appointment to see his children. Joke! OK?

Since the Bloor Street store shiny new - or "house", it is one of the houses LV mega world - began to fill, I have subscribed chieftess new art as it is a series of high water, the city both in terms of the expansion of railways and Just more things every night. And I speak as someone who is not really home, had to wash my hair for most of the decade.

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"There was a time when there is an orbit or two," I purred to professorially another friend with whom I had a similar conversation. (I think we were in the section of handbags!) "But now there are many more social paths, some of which do not even collide, at least not often." Translation: I'm tired, my dear.

More and more people arrived at the fiesta, under the chairmanship of the President of Louis Vuitton North America, Valerie Chapoulaud-Floquet. Dynamic Duos! Looking serious collectors! Chic singletons who can on a table or two danced in their misspent youth! Philip Roth admirers! Breaking Bad fans! Some about those who offer seasonal employment to St. Barts and / or Palm Beach each year A storyteller or three!

Play right into the role of the latter, on the second floor of the store - while I shows Suzanne Rogers temporal power Scarlet expertise as a spiral staircase went saw - was Bruce Bailey. Man-about-Mr. Towns. The story he wove for me - the wire, which I forgot -. Involved Scotland, a castle, and some "dogs", and suggested the late style icon Isabella and allegorical reference to the British TV series Ab Fab, something .

Moreover Hendeles Ydessa mysterious - was busy the mysterious Hendeles Ydessa - it is no longer selected as one of the "50 most influential people in the art world" of ARTnews. In addition, also: Arthouse stars Shary Boyle, generating Deschanel-esque and luxuriating, so it should in his selection as Canada representative at the Venice Biennale (the Olympics of art!) L next year.

The entire party - the prelude to a great dinner sitting at the Royal Conservatory - rare leader was fab cluster. A hyphen that makes sense in light of new Vuitton do not support the arts, and also here in the LV store, which is perfect as an "art" program dah'ed tah-making within which new and unexpected mini-gallery works by Boyle. Immaculate ceramic parts - but not your grandmother's porcelain figures, with just the right dab both Marie Antoinette and Edgar Allan Poe.

"Nobody does that!" Roz Ivey called boss when I took my place to check the work. The lady was delighted when I say so myself.

Clothing manufacturer Jeremy Laing part of the archipelago arty form in another part of the room - the designers releasing its usual Tin Tin. Photographer Chris Wahl Vanity Fair, among others, came at a time, looking pretty shy. Banker / Mike love rock worldly man smiled his famous smile Crest. Jeff Roick amazing, party planner to the place, eyes forward, two eyes in the back of his head. Greetings Shouts were heard, many of them very familiar to parties like this: Bernadette and Jimmy! Samara and Joe!

And of course, one party at this time of the calendar year during this special time in the history of the city, there was a lot of the holy trinity of high-impact openings or quasi-talk openings happened: the introduction of the Soho House + + Momofuku new restaurant Boulud. Have you heard yet? Want to go fast? It's a date! Etcetera, etcetera.

Back Beat: DJ Kreayshawn Album Release Party, Food Truck Works

  Kreayshawn Cool Haus ice WORK Truck sandwich in his album release party for Kreay Bout Something (Columbia) Dim Mak Studios Hollywood. (Photo: Mark Hunter / Cobrasnake)

Kreayshawn files and Colombia are about to find out whether "Gucci"'s 38 leads million views on YouTube to sales with the arrival of the first album of the Bay Area rapper, Somethin 'Bout Kreay.

Despite the pressure on the momentum line build the artist 22 years, former director and video clips in the "B New Artist" at the MTV Awards last year music before nor have released one album, the mood was anything but festive Hollywood on Monday (September 17) night as Kreay and his friends celebrated release of his album in an intimate party.
Dim Mak Studios. At its capacity of 250 people with managers, producers, label people and even the lucky fans who filled on Facebook and Twitter Kreay explosions RSVP'd Kreayshawn performed a series of "KJ Dreayshawn" Christian Rich and yarn, too. Party-goers were treated to ice cream sandwiches from Cool House by Kreayshawn even served before proceeding.

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Participants Manager Kreayshawn, Stretch, producer Jean-Baptiste, who on his album, Marketing Director Erika Alfredson), Harley Werthmeimer and Mark Williams (A & R) at Columbia Records, Jesse Lee, Marketing organizer company work / party DfM (Frequency Dub ) Naim Ali (VP A & R) Universal Republic, T-Mills manager John Zagata (T-Mills was a no-show, but T weeted apology to Kreayshawn) Dillinger Escape Plan, Greg Puciato singers, porn actress Jenna Haze and young Hawaii Black Dudes Chill.

The Girl With vibing Food Truck: Young Black Dudes Hawaii from freezing it's Ice Cream Sandwich Kreayshawn. (Photo: Mark Hunter / Cobrasnake)

The girl, whose license Zolot white bed Natassie Gail that pressure on the success of its video in small groups, which helped set follow the White Girl Mob and associated actions on the map. "I came from nothing. Hella view I started with. So since then I was kind of back to work," she told Billboard.biz. "I had to build more of a fan base."

Part of the tour involved for the first time. "Everyone was so excited for 'Gucci, Gucci everyone wanted this show as soon as possible, I've done everything," she said last year. "What's good about it, that I'm on tour, I walked everywhere. Could I see that my fans and love to experiment with them and see how I am without panic people. I had the time to work on my album . I went with songs that end up making the album I was singing songs from my mixtapes I've been experimenting to see what the audience really responded to; .. what "real people.

"Not every song is meant a radio hit," she added. "It is only meant for me represented."

Baptiste producer who has worked with Rihanna, Chris Brown, Black Eyed Peas, said it was "something awesome" to "Gucci, Gucci." He credited his family line, in part through his creativity in the studio. "It's a baby punk. His mother was a punk," he said. Kreayshawn Elka Zolot mother was a member of the Bay Area Garage Band T he Women Trash. "She is very strong, but she is also aware of the past and the future," he added.

Kreayshawn says that her mother was continuously excited at every stage of the career development of his daughter while. An overview and Balance . "They are not there as MTV and stuff like that before but it was really big in the underground," said Kreay "It really helps me in my relationships she had bandmates, manager ... We can always hold on me with my personal life, the biggest industry is grounded shit, you know what I'm saying. "

Operating Instructions of the winners

Just Dandy! Horse racing, the sport of kings, but the issues of fashion, it is a day for men dapper. Guys are inclined to the mares race at the XXXX Gold Lismore Cup on Thursday to give, with costumes and props from the coast conical suave favorite in the fashion world. Mel Carter, director of the clothing store for men and retailers ManToMan race sponsor said that boys were delighted with the new study notes and tapered styles very accessorized for Cup Day. "We sell jackets, neckties, suspenders, handkerchiefs," revealed Mrs. Carter. "Men go all out this year," she said. Gray is the new black when it comes to costumes. "We are moving away from black - and matching costumes with colorful shirts and structured," Ms. Carter said. Purple, green and orange in brown shirts and handkerchiefs tipping her hat, what happens in the women's department. And it would not pretentious Day Cup without a team of guys in matching outfits. Ms. Carter said she had a couple of groups of guys and ready for the novelty factor. "A group came to buy the same suits with bright shirts," said Mrs. Carter. Likewise, women fashion Cup Day borrow from a palette of bold spring - especially in shoes and accessories. Diane Charles Brewer, owner of Lismore Maddeson and Eve shop named pieces this season race day includes a wide variety of styles and trends. "Clothes are of pastels and feminine lace of bright colors and bold with unique fascinators, shoes and handbags to complement individual style," she said.

During the Fashion Week, "tech" is the hot new style

As floral prints, leather and white, the "democratization" is a hot trend in the fashion world - and the Internet has been a driving force behind this development. Series for this year's Fashion Week (New York, Milan and Paris), the designer of the big names in the fashion shows are now digitally available to the public and not just the fashion elite. It's true video-time models on the airstrip. Google+ meeting backstage with the designers also provided a rare glimpse into the action behind the scenes. Similarly, doyenne Diane Von Furstenberg was to produce a video Google lens in the first person about his adventures. Democratization goes further than the mere dissemination of fashion shows in new ways. Now, instead of a core of trendsetters, reveals social media activities, the collections are hit and fall flat. Likewise, bloggers and content Instagram is as widespread as content created by the editors of journals and professional photographers, and can be just as influential. In addition, fashion companies with large data analysis and forecasting technology to forecast trends, instead. Only to the words of industry leaders Adoption of this technology has a long time coming. There are several reasons why the industry has been slow to jump on the latest technology. Many designers want to maintain the prestige of their brand a strict control over how it is presented. Every detail, from the shade of lipstick order models carefully chosen lighting, as well as the members of the audience. But it's finally change. "Fashion Week was once reserved for the elite," said CEO Tony Adams Eventup. "I think the fashion industry has been slow to new forms of media because in the beginning, most of the designers come to feel that fashion is an experience that is difficult to replicate online, but the abundance of online fashion portals, live streaming and social media are more accessible mode it has ever been. " Eventup is a startup events according to the location. This year, New York Fashion Week, the company has helped many designers plan their shows and published a picture of the evolution of Fashion Week. Media companies such as IMG and KCD produce digital entertainment that sends the glamor and drama of the haute couture salons, while media like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal provided live coverage of events. Now those of us who see no closets full of clothes Dior and Jimmy Choo shoes an event at the same time as the deer A-listers. But this does not necessarily affect the status of a collection. "Ten years ago, the idea of ​​someone in South Dakota to see a live stream of the show was funny," said John Jannuzzi, digital publisher at Lucky Magazine Condé Nast. "Now the world is at the same time, but reached makes it no less exclusive. Nothing compares to the actual exposure to be." Large data and Internet Broadcasting Open dissemination of images of events to the masses collections. Huge amounts of discussion about social networks People from all backgrounds and all ages can give their opinions, but the power of social media means that these opinions actually have an effect. Viewer reactions required track can indicate which topics were well received and appreciated by potential consumers. Editd is a great company that provides information to. An action for fashion brands It analyzes not only the amount of traffic that surrounds the designers or trends, but also focuses on the feeling around the data points. According to reports, consumers in New York, as the feminine aesthetic and retro, while the Londoners do not like the presence of dip-dye. Another big fashion company data Whispr Group provides a "social media intelligence service" in order to help designers to evaluate the effectiveness of their social media efforts. The team created a graphic designer in the social, the show "with Victoria Beckham, Marc Jacobs, Diane Von Furstenberg and steel reach the top. "Brands can see what hash tags to drive the most engagement," said exec Linda Harleman Whispr. "You see the most important topics and people were more excited eyes, and maybe use it to develop new strategies and inform their content calendar." Shopping Fashion Reinventing For some of the most luxurious houses vanguard, with an emphasis on social media may not be a priority. However, brands need to sell their clothes to customers outside of a few rich to adapt to a new paradigm for the exhibition. "Another advantage of social media to a wider audience for brands, fashion is exposed to week," said Adams. "Twitter and Facebook are important platforms for the sale and the involvement of customers and drive traffic to brand sites. Moreover, Instagram is a great platform for designers to turn their designs through the publication of a photograph and monitor how many times he" loved "To test the followers of the brand. social media should be a personal and authentic experience." Startups have revolutionized the way shopping is Fashion Week. Before the usual practice of sitting in the audience, was frantic notes as models scurry past on the track, then scramble to issue orders and on waiting lists for products to be placed. This year, there are applications for the visitors is dedicated to the documentation looks like, as well as live blogging and administration schedule. Lyst social e-commerce site allows users to search through the inventories of thousands of brands and add the desired items in their "list". Users can also subscribe to feeds about designers, bloggers, shops, magazines and friends centered. The company offers a feature tracking where fashionistas add a list of their favorite looks and receive alerts when they are available. This year, Lyst offered "Lysting live" with the style guru Nina Garcia and Olivia Palermo as well as meeting places Google Plus with big names like Rebecca Minkoff. 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London Fashion Week: The good, the weird and retro - 1990, Flowers and more cuts

Festival as a fearless fashion week once again proved London is still alive and selling dreams. With two fashion weeks down and two to go (Paris and Milan), many experts agree that London street cred is still intact. All nineties could be seen on the catwalks of acid brights on the network. Hip-hop and rave culture among the benchmarks for a wide range of designer brands in London. Here permeates Ashish this season must-have preppy white shirt with polka dot mesh sensual power for S/S13. Ultra-shaped light sheet, tangerine, fuchsia neon ... The track Simone Rocha lived with floral lace yellow fluorescence, while Burberry, Roksanda Ilincic, Issa London and Pringle of Scotland sees everything sent in saturated colors. Cuts were an important trend - was nothing to chance, such as dresses, tops and skirts and lace peek-a-boo inserts presented left. If Tata Naka S / S 2013 show, cuts into the cut and the size of the print dress arty have been developed. This is the trend with a David Hockney-esque backdrop is a dip models took the pose paired. A world away from the strong demand for LFW geometry, multi-cultural duo behind the label Aminaka Wilmont were not the only flowers that are bound adopt this rainbow digi-print dress. Mulberry collection elsewhere minor collision flowers set against the idea of ​​love Erdem label with delicate guipure flowers hardly stamped 3D. The designer duo welcomed identical twin head to toe prints, a trend that has carried out over the last season. The word on the catwalks of London, the "ARTIER the better."

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The Ideal Single-Girl Apartment

So technically I’m not a bachelorette anymore (thank God—isn’t that word awful?), but I feel I spent enough single years in Manhattan to have a well-formed

 opinion on the ideal single girl’s apartment. Mind you, I’m talking about décor. The rental market in this city doesn’t leave room for “ideal.” Interior-

 wise, I find it shocking how many young 20- and 30-something-year-olds are still living in half-formed spaces, surrounded by ugly Bob’s living-room sets or Ikea

 leftovers from the college years. And really, it’s not even about the major furniture pieces, although it would be lovely to go all the way. To craft the

 perfect bachelorette pad, it’s more about the details. In my opinion, these are the vital pieces:

European Essentials

A clever editor will prep for the European Fashion Weeks like a well-trained marathoner. After all, London, Milan, and Paris Fashion Weeks collectively span more

 than three weeks, and with the preceding chaos of New York Fashion Week, we’re talking a full fashion month. “Fashion Week” is a misnomer. But I digress.

 Somewhere in between the shows, presentations, and parties of N.Y.F.W., one must stock up on a few key pieces to get through the European counterparts. Here, I

 share my tips for a successful fashion marathon (hint: I’m not talking PowerBars):

 A clever editor will prep for the European Fashion Weeks like a well-trained marathoner. After all, London, Milan, and Paris Fashion Weeks collectively span more

 than three weeks, and with the preceding chaos of New York Fashion Week, we’re talking a full fashion month. “Fashion Week” is a misnomer. But I digress.

 Somewhere in between the shows, presentations, and parties of N.Y.F.W., one must stock up on a few key pieces to get through the European counterparts. Here, I

 share my tips for a successful fashion marathon (hint: I’m not talking PowerBars

Chanel provider loses its effect Old

  The Chanel brand and World Tricot knit company used to be friends. Knitting is a former supplier of Parisian fashion house, but things went wrong in 2009, when falsely accused Tricot Chanel terminate their business relationship. For "a copy of one of his drawings," according to British Vogue

A trial followed, of course, and Chanel are now paying more than € 200,000 ($ 263,000) after a decision by the Court of Appeal of Paris - not a huge amount, of course, especially knitting more than originally $ 4,700,000 for breach of contract and breach requested.

Chanel lawyer said at the time that knit looking after PR Vogue, Chanel, but execs remember fans this year were on the legendary little black jacket is to sing a different tune today.

"This is the first time we have faced this kind of situation, but we work with about 400 suppliers," said Bruno Pavlovsky, president of Chanel, Vogue reports. "This case is very specific. In any way a reflection on the quality of our relationships with our suppliers"

Chanel may lose money, but it is not to lose a big celebrity fan: U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir. According to the Huffington Post comment Weir is cuckoo for Coco, that he hopes to be one day, "60 or 70 years still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair combed."

French luxury cosmetic companies looking east

  AS Asian economy continues to thrive and consumers become more sophisticated, it is logical that the French luxury Clarins Cosmetics Company should look East. Advantage of the most populous continent in the world

"The Asian economy is doing well. Compared they got much better than in other countries where the economy is almost at a standstill. As a global skincare brand, it is important in the consumer market with many opportunities for growth open, "said CEO of Clarins Group Philip Shearer in an interview in Paris recently.

Economic factors aside, Clarins most likely hit big role in this part of the region, because Asians love cosmetics and spend a lot on skin care products.

"Skin Care has the largest market share in Asia. We want to focus on Asia, because women in this region strong focus on beauty and skin care," said Shearer, 55

He was attached to L'Oréal in the 90s, when he served as President of the Luxury Products Division in Tokyo, Japan. During his two years, he has spent a considerable amount of time analyzing the market, particularly in relation to the care and needs of Asian women.

"Asians are a challenging market, taking into account their concept of consumer needs, beauty skin care routines and discipline.

"The demands of the European and Asian women are also concerned about climate change differently. Meteorological Asia is much more humid compared to European countries that have four seasons. As such, the texture of the products must be lighter and absorbent for the Asian market," said Shearer, a former president of the group for Estee Lauder Group, before the Clarins 2008.

"Clarins is born a professional brand. Our founder Jacques Courtin-Clarins Spa was an operator specializing in the creation of beauty products for women. Our point is that we integrate exactly to the needs of women and expertise fulfillment of their demands. And as a sign of plant care, we also practice sustainable development and fair trade policy with the local farmers, "he said.

The idea of ​​Clarins in products such as face lift Shape (a serum that helps restore delicate features) and white (a series of money), which saw a huge hit in Asia.

In order to consolidate its position in the Asian market, Clarins has recently launched the Total Double Serum Concentrate control age-phase serum formulated with extracts from 20 botanical world into being. This revolutionary product has been specially formulated with a lighter texture to meet Asian women.

Serum is the first of its kind, combining powerful anti-aging ingredients such as water and fat.

From plant to product

Behind every product is beautifully packaged Clarins scientists to ensure a long process to sustainable development in manufacturing. In 2007, the company has created a Development Manager (R & D) department to focus on creating formulas safe and friendly environment, protection of biodiversity, promote innovation and development of products with low environmental impact.

In the same year, Clarins Laboratories added a feather in his hat, when he obtained the certification of good laboratory practice by the French health agency for their cell culture unit. It also has the environmental certificate that guarantees the products originate from biological sources.

So far, the efforts seem to be bearing fruit in his ministry RD. In June 2008, saved the company more than nine tons of plastic packaging after you stop the delivery of despatches. Last year, the greenhouse gas emissions fell by 20% after the company decided to use renewable energy and efficient appliances.

Clarins Group Supervisory Board Chairman Christian Courtin-Clarins, 61, said that the concept of fair trade and sustainable development go hand in hand in order to create jobs and products safer and to protect nature.

"Our company has survived for 56 years because we keep our values ​​that revolve around communication, listening, authenticity, respect, innovation, nature, and service," said Christian, who for recently awarded the prestigious French Legion of Honor, the defense various causes ranging from the environment, education charities arthritis research.

Earlier this year, Christian with Lauren Bush, co-founder of the fight against hunger Flux Projects Program traveled to poor Honduras to alleviate child hunger.

Clarins plant in Pontoise, 40 km north-west of Paris, is the home of three companies - the products of research and development of skin care and make-up, production and storage of raw materials and packaging components.

The process of creating a product based on four stages: design, development, production and marketing. And do not forget that each new product to achieve good results in the field of sustainable development, before they started as well. To think with so many aspects, it is not surprising that it usually takes about nine months to develop a cosmetic product. Some forms of seven to 10 years of development!

Despite the extension of the deadline, Christian did not seem to be bothered. As someone who is committed to the cause, he understands the importance of improving products that have less impact on the environment.

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. We need to give a greener world for our children. Then we have to work for a living, what matters is how we tend to hand, others "help, the father of four said in his suicide note.

Fujifilm's XF1 makes a fashion statement at Photokina, we go hands-on

Point-and-shoot or fashion accessory? This is the conundrum posed by the XF1, a new retro-styled point-and-shoot from Fujifilm. It's a nice looking camera with a

 solid and fairly light build, certainly, and while the faux leather (in black, red or tan) might not be for everyone, the company was quick to point out that

 it'll go nicely with your new designer handbag, for whatever that's worth. The textured design is complimented nicely by a metal border on the top and bottom.

 There's a bit of a learning curve here, when it comes to just turning the thing on -- give it a twist and a pull, not unlike a childproof pill cap to put it in

 standby and another pull to get things started.

 There's a big, bright three-inch LCD on the rear of the device. Click the E-Fn button on the bottom right, and you can actually reassign the button mapping on

 the back to your liking on the display. Of course, such style and functionality comes at a price -- this guy will run you $500 when it goes on sale next month.

Video Commerce Network HaulerDeals Launches Its Own Fashion Brand, Local Socialite

If you don’t know about HaulerDeals, you probably should. The network of YouTube personalities has more than 5 million subscribers and a billion video views in

 total, and is quickly establishing a new model for social commerce based on recommendations from its panel of fashion experts.

 So what is a hauler? And how is HaulerDeals tapping into this fashion culture? HaulerDeals is a bit of a niche network for young women interested in fashion.

 These “haulers” go out, buy a bunch of stuff, and then showcase their “hauls” to a video audience. HaulerDeals has designated a view of these girls as

 “gurus,” promoting them within its video network.

 So Haulers, gurus, whatever. The point is these ladies make videos about where to find great fashion styles at a fraction of the price that one would pay at

 designer stores. And they offer up links to those styles, where viewers can actually purchase the stuff that they’re suggesting. In other words, it’s a whole

 new model for making money off of YouTube, that’s not linked to advertising, but instead, commerce driven by recommendations of these fashion influencers.

 That’s where Local Socialite comes in. Local Socialite is an exclusive fashion brand that HaulerDeals launched in conjunction with StyleSaint. The HaulerDeals

 ladies will promote and sell items from the collection, with each choosing their favorite items and highlighting them during their videos. HaulerDeals is even

 running a contest to see which styles are viewers’ favorites. So HaulerDeals isn’t just making affiliate revenue in partnership with existing fashion brands,

 but pulling in revenue off its own brand of clothing.

 HaulerDeals can even go one step further by creating clothing that leverages its haulers’ own personal brands. While the company found that it was able to push

 sales of brand merchandise suggested by its gurus, articles of clothing that included the guru’s name had even higher conversion rates among users. The whole

 thing is an interesting new model for social commerce, and one I expect to see more companies follow as time goes on.

models with black track Items Philip Treacy London Fashion Week

  While some species noted that blacks are still largely under-represented in New York Fashion Week, it seems that the fashion to go to London and fill the void.

In fact, world-renowned milliner Philip Treacy has not send a few models of color on the track - he threw a black presentation all models. A total of 25 black women Treacy strutted in over-the-top Michael Jackson on the theme of the show, which was opened by the equally outrageous Lady Gaga.

We have not seen a lot of black models. One moment of the big fashion Vogue Italia 2008 "All Black" issue

"The show was to dress a tribute to African women and their sensitivity," Treacy told the London Evening Standard explains his choice of models.

We'll take it this way: We know how to dress. Assessment much milder Elle France sad statement against that. Heightened sense of black women only thanks to Michelle Obama

In addition, the color of the dam was a welcome surprise at the sight of the trail Treacy the first time in 13 years. Joan Smalls, Jasmine grace Mahary and hoods - Black models are usually in a long list of shows fashion week here and there, and often occur four or five same faces like Jourdan Dunn scattered.

It was nice, a couple of beautiful black women parading on the track to see, although many of their faces were covered by Treacy eccentric designs. However, these high doses of diversity (which are few and far between)? Enough to satisfy the demand for more

We are not so sure. Treacy and for us to show only that there is more than enough and especially black models are available (and always) Ambassador beautiful creations for a designer.

Kenya Hunt, Style Director at Metro International, agrees, and further argues that consistency is the key.

"The true sign of progress is when we see black women begins in the track built on a regular, consistent and organic, rather than appear as a sign of pure form to fulfill a sort of quota. So while the all-black can times large for the promotion of dialogue on diversity on the runway ... we see black girls on the track as many times as we need on the road, "says Hunt London Evening Standard.

There is still a long way to go when it comes to the gap of diversity in the fashion industry - but we have colorful spectacle Treacy as a major victory and a step in the right direction elegantly.

Where to Eat and Drink for Fashion’s Night Out This Evening

Tonight's Anna Wintour–created Fashion's Night Out is in its fourth year of parties, discounts, and promotions (not to mention food
and drinks) to get people out and shopping. If you're into both Manolos and minestrone (or maybe fish and chips courtesy of Ted Baker
London?), this is your night. Below, our rundown of chic eating and boozing events around the city.
Celebrate fashion by drinking on the cheap in the meatpacking district: Mention Fashion's Night Out for a free cocktail at neighborhood
spots 675 Bar, Bill's Bar and Burger, and Dos Caminos.
Gastro Bar at 35th is offering a range of cocktails inspired by different fashion brands: The Versace, for instance, mixes tequila,
triple sec, pineapple, and sage; $10 each.
If you're not really the fashion type, join Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte for Guys Fashion's Night Out at a new branch of high-zoot
sports bar the Ainsworth, Ainsworth Park, located on Park Avenue and 18th Street. Jeah!
Japanese retail giant Uniqlo is paying homage to their home country with sake tastings and Japanese sweets at their three Manhattan
locations; their parties will also feature D.J.'s and a makeup bar at the Fifth Avenue store.
Swarovski will be showing off the Yoko Ono–inspired Wish Tree collection at Café Kristall with music and champagne; a three-course
dinner is $35.
Whitehall has a special Fashion's Night Out cocktail topped with an edible flower for $10.
The Americano presents the Pret-a-martini, a mixture of tequila, apricot purée, and lime juice, for $16.
Pizza Roma has a cocktail special: Chardonnay and chopped peaches on the rocks for $8.
The midtown location of Ted Baker London will bring Britain to Fifth Avenue with their Ted's Fish and Chips truck: The first 100 guests
and anyone shopping at the store will get a free serving of the deep-fried British staple, while they last.
And Henri Bendel is going all out, offering cocktails prepared by bartenders from the Mulberry Project and showcasing Cirque du Soleil
performers bedecked in Swarovski crystals. In addition, seven food trucks will be parked outside.

‘Fashion’s Night Out’ Takes Over NYC, With Deals And Celebrity Sightings Galore

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — What do Miss Piggy, Cindy Lauper, and Michael Kors have in common? They were special guests for one of the
biggest nights of fashion.
But, as CBS 2’s Dave Carlin found out, celebrity sightings are just half of the fun.
“Fashion’s Night Out” was underway Thursday night with all the glamor and celebrity sightings we’ve come to expect from this event.
In the Meatpacking District and across the city it was see and be seen and shop ‘til you drop.
“The energy is great. It’s a fun night. Everyone is out on the street partying,” one shopper said.
More than 700 New York City stores were open late Thursday, rolling out special deals, serving up free food and drinks and showing off
a slew of VIP guests – from musicians and actors to sports stars and supermodels.
“You see a little bit of everything and you can access everything,” model Ines Rivero said. “It’s a good way for people to see what
’s around and they’ll come back. I did some shopping tonight, so go figure.”
“We walk up and down to the vendors in and out of the stores,” one shopper said.
“We like to see everything. Everybody has their best out tonight,” another added.
Some of the parties are way too packed for anyone to get any actual shopping done. So people browse, they get inspired and merchants
expect they’ll come back later.
“I think people here are ready to shop and see what the next big thing is,” said Kate Lohmuller of Target Stores.
It’s a win-win for retailers — extra exposure and sales.

Louis Vuitton gets spotted Yayoi Kusama with drawings

   TOKYO - Polka dots are a source of inspiration to Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama is the obsession and passion.

And that's why they're everywhere - not just on canvas but on institutions like gnarled tentacles and oversized yellow pumpkins. As part of his retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, she gl? Coins as "Firefly" reflected lights on the water and mirrors.

Bags, sunglasses, shoes and coats M - Splash signing Kusama points now arrived in the field of fashion in a collection of Franz sisch luxury brand Louis Vuitton?.

"Polka dots are fabulous," Kusama said in a recent interview with the Associated Press, looking much younger than his 83 years in a wig bright red polka dot dress she designed herself and a new Louis Vuitton scarves peas.

Points aside, Kusama cut a strange figure in the world of fashion. She lived in a mental hospital for decades fighting the D? Hormones that lead to ren his art?.

However, in his Tokyo workshop filled with exciting murals size? S with repeating points, Kusama said collaboration is a natural product of his friendship with Louis Vuitton artistic director Marc Jacobs made.

Louis Vuitton had success 10 years ago, marked by working on a number of pockets with another Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. Kusama is pr latest collection in its stores around the world? Presents, including New York, Paris, Tokyo and Singapore, sometimes with dolls replica Kusama.

"Peas on products much," said Louis Vuitton, tr up to € 24000000000 ($ 29 billion) in sales, an important part in Japan? Gt "No heart, no beginning and no end."

Dots appear in the work Kusama began more than 50 years, from his beg? Nts as a pioneering Japanese venture abroad.

Like most middle-class families in Japan these days, his parents, who were holding a flower nursery, eager to marry only. They wanted her kimono, not to buy paints and brushes. She knew she had to leave. And they w? Selected America.

Points may be fashionable today. But if Kusama arrived in New York in 1958, was the enthusiasm of "action painting" by dribbling, swooshes and stains in no points. She has suffered from years of poverty and oblivion. But she continued to paint points.

She put paper circles on the K? Body of man, and even a horse in the "happening" anti-war performance in the 1960s, some people who were due to obscene t nit? Arrested, but it was the attention the media for his art. In New York, she artists like Andy Warhol, Georgia O'Keefe and Joseph Cornell, who praised his innovative style befriended.

Since then, times have caught Kusama.

In 2008, Christie auction work for $ 5.8 million. His retrospective at the Whitney Museum was formerly the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Modern in London. Earlier this month, a large e exhibition "Eternity of Eternal Eternity" it opens? Matsumoto in his hometown, Pr? Nagano Prefecture, complete with shuttle peas.

"I always get to the F? Ability, Kusama amazed and based on current trends entirely original," said Lynn Zelevansky, Carnegie Museum of Art Director.

"W? During his years in New York merged his work Abstract Expressionist art elements and minimalist pop with a touch adds sexuality? T and the infamy of the K? Rperfunktionen. She was a pioneer of feminist art in the 1970s and a Gro part? the work that has been done in the 80s to the AIDS crisis, "she said.

Points had a beginning rather sad Kusama. Since childhood she had recurring hallucinations. A portrait t? By her mother when she was 10 years old, shows a sad face freckles. Immersed himself in his art, a way to his fears? Hallucinations and was overcome.

Since his return to Japan 40 years ago, Kusama has lived in a mental hospital and is on medication to prevent depression and suicidal thoughts readers. But they f? Leads t? Resembled in his studio and working hard on his Leinw ends?.

Kusama, who also directed films and ffentlichte ver? Several novels, she confessed to not know where she gets her ideas. It only takes his brush and begins to draw.

"I think, 'Oh, I pulled it? I thought," she said in her dour character speaking down-to-fact style.

Over the years, Kusama has made original works, but beautiful n like "Macaroni Girl," a female figure with macaroni, pushing the fear of food plastered, "Flowers Vision for only 'giant sculptures of tulips and torsion" Corridor mirror "a room with mirrors illusion that a phallic protuberances scattered field points supplies.

? "? Revolution re engineering"? - Works triumphant celebrations humorous potential vulnerability and challenge as Kusama herself that ring at a point rt, a, then the n next day, mumbles: "I am so ver ngstigt all the time , everything. "

His latest project is an ambitious series of Gem? Lden with whimsical patterns such as triangles and swirls with point mark in almost fluorescent bright colors.

As Kusama worked on the 196-series, the concentration was still look childish as wild as red dots in the white? S points, one painting at a time.

"I want to create a thousand pictures, maybe two thousand lden Gem?, Pull as far as I can," she said. "I'm going to paint until I die."

The history of Fashion Week and the evolution of its tech

With New York City's Fashion Week approaching on September 6, this infographic by Eventup will give you a crash course on fashion.
Fashion Week has lately been evolving as technology is increasingly being adopted by designers, editors and enthusiasts alike, and it
will be intriguing to watch the new tech used this Fashion Week season in New York City. And with only just days away from  models
strutting down the catwalk for Spring/Summer 2012, we’ll give you a crash course on the evolution of Fashion Week.
Surprisingly, despite the guise of being a forward thinking industry, fashion has been slow to accept the introduction of new
technologies developed by start-ups, and it’s been the designers who are at fault. You’d think that adopting new tech strategies
would help quell the chaos of the Fashion Week shows. Among the older generation of designers, there’s an inherent fear that it may
instead complicate matters for the non-technologically savvy.
In recent shows, some designers have offered bar-coded guest lists and iPad-controlled seating arrangements, which streamline the
process of shuffling attendees through the door. Other designers have integrated the bells and whistles, whether it’s a holographic
projection or giant LED screen, for garnering the “oohs” and “ahhs” from the attendees.
Designers like Narcisco Rodriguez on the other hand, for this year’s Fall/Winter 2012 New York Fashion Week, ended up simply sending
out paper invitations.
Still the industry is becoming vogue with technology, and you have to give credit to the concerted efforts over time of many designers
and event organizers. For example the live streaming of Fashion Week shows is now a normal occurrence for many designer’s shows, and
the GPS event-planning and inventory system, Credit Fashion GPS, was adopted by IMG in 2010. There are even services like Eventup that
enable the smaller designers to scout locations other than Lincoln Center or Milk Studios for shows during Fashion Week. It’s evident
that the future wherein fashion and technology cannot be without the other is arriving at a quicker pace.
But before we get ahead of ourselves and talk about the future of fashion and technology, Eventup has provided Digital Trends readers
with a brief history of Fashion Week in infographic form.
Some notable information includes Fashion Week’s maiden year in 1943, its beginnings in Milan, and its eventual spread across the
globe.Today you’ll find the fashion week movement in cities across the world including Beijing, Brazil and even Iran. With the most
attended and venerated Fashion Week locations still being held in London, Milan, Paris and New York City.
For the contemporary fashion scene, New York City has been the home of fashion royalty including Vogue’s Editor in Chief, Anna
Wintour, designer Marc Jacobs, who were also among the most Tweeted about individuals related to Fashion Week in 2011. Others fashion
elite that were popular, based on Tweets, are fashion designers, Victoria Beckham and Oscar De La Renta.
So behind the scenes just how much does setting up Fashion Week cost? According to Eventup, Designers will on average spend between
$30,000 and $100,000 to rent a space and slot on the Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week podium. The maximum price for the rental of a slot was
$500,000.

Make Room for Fashion: Seasonal Make-Up

Labor Day was the signal to get back to business (last minute back-to-school shopping, getting the kids back on a regular sleep
schedule, and shaking the sand out of our beach bags). But as we say goodbye to long summer days, we also wave adios to the ease of
summer dresses, flip flops and a touch of lip gloss to send us on our way.
Think about it. We (usually) shelve our white jeans, stash our summer accessories and sandals, dust off the coats and polish up our
winter boots. Shouldn’t our make-up change with the seasons, too? In fall and especially winter, when that summer glow wears off and
my true paleness shows through, I find myself needing to make a little more effort with make-up.
I reached out to the folks at my favorite make-up line, Laura Mercier, to get some advice on how we busy moms should refresh the
contents of our make-up bags for fall.
“Most women need more hydration for their skin as the weather changes,” says Matin Maulawizada, Laura Mercier Global Artistry
Director, and he suggests trading in a tinted moisturizer for a “more cushiony” foundation, which also creates a less casual, more
polished look. He says more coverage in eye shadows is a good idea too, moving away from summery, shimmery cream shadows and instead
going for a sophisticated matte eye color.
Here in Manhattan, cooler days are a welcome relief until they suddenly morph into chilly mornings then freezing winter days and
chapped lip prevention becomes a hot topic. According to Maulawizada, fall is the time to replace a sheer color or lip gloss with a crè
me lipstick. It’s longer lasting, hydrates chapped lips and adds texture to your look.
“Rich browns and taupes are big this fall,” says Maulawizada when asked which colors are new and fresh for the change of season.
“All the ‘values’ are medium, which means that there is no heavy smoky eye or super goth lip.”
Which probably wouldn’t be a good look for drop off on the first day of school anyway!

Vintage Fashion

“I LOATHE nostalgia,” Diana Vreeland declared at the beginning of her 1984 memoir “D.V.” She meant nothing of the sort, as Christopher Lehmann-Haupt noted in his review in The Times, calling the book a “deceptively frothy meringue of a monologue.” Vreeland was an unconventional editor and an unconventional mother (though something of a traditional mate), and her slant on life was from an angle informed by beauty. She had, quite simply, an amazing eye. This was a very specialized story she was bound to tell.
When I saw a screening of “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel,” an entertaining new documentary that will have its premiere next Saturday during Fashion Week (it opens in limited release on Sept. 21 in New York and Los Angeles, and soon after in other cities), I was struck by how much Vreeland’s voice pervades the film. Of course you see her pages from Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, which she took in 1963 and transformed into a beacon of pop culture. The film’s producer and co-director, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, who is married to Vreeland’s grandson, Alexander, also creates a vibrant backdrop for her subject’s early years in Paris, London and New York.
But it’s the surprise and crisp authority of Vreeland’s voice, as narrator, that lures the viewer. Ms. Immordino unearthed television clips and had access to hours of taped conversations that Vreeland made with George Plimpton, who helped her with “D.V.” Drawing on material in those tapes, an actress, Annette Miller, interpreted Vreeland’s voice for the narrated bits. It’s incredibly convincing.
“The Eye Has to Travel” follows a spate of fashion documentaries, including “The September Issue,” “Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston” and “Valentino: The Last Emperor,” which may have been responsible for putting filmmakers in a nostalgic mood. Two other new documentaries come out during Fashion Week: “Versailles 73,” by a first-time filmmaker, Deborah Riley Draper, and “Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s,” by Matthew Miele. I haven’t seen Mr. Miele’s 86-minute film, which will feature Candice Bergen and Joan Rivers, as well as the usual fashion suspects, but I watched the Versailles film the other night and was impressed by its thoroughness. It recounts the 1973 fashion show in Paris with five French stars and five Americans, and the battle that ensued. Ms. Draper’s inexperience shows: there are too many talking-head moments, the lighting could be better, and her storytelling is too linear. Still, the film is worth seeing. (Tiffany is featuring the film for Fashion’s Night Out, at the Paris Theatre. It will then be shown at the IFC Center in New York for a week, beginning Sept. 7.)
Ms. Draper, an advertising executive in Atlanta, tracked down rare footage (at Vanderbilt University) and financed production herself. She got the idea, she said, after seeing an ABC News spot in 2011 about a lunch at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that brought together the Versailles participants. “I’m a bit of a fashionista, and I had never heard of the event or the story,” she said. Ms. Draper is talking to two distributors. If that doesn’t work, she said, she’ll take the film around the country herself.

Iraqi fashion police up in arms against ‘skimpy’ clothes

Bagdhad: For much of Iraq’s youth, sporting blingy makeup, slicked-up hair and skintight jeans is just part of living the teenage dream. But for their elders, it’s a nightmare.
A new culture rift is emerging in Iraq, as young women replace shapeless cover-ups with ankle-baring skirts and tight blouses, while men strut around in revealing slacks and spiky haircuts. The relatively skimpy styles have prompted Islamic clerics in at least two Iraqi cities to mobilize the “fashion police” in the name of protecting religious values.
“I see the way they (police) look at me — they don’t like it,” said Mayada Hamid, 32, wearing a pink leopard-print headscarf with jeans, a blue blouse and lots of sparkly eyeliner Sunday while shopping at the famous gold market in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Kazimiyah.
She rolled her eyes. “It’s just suppression.” So far, though, there are no reports of the police actually taking action.
This is a conflict playing out across the Arab world, where conservative Islamic societies grapple with the effects of Western influence, especially the most obvious — the way their young choose to dress.
The violations of old Iraqi norms have grown especially egregious, religious officials say, since the Aug. 20 end of Ramadan, Islam’s holy month. In the last two weeks, posters and banners have been hanging along the streets of Kazimiyah, sternly reminding women to wear an abaya — a long, loose black cloak that covers the body from shoulders to feet.
A similar warning came from Diwaniyah, a Shiite city about 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of the capital, where some posters have painted a red X over pictures of women wearing pants. Other banners praise women who keep their hair fully covered beneath a headscarf.
Religious officials speculate young Iraqis got carried away in celebrating the end of Ramadan and now need to be reined in.
“We support personal freedoms, but there are places that have a special status,” said Sheik Mazin Saadi, a Shiite cleric from Kazimiyah, home to the double gold-domed shrine that is one of Shiite Islam’s holiest sites.
He said the area’s residents lobbied Baghdad’s local government to ban unveiled women from walking around the neighborhood, including its sprawling open-air market that attracts people from across Iraq.
“The women started to follow to this order,” Saadi said.
Government leaders in Baghdad say they’ve issued no such ban and ordered some of the warning posters removed. The rule “is only for the female visitors who go inside the shrine itself,” said Sabar al-Saadi, chairman of the Baghdad provincial council’s legal committee. “We think that wearing a veil for women in Iraq is a personal decision.”
Muslim women generally wear headscarves or veils in public out of modesty, and female worshippers are required to wear an abaya or other loose robes in shrines and mosques.
But over the last several years, following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein, Western styles have crept into Iraq’s fashion palate. Form-fitting clothing, stylish shoes and men’s edgy hairstyles are commonly seen on the street. Some younger women have even begun to forgo the hijab, or headscarf.
Their parents — and their parents’ parents — fear Western influence will drown out Iraq’s centuries of culture and respect for religion.
“We as Iraqis do not respect our traditions,” said Fadhil Jawad, 65, a gold seller near the Kazimiyah shrine. He estimated his profits have dropped by 10 percent in the last two weeks since authorities posted warnings about improper dress codes at the entrance to the market. He called the financial loss worth the lesson being imposed.
“Legs can be seen, there are low-cut shirts,” Jawad lamented. “And all, very, very tight. I think these Iraqis who are wearing these things have come back from Syria, Dubai and Egypt. They probably spent too much time in nightclubs. The families in Kazimiyah are conservative. These young people — nobody can control them. They should be given freedoms, but they should know their limits.”
Several young adults strolling the Kazimiyah gold market on Sunday accused the religious class of trying to pull Iraq back to the dark ages, a sentiment that human rights activist Hana Adwar echoed.
“It is an aggression on the rights of not only religious minorities, but also on secular Muslim women who do not want to wear veils,” said Adwar, head of the Baghdad-based Iraqi Hope Association.
Men, too, have been targeted in the fashion flap: Edgy haircuts, tattoos and body piercings have angered religious authorities. But Hassan Mahdi, 22, said he does not care.
“No, hell no, nobody can tell me what to do,” said Mahdi, sporting a tight turquoise Adidas tracksuit and a trendy moptop hairdo at the Kazimiyah market.
So far, it appears, the fashion police have stopped short of taking any real steps. Guards at two security checkpoints in Kazimiyah said they have not been ordered to stop daring dressers from entering the market, and 17-year-old Ali Sayeed Abdullah said his slicked-up pompadour didn’t prevent him from going into the shrine. “Nobody objected,” he said. “But if there is a ban on this, I will change it,” referring to his hairstyle.
But some women have been handed tissues at Kazimiyah checkpoints and told to wipe off their makeup before entering the market, said resident Hakima Mahdi, 59.
“This is very good,” she said, smiling broadly, sheathed in a black cloak with an extra abaya covering her head. “It’s respect to the imam, respect to this holy place.”

Jessica Alba's Fashion Forward Fitness Session

Looking great in her workout ensemble, Jessica Alba headed into Soma Pilates Dance Studio in West Hollywood, CA on Sunday (September
2).
While making her way down the sunny streets, the 31-year-old actress chatted on her iPhone and donned a bright pink and orange get up.

As previously reported by GossipCenter, the "Sin City" star is set to receive the first ever "Green Parent Award" from the
Environmental Media Association for her efforts in leading a healthy lifestyle.
EMA president Debbie Levin spoke about the achievement and said, "Becoming a parent is life-changing and brings into focus the priority
of healthy choices and the responsibility of the environmental sustainability of our planet. Jessica is a great example of how you can
turn that passion into positive change."
Enjoy the pictures of Jessica Alba heading to an early morning pilates class in Hollywood (September 2).

Katie Holmes: 'Holmes & Yang' Fashion Show One Week Away

Katie Holmes holds hands with her daughter Suri as they make their way through Hudson River Park on Sunday (September 2) in New York
City.
The mother-daughter pair, who were reportedly joined by Uncle Martin Holmes and his pet pooch, headed towards Chelsea Piers.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Katie Holmes
In exactly one week, Katie will be debuting her Holmes & Yang fashion show at New York Fashion Week! Katie‘s show is going up against
Victoria Beckham‘s collection.