I love these booties. I feel a Chrysler building moment coming. I just opened and read my net-a-porter email and I had to go to the site and look at these great boots – $1,195 – start the party!!!
Mirror a sensational runway look with Thakoon's silver mosaic leather peep-toe ankle boots.
Underneath the imposing dome of the Grand Palais, Lagerfeld constructed his very own Chanel barn on stilts to show the S/S 2010 collection at Paris Fashion Week.
History is always here with us.
Inspired by the Marie-Antoinette’s hamlet in the grounds of Versailles, Lagerfeld’s creation was every bit as spectacularly whimsical. – Text from Wallpaper
Watch in 36 seconds what took 6 weeks to create, one week to assemble and 38 men working full time.
As you study the French Revolution you will see the story unfold.
Trianon
The dream village of Marie-Antoinette realized at Versailles.
Travel the Worl Wide Web, you may end up anywhere.
Past, present, future.
What influences spring to mind when you see this amazing photograph? Visit the site to see more work from this photographer. While you are there enjoying, try to answer the question. What influences do you see in these photographs?
Title: Nonsense in the Dark
Magazine: Avenue Illustrated (www.avenueillustrated.com/)
Photographer- Paco Peregrín (www.pacoperegrin.com )
Styling- Kattaca (www.kattaca.com )
Make up artist and Hairdresser- Genoveva Gamez
Thanks to the Kanye West blog for all the great photos, information, and connectivity.
Kanye Universecity!!
This will be a wonderful journey.
James Laver (1899-1975) offers the student of fashion so much. The best we can do is point you in his direction.
One of many fashion books by James Laver
What’s Up Pussycat has a great short post on Laver to whet your appetite. They quote Laver on how fashion is seen 10 years before its time…and on through 150 years after its time.
Have you read that quote? It will help you understand the nature of fashion change.
Our second favorite quote from Laver is ”The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.” – Laver
For example, this cleavage battle…..
Bar Refaeli VS Katy Perry
Versus this cleavage “buttle”…
We feel sure Laver was right.
We always talk about Laver in FSHD 1311 – Fashion History. He is one of those people who has an uncanny ability to see the big picture.
We quoted him recently in a post but it bears repeating because it is our Number One Favorite Laver Quote. Laver wrote in the forward to the Pictorial Encyclopedia of Fashion by Paul Hamlyn, “And this is the greatest of fashion’s many paradoxes: its objective — acceptance by the masses — carries with it its downfall.”
“I wish we were farmers, I wish we knew how
To grow sweet potatoes and milk cows” – Calculation Theme, Metric
It is almost funny how predictable we can be when we get to know ourselves. We have always said that as people make less and less room for the fauna of this planet, the more we will worship the animals we have lost. We believe this is at least one reason for the seemingly everlasting love of animal print in fashion.
Gaulteir Fall 2008 trench
A whole new reason to dread global warming.
We might surmise that as we get more and more tech-oriented, early human life on this planet will take on a nearly mystic sensibility.
We did not have to wait long for this trend to emerge.
Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2008 (shown February 27, 2008) set the stride down the long path to our ancient past. Live Journal lets us into that world of our cave days with wonderful pictures of the collection. Trendhunter calls it Savage Style. Catch the whole runway show on YouTube, Jean Paul Gaultier Fall/Winter 2008.
And if the garments are not enough to make you howl with glee, listen to the primordial drum beats, the tongue-in-cheek Peter and the Wolf, Michael Jackson’s Thriller ochestrated with roaring animals… or Tina Turner’s earthy sound.
We have already heard talk around here about people lusting after those big furry hats… and we live in the desert southwest. Imagine the buzz in the cold, frozen north.
Gaulteir Fall 2008 - hat
Gaultier has always been a leader. Watch the future to see more of the past. Keep your eye on Jean Paul Gaultier, he will lead you.
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Cosmic Nomad looks like another version of life as it used to be….
Perchance those computer screens are getting to us. Everything old is new again. Can you dig it? … as Vincent Price laughs and laughs….
“Half the horizon’s gone for a skyline of numbers
Half the horizon’s gone we’re working the numbers
’till I’m sick” – Calculation Theme, Metric
From Vogue UK we read, “THE biggest night in the fashion calendar, Fashion’s Night Out, is back for 2010. The international editions of Vogue confirmed this morning that they plan to repeat the global shopping celebration on September 9 2010.”
Shall we make a plan? FN1on1 hopes that many of you will join us to party and shop. Long Live the Fashion Industry!
Check out a few shots from FNO 2009 on The Rest is Just Icing and there is a permanent link to Jessica and Cassandra’s blog on the LinksList.
FNO 2009 - Jess and Cassie in front of Agua promoting VIDA
Surf on over to Vogue UK to read about FNO 2010 and check out the links to the 2009 FNO photos or click the links here.
SEE ALL THE ACTION FROM THIS YEAR’S FASHION’S NIGHT OUT HERE
SEE THE CHICEST SHOPPERS AT FASHION’S NIGHT OUT
SEE WHO VOGUETV CAUGHT UP WITH AT FASHION’S NIGHT OUT
But most importantly, put 09/09/10 on your Fashion Calendar!!
All fashion classes can benefit from checking into Trendhunter Magazine There is just so much on the site to read and, of course, it is constantly being updated. But especially FSHD 1311 – Fashion History has to surf over to read some intriguing articles loaded with great photos.
Talk about updating Elizabethan pleated collars . . .
Wild and wonderful collared dress by Jan Taminiau
This photo and story show up at this link and there are other fabulous photos and just a tad to read.
Collars photo from Trendhunter
Another current Microtrend for Taxidermy is a great example of worshipping in fashion the things we are missing in our life. You can find many pictures of the trend and a short article at Trendhunter.
Photo from Trendhunter Magazine online
While you are at Trendhunter, click on Keynotes to read about Jeremy Gutsche, who studied innovation at Stanford and has worked in the worlds of strategy, innovation and business management. Now, Jeremy has created Trendhunter and he is taking trendhunting to new levels.
While on the page about Jeremy, scroll down and watch Trend Hunter TV – Top 20 Trends in 2009.
There are loads of Trendhunter TV episodes (each about three minutes long) like this episode on Mind Boggling Customization and many more… scroll all the way to the bottom of the page.
Try to check out the story Jeremy is telling BNN – Business News Network. This interview may explain why we study Desmond Morris and his chimpanzee, Congo. (Hint: this point is made right at the end of the interview when Jeremy talks about baboons.) Think about it. This video is a live feed on Jeremy’s page and it cannot be linked here, so go surf the site.
And try not to miss Jean Paul Gaultier’s Animalistic Fall 2008 – Savage Style and think about humans’ early relationship to animals and their skins.
The apparel industry is complex. Perhaps this is one reason that apparel industry professionals are constantly reading and researching. At El Paso Community College’s Fashion Technology program, we subscribe to WWD and California Apparel News. We also receive (through a friend of the program) Apparel Magazine, Catalog, ROI, and Target Marketing.
To subscribe is silver; to read is golden.
Apparel Magazine October 2009 cover
Various EPCC fashion courses require minimal reading and synopsis writing as a means of introducing the trade press to our students. However, the true fashion professional does not have to be urged to read these publications.
Learning is a life-long pursuit in any vocation. In the apparel industry, wherein constant change is the rule, reading the trade press is just a first step toward staying on top of the game.
It takes constant updating to “wow the crowd“.
Surf on over to Apparel Mag’s website and you will find reports upon which you can base a class report, but more importantly upon which you can begin to base a career.
Apparel Magazine’s website offers a wealth of information (FREE) to apparel industry professionals and fashion students alike. Across the top bar you will find links such as: Reports, Case Study, News, Executive Issues, Tech View, Web Events and more. Each link leads to an amazing array of information – “definite knowledge acquired or supplied about something”.
The Web Events link is incredible. You find the option to register for “live”, online seminars as well as links to all the On-Demand Web Events (recorded). A true “student of fashion” is able to listen to these recorded events whenever it fits into his or her own schedule.
Here are two examples but there are over twenty-five hours of industry level seminars already available online. Because all of the Web Events are kept On-Demand, the number continues to grow.
One example:
