The First Bra in History of Herminie Cadolle 1898. It is to a woman – and even a feminist of the first hour – that one owes the invention of the bra. The hand-crafted bra Herminie made is called the first bra in the world. Before that point in time, the bust was supported and…
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Moschino Spring Summer 2019 Milan
Moschino Spring Summer 2019 Milan Fashion Week. “The fashion system has sped up so much that, this time, I didn’t have time to finish my work,” Scott teased backstage before the show. “All I have to show is my sketches.” In the dream sequence that followed, Scott was a designer of an old-school, Yves Saint Laurent–ish…
Versace Spring Summer 2019 Milan
Versace Spring Summer 2019 Milan Fashion Week. Donatella Versace deftly modernized her brand’s heritage in an impressive spring collection. “She is always THAT woman. The one who is never afraid.” So read Donatella Versace’s program notes, words that could have been penned about the designer herself. But then, to a palpable degree, Donatella has always been her…
Fendi Spring Summer 2019 Milan
Fendi Spring Summer 2019 Milan Fashion Week. “The name of the show is GP — giant pockets,” said Karl Lagerfeld. “GP. Sounds good, no?” Separately, Silvia Venturini Fendi described the collection as “very real clothes for a busy woman, very functional, practical.” High-function built with limited materials — not exactly the threshold to rapt anticipation. Bags of…
Roberto Cavalli Spring Summer 2019 Milan
Roberto Cavalli Spring Summer 2019 Milan Fashion Week. VOGUE grounded Roberto Cavalli for “considered vulgarity”, and VOGUE sanctioned Roberto Cavalli by announcing “considered vulgarity” as the root of the brand. Although this Spring Summer 2019 collection presented at fashion week despite of a little to open sexy outfits was perfectly tailored. Artistic designer Paul Surridge is…
Moncler Spring Summer 2019 Milan
Moncler Spring Summer 2019 Milan Fashion Week. Moncler has taken a leap into a whole new strategy of engaging with collaborations, giving individual designers the possibilities to express themselves in the frame of Moncler. For this season all presentations of Moncler were set in the form of multiple performances presented in digital work played on…
Tod’s Spring Summer 2019 Milan
Tod’s Spring Summer 2019 Milan Fashion Week. Tod’s promised an “Italian Attitude” for its first coed show. The mood was easy and joyful as models smiled and held hands for the finale and the women’s design team took a bow with Andrea Incontri, who is in charge of the men’s division. Walking out of the room…
Emporio Armani Spring Summer 2019 Milan
Emporio Armani Spring Summer 2019 at Milan Fashion Week checked-in all his guests at airport for his new collection. The hangar within which was a purpose-built stadium that was a blend of the set of X Factor and Armani’s home fashion theater on Via Bergognone. It held around 2,500 people. There were suspended screens, including a…
Jeremy Scott Spring Summer 2019 NYFW
Another sparkled jewel or better say bonbon new collection of Jeremy Scott Spring Summer 2019 presented at New York Fashion Week. Everyone is dreaming of 90s or recycling dreams. Jeremy Scott recycled absurd: polaroids of young Scott featured in prints 3-D embroideries of “Riot,” “Hyper,” “Sex” and “Peace.” “Over-shoulder” boots killed it all. The polish was especially…
Moschino Circus Resort Summer 2019
Moschino Circus Resort Summer 2019. For the third show in Los Angeles during Men Fashion Week Jeremy Scott took the audience to circus, creating a tent of thrills and frills. Moschino is one of the most anticipated shows on the fashion week calendar and creative director Jeremy Scott creates headlines with every collection. With previous…
Marc Jacobs Spring Summer 2019 NYFW
Marc Jacobs Spring Summer 2019 at New York Fashion Week is a remake of the looks he created in 90s, inspired by 50s. This season he just let his imagination go. No more structured, without imagination commercial looks “for everyone”. This season designer blew up New York runway by colors, feathers and flower-bows. And it…
Dolce Gabbana Spring Summer 2019
Dolce Gabbana Spring Summer 2019. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana showed another triumph of joy, love and life. Many stars joined these great designers on runway. New collection for spring summer 2019 season is for everybody : young, old, skinny, and little plumpy, grandmothers, daughters, sisters, and children. “Each one of us is the king or…
TOMMYNOW ICONS Fall 2018 Shanghai
TOMMYNOW ICONS Fall 2018 Shanghai Runway Show. TOMMYNOW ICONS traveled to Shanghai with global brand ambassadors Lewis Hamilton, Formula 1 champion, Hailey Baldwin, Winnie Harlow and Maggie Jiang, celebrating leaders of now who are the icons of tomorrow. The event showcased the first “TommyXLewis” collaborative collection, as well as the “TOMMY ICONS” women’s capsule and HILFIGER…
Louis Vuitton the travel trunk 1885
Louis Vuitton the travel trunk 1885. Source INPI – www.inpi.fr. When Vuitton opened his first store in Paris in 1854, he began by selling flat-topped trunks that were lightweight and airtight, and were bought by France’s Empress Eugénie in its first year of sale. His first piece was the grey Trianon canvas flat trunk. Vuitton was the…
Disney Villains and The Blonds – Spring Summer 2019 NYFW
Disney Villains and The Blonds – Spring Summer 2019 NYFW. Ones again The Blonds surprised New York this fashion week with the show in collaboration with Disney – Disney Villains and the Blonds. This was the most spectacular show at New York fashion week for Spring Summer 2019 season. On Friday, September 7, Disney Villains…
Marcel Marceau – Mime in the cinema
Mime in the cinema. Have anyone noticed that Mime is one of the most popular character in XX and XXI centuries movies? Animations, comedies, dramas, even horror movies. Everyone knows how Mime looks : painted white face, striped t-shirt, black beret or hat with red flower. And this is of course very French. Mime began in…
Zuhair Murad Haute Couture Fall Winter 2018-2019
Imperial Russia – or rather, a dream-like depiction – is at the heart of Zuhair Murad Haute Couture Fall Winter 2018-19 collection “Un soir à Saint-Petersbourg”. The grand balls held by tsars in Saint Petersburg give way to a sense of aristocratic opulence. From the Great Ball that once that marked the opening of a…
Guo Pei Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19
Guo Pei Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19 “The Architecture” – Time flows unhurriedly, while architecture stands immutably. “Time and Space” have always been the two grand themes that artists devote themselves to express. Over the long course of history, architecture has been witnessing human civilization, traversing time and transforming space. It is through architecture that mankind…
Giorgio Armani Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19
Giorgio Armani Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19. Conveying to the young generation the true meaning of haute couture, going back to the catwalk as it once was: the authentic essence of luxury and perfection. This is the idea that inspired the autumn/winter 2018-19 Giorgio Armani privé collection. Expressed in a sculptural, almost regal style, this season’s haute…
Schiaparelli Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19
Schiaparelli Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19 new collection “Animalia Fantasia” is one of the most spectacular collection showed in Paris during Haute Couture fashion week. “Fantasy is a flower that does not flourish on passivity. Determination is what it needs.” – Elsa Schiaparelli, Shocking Life. The style of a woman comes from her spirit and personality. In…
Valentino Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19
Valentino Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19 new collection is a “New Memory”. Here, now. Memories that chase each other and overlap with the present, to be consumed by the breath of time. A sense of surprise that passes from one glance to another, myths that take on different hues, emotions that are imprinted in the air,…
Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19
Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19 collection “Smoking no smoking?” breaks the rules by rejecting the symbolic masculine-feminine suit, advocating for freedom of expression in all its forms – including “free the nipple”.
Chanel Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19
Chanel Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19 . The Fall Winter 2018/19 collection’s “High Profile” silhouette redefines the Haute Couture look. The CHANEL ateliers created skirts and long dresses in tweed, velvet and chiffon with zippered slits, revealing the leg in elegant profile. Each of these looks opens on the side to reveal a matching mini-skirt, with tweed…
Dolce Gabbana Alta Moda Como Fall-Winter 2018-19
Dolce Gabbana Alta Moda Como Fall-Winter 2018-19 is one of the greatest wonders of the fashion world. Great Dolce and Gabbana showed glory and grace during 4 days of the events on Lake Como in Italy. One of the most spectacular private shows in the world Alta Moda had 120 intricately handcrafted looks. Courtesy Stefano Gabbana…
Givenchy Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19
For the Givenchy Fall-Winter 2018-2019 Haute Couture collection, Artistic Director Clare Waight Keller wished to create an homage to Monsieur Hubert de Givenchy, not only for the timelessness of his creations but as a tribute to the innate elegance of the man himself and the grace with which he lived. Clare Waight Keller is Givenchy’s…
Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19
Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19 is a collection of memories, an immaculate renewal of the vows which represent Viktor & Rolf’s longstanding union to fashion. The approach, a typical Viktor&Rolf antithesis speaks to the designer’s personal fascination with time: consciously cherishing the past, yet always looking forward and pushing the boundaries of transformation. Highlights…
Iris van Herpen Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19
Iris van Herpen Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19 called “SYNTOPIA”. In this collection Iris van Herpen explores the new worlds that arise within synthetic biology and the intertwining relationships between the organic and the inorganic. ʻSyntopiaʼ acknowledges the current scientific shift in which biology converges with technology and visualizes the fragility and power within. For Syntopia, Van…
Stephane Rolland Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19
Stephane Rolland Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19 collection is all about winter and voyage. A nomadism where cultural and artistic roots perpetuate new aesthetics. Two key-words : ergonomics and opulence. A natural presence, free from all constraints. The movement is detached and generous. Comfort and sensuality, the textures are rich and sensory. Wide pyjama-jumpsuits in silk, jersey bomber jackets…
Franck Sorbier Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19
Franck Sorbier Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018-19 collection is about fragile paradise about which we all have to protect. Beautiful story of animals, vision of wonders of the world is another story of the designer. Franck Sorbier tells sad story about how we are consuming the planet with no regret, killing amazing creatures of this world…
POURQUOI CHANEL A CRÉÉ LA PETITE ROBE NOIRE ?
RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® Article par Anonymode Les années folles battaient leur plein quand un magazine de mode présenta sur sa couverture en « front page » la première «petite robe noire» conçue par Coco Chanel et qui inaugurait ainsi le long règne de la mode des soirées de la parisienne chic. Une femme garçonne qui posait avec des…
Les premiers lauréats de l’appel à projets du ministère de la Culture
Les premiers lauréats de l’appel à projets du ministère de la Culture en faveur des jeunes marques de mode www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr Dans sa politique en faveur de la mode, le ministère de la Culture s’applique à soutenir la création et les créateurs. C’est pourquoi il lance en 2018 le premier appel à projets intitulé « aides aux…
Versace Fall-Winter 2018-19 Milan
Versace Fall-Winter 2018-19. “The Clans of Versace” — Donatella Versace’s fall collection was, according to the opening quote of her show notes, an ode to women who “know that today nothing is acquired through birth, but rather earned through what they achieve.” Versace’s clanswomen have calmer tendencies as well. A trio of slinky black dresses worn…
Local Ambition – Reality Show by Always Late TV
On LOCAL AMBITION, newest reality modeling show from St Louis, Missouri: Eleven women have been chosen as contestants. Alliances will be formed; rivalries will develop; and the cast will have to question who they can trust. Intrigue, kidnapping, foul play – local police investigate. Girls have to act quickly. Jaclyn isn’t like the rest of her cast mates on…