VOGUE PARIS 90TH ANNIVERSARY MASQUERADE

 

The party of year (if not the last 10 years), everyone in the fashion industry was at Carine Roitfeld‘s masquerade ball party inside the sumptuous Hôtel Pozzo Di Borgo, celebrating 90 years of Vogue Paris. From every single top models to Anna Dello Russo, Jean Paul Gauliter, Marc Jacobs, Diane Von Furstenberg, Christian Louboutin, Viktor & Rolf… well everyone was there in their best Eyes Wide Shut-theme wearing black ties, sheer gowns, and amazing masks!

Leather & Lace, IMAN Cosmetics

IMAN Cosmetics Launches their youtube video contest for their Leather & Lace campaign.  Women are challenged to create a video of themselves applying any combination of IMAN Cosmetics products to create their version of the Leather & Lace look. Applicants are urged to be as creative, original, and stylish as possible!  The winner will receive a years supply of IMAN Cosmetics. Who will be the next Le Maquilleur?

A brief Bio on the company in case you are ill informed:

IMAN Cosmetics, founded by super model Iman in 1994, is a beauty company that also masters skin-care and Fragrances.  The amazing cosmetics line is the first cosmetics and skin-care collection designed for all women with skin of color.  The IMAN brand philosophy holds that women with skin of color represent many races, cultures and ethnicities.  The brand offers foundation shades for every skin tone imaginable, 16 varieties to match with your skin type.  I recommend any woman with foundation issues to try out this brand.  It's makeup made for you!

visit the site at imancosmetics.com

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week 2010

The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week kicks off Tomorrow at 9am in a new venue this year, The Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park.  After Years at Bryant Park the most anticipated event in fashion has decided to change venues.  Some may miss the park, but others may find being in the Lincoln Center Plaza amongst the Metropolitan Opera House and Avery Fisher Hall a pleasantly decadent experience.  To jump start the week the first shows will be Nicholas K- 9am, Project Runway- 10am, Richard Chai- 11am, Ruffian-1pm, and Christian Siriano-2pm. Lets get Inspired!!!

Fall Fashion 2010

Is Charcoal Gray the new Midnight Black.  Lets keep an eye out as we watch the red carpets and celebrity extravaganzas this fall.  I personally appreciate it. It gives new life to evening-wear.  Watch out little black dress! Charcoals the new chic.....

Photography by: Aorta

PPQ FALL 2010 READY-TO-WEAR COLLECTION

Amy Molyneaux and Percy Parker's PPQ is one of those brands with a big London pop-brat social network going on around it. These designers aren't intellectual or edgy, nor members of the cohort of new professionals who've earned international attention, and they've been going for the best part of a decade. Parker have cornered the market on good-time party dresses, like the strapless black velvet peplumed number with the bordello-worthy gold trim, or the tiered dress with the ruffled neckline that looked like a Zeta-Jones pick for Zorro 2010.Molyneaux and Parker have an instinct for the suburban femme fatale.

GILLES ET DADA F/W 2010

Gilles Et Dada always have some creative and beautifully executed lookbooks. [FYI that's why their lookbooks are spreading so well on the web]. The Finnish label is one more time showing some creativity for their Fall/Winter 2010 collection. Playing with geometry, the final result is again more accentuated on the visual than showcasing the clothes, even though you can have a better idea then their older lookbooks.

HERMES F/W 2010 AD CAMPAIGN ZORO INSPIRED

We’re always excited to hear about new ways to tie our favorite silk scarves — especially when those silk scarves come in a square orange box with the name Hermès imprinted in the center.
Hermès sales employees are always happy to lend a hand in training a buyer exactly how to properly knot his or her scarf or tie. There’s the classic around the neck look, the headscarf, the belt, and of if you’re feeling a little scandalous, the scarf-as-shirt method.
For their Fall 2010 ad campaign, Hermès decided to teach us some new ways to wear — or rather, to use — our scarves. With the help of Constance Jablonski and Jonas Mason, we now know we can use scarves and ties as Zorro-esque capes, masks, and as escape/entrance methods.