Sasha Pivovarova is once again a Vogue star. She appeared in the September issue of Vogue Paris in a fashion shoot named "Femmes d'envergure", a redefinition of the 80s Power Woman trend. Voluminous sweaters, gabardine jackets in white,...
A strong trend in fashion this season is the forties style. Old Hollywood glamour is being revived by A-list designers such as:Alberta Ferretti, Blumarine, Bottega Veneta, Calvin Klein, Dior, Dsquared2, Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Jil Sander, Marc Jacobs,...
Sandrina Fasoli, along with her business partner designer Michael Marson, won the big prize at the first Mango Fashion Awards edition, on Tuesday, the 6th of November 2007. Their Spring/Summer 2008 collection brought...
A big trend in jewelry right now is animal themed jewelry, especialy wildlife. Snake jewels have big impact due to their rich symbolism. - Rattler Ring in sterling silver, $99, Dallas Pridgen Jewelry.
Dutch fashion designers Niels Klavers and Astrid van Engelen won, on November 1st, the Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Award 2007 with their label Klavers van Engelen. They received a financial reward of 25.000 euro meant to smooth their progress in the...
If you're looking for a unique, funky-chic pair of shoes NDEUR is the answer. The artist behind this label is 25-year-old Canadian illustrator Matthieu Missiaen. He uses vintage leather shoes as a canvas for graffiti inspired drawings using oil-based...
"Human After All" is the latest advertising campaign for Diesel denim. The seven frames take us into a technology ruled future as opposing to the "Fuel for Life" Diesel fragrance ads. A future that is still...
Diesel Fuel for Life is the new fragrance by Diesel for men and women. Based on the looks of the bottle, reminding of an old whiskey bottle, the whole advertising campaign uses vintage reference and a sort of a saloon feeling. "Finally...
Vintage trend cherishes the past values in art, design and crafts. Now, how back into the past goes this trend? Dinosaur Era, like this fossil necklace here left?
These cool dinosaur necklaces, £96.00, are from...
Browsing for street fashion blogs is my recent hobby as their pics are such a tremendous inspiration for me. Important names in the fashion world seek for new design ideas in street style and as Coco Chanel said: "A fashion that does not reach the streets...
The first eco friendly fashion week was held in October, 19 to 24, at Portland, Oregon. There were thirty five independent designers among which sixteen well known eco designers who presented their Spring/Summer 2008 collections at...
I’d never thought I’d see this, again: separate hoods are the latest
trend in headwear. Most fashion collection of fall 2007 had at least
one chic hood cap up there, on the runway.
One of the many of this fall's trends that I'd like to take on but probably will end up being just a wish is the cowl neck knit hood-scarf. Why? Because it's one of those things that only tall and thin women can pull it off. I'm rather small and that...
I have a true admiration for Japanese and in fact Asian fashion mainly due to New York designers of Asian descent such as Derek Lam, Vera Wang, Anna Sui, and Philip Lim but also because of the street style blogs, especially Style Arena about Tokyo street...
Just browsing through spring 2008 fashion shows and I was glad to know that lace is still in fashion. I'm in love with artisan and handcraft work and this will be a good opportunity to start learning to knit and crochet or at least to start browsing more...
I know I might be a little bit late with this post as Halloween is only three days ahead but I can't ignore this trend in fashion accessories: spider jewelry. I especially like the spider and spider-web earrings for the creepy crawling through the hair...
These past few seasons I hardly saw any camouflage prints like this coat from Undercover Fall 2007 collection. But for spring 2008 camouflage prints are used for all types of clothes and fabrics from sheer dresses to blazers and whole...
The fashion world is crazy about this season's Balenciaga collection. Everyone wants or speaks about those schoolboy blazers, fringe ethnic scarves and "patchwork" dresses. I must admit that I'm not a Nicolas Ghesquière fan but I love the multicultural...
I admit having developed an unhealthy obsession over shoes but what woman who loves fashion hasn’t, right? Every season I have to own the latest style, the IT shoe of the season.