Daily Archives: January 5, 2013
Dior Spring/Summer 2013 Campaign
by The CoF
Credits for this picture: Raf Simons (Designer) Willy Vanderperre (Photographer) Olivier Rizzo (Fashion Editor/Stylist) Anthony Turner (Hair Stylist) Aaron de Mey (Makeup Artist) Other people in this campaign: Anna Martynova - Model Nicole Pollard - Model Daiane Conterato - Model Daria Strokous - Model Marie Piovesan - Model
Categories: Beauty, Fashion • Tags: Aaron, Anna Martynova, Anthony Turner, Daria Strokous, Fashion, Hairdresser, Karlie Kloss, Makeup Artist, Raf Simons, willy vanderperre
Chanel Spring/Summer 2013 Campaign
by The CoF
Ondria Hardin Stella Tennant Yumi Lambert Credits for this picture:Karl Lagerfeld (Designer) Karl Lagerfeld (Photographer)
Categories: Beauty, Design, Fashion • Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Chanel, Fashion, Karl Lagerfeld, Raf Simons, Stella Tennant
Fashion Confidential : Why Are Models So Skinny?
by The CoF
Christina Binkley tries to answer the nagging question of why the fashion industry
Categories: Contact
Israel’s New Year’s Resolution: No More Overly Thin Models
by The CoF
By RAY A. SMITH and CHRISTINA BINKLEY Reuters A model at Milan Fashion Week, which also bans BMIs below 18.5. Israel’s new law banning skinny models has again brought up an uncomfortable topic to the table for the fashion industry, which has long been criticized for seeming to promote unnatural thinness as beauty standard. And once again, countries are divided as to how to deal with the issue of too-skinny models, by law or with other means. Israel’s law, which went into effect […]
Categories: Beauty, Fashion, News • Tags: Alexandra Shulman, BMI, Body mass index, Council of Fashion Designers of America, Fashion, Israel, Kim Kardashian, Milan Fashion Week
History Of A Brand: M.A.C Cosmetics
by The CoF
Photograph by Irving Penn. Published in Vogue, August 1997. Canadian cofounders Frank Toskan, as creative director, and Frank Angelo, as marketing director, begin selling cosmetics to professional makeup artists in Toronto. “If someone needed a gallon of glitter powder for a photo shoot for 30 people, they knew where they could find it,”[6] Toskan will later say. The core team includes chief chemist Victor Casale, Toskan’s brother-in-law, and his sister, Julie Toskan-Casale. Sold in the basement of a Toronto department store, Angelo and […]
Categories: Beauty, Design, Fashion • Tags: Cosmetics, Estée Lauder Companies, Lady Gaga, Mary J. Blige, New York, New York Fashion Week, Peter Som, Toronto
Fashion and Technology
by The CoF
An exhibition in New York is celebrating high-tech style – from the 20s to Gaultier With pieces including an 1860 afternoon dress dyed with synthetic pigments, a 3D tube designed by Pierre Cardin and an evening dress created by Thierry Mugler that brings together 80s-style cuts with sci-fi inspiration, the exhibition Fashion and Technology, on at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology until May 8, examines the relationship between glamour and innovation. These two spheres are closer than ever before in today’s world, where avant-garde materials are key […]
Categories: Architecture, Design, Fashion • Tags: Arts, Business, Design, Fashion, Lady Gaga, Nicola Formichetti, Pierre Cardin, Thierry Mugler
Vittorio Missoni Missing
by The CoF
Still no news on the disappearance of Vittorio Missoni, the son of Ottavio and Rosita Missoni founders of the Italian fashion brand, his partner Maurizia Castiglioni, and the two friends who were travelling with them. The couple were reported missing on January 4th, when the plane they had boarded in Los Roques, Venezuela, failed to reach Maiquetia, near Caracas. The plane went off radar at 11 o’clock local time, and has been unaccounted since. Local authorities and Italy’s Ministry of Foreign affairs are actively involved. Vittorio […]
Categories: Architecture, Beauty, Design, Fashion, News, People • Tags: Caracas, Italian fashion, Italy, Los Roques archipelago, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy), Missoni, Venezuela, Vittorio Missoni
Victoria’s Secret Swim 2013 Sneak Peek
by The CoF
In this picture: Barbara Palvin Candice Swanepoel Doutzen Kroes Erin Heatherton Karlie Kloss Lais Ribeiro Lindsay Ellingson source victoriassecret.com
Categories: Beauty, Fashion, Video • Tags: Candice Swanepoel, Doutzen Kroes, Erin Heatherton, Karlie Kloss, Lindsay Ellingson, Russell James, Turks and Caicos Islands, Victoria Secret
Vogue China: The Air Of Opulence
by The CoF
In this picture:Tian Yi Credits for this picture:David Slijper (Photographer)Ida Wang (Fashion Editor/Stylist) source models.com
Categories: Beauty, Fashion • Tags: Beauty, David Slijper, Fashion, Photographers, Photography, stylist