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Interview Magazine May 2013 issue : Model: Saskia de Brauw Photographer : Paolo Roversi Styling : Karl Templer
Categories: Fashion, People • Tags: designers, editorial, Interview (magazine), Karl Templer, Models, Paolo Roversi, Photography, Saskia de Brauw, Yohji Yamamoto
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Balmain Alexander Wang Aquilano.Rimondi Byblos Milano Gabriele Colangelo Lacoste Mary Katrantzou Mugler Peter Pilotto Rebecca Minkoff Rick Owens Rouland Mouret Thom Browne Yohji Yamamoto
Categories: Fashion • Tags: balmain, collection, fall 2013, Rick Owens, Thom Browne, trends, Yohji Yamamoto
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John Rocha SS13, backstage Image: Michelle Beatty AF Vandevorst SS13 Image: Ann Vallé AF Vandevorst AW12 Image: Etienne Tordoir Donan Karan AW12 Image: Catwalking Donna, Yasemen Hussein Image: Lucien Moolenaar Ghost Hat, Giles Deacon SS09 Courtesy Giles Deacon Junya Watanabe SS13 Image: Catwalking Marcel ‘Iconic Head’, House of Flora Image: Derek John Noel Stewart © Victoria and Albert Museum Paul Stafford Image: Christina Smith Phillip Meech for Lara Jensen SS13 Lookbook Yiqing Yin HCFW12 Courtesy Yiqing Yin Yohji Yamamoto SS2004 […]
Categories: Fashion • Tags: AF Vandevorst, Art, Design, Giles Deacon, hats, Junya Watanabe, London College of Fashion, Yiqing Yin, Yohji Yamamoto
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What’s up with our fascination for putting things in a cage? Cages are oppressive,still we’re fascinated by them. It is just how our complicated minds work! Body cages are a bridge between armor/self-protection and underwear/exhibitionism. This strange interplay is an important theme for our times, and was reflected previously by the ever-popular S&M trends of recent seasons (latex, tough shoes, body-con, corsets etc.) Now all those trends have started to seem tired, but the ideas behind them remain relevant. A […]
Categories: Design, Fashion • Tags: body, cage, Elie Saab, Gaultier, Haute couture, Jean Paul Gaultier, Paris, Shopping, Yohji Yamamoto
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Amongst the fashion elite of Paris Haute Couture, Madame Grès was a sculptor for the most famous divas. The Antwerp Fashion Museum will honor her work with a glamorous exhibition open until February 10th, 2013. Madame Grès c. 1946. Photo Credits: Eugene Rubin/ FNAC/Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris Her dreams of becoming a sculptor didn’t amount to much. But the elegant world of fashion design should be grateful that it gave Madame Grès a chance to become the artist […]
Categories: Fashion • Tags: Haider Ackermann, Jean Paul Gaultier, Madame Grès, Oleg Cassini, Pearl S. Buck, Yohji Yamamoto
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The news is always going on about the death of print, but what happens when a familiar favorite magazine really does go away forever? Fans of 90s fashion will fondly remember Mirabella, sitting on the newsstand alongside issues of Elle, Bazaar and Vogue. From 1989 to 2000 the magazine founded by fashion fixture and former editor -in -chief of American Vogue, Grace Mirabellaoffered up a no-nonsense take on fashion. Appealing to women who valued not only style, but substance the magazine […]
Categories: Fashion • Tags: Amber Valletta, Christy Turlington, Glen Luchford, Grace Mirabella, Kate Moss, Mirabella, Vogue, Yohji Yamamoto
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