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New signature jeans
New signature jeans for tall women.
A great-fitting jean is always in fashion. For fall 2012, Sarahi House of Fashion has introduced their signature jeans, which feature a unique, patented V-cut and C-cut silhouette for tall, statuesque women.
Designer and creative director Suzette Kelly has engineered the perfect fit for all body types. [...]
Fashion Talk
Fashion Talk: Brand films are the new way to get style seekers excited.
Right now, fashion is all about movies, or rather “brand films” which have taken over the age-old fashion “still”, perhaps even the catwalk show format.
Brand films are the new pop video. You can watch them on YouTube – even if fashion [...]
Fashion website
Although the idea of a fashion movie is not exactly new – Nick Knight’s award-winning fashion website, SHOW Studio, has championed the moving image since 2000 – the brand campaign movie has become the new normal, especially in terms of showcasing a brand globally.
Newer and fresher than a catwalk show, which [...]
International fashion shows
Starring Marion Cotillard, the comedy, entitled L.A.dy Dior, shows an actress sick of the business. It is well worth watching, particularly for any fan of Lady Dior handbags which feature in every single frame. The finale, where Cotillard erupts into a fashion posing frenzy, is not only hilarious, it encapsulates what [...]
Designer Olivia Ann
Designer Olivia Ann creates women’s line for over 60’s.
Glamour, sophistication and style are not often associated with fashion for the over 60s – but an up and coming designer from Middlesex University, London is aiming to change this with a new collection shown for the first time this week, modelled by [...]
Actress
5 Questions: Leven Rambin’s lean, mean routine for ‘Hunger Games’.
In “The Hunger Games,”actress Leven Rambin plays a teenage girl who has trained since childhood to fight to the death in a post-apocalyptic arena. To embody the role, Rambin, 21, had to look the part of the young warrior and also be able to [...]
Studio in Los Angeles
Before filming, you worked out in a studio in Los Angeles, but you shot the movie in the wilderness of North Carolina. Was it harder to do some of the moves outside?
It was different to be on grass and not to be comforted by padding. During filming, we also didn’t have [...]
Fashion Diary
Fashion Diary: ‘Snow White’s’ Colleen Atwood to launch HSN line.
“Annie Hall”inspired women to learn how to tie a tie. “Flashdance” set off a craze for ripped sweat shirts. And “Pulp Fiction” made the classic white shirt a hot fashion item.
But how many people know the names of the costume designers who [...]
Costume designer
This is the fourth time HSN has collaborated with a film studio on a shopping event tied to a movie release, and the first time the network has collaborated with a costume designer on a collection. Colleen Atwood “imagined this world and what it would look like,” said Mindy Grossman, HSN’s [...]
Collection
The Atwood by Colleen Atwood collection follows on the heels of several other recent branding opportunities for costume designers, including Trish Summerville’s “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” collection for H&M, which launched in December, and the “Mad Men”collection for Banana Republic, designed by the AMC show’s costume designer Janie Bryant and Banana [...]
Stylish
Lizzie Garrett Mettler looks at tomboy style in a new Rizzoli book.
For years, L.A.-based author Lizzie Garrett Mettler thought “tomboy” was a dirty word.
“I was a definite tomboy when I was a kid,” she says. “It was a nightmare for my parents to get me into a dress for a stretch of years.”
As [...]
Women include
Mettler had a particular interest in how tomboy style pertains to the past, “to women who pushed the boundaries,” she says. These women include Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich and Jane Birkin, as well as those we’re not so used to seeing in the style pages, such as Amelia Earhart, pictured after a [...]
Style
Mettler organized the book into seven tomboy style archetypes. The “rebels” are rocker chicks Deborah Harry, Courtney Love and Patti Smith, poet laureate of punk, who would buy an expensive coat and immediately throw it into the washing machine to distress it and make it her own. The “sophisticates” include Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, [...]
Veiled beauty
Veiled beauty: Turkish mag fuses fashion and tradition.
Arms and heads covered; tight trousers and skirts above the ankle a no-no. For many, this may not sound like a typical fashion glossy, and Ala – a new Turkish monthly for Muslim women who wear a veil – is not typical, but it is [...]
Fashion insiders
In pursuit of finer things, men finding fashion.
Don’t be fooled by the old “my girlfriend bought me this” line.
Fashion insiders say men are taking a keen interest in how they dress — and that means developing their own shopping habits. The biggest difference in how they shop for clothes? Probably research — and [...]
Shopping
They go to stores on a mission and like to get it accomplished, he says. They’ll come in knowing exactly what they want and will buy in multiples. But, he adds, the modern customer is buying a broader range of products and sees a value in having knowledge about them.
Paul Grangaard, CEO [...]
Creative types
Thoreson says he looks around midtown Manhattan and quite literally sees the change. You see men — creative types and hipsters, not just bankers, he stresses — voluntarily wearing ties. On Gilt’s upscale Park & Bond website, for example, neckwear sales increased 33 percent in 2011 over the previous year. “They’re [...]
Dress
Aging stylishly, online and in the streets.
Tziporah Salamon typically starts with a hat to create the “painting” of herself that she presents to the world.
On this particular Thursday night, she’s dressing for dinner with a new friend she met at the Japan Society art deco exhibit opening in New York. As she looks [...]
Fashion blogs
At 62, Salamon is part of a movement “of a certain age,” yes, but not aging like its parents.
On the streets of New York, in fashion blogs from around the country and even in ad campaigns, women like Salamon are finding a new audience for their sartorial choices, and their belief that [...]
Muslim Fashion
Islam/Fashion: Muslim Fashion Fascinates Australia
Jumada Al-Thani/28 April (IINA)-Interweaving their faith with modern fashion, Australia Muslims are creating a new, flourished brand of modest clothes that apply to the needs of Islamic faith and everyday life.
“Modest fashion is one of the fashion industry’s largest potential growth areas,” says Glynis Jones, curator of [...]
Industry
The flourishing industry was inviting new participants with different stories who held new events like Faith, Fashion, Fusion as well as My Dress, My Image, My Choice.
“I started to wonder why I believed what I did,” Susan Carland, 32, Melbourne sociologist and consultant for Faith, Fashion, Fusion, said.
“I was raised in a [...]
Christian Women
Christian Women’s Job Corps helps locals with fashion show.
Women in Calhoun County have a friend if they are ever in need — the Christian Women’s Job Corps (CWJC), a ministry of the Calhoun Baptist Association. The corps raises money to help women who find themselves in difficult circumstances, whether their needs include [...]
Face-to-face
Gena Vinyard, a singer and pianist, will perform, and Candace McIntosh, executive director of the Alabama Baptist Women’s Missions and Ministries, will speak on the theme of women helping each other face-to-face.
“The face-to-face theme this year means women in need have someone to be their friend, help them find a job, [...]
Fashionable
The clean cut is not fashionable, says well-known French hairstylist Laurent Decreton, who believes older Indian women should not shy away from trying a messy or classic look. He also suggests that brides be more adventurous by adopting trendy hairstyles for their D-day.
Decreton, who himself sports very short hair, said: [...]
Lifestyle
Decreton suggests that “Indian weddings and the hairstyles are very formal. But Indian women should change this habit and try new, trendy hairstyles for wedding. That is the reason we picked wedding as the theme for the same. Weddings are all about happiness, trying something new gives confidence and happiness [...]
French Women
30,000 French Women Urged to Remove Rupturing Breast Implants
French authorities have urged 30,000 women to remove potentially life-threatening, rupturing breast implants, reports say.
The concerns are that implants supplied by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) used a non-authorized silicone gel in their implants, which are prone to splitting with a series of negative consequences. Dr. [...]
Women
Number of CA women without health coverage spikes
A recent report finds the percentage of adult women in California who did not have health insurance coverage rose considerably from 2007 to 2009.
While 21 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 64 lacked healthcare coverage for part or all of 2007, that ratio [...]
Russian ladies
“Look for Russian ladies to create a family” – are full of ads on dating sites. Many men are looking for dating, but how easy is it to get acquainted with Russian ladies today? “I’ll get married, get married! What could be the toys! “- He sang the famous movie character and he was right. [...]
Russian woman
Laughter and sex are incompatible – knows that any a senior! What can we say about the Russian woman on free dating, which stepped the line of pre-conscription age? Oh I’m sure you do not need to explain that 30% of men after they ridicule become temporary impotent, 25% drop to drink, smoke, and there [...]
hot Russian brides
Geographical and is spatial position. In this case, you can have sex anywhere and anytime with hot Russian brides. The main thing – it is possible even in the marital bed, but certainly not with his own spouse (although in exceptional cases and can be – if you hide and taites from “charming” in-law). Partner. [...]
hot Russian women
Sex – a wonderful, delightful way to know himself. However, many people cannot fully immerse themselves in the world of sensual pleasures hot Russian women, because they have not yet found a soul mate. We find various excuses, we were confused by the prejudices and passions of others, and we did not dare to experience [...]
Russian women
Scripture says: “Love your neighbor as yourself”, and it means – love of others to us begins with our love for him. Build their relationships with others based on what you need, based on self-love. If you want to build relationships with those around you are men and Russian women, you first need to harmonize [...]