June 2012
5 posts
Carmen Miranda...colerful and esotic!
Colorata, estrosa, frizzante: Carmen Miranda ha incantato gli anni 40 con il suo spirito carioca e la sue canzoni, un inno all’allegria e alla joie de vivre.
Indimenticabili i suoi cappelli, grondanti di frutta colorata, e gli abiti variopinti; oggi l’ésprit tropicale delle sue mise rivive nelle collezioni della Primavera-Estate 2012 che ammiccano per colori e suggestioni a uno stile...
May 2012
129 posts
http://www.irisvanherpen.com/ →
Iris Van Herpen peculiar's vision of couture!
She is a young (27) and very creative fashion designer presenting her own peculiar visions of the universe through her innovative, unique work on the fashion stage. Merging high technology, traditional craftsmanship, intricacy of form and unusual fabrication for her presentations, she perceives fashion as a form of self-expression. The latest fashion show, titled “Micro”, is a nod to the...
Have you ever thought about a different use of...
RIE HOSOKAI uses latex balloons to create unique dresses that can only be worn 24 hours before they deflate and change color in hot weather.
The latex balloons are inflated and hand-woven in different directions both vertically and horizontally, creating a texture similar to fabric. The amount of air that goes into each balloon is pretty hard to estimate when adjusting the size and volume of the...
ANNA PIAGGI: ICONA DELL'IRRIVERENZA ESTETICA.
Una giornalista che tra cappellini e mantelle ha portato sempre una ventata provocatoria ed eccentrica di stile.
Quando nel 1986 Karl Lagerfeld la trasformò in fumetto, fu ben chiaro a tutti che Anna Piaggi, eccentrica e provocatoria nello stile, fosse diventata ufficialmente un’icona. Per Kaiser Karl, Anna fu protagonista di una serie di avventure dal sapore straordinario e vagamente...
Born Isabella Delves Broughton in 1958, Blow was a fashion editor, consultant, muse and nurturer of young fashion talent. She was renowned for her extrovert dress sense, which sometimes involved little more than a fur coat, red lipstick and a hat. To many she was the embodiment of the English eccentric, but her life was marred by tragedy, depression and unhappiness.
She was renowned for her...
“Fashion is a vampiric thing, it’s the hoover on your brain. That’s...”
ISABELLA BLOW.
“Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to...”
“When you don’t dress like everybody else, you don’t have to think...”
WHEN THE GENIUS HAS NO AGE:THE IRREVERENT IRIS...
After a lifetime of dressing in her own flamboyant manner, at 90, Iris Apfel is delighted to find herself New York’s latest fashion muse.
Iris Apfel was 83, and 13 years into her retirement, when she became a celebrity. The year was 2005, and the Metropolitan Museum in New York staged an exhibition of her wardrobe. This included some of Apfel’s collection of exquisite pieces by...
