DaRousso Futumn/Winter 2010-11 Collection FUTURE ETHNO

Finally the collection is out for the public. Full article and more photos on DaRousso Blog and DaRousso Official Web Page.

Fashion Clothes Swap Frenzie!!!

Swap That Dress For Something Special...

I went to my first clothes swap party at the weekend.. And WOW was I impressed!! I must admit I was abit aprehensive before I went. I'm quite protective over my clothes and handing them over to the lovely girl behind the desk was a hard task for me complete!! All kinds of things were going through my head.. Do I really want to give them away? Am I going to miss them? Will I wear them again one day? Will I find anything good enough that I like? Am I going to regret this? The good thing was I was pleasantly surprised!! I took some of my old vintage numbers down to The Shipping Forecast in Liverpool and managed to swap them for some high street beauties!! There was a big choice in items, vintage, high street, designer, shoes, jewellry and accessories and all were in excellent condition.

The girls that organised the event were from the fashion website www.myfashionjunkie.com and they were really helpful and enthusiastic when it came to swapping the clothes. They gave me a good price swap for my items and told me that if I didn't find anything I could keep my points and use them online or at another event.. Phew!! I wasn't going to be left with something I didn't really like!! I'd definitely recommend a fashion swap party and might even try to organise one myself soon. The perfect thing about them is that you can swap your clothes amongst your friends. Everyone has things in their wardrobe that they're either bored of, don't fit into anymore or have never even worn because it was definitely a spur of the moment buy that you knew at the time you should not have bought!!

Well as the famous saying says.. One man's tat is another man's treasure!!! And in the case, it really was true!!!! :O)

L xox
www.lisaelliottfashionstylist.co.uk

Milan Fashion Week s/s 2011

Milan loves Fashion, it's a protect symbol that has opened this fashion week in Milan. This year, the capital of Prèt à porter has a new costume. The city of Milan became the protagonist of fashion shows and really love its.

As for a new collection for the next spring /summer, could say that after many seasons of basic black even for warm weather styles, the current fashion week is alive with bright shades and bold prints. Many of the collections have a cheery floral inspiration.

SEDUZIONI

VICTORIA BECKHAM

SCERVINO

ROCCOBAROCCO

PRADA

PRADA

KRIZIA

FENDI

D&G

D&G

Sight for the sore eyes: Mykita

It seems that all the most amazing sunglasses that appear recently on the runway have one thing in common: collaboration with the designer Mykita. 

Mykita colaborates with names like Bernhard Willhelm, Marios Schwab and Herr Von Eden. And it is more than obvious that the colaborated designs are rather unconventional. 

The most recent one that has been a beautiful surprise, featured above, the Anai, a series designed in collaboration for Alexandre Herchcovitch for his SS 2011 show.

The series was initially inspired by couple of classic frame shapes Herchcovitch always loved, as worn by the iconic architect Le Corbusier himself.

Other interesting designs by Mykita:

Who wears Mykita:

 And for the blog addicted, Mykita is blogging too, so if You like to find out more about the brand check it out.

Holidays & Festivals - The British Way!

Festival Fashion...

Well July has been a busy month for me in term of holidays!!!! I went to the beautiful Island of Ibiza at the start of the month with my wannabe superstar DJ boyfriend and then to the FIB Music Festival in Benicassim, Spain with my beautiful girls friends. Both were amazing holidays and was just what I needed after working so hard the months before!! I love all the preparation before a big holiday, its all the usuals.. Swimwear, check. Sunglasses, check. Beachbag, check. Cover up, check. But I also love buying the staple items that make up my Summer wardrobe and blissfully arranging them into outfits, hanging them on my wardrobe doors and laying them neatly on my bed... How sad!! You'd think I would get bored of shopping as my styling job consists of quite alot of shopping on a day to day basis.. But nope, I didn't and as the holiday season begins, I'm first to step foot in the gym, frantically trying to tone up haha!! Then onto the shops to buy the first thing thats always on the top of my list... An extravagant Summer hat!! (This year it was Topshop's navy and cream large brim hat with cut out head section - I've always wanted one of these since I was 7 years old and saw Kylie wearing one on the front of her 1988 album cover 'Kylie') Also, without doubt a must have for me.. An amazing swimsuit ( I just cant bare to wear a bikini anymore and there are so many fabulous swimsuits to choose from out there, I just can't seem to resist!! Just look at some of these beauties... www.mouille.co.uk )

This year my staple pieces were geared towards a more festival feel. White cotton boho tops, denim shorts, cropped tees and as always.. A vintage inspired dress!! These carried me through daytime events such as the Zoo Project and DC10 in Ibiza to sitting on the gravel watching Vampire Weekend at Benicassim. There is so much I love about going on holiday in terms of fashion. Once I'm there, people watching is my absolute favourite pass time and I love to see what outfits others have put together for their very own holiday haven!! I think you can always spot a Brit from the outfits they're wearing. British Summer style has become very relaxed and breezy. With the high street doing so many cool Summer pieces now, its not hard to find the things you like in a second of walking through Topshop or shopping online at Asos!! Ibiza is a great place to get fashion inspiration because of the many different Europeans that holiday there. The music scene brings alot of fashion forward people together smoozing around some of the most talked about beach bars and clubs in the whole of Europe!!

I found it absolutely fascinating that out of the 10 girls I went with to Benicassim, all of whom shop mainly on the high street. Each one of us had our own individual style that was perfect for the laid back setting of the festival. We most definitely shop in the same places so God knows how none of us bought the same things!! I suppose that's the beauty of the high street, that it is so fast at turning around fashion and there is so much choice!! Although It's always quite funny when you spot two girls that have just noticed that they are wearing the same dress!! How they react to that situation can either make things really embarrassing or quite liberating to know someone likes what you're wearing!! It's happened to me on a couple of ocassions and I have always given the thumbs up and complimented them on their esqusit taste :O)

I know everyone says this about Alexa but she rarely gets it wrong when it comes to being individual. Just by choosing a quirky pair of shoes or adding a vintage hat or unusual scarf to her particularly ordinary style. Makes her stand out from the crowd and be the first on the fashion pages of all the mags!! Well, its not just the odd accessory that makes her the style icon that she is, I think the pretty face, soft no nonsense hair and legs that go on forever, also play a part on how she pulls things off so easily and looks so great in what she wears!! Ahh well we can only but dream........

L xox

www.lisaelliottfashionstylist.co.uk

New Jackets!

Ever since I started doing custom made men jackets for The Fade I'm in search for interesting and kind a different point of view on this very common and old garment. And until recently it was quite hard to find something to spark some interest. Mostly quite boring stuff. But recently the men jacket started changing and from quite boring, for some designers, it became really cool and fun: communicating color, patchwork, graphic, paint, stripes, unconventional cut but totaly wearable. I love each one of them!!!!

Music & Fashion joined forces

DaRousso - a fashion brand & The Fade - young talented group had joined forces! Read about this fantastic colaboration on the DaRousso official blog.

DaRousso Official Blog

Fashion Camp in Milan

Last weekend Milan hosted the first Fashion Camp. What was the Fashion camp? It was two days non-conference which compared the mainstream of fashion, the independents, new technologies and ethical fashion through workshops, presentations and collaborations.

The most important event for experts took stock of where we are, how we are evolving and what will be the future models. Two days of professional fashion designers, innovators, bloggers, big brands, fashion lovers who could meet, share, teach and discuss the future of fashion in a horizontal way.

The FashionCamp was planned as a BarCamp or non-conference and is therefore an open meeting in which the actions arose from the desire to share and learn in an open environment.

But talking was not the only thing in the camp: Participants were involved in a series of workshops and events organized for the occasion.It was very fun and excited.

Ethical fashion, aesthetics of reuse, E-commerce, new community for new consumers, Style Surfing, artistic influences and land use, stylish & Social networks are just some of the themes that animate the non-conference of FashionCamp.

And not only, the FashionCamp also hosted the four winners of the Italian Next Fashion Talents, organized to find new talents in Italian fashion of category Evening, Pret-à-porter, StreetWear and Eco-glam.

VIA PARIS!

If You happen to be as lucky as I was, to find Yourself in Paris these days, make sure You don't miss the Fashion history exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts named:" Histoire ideal de la mode contemporairie - les plus beaux defiles de 1971 a nos jours". It is located at the same venue with the famous Louvre Museum: Palais du Louvre, 107, rue de Rivoli , 75001 Paris and for a modest price of 9 euro You are invited to a magic journey into the fashion world. This journey is accompanied not only by the famous designs that I was able to see live and close ( but behind the glass), but also with the videos of the long forgotten fashion shows of the great names from the 70's, 80's and 90's.

With 150 rooms and 40 iconic movies, there are 20 years of collections that are screened at the Museum of Decorative Arts.
This is the parade of Yves Saint Laurent in 1971, which opens the door and that of Jean Paul Gaultier in 1990 that the fence with his collection "the report pious.
The history of the ideal mode reveals its contemporary collections made by the most influential couturiers and designers less known to the public.
Thus, throughout the exhibition , visitors relive the major stylistic changes that have taken 70-90 years: Between the widespread phenomenon of "Ready-to-use" of the 70s to the desire for independence and extravagance 1980s, the whole history of how contemporary these years is presented here.
The designers chosen to represent the 70s and 80s Yves Saint Laurent, Jean Muir, Stoneware, Issey Miyake, Sonia Rykiel, Chloe by Karl Lagerfeld, Dorothee Bis, Cacharel, Kenzo, and Ter BANTINE by Chantal Thomass, Claude Montana, Thierry Mugler Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Popy Moreni, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garcons, Marc Audibet, Anne-Marie Beretta, Romeo Gigli, Sybilla, Azzedine Alaia, Karl Lagerfeld Chanel, Christian Lacroix and Jean Paul Gaultier.

 

It was such an excitement to see all these famous master-peaces gathered all in one place. It was quite a discovery to see the secret stitching and finishes on the garments as well as educative. The videos of the fashion defiles just open an another perspective much different that we nowadays have about the catwalk.  Finally it is definitely a must see.

Information Expo "History of the ideal mode today, the 70s and 80s "

Venue: Museum of Decorative Arts, 75001 Paris
Date: April 1 to October 10, 2010
Hours: Open Tuesday to Sunday from 11h to 18h and Thursday from 11h to 21h
Entry Price: 9 €

Dirty Housewives

Dirty Housewives project embodies a sadistic and unchained transformation of housewives daily slavery tools, revisited as wearable trophies.

Pictures refer to the four different materials used (Brooms, mops, steel scourers and sponges). The collection includes twelve items: one t-shirt, one dress and one accessory for each material.

The Dirtyhouse ideals grow from the will to smash the social axioms about the connection between humans and domestic walls promoting new beliefs where caos means order, impulses mean spontaneity and rebellion stands for fervor.

This project just one of the of expressions of the concept that manifests itself thug the gerneral dirsuption fo the role of daily life objects. (under construction)

Vote! Vote! Vote!

Vote for Θεόδωρος Λεβεντάκης - Moving Fibers on Triumph Contest. Thodoris is a friend of mine, collegue and a fellow student and most important of all extremely talented!!! And whoever knows me, knows I'm not easy on giving such statements. Besides all this, I took part in the creation of his amazing design. So don't be lazy and vote for Thodori!!!

http://www.tiagreece2010.com/gr/inspirationaward.html

We love Hair!!!

” I dont want to Separate Hair in Fashion, I want the two to come together ” ” I want the Hair, Make up and Fashion to Fuse Together! “ Peter Gray Hair Stylist

 Here are some amazing hairstyles I stumbled upon on the course of my research for unusual and breathtaking role-models in fashion and image making industry. Because the styling is so important in the presentation, it completes the whole picture, it can create a strong image, enhance the design or destroy it. It is a powerful weapon that can sell almost anything. 

I loved Peter Gray, a well known hairstylist that styled the modern model divas for Vogue, i-D, Numero and V magazine,  also worked on the Catwalk hairstyle for Vivienne Westwood and Badgley Mischka for S/S2010.

Another impressing hairstylist I stumbled upon is definitely Robert Maschive.

I loved also the portfolio of the Gregory Dean duo. Gregory Dean stands for Ben Gregory and Dean Beavis and represents ultimate duo with a impressive CV in fashion and image making.

I have to mention Oliver Chomienne also among the top hairstylists I liked. He has a unique style which ranges from natural beauty to one-of-a-kind pieces for high end concepts.   After years of working in some of the top salons, he is now expanding into the world of editorial hairstyling , runway work, and art exhibitions. He is known for his conceptual abilities and positive energy.