Expensive and beautiful

Couture Week in Paris has begun! Here is the Schedule for the events

Sunday, January 2010, the 24th
JOSEPHUS THIMISTER**
Monday, January 2010, the 25th
ALEXIS MABILLE**
CHRISTOPHE JOSSE**
ANNE VALERIE HASH
CHRISTIAN DIOR
ADELINE ANDRÉ
GIORGIO ARMANI PRIVÉ*
Tuesday, January 2010, the 26th
CHANEL
STEPHANE ROLLAND
MAURIZIO GALANTE
ATELIER GUSTAVO LINS**
DOMINIQUE SIROP
GIVENCHY
Wednesday, January 2010, the 27th
ON AURA TOUT VU***
FRANCK SORBIER
ELIE SAAB*
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER
LEFRANC.FERRANT**
MAISON RABIH KAYROUZ**
VALENTINO*
Thursday, January 2010, the 28th
BOUCHERON, CHANEL JOAILLERIE, CHAUMET, MELLERIO DITS MELLER, VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
* Correspondents members **Guests members ***Accessories

Bollywood Dreams | Patrick Demarchelier

This is an editorial that the great Patrick Demarchelier shot for India Vogue in 2007. The pictures are very cinematic and capture the essence of Bollywood beautifuly. I specially love the first spread, because it really looks like a dream; and the flowing golden dress under the yellow light of the streetlamps make a beautiful contrast with the bluish, dark background. The whole editorial has a very dramatic quality, I love how it showcases sheen, feathers and very big accesories that make a statement.

Vogue India 10/07
Editor: Lucinda Chambers
Models: Bipasha Basu, Gemma Ward,
Priyanka Chopra, Monikangana Dutta
Preity Zinta, Laxmi Menon
Hair: Sam McKnight
Makeup: Val Garland

A little self-love is always good

Just to remind you to love yourselves, here's a little art I did yesterday :P

Have a fashionable Day!

I want some Pleats... Please!

Today I spent all afternoon reading about Issey Miyake and designing a windowshop for my visual merchandising class. So now I want to share with you a little bit of what I found out.

Even though Issey Miyake is one of the most important japanese fashion designers, he doesn't like that title and prefers to think he is an artist that uses fabric as medium. He was born in Hiroshima in 1938 and survive the atomic bomb.

While he studied graphic design at the University of Tama in Tokyo, he felt influenced by the images of Richard Avedon, Hiro and Andy Warhol. After finishing his studies he moved to Paris and worked for Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy. After that, he went to New York, where he worked with Geoffrey Beene. With all that experience, he went back to Tokyo and founded the Miyake Design Studio.

Pleats Please is one of Miyake's most popular lines and represents one of his most important principles: the true value of a garment is measured by the way it is integrated to everyday life and the comfort it brings to to the person who wears it.

Pleats Please starts in 1993, after Miyake develops a new technique where polyester garments are first cut and sewn 2 or 3 sizes bigger than the final product, and then pleated to permanently retain washboard rows of horizontal, vertical or diagonal knife-edge pleats. The final product is a light, comfortable and colorful garment.

I personally like the idea of beautiful, light and comfortable clothing; and the bright colors do make me a little happier but I still feel they lack some drama. Miyake is not one of my favorite fashion designers but I really admire his continuous research and development of new techniques.