Category Archives: Haute Couture

Designer Handbags Pawned As The New Gold

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The bags that hold their value best – and therefore are the easiest to pawn – are the classic designs by Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Chanel.

Two of the most valuable are the Birkin – named after actress Jane Birkin – or the Kelly, as carried by Grace Kelly in one of her classic films

A matte white Diamond Himalaya Niloticus crocodile diamond Birkin 30 with 18k white gold and diamond hardware, was sold by a private Asian collector for $300,168

This Hermes signature Birkin is made with white matte Himalayan crocodile leather, and features hardware made from 18k white gold and diamonds. It sold for $300,168, making it the most expensive handbag ever sold.

Singapore’s CE LA VI Restaurant

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For $2 million bucks you can dine at the world’s most expensive restaurant.

Ce La Vi, on the rooftop of the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore, has teamed up with Russian diamond company World of Diamonds, to offer the exclusive experience that will last an estimated eight hours.

The package includes a 45-minute helicopter ride over Singapore, some time in a luxury cruise and a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce ride to Ce La Vi, where the diners will be presented with 10,000 roses and an 18-course meal.

The meal is eaten with diamond chopsticks and the diners’ names are engraved on them. Other decadent elements consist of Belon oysters, Almas Caviar  and only 44- and 55-year-old vintage wines.

And at the end of the meal, the couple will be presented with a 2.08 carat blue diamond ring with a rose-gold plated platinum band, that World of Diamonds has named after actress Jane Seymour.

The meal ends with the couple being presented with a 2.08 carat blue diamond ring with a rose-gold plated platinum band, that World of Diamonds has named after actress Jane Seymour.

Diamonds this blue have been known to be auctioned at over $2 million.

They’re Planning To Combine Male & Females Fashion Shows

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Tom Ford and Vetements, Gucci announced at The New York Times International Luxury Conference in Versailles on Tuesday that it will be combining its men’s and women’s shows beginning in 2017.  Similar announcements came from Burberry (which will combine its men’s and women’s shows starting in September)

 

Didier Ludot Puts 160 Items On The Block @ Sotheby

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Didier Ludot Paris’s vintage guru, has always avoided selling pieces from his private collection. Next week, Ludot will put 160 items on the block at Sotheby’s in Paris. “Only imbeciles never change their mind!” he quipped as a handful of friends and fans gathered upstairs at Sotheby’s the other night to catch a glimpse of the first 20 dresses he put on mannequins. Ludot sees his sale, “Rencontres Couture à Paris” [Couture Encounters in Paris], as an homage to all the women whose elegance and chicness made him want to get into the business in the first place. That list includes women like Catherine Deneuve, Mona Bismarck, Loulou de la Falaise, Julianne Moore, Bettina Graziani, and the Duchess of Windsor, to name just a few of those whose pieces Ludot selected for the sale.  The oldest dress is a modern, champagne-colored damask satin tunic made by Paul Poiret for his wife, Denise, in 1924, a piece Ludot reckons cost the equivalent of €20,000, or about $22,400, in its day. (It is expected to draw around $2,000 at auction.) Among the most recent: the Prada peacock feather cocktail dress from 2005. (The high price is $1,700.) Ludot still has no idea how many more pieces he owns. He says he doesn’t want to know. It’s a world that doesn’t exist anymore that I like to hide away in,” he says. He’ll have ample opportunity to keep doing so: In the near future, Ludot will begin organizing sales of haute couture creations for other sellers.

“Rencontres Couture à Paris de la Collection Didier Ludot” goes on view July 4 at Sotheby’s, 76 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, eighth arrondissement. The auction will be held on July 8.

Rihanna’s Company

Rihanna’s company, Roraj Trade, LLC filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office for her upcoming brand, under the controversial name — $chool Kills.

Rihanna, 27, is in the process of launching herself as a serious fashion designer – starting with an accessories line. Her company, Roraj Trade, LLCAn filed application last month at the US Patent and Trademarks Office by Rihanna’s company, for a new brand, $CHOOL KIlls.’ It was registered and trademarked in New York on 11 May under the category of ‘leather products’ and ‘clothing products.’

A close source told Grazia: “$CHOOL KIlls will be an accessories range covering everything from tote bags to purses, and later on, fashion. She still loves the music, and it’s what launched her, but this is her focus right now.”

Rihanna is also the first black woman to be the face of Dior

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FAshion Queen of Qatar

HH Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned is a Fashion Queen and a trend setter. The Sheikha’s style is classic,the Sheikha is also highly involved in Qatar’s government.

As the second of the three wives of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, former Emir of the State of Qatar, Madame Mozah surely has the resources to fund her infamous majestic wardrobe, seeing as she carefully selects the crème de la crème of the season’s latest straight from the world’s top designers.

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Georges Hobeika Couture Spring/Summer 2015 collection

Georges Hobeika Couture Spring/Summer 2015 collection

Georges Hobeika Couture Spring/Summer 2015 collection

Georges Hobeika Couture Spring/Summer 2015 collection

Georges Hobeika Couture Spring/Summer 2015 collection

Authentic haute couture craftsmanship is a quintessential signature of the Georges Hobeika fashion house. Exquisite hand-sewn embroideries, hand-tailoring of the finest unique fabrics and pristine finishing attest to the superior execution of every atelier design. Distinguished for his dedication to the timeless art of French couture dressmaking, Georges Hobeika is renowned for his creative and technical talent, which has identified him as one of the most respected couturiers worldwide.

Fashion Force, The App That Will Change How You Shop

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Fashion Force is an app that will help you decide what to buy at retail stores. The app uses a combination of dressing rooms with photo-sphere mirrors and 360-degree cameras —and fashion experts via the Community Cloud platform— to advise the user on the best items to purchase. Artful Gentleman in Mid-Market is one of the first stores to participate in partnership with the app’s official rollout on February 9th.The store is equipped with the Fashion force-supplied technology with the hope that SF customers will be early adopters to use photos and input to make shopping decisions. While customers shop, Fashionforce and Artful Gentleman can collect valuable data. In return, the app can offer more options in the store based on what the shopper has already chosen to try. The data can also help inform the store on future collections based on what their customers want to wear.

Other stores like Rebecca Minkoff and the Bloomingdale’s at Stanford Shopping Center are attempting similar ventures with their eBay-powered dressing rooms and tech screens. The added time and effort with using these shopping platforms may eventually pay off with an underlying efficiency: shoppers discover new items quickly, and retailers focus on making and ordering pieces that customers want.

Two Nordstrom locations, one in Seattle, the other in San José, the upscale retailer is about to provide customers with technology by eBay to help you make decisions in your fitting room. Nordstrom will test full-length mirrors that, with the tap of a customer’s finger, turn into interactive screens, effectively creating smart fitting rooms.

The idea is to bring tech to an untapped part of a store where many customers ultimately make their purchasing decisions: the fitting room.

Bloomingdale’s, the upscale chain owned by Macy’s Inc has recently began trying out smart fitting rooms, equipped with wall-mounted iPads rather than Nordstrom’s interactive mirrors, at five of its stores.

Chanel’s News

PHARRELL WILLIAMS & CARA DELEVINGNE, FACES OF THE NEXT MÉTIERS D’ART CAMPAIGN PARIS-SALZBURG

Pharrell Williams & Cara Delevingne will be the face of the next Métiers d’Art 2014/15 campaign Paris-Salzburg wich will be unveiled in Salzburg on December 2nd. The advertising campaign will be shot by Karl Lagerfeld and released in May 2015.

Reincarnation” is the title of the video-clip created and directed by Karl Lagerfeld to accompany the CHANEL Paris-Salzburg 2014/15 Métiers d’art collection to be shown on December 2nd, 2014 in Salzburg, Austria. This new short film was the perfect opportunity for Karl Lagerfeld to develop an artistic collaboration with Pharrell Williams, a close friend of the House and personal friend of the designer. Pharrell Williams composed and wrote the lyrics to “CC The World,” the original soundtrack for Reincarnation, and he also plays one of the lead roles and will be, along with Cara Delevingne, the face of the upcoming campaign of the Paris-Salzburg 2014/15 Métiers d’art collection. Reincarnation will be screened in Salzburg and on http://chanel.com on December 1st, 2014 the night before the Paris-Salzburg 2014/15 Métiers d’art show.  Karl Lagerfeld directs here the Geraldine Chaplin and Pharrell Williams to imagine a new episode from the life of Gabrielle Chanel. Gabrielle Chanel is holidaying in the suburbs of Salzburg in 1954 when she meets at her hotel a young lift-boy whose jacket would later inspire the iconic Chanel jacket

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ELLO- The Artsy Type Of Social Network

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Ello is a uncomplicated, beautiful, and ad-free social network created by a small group of artists and designers. Ello was originally built by a group of seven well-known artists and programmers as a private social network. As time went by, so many people wanted to use Ello that our servers were overwhelmed. We built a public version of Ello for everyone to use.

Les Années 50, La Mode en France 1947-1957

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The 50s Fashionis scheduled to run in France November 2, 2014. The exhibit features haute couture and ready-to wear 1947-1957 as well as the iconic fashion trends and innovations from that decade. The event will showcase an array of evening wear, day wear and beachwear clothing and accessories from names like Christian Dior, Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain and Critobel Balenciaga.

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Dior’s Couture Miniature Pieces

 

 

The exhibition titled “Le Petit Théâtre Dior” featuring 60 dresses in twelve installations, all of them meticulously resembling the original designs in every tiny detail. Every miniature piece is produced based on a cotton toile in the purest haute couture tradition and needs the same precision and rigor as its big sister. The inspiration behind the exhibition comes from “Le Petit Théâtre de la Mode,” a 1945 display of miniature dresses from the greatest couturiers of the time. The showcase originally paid homage to the glory of French Haute Couture after the war, with the list of featured designers including Lucien Lelong, for whom Christian Dior was working for at the time. In fact, Christian Dior is believed to have helped Lelong to make some of the outfits for the 1945 exhibit, just two years before creating his legendary “New Look” in 1947.

Such intricate work

Nilofer Shahid Of The Design House Meeras

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Nilofer Shahid  (No longer shows her collections ) was awarded with Le Grade De Chevalier Dan L’ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres on May 27, 2014 by the French government at the Governor House in Lahore. HE Mr Philippe Thiebaud, the French ambassador to Pakistan conferred the award upon the designer for her contributions to the development of art, culture and fashion design.

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Fashionware 2014

 

The GER MOOD SWEATER interprets emotion and displays excitement levels instantly with an illuminated collar. It is a whimsical approach to new forms of communication inspired by the body.

The Mood Sweater in currently on tour with Futurotextiles 3 photo by Roger Dyckmans

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How it works
SENSOREE has crafted a soft sensor design called the The GER: Galvanic Extimacy Responder, as it promotes extimacy – externalized intimacy. The sensors are located on the hands and reads excitement levels and then, translates the data into a palette of affective colors. The design of the bowl shaped, high collar is positioned with LEDs that reflects onto the self for instant biofeedback as well as act as a tele-display or external blush for the other. Located around the larynx, the visual interface replaces speaking, as the wearer’s truths are instantly expressed with color.

Currently taking pre-orders for a limited edition run of 100! 

MoodSweaterskristin neidlinger design concept
Scott Minneman, Anthony Asterisk, Erik Johnson electronic
Roger Dyckmans running pink/excited photo
Gabi Carneiro blue/calm  photo
Defne Beyce red/nervous photos
Phil Martin video
Katie Scarlett talent

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