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Category Archives: Haute Couture
Hair As Art Work
Chanel
Fall Winter 2014-2015 On The Streets
PARIS
Black Fashion Designers The Best of The Best
He Designs Clothing
He designs clothing & millinery
Jeffrey Banks was a go-getter from a young age, working in the top ranks of Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein before establishing his own namesake firm in 1978 at the age of 25. Banks brought a masculine element of glamor from the ’20s and ’30s of Hollywood to his contemporary clothing.
The twin are known for their bags
Scott Barrie was one of the first designers to represent African-Americans on the international fashion platform.
Menswear Designer known for Her Bomber jackets
Men & Women’s Wear
Textiles & Sneakers
Spring 2014
The Promise Of Spring-Elie Saab
Elie Saab known for softness,
Whats In Store For Spring 2014
Haute Couture /Paris
Fashions & Haute Couture 2014
Intel Teaming Up With Fashion Designers
Intel Corp. disclosed that it is teaming with the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Barneys New York and Opening Ceremony around the wearable tech field. The project will launch with a collaboration between Intel and Opening Ceremony: a smart bracelet designed by the influential downtown retailer that will be available at Barneys.
Accessorize That Sleeveless Dress
The Return By Karl Lagerfeld Featuring Geraldine Chaplin
December 1953, Coco Chanel began her incredible return to center stage. The designer reopens her Haute Couture house after fifteen years of absence. The collection is welcomed by the French press with an icy silence. Only the American media supports the looks that define the rebirth of Chanel’s style. “The Return” retraces this determining period, that shaped the legend of the designer of rue Cambon forever.
“The Return,” imagined, written and directed by Karl Lagerfeld, features Geraldine Chaplin in the role of Gabrielle Chanel, Rupert Everett, Anna Mouglalis, Lady Amanda Harlech, Arielle Dombasle, Kati Nescher, Vincent Darré and Sam McKnight.
Fashion Weeks Schedule 2014
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New York Fashion Week:
February 6 – 13, 2014
London Fashion Week:
Feb. 14 – 18, 2014
Milan Fashion Week:
Feb. 18 – 23, 2014
Paris Fashion Week:
Feb. 25 – March 5, 2014
Color For The Year 2014
In a press release Pantone said the color of the year for 2014 will be a shade of particularly vibrant violet dubbed “radiant orchid” — following 2013’s hallmark hue, which was emerald, taking over from 2012’s “tangerine tango.” Pantone describes the bold tone as “a captivating, magical, enigmatic purple.” Generations of artists certainly agree — depictions of purple orchids abound in art history, from Barbara Hepworth’s “Orchid” and Paul Wonner’s “‘Dutch’ Still Life with Orchids, Postcard View of Paris, and ‘Death of Marat’” 1983, to Martin Johnson Heade’s “Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds” 1871, at bottom
(Top image: Barbara Hepworth, “Orchid,” 1970. Tate. © Bowness, Hepworth Estate. Second image: Paul Wonner, “‘Dutch’ Still Life with Orchids, Postcard View of Paris, and “Death of Marat,’” 1983. George A. Hearn Fund, 1983, Metropolitan Museum. Third image: Martin Johnson Heade, “Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds,” 1871. Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, National Gallery of Art.)
Haute Couture Shoes
Ready To Wear On A Cruise
Banking Trends 2014
Self Service
The top trend for banking in 2014 will be to provide more customer access and functionality for self-serve options. The predominant discussion regarding technology focuses on whether banks can match customers’ want and need for mobile applications that address their changing requirements. Many banks are providing solutions to customers through remote applications that their staff cannot perform at their own banking centers and call centers. Making this consistent will become a necessary technology in 2014. Tablet applications will be advancing to point-of-sale staff in banks so that the face of the bank is uniform and not on two generations, as it is viewed by customers today. There has been much discussion about a cloud-based design and, if this strategic direction is selected, the shift will come quickly.
Identity 2.0
The most important bank tech trend will be the adoption of “Identity 2.0”—augmenting the contact center’s authentication process with predictive analytics across voice biometric, account, call and other metadata. Verifying identity becomes not just a fixed question-and-answer process, but a data science across multiple factors. By analyzing an interaction via a combination of “voiceprint” screening and other predictive factors, financial institutions can stop more attacks and fraudulent transactions, better identify and track known fraudsters, and improve the authentication process for legitimate customers.
The Customer Service Experience
This will include continued enhancements to online dashboards that place greater control in the hands of customers. Gone are the days of banks determining what and how information is presented to customers at the point of login to online banking sites. Through the use of customization tools and widgets, customers will determine their experience and have faster and easier access to the information they choose. The banks will also have their own dashboards better informing them of customer needs, profitability, and product usage so they can better serve them. The ways in which information is presented will also advance. Finally, as mobile payment capabilities advance in consumer banking, the corporate side of the bank will play catch up with new mobile offerings for both the smartphone and tablet.
Advanced Analytics Customers and Business
Armed with this information, banks have an opportunity to significantly impact the success of their marketing efforts to both new and existing customers. Social media is one component of the Big Data equation. The key to successfully utilizing social data lies in transforming it into truly actionable insights by layering in analytics and combining it with other sources of data. Social media, Big Data, and Predictive Analytics are some of the forces reshaping the way that bank marketers think about their roles.
Vogue Is Auctioning Haute Couture Masks
Couture masks, designed by the likes of Stephen Jones, Warby Parker,Lanvin and Manolo Blahnik, are now up for sale to the highest bidder at Charitybuzz.com. Modeled on some of New York’s finest and featured in Vogue for Halloween, the masks were donated by the designers to benefit Alice Water’s Edible Schoolyard Project. The auction ends on December 17, so be sure to place your bid in time.
Take A Look At LED Fashion Style Coat
This is Janet Hansen. She is the founder and chief fashion engineer at Enlighted Designs (she also has a PhD in biomechanics, should the LED clothing industry ever go ‘belly up’). Among her work, Hansen has constructed light-up garments for Kanye West, Daft Punk, and M.I.A
Things LED
Mobile App Hotel Bookings
Last-minute, mobile-app-driven hotel booking is a trend on the rise. Market research firm PhoCusWright projects that by 2014, 20 percent of hotel bookings will be made by tablet and mobile phones. Currently, the flash travel app a hot market, and 2013 has been their year. Pioneering U.S. brands like Hotel Tonight offer last-minute deals on hotel rooms that have attracted millions of mobile users, and nearly $50 million in venture capital. The popularity of Flash Travel results from its simplicity. The typical flash travel business model is a free mobile app. Once credit card information is entered, (sometimes by snapshot, to avoid the annoyance of typing numbers) users select their city and are presented with three to five vetted hotels. A few taps, and they’re booked. Whether reservations are made on the morning of the flight, or in the cab at midnight, flash travelers are relieved of the burden of searching and the pain of planning, and get a chance to embrace the fun of spontaneous travel. Services often feed information based off the user’s GPS location, showing the closest hotels. Most of them accept reservations made within minutes of check-in, and all of them offer some pretty serious discounts on hotel rooms. Great for the users, but this last aspect has some in the hotel industry intoning notes of impending gloom.
Last-minute, mobile-app-driven hotel booking is a rising trend, reforming the landscape of the hospitality industry. Leaving laptops behind, forgoing search and compare on their home computers, more travelers are just going mobile (phone). Market research firm PhoCusWright projects that by 2014, 20 percent of hotel bookings will be made by tablet and mobile phones. Projections like this make the flash travel app a hot market, and 2013 has been their year. Pioneering U.S. brands like Hotel Tonight offer last-minute deals on hotel rooms that have attracted millions of mobile users, and nearly $50 million in venture capital. In Europe, flash travel app providers like Hot Hotels and Blink are fighting to capitalize on the lure of last-minute travel in the attraction-dense landscape of the Continent. Just around the globe, Hotel Quickly, flush with Hong Kong venture capital, is staking out South East Asia, perhaps the most mobile-friendly, smart-phone-drenched market in the world. Clearly, as the world changes, the way we travel through it is also transforming.
The popularity of Flash Travel stems from its simplicity. The typical flash travel business model is a free mobile app. Once credit card information is entered, (sometimes by snapshot, to avoid the annoyance of typing numbers) users select their city and are presented with three to five vetted hotels. A few taps, and they’re booked. Whether reservations are made on the morning of the flight, or in the cab at midnight, flash travelers are relieved of the burden of searching and the pain of planning, and get a chance to embrace the fun of spontaneous travel. The Services often feed information based off the user’s GPS location, showing the closest hotels. Most of them accept reservations made within minutes of check-in, and all of them offer some pretty serious discounts on hotel rooms. Great for the users, but this last aspect has some in the hotel industry intoning notes of impending gloom.
The American Hotel & Lodging Association and Smith Travel Research report that, by 2015 the hotel industry will pay $7.5 billion in commissions annually to businesses that help sell hotel rooms, up from $3.8 billion in 2010. With an increasingly mobile-driven populace travelling through the madness of an ever more complex world, large parts of that profit will be made through last-minute hotel providers. Whether Flash Travel will be a blessing or a curse to the industry is impossible to predict. Travel is a complicated business.
Robert Verino Fashion Show
What They’re Wearing 2014
Valtadoros On The Runway
Haute Couture Hair Styles
Flickr’s Print Photo book Publishing Service
Flickr’s new photo book publishing service is now available to customers in the continental U.S., and Yahoo is planning to expand availability to other markets over time. Each photo book can have anywhere from 20 to 240 pages in white proPhoto lustre paper, comes wrapped with a glossy hard cover and matching glossy dust jacket, and measures 11 x 8.5 inches. Full-bleed printing, where your photos fill the entire page without a border, is possible.
For those who don’t want to create the book manually, Flickr’s book creation tool allows one-click publishing, and can handle cropping and positioning automatically. (There’s a Book icon on each photo set, which can be used to order a book with that particular set.) If you prefer to hone your own creation, though, the tools to do so are available.
More details can be found on the Flickr blog, and you can make a photo book for yourself atFlickr Creator.
Valentino’s Shanghai Special
Chanel
The World Fashion Channel
Rare Confections from Cartier, Harry Winston, Graff, Piaget, Chanel, and Van Cleef
Rubies and Pink Tourmaline with Rasberries on Red Velvet
(From Left)
Piaget
Blueberries, Sapphires and Diamonds on Buttercream
Harry Winston
Berry Blast Gems
Cartier
Emeralds and Tsavorite with Violet Buttercream
(From Left)
Harry Winston
Meringue Confections
Van Cleef and Arpels
The Hair Shows 2013
Black Hair At The Fashion Shows 2013
Valentino Fall-Winter 2013/2014 Haute Couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli
Valentino’ designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli showcased feminine, romantic and mysterious Haute Couture collection for Fall-Winter 2013/2014 on July 3, 2013, in France, during the Paris Fashion Week. The fashions included cinematic-inspired elegant cover-ups and breathtaking dresses, featuring lace and embroideries of lion’s heads, bees, beetles and dragonflies. Zebra heads and gold-rimmed fish eye mirrors, decorated the walls of the Hotel de Rothschild with transforming the XIX century mansion into a vintage-style cabinet.
Haute Couture That’ll Make You Shine
Why Is The Fashion Industry Lacking In Color ?
Back In The Day (70’s) You Had Loads More Black High Fashion Models Than Today. Are The Designers Of Today Implying That They Are Not Seeing Black Models Equipped For Their Shows in 2013, 2014, 2015 etc? What are designers looking for today? Beauty or Ugly? No Melanin, Some Melanin or a lot of Melanin? Moreover, are today’s designers considering fabric and texture against the hue of skin? Were today’s designers raised in a environment where they only saw people of predominately one race or lacking in hues? Or is there an underlying agenda of racism and who should wear expensive clothing?
BACK IN THE DAY
Adorned with Sinous frames, high cheekbones, cocoa, caramel and golden complexions, kinky and curly hair
Fashion Week New York 2013
Shoe Trends 2013
Fashion Week September 5-12 2013 New York
Haute Couture 2013
Handiwork & Haute Couture
Hi-Tech Scan & Damaging Heels
The world’s first 3D scan of a female foot in a high heel shows the shocking effect of damaging high heels. Ped-CAT machine at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, London, takes a 360-degree scan of the patient’s foot in 60 seconds – and is far more accurate than the traditional X-ray.
When wearing high heels, the toes are squashed inside the shoe. The more stiletto-shaped they are, the worse it is. The toes not only get squashed, but they become clawed too. If you wear heels for an hour or two at an evening party, it’s not a problem. However, wearing them for eight hours a day for years on end can cause havoc on your feet. Teen are also prone to foot problems.
With a family history of high heel wearers and you wear them a lot, you are pretty much guaranteed to develop bunions.
“If you are not genetically predisposed, wearing high heels may accelerate bunions quicker.
With the PedCAT machine, the first of its kind in the UK, does a 360-degree scan of the patient’s feet in just 60 seconds.
Doctors can then view 3D image from every angle, spinning it around to view the foot from above, below and the side. It also takes 600 2D views of the foot. The scanner shows the deformity caused by wearing high heels and is much more complicated than we previously thought. ‘With high heels, the toes are squashed inside the shoe. The more stiletto-shaped they are, the worse it is. The toes not only get squashed, but they become clawed too.’
The base of the big toe becomes ‘deviated outwards’, forming a bunion, while the scanner also shows how these bones can become ‘rotated and dropped’.Pea-shaped bones under the base of the big toe – called sesamoids – get dislodged by the immense pressures put on them.
Fashion Show Cruise
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