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Zimmermann ~ Victorian Wild West Earth Tones Hit NYFW Runway
Zimmermann hits the New York Fashion Week (NYFW) autumn-winter 2018 runway with a dedication to the earth, Victorian, and strong women. This fashion collection takes a step toWestworld with the tones, colors, unbridled beauty, and western styling.
Zimmermann NYFW FW18
The collection brings a strong sense of powerful women during the Victorian period. The fabrics include wool, sartorial, and buttery leather. These fabrics brought a masculinity feel while keeping it feminine the strong presence.
The styling is very earthly taking a woman to the strength she possesses and the power to embrace the freedoms a woman should enjoy. Hats tie over the shoulder, bomber jackets, riding pants, shearling coats, over the knee boots, and the glamorous boots show her soft feminine side while being tough for what the wilderness hold.
Zimmermann NYFW FW18
The designs are strong Victorian with a hint of the 1980s. The earth tones draw in the southwestern US and soft colors bring a romance to the fashion. This collection brings a strong modern edge to the old. Nicky Zimmermann takes a little step from her traditional bohemian fashion, but there are hints if you look real close to some of the pieces you will see the ruffles and crocheting. Simple and pure really add to the earthy look.
This collection will bring ready-to-wear and simplicity to your fall-winter fashion.
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Bahmardi Haute Couture is a journey of Reveal at Style Fashion Week. New York Fashion Week is starting off with the reminder that it is autumn-winter 2018 with a traditional snow storm. Many years fashion week turns to frozen week. This season a new fashion brand will hit Style Fashion Week runway in New York following Malan Breton.
Bahmardi Haute Couture NYFW Style Fashion Week
Bahmardi Haute Couture is a luxury, feminine, and opulent embroidery fashion line. Tuenaz Bahmardi, the creative designer for the label, is taking her journey of womanhood, motherhood, and business as her inspiration. Her training in haute couture comes from childhood memories with her mother in her couture boutique in Mumbai, India.
These moments in her life brought a learning inside details about the fashion industry. She took her training and began sewing and designing for family and friends. Bahmardi, “grew a desire to combine the love and passion for hand and machine embroideries she developed growing up in the East with the sophistication of Western fashion and culture.” This experience brings forward her exquisite feel for fabrics, colors, and details.
Bahmardi unveiling her first collections is floral, fabric, and embroidery work embolden and signify feelings of love, passion, femininity, humility, and strength. This dying art of embroidery is coming to life for Bahmardi. She wants to keep the jobs and traditions of these hard workers alive with the traditional work.
Bahmardi explains her bold fashion message “fashion is less about how you look and more about representing the essence of who you are.”This reveal brings a signature design amidst the excitement and buzz in the city that never sleeps during New York Fashion Week.
Premiere runway February 8 at the notable, swanky Cipriani, at 110 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017. Tickets available here www.stylefashionweek.com
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Lecoanet Hemant, an awarding haute couture, is a fashion house that is perfect for red carpet fashion. Hollywood is in the midst of award season. The red carpets fill quickly with the top celebrities and gorgeous fashion. The celebrities are wearing the best fashion and designs styled by the top stylist in the industry.
Their gowns and fashion grace many top international celebrities. They received the Golden Thimble (Le De D’Or) a top honor as an haute couture designers. The haute couture collection is, “their classic designs crafted around a belief in effortless elegance, craft, and original detail.” Their approach brings stunning art pieces for any red carpet elegant look.
The duo continues to approach innovation and luxury to their elegant collections each season. They carry out this with seamless craftsmanship and technology. Hemant Sagar and Didier Lecoanet, designers at Lecoanet Hemant. Saffron Boutique in Sherman Oaks is hosting an exclusive showing Dec. 8, 11-7 PM. This fashion brand for three decades uses their talents to create a top manufacturing ready-to-wear Lecoanet Hemant Genes, accessories, and haute couture fashion house.
This season Lecoanet Hemant designers based in India is showing their top couture designs in a private trunk show Dec. 9-12. Interested as a buyer, boutique owner, or stylist in attending this show please email Stacey at yourowngirlfriday@yahoo.com. The London Hotel, a tranquil oasis, is the place for this exclusive This fashion house designing since 1984. Lecoanet Hemant collection will bring original and beautiful designs with attention to the details.
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This year Victoria’s Secret much-anticipated fantasy bra is champagne nights. This 2 million dollar bra is handset with diamonds, yellow sapphires, and blue topaz will be worn by Lais Ribeiro for the famous runway.
Robeiro a Brazilian model that began her modeling career a year after giving birth. She quickly became an international model. She started modeling with Victoria’s Secret in 2015. She will wear the Dream Angels Demi bra as the final runway model in Shanghai, China. You can view the runway on CBS Nov. 28, 2017, at 10/9c PM.
The Dream Angels collection will feature the champagne simmering tones styled, The fantasy bra is “glamorous and glittering and weighing more than 600 carats, the Champagne Nights Fantasy Bra took almost 350 hours to create and is embellished with nearly 6,000 precious gemstones.(Victoria’s Secret)” The bra is created by world-renowned jeweler Mouawad. This jeweler’s creation has added style since 1890. They have five Guinness World Records. They are the official partner for this year’s fashion show.
Victoria’s Secret fashion show presents a beautiful runway with various collections. “Victoria’s Secret is the leading specialty retailer of lingerie and beauty products, dominating its field with modern fashion-inspired collections, prestige fragrances, body care, celebrated supermodels and world-famous runway shows.”Victoria’s Secret, a lingerie company started by Roy Raymond. He set up the store after being embarrassed to buy lingerie for his wife. It is the place to create a very intimate and personal style.
Last years fantasy bra worn by Jasmine Tookes valued at 3 million. This bra is included in the Bright Night Angel collection included the $3 million dollars. Previous Victoria’s Secret Angels who have worn the Fantasy Bra include Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Candice Swanepoel, Lily Aldridge, Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum, Tyra Bank, and more.
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House of Honee presents spring summer 2018 collection at Style Fashion Week in West Hollywood and on the USS Intrepid. This designer is one to keep an eye. Her talents bring art, awareness, and fashion together. This collection brings forward the genocide of the Khmer people and the fashion we create from animals.
House of Honee brings full styling and design to the inspiration for the spring-summer 2018 collection. Each runway piece is style specific to the clothing design. This collection continues to present an industrial design background to her runway collection. She incorporates this in her fashion. The material used for this collection are unconventional and materials creating sculptures.
Persona states, “The Killing Fields collection is about the genocide of the Khmer people, and of all the atrocities committed in the name of ethnic cleansing. We adorn ourselves with beautiful products that come from animals, like silkworms and sheep, etc.. And ingest them as food. Yet, we ourselves are the animals within who are capable of committing heinous acts for dominance and/or joy against the animals and our own kind. Let’s ask ourselves, who are the real animals?”
This collection continues with the brand identity of fashion, art, creativity, and philanthropy. It brings awareness about atrocities that take place in our world.
In writing this article, I first found myself repeating what I wrote last year. I guess I really want you to understand how much I love being amongst fellow artists, art enthusiasts, and art. So instead of reiterating my love of Art Basel Miami, I am here to tell you which of the art I would want to rip off the wall and take home with me …AND to take you on a journey to the party splendor that glows within Art Basel Miami.
In this concentrated sea of art, there is a hope that just around the corner displays a heart-stopping piece from one of my favorite artists or something new and amazing. I found 3 needles and a pair of shoes in this haystack of art.
Jean Dubuffet, The painter of all time. I dropped my jaw when I saw his paintings on the wall of the Landau Fine Art salon. Not only was I blown away by their beauty, I was shocked to see them in front of me, here at Art Basel, in Miami, when Jean Dubuffet worked diligently to keep many of his paintings together in his own Foundation in France, the Dubuffet Foundation. I went into a dreamlike state. I feel connected. His abstract lines and images appeal to the inner workings of my infamous crazy mind. It is as if Dubuffet was looking deep within me to calm me with the warmth of his pastels and deep-set figures. He is self-taught, famous within is home, France, and abroad. Cheers, Art Basel! For providing a venue where I can indulge in the art that I wouldn’t fathom seeing on the beach of Miami, and here I can go up to art and take a selfie, something impossible to do at his museum in Paris.
Erró, a famed artist from Iceland, took center stage at the Convention Center. In the U.S. we would call him a pop artist, taking what’s current and displaying it in an art form. His rendition of the war in the Middle East is definitely eye-catching. Lots of detail and strong imagery. I could have looked at it for hours, finding many hidden meanings among the paint. This Erró is all in grayscale, which makes it move thick and slow in my veins. For this visceral feeling, I have nominated to be amongst the greatest on my living room wall, though, because of the dark imagery my partner would sequester it into my studio. I can be inspired by it there, no problem. Who wants to gift this to my man cave?
The 3rd needle I found requires a jackhammer or just your average crowbar for me to take the art home. Chanoir is one of my favorite street artists. Again, Cheers, Art Basel! This time for Wynnwood, the place to see Street Art in all of its glory. Chanoir is living room approved! I love the never-ending use of color and happiness in his art. Looking on the walls he canvases, I feel the sugar rush from eating my imaginary bowl of everything I love that is filled with everything that is (quote) “bad” for you. Since I can’t quite take an original like this home with me, I can at least Like his Facebook page…and so can you: https://www.facebook.com/chanoir1980/
Now on to the festivities…
My shoes, yes my shoes always get more attention than anything else I’m wearing. That’s because I’m obsessed with Jeremy Scott’s designs, his are the only shoes I’ve worn for the last 3 years, minus a pair of Italian driving loafers. He is one of my favorite designers of all time, Alexander McQueen of course is my absolute favorite, but I will never meet him, unfortunately. So attending the Jeremy Scott party was The Highlight of my Basel (yes, I just possessed “Basel”). It begins to rain les chats et les chiens as I saunter in with my Go for Gold with Latest Wings 3.0. The rain cleared the dance floor. The DJ didn’t stop and someone covers him so the party can go on! I take cover quickly and realize that I’m right next to Mr. Jeremy Scott. We take a photo, chat about his awesome work, and then about 25 of us flood the stage and dance in the rain. The staff is freaking, people are jumping in the pool. I’m freaking the stage and feeling thankful again. This time for Swarovski for making a mobile phone attachment that makes my photo of Jeremy Scott so dreamy.
Another memorable event was the Ducati’s Scrambler party. I didn’t bring my Italian driving loafers to Miami this year, but I could smell the tasty Italian leather as I walked past a line of Lamborghinis outside the hotel, they were of all shapes and colors. One was painted in slated gold camouflage. [insert whistle] The attendees were beyond well dressed, Italy’s finest. Everyone I met could be a friend for life. Not sure why I’m mentioning this, maybe just to give you another side of Art Basel, or to keep the memory alive. Moving on…
Art Gaysel, definitely an honorable mention. It’s my fourth year at Art Basel and this year was the first that I found the subsection. Throughout Art Basel there seems to be something for everyone. I felt at home at the Hotel Gaythering’s Art Gaysel, back in the Castro in San Francisco where I grew up in the LGBT community. This painting is the only one that didn’t have a cock on it. Cheers!
Rocky Gathercole, the designer to the stars, brings controversy to many of his designs. He presents his spring-summer 2018 collection at Art Hearts Fashion Week in Beverly Hills. This collection brings Baroque period down the runway.
Rocky Gathercole At Los Angeles Fashion Week SS18 (Photo by Arun Nevader/Getty Images for Art Hearts Fashion)
Gathercole is a designer who as a teenager could not get a job as a janitor but he focused and achieved his dream of fashion. His designs now dress the top celebrities in Hollywood. His creation worn by Katy Perry, Paris Hilton, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Thalia, and more. His runways always come with intense design and beauty.
This collection draws from the Baroque period with drama, grandeur in sculpture, and print. The prints bring the old church stain glass to life in dramatic fashion. The details include exception beading adding texture and light to the designs.
Rocky Gathercole At Los Angeles Fashion Week SS18 (Photo by Arun Nevader/Getty Images for Art Hearts Fashion)
The collection brings awe as each piece makes it way down the runway. The menswear is sexually tantalizing with vests, waistcoats, and jackets, without shirts. The with the stain glass prints is decorative exuberance.
Rocky Gathercole SS18 Art Hearts Fashion LAFW (Photo by Arun Nevader/Getty Images)
The collections bring a strong modern flair to the Baroque style. This is a collection that many pieces are sure to be at holiday parties, red carpets, and award season.
Malan Breton opens Style Fashion Week in New York on the USS Intrepid. This is the second chapter, Edelweiss, in a three chapter collection for spring summer 2018. His collection influences are from Chopin, butterflies, nature, and music presented by Kristine W.
The Lament for Icarus, a painting Icarus representing being wrapped in love by Nymphs on his deathbed, is well represented in the collection at New York Fashion Week. Many fabrics and designs create a movement that is enveloping or flows with that dramatic effect.
The fabric prints and the appliques are representative of a beautiful spring day. The fabric print is perfectly designed to create a scene with the sense of a morning breeze with the movement. Mason Grammer looks stunning on the runway in off the shoulder gown. The movement and scenery much like a walk through nature near a creek. The appliques bring an alluring texture and representation of the nature theme. Watch for the collection on the red carpet soon.
Breton is a designer that knows the beauty of a woman’s form. His gowns bring sexiness and confidence to any woman. This season Breton brings suit for his womenswear. The suits add a touch of femininity and keep the woman’s form well represented. His suits incorporate the tailoring that he is known for in his menswear.
The menswear collection inspiration continues with blues found throughout. Blue is a pigment that is the rarest found in nature, the men’s collection draws in the night-time with hints of blues. The romance period from Chopin is clear in the collars on the jacket and dress shirts.
This is a collection for all with a touch of romance from the Chopin era, beautiful natural scenery, and movement, and will wrap the world in love.
Malan Breton, fashion designer, brings a story in three chapters for fall winter 2017. The chapters create a story that flows from New York Fashion Week, to London Fashion Week, and concludes in Los Angeles at Style Fashion Week. The collection brings a complete story from the chapters: Everywhere at the End of Time (New York), Living in the Moment in Fear (London), and Seven Deadly Sins (Los Angels).
The New York chapter is Everywhere at the End of Time. This chaptertakes us to the current times in the world now and brings about empowerment. The empowerment of women and those beingpoorly treated. The entire show from the dancers, to the opening model, Nykhor Paul bring the story to life.
The runway included celebrities models: Kiera Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter), Frankie Grande, Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin, Dylan Grieco, Mason Grammer, and Janine Tugonon. Each is a part of the weaving of the story about acceptance and hope.
Malan Breton London Fashion Week
London’s show at Freemasons Hall continues the collections’ story. This chapter is living in the moment of fear and darkness. Taking the color away from you. The loss of color a strong presence on the runway. The opening fabric for this chapter looks similar to a second skin. The music for the runway is Sleepwalk by Santo & Johnny.
Malan Breton Style Fashion Week FW17 LA
Los Angeles story chapter, the Seven Deadly Sins. This runwaybrings the story back to hope, light, and empowerment with the presence of color. The Phoenix in the triplet chapter story.
The collections’ stories are inspired by the 1930s, the loss of hope and death. The stories draw from Charlie Chaplin‘s 1930 films including City Lights and Modern Times. The collections present the story with perfection in fabrics, treatments, performances, and colors.
Malan Breton Style Fashion Week FW17 LA
The fabrics are Asian inspired. The fabrics are organzas, silk Charmeuse, and recycled piettes. The piettes are createdfrom recycled cans. Breton uses a company in Twain that cuts, colors, and treats the metal.
Breton says, “I do my bestwith my designs to protect the environment” This metallic dress moments and texture are extraordinary. Breton states, “the dress movement comes from the way I weighted and draped the dress. I am so grateful it turned out so well.”
Malan Breton Style Fashion Week FW17 LA
The color in this chapter is green (earth and rebirth), gold (prosperity and richness), and deep blue (continuous flow of life). The floral prints bring a beauty and a new beginning to the final chapter of the story.
Malan Breton Style Fashion Week FW17 LA
Breton’s chapters stay true to his aesthetics elegance. The men’s silhouettes are very on point. This collection Breton styled and designed himself. His stylist for several seasons, Montgomery Frazier The Image Guru, said, “we do not put anyone in anything that is ill-fitting. If it is ill-fitted they do not wear it. The textures and fabrics fit Breton’s catch line ‘wherever you go shine.’ The fabrics are rich, opulent, exquisite tailoring, and he is about the fashion. Being here with Breton is so glamorous at Style Fashion Week with the beautiful outdoor setting and jazz music.”
Breton develops his menswear after his own experience. He states, “when I was a ballet dancer in London and on Broadway every time I lifted my arm up when wearing a suit I would lose part of my sleeve. I knew I had to figure out how to cut a suit so I do not lose part of my sleeve. I trained at Turnbull And Asser, the suit makers for the Prince of Wales. He says, “I incorporate the English tradition I learned there with my development for the men’s suits.”
The fashion show stayed true to the designers’ aesthetic while completing the story started in New York. The beauty, tailoring, and signature detailing tell the story of hope, equality, and empowerment. Concluding with the image of renewing and shining wherever you are.
Badgley Mischka presents a collection at New York Fashion Week. It has been a little while since they produced a collection walk the runway. Last year instead of a runway collection they were on a book tour. “Badgley Mischka: American Glamour,” we had the honor of meeting with them during this time.
They discussed the runway and creating a collection. Runway designing compares to a wedding 6 months of really hard work and in five minutes it is over. It is exhilarating to see the full design and styling. Mark Badgley said, “it is like seeing your daughter on her wedding day.” They love the runway part of the fashion world.
Badgley Mischka NYFW FW17
This collection takes women back to a time when things were tough and how they power through these times. The collection takes silhouettes from the 1940s. A time in history that required women to power through tremulous times.
The collections take nipped waists, a sense of armor with the use of beads, and jewels, longer hems, and voluminous skirts. They do have the seasonal trends with embroidered flowers, red roses, play with the sleeves, and the color red. There is a real modern pull from the 1940s silhouettes.
Badgley and Mischka continues the tradition of exceptional details. They are known for their beading and embellishments; it is all in the details. The inspiration for their beading comes from jewelry. Many dresses may have up to 30,000 beads, beaded by old men in India. They consider themselves magpies when it comes to their beading collections.
This collection included everyday wear from tracksuits to cashmere coats with sleek pants. The designer did not take from their glamorous woman even with flats.
Every woman who wears Badgley Mischka will be super glamorous with comfort and modern sensibility (sizes to 16 on the website). This collection adds a sense of empowerment. These designs will grace red carpets, social gatherings, and on the streets.The designers demonstrated that it is all in the details at Badgley Mischka.
