Ava Capra ~ The Flower Girl
Ava Capra joins us on the red carpet at Metropolitan Fashion Week Closing Gala & Awards Show. She graces the red carpet in a gorgeous lace top double slit gown with her best friend Brandon Cole Bailey.
One year ago she was working the challenges on America’s Next Top Models (ANTM). She’s dream was to appear on ANTM and work the runway. There was a height requirement in seasons past. She was just a little shy of the need for the last season. Tyra Banks saw something in the 5’5″ model.
Capra works hard and focuses on the challenges on ANTM. She has a major look change and takes it in stride because this is her dream. She gains a following that loves seeing this young model make her dream come true. This experience is a fabulous opportunity for her. It is heartbreaking for viewers when her time ended too soon on ANTM.
She continues to focus on her goal of modeling and makes it very successful. She says, “I turned to my faith, family, and good friends to pick myself up. I learned a lot about myself and modeling. I knew this was my dream and I love the work.”
Capra has done just that. She graces the runways, the cover of magazines, red carpets and more. She commands the runway as if she is taller than life. Her runway shows have included Art Hearts Fashion Week, Metropolitan Fashion Week, LA Swim Week, and more. She is often called the flower Child Virgin and her flower brand, “Bloom by Ava.”
Her mother, Ann Marie, states, “Ava has worked hard to stay focused, true to herself, and is making her dream come true.” Her mother states it best. Capra during the last year after leaving ANTM accomplishes a lot. Tyra Banks saw something in Capra, but she continues to shows that something special. She brings a strong determination to fashion, runway, commercial, and beauty making her dreams come true.
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The Royal Gala ~ Where VIPs and Royals Shine
The Royal Gala is a night where all thing glamorous and beautiful shine. Her Highness Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi presents spring summer 2018 at Palazzo Versace in Dubai. This fashion show brings an exclusive runway for royal and VIPs of 10 international fashion designers.
This season hundreds of designers applied to take part in this exclusive fashion event. The fashion show narrowed the choice down to ten designers:
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The fashion is a poetic expression of creativity from her Highness Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi
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Emmanuelle Haute Couture
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This fashion is opulent materials and delicate embellishments are instruments of choice for each creation.
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Marwah Rabah
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She builds her fairytale creations using unique designs and precious resources.
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Creates a blend of extravagance with femininity ensuring your look is your own style story.
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R2 Abayas
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Is very modern, almost avant-garde twist to her abaya collection
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Cilvana Designs
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Makes everyone look beautiful, without the slightest compromise
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Celebrates the feminine figure in a sophisticated and elegant way
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Pilar del Campo
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Designed for the day-to-day of women who look to the future
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Offers the paneled print of an agave whose sinewy leaves climb up the fabric almost as if it wishes to embrace the forms and shades.
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House of Makta
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Fashion house design is classic chic, with a hand-made custom design which features delicate details.
The designers come from Spain, Italy, India, Iran and other countries. The fashion is versatile and full glamorous evening wear. The fabrics, embellishments, accessories, and shoes for high-end styling and fashion. The top fashion event is timeless classics and modern twists.
“This by-invitation-only event was graced by royalties from all over the world, including Malaysia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain etc. Consuls and ambassadors of different countries were also in attendance as well as top fashion influencers and social media personalities.” (Her Highness Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi). The evening included dinner and a thank you speech by Her Highness Sheikha Hend. What an evening for sparkle, glam, and elegance.
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Wherever You Go, Shine ~ Malan Breton
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 chapter takes us to the current times in the world now and brings about empowerment. The empowerment of women and those being poorly 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.
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.
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.
The fabrics are Asian inspired. The fabrics are organzas, silk Charmeuse, and recycled piettes. The piettes are created from 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.”
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.
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.
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The Glamour of the 1940s ~ Badgley and Mischka
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.
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.
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Bangladesh Meets New York Runway ~ Zoan Ash
Sultana Ash, the designer for the Zoan Ash Couture label, brings Bangladesh beauty, glamour, and royalty richness to the New York Runway. The recently launched label hits Style Fashion Week with couture for every woman who loves feeling elite.
The labeled launched April 2016 in Bangladesh in the heart of the shopping center Concord Colosseum. The launch was well accepted and stated to be, “amalgamation of royal personal expression that is inspired by wanderlust.” Zoan Ash website
Ash bringing her fall-winter 2017 to New York is a dream comes true. This collection brings a richness with the fabric choice, colors, and detailed embellishments and embroidery. Luxurious golds fill the collection from the details to the fabric choice. Each embellishment is well thought out with the design, embellishment, and fabric.
The richness ties back to the labels origination of Bangladesh. The Swarovski crystals, rhinestone, gold and silver ornamentations capture the light at the right location adding a beautiful accent to a woman’s form.
The texture and volume are created with the use of ruffles, lace, and trains. The lace brings a strong sense of romance and femininity. The ruffles bring a volume to the dresses creating a spirited fun. The trains provide a great movement in the gowns that are perfect for red carpets, formal evenings, and more.
The designer continues with the seasonal trends seen during New York Fashion Week. She has some play on sleeves, exceptional dresses in beautiful red, and sheer design for a beautiful sex appeal.
The couture collection includes cocktail dresses for a less formal evening. These designs are full of just as many details. The design provides a fun flirty sense for an evening out.
The collection inspirations, “beauty and sophistication,” is seen in each detail of every design. The fall-winter collection stays true to the labels aesthetics of elegance, sexy, and beauty from the designer’s homeland, Bangladesh. The collection comes to Style Fashion Week in New York bringing an elite design for the next glamorous moment, including The Oscars.
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New York Fashion Week Trends Spring Summer 2018
New York Fashion Week brings the best in ready-wear, glamour, and diversity to the spring summer 2018 runway. The designers are showing all over the beautiful city from New York Fashion Week (NYFWO). The season brings returning trends and exciting new ones.
Floral carry over from the winter trends. Many designers like Tadashi Shoji present appliquéd floral, while Christian Siriano presents a beautiful floral print in his collection. There is a variety of floral this season winter trend was roses. The trend on sleeves continues with a flair. The straps on many looks on the runway have ties or embellishments added to them. The sleeve trends include adding texture to the sleeves.
The spring-summer collections bring a play on angles, geometric shapes, pleats, and ruffles. This brings a touch of femininity, texture, shape, volume, and movement to spring summer fashion.
Desigual presented a runway that was more drama, acting, and dancing. Watching the show it was easy to forget this was a fashion show. The runway look and styling very ethereal, bold colors, with a jungle feel. The collection uses geometric shapes trend. This is the first show under creative director Jean-Paul Goude. The runway collection is full of multicultural diversity and fun.
Embracing diversity at the runway shows at New York Fashion Week. The runways filled with multicultural, people of all ages, and body image embracing. Ashley Graham, body activist, presents a runway celebrating all women. You can follow her conversation at #BeautyBeyondSize.
New York Fashion Week is fashion everywhere. The fashion and trends will bring great insight for your personal styling. The conversation and influence continue through Wednesday.
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The Skin We Are In ~ Honee Persona
Honee Persona presents fall winter 2017 fashion collection at Style Fashion Week Los Angeles. This collection is about identity. We get to choose who we are on the inside at any moment and create our fashion on that choice.
The collection looks at the layers of being comfortable in the skin we are in. “Since the beginning of time, we have made choices. Fashion is also a choice,” states Persona. She is a graduate of the Art Institute of California. This collection is Asian fusion with Kabuki styling. She created rope hair extensions weaved in the hair. This collection awarded best in hair and makeup at New York Fashion Week.
Persona brings an industrial design background to her runway collection. She incorporates this in her fashion. The material used for this collection are unconventional. She uses plastic chiffon. The material made from recycled plastic and turned into chiffon. She combines this with metals. The two unconventional materials create sculptures in the collection.
The collection is about identity and how deeply we express ourselves. The layers we choose to wear describes who we are at the moment. The menswear is a take on a super hero, inside is outside. The menswear is masculine and strong. We have to ask ourselves how do we express ourselves in the skin we are in.
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Thomas Wylde Runway and Backstage Photos
Thomas Wylde presents a see runway and buy today concept at Style Fashion Week. The collection creates beauty out of something sad.
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Alicia Machado and Daughter Stun With Grace and Beauty
Alicia Machado graces the red carpet with her beauty in a gold form-fitting gown at the Metropolitan Fashion Week at Warner Brother Studios Saturday evening. She brings a bright smile and personality to the event. She becomes the spotlight of the media and is surrounded.
She recently became the forefront of the presidential campaign. When Hillary Clinton’s campaign released the details of being Miss Universe 1996. She took a lot slack at that time from Donald Trump. The difficult days were not as easy as she faced much criticism. The woman she is today brought forward her strength as one who stands tall and one has learned a lot about the beautiful woman she is inside and out.
Alicia stands with great strength and courage as she addresses the press on the blue carpet. She takes a moment to thank all those who support her throughout this time. She said, “I love you all, I love you all and thank you very much for all the people who are supporting me right now.”
Alicia presents the award for Outstanding Ensemble for Makeup Artistry and hair styling. This was presented to The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’s make-up artist Eryn Krueger Mekash.
Alicia’s daughter, Dinorah Valentina Hernandez, walks the red carpet for designer Ricardo Soltero. This dress is a soft pink with gold trim on the bottom. Her styling is soft with pink roses adorning her head. She enjoyed her moment on the runway.
Her mother, Alicia, did not let the controversy stop her daughter from walking the runway for the day. She faces the controversy with firmness and a bright smile. The lesson for her daughter and many at the event is to keep moving one foot in front of the other. Demonstrating that life continues and we move forward.
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