January 2012
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Want: Free People daisy dress
It may be that the presence of Karlie Kloss in the look book helps to sell it; but we can’t help thinking that this Free People daisy dress with lace cut-out detailing at the waist is the kind of piece you’d end up wearing to death. It’s available in red, but the ivory colour is definitely our pick.
Find it at Free People; and you can also view more of Karlie Kloss’...
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Geometric poolside playground
This new poolside shoot from Benjamin McCloghry is stretching the mould in the right ways, playing not to the opportunity for bikinis and swimwear that such a setting brings, but rather to its geometric playground of colour.
Against those painted blue triangles and orange stripes Isabelle Richards’ styling stands out all the more. Sheer bodysuits, high waisted bloomers; an open-weave knit...
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Geometric poolside playground
This new poolside shoot from Benjamin McCloghry is stretching the mould in the right ways, playing not to the opportunity for bikinis and swimwear that such a setting brings, but rather to its geometric playground of colour.
Against those painted blue triangles and orange stripes Isabelle Richards’ styling stands out all the more. Sheer bodysuits, high waisted bloomers; an open-weave knit...
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Under and over: Nick Wooster
Ah Pitti Uomo. All the stylish men in the world (or so it seems) together in one of the most beautiful cities. The styles tend to swing heavily between the intoxicatingly edgy and the immaculately dandy and this year the trade fair looks to have surpassed itself on both counts. Here Nick Wooster adds weight to our theory that the slicked back undercut is one of the mens hairstyles to try this...
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September show dates for London & New York
With the showings for Autumn / Winter 2012 just having kicked off it’s only a little surprising to learn that behind the scenes planning is already well under way for the September showings later in the year. Just announced are the dates for New York Fashion Week, 6th - 13th of September and London Fashion Week 14th - 18th September.
So excuse us whilst we scribble these dates into our...
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Art Deco fashion: the new take
Graphics, geometric lines and abstract shapes can remind you of two things simultaneously – a high school mathematics class and the Art Deco period from the early 1930s.
It was a time in fashion when inanimate objects started influencing textile workers. Today, designers thrive through that system of getting their inspiration from arts and architecture. Call it a movement of frivolity and...
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Ladylike lessons from W
Eight themes for spring 2012, eight miniature styling lessons. But this shoot for W Magazine doesn’t base its class curriculum around the most casual of clothing. Instead it’s steeped in femininity, the kinds of styling ideas you’d take with you after nightfall or to any occasion where the most ladylike of attire will elevate your mood.
Edward Enninful’s styling takes us...
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Boys of Baroque: Dolce & Gabbana men's
A running theme through the menswear component of Milan fashion week (MFW) seems to be a harking back to tradition. Perhaps there’s a safety, a comfort, in going back to familiar territory; and for Dolce & Gabbana’s fall /winter 2012 collection that territory could only be Italy.
Giuseppe Verdi provided the dramatic soundtrack to Italian tailoring and Baroque details. The design...
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Fashgasm 16.1.2012
16.1.2012
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Photography by Ronald Falloon including Jean Shrimpton & Twiggy
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How to: doe-eyed beauty look
With braids encircling the head like a halo, this mix of subtle champagne shimmer, false lashes and pink lips looks divinely doe-eyed and angelic. But it’s the kind of 2012 beauty look worth keeping up your sleeve: mix it up with some bouffant bed hair and it works just as well for creating that Brigitte Bardot youthful sex kitten look.
Deceptively natural, this is the kind of look that...
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Cracked skies and Codie Young
Is this a nightmare, or is this a dream?
The banished God Bauhaus sang about, the false prophets and beliefs led astray, seem to be called up in the dramatica of A God In An Alcove, photographed by Thom Kerr for New Zealand’s Black Magazine. Codie Young, with that face that could be complete innocence or the promise of something dark, puts in all the right emotion. And Kerr’s visions...
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Cracked skies and Codie Young
Is this a nightmare, or is this a dream?
The banished God Bauhaus sang about, the false prophets and beliefs led astray, seem to be called up in the dramatica of A God In An Alcove, photographed by Thom Kerr for New Zealand’s Black Magazine. Codie Young, with that face that could be complete innocence or the promise of something dark, puts in all the right emotion. And Kerr’s visions...
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At the Carriageworks
She has one of those killer figures, enviable hair and piercing blue eyes. With Sydney’s Carriageworks as the backdrop - an abandoned train carriageway redeveloped into an industrial-styled cultural centre - Scott McGinlay took these photos of model Caileigh Distin, and played to her strenghts.
In two words, simple yet sexy. You can view all of McGinlay’s shoot at the gallery...
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Hairspiration: bobbed Louise Pedersen
We recently delved into the benefits of a bob that doesn’t require a pair of scissors: this waved, toussled bob, a modern update on something you might have spotted on a 1920s flapper girl. But whether it’s this or one of the other major hairstyles for 2012, we’re always welcoming of any visual inspiration on getting the style right. Cue this shoot from the January issue of Elle...
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Must see, must listen: Sunday Morning Coming Down
Kestrin tells me she loves synchronicites. The day before she sent us her follow up installment to Cello Bound, I’d had a lengthy discussion with a friend about the song Sunday Morning Coming Down. Lo and behold, it’s Kestrin’s latest choice of song; her recording more popish than Kris Kristofferson’s original, but more wistful than the peppy orchestration of Johnny Cash;...
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Prada's power players: men's F/W '12
Miuccia Prada cast more than models in her fall / winter 2012 menswear show: she cast actors. Not just any actors, and not the typically chisel-jawed, pop culture icons either. Walking the Milan fashion week (MFW) runway were strong, silent types that excel at their craft, win awards for it, are icons of a more enduring kind.
They epitomised the mood of the collection. Serious, but laced with...
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Fashgasm 15.1.2012
15.1.2012
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Evan Rachel Wood: Flaunt Magazine (NSFW)
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Retro dreams: Prada's full campaign
Hot rods, hot rod heels, headscarves; prints, pleats, pinned hair in waves. How many hot things of the season can you fit into one campaign?
Prada manages all that and more in their ’50s themed campaign for spring 2012, photographed by Steven Meisel.
Starring Kati Nescher, Meghan Collison, Natasha Poly, Elise Crombez, Ymre Stiekema & Kathryn Kruger, you can view the full Prada...
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Weekend distraction: Zuzana Gregorova
Just another lingerie shoot? Yes and no. It has all the elements of one: gorgeous model, sultry lingerie pieces, glamorous styling. But Zuzana Gregorova brings a little something extra to the shoot, as romanced by the lens of David Bellemere.
From the pages of Elle Russia’s February 2012 issue, you can view the rest at the gallery above.
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Fashgasm 15.1.2012
15.1.2012
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Julia Stegner: Vogue Germany February ‘12 (NSFW)
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Burberry Prorsum's modern Gentlemen
Adventuring from ancient cultures to colonies must have taken its toll on Christopher Bailey: his menswear collection for Burberry Prorsum autumn (fall) / winter 2012 lands us firmly back on British soil.
Replacing spring’s ikat prints and exotic Africana are heritage elements that epitomise the British gentleman. That much was clear from start to finish at the Milan fashion week (MFW)...
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5 weekend reads: Hollywood power stylists; the...
What does it take to become a Hollywood power stylist? Why do so many men’s clothing stores line their walls with dusty old books? And is there a willpower trick to maintaining your New Years resolutions?
We won’t answer all those questions, but our round up of 5 articles to read over coffee this weekend just might. Find them after the break.
In no particular order, here are 5...
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5 weekend reads: Hollywood power stylists; the...
What does it take to become a Hollywood power stylist? Why do so many men’s clothing stores line their walls with dusty old books? And is there a willpower trick to maintaining your New Years resolutions?
We won’t answer all those questions, but our round up of 5 articles to read over coffee this weekend just might. Find them after the break.
In no particular order, here are 5...
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5 weekend reads: Hollywood power stylists; the...
What does it take to become a Hollywood power stylist? Why do so many men’s clothing stores line their walls with dusty old books? And is there a willpower trick to maintaining your New Years resolutions?
We won’t answer all those questions, but our round up of 5 articles to read over coffee this weekend just might. Find them after the break.
In no particular order, here are 5...
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The power cut: Sarah Stephens
This is a straightforward editorial about colour, and cut, and jewels. There’s no story as such but then, not everything has to have a story when it comes to fashion. It’s about having alternatives for after the night falls, about tailored jackets worn bare underneath bar for a toned decolletage and the right accessories, about the way a bold hairstyle - like a sharp bob with a micro...
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The power cut: Sarah Stephens
This is a straightforward editorial about colour, and cut, and jewels. There’s no story as such but then, not everything has to have a story when it comes to fashion. It’s about having alternatives for after the night falls, about tailored jackets worn bare underneath bar for a toned decolletage and the right accessories, about the way a bold hairstyle - like a sharp bob with a micro...
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Burberry men's show: watch the live stream
As the anticipation becomes palpable amoung Milan fashion week’s menswear crowd, those at home can have the rare experience of sharing that excitement in real time. Not for every show - but for the fall 2012 menswear collection of Burberry Prorsum, leaders of the pack in both fashion and technology trends. For Burberry Prorsum access to the runway goes far beyond the front row - reaching...
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Lost photos of Jean Shrimpton revealed
Before effortlessness was a thing to be engineered, photographer Ronald Falloon threw his denim shirt onto Jean Shrimpton and took these photos.
The photos were for the first ever Sunday Telegraph supplement but never ended up going to print. It’s clear from the simple tests why Shrimpton was such a celebrated model, bringing beauty with absolute ease to the simplest of looks. It’s...
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Evan Rachel Wood strips off for Von Unwerth
Evan Rachel Wood was born for Ellen Von Unwerth’s lens. She’s always flaunted a dark side, sexual side, self-confessed bisexual side, the kinds of qualities that Unwerth loves to bring out in any subject. In this shoot for Flaunt Magazine, a short-haired Wood is styled by Brett Bailey to sometimes look flapper-esque, sometimes masculinely sexy - with no shyness to display a little bare...
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Fashgasm 13.1.2012
13.1.2012
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Emily DiDonato: Vogue Mexico, January ‘12
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Styling for when dusk falls
Serge Leblon nails the feeling of a spring afternoon that’s cooled by a dimming sky and a growing breeze. The gauzy layers worn by Sasha Pivovarova in the spring 2012 campaign for Club Monaco are the kind you near can’t go wrong with, while the additions of relaxed tailored pieces and Naval inspired pea-coats and stripes are styling inspiration for when the chill intensifies.
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Showstopping Daria Werbowy
It is, perhaps, one of the most pristine takes on the year’s rockabilly hair revival that we’ve seen to date. In fact, everything about Vogue Paris’ February cover is an ultra-glamorous modern take on the 1950s: the bejewelled Prada bodysuit, the drippings of diamonds, and then - changing the entire feel of the outfit - a masculine hairstyle turned pretty.
Without the hard rock...
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Best of British: 5 to watch
Dew Magazine is back with another instalment of Best of British: this time featuring 5 outfits by 5 of Britain’s best kept up-and-coming designer secrets. For the bold creativity that bubbles forth from these designers you need an equally creative team behind the lens to do the pieces justice. Hakim Satriyo is that photographer for Dew’s pre-January 2012 issue, with styling by Aldi...
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Best of British: 5 to watch
Dew Magazine is back with another instalment of Best of British: this time featuring 5 outfits by 5 of Britain’s best kept up-and-coming designer secrets. For the bold creativity that bubbles forth from these designers you need an equally creative team behind the lens to do the pieces justice. Hakim Satriyo is that photographer for Dew’s pre-January 2012 issue, with styling by Aldi...
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No sleep til Brooklyn
Another girl, another fight / Another drive all night.
Hadriel Gonzalez’s girl is a wanderer, up all night with a hotel as her home. She’s also ultra glamorous - styled by Ford Artists’ Carla Loo (carlaloo.com) into furs over sheers, skinny velvet pants, maxidresses and rockstar hair.
For the rest of the shoot, head to the gallery above.
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Blackgold(finger)
Goldfinger, quintessential villain of the James Bond franchise, smothered his victims in gold paint. Cinematically the result is enduringly iconic; a beautifully woman lying naked, glittering like liquid gold. In the more recent Quantum of Solace an homage to that iconic scene comes by way of another Bond Girl death: Strawberry Fields, played by Gemma Arterton, suffers death by oil slick - a...
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The noir anti-hero: Andres Velencoso
This is a men’s editorial that does sharp without being corporate and dangerous without getting too close to the edge. It’s all wearable, and strongly masculine as styled by Chabela Garcia.
But the Hunter & Gatti photographed shoot stands out for more than that. Model Andrés Velencoso is dirty, smudged with grease, his hands are bloodied and he has a Roy Batty “tears in...
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Hippie revival revival: Elizabeth and James
Elizabeth and James has always been the younger, more casual little sister to The Row, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s luxury clothing line. Never was that truer than for spring 2012, where tops are slouchy and cut with dropped armholes, where cotton has the recognisable hippie splatter of tie-dye, and where shorts are cut short enough to reveal the pockets.
In fact the hippie feel is the...
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Fashgasm 12.1.2012
12.1.2012
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Lindsey, Jac & Ruby: Just Cavalli S/S ‘12 Campaign
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Polished up boho
A vintage retro-print dress that oozes 70s bohemian glamour. You could swathe it in clashing prints and attach a pair of vintage boots and keep the whole thing sitting on the hippie-grunge side of the fence. But this dress’s wearer pulls it off with complete polish: heels, long-line knit, the perfect addition of a sunshine yellow floppy hat.
Snapped by Mr Newton in Paris this look is a...
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Sorapol's cartoon fairytale couture
These out-there outfits are the outfits fairytales dream about. Meanwhile most of us in waking life wouldn’t dream about wearing some of these pieces down the street; but even the most creatively outlandish are still a marvel to look at. Others - like a vibrant blue tail-hemmed dress or this soft, pink, fringed number - have the head-turning capacity of something theatrical, without...