Kate Moss

Hey,

So I found out today that Kate Moss' designing career for Topshop is coming to an end. She's been designing for Topshop since 2007 and has made and designed 14 successful collections. She was once designing six collections a year! The reason for this end? Sir Philip Green said "[the designs] take more and more time and she cannot do this full-time any more." The rumours suggest that her collections were "running out of steam". This is not the complete end of the collaboration Kate is meant to be still designing but a smaller collection containing 12-15 items. Instead of the 80 plus that are in her last collection that is meant to be released in October. The only thing I find weird about this is the collection is a summer collection and it's being released in October that doesn't really make sense as it consists of shorts and summer dresses and really were looking for winter woollies and warm trousers.

Fabsugar the website has a "sneak preview" of the whole collection I don't like much of it but I love this one dress.

Check out the collection here: http://www.fabsugar.com/Kate-Moss-Topshop-Summer-2010-8487512?page=0,0,0#16

Beth
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People Tree

Hey,

Emma Watson, the Harry Potter actress has recently featured in One Night Only's music video along side her reported boyfriend George Craig the lead singer of the band. He's also a model and they modelled together for Burberry. 

Emma Watson endorses a great company, it's called People Tree and it's an online clothing store but the difference is all the clothing is fair trade! Emma even went to Bangladesh to find out how much of a difference fair trade makes. 

The actual collection isn't necessarily to my taste it seems more targeted for the 30-50 year olds but the youth collection especially "love from Emma" is really nice it's mainly preppy looking but I personally love it!

Check out the site here: http://www.peopletree.co.uk/

Beth

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Wearable Technology

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Yesterday I found this new site. I use JustJared all the time for my celebrity gossip but this one has UK celebrity gossip and a UK fashion site aswell. I was looking through the last couple of posts on the fashion site and one caught my attention. It was about wearable technology, Katy Perry wore a light up dress to the Met gala in May I think it's a beautiful dress lighting up blue, pink and green and it really suited her personality.


This article was saying that the company that made Perry's dress is looking to take it to the regular consumer. So I thought I'd check out the website. The idea of clothing having technology in it is a great idea but then actually making a good product that will sell is a little more tricky. This site had some "Twirkle T-shirts" which are T-shirts covered in LED lights that change colour when you move, these start at £90. They also have "Disc leggings" that are the same to the T-shirts with LED lights making up many discs. Personally I hate them they look horrible and just the describtion puts me off "stretchy Lycra/elastane shiny black leggings" even the model doesn't seem happy wearing them! They also have a "Hug shirt" that was apparently one of the best inventions of 2006, it uses bluetooth to recreate a hug. To be honest I don't understand it nor do I see the point of it. Another one of their weird inventions is a black dress that has a mobile phone in it. You answer your call by raising your arm and hang up by lowering your arm. I can sort of see the point if you don't want to take a bag around with you and you don't have pockets but I'm not sure the way to approach this was to put the phone in a dress. I can't see many of these designs actually taking off so I therefore believe any technology clothing is completely ludicrous and unnecessary.


Check out the fashion website: http://www.fabsugar.co.uk/
And the cutecircuit products: http://www.cutecircuit.com/products/

Beth
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The September Issue continued

Hey,

So as i posted yesterday I watched the whole of "The September Issue" a documentary on Vogue. It was very interesting, they also went more into Anna Wintour's history and her life. In one part of the documentary she was at home with her daughter asking her which cover she likes best. Her daughter says she has alot of respect for her mum but there is no chance she will go into fashion she's heading for law school. Anna Wintour replied saying "there's still time". Another thing I found interesting about Anna Wintour is she has 2 brothers and a sister and she said they think what she does is "amusing" she didn't seem to imply that they supported her at all which I found very sad. I know her dad supported her, he was the editor of the London Standard and from an early age put the idea in her head to be the editor of Vogue.

There were alot of fashion designers in the documentary they went to see their collection and whether they would feature it in their magazine. Also to my satisfaction two of my favourite photographers were featured; Mario Testino and Patrick Demarchelier. Mario Testino was doing the Sienna Miller photoshoot in Rome, they had a little problem as there wasn't many final photo's to choose from and the magazine really wanted the Colosseum photo but Mario said that it didn't work for him. All the photos looked amazing I especially like the 1920's piece which used all the old outfits and the photographs used a soft filter, unfortunately a few of these got scrapped from the issue. Even the cameraman of the documentary got in the issue! He went to a fashion shoot and ended up in the photoshoot "filming" the model. When Anna Wintour saw them she liked them very much but told Bob, the camera man "some alterations were needed" and he "should go to the gym", the other editor Grace made sure that they didn't edit out Bob's stomach.

Very good and interesting film but has pretty much persuaded me that I would only like to work for vogue if I were a photographer, it's a bit crazy and too stressful for me!

Beth
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The September Issue

Hey,

I'm currently watching a channel 4 documentary about Vogue. It's called "The September Issue" and shows what's put in to the run-up to the release of the September issue of Vogue. The famous Anna Wintour doesn't seem as scary as I imagined I always pictured her as the Meryl Streep boss in "The Devil Wears Prada". She's obviously not everyone's best friend but she knows her stuff and she goes about her business. I'll blog tomorrow about the whole show.

Beth
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The Romantics

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Tom Cruise's wife Katie Holmes is starring in a new Romantic film called "The Romantics" beside Josh Duhamel. J.Crew clothing has taken the release of this film to assist their advertising. They've used the cast of "The Romantics" film to shoot the advertising campaign for their fall collection. I think this is a great idea as it connects film and fashion together. The actors all look amazing and the photos are great. They're really fun and makes the clothing feel fun even though the guys are wearing suits and the girls are in party dresses. There are alot of cooky poses and the cast-mates interact so well. This is my favourite shot: 

Check out the other shots here: http://www.jcrew.com/AST/Navigation/Romantics.jsp

Beth
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Britney

Hello,

Today I have seen new promotional shots for Britney Spears' clothing line for Candies. She's already been the face of Candies modelling for them before. Britney famously released the before and after shots of photoshopping of herself modelling a pink bathing suit for Candie's.

As you can see her waist has been taken in, her legs have been made skinnier and blemish free and her bum has been made smaller and more rounded. Luckily for Britney she looks great in both before and after and they haven't had to drastically change her just retouch her here and there. 

In her latest shoots she has also been retouched looking noticeably younger and more fresh than we have recently seen her. She does look stunning though. Her clothing line consists of tops, jeans, jackets and her favourite item from the line a black trench coat. She has been quoted saying "I wanted to make the clothes cool and edgy yet girly" well I think she's succeeded with a very good, well-rounded, buy-able clothing line.

Check it out here: http://www.candies.com/

Beth 

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Gucci Guilty

Hey,

Sorry for not blogging on the last two nights so that's why I'm blogging this morning.

I've found a Gucci commercial for their new "Gucci Guilty" fragrance and I was intrigued as it was different from normal fragrance commercials as it seemed more like a film trailer.

The director of this commercial is the film director Frank Miller who directed Sin City. The titles including the staring actors Evan Rachel Wood and Chris Evans flash up on screen.

The big thing that I found different was that this was only a preview of the whole commercial the full version will air during the 2010 MTV VMAs. This has been done a lot with the Twilight film series where they release the full clip at a big event.

As for the actual preview of the commercial it certainly doesn't feel like it's selling a fragrance and it personally doesn't pull me in or want me to buy it, but maybe the actual commercial will be different and make more sense.

Check out the video here: http://apps.facebook.com/gucciguilty/

Beth
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Trends

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So I did some research today for my EPQ project in which I'm trying to research into whether fashion should reflect the age of wearer. For this I went into many fashions stores and analysed the clothing and trends and the set out of the store all to discover who the store was targeting.

Anyways as I went in at least 15 stores I got a good idea of the trends that are coming in this season. For colours they were mainly neutrals so lots of beige, cream and brown. But a peachy pink colour was prominent in all shops. As for shoes; ankle boots seem to be this seasons shoe trend most of them were flat but there were some heeled shoe boots that were noticeably in a few stores.   

The winter knitwear is just coming in so it's the awkward mid-season ranges at the moment still with summer clothing mainly in the sales though and cardigans and jumpers as full price.

Beth
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WWD Online

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I've found this website the other day called WWD. It's a good fashion website with a lot of fashion articles and events such as fashion shows and even retail and business. It's definitely a news website but I've found it seems slightly confusing on navigation. I found this website through some photographs, Kristen Bell did a photoshoot with Diego Uchitel just for this website. I thought the photo's were very elegant and stylish. This is my favourite shot:


I really like the use of diagonals in this photo and also the arches in the background. Kristen looks amazing and I love her dress which is a Balmain design. Balmain is a French designer, I've had a quick look at the latest collection and the dresses, especially look gorgeous! I love Kristen's hair and her Gianvito Rossi boots that go so well with the dress. The whole set up and styling to these photo's are perfect.

Check out the rest of the photo's here
Balmain website: http://www.balmain.com/
WWD website: http://www.wwd.com/

Beth
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The City

Hey,

I used to watch a reality show called "The Hills" and I really enjoyed it as it followed a California girl, Lauren Conrad, who got an internship at Teen Vogue. Obviously it included a lot of her personal life but the reason I watched it was to get an idea of what it's like behind the scenes working at a fashion magazine.

E4 unfortunately stopped showing it but recently I have found that channel five is showing the spin-off show which is called "The City" and this follows Whitney, Lauren's friend who moved to New York city to work for designer Diane Von Furstenberg. Five is currently showing season 2 where Whitney is working for People's Revolution a PR company but her friend Olivia is working at Elle Magazine. This is what pulled me in as I get to see what kind of thing she has to do at Elle magazine. She often gets sent out to research stuff and she always has to find her accessories and get a good range to feature in an article in the magazine.

My favourite thing to watch is them dealing with fashion shoots as I love to see how it works and also a catwalk show which I remember from "The Hills" where Whitney and Lauren had to call out the models to get them out on the catwalk and they also had to help seat the guests. This really gives me a good idea of what I might expect from the fashion industry.

Beth
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Project D

Hey,

This week is the season finale of Danni Minogue: Style Queen on ITV2. I watched this last week as there was nothing else on TV and I actually quite enjoyed it.

It had a lot about her new clothing line that she's brought out. It's called Project D and it's a collaboration between Danni and her friend, Tabitha Somerset-Webb, a handbag and accessory designer.

In the program I watched they were trying to sell the collections to a store and they managed to get Selfridges to stock it. The collection is full of beautiful dresses, consisting of long and short evening dresses. There aren't many styles but this is just the start of her collection so hopefully she'll add some different clothing items.

Check out the collection here: http://www.projectdonline.co.uk/collection/

Beth
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Dereon

Hey,

I've just discovered today that Beyonce has her own clothing line with her Mum Tina Knowles. She's released some photos for this.


The style was commented as being "1960s pinup girl meets futuristic biker chick". The photo's are pretty cool with her wearing fake tattoos all of her body of various different things including lizards and spiders.

Her clothing line includes almost everything including footwear, jewellery, handbags and eye wear.  Everything is pretty cute and very Beyonce fierce.

Check out Dereon here: http://www.dereon.com/#/home/

Beth
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Armani Jeans

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So earlier in the month I told you that Megan Fox was the new face of Giorgio Armani cosmetics, and that she's already the face of Armani Jeans. They've released some photo's for the 2010-2011 fall/winter ad campaign. Megan Fox looks amazing and I think Armani chose well to have her, it must be difficult for brands to choose a celebrity as it could either boost or dive bomb their success and especially as these actors aren't models so they don't necessarily have and do everything a model knows to do.


Beth
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Willow Smith

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Celebrities children have become part of the lime light possibly stepping into their parents shoes or maybe getting there own publicity. Obviously it's easy to follow the children as they grow up for example all the Beckham kids and the Jolie-Pitt family. But recently I have been noticing Will Smith's daughter Willow Smith not for any new film or music career but because of her style. She's 9 years old and has got her own rocky-edgy style going on. Most 9 year old girls I would still expect in pretty pink dresses, but I guess this is what comes from being exposed to all the different clothes and stylists and basically the Hollywood lifestyle.

She's been seen doing a photo shoot in which she supports a painted ear outline. She's even setting her own trend with tweeters saying "I'm about 2 pull a willow smith hair cut O_O".

I'm never sure about children who don't act their age, and I recently believe it's becoming a big thing for kids to act more like adults especially with the technology now a days.  


Beth
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Emma Watson

Hey,

I have already blogged about hair styles and I said that one of the main summer hairstyles was a pixie cut and today the big news was that the Harry Potter star Emma Watson has cut her hair into a pixie cut. She says that she's "wanted to do this for years and years" I assume she couldn't cut her hair due to playing Hermione who has long hair. Emma Watson said "it's most liberating thing ever".

I'm not sure whether I like it or not she looks very different but very grown up, I think it may help her scrap her Harry Potter image.

Beth
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New Face of Giorgio Armani cosmetics

Hey,

Brands have often found that having a celebrity to endorse it or as the face of their campaigns can help make they're brand more successful. Aswell as bringing in the celebrity's fans it also attracts the media which gives free advertising.

So recently the face of Madonna's clothing line, Taylor Momsen, celebrated the release of the clothing line by performing at the launch at Macy's store in New York.

And it has been revealed that former Transformers star Megan Fox is the new face of Giorgio Armani Cosmetics. She's already the face of Armani Jeans and Emporio Armani Women's Underwear which she has modelled for in the advertising campaign. Megan Fox told WWD about being chosen as the face of Giorgio Armani Cosmetics saying "I'm honoured to be associated with him and part of this campaign".

Beth
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Vanity Fair Best Dressed List

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So in the latest issue of Vanity Fair which features Lady Gaga on the cover have an article on the 2010 international best dressed list. I found this quite interesting as they don't just feature celebrities as I expected, there's jewellers, royalty and artists. The number one best dressed is a heiress Tatiana Santo Domingo and the last one, number 44, footballer David Beckham. The best thing I found with this list was that is was all done on individual taste and individuality. The queen of individuality, Lady Gaga being seen at number 26.

Check out the list here: http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2010/09/the-international-best-dressed-list-slide-show-201009#slide=4

Beth
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Vera Wang

Hey,

This week it was big in America that Hillary and Bill Clinton's daughter got married. She looked beautiful in a Vera Wang wedding dress. This is the best known and most desired designer for wedding dresses. In the film "Bride Wars" Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson fight over the perfect Vera Wang wedding dress. Also recently the pregnant Alicia Keys got married in another beautiful Vera Wang wedding dress.

Check out the wedding dresses at the Vera Wang site: http://www.verawang.com/wedding/allgowns/#/?

I love all of them as they are so graceful and beautifully designed they look stunning. But my favourites are number 10 as I love the skirt and it's design, number 28 although simple I love how the skirt flows to the floor and number 42 is so beautiful the design is marvellous and the corset is stunning and it goes perfectly with the long flowing skirt.

Beth
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