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

Hey,

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
xoxo

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

Hey,

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
xoxo

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 

xoxo