for Spring / Summer 2010 the D & G bois reaching out to their grass root customer through Youtube.
Dolce & Gabbana trend for Spring / Summer 2010
color: Black and animal print
lace / fish net / black solid color
masculine vs feminine (suit pant / bustier)
this is a trend that getting more and more popular, and a new portal for marketing.
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel
TIME Magazine’s name her as of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. From the spay of he famous Chanel’s #5 (her lucky number) on her stair to welcome her home where she had make it into history as the woman created a modern way to dress for women.
A rare look into her apparent unchanged since her death 1971. Her art collections like a massive 12 panels, Coromandel Folding Lacquer Screen and superstitious objects like a crystal ball.
Check out our earlier post : Coco Chanel movie
new anticipated collection from Phoebe Philo’s for Celine Spring/Summer 2010/ Paris.
see more at douglasjchen.com
check out the videos
video with commentary from Vogue editor /
show report Vogue article and more pictures
as a designer, I have my fair share of designs copied by bigger manufacture, that’s why I work on a more avant garde culture project. The cut/painting/embroidered and beading, make its harder to copy at a production level with out losing the essence of the design.
The copyright issue come up during London fashion week, at Trelise Cooper show. One of the her design for the 2010 summer collection have already been on sale at a British chain store since July 2009.
Trelise Cooper's (left) / Topshop UK store (right)
In July, London-based designer Markus Lupfer released a grey jersey with the same red ribbon embroidery through Topshop.
Cooper said she had documentary proof of her chain of supply and timeline and that she had not seen Lupfer’s design until approached after her show at Fashion Week. “I didn’t even know it was in Topshop.”
AUT University law professor Noel Cox, an intellectual property expert, said fashion designers were extended the same protection under copyright law as authors, musicians and artists.
“Fashion is a form of intellectual property, and is no different from a book or a work of art.”
Cox said a party could launch breach of copyright action over the affair but any financial compensation would be minimal. He added that the real damages would be done to reputations.
full article: Trelise Cooper’s fashion tangle
videos of Viktor & Rolf’s spring 2010 in Paris with live performance by Róisín Murphy below
more pictures at New York Mag women collection/ men collection
lady, hang on to your shoes. The man of shoe,
is coming.
mark your calender, get your sleeping bag ready to camp over night at the nearest H&M, because one of the most expensive shoe brand will be available at H&M.
Men if you know what good for you, stay away from all H&M on Nov-14-2009.only 200 of it 1500 h&m store will be caring Jimmy Choo, shoes and accessorizes.
“It will be stilettos at dawn. And handbags in the afternoon, until they’re all sold out.
The world-famous brand – chosen by the A-list for red carpet appearances and given mass appeal by Sarah Jessica Parker’s character Carrie in Sex and The City – will be creating a line of covetable shoes and bags for H&M, as well as a line of women’s clothing that will be designed to match the accessories.
The collection – expected to cause a stampede in stores when it arrives on November 14 – will start from as little as £30 for a pair of ballet pumps, with the most expensive shoe will be at £170.
With Jimmy Choo shoes usually selling in excess of £400 and bags over £1,000, the more affordable H&M collection, on sale from November 14 in 200 stores across the world, is likely to create mass hysteria among shoppers.” dailymail.co.uk
Sonia Rykiel does H&M: Dec/5/2009 & feb/20/2010
report from news service Reuters:
the “Queen of Knits” and France icon: Sonia Rykiel will be guess designer for H&M, a winter lingerie collection, will go on sale in 1,500 H&M stores worldwide/ December 5th, 2009
designer Sonia Rykiel
spring 2010, the second ‘knitwear collection for women, and girls, aged 18 months to 8 years, with co-ordinated, playful accessories.’ will go on sale feb/20/2010 at H&M and Sonia Rykiel store around the world
Rykiel, the flame-haired doyenne of Paris fashion, launched her name on the Left Bank, in the rue de Grenelle, in May 1968, the spring of the student riots and a general strike.
She has a playful, irreverent, bohemian attitude, and has often eferred to her designs as ‘démodé’, or ‘unfashion’. Her signatures are her weaters, bold stripes on black, witty slogans, lace, seams on the outside, brightly-coloured fun furs, vintage-look dresses, and, fourse, that most Parisian of accessories, the beret.
- designer Sonia Rykiel
- Sonia Rykiel autumn/winter 09/10 collection
A national icon in France, she has won countless awards and is the author of nine books. Since her daughter, Nathalie Rykiel, joined the company in 1975, the house has expanded to include Sonia by Sonia Rykiel, Rykiel Woman and Rykiel Enfant, as well as shoes and accessories.
Sonia Rykiel is the only French group in the fashion industry to remain family-owned and 100% independent. Last year, at the Paris prêt-à-porter season, the company celebrated her 40th anniversary in fashion with a mammoth fête, show and retrospective in an enchanted forest outside Paris.
here are some of the pass colaperator for H&M
H&M – Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel)
H&M-Madona
designer Mark Fast / London Fashion Week 09/2009
Size 10-12 is consider full size figure(FAT) in the fashion industry. Because he used models at this size for London England fashion week. The Winnipeg (Canada) native got the international press buzzing up!
Plus Size model @ Mark Fast / London Fashion Week 09/2009
The move infuriated some members of his management team, with his stylist and creative designer even walking out three days before the event. [hellomagazine.ca]
“It’s time for a rebellion against safeness. It’s exciting to be a designer now,” the Winnipeg-born designer said recently.
‘The decision to use fuller girls is something we have been talking about. There’s an idea that only thin and slender women are able to wear Mark’s dresses and he wanted to combat that. We wanted women to know they didn’t have to be a size zero to wear a Mark Fast dress – curvier women can look even better in them.’ Amanda May, Fast’s creative director
full article click on links below:
Plus Size model @ Mark Fast / London Fashion Week 09/2009
The Fast and the furious: Stylist at London Fashion Week resigns over designer Mark Fast’s decision to use size 14 models [ dailymail.co.uk]
Knitwear maestro Mark Fast weighs in to size zero debate with curvy models [hellomagazine.ca]
Larger models ‘spark fashion row’ [bbc.co.uk]
click here for Mark Fast web site
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel
new movie about CoCo Chanel
the original film in french was released on april 22, 2009. the upcoming september 25, 2009 release will be the north american release with official english subtitles.
To bring back the much needed attention to an old school fashion house, in an attempted to youthlified the Emanuel Ungaro house. Mr. Mounir Moufarrige CEO and president of Ungar, hire Linsay Lohan to be the artistic adviser.
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