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tenmagazine Patrik Ervell Launch of Lookk.com « Arnoldo Battois traces the memory of colors, shapes, lights and materials for S/S 2012 | Main | Vs Cinematic issue » Wednesday, 31 August 2011 Launch of Lookk.com LOOKK Launches Social Fashion Platform to Connect Up-and-Coming Designers with Consumers LOOKK is the brainchild of Tamas Locher, Andreas Klinger and Gilbert Wedam, who formerly founded Garmz, last year’s winner of European micro seed fund, Seedcamp. LOOKK aims to fundamentally change the way young designers and labels enter the fashion market by providing a platform for them to showcase their designs to a community of fashion-lovers, all of whom have the opportunity to feedback on what they love and directly influence the items that are produced for sale within the LOOKK Webshop. Andreas Klinger, co-founder and COO of LOOKK, said: “Until now fashion has been a slow adopter of technology. “Social media has completely changed how new fashion gets discovered. www.LOOKK.com Posted by rain Laurent at 06:31 PM | Permalink TrackBack

SUNO Fashion The tee shirt craze has definitely fizzled in the past couple of years from whence it reached it’s peak back around 07-08 in my opinion. There are a few brands still holding it down when it comes to graphic tee shirts but fewer are making much of an impression as they enter the overcrowded market. Zatoon is a company that caught my eye as their wares look almost nothing like most of what I’ve seen lately. “For our Summer 2012 collection, we worked with British illustrator Adrian Johnson. Over the years, Liverpool born Adrian Johnson has developed a unique and strongly identifiable body of work. I don’t hide the fact that I am a big big fan of both Adrian Johnson and Stüssy. The Stussy x Adrian Johnson collection is available now at: stus.se/KTyTLV Pretty sure I blogged about Tee Shirt makers Any Forty somewhere back in the long mythical history of this here blog of lore. Kate Bosworth lends her beauty to this allegorical performance in the Vanessa Bruno short film, LØV.

The Forgotten Designer Behind Some of Fashion’s Biggest Trends Photo As the leather goods and apparel company Coach celebrates its 75th anniversary this year with an ad campaign focused on its heritage, a battle has been going on in the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the rights to the name of perhaps its best-known designer, Bonnie Cashin. Call it a tempest in a bucket bag. For anyone under 40, Cashin’s name doesn’t exactly resonate, though some fashion scholars go so far as to credit her with inventing American sportswear. The designer, who died in 2000 (Cashin maintained that she was born in 1915, though the census for 1910 puts her birth year at “abt 1908”), left a legacy of hard-working ponchos and wizardly “carriables,” a.k.a. handbags. This opposition has come partly from Coach, whose original parent company, Gail Leather Products, hired Cashin in 1962 as Coach’s first designer. Ms. Isaac Mizrahi, who has explicit affinities with Cashin, acknowledged that “oh my God, yes, she influenced me profoundly.” L. Were Ms. Mr. Ms.

Nunzio Del Prete ss 2012/2013 text Stefania Seoni all photos Ivan Muselli « LOVE by RAD HOURANI | Main | Stefania Seoni on holiday in Siena » Saturday, 27 August 2011 Nunzio Del Prete ss 2012/2013 text Stefania Seoni all photos Ivan Muselli Dear Diane, dear shade viewers, Nunzio Del Prete's collection is a veritable explosition of color. All photos by Ivan Muselli, graphic design Devid Sita, stylist Mariaelena Morelli, hair stylist Marco Minunno Posted by Stefania Seoni at 11:59 PM | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Nunzio Del Prete ss 2012/2013 text Stefania Seoni all photos Ivan Muselli: Comments Post a comment

Why Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress designer was fashion’s ‘best kept secret’ In 1953, when Ann Lowe received a commission to create a wedding gown for society swan Jacqueline Bouvier, she was thrilled. Lowe, an African-American designer who was a favorite of the society set, had been hired to dress the woman of the hour, the entire bridal party and Jackie’s mother. But 10 days before Jackie and Sen. John F. Kennedy were to say “I do,” a water pipe broke and flooded Lowe’s Madison Avenue studio, destroying 10 of the 15 frocks, including the bride’s elaborate dress, which had taken two months to make. Modal Trigger In between her tears, Lowe, then 55, ordered more ivory French taffeta and candy-pink silk faille, and corralled her seamstresses to work all day. Now, the country’s first black high-fashion designer is finally getting her due. “She was exceptional; her work really moves you,” says Smithsonian curator Elaine Nichols. Lowe was born in Clayton, Ala., in 1898. Through the 1940s to the end of the ’60s, Lowe was known as society’s “best-kept secret.”

Japanese Designer Rie Hosokai Turns Balloons Into Inflatable Couture Rie Hosokai Balloon Fashion Hosokai constructs each piece by hand, but she admits it can be difficult to account for the amount of air when managing the size and volume of her dresses. Although the materials are inexpensive—about 9 cents per balloon—each featherweight (and biodegradable) creation carries a hefty price tag ranging from $1,930 to $3,860. Hosokai began her career as a florist before venturing into the world of balloon art and starting her own company, Daisy Balloon. + Rise Hosokai [Via Reuters]

Deconstructing Claire McCardell  |  Seamwork Magazine Racing home from the flea market, 21-year-old Claire McCardell, future fashion designer and leader of the "American Look," rushed into her dormitory room at Parson’s Place des Vosges campus in Paris. Pulling a crumpled wad of satin out of her bag, she grabbed her seam ripper and, very carefully, started disassembling a Madeleine Vionnet gown, determined to unlock the mysteries of couture construction before flawlessly sewing the garment back together. 1926 was a good year to be in Paris. American expatriates like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway had settled in the city of light, riding the waves of success from publishing The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. George Balanchine could be found choreographing La Pastorale for the Ballet Russes, while Josephine Baker was performing her danse sauvage in her banana skirt. Early Years One of young Claire’s favorite pastimes was poring over her mother’s fashion magazines, cutting out the fashion illustrations to use as paper dolls.

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