January 2012 - Page 17 of 18

chanel The new season comes with a deluge of advertisements giving a brief into the mood of the coming season. Of late some of the biggest labels of fashion came up with their Spring Summer 2012 advertisements. Here is a peek-a-boo.

One of the most intriguing of Spring Summer ads is one by Chanel in magnificence of black and white. The ad featured Joan Smalls and Saskia de Brauw dressed in striking white suits over the sea. It was shot by Karl and styled by Carine Roitfeld.

Another such campaign is by Fendi where Karl shot Arizona Muse in Rome. It featured her standing on a street corner creating a beautiful imagery in black and white. Also revealed lately a shoot from Mulberry’s Spring Summer 2012 campaign starring Frida Gustavsson and Lindsey Wixon shot by Tim Walker. Having a very springy feel to it, the ad accentuated on stripes and spring colors out open in sunshine.

Year 2012 will exhibit several high end fashion moments like never before. After the grand triumph by the Alexander McQueen show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art which was held the previous year, many other ace fashion abodes will be demonstrating their designs through various exhibitions this year. The exhibition by McQueen has stimulated a spirit inside the designers that around ten pinnacled creative heads have decided to debut their collection display at various museums by the end of 2012.

Ranging from Christian Louboutin to the CFDA everyone will try to gather the same approbation which the Alexander McQueen exhibition was flooded with the last time. The list of the shows going to be held in 2012 is alluded below:

IMPACT: 50 Years of the CFDA will be exhibited at the Museum at FIT, New York from 10th of February to 17th of April. While from the 9th of the March Louis Vuitton’s collection by Marc Jacobs will be presented at Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris. The exhibition will be open till 16th of September. The work by Yves Saint Laurent will be put on show by the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado from 25th of March and even the same month will spotlight one more display by the chic Diana Vreeland. The Fortuny Museum located at Venice, Italy will portray the lovely Diana Vreeland collection. Christian Louboutin will also showcase its assortments at the Design Museum placed in London from 28th of March till the 1st of July.

Whilst April will center the Fifty Years of James Bond Style from the compilations by Prada, Armani, Giorgio and Oscar de la Renta along with pieces from various other labels. This James Bond wardrobe will be put on display at the Barbican, London.

Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion ranges will reveal at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from 10th of May to 19th of August. Though the other retrospectives will be out of sight by the end of the year but the fashion exposition to be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum of London will be stretched till 2013. Ballgowns, by the British Glamour Since 1950 is the one which will continue flaunting its collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum till 26th of January, 2013. Ballgowns will be put on view from 19th of May itself. Labels like Chloé and Balmain also includes the list of all these mesmerizing names.

Fashion trends are leaning towards Earthy Hues rapidly and clean designs, made from natural and organic materials. Sourendra Kumar Das divulges that the earthy hues are considered to be the next big thing for all kinds of fashion…

The organic quality of autumn gold, warm summer oranges, raw elemental colors of cardamom, anise and cumin creates a sense of grand scale and awe. Healing skin tones through nutmeg and cinnamon, appearing soft and hazy upshots are some of the re-invented classics creating fashion spotlights.

In 2012, layers and earthy hues will rule the fall fashion trends for women. “As a Taurus woman that is the sign of Earth, I naturally gravitate to the pulsating and throbbing earthy color palette of tans, camel, orange, bronze, dark blood red and the likes. The colors of soil trees rock moss attract me anyways as I am an ardent lover of nature,” revealed designer-cum-socialite Nisha Jamwal.

Frieda Pinto undoubtedly is one of the sophisticatedly dressed women in India, with her raw, instinctive and minimalistic style. “Pinto’s sartorial elegance and neutral features make her the subcontinent’s most famous face on the global radar and a fashion force to be reckoned with,” explained Sanchita Ajjampur, coveted fashion designer who recently dressed the actress with tarragon coloured kaftan with cayenne colored dress.

Another celebrity would be Dev Patel who has a more casual sense of fashion that sets of his innovative charm. “Patel likes to layer his outfits to achieve a hint of smart geeky appeal. Pinto recently picked up one of my signature poppy coloured men’s cardigans, in jersey and muslin for him that was collapsible and supple,” added the modish designer.

Ossie Clark is well known for his use of earthy hues and moss crepe fabric and Walter Albini, the father of fashion ready-to-wear in famous for using muted earthy colours. “Amongst the contemporaries Romeo Gigli and Yohji Yamamoto silhouettes in earthy hues featuring drapery in varying textures are adorable,” concluded the designer who is a lover of Alber Elbaz and Consuelo Castiglioni whose collections sport voguish earthy hues.

St.Erasmus, a luxury jewellery label by a South African designer Peter Louis Erasmus, of late came up with its Spring Summer 2012 collection, all inspired by the exquisitely written novel ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ by Khaled Hosseini and the character of ‘Laila.’

The collection is a distinct array of statement jewellery designed for the women who dare to dream. It is a culmination of different influences varying from Africa, to London, to India, the collection mirrors the contemporary multi-cultural world.

Combining traditional artisan production techniques, it comprises of signature style richly crocheted surfaces with Zari thread encrusted with Swarovski elements in sculptural necklaces, chunky bracelets, sensual earrings, cocktail rings and brooches done in platinum pearls, gold, pink, citrine and clear crystal colors.

Resolutions are always meant to be broken and like every other commoner,Victoria’s Secret Angels too has come up with resolution for this New Year. The Secret Angels opine their secret resolution through a video offered by the store of the label.

Adriana Lima one of Brazilian Angels of Victoria’s secret has come up with an absolute bizarre resolution for 2012 by reciting her desire to meet the Dalai Lama. She has even decided to get her driving license this time and opt for speech classes to get rid of her local accent. Equally Erin Heatherton also has decided on fulfilling some thrilling resolutions for the year which includes sky diving, attempting safari and stopover more concerts.

The other ramp queens like the gorgeous Lindsay Ellingson has added hilarity to her new resolution note. The angel wants to pull out extra fun factor in her schedule this year and even desires to spend a gala time with her friends on the coast. The lovely South African angel Candice Swanepool similarly like Lindsay has decided to have amusement to the core.

While Victoria’s very own Lily Aldridge has disclosed a complete distinct resolution than the others by wishing to make some kind effort for someone in need. On the other side the fair-haired Doutzen Kroes from Dutch has revealed her interest in giving much time to her family.

The girls even boldly reveal the meaning behind the tone of their fortunate lingerie which they are going to sport thru this year in the same resolution visual. Doutzen Kroes admits her decision of wearing her lucky red colored party panty as it defines passion whilst Lindsay Ellingson finds the pink hue to be a magnet for love, so she considers pink colored panty to be auspicious for her as it might enhance her love life this year. But the funniest divulge was encountered when the sassy Candice and effervescent Adriana were found at variance over the white and purple colored panties. According to the angelic Adriana white denotes peace while purple signifies health whereas Candice exemplified white to be a sign of good health. But the squabble has left us in disguise as none of the two has revealed which color would adorn them this year, white or purple.

Maybelline Calendar 2012 Come 2012 and Maybelline trumpets it with a stunning calendar launch starred by brand’s beauties. Adding a high dose of glamour Maybelline New York 2012 features exquisite imagery basking in the colors of the seasovn.

Shot at the Pier 59 Digital Studios by Kenneth Willardt featured Maybelline in house beauties like Jessica White, Shu-Pei Quin, Erin Wasson, Emily DiDonato, Kemp Muhl, Julia Stegner and Lisalla Montenegro. Moreover, making the lending the whole affair a super glamorous look is make-up by Charlotte Willer and styling by Patricia Fields.

The calendar portrayed the models in various avatars differing from futuristic to high glamorous looks. The beauty shots had Geishas mingling with Bob Marley’s reggae and Americana. From sequins under eyes to neon hued make up the calendar came up as one racy fashionable start of another year.

Fashion fictions more often than not revolve around fashion smitten snobs, who even strut in their washrooms all decked up, following fashion inch by inch and moment by moment toting blinkers.

A recent addition to the high-brow fashion world is a fiction by a novelist Alex Gilvarry, who recently came up with ‘From the memoirs of a Non-enemy Combatant’, a well-knit tale done with mistaken identities, gender bender, easy sex and loads of fashion moments, say satires and celebrations with an ironical twist of fashion spiraling behind the bars.

It’s all about a fictional character Boyet Hernandez with big American dreams hitting the fashion scene of New York right after his design school in Philippines, the aspiring fashion designer who later set up his small shop in Brooklyn and pursued his goals with fervor but later got mistaken as a terrorist and put behind the bars, where he pens a memoir about the fashion scene from 2002 to 2006.

Through his debut novel author tries to develop a character who is an artist from a superficial world, thrown into political world. He portrays Boyet in the center of the burgeoning scene of New York, with his size 30 skinny jeans and his hair classically fashioned after the major hip- Alex Gilvarry

hop artists of the 1980s.

Gradually being the part of the scene he learns that all the best parties take place in artists’ studios in abandoned factories, that red wine is best served in boxes, that cigarettes can be used as currency and that everyone sleeps with everyone else. About which the author writes, “The designers, the stylists, the makeup artists, the bookers, the models, the photographers, we were all part of an incestuous machine with one purpose: to create beauty.”

The darker side of the novel explores the Boyet’s desire to be always fashionable, being in jail either where he altered his orange prison jumpsuit by removing the sleeves and tapering its legs – which is mocked by the prisoners and punished by the guards.

Marc Jacobs The 48-year old designer, mind you with a super toned body, salt-and-pepper beard and tattoos running down his arms, manages two eponymous fashion lines while acting as the Creative Director of Louis Vuitton besides holidaying with his ex.

Lying down on St. Barths with ex-fiancé Lorenzo Martone and stylist-turned-designer Rachel Zoe, Marc Jacobs does it in style. Besides that sanity-is-not-my-kind-of attitude and body-to-die-for, there are Louis Vuitton beach towels and Hermes Birkin bag.

Clad in an itsy-bitsy short, the designer of late was seen frolicking around the Caribbean island carrying the multi-thousand dollars bag while retiring to some sun lounges on the sand. Also seen were the dance moves where designer wore this skull printed shorts with a black tee.