With the conventional Instagram declaration, Rita Ora excitedly unveiled her collaboration with the funky sports brand, Adidas.
Being the first female celebrity ever, to be associated with brand, Rita is likely to imitate Pharrell, Jeremy Scott, and Kanye West for her creations.
With her enthusiastic style of mixing different fashions with street-wear, she looks forward to create five capsule collections which will include a range of footwear, apparel, outerwear, and accessories.
Being a long-standing muse for a major fashion house is a way to go for Charlotte Casiraghi—daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco, new mother of one, journalist, model, and equestrian ambassador of Gucci has grabbed the face for Gucci Cosmetics’ much-anticipated makeup collection title.
Highly sensuous and feminine, the campaign starring Casiraghi will be unveiled together with the launch of the Gucci Cosmetics collection in September 2014 in selected countries. The line includes Gucci Eye, Gucci Face, Gucci Lip, Gucci Nail together with luxurious brushes and preparation products for skin.
“Charlotte was a natural choice as she embodies the modern iconic Gucci woman. Aside from her striking beauty, she is sophisticated, successful and iconic. A wonderful ambassador for Gucci,” said Giannini.
Ralph Lauren Fall 2014 Children’s Fashion Show In Support Of Literacy had specially designed Polo Pony T-shirts, where the percentage of its sales will benefit Reach Out & Read, an organization dedicated to providing access to books and reading support for children in need.
The show had herringbone blazer, intarsia puppy sweater, tartan pants and driving mocs, while four-year-old Chinese reality show phenom Angela Wang modeled a velvet-and-tulle party dress. Other looks included both sophisticated and tomboy takes on back-to-school dressing with everything from sporty rugby shirts and dresses to bomber jackets, princess coats and skinny jeans.
This designer believes in creating extremely wearable garments that effectively display the personality of the wearer and are distinctively unique with minimalist detailing. She graduated with a diploma in Fashion Designing from NIFT, Delhi in 1992. Thereafter, she successfully launched her eponymous label and introduced a new dimension of fashion and styling.
Among her earlier achievements, the designer got selected by late Rohit Khosla wherein she got the mind-blowing experience to intern with him. Along with being an enthusiastic fashion designer, Aparna is also a fashion stylist who designs subtle and sensual designs with the required amount of sex appeal.
She debuted with her solo show in Delhi, when she showcased the first ever collection under her label, ‘Aparna Chandra’, in 1997. In the forthcoming years, she held many exhibitions and participated in high-ended platforms like the Wills India Fashion Week and Lakme Fashion Week, which helped the designer to showcase her creations in the conventional fashion world.
Meanwhile, Aparna has also styled the look for many high-profile advertising campaigns like Ray- Ban, OCM, Orion Biscuits, The Hyatt Regency Hotel, Monte Carlo sweaters, Van Heusen, Arrow, De Bees, Motorola, and Numero Uno amongst others.
She now successfully retails her collections through her personalised designer studio in Delhi. Her creations can also be found at Ensemble in Mumbai and Delhi, White in Delhi, and Evoluzione in Chennai.
Attempting to provide customer care and convenience in the best possible way and in harmony with the fast-forwarding technology, beauty and skin care giant L’Oréal Paris makes a whooping introduction of a new Makeup Genius mobile application, which helps in easy testing and selection of the cosmetic products.
Where earlier the customer had to individually visit the store to personally smudge test the likes of new shades of lipsticks, eye shadows and eyeliners, now they can simply use this app to acquire their desired products.
Equipped with super-advanced facial mapping algorithm that scans facial features, the app allows one to instantly upload a picture of the desired product, shade, or look onto one’s face with the touch of a button!
Meanwhile, the app also provides certain additional features like plus, move and smile, which helps one see the effects and the differences in real time. Furthermore this exciting new app will enable one to scan any L’Oréal Paris label and instantly test that particular product.
The exciting Makeup Genius is going to be released somewhere in mid-June to electrify the makeup freaks with its jubilant features.
Surprisingly, in the very onset of mid-summers, Versace has already started with its campaigning for Fall/Winter 2015 collection.
Showcasing some real oomph and sensual appeal, the campaign features Filip Hrivnak and Daniel van der Deen as its male models. Dressed in studded leather jackets with embroidered chaps and bandana-print briefs, the models display the epitome of glamour and sexy attitude.
Moreover, the brand’s early promotion also includes Anna Ewers and Stella Tennant as its female models who also justifiably bestow Versace with magnificence and fascination.
With Donatella Versace as the creative director and Mert & Marcus handling the camera work, the campaign showcases the brand’s Wild West and biker culture inspired collection.
Melita Toscan du Plantier,Festival director of the Marrakech International Film festival was spotted in a creation from designer Surily Goel’s Capsule collection at the Vanity Fair Chanel dinner in Cannes last evening. She looked stunning in the black silk jersey backless gown nipped at waist and slit sleeves finished with beautiful gold beading
A bold new chapter in Indian fashion & textiles is Neel Sutra is now open at The Oberoi, Gurgaon. Co-curated by Sunil Sethi a pioneer in Fashion and designer Deepika Govind,the name derives its essence from the rich heritage as Neel is the Hindi name for indigo dye, a distinctive natural color extracted from the plants while Sutra is a string that holds things together.
The store presently retails creations from celebrated Indian designers designers Rohit Bal, Anju Modi, Abraham & Thakore, Deepika Govind, Pero by Aneeth Arora, Pankaj & Nidhi, Samant Chauhan, Urvashi kaur, Rahul Mishra & Arjun Saluja, Gaurav Jai Gupta to name a few.
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This designer duo believes in pattern exploration, youthful colour combinations along with an intact comfort factor. Of the two, Anshu graduated from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Delhi. Thereafter, in 2006, ‘A Small Shop’ took birth, a collaborative effort between Anshu and Jason.
A women’s wear, kidswear, accessories and home linen label, ‘A small shop’ is the fashion hub of casual and playful ensembles, which moves beyond pret and simplicity. The garments here go through a series of processes, with the use of most natural fabrics, which gives them the artistic and soft touch.
Speaking of the designers’ early years in the fashion arena, in 2011, they got into collaboration with Deepti Sudhindra for a Jewellery Project. Having created some exquisite pieces of ethnic jewellery with here, they showcased the collection at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week the same year. Besides, Jason and Anshu held numerous exhibitions in major fashion pivots of the country, in an attempt to promote their collection in the mainstream fashion world.
Meanwhile, among their earlier achievements, Anshu and Jason got their collection featured in highly acclaimed fashion magazines like Elle and Vogue. Furthermore, the designers marked the milestones of their career as they participated in platforms like the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week and the Delhi Fashion Week to name a few.
Anshu and Jason now successfully retail their collections ‘smallshop’, Raintree in Bangalore, Bombay Electric, Le Mill, Aza and Kimaya in Mumbai, Evoluzione in Chennai and Delhi, Muse at the palace in Jodhpur and many more.
You can get Anshu Arora and Jason Cheriyan at:
www.smallshop.in
