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Designer Anna Sui and O’Neill hosted a launch party to celebratetheir new collection at Orange County.

The evening saw 12-piece spring- summer collection had flowing dresses mixed with crocheted bathing suits, bikinis, bell-bottoms, footwear and inspired by the bohemians of Laurel Canyon from the ‘60s and’ 70s and will feature Sui’s signature butterfly motif.. There were gypsy-inspired detailing, dark colors and embroidery on the outfits.

May 7 – August 16, 2015

The exhibition, China: Through the looking Glass, organized by The Costume Institute in collaboration with the Department of Asian Art, will explore how China has fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries, resulting in highly creative distortions of cultural realities and mythologies. High fashion will be juxtaposed with Chinese costumes, paintings, porcelains, and other art, as well as films, to reveal enchanting reflections of Chinese imagery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

From the earliest period of European contact with China in the sixteenth century, the West has been enchanted with enigmatic objects and imagery from the East, providing inspiration for fashion designers from Paul Poiret to Yves Saint Laurent, whose fashions are infused at every turn with romance, nostalgia, and make-believe. Through the looking glass of fashion, designers conjoin disparate stylistic references into a pastiche of Chinese aesthetic and cultural traditions.

The exhibition will feature more than one hundred examples of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear alongside Chinese art. Filmic representations of China will be incorporated throughout to reveal how our visions of China are framed by narratives that draw upon popular culture, and also to recognize the importance of cinema as a medium through which to understand the richness of Chinese history.

Inspired from their social media campaign #mycalvins, Calvin Klein Jeans has come up with ‘#mycalvins Denim Series’ which is a limited edition and logo-driven line.

Designed by the brand’s global Creative Director, Kevin Carrigan, the limited edition series is anchored with a modern, cropped take on the “Calvin” logo, marrying personal style with sporty details. The full men’s and women’s offering consists of tees, jeans, denim shorts and jackets, jogger sweatpants, unisex backpacks and hats, in baby blue, washed black and white rinses.

The ‘#mycalvins Denim Series’ will be exclusively launched at Opening Ceremony’s New York and Los Angeles stores on April 15^th as well as the Paragon store in Singapore on May 1.

With a Spanish influence, Dolce and Gabbana’s latest doll bag collection is an amalgamation of Sicillian Barbie dolls packed in a luxurious box with beautiful prints.

Standing tall at 29 cm, the porcelain dolls feature hand-painted faces that resemble the souvenir figurines that were sold at train stations in 1950s Italy. Dressed in the Dolce & Gabbana’s outfits that match the Spring Summer 2015 collection of the brand, the dolls also sport matching accessories. Each doll carries a miniature version of the elegant Sicily bag.

The dolls come with their name engraved on a gold plaque on the bag as well as a serial number of authenticity. Offered in limited edition of 300 and each doll is styled to symbolize its name.

France has sent shock waves through the global fashion industry by passing a surprise law making it a crime to employ excessively skinny women or to encourage anorexia. Before France, Countries like Israel, Italy and Spain have taken similar action.

Under the new law, anyone running modeling agency found employing models below a Body Mass Index of at least 18 will have to face maximum six-month of prison and a €75,000 fine. Magazines will have to tell the readers when they have altered a picture to make a model look thinner – or less anorexic, otherwise they will be imposed a fine of €37,500 or up to 30 per cent of the sums spent on advertising.

Also any website inciting a reader to seek excessive thinness by encouraging eating restrictions for a prolonged period of time will face up to a year in prison and fines of up to 100,000 euros.

Concerns about anorexia in the modeling industry gained widespread attention in 2010 with the death of French model Isabelle Caroat the age of 28. An estimated up to 40,000 people have anorexia in France, 90 percent of them women.

Sotheby’s Paris auction house will be selling off Vintage haute couture pieces for the first time ever on July 8.

The auction will see famed fashion collector, Didier Ludot impressive collection which includes about 150 garments and accessories worn by notables like Jerry Hall, Elizabeth Taylor, and the Duchess of Windsor. Ludot collected designs from Paul Poiret, Yohji Yamamoto, Madame Grès, Christian Dior, Cristóbal Balenciaga and other famed courtiers for over 40 years.

The auction will include some stunning designs like a delicate pink feather dress made by Balenciaga in 1965 for Francine Weisweiller, lavender blue dress from Dior’s 1957 collection, Paco Rabanne’s mini-dress, made of metal and ostrich feathers, three-piece Chanel suit from 1960 and Bettina Graziani’s black satin evening outfit created by Azzedine Alaïa in 1992.

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Monthly Archives: April 2015

Prada Debuts New Short Films

#chanel #CocoCrush

Anna Sui & O’Neill’s Launch soiree

#China Looking Glass

Calvin Klein’s New Denim line

Dolce & Gabbana’s doll bags

France Bans Anorexic Models

Sotheby’s Auctions Couture Pieces

France Bans Anorexic Models