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Although I loved the extravagant creativity of John Galliano’s Dior collections, it is very hard not to admire equally the sublime simplicity and elegance that Raf Simons is now bringing to the label. Simon’s latest Haute Couture collection for Dior is both beautiful and oh-so commercial in design. Bet the money men at Dior worship […]
MoreCatching up on my reading over the weekend, I noted, via Vanessa Friedman in the NYT, that Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen had won the 2014 Andam prize (a prestigious award to best young fashion designer). I love to see the crazy, avant-garde and new on a fashion runway, so despite Vanessa Friedman’s words that: … […]
MoreLove these Stripey Emilia Wickstead Dresses from the S/S14 Collection. Such a forgiving style and so cool ….
MoreSaw this shirt in The Sunday Times yesterday – wow, such a beautiful combination of colours. Love that pale blue and burgundy mix … (will try to ignore ridiculous £££ but what is happening with prices at the moment?) I am, of course, a plus black woman but I did venture into burgundy florals once, […]
MoreIf you haven’t come across plus size fashion blogger and model, Nadia Aboulsohn, maybe these gorgeous images of her modelling for Boohoo.com will send you clicking her way. On all of her social media sites, Nadia shares her style secrets and sources, looking sublimely stunning in pretty much every featured item. Plus size beautiful, don’t […]
MoreI’m saying a big hello today to Cushieb.com – a new online retailer of plus size fashion set up by Val Thompson, a lady of UK origin now based in the US. From the Cushie-b Company page: As a young girl growing up in the U.K., Val Thompson dreamed of becoming a costume designer. While […]
MoreI really like the inspired collection by Fiona O’Neill, from the Central Saint Martin Fashion Shows, seen on Dezeen – example above and there are more great images on Dezeen, so do click across and take a look. Dezeen quote Fiona saying: “My inspiration for this collection was women painting women, mainly derived from the artist Kate […]
MoreLove this image, above, about to feature in the Financial Times’ How To Spend It magazine, as seen on Fashion Gone Rogue: Kate King Models Sari Style for How to Spend It by Andrew Yee. Click the link to see more. Just beautiful.
MoreHow beautiful are these shoes, above? Sadly, not wearable but part of an experimental Léi Zǔ Shoe Collection, named after the Chinese empress who is attributed with inventing the silk reel, by German designers Nicole Goymann and Christoph John. Read more about their techniques and plans in dezeen: Nicole Goymann and Christoph John … Whilst on dezeen, […]
MoreI absolutely love the beautiful still, above, one of a series from a collaboration at SHOWstudio: The Elegant Universe for V magazine:: Nick Knight and couture doyenne Lady Amanda Harlech unite with model and physics scholar Alexia Wight for a shoot that explores the mathematics of beauty. With Knight on camera (in this case his iPhone) […]
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