Παρασκευή 29 Απριλίου 2011
fashion diary: the most beautiful model:LILY COLE
fashion diary: the most beautiful model:LILY COLE: "Lily Luahana Cole (born May 19, 1988) is an English model and actress. Cole's modelling career was launched by a chance encounter with Ben..."
the most beautiful model:LILY COLE
Lily Luahana Cole (born May 19, 1988) is an English model and actress. Cole's modelling career was launched by a chance encounter with Benjamin Hart in Soho, London when she was 14.
Cole has featured in several well-known publications, including Vogue (US, UK, Italian, Japanese), other fashion clients have included Numero, V, Pop, Dazed, Citizen K, Christian Lacroix, Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Hermes, Galliano, Louis Vuitton, Jean Paul Gaultier and Marc Jacobs. Advertising campaigns include Longchamp, Anna Sui, Hermes, Moschino, Prada, Chanel, Cacharel, Moschino fragrance, and Ghost fragrance. She has a lucrative cosmetics contract with beauty brand Rimmel London and can be seen in TVC and print advertising as part of her work with them, attracting controversy in 2008 by appearing naked in a pictorial for Playboy magazine's French edition. Cole has also appeared in advertisements for companies such as high street retailer Marks and Spencer and cosmetics chain Rimmel.
After several minor acting roles, starting with St Trinian's in 2007, Cole's first leading role was as Valentina in the 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, in which she starred alongside Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law.
Magazines and fashion shows
Cole's distinctive red hair has attracted significant media attention. She is also recognised for what Entertainment magazine described as her porcelain doll-like beauty. Cole's modelling career was sparked from a chance encounter while walking through Soho when she was approached by Benjamin Hart, who asked her to consider modelling. She initially declined, later saying, "I was cynical enough to think it wouldn't come to much", though she later changed her mind and signed to Storm Models.
Her break came in 2003 when she caught the eye of photographer Steven Meisel. It was on that photoshoot, her first "only girl" story for Italian Vogue, that Cole was "catapulted into the spotlight" as one of the leading new faces of the year. Since then, Cole has worked with many other prominent photographers, including Craig McDean, Nick Knight, Juergen Teller, Arthur Elgort, and Irving Penn.
At the 2004 British Fashion Awards, Cole was named "Model of the Year". She has since made appearances on the covers of many fashion magazines including, amongst others, the American, Italian, British, Japanese and Korean editions of Vogue, Citizen K, Vand Vogue as well as featuring on Vogue's "best dressed" list in December 2005. She has also had cover appearances on Numéro and Interview.
She has modelled on the international runway circuit and at many fashion shows on behalf of Chanel, Shiatzy Chen, DKNY, Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace, Alexander McQueen, Jasper Conran, John Galliano, and Louis Vuitton. She was nominated, for the second time, for the "Model of the Year" award at the 2007 British Fashion Awards and, in December 2009, was listed by Vogue Paris as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s.
Cole's modelling career continued in 2010. She made a cover appearance on the January 2010 issue of the Canadian Elle, as well as giving an interview to the magazine and opening Hermès's winter 2010/2011 collection at Paris Fashion Week in March, wearing a black leather catsuit and bowler hat.
Towards the end of 2010, she featured in a documentary chronicling the career of Rolf Harris in which he painted her dressing up as the Queen of the fairies from A Midsummer's Night Dream.
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Τετάρτη 27 Απριλίου 2011
that's the new fashion book by taschen.
In celebration of 30 years at the forefront of international fashion and lifestyle publishing, this book, edited by Creative Director and i-D founder Terry Jones, features all of the iconic covers to date as well as the best stories behind the making of the images. In personal discussion with many of the creative talents he has worked with over the years, Terry Jones weaves his own personal web of diary, memories, and magic to give the reader an unforgettable look into a secret world before the digital age made everything accessible and public.
Taking us to the present day with Nick Knight’s three latest covers (streamed instantly and shown online as he was photographing them), this book offers an incredible insight into a creative world that is changing under our eyes, but still has its heart and its creativity firmly rooted in its beginnings.
The editor and author:
Founder and Creative Director of i-D magazine, Terry Jones started his fashion career in the 1970s as art director of Vanity Fair and Vogue UK. Since 1977 his Instant Design studio has produced catalogues, campaigns, exhibitions and books, including TASCHEN's Smile i-D, Fashion Now 1, Fashion Now 2 and Soul i-D.
The editor:
Edward Enninful was appointed Fashion Director of i-D in 1991, becoming the youngest ever Fashion Director of an international magazine. Today Enninful’s time is shared between i-D, Italian and American Vogue. His fashion campaigns have included Versace, Armani, Christian Dior, Mulberry and Lanvin.
The author:
Richard Buckley started his career as a journalist at New York Magazine in 1979. Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Hommes International between 1999 and 2005 he has also contributed to Dutch, Italian Vogue, Mirabella, Vanity Fair, WWD and W.
(http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/fashion/new/04449/facts.i_d_covers_1980_2010.htm)
Τρίτη 26 Απριλίου 2011
Vintage Ideas for Home Improvement
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Adding vintage elements to your home can give it a retro feel even if it's newly built. The larger the element, the more design impact it will have - replacing all your interior doors with vintage split stable doors, for example, will completely change the look of your space. You don't have to go with authentic vintage if it proves too expensive: Plenty of companies specialize in producing new furniture, fittings, fixtures, wallpaper and floor treatments that resemble beloved products of years past.
Vintage Appliances
- Vintage appliances are one way to give a kitchen a dose of classic style. Certain models of stoves and refrigerators are prized by antique dealers: Many sell gorgeous, glossy white Wedgewood stoves, which were popular from 1930 to the late 1950s.
Often, dealers will restore these stoves before selling them; unrestored stoves are cheaper to buy but may require lots of work. They cost more than modern cooking ranges; a restored vintage stove can set you back $6,000 or more, while a no-frills new range costs around $600. You can also buy restored vintage fridges, such as Kelvinators, 1950s Frigidaires and Hotpoints. These refrigerators are very stylish, often coming in pastel colors with curved chrome handles and logos that look like they belong on old Cadillacs. They can be very expensive, sometimes costing upwards of $10,000, but they do add the perfect touch of '50s-style glamor to your kitchen.
Faux Vintage
- You don't have to find authentic vintage fixtures, fittings or furniture to create a vintage look: You can fake it. Distress your furniture to give it the charm of an old piece. Use a technique called frottage, or rubbing, to make a wooden piece look like it came straight from a 19th century farmhouse. After you've painted the piece, you then rub colored glaze onto it with pieces of crumpled newspaper, which will create an uneven stippling effect on the wood, as if the paint is old and weathered.
Another way to achieve a faux-vintage look is to mimic it with new materials: Do up your kitchen floor like they did in the 1960s, with black-and-white or color-flecked vinyl tile squares, but skip trying to find original vinyl. Several manufacturers sell a new product that looks just like the old.
Vintage Doors and Windows
- Using salvaged doors and windows can give your home a vintage feel, whether or not the house was built in the same time frame as the doors or windows were created. Visit an architectural salvage store to find different styles of doors and windows. You can go with one style for several fittings, such as wood Mission doors and stained-glass Mission windows, or tall, narrow Victorian double doors and arched Victorian windows.
You can also mix your vintage styles. At architectural salvage stores, not only can you find great vintage pieces, but you're also being ecologically conscious by choosing to reuse building and decorating materials.
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1840 to 1850
The Gothic era arrived on the scene and fashion lines wilted into drooping ringlets and dragging skirts. Sleeves lost their fullness and became fitted; shoulders were extended below their natural line and skirt hems lowered to the floor. Generally necklines were worn high during the day and wide in the evening. The skirt became very domed in silhouette, requiring yet more petticoats to achieve the desired shape. Trimmings of tucks and pleats were used to emphasize this new line. Colors shifted to darker tones and solid color fabrics were more in tune with the new solemnity.
In mid-century, skirts become even fuller with horizontal flounces or tucks added to the base skirt to give it even greater width and volume. Lines shifted from the vertical to the horizontal assisted by shorter, wider bodices. A new triangular, cone-shaped silhouette emerged featuring new pagoda sleeves.
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