fashion diary: The Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum

fashion diary: The Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum: Instead of the static exhibitions in brick-and-mortar museums so familiar to fashion icons, the Valentino duo has used immersive 3-D technol...

The Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum

Instead of the static exhibitions in brick-and-mortar museums so familiar to fashion icons, the Valentino duo has used immersive 3-D technology to present archives spanning 50 years, including nearly 100 fashion shows on video, 5,000 dresses, the original working sketches from the designer’s hand and photographs of the clothes, the celebrities who wore them and a vision of the world of Valentino.

fashion diary: 100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON

fashion diary: 100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON

100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON

fashion diary: Daphne Guiness (exhibition at the museum at FIT )

fashion diary: Daphne Guiness (exhibition at the museum at FIT ): From her signature platinum-and-black striped hair to her notorious eight-inch platform shoes, her to-die-for couture collection and amazing...

Daphne Guiness (exhibition at the museum at FIT )

From her signature platinum-and-black striped hair to her notorious eight-inch platform shoes, her to-die-for couture collection and amazing diamond jewelry, Daphne Guinness is the very image of rarified personal style. “Who is this woman, what form of rara avis bedecked in diamonds and plumes?” asked Guy Trebay.

“Daphne is one of – if not the – most stylish women living,” says fashion designer Tom Ford, who asked her to model in his show. The world has many beautiful, fashionable socialites and celebrities, but Daphne is in a class of her own. “Life is a stage for Daphne,” says the couturier Valentino. “Funerals or balls, she always makes a performance.”

Why do an exhibition on Daphne Guinness? Because she is fearless about wearing the most extreme clothes and shoes, but is no mere clothes horse. Because she is a serious collector of couture, who is also a creative force in her own right. Because she is an extraordinary individual whose perspective on fashion is unique and important.
The Honorable Daphne Suzanne Diana Joan Guinness was born in 1967, the daughter of brewery heir, Jonathan Guinness, Lord Moyne, and French beauty, Suzanne Lisney.  Her paternal grandmother was Diana Mitford, one of the legendary Mitford sisters. In 1987, at the age of nineteen, Daphne married Spyros Niarchos. After her divorce in 1999, Daphne resumed her maiden name, and over the past decade has emerged on the world’s stage an extraordinary fashion creature.
We tend to think of fashion as being created by fashion designers. Yet designers do not create in isolation.  Amanda Harlech, Karl Lagerfeld’s aide-de-camp and muse, has said that “Karl is continually inspired by [Daphne].” Moreover, although designers propose new looks, in order for something to become fashionable, to move off the runway and into real life, it has to be taken up by various fashion insiders, including editors, photographers, retailers, and fashion trendsetters.

fashion diary: unreleased photographs:MARILYN MONROE

fashion diary: unreleased photographs:MARILYN MONROE: "(Photos:http://www.newsbeast.gr/lifestyle/arthro/178026/nees-fotografies-tis-merilin-monroe/?utm_source=mega&utm_medium=feed_widget&ut..."

unreleased photographs:MARILYN MONROE

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history of fashion(18th century)

With the death of Louis XIV and the coronation of Louis XV in 1715 , a smart and refined style called "rococo"
has blossomed.Thought the term rococo was later used in the nineteenth century in a derogatory sense,suggesting excess and frivolity,today it refers to a general artistic style emblematic of harmonious French culture.The culture responsible for the rococo style was characterized by the pursuit of personal pleasure.
Sinse that pursuit naturally included clothing,it,too, was soon elevated to the realm of rt.Thought France was already an acknowledged leader of fashion during the reign of Louis XIV,the rococo period confirmed the country's reputation as the leader o women's fashion worldwide.After the iitial popularity of rococo,clothing styles veered off in two diametrically opposed fashion directions,one involving a fantastic conceit of artificial aesthetics,and the oter a desire to return to nature.The French Revolution in 1789 modernized many aspects of society and brought a clear shift in clothing styles from decorative rococo to the more simple dress of neoclassicism.This radical change in clothing styles,a phenomenon unique in the history of fashion,is a reflection of the momentous upheavals in the social values of the period.

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Zika Ascher: textile designer

In the long trandition of artists turning fabric designers,such as Duffy and Costeu,the unmistakable sketches of Herry Moore and applied to silk by Zika Ascher.One of these sketches(picture A)witch combines screen printing with batik painting ,was selected for use by Nina Ricci .When Vogue asked in 1962,"Which comes first,the chicken or the egg?The fabric or the fashion?it could have had Asche in mind.His innovative approach to fabrics revolutionized fashion from the 1940s.He started his own production company and silk-screen print works in London in 1942.In 1948 he approached artists such as Moore and Herri Matisse to design prints.
His own anventive approach to textiles acted as a catalyst for fashion designers of that time:in 1952 his highly original large-scale floral prints were used by Dior and Schiaparelli,and in 1957 his shaggy mohair inspired Castillo to create huge enveloping coats.




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