Fashion Designer Blog. A fashion blog talks about ladies fashion and the latest fashion trend. Fashion Internet review, trends, central fashionevents, young designers, fashion schools, fashion books.noreply@blogger.com (Greg)Thu, 24 Oct 2024 02:09:17 -0500Blogger http://www.blogger.com29125http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/en-usnoFashion Designer Blog. A fashion blog talks about ladies fashion and the latest fashion trend. Fashion Internet review, trends, central fashionevents, young designers, fashion schools, fashion books.noreply@blogger.comhttp://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/08/tragic-hall-of-fame-mulberry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:18:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-1340480060926872078Burberry plaid might claim UK ‘It’ statues, but Tragic wants to direct your swoon to another accessories powerhouse…a little recognised hero of timeless design…the marvel that is Mulberry Established in Somerset circa 1974, Mulberry has always managed to marry tailored form with sleek function in the name of leather. For women and men, the label’s totes, luggage, purses, wallets and scarves have http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/08/celebrity-fashion-fashion-flash.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:16:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-3047816159899636067Somagirls.tv takes a look at some celebrity fashion trends - Maxi Dress. http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/08/nowhere-to-run-nowhere-to-hide-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:59:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-91828240622887082Since when did swimwear get so flimsy? Remember the days when a bikini was for flaunting and a one piece was for eating lunch. It seems the impossible has happened and all of a sudden the bikini is for good and bad days and the one piece well that’s fallen into the realms of a lucky few. I’m not talking about your safe black halterneck low cut togs from Target, I’m talking about the Cutout. A http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/08/ebony-and-ivory-by-alicia-pyke.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:53:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-2751590627221556200Hello toes! Yes, it’s officially sandal season and with it comes a whole new range of vivid nail polishes to test-drive. Bright sports-car red one day, a delicious pinky coral that reeks of decadent holidays in the sun the next. Ah, how I love seeing those gleaming discs of pristine colour whenever I glance down. No, this is not a column about overhauling your feet for spring since I believe in http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/05/mary-kate-ashley-and-row.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Thu, 15 May 2008 21:05:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-6916900954628497693They made the ‘bag lady’ popular and built a mini empire on the back of ‘Tweens’, but Ashley and Mary-Kate have officially grown up. Last week, London department store Harvey Nicols hosted the launch for their latest label ‘The Row’, a collection that would have left many of their former fans with raised eyebrows. Sheer tops, suspenders and more than a hint of chest characterised the Olsen’s http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/05/costume-change-by-alicia-pyke.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Thu, 15 May 2008 21:03:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-1369095432105837430Sometimes when I’m dressing, I like to imagine myself playing a role. Just as actors garb up for a particular part in a play, so I like to prepare for the day or night ahead in theme. Usually it’s a pretty large leap of imagination but that’s exactly what makes it fun in the first place. So humour me if you will when I think I’m channelling a Rock Goddess, Sexy Secretary, French Poet or some http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/02/angels-and-devils-right-and-wrong-way.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:05:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-978561108732149744Have you ever been invited to one of those fancy dress parties where you aren’t good friends with the hosts and are not sure just how dressed up you should be?I don’t know which option’s worse you either disregard the Super Hero’s fancy dress notice and end up being the Plain Jane in the corner while everyone else gets down and dirty in their Catwomen suits while you try and pass yourself off as http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/ones-that-got-away-by-alicia-pyke.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:57:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-6501459290758914465Regrets, I’ve had a few. Among them is a tiny cream lace dress I wore with hefty boots aged 16 and a collection of glamorous vintage slips and nighties worthy of a silver screen goddess I really was too young to appreciate.Sure, there are certain other items I wish I had purchased at the time rather than letting common or financial sense stop me but it’s the items I’ve loved and lost that http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/ode-to-maxi-dress-by-melanie-moss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:05:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-6579717206981483160 Oh maxi dress how fond of thee am I Thy flattering jersey hangs softly at my side You leave me free to butter my bread each side As I don’t need to worry about the thighs I need to hide I love a good maxi dress, have been wearing them for years. Born into a family without the best legs, they been my saving grace on many an occasion. I do worry about my daughter though as I pass on http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/get-that-dress.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:26:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-446838785883050985 Last week, Top Shop sent out a mailer to all its eNewsletter subscribers with the header ‘Get THAT Kate Moss Dress’. Just WHAT dress are they talking about? Let’s just say it has something to do with an old flame, a charity and 60,000 Swarovski crystals…. Fashion lore has it that 10 years ago, when Kate Moss met Johnny Depp (also known as the ‘Brad and Gwenyth&#http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/fact-or-fashion-by-alicia-pyke.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:56:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-7628685853127014704I’ve been present at a lot of fashion shoots lately and what you see in a magazine has as much to do with the art of illusion as it does the clothes. Or the model. And I’m not even talking about Photoshop. Here are some of the tricks of the trade that routinely take place before a single frame is snapped…· Sometimes it takes as many as three people to shoe-horn a model into a dress: one to hold http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/sail-away-with-me-hunny-by-melanie-moss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:40:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-3313851589491893431Its Tuesday afternoon, you’re fed up and you’ve decided to pack up and go away for the weekend.The best part about going away on the weekend is the lead up. You spend Tuesday booking the beach house, flights and food. Wednesday listing what you are going to wear, Thursday writing your cleaning list and washing enough undies then before you know it its Friday and you can waste the day emailing allhttp://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/world-might-have-wars-and-warming-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:34:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-5846134566515738575The world might have wars and warming on its mind, but the fashion world is still one great optimist. At the Paris shows last month, some of the biggest names painted the fashion future, and it was bright.Balenciaga was voted by many as leader of the pack, Nicolas Ghesquière’s floral armour had models iron-clad in bold silk mini dresses, capped sleeves and hand-span waists. He then doused them inhttp://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/pack-attack-by-alicia-pyke.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:51:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-6048900446757381517Call me schizo-fash-ic but I have an entirely new wardrobe worry this week: Packing Paranoia.In a little over a month I’ll be relaxing on a remote island in the South Pacific with my favourite person in the world and nothing but snorkelling excursions, sunset cocktails, seafood feasts and trashy novels to consider. Mmmm, I can almost see it now.But for one major detail – what I’m wearing. Yes, I http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-if-we-said-that-you-could-indulge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:31:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-47830523798983790What if we said that you could indulge in creamy macaroons, whipped cream rings, choc-dipped banana and scooped ice-cream without gaining a gram? You can. It’s called Q-PotHailing from Harajuku, Japan, Q-Pot is an accessories company with a major sweet tooth. Surprisingly, founder Tadaaki Wakamatsu has perfect pearlers, probably because the treats he produces are for fingers, necks and wrists – http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/vintage-fashion-is-here-to-stay-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:39:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-1694840480012885233My grandmother bought her first pair of jeans last month at the ripe age of eighty three. She felt very groovy walking into Susan and walking out with a pair of sensible slacks in denim.Each night I kiss the photo of my Nanna with my grandfather looking very glamorous on holiday together in the 60’s. My favourite picture of her, she is wearing a knitted camisole and matching shrug, gloves and http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/collaboration-nation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:35:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-1354570004153606306Here at Tragic, we talk a bit about colabs. So it seems fit to draw into the discussion one of the most epic local fashion/store collaborations of them all, ‘Designers for Target…style by design’It’s become a sort of local fashion lore. When Stella McCartney released for Target in March 2007, women cued up around the block to catfight over her range. However, a month later, racks were full with http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/paris-hilton-gets-her-gear-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-7388607528918983272Take one hotel heiress who became famous for being famous, and combine with a Korean sports label and what do you get? That’s right, it’s Paris Hilton for Fila folks. Last week, the blonde American “beauty” renewed her estimated one million dollar contract to represent South Korean sportswear giant Fila Korea. Paris has been working with the brand since March 2007, and on a recent visit to the http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/christian-lacroix-on-show.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:33:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-7479931466496722283There are fashion designers, and then there are couture designers. Christian Lacroix is both. Over his 30-year long career, the designer has created pieces that have adorned red carpets the world over.Recently opened at France’s Les Arts Decoratifs Museum Christian Lacroix: Histoires de Mode features 400 dresses, capes, coats and hats dating back to the 18th century alongside 90 designs from http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2007/12/yummy-mummies-in-park-by-melanie-moss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:45:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-3788779166036221665Have you ever noticed that Yummy Mummies are all starting to look the same? It seems to me that the schoolyard is no longer the place to be cool, its now the play-yard. I took a friend’s toddler to the park the other day in practice for my upcoming servitude (yes I know I’m mad). Here I was heavily preggers wearing a plain white lycra singlet, black lycra roll top pants and thongs. Believe me, http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2007/12/romper-stomper-by-melanie-moss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:43:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-1772179282235096513So I’m sitting here at my laptop on a cold, rainy weekday looking out the window at the poor people struggling past me in wet weather gear, umbrellas and ruined shoes thanking the powers that be that I didn’t have to get out of my jammies today.There is certainly something to be said for working from home. As a personal stylist I’m sure people think I sit around drinking fresh cups of tea on purehttp://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2007/12/fashion-designer-top-5-logos.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Wed, 5 Dec 2007 04:18:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-1550086448740742012Kind - an integrated element for almost all with the approach to style and elegance in way which it or it appears. And in the today's competitive world, there are certain author's marks, which ranzhirovany above the others. They are responsible for creation and popularisation of new tendencies in a fashion, and some of them have reached almost similar guru of a condition because of their huge http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2007/10/bread-butter-celebrated-premiere-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:28:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-1752090357156269031BREAD & BUTTER celebrated a premiere in the Shôko Lounge Club in Barcelona: for the first time, the company awarded the Young Talent Prize 07 in its second home Barcelona in cooperation with the Catalan fashion school "Escuela Superior de Diseño y Moda Felicidad Duce".The award for the best designer of the “Graduation Show” – the design school’s official exam show, which took place during thehttp://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2007/08/past-vogue-cfda-winners-doing-well.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:55:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-1670835405135522117In advance of announcing the winner of the 2006 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award ($200,000), Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour gave a run-down of what’s become of winners past. She also spoke very highly of the award’s career-boosting effects. “In only the third year of the competition, we know that to win a first or runner-up prize is to receive a substantial professional boost. The inaugural http://fashion-designer-blog.blogspot.com/2007/08/zara-cortefiel-corte-ingles-stand-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Greg)Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:43:00 -0500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876135863016366174.post-6736570197262361532Leading Spanish fashion houses including Inditex and flagship brand Zara agreed an unprecedented move to draw up a beauty “canon” including harmonizing dress sizes after a recent storm over the number of young women suffering from anorexia.The 12-point package of measures, or beauty “charter” — drawn up with the health ministry — includes a stipulation that shop windows display sizes of 38