Lady Gaga styling

Lady Gaga photoshooting with her face implants for her new album 'Born This Way'.

She told NME magazine: "I did look into having them done permanently but decided against it.Mostly because of my boyfriend, if you want the truth."

Photos by Mariano Vivanco

Makeup: Billy B.
Hair: Bob Recine

Styling: Nicola Formichetti

Christopher Kane

Christopher Kane, Graduated from Central Saint Martins, his from Scotland, before he created his label he worked with Giles Deacon and Russell Sage. He is  a great designer, love his work and his concepts on runway.


Spring 2009 Collection



I  have seen this collection ages ago for my college project, while i was looking at london fashion week, I reconised the similarity with Bora Aksu's collection for Autum/Winter 2013, where i literally uploded on my blogspot. Specially they are bits and pieces such as the lightness of the meterial, the round parts and the way its been placed over the top looks like from one collection however they are two different designers collections in different years.





  

London Fashion Week

Bora Aksu is a fashion desiginer, who graduated his MA from central saint martins, been in uk for 15 years and  he is from Turkey. His collections are in london and across the world such as selfriges, Wolf & Badger and Liberty & Co. I literally reconised him from London Fashion Week Website but as far as i seen his collection i find it interesting, specially in Autum/Winter 2013 Collection. I have uploaded my favroute one from his collection.    




Bora Aksu/ Autum Winter 2013

Alexandra McQueen

Spring/summer 2008 Runway

This runway collection was impressive it also had a mixture of different ideas and concepts brought together. While I was watching the catwalk show, I find it a bit simple start but as the show continued, it became more interesting and initially influenced with the concept.

The beginning started with a suit collection, they have designed classy and feminine garments I really like the silhouette of the garment, it was completely grey suited with a thick red waistband wrapped around the waist, which points out the fitted and figure hugging shapes.
The blazers designed as sharp and smart looking, it reminds me of a masculine business wear and it also has designed with different materials, such as shinny and mate fabrics, I personally think that the colour scheme was quite dark for the spring/summer collection,
It looked like a winter collection although the whole movement of the show was the combination with the headpieces, which designed by Philip Treacy.

The hat ideas where futuristic and visually pleasing appearance, the ideas where great but the most favourite ones that I am in love with is the butterfly and the metal designed one, where I uploaded them on my blog. I find it quite interesting because it has nicely detailed the butterflies placed really well, the colours are beautiful, and it looks realistic. The other design it give me the idea off Chinese culture, it made from metal, the details based on flowers , it’s quite heavy to wear, but looks stunning with the garment together. The whole outfit is looking perfect, I also was interested with both of these because it connects to my previous research from other designers.  

The show becomes more interesting because the silhouette changes into more futuristic shapes of garment, such as the three-dimension example, high shoulders, round skirt,  butterfly design over the shoulders and diamond shapes used. It becomes mostly dresses than suit, again the colours and fabrics becomes wintery, its black and gold sequence fabrics but effective. The other changes was the summary concept where the light fabrics such as chiffon, silk and silky satin fabrics. The prints are bright rainbow colours with different butterfly designs and fitted silhouette changed to draped dresses.





Designers Alexandra McQueen, grey sleevless knee lenght dress with a red thick waist band, the head pieace made by Philip Traecy, butterflies, love the idea and its really impressive.






Designer Alexandra McQueen, My second pieces im in love with, great idea, the head piece from Philip Traecy.

Hussein Chalayan

Spring /Summer collection 1998



This collection is from Hussein Chalayan for the spring/summer in 1998, the catwalk show was placed on a white back grounded stage, the concept was about naturalism of a naked woman. It also represents the Muslim woman’s and indicates the Islamic culture. I think that it meansa lot to a woman thoughts and rights, especially during 1998, it attract attention and in some point it gives the message such as having the freedom or live without a limitations.





Models with feet long white veils only the eyes and feet it shown, the hands inside the veils,standing strainght and seperated all over the stage.

The show was started off with a naked model with the black mask on and the second model entered just after her with a short black veil only the bust areas was covered, the other part of the body were all naked and the eyes were shown. Third model had the same thing with black veil but the length of the veil increased and the most part of the body are covered except her legs, as the other models comes in the length increases more and more until last model. They are six models and white skinned but on the image, you can see three of the model faces are painted in red and  it has the cross sign on it, it symbolises something such as flag of a Muslim country or blood.          

I watched the spring/summer 1998 collection video from Hussein Chalayans website, his collections means more than one thing and I personally think that his really creative and open-minded designer. As far as I seen his collections, I think his one of the designers that printed his name in the fashion world because he is not just creating a garment he is putting his artistic side too and brings out that interesting work of collection. I have the link below so if you wanted to look at his amazing collections you can click on.

  

http://husseinchalayan.com/#/home/

InSalaam InShalom

The catwalk show for Insalaam InShalom


when the show started the first thing I heard was the music, quite effective to start off with, it gives the sense of power, the floors was designed Israelis and Palestinians six pointed stars in a blue tape, the model were walking one by one over those lines. It was simple but interesting show.

 The black and white photographs of models behind the stage and the platted hair style.

                        
                         

ThreeASFOUR InSalaam InShalom Exhibition

 

         ThreeASFOUR InSalaam InShalom Exhibition

                                       

 

Three ASFOUR Insalaam Inshalom – “Judaism and Islam can live side by side” Here is a mixture of different backgrounds the Judaism and Islam, the designers (Three ASFOUR) are Gabi Asfour, Adi Gil and Ange Donhauser, who runs a fashion label since 1998.This collection influenced by both culture, they have used Israelis and Palestinians both: six pointed stars and kaffiyeh patterns, the evil eye and the Hamsa designs.  I was interested with peace and unity message given and were presented on their Spring/Summer 2012 collection, the silhouette was symbolic motifs with print techniques on  billowing, fluttering silk chiffon and silk de chine dresses, on the other hand I find it quiet modernist designs collaborating both traditional printed fabrics, which I think It works really well together. The patterns and the colours were visually effective and I was impressed with the ideas.

“We’ve accumulated the energy of artists and performers who are like-minded,” Asfour said. “We tried to balance things from all sides, though it’s always difficult.”

I found these images while i was doing my research online, the exhibition caught my eye, i personaly did like it and the concept was really inspirational.

“Fashion and beauty are tools to promote togetherness and unity in different countries and cultures,” Gil said. “We hope we can inspire other people to work together and not be scared of working together.”




This is one of the pieces I liked inside the collection, it is a skin colour breastplate were small broken pieces of ceramic were embellished on top, the ceramic had traditional floral designs and mostly blue colours been used. Visually impressive and affective, but my favourite one was brown dress with metallic motif were embellished all over also two Hamas metalic design was used on middle of the waist and the bottom section of the dress. This is traditionally designed in detailed, which I loved it because its sronger piece and it reflect to the concept. The three-colour combination of brown, metal (which is silver) also blue lines were great together.