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Entitled ‘Rendezvous,’ Diane von Furstenberg explained backstage that her Autumn/Winter Collection for 2012 is,
“about loving to be a woman. It’s about seduction. It is bold. It is daring. It is strong, but it has humor. It’s all about liking your body, and at the same time with big coats, so it’s the yin and the yang.”
Thus, the result was a collection full of subtle sultriness, pencil skirts, DvF’s signature [Read more...]
Diane von Furstenberg is the epitome of trendy grace and eloquent style.
I adore her and this season is no different.
Von Furstenberg’s Fall/Winter 2012 collection was meant to be seductive, bold and daring. [Read more...]
Diane von Furstenberg: style, success, fame and staying power.
From marrying a prince once upon a time, to being one of the world’s most iconic designers, Furstenberg added another facet to her lengthy portfolio in 2011 by coming out with a fragrance.
Designed over the course of two years to capture her timeless style, it is the infusion of her world in a bottle.
‘Diane,’ the fragrance, which bears the name she was born with, is bright, glamorous and magnetic.
One of my favourite quotes that Furstenberg ever said, was taken out of a Harper’s Bazaar article written about her in March 2011, DVF Up Close: Chuck Close Portrait of Diane Von Furstenberg .
“Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.”
- Diane von Furstenberg
I spent a long time [Read more...]
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With the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China and most recently South Africa) calling for a non-European to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the new head of the International Monetary Fund on the heels of his sexual-assault scandal, ending what they BRICs (and alike nations) have dubbed as an “obsolete” rule by The West, it’s no surprise that when it comes to the growth in the luxury market, companies have their eyes on a new, never before imagined, future.
Even at the 2011 G20 Summit, Zhou Xiaochuan, who runs China’s central bank, said that it doesn’t matter whether or not the new head of the IMF is French or European, but that the new leadership of the IMF should reflect the growing stature and needs of emerging economies, implying the new leader should be from one of the latter.
It’s a clear shift in the winds of commerce into a New World, where “what once was” is beginning to take a second step into a new, certainly more exotic, way of life.
No one said it better than, Starwood Hotels and Resorts CEO, Fritz Van Paasschen, at the Global Luxury and Fashion Summit 2011
“Thirty years ago, in the Forbes 400, so many people in that group were heirs and had come from money, I think the term ‘nouveau riche’ had a clear disparaging aspect to it. Whereas today, most money is new.”
This, on the heels on his company planning no less than eight new hotels by 2016 (publicly released as of May 2011,) for their contemporary and trendy, luxury brand of W Hotels, in Africa, China and other East Asian nations. In fact, the W St. Petersburg opened in Russia a little over one month ago, on April 20, 2011.
But while a lot of brands are still concentrating on Russia, India and China, with the World Cup in 2014, followed closely by the Summer Olympics in 2016, a lot more companies are focusing their attention on BRAZIL. [Read more...]
By: Kelly Ahern, guest blogger
As their newest creations emerge along the runways during New York’s Spring/Summer 2011 Fashion Week, the fight for designer’s intellectual property rights is underway.
With the induction of the Fordham Law’s, Fashion Law Institute, legendary designer Diane von Furstenberg was on site, commending this new opportunity available to surfacing designers who need to protect their ideas and pieces.
According to a post from AFP, [Read more...]
By: Julia Rachlin, guest blogger
There are multiple ways designers install themselves into the fashion-lover’s guide to life.
One of these ways is to marry a really rich dude who funds you until you become one of the most prolific (and admittedly in this case, talented) designers out there….. [Read more...]
By: Julia Rachlin, guest blogger
We greatly anticipate Fashion Week each season knowing that we’ll get to see a bit more into the thoughts and inspirations of our favorite designers, the well-established darling as well as the next up-and-coming star. But this year, with the excitement sure to come with the approach of this September’s Spring 2012 Collections, the fashion world has another reason to be giddy. We are going to be allowed to explore and see into another area of these designers’ worlds – their homes.
Through a collaboration with the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Assouline is publishing “American Fashion Designers at Home,†a coffee-table book filled with luxurious images of homes of more than 100 American designers. We’ll get a peek into how Ralph Lauren, Donna Karen, Diane von Furstenberg, Carolina Herrara and scores more style [Read more...]
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By: Louise Whitehill, guest blogger
I’m flicking through Cosmo and it catches my eye.
That gorgeous red sole.
Everyone knows exactly what it means.
The red base indicates a [Read more...]
This was a good day of collections. A very good day. If you want to look through photos of an entire show, I suggest picking one or more of the designers below. We’re still pondering how designers all manage to interpret their inspirations so they end up designing with the same color palette or the same “it” silhouette. So far, the theory of a fashion overlord has been proposed (which Sasha likes to think is Anna Wintour.) On to the shows…
Araks – All the pieces in the little Araks collection look like you could live in them. To be honest, I never paid much attention to the brand until now. The rich coloring gets me. I’m taken with the deep rusty red. All the garments are so preppy in a unique way. It’s like a brighter, well-edited, richer j.crew. [Read more...]
