Fashion Masquerade
Fashion world is a masquerade, a theater where everyone’s disguised based on a level of one’s reality perception – An essay on the Principle of Fashion by Igor Rozenblyum
Barbara Elias, Brazilian It Girl & Pedro Lourenço’s Muse Lensed by Benjamin Kanarek for RG Magazine
Barbara Elias, Brazilian It Girl & Pedro Lourenço’s Muse Lensed by Benjamin Kanarek in the Streets of Paris for RG Magazine
The Very Special 26th International Fashion and Photography Festival of Hyères France
26th International Fashion and Photography Festival of Hyeres, France – The Festival is featuring 10 designers and 10 fashion photographers
Asian American Fashion Designers on the Rise at New York Fashion Week
The 2011 Spring-Summer New York Fashion Week showcased an impressive array of Asian and Asian-American designers.
Ecclectic, Electric and Energetic Manish Arora the Sultan of New Delhi
… Or, Just Having Fun and Learning How to Play In my many years as a fashion photographer, I have been privileged to have captured the couture designs of everyone from Dior to Pierre Cardin, from Viktor and Rolf to Karl Lagerfeld… There is a name that started echoing in my circle that began to […]
John Galliano Off With His Crown
If someone were to tell me I would be replacing John Galliano as the head designer for DIOR, I would not jump on the opportunity.
LVMH Needs Supremely Talented Dior Designer With Smart Sensuality Values
John Galliano replacement at Christian Dior must have more egalitarian, respectful values about Smart Sensuality women as 21st century luxury customers
John Galliano, The Calling of The Phoenix
The fashion Industry was in uproar last week after John Galliano was dismissed as Creative Director from Christian Dior following numerous anti-Semitic allegations made against the designer. Galliano has denied all allegations made against him and claimed that he is of partial Jewish ancestry, although this has not been verified. The dismissal on 1st March […]
Haider Ackermann’s ascension to… Christian Dior?
Haider Ackermann is one of my favorite new designers when it comes to womens’ clothing. Will Haider Ackermann’s ascension lead him to… Christian Dior?
The Politics of Fashion Photography Part 19 – Do You Know Your Designers?
Have you heard of Gareth Pugh, Manish Arora, Jantaminiau, Haider Ackermann, Alexander Wang, Iris van Herpen, Pedro Lourenço, Maxime Simoens… ? If you don’t know these designers and are intent on being or calling yourself a Fashion Photographer, I suggest you start doing your homework. A Fashion Photographer should at least be aware of […]
Red Carpet Ready in La La Land
During the build up to the Academy Awards, several hundred women in Hollywood are on a focused mission to get red carpet ready. There are a few tinsel town elite who, with their trusted team of stylists, hair & make-up artists, dressmakers, aestheticians and trainers, glide through February as if it were any other month. Some call these the fortunate few.
Some New Ways of Being Discovered as a Fashion Designer
Who in their right mind would not love to be discovered for their artistic and design talent? A gatekeeper who plucks them among the masses and propels their career into the infinity.
The VOGUE Paris-Carine Roitfeld-Tom Ford Christmas Greeting Card
Since the now legendary fashion biz earthquake, caused by Carine Roitfeld’s VOGUE Paris exit, the speculations about her future moves are running rampant. Did she leave to join Tom Ford in his new venture, or for licensing products with her own name (like Anna Della Russo’s Perfume)?
The Stylist – Your Eyes and Ears of the Fashion Industry – Part 2
You might know them as a Stylist, Photo Stylist, Fashion Stylist, Fashion Editor, Fashion Coordinator or Accessory Stylist – But what is their function
Gallery 1962 Opening with Catherine Lupis Thomas
Catherine Lupis Thomas, is a multi-faceted multi media pop artist and entrepreneur whom I featured back in September in my Paris Street Fashion Stuff segment. Well not only does she own the very trendy Montmartre Paris, clothing boutique called “1962”, but has just opened her Gallery on 3, rue Tholozé in Paris called “Gallery 1962″. […]
What will this Barbie wear? Paris Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2011 Part 5
And the GRAND TOTAL IS… The grand total of the bill for my virtual shopping spree was $155,750. This included 7 days each in NYC, London, Milan and 10 days in Paris. I included the hotels, food, plane tickets, shopping and miscellaneous mad money for coffees, cocktails, coffee and whatever else. The most I spent […]
Gossip Girl, which One are You? Paris Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2011 Part 4
This Barbie Wants to Know… I admit I am a HUGE Gossip Girl fan. Don’t ask me why but I am. Seeing the show, it makes me just want to be in NYC. Love that city as much as I do Paris. This last bit of virtual shopping just screamed Gossip Girl!!! They were in […]
What will this Barbie wear? Paris Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2011 – Part 1
What shall this Barbie wear this Summer – A virtual shopping spree for the Spring-Summer 2011 season wardrobe – The next HOT look from the Milan Fashion Week