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supermodels MATE for life, and more of the day’s top stories
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op models Karlie Kloss, Lily Donaldson, Constance Jablonski, Isabeli Fontana, Izabel Goulart, and Edita Vilkeviciute were among the guests who flocked to Peru to celebrate the opening of Mario Testino’s Asociación Mario Testino—a.k.a. MATE— a non-profit organization promoting Peruvian art. While Testino’s work will be on permanent display, an inaugural exhibition will open to the public on July 17.
The men of Brazil are in for a treat. Gucci is opening a men’s store in São Paulo on July 21. The 3,600-square-foot shop will be Gucci’s sixth men’sonly outpost and will include a full range of menswear, accessories, and luggage, as well as a madeto-measure tailoring program.
Raf Simons’ Couture debut at Christian Dior had everybody talking. The floral arrangements were just as head-turning as the clothes. Get a behindthe-scenes look at the making of the million-flower setup of peonies, goldenrod, dahlias, and more, which were cut and arranged to decorate five salons.
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Taylor Swift just gave Lady Gaga a run for her money—literally. The country pop singer has taken reign as the highest-earning star under 30 years old, taking in an impressive $57 million. Gaga’s earnings When supermodel Doutzen Kroes saw the recent dropped from $90 million to $52 million (still not cover of Vogue China, she was surprised at what she saw. The magazine had photoshopped her im- too shabby), landing her the fourth spot on the list, age so that she looked as though she only had one along with Adele, Rihanna, Katy Perry, and Kristen Stewart. leg. “I think photoshopping is OK until something like that happens,” she said. “You don’t want to lose one of your limbs.” Agreed.
preen back on the london scene, and more of today’s top stories Care to see the results of Swedish electronic king Avicii’s collaboration with Denim and Supply? Ralph Lauren has finally released images of his first-everad campaign, which was shot in New York by Mark Seliger. Avicii is front-and-center showing off the collection’s earthy palette of flannel and leather. Valerie Steele is toasting gay fashion designers. The Museum at FIT director has announced plans for her latest exhibition, entitled Queer Style: From
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reen by Thornton Bregazzi is headed back to London. After showing in New York for five years, the label’s co-founder Justin Thornton feels the time is right. “We originally left for New York because we wanted to expand the business and grow internationally,” he said. “Today, London is a very different fashion week to what it once was, and it’s a great place for us to show.” Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince of the Kills are looking back on ten years of touring. To mark the occasion, they have reinterpreted the Fleetwood Mac classic “Dreams” for their new album Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac. Catch a decade of photos accompanied by the duo’s rendition of the song on Nowness.com today.
beauty and the beat: au revoir simone’s erika forster goes blonde—and goes solo Besides going solo, you’ve also gone from brunette to blonde—another big change, I imagine.
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t’s been two years since indie dream pop trio Au Revoir Simone went on a hiatus, but singer and keyboardist Erika Forster has found a way to keep busy with a newly launched solo project. “I wanted to still do music and I felt like, ‘Well, I have everything set up for me to do this, so I need to just see what happens.’ I just started experimenting,” she says of her self-titled debut EP, out this week. As with Miuccia Prada-favorite Au Revoir Simone (who are now back together and presently working on their fourth album), the tracks on Erika Spring showcase Forster’s dulcet voice and knack for ethereal, just-the-rightside-of-sweet melodies. Here, Style.com caught up with the Brooklyn-based musician to find out her eco-friendly beauty favorites, why silk is a touring musician’s best friend, and why blondes really do have more fun. What’s the biggest difference between working solo versus with a group? It’s really nice in the band [because] I always have two people that I trust to bounce ideas off of. Sometimes I feel a little, like, I don’t know the answer to the question and I’m going to have to figure it out. But I also have to say it’s allowed me to meet other amazing creative people—like Jorge [Elbrecht], who produced [my album]. Just having those experiences were really positive.
I had been wanting to do it for a long time. I’ve had every kind of blonde since then; I started slowly and then I went all the way to platinum, which was fun, but it was really hard to keep it up. Now I’ve settled down. I’ve found my blonde! The girl who does it is amazing. I go to Aura Friedman at Serge Normant at John Frieda in [New York’s] Meatpacking District. She has great ideas; when I first started getting my hair done by her, we were putting a lot of really pale pastel pinks in. She also has a really great color Tumblr [http://auracolorist.tumblr.com/] that’s just so beautiful. She’s an artist. Did going blonde have any effect on your personality? I feel like at the time that I did it, I really needed to lighten up in a very spiritual and allencompassing way. I didn’t think about it that way then, but looking back, I wanted to just have this physical change. I think stereotypes about blondes are annoying but some of them are really true—in many ways I feel like my personality fits being blonde. What do you rely on to keep your hair—and skin— in good shape for back-and-forth trips to the studio and live shows? I keep it really simple. The past year I’ve been really eliminating chemicals in my life and I have a friend, Jessa Blades, who has a natural beauty blog, Blades Natural Beauty, so she helps me find alternatives. Like Priti nail polish—I just found this one nail polish, Spring Song, and it’s the same color as my album art! I use Lulu Organics hair powder—I love that stuff, it’s really good for a long tour. RMS Beauty has these little concealers that you can use as foundation for your whole face. I use it all over. The eyeliner that I use is from Zosimos, that’s a good eyeliner. I use Sprout Cream, this great and totally natural moisturizer.
And then my favorite thing is at Whole Foods, they have these little rosewater bottles from Heritage Store. There’s a gardenia flower water that, especially in summer, I just carry it with me everywhere.
Having spent so much time touring, do you have any summer packing advice?
Definitely pack light and just find those outfits that work. I used to bring lots of separates on tour that didn’t necessarily go with things, so I stopped doing Au Revoir Simone was just featured in a Miu Miu that. And I recently realized that silk is the greatest short film earlier this year. Why do you think there’s thing to bring when traveling; you can clean it in such a strong connection between music and five minutes in the shower, and you can wear it in fashion? summer or winter.
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It’s mutual muses or something. Ever since designers started using personalities and not always models, I feel like musicians have been integrated into that. And in the same equal way, musicians are onstage and always want to create a spectacle. Or not necessarily a spectacle, but create a mood. So I feel like that connection is inherent and we’ve been lucky enough to get to work with some of our favorite designers. The project with Miu Miu was really amazing.
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mencyclopaedia: crockett & jones
If shoes maketh the man, then these days most of us are moulded on production lines in China, Vietnam and Bangladesh. Back in 1968, however, the British shoe industry employed 92,000 skilled workers, who between them rustled up more than 200 million pairs of shoes that year alone. Some 185 million of these were bought - and worn - in Britain. This was the high-watermark of home-grown shoemaking. Already the rubber-soled spectre of foreign-manufactured footwear loomed, poised to give our indigenous cobblers a kicking. The British agitated for protectionist legislation in vain, and department stores gleefully offered up cheaper alternatives from the European Common Market and beyond. Now, four decades on, the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives is but a magnificently named memory. What remains is approximately 4,500 British shoe workers producing five million pairs a year - many of which are partially assembled abroad first, then sneakily stamped «Made in England» on the (English-made) sole.
Yet as the rest of the business has withered (no goldstandard women’s shoe factories survive) the market for high-quality, entirely-British made mens’ shoes is thriving. Northampton-made “Goodyear Welteds” are now to masculine footwear what French champagne is to fizzy wine, and the few companies that still provide them face unprecedented demand. Recognising this, Italy’s Prada snapped up Church’s, while France’s Hermès purchased John Lobb. Both foreign proprietors have proved benevolent. The biggest and best-known British-owned shoemaker is Crockett & Jones, currently run by the great, great grandson of its co-founder, Charles Jones. Begun with a 200£ grant in 1879, the firm started as a small-scale producer of men’s boots. By the Thirties, it was producing 15,000 pairs of (mostly women’s) shoes a week and went on to supply more than a million pairs of officer’s boots to the war effort.
Like every other British shoemaker, however, C&J was badly buffeted in the Seventies, and at its lowest ebb made only about 60,000 pairs a year. Since then, says its managing director Jonathan Jones, production has grown to 130,000. “We’re flat out at the moment and our biggest problem is managing that demand and finding the skilled labour we need to do it.” There are currently 200 people on the Crockett & Jones factory floor, and it is actively recruiting for more. Because they really are made here, and because the company must compete with France’s booming luxury handbag businesses for the calfskin required for its gleaming, patinated uppers, Crockett & Jones shoes are extremely expensive. “Main collection” styles start at around £300 while “hand grade” and shell Cordovan (horsehide) shoes cost hundreds more. Reportedly, they are worth it; C&J wearers, including one particular enthusiast at The Daily Telegraph, claim a decade or more’s use from each pair. Most of these wearers also develop a tub-thumpingly evangelical mania for the company. Over 20 years of slow-but-steady expansion, their word-ofmouth recommendations have helped C&J grow from a firm known for producing shoes for others including Ralph Lauren and Brooks Brothers - into a potent brand in its own right.
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Now 70 per cent of the Crockett & Jones’s shoes are exported, with Japan (where they particularly appreciate a suede chukka) and the US (keen on the traditionally English round toe) both especially strong markets. Less countrified than Tricker’s, less rarefied than Edward Green, and better-known internationally than either Cheaney or Alfred Sargent, Crockett & Jones appears perfectly placed to spearhead a small, but heartening revival for Britain’s once-mighty shoe industry.
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Saskia Pougnet was born in Cape Town to a Mauritian father and a German mother in November 1985. After having completed her secondary education in Mauritius, Saskia spent four years studying Fashion Design at the prestigious Polimoda (International Institute of Fashion Design and Marketing) in Florence, Italy. Having concluded her studies, she interned at the famous luxury lingerie brand La Perla where she assisted in designing both lingerie and swimwear. Having spent these valuable years in Italy exposed to the arts and high fashion, Saskia decided to return to Mauritius in order to gain some experience in industrial clothing manufacturing. She worked as a designer for fine knitwear manufacturers for two years after which she decided to launch her ‘casual chic’ clothing and accessories brand Saskia P in January 2011. Saskia P was created for the fashionable woman longing for feminine silhouettes, unique designs and beautifully handcrafted products. The opposite of mass production, Saskia P products are unique pieces made with love and care, created to restore the original values that were once attributed to clothing; style, quality and finish. Saskia has created a high-end niche market for herself in Mauritius by bringing a fresh vision to Mauritian fashion and by mixing chic European style with casual island wear.
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packing Winter holidays have arrived and some of you will be packing and getting everything ready for a great vacation abroad! Others may be leaving the country for tertiary studies. In any case, I’ve got you covered luggage/flight wise. The art of packing is hard to master, but it is manageable, with a little help.
DO NOT Wear heels. Your feet will swell during the trip, and it will be painful to walk afterwards if you have heels on. Keep it simple, such as ballet flats (keeps your toes happy and warm too). Wear a tracksuit, or sweats. Comfort is key, but I am a firm believer in making some effort in dressing up. Wear anything that will take up too much space, or are a source of potential embarassment: tight dresses (dresses in general too), coats, full skirts, mini skirts etc. Avoid jeans - they can be uncomfortable after a few hours, especially skinny jeans, which can leave your legs numb. Wear tons of make-up. Stick to moisturiser and a tinted balm/lip gloss. My favourite products are Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturing Lotion and Chubby Stick Moisturising Lip Colour Balm. You could always bring eye cream too. DO Bring socks, in case for some reason there aren’t any. Layer, so you are prepared for the airport (stuffy, hot), plane (cold!!), destination (cold/hot/pleasant). I would suggest leggings/trousers + cotton/jersey top + oversize sweater (rather than a coat, which can be bulky). Bring mints. Toothbrush and toothpaste are usually provided in mini satchets.
Firstly, though, you should already know what you are going to wear for the trip.
Bring an eye mask too. It may help. Bring a small make-up bag to freshen up before landing. This should contain some freshening or facial cleansing wipes (if you can get your hands on them), mascara, concealer, lip tint, a hairbrush, and some elastic bands - its best to tie up hair into a neat, clean ponytail or braid before getting on the plane and getting off. Bring a good,sturdy bag or hand luggage, with your essentials. Make sure you have sufficient reading material, your laptop, kindle, etc. Don’t overpack, and make sure you know the dimensions of your hand luggage to avoid any messy situations.
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kelly brook for new look : spring summer collection 2012
New Look has entrusted the design of the new womenswear capsule collection to Kelly Brook for the Spring Summer 2012. The collection revolves around the pin up style and even provides for the plus sizes. After collaborating on lingerie and swimsuits collections for several seasons, New Look is partnering again with Kelly Brook, the British actress known for her alluring curves for the new capsule collection dedicated to clothing, bags and shoes. Inspired by the Fifties’ style and the St Tropez days of Brigitte Bardot, Kelly Brook created push up bras similar to the ones by Dolce & Gabbana, and high waist shorts which are the perfect replacement for the panties of the previous runways. The collection also incorporates pieces such as floral skirts which open seductively over a short of the same pattern, Capri pants, playsuits with halter necks and a whole bundle of looks composed of polka dots and white T-shirts to tie. What’s more to like are the peplums adorn and ditsy flower print dresses that can be worn for weddings or for casual chic events.
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nasty gal’s july 2012 lookbook
Exit Chrishell Stubbs. Enter Ajak Deng as the new face of Nasty Gal. The Sudanese model poses for the brand’s July 2012 lookbook, lensed by photographer Paul Trapani. With the styling done by Ashley Glorioso and make up by Stacey Nishimoto, the lookbook shows pieces of vibrant and warm colours guaranteed to spice up this summer with plays of leather and transparency. Adopt the Nasta Gal style and “do your thang” like Ajak Deng. Seize the opportunity, the brand delivers internationally!
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