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CONTENTS
WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE...
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CONTRIBUTORS
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AGUA BENDITA
Hand-made Colombian swimwear. By Sara Kuykendall 32
BREAKING THRU BOUNDARIES Up & coming trend of the printed blazer. By Sara Kuykendall 40
WHO’S YOUR ALTER-EGO? The art of festival dressing. By Samantha Book 54
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CONTRIBUTORS SAMANTHA BOOK
SARA KUYKENDALL
Samantha Book graduated with a degree in Fashion Marketing at the Savannah College of Art and Design of Savannah Georgia. Book’s love of traveling, combined with a special eye for up and coming trends is the reason she is Wanderlust reader’s top insider for the fashion industry.
Sara Kuykendall is a woman of many talents. Graduating at the top of her class at Savannah College of Art and Design, she currently resides in Manhattan, with her two cats, Tigger and Lola. She has apprenticed with some of the most prestigious designers in the world, such as Roberto Cavalli and Badgley Mischka. Kuykendall is a triple threat, and one to watch out for.
Chief Stylist and Trend Watcher
Favorite hobby? In my free time I work on crafting and designing costumes for my own company, Sparkle (custom costume creations for any event that requires you to sparkle a little more than you usually would).
Photographer, Stylist, and Writer
Listening to? Florence + The Machine. Favorite pastime? I enjoy drinking Camus wine with friends every chance I get!
ASHLEY HOFFER
CORBIN RACHOR
Ashley Hoffer, originally from a small town in Ohio, now based in New York, New York – graduated with a degree in Fashion Marketing at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. Due to her wide range of experience in the fashion industry including working in fashion show production and promotion, Hoffer is your source for bringing the art of fashion to Wanderlust’s pages.
Corbin Rachor, who splits her time between her family’s home in Texas and her studio apartment in the Meatpacking district of Manhattan – graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with degrees in both Fashion Marketing and Business Management. Known for her creative and over-the-top styling, she has worked with major magazines such as W, Elle, and VOGUE, to produce eye-catching editorials for their readers.
Listening to? Rihanna, all day every day. Beauty icon? Gwyneth Paltrow. I idolize how she has kept herself looking so young at age 38! Must have beauty item? A good mascara, I personally love Urban Decay’s “Big Fatty”.
Ideal last meal? Spaghetti and meatballs, or anything Italian! Style icon? Edie Sedgwick – she embodied the playful, spirited, and fun side of fashion. I just adore 60’s style in general. Must have beauty item? MAC’s tinted lipglass in “Wildly Lush” – just enough color for all hours of the day!
Art Director and Stylist
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Agua Bendita
A look into designers Catalina Alvarez and Mariana Hinestroza’s growing Colombian swimwear company. By Sara Kuykendall
The Colombians have it right. These “heavenly delights” are everything women aspire to be in a swimsuit. By Sara Kuykendall
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ashion is a very important aspect of a female’s world. Morning routines revolve around the same questions: “What time is it?”, “How long do I have to get ready?”, and “What do I want to wear today?” are a few examples. These questions surface in every woman’s mind as they hit the off button on the alarm clock. This is just every day life. But what happens when it is a beach day, and you want to hit the waters in a stylish way? Just like having an extraordinary, fantastic, everyday wardrobe, every woman needs to have a fabulous swimwear collection to make them feel envied, desired, and lusted after. There is a need for phenomenal sexiness that projects and breaks the barriers. Agua Bendita has given women’s swimwear an 18 WanderLust
innovative and modern touch to the female swimsuit. Catalina Alvarez and Mariana Hinestroza have been the brand’s designers and owners since the beginning of the Colombian swimwear company in 2003. In just a few years, the sexy swimsuits have positioned themselves as one of the fastest growing swimwear brands in the world. It is not the same as Victoria’s Secret swimsuits, which have gained recognition because of the company’s intimates and annual fashion show. Victoria’s Secret swimwear hit in 1988 and has been successful ever since. However, Agua Bendita is giving them a run for their money, which is why it has been represented by national and international models such as Maria Fernanda Yepes, Ana Sofia Henao, Katja Shchekina, Candice Swanepoel, Rianne Ten Haken, and Bar Refaeli. WanderLust 19
After 7 years, the exclusiveness of its designs and the quality of each garment have allowed it to create the great exposure in many well-published magazines, runways, and international tradeshows. To this date, Agua Bendita has launched six collections where it has shown the concept, “Bendita’s Girl.” It is a concept in which all women are “benditas,” meaning blessed, beautiful, eye-catching, and famous. The brand’s concept wants to be expanded around the world. The brand has hit the public with a turn of heads and has come to stay. These are one-of-a-kind swimsuits. As compared to Victoria’s Secret swimwear that can be seen on just about every other female body walking down the beach, in Facebook pictures, posted in Tumblr, Twitter, or any other social media feature, the exclusive Agua Bendita swimsuits can only be found in a narrow, fashionable location. The average woman may have never even heard of this unique swimwear brand, so it will only be seen in the most prestigious destinations in America, let alone the world.
“The designers created a youthful, happy brand that has exclusive and flashy products…” The designers created a youthful, happy brand that has exclusive and flashy products that attract chic, swanky women so they are able to feel like they are wearing a swimsuit that was fashioned just for their own body and no one else’s. Avlarez and Hinestroza created this unique feature to identify with a woman’s emotions. They wanted a woman to feel confident knowing that these creations are for only the distinguished, and they can flaunt around feeling secure and exalting their individual sex appeal. These suits are based on playful, maximalist, and progressive concepts that embody each individual design. The mix of technology, handcrafting, and bright colors and patterns captures the joy and liveliness that each suit exhorts. The success of the company has been a combination of laser cutting
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with high quality products and materials, which have been the directional point of the developing of these one-of-a-kind swimsuits. With the luck of Colombian artisans, these swimsuits are handcrafted by individuals with the utmost experience in hand-making apparel such that each piece is based on the traditional handcrafts that give these swimsuits a new touch that has never been seen or used before. This brand has the look of a woman that wants to be admired; she wants to be fawned after - to be sought. She will absorb the attention of every eye, and soak up every individual’s thought; male or female. The development of Agua Bendita has allowed many women to identify themselves with the brand, and they will look for that feeling anywhere around the world. WanderLust 21
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Boundaries By Sara Kuykendall
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ake a bat, and swing, baby, swing! Take it right up to that ceiling, and listen to the shattering of the glass as it falls down. I bet you look fierce rocking that striking, kaleidoscopic blazer while dominating the restricting glass ceiling with an aluminous slugger. These days, women around the world are taking the high road of becoming a CEO or president of a company, a political icon, or any other high profile career. They are taking over the workforce. What was once a man’s world full of cigarettes, cards, sports, and 5 o’clock happy hour at the local pub where discussions of how the New York Yankees just won a no hitter against the Boston Red Sox is now flocking with female coworkers. How times have changed. Ever since the 1980’s women have used a staple blazer with growing shoulders. The belief was that you “get big shoulders and you get noticed”, meaning that as the fashion for the female identity in the workplace took hold, shoulder width grew. Now, I’m not saying to make sure you have a threebuttoned, navy, boxed blazer hanging in your closet, but be noticed by the geometric, floral blazer instead. With society turning towards more vibrant, boundary pushing direction, so are the women expressing themselves through their clothing. Now more than ever women are striving to be as successful as ever. Just as rallies and protests are always happening around elections or even if they want their beliefs heard, women want to freely use
their minds to show how intelligent they are and what they can do. Like women in the 80’s rallying for their rights to break through the workforce, today individuals are striving to become the best they can be, and will not let anyone stop them. In the 19th century, impressionist artists were chastised for violating the rules of the academic painting style. They explored their minds and broke through what the social norms were. Especially with the fauvism breakthrough that was short lived at the end of impressionistic period. It gave a new look with bright colors and textures in artists’ paintings. Henri Matisse will forever be known as a leader of the movement by throwing out earthly colors, and bringing out energy in new work full of vigorous colors and organic-like shapes. These artists are still teaching today’s individuals to follow their own style, their own dreams, and their own destiny. The world is moving towards color and peppy displays of art, fashion, and décor. The impressionists and fauvists are being shown in galleries from the Dallas Museum of Art to the Art Institute Chicago to The Clark Museum in Massachusetts to MuseeOrsay in France. Impressionism and fauvism taught the woman of the 80’s to go for it, and is still shaking society with breaking whatever boundaries you have to go out and take on the WanderLust 33
Prints! Patterns! Bright color! With the world shouting color and geometric shapes, it is the only way to go. It is all about breaking the fashion boundaries. Just like it was in the 80’s, “bursting through boundaries” is in today. Designers are looking more and more towards creating something new. Not necessarily something that has never been seen before, but changing what is available into a new idea. Jennifer Lyons, creative director of J Crew, has been in the spot light in recent months for using mix-matched prints while styling, and also adding prints and patterns to customers’ favorite J Crew style pants. Whose to say the prints stop at the bottom. Why not work it all the way to the top and have some fun? With that being said, the typical work uniform is beginning to turn to styling with personality. People are starting to understand the belief that a stylish worker equals a happy worker. No one likes having a frumpy, dull wardrobe and displaying a senseless taste in public. So why wear boring apparel to work? Printed blazers are something different. It’s innovative. It’s fresh. No matter the professionalism, society’s career driven ladies are now given the option to create their
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own sense of self displayed in the office. They still represent power and authority, but now with a fresh, new style. The combination of patterns and colors makes for one high-voltage outfit, do you not agree? These high-impact jackets are adorned with everything from elegant floral patterns to cool graphic designs. They are the must-have essential to every females closet to show the world that they are in charge and they do not care what anyone else thinks. It gives the attitude every woman strives to obtain, and it gets her noticed. Be fierce in these fabulous times. Follow past individual ideas and beliefs, and carry them through to obtain your goals.
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eon has been a trend we are all too familiar with, but this trend-watch is not focusing solely on neon, but how it relates to the music festival scene and raising the question as to what would you dress up like if you could wear anything you could possibly dream of if your were free from judgment and ridicule? Music festivals aren’t a new occurrence; they have been happening for decades. Not only have there been evolving festival-goers as the year’s pass, but transformations have also occurred over the past few decades. On August 15, 1969 in Bethel NY, one of the biggest rock festivals of all time took place. As many as 500,000 concert-goers came together and camped out for three days for peace, art, and music. Woodstock stood for peace, love, and togetherness. They came together to join and become one and they all were there for the same reason: the anti- war movement. Today, music festivals have evolved into a slightly different genre, and a slightly different day and age, but still with the same idea of people coming together at a music festival all for the love of music and how it brings people together.
Ultra Music Festival started in 1999 in downtown Miami, FL. What use to be a one-day electronic music festival (from 1999-2006) has grown into North Americas second largest electronic music festival after Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC). Ultra had over 165,000 attendees this past festival in March of this year. Electric Daisy Carnival is an international annual electronic and dance music festival (rave). It started out in 1997 as a one day event, but today it has grown into a three day traveling carnival rave hosted in California, New Jersey, Colorado, Florida, Texas, Las Vegas, and Puerto Rico. This year EDC hosted their biggest rave at Las Vegas’s Motor Speedway with 300,000+ attendees for the three day event. Ok, so you might be questioning, “What trend emerges from these festivals?” Well, in my eyes it’s more than a trend; it’s more like an alter ego. These festival-goers are a part of the “Electric Dance Music” (EDM) movement. Just like when Woodstock occurred, the EDM scene is all about the love for house and electronic music movement. Festival-goers come dressed to these festivals as an expression and representation of who they always wanted to be, and
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These festivals are meant to be a safe environment, to allow people to come dressed in anything you could imagine, from rainbow tutu’s to furry boot covers, from a superman costume to a “My Little Pony”-inspired costume. There is a small group of people who come to these festivals that set trends for themselves, and they are known as Candy Ravers. This is a type of alter ego that some ravers personify when they attend EDM festivals. They can be spotted at festivals as they wear bright neon clothing such as tutus, decorated bra tops, fishnets, etc. They also wear lots of multi-colored, beaded bracelets usually made by themselves with festival sayings on them. Candy Ravers go to festivals to spread the love and live by the PLUR philosophy (Peace, Love, Unity, Respect), and often they share these bracelets with the PLUR handshake and spread
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positive friendly vibes to fellow festival goers. Candy Ravers often carry children’s backpacks that they decorate in glitter or stickers and they wear bright makeup with bright, bold, colorful eyelashes. Whether you are a Candy Raver or simply an EDM lover who just wants to come out and dress up and rage, keep in mind everyone is there to be a part of the same movement. There is no room for judgment; it’s all for the love of the music. It allows you to be able to express the inner you, the you that you always wanted to be and couldn’t in your everyday life. EDM festivals are meant for you to come and leave your baggage at the door and dance like no ones watching. Come Monday you’re back to normal doing your normal 9-5.
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Jeffrey Campbell’s “For Real Wedge” ($199.00) is the perfect in-between shoe if you’re not quite sure you can pull off a vibrant color yet. This shoe has just the right amount of sparkle and glitz, without being too over-the-top. Jeffrey Campbell Shoes has been designing styles since 2000, differentiating themselves from other designers by capturing “the essence of the street,” and mixing it with vintage, as well as upcoming styles to create a recognizable brand around the world. The company prides itself on acquiring inspiration for new styles from its customers – because that is what the company believes represents Jeffrey Campbell best.
Step into Fall with the New Classics Ordinary dress shoes take an exciting turn with a variety of prints, textures, and exotic colors. By Corbin Rachor
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what our readers have been searching for – shoes that embody playfulness, while still looking appropriate for that special black-tie event. Charlotte Olympia’s “Leopard Pump” ($975.00) and “Cat-Face Ankle-Strap Wedge” ($895.00) are positively purr-fect for giving your outfit a girly and whimsical charm. These shoes are much like pieces of art, with the designer’s exquisite attention to detail on every view of the shoe. Designer Charlotte Olympia launched her London-based shoe brand in 2007, and has gained international acknowledgement by selling her collections at some of the world’s most prestigious retailers such as Bergdorf Goodman, Harrods, and Neiman Marcus. Her design philosophy focuses on femininity and inspiration from old Hollywood glamour. Each pair of her shoes is handcrafted in Italy using only the best materials, and is placed with the final touch upon completion – the brand’s signature gold spider web on each sole. WanderLust 55
Giuseppe Zanotti’s “Platform Heel with Bow in Fuschia” ($895.00) and “Blue Suede Heel” ($750.00) definitely ranks highest on the daring chart. These shoes are not only beautiful and sleek in shape, but are made in the striking hues of fuschia and electric blue. Your feet are sure to draw attention in these colorful choices! Designer Giuseppe Zanotti has worked in luxury women’s footwear for over twenty years, making his high-fashion debut at Christian Dior, and going onto consult with designers such as Roberto Cavalli, Missoni, and Vera Wang. In 1994, the designer decided to start his own business, unsure of how the fashion industry would perceive him as a solo designer. Since Zanotti’s debut, he has steadily risen to distinction in the industry. When describing the kind of woman who buys his designs, he says, “When I design shoes I think about a woman between 18 and 60 years old. A woman who has the desire of nice things. The woman who wears my shoes does not care about looking good for others – she wants to look good for herself…a woman who has intelligence.” This seems to be a good target market for any woman that is confident in herself enough to wear the not-so-basic evening dress shoe. Just think of these updated basics as something to cross off on your fall bucket list, and remember – a Wanderlust reader’s life isn’t boring, so take your fashion sense to extreme heights this season (figuratively and literally), and step into the new classics for this fall.
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