Moodi Magazine Issue 01

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NATURAL WITHIN

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ARE YOU CROPPED OR NAH?

GIORGIO ARMANI SPRING 2015

TAKING FASHION TO THE STREETS

WHAT WE’RE GOING TO WEAR IN SPRING 2015

NATURAL WITHIN BEYONCÉ

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ARE YOU CROPPED OR NAH? BY: TRAYVION CAMPBELL

Are you cropped or nah? The crop top is back for another

schools began banning the garment in their dress code. Also, the

round and having a more high fashion look and feel. Today’s crop

crop top made fashion statement in the 90s for pregnant

tops could be worn with a maxi skirt, simple black jeans, and

woman, because certain woman of the all-female group “Spice

baggy harem pants to give you more of a chic look. Crop tops

Girls” wore crop tops on stage during their pregnancies,

has recently taken the fashion world by storm. Crop tops has

showing off their baby bump instead of hiding it. The crop top

be worn by celebrities, like Beyoncé, Solange, Tika Sumpter, Kelly

has taken it’s own weight in the new millennium with cropped

Rowland, Eva Marcille, Jhené Aiko, and Dawn Richard. Also, crop

jackets, cropped sweaters, and cropped blazers became a

tops has gotten very popular in today’s modern African fashion.

popular fashion item. With today’s cropped wear, it’s a lot of repeats from the 80s’ and 90s’ but everything has that

The crop top has become very popular over some decades, but the trend has come a long way from the 1980s’. Its trend became significantly popular item in fashion thanks to the

modernized look and feel. Overtime designers changed the look of crop tops and gave it a versatile look that can be worn for different occasions.

release of the 1983 film “Flashdance.” It was pretty common for girls in the 80s’ to crop off sections of their work out gear, to

The Modernized crop top is the fashion item that’s hot in

create loose fitting top which was often worn over a body suit

today’s fashion, but it was made very popular back in the 80s

or tank top. Later on, the crop top in the 1990s’ reappeared in

and 90s. Many fashion magazines sport the trend in multiple

the form of a bustier and it could be worn with a skater skirt.

settings and it can take your look from fab to spectacular in a

By the mid-1990s’ crop tops took on a whole new form, a

matter of seconds.

cropped, tight-fitting t-shirt which often featured graphic logos.

With the widespread of crop tops in the late 1990s’, many

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GIORGIO ARMANI

BY: TRAYVION CAMPBELL

Spring 2015 Collection - Runway Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani is a world

color and style. I imagine I was lying beside the

renowned designer. He is famous for his clean, cut, and

Mediterranean Sea. Neiman Marcus sells Giorgio

tailored lines. The Giorgio Armani fashion house was

Armani spring 2015 collection and they appreciate the

founded in 1975. He has already presented his Giorgio

quality of products they display and market.

Armani Spring 2015 collection in Milan fashion week.

The first look was a snake print coat, worn over a silky shirt; and from there on were different degrees of walking the runway. In walks, a cheetah print fitted suit, with matching shoes and necklace. Following that look, there was a sheer, fringed dress cloaked with a fabulous, cheetah print jacket, and a matching rectangular clutch. The models are presented as nymphs of nature; as the garments worn by them give you the illusion of water, clouds, sea shells, sand, and sun light. Throughout the collection; patterns, textiles, and prints, were seen a great deal in different variations. For example, there was another look such as a knit shirt, paired with a long and flowing sheer, skirt. The same look walked the runway in a different

Giorgio Armani - Spring 2015 Collection - Runway

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TAKING FASHION TO THE STREETS BY: TRAYVION CAMPBELL

The black and white combination never goes out style and it will forever be a classic piece to mens and women wardrobe. If you style the outfit right, you can turn something from causal to drop dead gorgeous. I like how she puts outfits together and make it seems like this is second nature. She can take something take that is trashy and worn out, and make it fabulous to her and the viewer.

Lets not forget her shoe game be on point and she wears the least fashion in heels, like Jeffrey Campbell, Christian Louboutin, and Giuseppe Zanotti. She is wearing a black biker jacket, black button-up blouse, black and white harem pants, and hot-pink platform heels by Jeffrey Campbell. She is the go to fashion expert when it comes

April Hardy

to styling in fashion, and classics pieces or classic color combinations is essential to ones life.

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WHAT WE’RE GOING TO WEAR IN SPRING 2015 BY: TRAYVION CAMPBELL

Trends for Spring 2015 are sheer fabric, the black and white

you’ve been eyeing. Don’t worry sexy is coming back in Spring

combo, and denim. Black and white is classic go-to. Both colors

2015, and Spring 2015 is going to give you sexy in a mature in a

are reachable, create a great contrast and highlight, and smart

bold look.

design. In many designer Spring collections can be suitable and bold. I’m glad the denim on denim is back, if you go into a lot of stores and you will see many denim jackets in various colors and facets. If you wear denim the proper way, it can take your fashion level up a notch; however, it can be worn for different occasions. Lastly, in Spring 2015 there will not see heavy fabric, like sheer. If you caught wearing a sheer blouse with nice jeans, your look can be taken from causal to sensual in matter of minutes. Sheer fabric makes you feel a little bite sexy because you’re exposing a little skin to grab the attention of that man What We’re Going to Wear in Spring 2015

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