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Ralph & Russo’s Haute Couture 2014-2015
Fashion newcomers Ralph & Russo are becoming the rave in the fashion industry.
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Droves of New Yorks Show Up In Flapper Outfits To Hear Jazz
Droves of people turned out for The Jazz Age Lawn Party
Harajuku In Tokyo
In Harajuku, Tokyo fashion walks are common. They dress up suck lollipops and pose walk and maybe a little baby talk.
Harajuku has become world famous as Japan’s center of street fashion. This square mile area is jam-packed with boutiques, fashion malls and chains. Every single day of the year, tens of thousands of people come here to shop, hang out, and see what the latest trends are. The area was originally a small village inhabited by low level samurai. Harajuku’s start as a center of fashion and youth culture came after WWII. US Army barracks, called Washington Heights, were built here. Shops that catered to the military families followed. This attracted young people curious about Western culture.
In 1978, the Laforet fashion mall was opened. It quickly became Harajuku’s main attraction. Harajuku had now become the place for fashion businesses to be. It changed from being a place, into being a concept. Harajuku stood for energy, change, newness. Trends come and go at quickly in Harajuku. Decora, Goth-Loli, Cyber-Punk, Mori Girl, the list is endless.
Lagerfield Sketches Up For Auction
Rico Baca, auctioneer and co-owner of the West Palm Beach auction house. Baca hopes that attitude and the Lagerfeld signature attracts buyers to a Jan. 11 auction of an archive of sketches for Tiziani designs.
During the 1960s, the Rome-based Tiziani designed movie costumes and clothing for Elizabeth Taylor and other celebrities. It also was one of the European fashion houses where Lagerfeld freelanced, early in his career as a designer.
Tiziani’s founder, Evan Richards, kept Lagerfeld’s designs and sketchbooks together with other work produced for the fashion house in the 1960s, and the archive was maintained by subsequent owners. The sketches might not have survived if they were left in Lagerfeld’s hands. In 2007, as a nearby wastebasket filled with discarded sketches, Lagerfeld told The New Yorker, “I throw everything away!” He added, “The most important piece of furniture in a house is the garbage can! I keep no archives of my own, no sketches, no photos, no clothes—nothing! I am supposed to do, I’m not supposed to remember!”
Baca could not estimate the value of the unique archive as a whole, but bidding on the sketches likely will start at $500 each.“It was not meant to be art, but as 50 years have gone by, it has become art because it was done by Lagerfeld,” Baca said.
Over 60
Tina Turner
Alfre Woodard
Meryl Streep
Jacqueline Bisset
Beverly Johnson
Catherine Deneuve
Lynn Whitfield
Phylicia Rashad
Lauren Hutton
Goldie Hawn
Cindy Joseph
Jane Seymour
Raquel Welch
Susan Sarandon
Helen Mirren
Up Coming Wearable Tech
Samsung is launching its Galaxy Gear on 4 September in Berlin. it’s actually a smartwatch. 
Apple iWatch
Apple Smart Shoe
Apple is also reportedly working on computerised shoes. Thanks to a patent applied for in January of this year, they are looking into ‘smart shoe’ systems which feature sensors that tell you when you need to replace the shoes
Google Glass
Social networking clothes
Ping, is a social media ‘garment’ which connects the wearer to their social media accounts. You activate the clothing by moving it, lifting the hood, zipping, tying a bow etc. All of these movements allow you to respond to social media interactions.
Darkar’s Fashion Week Takes A Stand Against Skin Bleaching
Many women and some fashion models have bleached their skin seeking to achieve a “café au lait” color due to low self esteem. This year, however, Senegal’s marquee fashion event is taking a stand against the damaging practice. Ndiaye announced at the opening of Dakar Fashion Week that she had banned any models using skin depigmentation cream from participating in the six-day event. Women of all classes and education levels use these often unregulated skin creams. High-heeled and barefoot women across Senegal show the tell-tale signs of long-term bleaching – resulting in blotches of discolored skin on their arms and faces. The women often use prescription-strength corticosteroid creams to lighten their skin. When absorbed into the blood stream, corticosteroids pose serious risks for the heart and can cause skin cancer.
3D Printed Fashions
Although 3D-printed haute couture garments have been working the catwalks, the real breakthroughs in printed clothing will come from more practical and subversive quarters. image is by Petrovsky & Ramone
The biggest development in 3D fashions is in sportswear. Footwear designers, in particular, are sldo excited about 3D printing because it means they can offer something truly unique.
London designer Ron Arad has created a range of 3D-printed spectacles and sunglasses for eyewear brand pq
3D printing allows easy customisation of products ideal for the fashion industry, where every customer has a unique shape and differing tastes. However there are drawbacks, Fashion designers focus on feeling or touching the material and looking at how it drapes and how it moves with the motion of the body. There is a limited availability palette of materials. “3D printing was designed for engineers. There are also generational issues at work. 3D technology allows greater freedom for young designers, who are able to produce runs of a few units rather than thousands, realising designs that, previously, would only ever have existed on paper.
Sports brand Nike has unveiled the first boots for American football players with 3D-printed studs. e fitted with a laser-sintered footplate and studs. Using 3D-printing technology meant Nike was able to prototype the boot and make alterations in a much shorter timeframe than normal – it allows design updates to be made in days rather than months.
Finally, since the consumer is used to wearing natural materials, and even though we do wear nylon and polyester in our clothes, the type of drape and feel and quality that we’d expect from something that’s been 3D-printed is a long ways off.
Japanese Perfume Co Working On Smell Phone
Japanese company Chaku Perfume Co. Ltd. smell-o-vision has failed to take off on the big or small screens. Japanese Ltd. is hoping to have better luck on the even smaller screen with its Chat Perfume attachment for iPhone that allows messages or email notifications to be accompanied by a signature smell.
The device connects to an iPhone and packs an atomizer to disperse scents from the swappable scent tanks contained within. As such, the recipient will need the appropriate scent tank installed to receive the desired whiff.
As well as sending a scent along with a text message or emitting a particular smell when an email lands in your inbox, the makers tell DigInfo the Chat Perf attachment could also be used with games – releasing the smell on gunpowder when firing a weapon, for example. The company has an SDK available to developers so they can create apps that make use of the device.
Orchestral Fashions Music and Technology
The fashions, designed by students in the Integrated Design program at Parsons, responsive to the way musicians move and play. Wearable technology, designed by students in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons, is being incorporated into several of the looks. This technology will demonstrate how the performance itself can be enhanced by new means of visual expression, with the garments and performance space itself serving as a canvas for motion and sound-activated digital projections.
Your Twitter Account Is Worth What? The Black Market
Blackmarket sites like SocialSellouts will appraise and buy your twitter account, and by just typing your handle into the site’s appraisal engine, you can find out how much what your account is worth. Other companies buying are SNpros, Twirth,and BirdyCash sites run by Malcom Digg; However there are Twitter Rules, A site that helps users get paid for tweets – thats acceptable by twitter called Pay4Tweet – Twitter users can to connect their PayPal and Twitter accounts,and then advertisers can work with these registered users and pay for their tweets.
“The New Digital Age”
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt book “The New Digital Age” debuts today. The book is about “brainstorming the future”. Schmidt met Jared Cohen in Bagdad back in 2009. They both decided to write the book after becoming intrigued with how the Iraqis were able to find resourceful ways of using the internet and improving their lives, despite war zone conditions.
They spent three years researching the book that took them around the world, including North Korea in January over the objections of the U.S. State Department. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Mexican mogul Carlos Slim Helu, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the former prime ministers of Mongolia and Pakistan were interviewed. In addition a long list of Google employees, including co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin was added to the list.
The book explores opportunities and challenges that lie ahead as the lines blur between the physical world around us and the virtual realm of the Internet. Schmidt and Cohen also examine the loss of personal privacy as prominent companies such as Google and lesser-known data warehouses such as Acxiom compile digital dossiers about our electronic interactions on computers, smartphones and at check-out stands. According to Schmidt and Cohen online privacy education concerning the youth will become extremely important.
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