For his Spring 2012 collection, fashion designer Bibhu Mohapatra derived inspiration from the erotically-charged, kinky but artistic, black-and-white work of Helmut Newton, who remains one of the most influential fashion photographers in history (just look at this photo of Linda Evangelista and bask in the glory of his genial mind).
The world-traveling, multi-cultural cowgirl motif that inspired the Thakoon Spring 2012 collection necessitated adventurous, thrill-seeking makeup and hair looks — after all, no horse-riding, cattle-wrangling gal would want her beauty looks to be roped in!
href=”http://www.twitter.com/sickathanavg”>@sickathanavg) you may have caught the awestruck messages I typed immediately after watching the Jenny Packham Spring 2012 show on Monday, September 12th.
Never one for the drab or dreary, designer Mara Hoffman treated fashion insiders to a performance by a Mariachi band as they circled their way around The Box at Lincoln Center on Friday, September 9th, ogling at the Mexican-inspired designs comprising her exuberant, free-spirited, and deliciously sexy Spring 2012 collection.
In the 1992 film The Lover, set in Indochina in the late 1920s, a French teenager falls in love with a native wealthy man over 15 years her senior, setting the stage for a forbidden affair that, ultimately, proves hugely detrimental to them both.
Focusing on a muted color palette can prove risky when staging a runway show — after all, audience members typically long for dashing crescendos that lead up to ever-rewarding in relievo moments, to those ecstasy-packed seconds when a piece truly takes their breath away.
Sheer caftans with plunging necklines and kaleidoscopic prints with flashes of coral worthy of an Albuquerque sunset.
When the sun’s rays feel positively oppressive, the temperature is higher than an industrial-sized oven in an El Azizia kitchen, and your skin develops a bronzed sheen, it’s officially time to drape yourself in white blouses, slacks, shorts, and dresses, adding a laid-back feel to your ensemble and keeping you cool via a color that reflects light, rather than absorbing it, hence providing some relief from the summer scorch.
It took us a while to put this bad boy together, but we hope you’ll agree that it was worth the wait!
Last week, I chronicled my day of shopping at The Shops at Columbus Circle as part of Time Warner Center’s “Fashion Blogger Forecast” campaign.
