Following in the footsteps of Agyness Deyn, Coco Rocha has been immortalized. The 20-year-old Canadian model was chosen by Rootstein Display Mannequins to serve as a fabulous form. Rocha has appeared on the covers of major international magazines including Vogue, Elle and Time Style & Design. Not only has she walked the runway for Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Anna Sui, Christian Lacroix and Balenciaga, but she is also an avid Irish dancer.
Minna Parikka is one of the top names among Finnish shoe designers.
On May 6, a miniature sheet on fashion with five 1st class non-value indicator stamps will be issued. The miniature sheet features drawings of creations by six young Finnish designers who have achieved international success: dresses by Jasmin Santanen and Tuomas and Anna Laitinen, shoes by Minna Parikka and Julia Lundsten, and a handbag by Sanna Kantola. All these accessories are from this year’s spring collections. The miniature sheet was illustrated by Laura Laine.
Along with the Fashion sheet, two stamp booklets will be issued in May. One shows the much-loved Moomins on their adventures. The booklet includes six 1st class non-value indicator stamps and they are illustrated with cartoon sketches by Tove Jansson. The originals are in the collection of Tampere Art Museum’s Moomin Valley. The other booklet features Finnish sauna culture. A speciality of the Sauna booklet is its scent: its five 1st class non-value indicator stamps release a gentle bouquet of birch leaves when scratched. Päivi Vainionpää is the designer of both booklets.
ADELAIDE hosted a cocktail party for ALEXANDER WANG at the shop last week, with Ai Tominaga co-host the party. It was for an exclusive group of special guests and turned out to be one of Tokyo’s hottest fashion parties this year. It featured an installation created with VITAMIN WATER as a special preview of the drinks launch in Japan. Masatoshi Uemura top buyer of Tokyo’s BONJOUR RECORDS collaborated with Alex on a live DJ set of the designers favorite songs. The after party was at Tokyo’s LE BARON de PARIS and featured DJ sets by Housse de Racket, Spencer Product, Masatoshi Uemura and more.
The underlying theme of ALEXANDER WANG’s Fall 2009 collection has been to disregard the current economic state and conservative climate by taking an assertive approach, getting people excited by pushing the collection into a new era.This theme is a key inspiration and the energy of last weeks party has made us realize how important it is to push forward and create something to get people excited about fashion.
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ADDITION ADELAIDE / The Wall Co. Ltd.
3-6-7 b-town, Minamiaoyama
Minato-ku Tokyo
107 0062, Japan
Based in Paris, Cédric Rivrain works within the fashion world as illustrator and designer since the age of 18. These collaborations include magazines such as Tokion, Numéro, and A magazine; drawing for fashion designers such as Yazbukey, John Galliano, and Martine Sitbon, and exhibiting in notable spaces such as Le Bon Marche, Maria Luisa, and Christie’s.
Born in 1977, the son of a doctor, Rivrain grew up in a medical environment, surrounded by bandages and the study of the human body. Anatomy has held a constant place in his life, and consequently and consistenly influences his work. The drawings exhibited here are personal. Devoid of any commercial or professional constraints. They are his free hand, his personal world, and his escape from his daily tasks. Yet even when Cedric attempts to distance himself from fashion with bandages and dissection, what he illustrates best, and what is constantly present is beauty. This personal work is not anti-fashion, but the radical difference between these drawings and those “on command,” is that these may reach deeper into what attracted this human being to the industry in the first place.
Brachfeld Gallery
78 rue des Archives
75003 Paris
Tuesday—Sunday, 2—7pm
tel +33 1 46 36 15 00
gallery@brachfeld-paris.com
Photo: Babette Pauthier
Anna Vince latest collection was inspired by a trip to St Tropez (France), where was made ” Et Dieu crea la femme “, the movie that settled the reputation of Brigitte Bardot as one of cinemas all time sexiest icons.
God may have created women but Anna Vince has given her the accessories to make her a goddess 
The Spring Summer 09 collection is online at www.annavince.com
An iconic photograph taken on a roof-top in Marrakesh, Morocco in January 1969 by Patrick Lichfield.
Talitha Getty became the second wife of John Paul Getty (1932-2003), son of the oil tycoon Paul Getty (1892-1976). She and her husband were part of “Swinging” London’s fashionable scene, becoming friends with, among others, singers Mick Jagger, of the Rolling Stones, and his girlfriend Marianne Faithfull. Faithfull and Jagger were invited by the Getty’s to stay with them at their beautiful home in Morocco. Although, in her lifetime, Talitha Getty, who was only thirty when she died, was not much known to a wider public, fashion gurus of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have often written of her and Marrakesh (a major destination for hippies in the late 1960s, as illustrated by the song, “Marrakesh Express” (1969) by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) as virtually synonymous. The home was filled with lush, green palms and tiled with gorgeous mosaics.
Yves Saint Laurent described the Gettys as:
lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.
She died of a heroin overdose in Rome, within the same twelve month period as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Edie Sedgwick and Jim Morrison, other cultural icons of the 1960s.
We just read on Nicola Formichetti’s blog that one of our favourite London-based designer, Marios Schwab, has apparently been appointed to design for Halston… The first collection should be ready in the beginning of 2010 (A/W 2010-2011).
Very wise choice from Halston we think. The mythical American brand was relaunched in 2008, but it seems it needed a strong designer behind. Stay tuned!
Vintage Halston… circa 1977 (New York fabulous!)
Sometimes words can’t describe what Sandra Backlund can do with a knit. We are constantly amazed by her innovative and modern approach to a medium that is otherwise resigned to the ‘more mature’ generation. Each piece in the collection is improvised; rather than being based on patterns Sandra designs as she knits. What we most enjoy is that despite her success since the label’s inception in 2004 (note: a collaboration with Louis Vuitton for Fall 2007/08), there is still that bespoke stamp to each piece.
The Italian luxury brand Hogan has recently joined forces with the non profit organization Best Buddies International by hosting events in their flagship shops in Paris, Dusseldorf and Milan. Best Buddies mission is to provide one-to-one friendships and job opportunities via integrated employment to people with intellectual disabilities.
Founded in 1989 by Anthony Kennedy Shriver, Best Buddies “will educate students, community members, corporations and employers about the emotional, functional and natural needs and abilities of people with intellectual disabilities.”
The new “Hippie Logo” bags will be unveiled on this special occasion. A portion of the sales profits will go towards Best Buddies, to help the charity with ending social isolation of people with intellectual disabilities. 
The event will take place between May 13 and May 16 in London, and from May 14 to May 17 in Milan.
More info on www.hoganworld.com / www.bestbuddies.org
“This is Nicolle…the phantom of Guy Bourdin. Nicolle was an integral part of his vision. She was his canvas. She comes and goes, appears and disappears - always different but always the same. She gave Mr. Bourdin the freedom to dream and think”, writes Lanvin’s designer Alber Elbaz
The show Unseen Guy Bourdin arrives at the East London arts center this weekend, and its opening Saturday night will be hosted by none other than Bourdin muse Nicolle Meyer. Star of many of the photographer’s most iconic images, including 30 of his game-changing ads for Charles Jourdan, Meyer is a less immediately identifiable muse than some. Muses like Nicolle Meyer who worked intensely with Guy Bourdin beween 1977 and 1980 listen, comply and thus earn the respect of a visionary photographer. Since her working experience with Bourdin, she has gone on to write ‘Bourdin: Message for You’ and is happy to be in her own words “a Guy Bourdin ambassador, spreading the images”.
“Unseen Guy Bourdin” at The Wapping Project open from 9th May until 4th July.