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Gisele Bündchen by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for Versace Spring/Summer 2012 ad campaign

Anja Rubik in the Spring/Summer 2012 ad campaign of Balmain. This is photographed by Inez and Vinoodh

The specialty of Forget Me Not is its unique concept – a synergy of fashion and art through the hand made drawings that are later implemented as a print on the silk, cashmere and cotton fabric. The creative mind of Forget Me Not – Coco – is a fashion illustrator and graphic artist who joins the idea of art made digital prints on the fabrics. The complex process of the creation involves both craftsmanship and advanced printing technology. That is because all the graphic works and print designs featuring on the scarves are initially hand-drawn compositions by Coco. The use of hand drawing technique is a crucial point in design. Afterward, all the compositions are digitally printed on the fine quality fabrics of cotton, silk and cashmere in Como, Italy. This is very advanced process of digital printing resulting in great quality of the products and uniqueness. The scarves are produced in small quantities per design that gives around 100 pieces per style.

More on her 2 website – www.forget-me-not.me and www.cocopit.biz

PHOTO: SILJA MAGG – STYLISM: GUILLAUME BOULEZ – HAIR: JEANIE SYFU – MAKE UP: CHIFUMI NAMBASHI & JILLIAN HALOUSKA – MODEL: LOUISE

Adding to her Lancome resumé, Emma Watson is the face of the beauty brand’s new makeup collection, Rouge in Love. And even though the makeup doesn’t hit the shelves until February, the campaign’s concept art just hit the web!

A tree hotel in the far north of Sweden, near the small village of Harads, close to the polar circle.
 
A shelter up in the trees; a lightweight aluminium structure hung around a tree trunk, a 4x4x4 meters box clad in mirrored glass.

The cube is accessed by rope bridge and reflects the surrounding forest and sky. The plywood interior is designed to accommodate two people, containing a double bed, bathroom, living room and roof terrace. The exterior reflects the surroundings and the sky, creating a camouflaged refuge.

The interior is all made of plywood and the windows give a 360 degree view of the surroundings. The construction also alludes to how man relates to nature, how we use high tech materials and products when exploring remote places in harsh climates (Gore-tex, Kevlar, composite materials, light weight tents etc). ( source – Dezeen )

The Lanvin Miss Lanvin 32 Porcelain Figurine is the most fashionable place to start. Buy through Net-a-Porter for $750.

Hudson Furniture Collection and Barlas Baylar, based in New York, is pleased to announce an unprecedented fashion-design creative partnership with the house of Alexander McQueen, located in London.

Innovative, new design collections will be exhibited by both talents for the very first time, including a McQueen couture gown and sculptural furniture creations by Hudson’s principal designer Barlas Baylar.

This Alexander McQueen-Barlas Baylar creative partnership will debut at a jointly designed and exhibited capsule collection of one-of-a-kind couture fashion and architectural design, to be shown at a by-invitation-

Every item here is actually available for purchase.

hudsonfurnitureinc.com

Perfume advert starring the teenage actress has been pulled as the Advertising Standards Authority rules that the imagery is guilty of sexualising a child.

Designer Marc Jacobs recently described his new fragrance Oh, Lola! as: “sensual”, saying how the little sister scent to the hugely successful Lola is: “More of a Lolita than a Lola”.

But it turns out the ad campaign to promote the fragrance is too sensual for some. The Advertising Standards Authority received several complaints after seeing 17-year-old actress Dakota Fanning posing with an oversize bottle of the scent between her legs.
Complaints stated that the Twilight star was being portrayed in an irresponsible and sexualised manner. The ASA responded by stating: “We noted that the model was holding up the perfume bottle which rested in her lap between her legs and we considered that its position was sexually provocative. We understood the model was 17 years old but we considered she looked under the age of 16. We considered that the length of her dress, her leg and position of the perfume bottle drew attention to her sexuality. Because of that, along with her appearance, we considered the ad could be seen to sexualise a child.”
TV adfor YSL fragrance Belle d’Opium is banned
Coty, makers of Oh, Lola! said it did not believe the ad suggested the model was underage or that it was “inappropriately sexualised’ as it didn’t show any “private body parts or sexual activity”. They said the giant perfume bottle – shaped like a vase holding a blooming pink flower – was “provoking, but not indecent”.
Jacobs recently revealed to Women’s Wear Daily why he cast the teen star in the ads: “I’ve been a big fan of Dakota since the first time I saw her in a movie, and we made her a wardrobe in her size when she was 12, which was pretty incredible. When we were speaking about who to use in the Oh, Lola! fragrance ads – I had recently seen T he Runaways . Dakota was in it, and I knew she could be this contemporary Lolita, seductive yet sweet.”
Fanning was “so humbled” to be asked to star in the ads that she said yes immediately.

Source – OLIVIA BERGIN – telegraph.co.uk

The esteemed photographer’s first book dedicated to her fashion career unearths the stories behind the influential pictures. Her vision is one of poetry and decadence. Her works are both commercial and artistic. She seeks the scenes for her dramatic perspective with ardor. Portraits of faded women in turn of the century locations. A simultaneous touch of the past and the present. She spends as much time on post-production as she does on finding the right location and the right model. She uses scratches, stains and masks her photographs to give them the authentic look of age and timelessness.
Born in the US, she started her fashion-related career as a fashion editor. However, she soon realized that her interest was predominantly focused on fashion photography, and thus launched herself into that direction. Over the years she has travelled extensively, between the US, Mexico, Europe, and Russia, the latest being the country that inspired her the most. She is most famous for the 1975 controversial “Bathhouse” American Vogue photographs, and the “Woman in the Woods” series of 1977 for Italian Vogue.