It takes a lot to make New York stop and take notice but when ARISE came to town for the African Fashion Collective show at Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week it not only paid attention, it stood up and applauded too. The ARISE runway showcased four designers (Tiffany Amber, Stoned Cherrie, Xuly Bet and Momo) …
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Fashion design has always been a very competitive field to break into, better yet become success in. With today’s slumping economy retailers have also been affected and have laid of over 1 million workers. So what does a young talented fashion design student, who is investing over 50k into his or her future do? Well …
If the show isn’t wow-worthy, it can be easy to flip through Style.com without really absorbing what I’m looking at, much like I did with my textbooks in high school (and, let’s face it, college). But I looked through Gucci Handbags Spring 2010 twice, with rapt attention – not only is this Frida Giannini’s best …
Financially, what is the real support system for urban modeling? In the other Fashion Industry, when a new model enters the scene, she’s scooped up by an agency,(real agency meaning, with a real company structure, operating in a real office building, with multiple employees working to book models) Sex and or dating the models is …
Since Vogue was started in the late 1800′s, magazines have consistently celebrated “thin” as the model figure. Well, thin use to be “in,” but now? It is on the way out. Finally, there is a slow shift from sizes 0 to 6 as being the standard of beauty to sizes 8 and up being the …
Three basic truths to being a photographer
Does anything strike you as odd about this latest Vanity Fair cover spread? Yes, it’s their 16th annual ”Hollywood Issue”, shot as usual by Annie Leibovitz, and intending to herald the bright young things of Tinseltown, just in time for this year’s Oscars. A row of elegantly coiffed pretty young things gaze out from the …
