01|06|2016
“The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today’s world, that does not exist.”
Andre Leon Talley
TRENDS
TREND OF THE MONTH
WHITE
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TRENDS
ACCESSORIES
LANVIN: LEATHER PUMPS
Lanvin’s covetable pumps has been made in Italy from smooth off-white leather and set on an unexpected gold metal heel. Wear them to evening events with a cocktail dress or off-duty with jeans.
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FASHION SHOWS
THEMES
WHITE
Themes from Fall | Winter 2016 | 2017 Collections
Jil Sander
Dior
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SHOPPING
THE BOOK
SUKI WATERHOUSE: MARIE CLAIRE US JANUARY 2016
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MUSE
SUKI WATERHOUSE
Alice Suki Waterhouse (born 5 January 1992) is an English model and actress.
Waterhouse was born in Hammersmith, London, England and was raised in Chiswick, London, the daughter of Elizabeth, a cancer care nurse, and Norman Waterhouse, a plastic surgeon. She has a younger sister, Imogen, known as Immy, who is also a model.
Waterhouse began her modelling career after being discovered in a pub in London when she was 16. When she was 19, her first noted campaign was as a lingerie model for Marks and Spencer.
She is a face of Burberry and Redken. Waterhouse has also modelled for brands like Tommy Hilfiger (alongside sister Immy), Swatch, Lucy in Disguise, H&M, Alice + Olivia, Coast, Max Studio, Sass & bide, Caterina Gatta and Pepe Jeans.
Waterhouse has appeared on the cover of British, Korean, Thai, Taiwanese and Turkish Vogue, Tatler, British and Korean Elle as well as Lucky, L’Officiel, American “Marie Claire”, French Grazia and 1883 Magazine. Waterhouse has also shot editorials for American, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese “Vogue” Love Magazine, American Elle, Velour, and Stylist Magazine among others. Waterhouse has also walked the runway for brands including Burberry and Balenciaga and is a regular on the front row at fashion week.
In 2010, Waterhouse appeared in an episode of TV series Material Girl. Since then, she has appeared in the films Rachael, Pusher, Love, Rosie, and “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (film)”.
She played Marlene in the sequel The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015), based on the book of the same name. In March 2015 it was announced that Waterhouse had been cast in the role of Arlen in Ana Lily Amirpour’s romance thriller film The Bad Batch, co-starring Jim Carrey, Diego Luna, Jason Momoa, and Keanu Reeves. Waterhouse will also play the role of Quintana alongside Kevin Spacey, Emma Roberts and Ansel Elgort in “Billionaire Boys Club (2016 film)”.
Waterhouse has shown her photography work at the Eb and Flow gallery in London along with Reggie Yates and Imogen Morris Clarke in an exhibition presented by Next Model Management called ‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’. In February 2014, she posed completely nude for Dominic Jones Jewelry’s autumn/winter campaign at London Fashion Week.
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BEAUTY
FRAGRANCE
BALMAIN: EXTATIC GOLD MUSK
The fragrance of the new era of the high fashion house Balmain, led by the creative director Olivier Rousteing, Extatic was launched in 2014. Extatic Eau de Toilette version was presented in the same year, followed by the heady edition Extatic Intense Gold. In 2016, the collection is joined by Extatic Gold Musk fragrance.
Extatic Gold Musk is announced as a tempting, daring and luxurious interpretation of the original, with elegant floral – woody – musky character. The top notes include a fresh and clean combination of bergamot essences and aldehydes. Exotic tiare flower in the heart is mixed with spicy and sensual cashmere and akigala wood. The base ends with creamy and warm sandalwood, resins and animalic musk.
The fragrance comes in the white lacquer bottle of the original design, decorated with golden cap and logos. The bottle evokes the white silk dress from Balmain collection.
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NEWS
FASHION FORWARD, 3 SIÈCLES DE MODE (1715-2016)
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of its fashion collection from April 7 to August 14, 2016. In doing so is responding to the public’s strongly expressed desire to at last be shown an all-embracing panorama of fashion history over several centuries. It will also be an unique opportunity to showcase the jewels and highlight the particularities of a national fashion and textiles collection curated in full dialogue with the other departments of a museum dedicated to all the decorative arts. The ‟Fashion Forward, 3 Centuries of Fashion (1715-2016)” exhibition will bring together 300 items of men’s, women’s and children’s fashion from the 18th century to today, selected from the museum’s collections to provide a novel chronological overview.
The Arts Décoratifs fashion collection now comprises more than 150,000 works, ranging from ancient textiles to haute couture creations and emblematic silhouettes of ready-to-wear fashion, but also including accessories, major collections of drawings and photographs, and the archives of iconic creators such as Elsa Schiaparelli, Madeleine Vionnet and Cristobal Balenciaga. Now France’s foremost national collection, it is the result of the amalgamation of two admirable collections, that of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs since its creation in 1864, and that of the Union Française des Arts du Costume (UFAC), founded in 1948 and currently presided by Pierre Bergé, of which the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is the proud custodian.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Musée des Arts de la Mode, founded in 1986 on the initiative of Pierre Bergé and the French textile industry with the support of Jack Lang, then culture minister, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is paying tribute to this collective adventure and great ‟fashion moment”. The ‟Fashion Forward, Three Centuries of Fashion” exhibition, casts a new spotlight on one of the richest collections in the world, freed from its display cases in the Fashion galleries to be shown for the first time in the museum’s Nave.
The three hundred pieces, selected from a collection constantly enriched by donations and acquisitions, take us on a journey through time, highlighting the key moments in fashion history from the very late 17th century to the most contemporary creation. Freeing itself from the dictates of the conservation of works and the stringent conditions of their display, the exhibition is conceived as an ideal museum of fashion, featuring the finest examples of three centuries of creation habitually illustrated in reference books. It also provides a fascinating new insight into fashion’s evolution via its designers, clients and periods, because now more than ever at Les Arts Décoratifs, fashion is treated as an artistic field that has wide-ranging echoes in the museum’s other collections. Fashion is a history of evolving techniques, materials and designs but also a history of changing times and attitudes, a reflection of the art of living. Fashion is even more fascinating when it is not self-generating but dialogues with the arts of its time, as did great figures of Couture such as Charles-Frederick Worth, Jacques Doucet, Paul Poiret, Jeanne Lanvin, Madeleine Vionnet, Gabrielle Chanel, Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent.
In a completely novel manner, the exhibition recreates each of these ‟fashion moments” in its human, artistic and social context, not didactically but via ellipses illustrating fashion’s constant elective affinities with the decorative arts. Eighteenth-century wood paneling, scenic wallpapers by Zuber, Paul Iribe’s drawings for the ‟Robes de Paul Poiret”, and the straw marquetry doors created by Jean-Michel Frank for the writer François Mauriac, provide perfect settings for fashion’s stylistic expressions and the metamorphoses of the body and style from the 18th century. The exhibition culminates in the effervescence and singular eclecticism of the global contemporary fashion scene, in which the names of the most original creators are now associated with the most ancient fashion houses.
Because the entire history of fashion is also a history of the body and style, the exhibition’s artistic direction was entrusted to the British dancer and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, formerly one of the stars of the New York City Ballet and winner of a Tony award for his stage adaptation of An American in Paris in 2014, based on the film by Vicente Minelli. In collaboration with the scenographer Jérôme Kaplan and assisted by Isabelle Vartan, Christopher Wheeldon has succeeded in giving the collection a sensual, poetic dimension, breathing new life into these illustrious creations by transforming every stage of the exhibition into a world in itself. Each of these moments is enhanced by a unique collaboration with the dancers of the Opéra de Paris, in which a choreography gracefully casts new light on a silhouette, posture or attitude characteristic of this social and artistic evolution of the body.
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