The Fashioniste

Last week, I suppose, I received an email from The Fashioniste. His name is Todd and he has a site about Fashion, well for me it's a site about style, because he gives us, the readers, his perspectives about Fashion. But it is not only about Fashion that he speaks. On his site we take a trip on Fashion, Art and Literature, "brought together by someone who's passionate about all three", as he says.
As you may or may not know, I have a passion for Fashion and Photography, and on The Fashioniste's site, we can see and "feel" the very latest pictures from the world of fashion. This for me is crucial, because I need to see, and not just read.
As I said, he sent me an email, we spoke a little, and discovered that the two of us have the same mission--promoting great style, as he says. Let me tell you that this is a very hard mission to carry on, for a lot of reasons, but it's not an impossible one. So, Todd, keep up the great work! As for the rest of us, we won't miss a single update.
Thank you!!!!

I was lead to believe that the days of patchwork pieces had gone with the 2003 hippie trend. I was so wrong! Because if Miss Selfridge is stocking it, it has to be a trend… again, right??? Well, I don’t know what to think about it!

Jessica Simpson and her Louis Vuitton bags

Jessica Simpson’s loves Louis Vuitton bags. It seems like Jessica Simpsom has at least one bag from every leather collection the French fashion house make, except for the Epi leather collection. Talk about a girl having a brand obsession.

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Tom Ford After Sex

With a new super-high-end men’s store, the former Gucci designer explores who he is without all that libido to sell.
It’s not every day one gets to see the penis of a sex god. But Tom Ford, among other ostentatiously masculine habits, doesn’t wear underwear. And on a recent afternoon, while we were talking about the ladies who also do not wear underwear—Spears, Lohan, Hilton—Ford is saying that he doesn’t necessarily think they are gauche. “I don’t know, I’m not sure,” he says in his flirty baritone, accented by a macho Texas twang. “Why shouldn’t women have sex for enjoyment? Why should showing off be a bad thing?” He throws one hand in the air, snarls, and reaches down to grab it. “Men have been very crude for a long time—I mean, you walk down the street and guys scream, ‘Hey, baby!’”


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Alice Lane, Makeup Artist

"I wouldn’t want to be trendy, but not being trendy seems to be trendy at the moment."


Do you like being a redhead?
In England, redheads are hated. You’re called “ginger nuts,” and you’re a hated breed. I just saw this film called Hot Fuzz, and at the end, there’s a ginger-nut kid and they threaten to shoot him. But Americans love red hair!



Is that why you moved here?
No! I moved for love. My husband is a New Yorker, and he didn’t want to live in London. But, I mean, when I was a kid, my dad cut my hair and I had a big, Afro, microphone head. And it was red. I could never get a boyfriend. But when I moved here, everyone started saying, “Hey, I love your hair.”



How do you take care of it?
Dye it! We redheads don’t go gray, we go darker brown. So I go to Laurie at OC 61 and go a brighter shade.



How did you get into doing makeup?
I went to art school, and makeup is just painting on people’s faces. I find that I prefer doing people who aren’t used to having their makeup done, as opposed to models who already know they’re gorgeous.



How do you describe your style?
I don’t. I just put on things that I like. I wouldn’t want to be trendy, but not being trendy seems to be trendy at the moment.

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"If I'm not careful, I come across as too British, too elegant, too buttoned-up."

Vionnet loses Kokosalaki and gains Artistic Advisor

After less than a year at the helm of the newly relaunched brand, Sophia Kokosalaki has parted ways with the House of Vionnet. The announcement comes as no great surprise, infact it has been expected ever since Diesel's purchase of the Greek designer's brand in January this year. Interestingly though, Arnaud de Lummen, Vionnet's chief executive officer has decided not just to replace Kokolasaki but to seemingly reinvent the creative role needed.

According to fashionwiredaily, rather than filling the Creative Director shoes, Marc Audibet (previously a designer at Hermes, Ferragamo and Prada) will take on the newly created title of Artistic Advisor. And after only two seasons on the catwalk, the fashion house is turning its back on Paris Fashion Week and returning to the traditional atelier model of appointment showcases which will be unveiled during the more exclusive Haute Couture Week.

What this all means is as yet unclear, but implies a shift by the brand to position itself away from fast fashion and plant its feet in the luxury prestige market. And with a namesake who is globally recognised for introducing bias cut to the fashion world, the company should find ample opportunity in emerging luxury markets- if they get the package right.