Celebrity Street Style of the Week: Ana Beatriz Barros, Kim Kardashian, & Jessica Hart
Every single week, I scour the internet to locate inspiring outfits on your preferred celebs and support you recreate their looks! This week, I was inspired by Ana Beatriz Barros, Kim Kardashian, and Jessica Hart. Read on to see how you can get their looks for yourself.
Appear 1: Ana Beatriz Barros’s Cool Casual Appear
Photo Credit: Pacific Coast News
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Isabel Marant Fall 2012: Westward Expansion and E-Commerce on the Horizon
Isabel Marant raked in $ 82.9 million final year and has plans to open six new stand alone boutiques subsequent year in Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Paris, London and Los Angeles, according to a report in WWD. It’s not surprising, taking into consideration the queen of Parisian cool has fairly the knack for making every single season’s “it” item (see: this year’s Willow wedge sneaker and its numerous knockoffs).
Devotees of the brand, which include the A-list roster of models who walked in the show (which includes Carmen Kass, Anja Rubik, Joan Smalls, Arizona Muse, and the list goes on), won’t be disappointed with fall’s Western-inspired offerings. Due to the fact somehow, Marant tends to make cowgirl floral embroidered silk button downs appear insanely cool. Part of that cool-factor has to do with those models who wear her clothes both on the runway and off. (We overheard a story about 1 photographer who stated he couldn’t tell when Marant’s models had been in first looks due to the fact they all come to the show wearing Marant to start with).
Dries van Noten Men’s Fall 2012: Psychedelic Elegance
Extended Nguyen is the co-founder and style director of Flaunt.
PARIS–Three painters were still busy working on a massive mural inside a second floor hall at the Grand Palais when Dries van Noten’s fall men’s collection took to the runway. The artists had been commissioned to recreate the colorful perform of Dutch artists Gijs Frieling and Job Wouters, and had, in fact, been operating for the past 24 hours (their oeuvre can be seen in a time elapsed video can be noticed at driesvannoten.com). The painters ignored the models walking behind them and continued working on their canvas wall.
The colorful mural, which also featured quotes from Oscar Wilde, set the tone for a collection that was meant to embody what the designer dubbed ‘psychedelic elegance.’ A white psychedelic-printed long coat worn with a white wool turtleneck and jeans opened the show, followed by various incarnations of these dense prints on jeans, shirts and jackets. Prints have usually been a Van Noten trademark–recall the cityscape prints in his spring women’s collection–and here the surrealist print jacquard added a flare to a black tie jacket.
Anna Wintour and Hamish Bowles on CBS News Sunday Morning
American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, along with international editor at large, Hamish Bowles, snagged a very insightful interview on yesterday’s edition of CBS News’ Sunday Morning. The dynamic duo’s main purpose was to promote the new Vogue Archives website, which contain every issue of the prestigious fashion publication for the past 120 years. This includes ads, covers, interviews, editorials and so much more. Anna talked about securing the coveted spot as the American Vogue editor and putting a model in jeans on the cover. In the interview, she says she rarely listens to market research and analysis and goes with her gut and instincts, things that have served her very well in her professional career.
Hamish Bowles talks about the Vogue covers, which have now been turned into a book chronicling 120 years of high fashion. For those of you new to fashion or not as familiar with the workings of Vogue magazine, this is a must watch interview. It’s 8 minutes and some seconds of tidbits about the magazine’s origins. For example, it started off as a weekly publication for socialites in New York City. The first covers featured illustrations of the Gibson Girl, a personification of a feminine ideal as portrayed in the satirical pen-and-ink-illustrated stories created by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson.
West side story
Fashion loves its contrasts, and it’s safe to say that toughness and femininity have one of the most passionate – if tumultuous – relationships. When they get on, they get on like a house on fire.
Those two qualities – toughness and femininity – come together in Henryk Lobaczewski‘s latest shoot. Photographed in New York, it’s what characters of West Side Story might look like if you picked them up out of the 1950s and placed them in the now. The rockabilly pompadours, leather jackets, skinny jeans and cigarettes might not change, but now our lead characters are sipping from McDonalds paper cups and covering their quiffs with Alexander McQueen’s skull-stamped headscarves.
The Communications Store Spring 2012 Press Preview
The Communication Store press preview introduced me to a new designer: Nicholas Oakwood.
Nicholas graduated from the Epsom School of Art and Design where his entire final collection was bought by Harvey Nichols and featured in a ‘Harpers & Queen’ spread by American Vogue European Editor-at-Large, Hamish Bowles.
Having worked at Dior, Mila Schon and Katharine Hamnett, the designer went it alone by showcasing this first couture collection back in June.
Five of the eighteen-piece collection were on display. I was particularly taken by the breathtaking gown with a beaded top and ombre tiered ruffled skirt. It would surely have a big impact on the red carpet.
Marisa Berenson Talks ‘Titties,’ Tom Ford and Actresses vs. Models at Her Book Launch
The idea of having a charmed life seems very far-fetched these days, but Marisa Berenson is living proof that it’s possible. Elsa Schiaparelli is Marisa’s grandmother, and Diana Vreeland was a good family friend who put Marisa in Vogue at the age of 16 (well, actually, Marisa first appeared in Vogue as a baby when her christening portrait, shot by Irving Penn, was printed in the glossy.) She went on to have a stellar career as a model, being lensed by the likes of Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Hiro, and Richard Avedon. She eventually smashed through the model/actress barrier, with a breakout turn in Stanley Kubrick’s film Barry Lyndon. While we could go on and on about her accomplishments and career, luckily we don’t have to: Marisa has a book out now titled Marisa Berenson: A Life in Pictures (Rizzoli, 2011) which was edited by Steven Meisel. As the title suggests, it’s a pictorial retrospective, and much like Marisa herself, stunning and completely fascinating.
At a small cocktail gathering earlier this week to celebrate the launch of her book, Marisa said she thought the time was right for a book, since the world seems to be particularly inspired by the 60s and 70s now, and so much of her career happened during those heady times. We knew that we wanted to hear more of Marisa’s stories when she had no qualms telling the room that she “[had] the first titties in Vogue” and then told us about a shoot in which everyone dug through the garbage cans of seafood restaurants to get shells to use in her hair for a shoot (pic in gallery below). She also revealed that she has a skin care line coming down the pike (featuring prickly pear–and if her skin is any indication about the efficacy of prickly pear, we will gladly smear it all over ourselves). We had the chance to speak to Marisa about her career, about walking for Tom Ford, and about her thoughts on models today.
Fashionista: How did it happen that you walked in the Tom Ford show?
Marisa Berenson: He literally called me up and said ‘Would you be in it?’ and I said, ‘Are you kidding? Of course I’ll be in it!’ He’s such a special person; I find that everything he does is so perfect and beautiful . I was honored. He celebrates women of all ages.
The hard edge: Ash Stymest
Rumour has it that Ash Stymest is making the transition from modelling to music. The bad-boy image that made him immediately appeal to the likes of Hedi Slimane is something he also channels into a lust for rock stardom, or at least for making tunes. But the tattooed, tousle-haired poster boy hasn’t taken any final bows from the fashion world just yet.
Photographed here by Antony Nobilo in simple outfits of jeans, tees, and a lit cigarette, it’s clear why – in a time when male models with an edge have been trending – Stymest made such a splash. There’s attitude oozing from every frame of the black and white portrait – no transformative styling required.
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