Get a Peek: Pre-Fall 2012 Fashion Trends

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Visit BLOGINITY to get a glimpse of what’s in store for you on the Runways of Paris, NYC, Milan and London for the 2012 Fall Season. This website has got you covered. You can also get a peek at what some of your favorite Runway Models are up to. Love this site.

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Renaissance Fashion & Fencing

Partial Armour, Italian, C.1570-90. ©Permission

LONDON.- Witness the cutting edge of fashion as you’ve never seen it before! This exhibition tells the untold story of this fascinating and little known area of Renais- sance art: revealing the fantastically skilled artistry behind the rapier; at once a weapon, fashion item, and rich jewellery object; representing the rise of a new and upwardly mobile middle class, sixteenth-century con- cepts of masculinity and the emergence of the duel of honour. Summer 2012 represents the perfect opportunity to investigate the historical and social development of the ancient art of sword-fighting. The modern sport of fencing is one of the nine original Olympic sports but is also a piece of a much older story which began with the Renais- sance fashion for carrying and fighting with swords in everyday life. A man of means in the sixteenth century went nowhere without his sword, and was always prepared to use it. – - Read more

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Some Fall 2011 Designer Favorite Picks

Click Here for a Quick Review of this Fall’s Fashion Designer Favorites from the World’s Runways!

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Classy 2012 Resort Wear by STELLA McCARTNEY

In a garden in Manhattan’s West Village — a location perfectly suited to the classic vacation concepts of leisure and fun — Stella McCartney presented a playful Resort 2012 collection. Models milled about in a vibrant mix of color and prints: multi-colored stripes, oversized Hawaiian florals, black-and-white herringbone, and shades of orange and lemon. “All this color and print is about exciting and reenergizing people,” McCartney explained, “and it’s nice for everyone to see that you can actually enjoy and live in these clothes.”  photos courtesy of  Stella McCartney 
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Stella McCartney’s mind was elsewhere this season: Hawaii. “It’s such a rich, visual place to start,” she said. From there, she grew a collection full of hibiscus and surfer prints, deck-chair stripes, seersucker and neon-tipped accessories, giving off a joyful, relaxed vibe. McCartney keeps it from going too much over the top, though, with consistent clean shapes. The sportier silhouettes, including a culotte-style jumpsuit, long garden-party skirts and shorts paired with rounded capes, suited the croquet-playing models in the Greenwich Village garden where the presentation was held. The dressier outfits, including a black tuxedo with an almost tails-length jacket and skinny-at-the-ankle pants, and a white dress embroidered with bows, complemented the flutes of champagne offered at the party-like preview. McCartney also gave a nod to the mod looks of London in the 1960s, offering a series of houndstooth looks — sometimes mixing those with menswear-inspired pieces, such as a sunshine-yellow blazer with wide lapel and crisp shirt. “Tailoring is updated with a new silhouette,” she explained in her notes, referring to a jacket with notched lapel. She also showed what she described as a “cropped cigarette French cuff trouser and blouses with three-dimensional bow embroidery in a palette of black with chalk or Tokyo blue with tobacco.”
COURTESY: fashionologie.com and  SAMANTHA CRITCHELL AP

Fashion and Textiles apprenticeship in UK

Calling All Apprentices!
If you are yet to apply for the fashion and textiles apprenticeship, do not hesitate any longer as you still have time to join the next cohort. With over 20 employers on board now and interviews well underway, now is the perfect time for you to get involved in the only fashion and textiles apprenticeship program currently offered in London in apparel. To apply is simple; all you have to do is email a copy of your CV to apprenticeships@fashioncapital.co.uk. There are some eligibility criteria that you must meet before submitting your CV however, you need to have a minimum of 5 A-C GCSE grades (which must be itemised on your CV providing a clear list of your subjects and the grade you scored for each of them) whilst you must also be aged 16-24 and to not have a qualification higher than level 4, therefore no degree students can apply. Find out more...Click Here. Good Luck to All.

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Hommage to The Super Talented 'OSSIE CLARK'

Ossie Clark, Bar None, was about the most Original Fashion Designer from London during the 60s that I remember. Though his contemporaries included people like Zandra Rhodes and Mary Quant, Ossie stands out even more today, because He was such a Visionary. You could easily pull out one of His Dresses today from your closet, wear it and receive accolades as if it just left the Runways this very Season. He was incredible! Ossie's sense of Color and Style guided by his use of clever Design, always made for a clothes that would almost seem effortless. They all had their own Jubilee of Fashion Glory. Undeniably, Ossie Clark influenced many, many other Fashion Designers of the Times and it showed as such, over and over again, on the Runways of Paris, Milan, NYC, Germany, you name it. They ALL copied his Look, Style and sense of Color extravaganza. Ossie Clark is probably the most knocked-off fashion designer in the history of fashion. His designs look simple and effortless. But, his attention to details and ingenuity are unparalleled. He was well known for using moss crepe fabric and prints created by his wife Celia Birtwell. She helped keep him intrigued in the business in many ways. His best support.

He quickly began to make his mark in the fashion industry, with Alice Pollock's exclusive boutique Quorum featuring his designs in 1966. Ossie had met Pollock at a party on the Kings Road and so taken with the young designer was she that she immediately ordered a whole collection of dresses for her boutique. Ossie presented a collection of white and cream chiffon garments that sold fast. Pollock wanted Clark's clothes to have a more organic feel and so commissioned Celia Birtwell to produce special textiles for the next collection. In this way, one of fashions most famous collaborations was born: with Ossie Clark designing clothes and Celia Birtwell designing prints. This partnership would last for almost all of Clark's career in fashion. Author Judith Watt comments: "Celia collaborated with Ossie. This was a joint effort. People say that she was his muse, which indeed she was, but their work absolutely went hand in hand. It was her designs that he used to create his. I think it's unfair that she not be given that voice".

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London's LOUISE GRAY Sparkling RTW Show

Louise Gray is a hand embroiderer who first studied at The Glasgow School of Art and went on to graduate with an MA from Central Saint Martins College in London. Immediately following her graduation she was selected by Fashion East, and showed three seasons there.

Louise has spent the last three seasons building a label based on brightly hued, boldly textured garments whose shapes are simple and where movement and embellishment take center stage. Employing a wide range of materials nothing is quite what it seems in Gray's work. Contrast is key and Gray reworks traditional stitches and embroidery techniques to create modern folk details and trompe l'eoile effects. 

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