Love Of Fashion: May 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

Fashion Wear

Celebrities and Their Fashion Wear

Celebrities are known for their elaborate fashion wear on a day to day basis. Even once they have made it into the Hollywood status book they seem obsessed with having anything but top label items. Part of this may be due to sheer vanity, partially because most celebrities struggled for awhile before making it big and thus feel entitled to luxury labels and items, and part of it may simply be they have grown so accustomed to the higher life that it does not even dawn on them to spend five dollars on a white tee from Macy's instead of $100 at coach.

Whatever the reason if it's a celebrity wearing it even if it's a pair of sweats you can bet there is a big name label hanging on the tag. Celebrities simply love to show off, and just like in the business world, there is somewhat a purpose behind it. Stardom is fleeting, and there is always a new starlet on the horizon waiting for their chance to steal the limelight. Therefore, in some ways, wearing the huge labels seems to be a notice to the general public that yes, they have arrived, and that yes they still hold power in Hollywood, and that yes they will be cast in the next big movie.

The competitive fashion wear world in which stars live is very hardcore, as even if they be friends with each other, they are well aware that they will be rivaling each other for the next big role in the next big Oscar film. Each star knows that they want to be that one, the one nominated for the Academy award, so in order to land the role with the casting director, they have to keep their names in the tabloids and fashion pages even if they publicly say they hate the attention.

One of the most surefire ways to keep in the public eye, is a photo op, and in order to receive a positive photo op, and public approval, thus earning a director's approval, they know they have to look good and represent the labels that their fans hold them in adoration for being able to attain. Let's face it, a spread of Uma Thurman in a Macys dress is not going to be able to parallel a spread of her dressed to the nines in a fine piece by Versace. Add this to the fact, that oftentimes they set the bar themselves by wearing clothes or sunglasses that are given to them by the designers, and you have a combination of never being able to turn back to the simple life. Most celebrities are labeled from the top down, even through their sunglasses and undergarments, just in case. If you are a celebrity rather you care or not, you will learn fashion soon enough.(http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kirk_Bachelder)

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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Fashin

5 Crazy Fashin Colored Contacts Lenses For a Wild New Look

There are more ways to change your appearance than with regular colored contact lenses. Lenses are available in some of the weirdest, widest designs imaginable - and even a number that you can't. There are joke lenses, creepy lenses, and others that are simply bizarre. Most can be worn even if you have astigmatism and need toric contact lenses. Here are five colored contact lenses that you may never have considered:

1. Hypno-Eyes. You can wear contacts that have a spiral pattern around the iris, just like the old-fashined hypnosis wheels. Maybe you can make people do your bidding just by staring them down - these are subtle enough that people might not notice them at first, and startling once they finally do.

2. Happy Face eyes. Imagine your iris and pupil as a bright yellow happy face. The lenses are transparent enough that your sight isn't impaired in any way, and the contacts themselves are silly enough to elicit laughs wherever you go.

3. Cat's eyes. One of the most popular type of theatrical colored contact lens, you can give yourself cat's eyes with their remarkable slit-type of iris, in a variety of colors. Yellow cat's eyes have a sinister quality, while green is just very, very feline. Like other types of colored contacts, these will change the color of your eyes without affecting your field of vision in any way.

4. Zombie eyes fashin. If you seriously want to creep out your friends, neighbors or family, you can get contacts to give yourself zombie eyes - small black pupils surrounded by white irises. It's hard to say why these colored contacts are so disturbing, but they are.

5. Wild colored eyes. The range of colors in theatrical colored contact lenses is amazing. You can have anything from purple eyes with flecks of gold to neon yellow or orange (giving a similar appearance to frog eyes) to deep red "vampire" eyes. These, and many other types of colored contacts, are very popular with teens and adults who enjoy the supernatural and role-playing games about ghouls. They're both attractive and a bit scary - offering an interesting twist on the whole purpose of wearing colored contact lenses.(http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Steve_Mathews)

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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Fashion Jeans

Fashion Jeans

There has never been a wider variety of one particular style of clothing. Jeans are a quintessential American staple that has grown to be worn by every sector of society. No longer are jeans simply blue and stiff, though that old classic still remains. Some hits for the spring and summer include jeans dusted with glitter, ripped jeans and denim shorts.

Studded pockets originated during the gold rush when the found gold outweighed the denim pockets and caused them to tear. One way to rock your denim is to express their affiliation with the gold rush by wearing jeans with gold star dust brushed across the thighs. Metallics in fashion are expanding their territory past jewelry and are finding their way on to fabrics due to the new adherent qualities of finishes on fabrics. When daisy dukes are not an option long jeans can still be worn, even in the heat. Ripped jeans have their place in history but new styles are tearing down to threads. Unraveled stringy jeans are barely holding together this summer but as they fall apart the legs will be exposed to the summer air.

The more destroyed they are, the better. Black fashion jeans look particularly nice in shreds and they look great with almost everything except a date to a nice restaurant. They can be shredded by opening a hole in the pant and dancing around and another way to rip them up is with a cheese greater. Very detailed holes and shapes can be created by opening individual seams or groups of seams with the wonderful seam ripper invention that are conveniently found in convenience stores. Denim shorts are the classic casual summer bottom and the best thing about summer shorts is the jeans from last year can magically transform into cut offs with the swipe of a scissor. Because the destroyed look is in the shorts do not have to look perfectly tailored.

Zippers, studs and embellishments are great for people with small behinds because they add a bit of eye grabbing detail. Others can dress up denim shorts with belts that wrap around the waist twice and are worn low slung. The best aspect of denim in the summer is the ultimate freedom of movement they provide for riding bikes to the grocery store or walks in the park to keep your legs toned and shaped up. Kill two birds with one stone.(http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Mae_Alexander )

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Teen fashion trends

Teen fashion is pretty serious business. The trends are changeable, unstructured, anything but not constant. Teen age too is a precious time of life and the best time to look good. Studies expose that teenagers are more knowledgeable about any fashion accessory that other age-wise people.

Expectation from this sector is high and continuous. A designer catering to teenage fashion wear promises himself a life of insurrection and creative investigation. All teenagers are not rebels, they are just fashion conscious.

From cultural to fusion and trendy western casuals, teenage is all about joy in vivid colours. Teenagers are hard pressed for time as they are always speeding up from errands to coaching classes and regular schools. Thus they prefer something easy and relaxed. Their primary choice remains denims, jeans, washes in acid and stone. Corduroys fashions come and go. Teenagers go tremendously creative about accessories. Trinkets form bracelets, beads, clasp nose rings, cluster earrings, fake tattoos, nail painting, henna and bindis.

Carefree mind-set and the spirit of life is seen in mix and match wears, trendy jackets, stoles with tassels, bandanas, hair colour, faux fur trims on high boots and elbow pads in amazing hues. Shoes and belts are responsive to fashion demands and gadgets are trendy. Skirts go from long, to flares and short skirts from knee length to white mini skirts. Blouses come in tank tops and off shoulders for bold looks and classy colours in lilac and fuchsia in georgette or satin for a little conservative. The idea is to know the venue of your day and dress accordingly.

Racial wear for teenagers demands lot of invention. Lehengas and Ghagras come in various colours like emerald green, pool blue and be it gota, zari or embellishments in pearl, crystals or sequins, teenagers seem to need more! The demand is insatiable in fusion wear with embroidered suits for boys and jackets too. It is significant to notice the teenagers skin deep in tradition at any festival or celebration.

Though western trends such as japanese fashion seem to control teenagers in all walks of life, it is the effort of designers in balancing the ethnicity of Indian fashion. The next time you need the latest hair colour, be sure to ask a teenager!

Friday, May 28, 2010

STARMAN

i have a fascination with beautiful faces lately, and my laptop is full of files and files of saved pictures, whilst browsing through them realised david bowie has one of the most BEAUTIFUL faces i've ever seen. almost as perfectly carved out as johnny depp's or josh holloway's. i could look at bowie's face for hours on end i really could. even though he is now rather old and he is of course a man, he has got to be one of my biggest fashion icons of all time. he is a style chameleon, going through various phases, but each and every one of them was glorious in one way or another. one of the most individual and influential popstars of all time who has now become a legend and a fashion icon. and who else in the 70's was brave enough to invent a character such as ziggy stardust?

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Artist Profile | Kent Monkman

This is not directly related to fashion - but it's a blog article on Kent Monkman. I love his artwork and the concepts behind it. Monkman uses 'fashion' triggers like headdresses and platform shoes to discuss identity, gender, and sexuality, as well as issues pertaining to racism and colonization. I shrunk the article down a little bit, so you can read the full article here.

Kent Monkman
by John for dedeceblog.com

In his multifaceted work, Toronto based painter, photographer, performance and video installation artist Kent Monkman deals a table-turning hand on the one-sided histories of Euro-American descent.

Using parody and his flamboyant alter-ego ‘Miss Chief Eagle Testickle’, he subtly turns pioneering myths of the American West into orgiastic revisions of nineteenth-century pastoral scenes. By appropriating the imagery and technique of ‘New World’ landscape painters, and by reversing the usual roles of cowboys and Indians, Monkman questions not only history, but also notions of authenticity and identity. He goes back in time to ‘queer the frontier’.

Through oil paintings, sculptural pieces, films, video and photography, Monkman creates an “Old West” as a land of cross-dressing and role-swapping play between “cowboys and Indians” and at the centre of this work is Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Miss Chief Eagle Testickle (punning “mischief” and “egotistical”) is Kent Monkman’s performance-art alter ego and she also appears in many of Monkman’s paintings and sculptural pieces.

In a mischievous and humourous manner, Kent Monkman’s art challenges the inherent stereotypes around sexuality and identity, the legacy of colonialism and narratives about Aboriginal culture in the history of art and popular culture. Behind Monkman’s art lies a deep knowledge of past images and iconography, both European and Aboriginal.

With clever racial role reversals & historical revisionist satire, Kent Monkman skewers depictions of Indians in early 20th-century silent movies & studio portraits.

Canadian Cree Kent Monkman is a prolific artist whose lighthearted paintings, performance art, super-8 movies, antique tintypes, multimedia presentations, & mixed media installations poke fun at racist Hollywood depictions of First Nations people in art and movies. Monkman reverses the roles in the caricaturized cowboys-&-Indians scenario so that it is the ‘Indian’ whose insists on capturing ‘the European Male’ in images before he disappeared forever, as though they were peculiar scientific specimens.

Monkman’s satirical work focuses scrutiny on cultural filters. To this purpose, he created a public performance persona (inspired by popstar Cher) of a very flamboyant drag queen. In her maribou and dyed feather war bonnet, beaded and open-toed stiletto mocassins, dreamcatcher bra/breastplate and Louis Vuitton quiver, Miss Chief swans over Monkman’s visual narratives that completely revise the traditional white view of North American history.

Kent Monkman was born in 1965 in Winnipeg and raised in a family mix of Swampy Cree and English-Irish descent.

He is an accomplished and original painter, filmmaker and performance artist, based in Toronto, where he has lived for the past 20 years.

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good times bad times.

it seems some photos i took back in november at the letz zep gig with lead singer & robert plant lookalike billy kulke have ended up in the letz zep 'friends' album on facebook. this means we are 'friends' of letz zep, led zeppelin's biggest and most successful tribute band? either that or the pictures were good enough for the album. wow, much? i miss that period of my life more than any other time and i miss that night, being at that gig was like being at the whiskey in 1969, full of like-minded people (although we were the youngest ones there). i would do anything to go back to that time. i remember that night and how the drummer (forgotten his name) hinted that we should all go for a drink together after the gig but then something happened and we all ended up going home. sometimes it's hard to believe all that actually happened...