A lovely pink piglet wearing luxurious necklace of black pearls for the Polish fashion magazine VIVA! Moda，photographer Piotr Stoklosa shot this outstanding accessory series. In addition to the piglet, there is a dog, a rabbit, a lizard and a racoon, they became the professional model, and brighten the season’s popular accessories. However, It’s very ironically, these animals stand with their dead kind.
Swedish fashion retail brand H&M has created a new international design award with the ambition of supporting talented designers after their graduation. The H&M Design Award aims to push fashion students in the right direction, so that they can continue to grow and develop in their work as fashion designers. The contestants come from fourteen of the most prestigious design schools in Sweden, UK, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Denmark. On February 1st, the winner of the H&M Design Award 2012 is presented on Stockholm Fashion Week, followed by a fashion show with the winner’s graduate collection. Here is a video with Ann-Sofie Johansson, Hilary Alexander, Christopher Kane, and Rob Phillips.
With the Spring/Summer 2012 collection “Delicate Death”, Thomas Wylde announce this season’s ad campaign. Creative Director Miss Paula Thomas brings lightness to the idea of something dark and grotesque and transforms it into a delicate collection of transitional light and flowy pieces. The signature print for this season is Chantilly, a delicate and feminine print highlighting the birth of a awe-inspiring butterfly from somthing unsightly.
After making their mark in the world of retail, Southern California natives and fervent globetrotters Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, bith 36 abd founders of the acclaimed boutique Opening Ceremony, importing their brand of contemporary style to the French house of Kenzo. The duo’s debut spring/summer womenswear collection, inspired by another American in Paris, 1950s painter Ellsworth Kelly, fuses a youthful palette and coastal motif patterns with Yankee-friendly functionality.
Tom Ford Spring/Summer 2012 ad campaign, Mirte Maas gets up close and personal with male model Mathias Bergh, the joyous images photographed by the designer himself.
Shanghai Tang presents The Rite Of The Phoenix “浴火凤凰”, an inspiring tale of re-birth. This latest Spring/Summer 2012 campaign marks the second creative collaboration between Shanghai Tang and Chinese renowned photographer Chen Man “陈漫” with famous celebrities Lin Chi-ling “林志玲” and Hu Bing “胡兵”. Through a series of powerful, evocative images, the campaign captures the undying spirit, charm, and economic might of China, a culture that constantly re-invents itself with captivating results.
“Where we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?” questions of artist (and title of one of his works on display until April 15 2012 at the Palazzo Ducale, Genoa). The self portraits by Vincent van Gogh did not suggest any questions, but also inspiration. To spend the winter in a little cloth of bohemian neo-dour and never banal. Noble fabrics, rugged outerwear, but also indestructible boot unexpected colors and accessories: everything is part.
