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Adele Is A Cover Queen.
The undoubted breakout star of 2011 has been Adele. Musically she has dominated both the album and singles charts, and she has provided a beautiful role model for those girls who do not have a size 10 figure. And what has been amazing for a girl who has a size 16 figure, and jokes that she ought to be the face of ‘full fat cola’ is that she has been embraced by the Fashion Press and has become one of the hottest cover girls of 2011, culminating this month with the cover of Vogue’s October Issue. Adele has graced the covers of numerous magazines this year, Glamour, US and Canadian…
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Harvey Nichols celebrates Fashion’s Night Out in Style.
Harvey Nichols new season fashion shows are always a hot ticket in Birmingham.They are renowned for amazing staging, super style…and a celeb of two, all enjoying the complimentary Champagne on offer. This Thursday and Friday will see The Midlands most fashionable folks taking their places on the front row for the unveiling of the Autumn/winter 2011 collections. Thursday September 8th is of course the date for Vogue’s ‘Fashion’s night Out’, a massive important date on the Fashion calendar. Across the globe, top designers, stores and stylists will be taking part in a series of fashion events, launches and promotions. To coincide with the hundreds of style events planned, Harvey Nichols…
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Fashion Deja Vu…or Haven’t I seen that before?
I was enjoying an intense session with this Month’s Vogue, when a thought crossed my mind. The images, the ad campaigns, the styles, the faces. Even though these were meant to be brand spanking new, that all looked oddly familiar. That’s when I realised that 2011 will be the year of fashion/style and celebrity deja vu, or, to put it another way, that face looks oddly familiar. Want more proof? You’ve got it. Then you can decide if nostalgia has become a new byword for style. First up – Edie Campbell – a hybrid of Marianne Faithfull and Penelope Tree. Edie Campbell is London Fashion’s latest it girl model. Featuring…
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Could this be the year that ethical fashion finally becomes mainstream?
It’s been around for a few years now, but for many, ethical fashion is a bit like the gym – you know it’s a good thing, but you don’t necessarily go there! Images of hippies wearing tie dye and smelling of joss – sticks were so prevalent that fashionistas saw ethical fashion as a thanks – but no thanks moment. No amount of moral feeling was worth that amount of hemp. But things may be changing, and in future years, people may point to February 2011 as the turning point. The month in which ethical fashion made headway, headlines, and with the new fair trade, fair mined hallmark, made history.…
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Corinne Day – A small tribute
Corinne Day, the iconic fashion photographer who created famous early images of Kate Moss, died last week from a brain tumour. She was just 45 years old. Corinne created a whole range of famous, some would say infamous images of Kate Moss in the early 1990’s that changed the face of fashion photography and concepts of feminine beauty forever. At the height of the supermodel/superficial age, she stripped back fashion and beauty to its basics – harsh lighting, little of no make up, scrapped back hair and stark backdrops. Her first Vogue cover featured a stunningly beautiful image of Moss stripped of all artifice. I sought out this cover on…
