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Trends: Hand-Made tradition

Posted on Thursday November 22nd, 2012 by understanding fashion

Embrace tra­di­tional crafts in a new way, devel­op­ing high-tech tech­niques. bas­ket weav­ing — stone sculp­ture — sten­cil paint­ing — raf­fia — cro­chet — thonet chair craft — tribal details.

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Christian Dior would be happy again

Posted on Thursday October 25th, 2012 by understanding fashion

I was so thrilled when I opened the Vogue September Issue and saw an amaz­ing ad cam­pain by Dior sub­tly por­tray­ing the house arti­sans work­ing on the gar­ments of the first Dior Haute Couture Collection by Raf Simons. It was … Continue read­ing →

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Is Fashion going OUT OF FASHION?

Posted on Tuesday October 9th, 2012 by understanding fashion

Fashion weeks are over and I am won­der­ing why should I wait for six months to wear these amaz­ing new trends? I was walk­ing around the shops look­ing for wide stripes, struc­tured ruf­fles, retro color block hand­bags, nos­tal­gic lonely flow­ers, … Continue read­ing →

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Crafts: Social Responsibility & Design

Posted on Tuesday April 10th, 2012 by understanding fashion

Prada new release is a col­lec­tion of hand­bags “Made in India”. They are made by hand using a cen­turies old weav­ing tech­nique. Manufactured in small work­shops using veg­etable dyed goat leather. Mario Prada, the founder and Miuccia’s grand­fa­ther trav­elled around the world … Continue read­ing →

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Is Blake Lively a good Ambassador for Chanel?

Posted on Monday March 26th, 2012 by understanding fashion

The Chanel woman rep­re­sents: inde­pen­dence free­dom from social con­ven­tions self-made power tra­di­tion hard work breaks the rules ele­gance uncon­ven­tional beauty mas­cu­line atti­tude intim­i­da­tion very con­fi­dent straight for­ward authen­tic dis­tant french chic Blake lively is a young actress who has a lead­ing role … Continue read­ing →

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Posted on Thursday March 15th, 2012 by understanding fashion
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Why Angelina Jolie for Louis Vuitton?

Posted on Tuesday February 21st, 2012 by understanding fashion

“A sin­gle jour­ney can change the course of a life” Angelina Jolie is the lat­est out­stand­ing per­son­al­ity to be pho­tographed by Annie Leibovitz for Louis Vuitton’s Core Values adver­tis­ing cam­paign. It was shot in Cambodia, a coun­try with which the actress … Continue read­ing →

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