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London based photographer Iain Crawford is known for his amazing photographic work and his unique paint splash techniques.

Iain Crawford is enable to capture the perfect moment of any movement, speed or liquidness and creates a wonderful harmony between motion and form.

Iain Crawford grew up in Africa and Malaysia and developed a passion for photography at an early age. On moving to London, he worked as an account handler for Saatchi & Saatchi but left to pursue his photographic career.

After spending several years living and working in New York, he is now based back in London but continues to work internationally.

Commenting on his work, he says: ”I love the fusion between paint and model. The resulting shapes are as opulent as any piece of bespoke couture.

The excitement and anticipation as we waited to see the next piece of unpredictable chaos was electric. There was something magical about how random chance materialised into beautiful images in front of our eyes.”

Iain loves to capture images that have a strong graphic and textural quality, often searching out the graphical symmetry in chaos, while still maintaining the personality and emotion of the subject.

His career has leads him to shoot campaigns for many of the world’s top brands and receive commissions from a host of top international magazines.

His advertising clients include: Giorgio Armani, Harrods, Selfridges, Wella, Schwarzkopf, Loreal and many more.
Editorial clients include: British Marie Claire, Vogue, Italian Grazia, Dazed & Confused and many more.

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Kobi Levi’s brilliant shoe creations are like wearable sculptures. His shoe designs are inspired by human body, animals and fruits and transformed into humoristic footwear.

Kobi Levi is a footwear designer that graduated from Bezalel academy of art & design, Jerusalem 2001. He specialized in footwear design and development and working as a freelance designer.

Collaborating with both Israeli and international companies, currently working on his women shoe line in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Having designed commercial footwear in Italy, China and Brazil and currently he is collaborating with both Israeli and international companies to develop his own women’s shoe line.

His shoes were presented design in various exhibitions in Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Verona, St.Etienne , Berlin and others.

As he said: The motivation to create a new piece comes when an idea, a concept and image comes to his mind. The combination of the image and footwear creates a new hybrid and a design comes to life.

These pieces are wearable sculptures. Most of the inspirations he takes from out of the “shoe-world” itself and transforms them into artistic creations. All the pieces are hand-made in his studio.

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Morfium Couture’s latest editorial called the ‘Full Moon’, is photographed by Dusan Jaukovic and features the models Milica Blagojevic and Dusica Savic.

Morfium as artistic concept is directed to the permanent exploration in field of visual arts. Creative team has already successfully realised Morfium concept in fields of fashion and costume design, photography, theatre, movies and music.

Morfium is a fashion label established in 2004 and now with studio based in Belgrade (Serbia). The name of the label was inspired by the Morpheus- angel the messenger, son of the Greek God of dreams Hypnos.

His name means metamorphoses and he appears to humans in their dreams.”Morfium is also dedicated to The Muses (eternal inspiration) and it represents mixture of cultural heritage of the Balkans with progressive design. Morfium produces small series of art designed, craft produced hand printed fashion products.

Major goal of the concept is to persist in establishing its own aesthetic values and its implementation in different media. Fashion as most commercial media is temptation filed for implementation essential ideas which can represented to the world market.

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Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci creates fashion like architecture. His designs are based on harmony and balance and are compositions of romance.

Riccardo Tisci’s SS 2012 collections showed a growing sense of sophistication and strength not only in the women’s collections also in menswear as well. Riccardo Tisci has not only brought dynamism and romance he also he infused modernity and innovation to the brand.

Riccardo Tisci latest composition reflects  Haute Couture from the twenty-first century in finding the balance between two polar opposite, the union of subtle, refined age-old couture techniques with an advanced, progressive visionary design talent.

Riccardo Tisci was appointed as the creative director of Givenchy in 2005. Tisci‘s original plan was to focus on his own fashion line, however upon finding out that his mother was about to sell her house to help his sisters, he decided to accept Givenchy’s offer.

Unlike the various designers before him who succeeded Mr. Givenchy himself, Tisci has encountered great success, both critically and financially.

Tisci, under Givenchy, designed the costumes for Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour in 2008, following Jean Paul Gaultier and Dolce & Gabbana. In 2009, for the encore of the tour he designed another costume for the tours opening song Candy Shop. He also delivered customized clothing for Madonna when she’s not on stage.

For the Givenchy Fall-Winter 2010 collection he has included a new model, a Brazilian transsexual named Lea T. This is someone he worked with for years, T, whose former name was Leo, was his longtime personal assistant.

In 2011, he has been widely considered to be John Galliano‘s most likely successor as head designer of Christian Dior. However, according to Dior’s CEO, Sidney Toledano, a replacement hasn’t officially named yet.

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Andrew Yang is a freelance fashion designer, illustrator, a photographer and the creator of the Kouklitas fashion dolls. The Kouklitas dolls are meticulously hand crafted, hand painted, and created using luxurious fabrics and couture sewing methods.

The dolls wearing  recognizable designer outfits from Marc Jacobs, Gareth Pugh, Ann Demeulemeester, Prounza Schouler, Rodarte,Comme des Garcons,Alexander McQueen, Lanvin and Givenchy etc.

Andrew Yang who is a New- York based artist, who spent his childhood in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he grew up around his mother’s collection of Madame Alexander dolls.  He was very involved in theatre, and eventually started making costumes, which fuelled his passion for doll making, leading him to New York to study fashion.

He started to create his own collection of high-end fashion dolls. His hobby was put on hold when he moved to New York to pursue fashion, an industry he worked in as an assistant designer for several years. Longing for another creative outlet, Andrew created his first doll from scraps of muslin in the summer of 2008.

He calls his dolls ‘Kouklitas’ (the name originates for the Greek word ‘Koukla’ which means doll) and has created everything from one eye, Siamese to mermaid dolls. He creates each his dolls from muslin, couture fabrics and a real look like hair material. Each doll measures 27 inches in height, and has a unique, hand-painted face. Each doll tells a different story which is depending on the look of her eyes and her smile.

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Selfridges London has unveiled its winners for ‘’Bright Young Things’’ 2012. New upcoming talents are showcasing their new designs to the public eye. Bright Young Things was launched on January 6 and will run until the end of February. It debuted last year as part of Selfridges’ commitment to supporting young British designers.

Last year, The Bright Young Things project at Selfridges, has been proofed to be a huge success. This year, for the second time Bright Young Things, Selfridges displays a group of womenswear, menswear and accessories in the store to buy.

As Alex Iancovici, Selfridges’ buyer for contemporary womenswear, said “We are constantly looking for new design talent, whether during London Fashion Week, graduate shows or in Paris trade markets, and these five ticked different boxes,”

The 2012 Bright Young Things winners are:

Womenswear designers:

Sorcha O’Raghallaigh, Adam Andrascik, Maarten van der Horst, Alice Lee , MASC

Menswear designers:

Shaun Samson , Astrid Anderson ,William Richard Green , Alex Mattson

Accessories designers:

Oliver Ruuger ,  T.lipop

Art& Design:

Becky Sloan, Archie McLeish , Nuha Razik

Food:

Jack Coleman

Nine of the winners have been chosen to each create a window at Selfridges’ London Oxford Street store in which to showcase their collections. Bright Young Things’ products will be available to buy direct from Selfridges in store as well as online. Here are a few items. Enjoy!

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Erickson Beamon is a NY based jewellery brand founded by Detroit natives Karen and Eric Erickson and Vicki Beamon. Their jewellery has been featured on the major runways for design houses such as Donna Karan, John Galliano, Zac Posen, Givenchy, Anna Sui, and Emanuel Ungaro.

The brand was founded and designed by Karen & Eric Erickson and Vicki Beamon in 1983. It was still in the early 80s when the trio was working with local designers, when their work for the first time was featured in Vogue, and credited for their chandelier earrings.

In 1985 Vicki Beamon moved to London to spearhead the brand’s European division, and the opening of a flagship boutique in London’s Belgravia soon followed. Erickson Beamon is now sold in over 600 stores in 75 nations worldwide.

Erickson Beamon’s “dollhouse” chandelier earrings are permanently ensconced in the Costume Institute of America, and other entire collections in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

Their celebrity followers are: Lady Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Kate Moss, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Angelina Jolie, Beyonce, and Nicole Kidman.

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Creating a cool lip make-up is similar like designing an outfit: it can be neutral or trendy, classy or eclectic, practical daytime or it can be a mind-blowing masterpiece.

Some of the many lip makeup trends in the world of fashion are going to be big ones to see for the coming year. There are some designs that are going to be exceptionally strong in terms of their appearances. These include such as bright and bold designs that are very thick and attractive.

Of course, some of the most notable types of makeup trends involve working with different colors that work with certain skin tones in mind. Some of the more useful makeup options will vary by each type of skin tone that they have.

Step One

Before you start working on the lip makeup, let me tell you that you need to have smooth and soft lips. Capped, cracked lips are a strict no-no to work on. Make sure you apply the best lip balm so as to have soft lips. Soft and plain lips are first essentials of the entire lip makeup.

Apply a good quality lip balm. For a long lasting lip makeup, apply a sheer layer of foundation on your lips and dust some powder. Now follow the next step.

Step Two

Next, draw a line on the left side of your upper lip, following your lip line and continue next with eyeliner. Create any design or a pattern. Continue onto your bottom lip, sweeping the lines from corner to corner.

Step Three

Go over the lines and fill in with the appropriate colors or with Eye Kandy Glitter. The glitter comes with a liquid seal and will hold for hours. Blend a little with gloss for a shimmery lips.

The Eye Kandy Sugar colors are great for highlighting your lip creation! You can wear a majority of the colors on a daily basis – some are subtle, some are very dramatic. The glitters are made of polyester plastic and contain no metals or glass – safe for lips! Wear as is, or custom blend your own colors.

Tip: Make sure to drink from a straw and stay away from overly greasy foods because the oil with remove the colors.

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In letzter Zeit ist das Thema Burlesque  in den Medien sehr populär geworden. Der Italienische Fotograf Marco Girolami verwandelte seine Modelle in 1940 Pin-up-Girls für den Burlesque Kalender. “Burlesque, l’Ironica seduzione d’amore’’ ist der name des Kalenders und ist eine sinnliche Verführung.

Marco Girolami wohnhaft in Rom, ist ein berühmter, italienischer Fotograf und Organisator unzähliger italienischer und internationaler Fotografie-Ausstellungen. Seine Fotografien, insbesondere seine Portrait wurden international bekannt und geehrt.

Marco Girolami arbeitet in Zusammenarbeit mit vielen Werbeagenturen in Italien und im Ausland. Marco’s Vision als Künstler ist die natürlich Schönheit in einer eleganten Art und Weise zu erfassen. Er gilt als einer der Maestros der italienischen Fotografie.

Popularität erlangte die Burlesque als preiswertes erotisches Entertainment durch jene Wanderzirkusse, die den angedeuteten Striptease, der mit frechen Sprüchen garniert wurde, als Rahmenprogramm in ihren Sideshows („Carny-Shows“) anboten. Diese Shows zielten auf ein einfaches Publikum und boten keine in sich geschlossene Handlung, lediglich ein hübsches Mädchen, das sich auszog, sowie etwas Glamour und Amüsement.

Angelangt im 21. Jahrhundert, erlangte besonderes Aufsehen die Burlesque Tänzerin Dita von Teese. Berühmt wurde Sie mit ihrer Darstellung in einem riesigen Cocktail-Glas.

Und heute ist Dita von Teese eine Mode-Ikone. Von Kopf bis Fuß, von extravaganten Damenschuhen bis zu süßen-sexy Kleidern – alles ist ganz auf Burlesque eingestimmt. New-Burlesque heißt die neue Mode á la Dita von Teese und ist über die Jahre alltagstauglich geworden. Der Burlesque Still ist voll im Trend.

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Philip Treacy is known for his hat designs. Treacy has created striking headwear for the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Valentino and Alexander McQueen. His creations are worn by Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Philip Treacy was born in rural Ireland. He lived with his parents, seven brothers and sister across the road from the village church. He moved to Dublin in 1985 to study fashion at the National College of Art & Design, where he made hats “as a hobby” to go with outfits he designed.

In 1988 he won a place on the MA fashion design course at the Royal College of Art in London, and in 1989 he took one of his hats to Michael Roberts, fashion editor of Tatler magazine, and his style editor, Isabella Blow.

Treacy designs haute couture and ready-to-wear hat collections from his London studio.He lived with his parents, seven brothers and sister across the road from the village church. He moved to Dublin in 1985 to study fashion at the National College of Art & Design, where he made hats “as a hobby” to go with outfits he designed.

In 1988 he won a place on the MA fashion design course at the Royal College of Art in London, and in 1989 he took one of his hats to Michael Roberts, fashion editor of Tatler magazine, and his style editor, Isabella Blow.

He has designed hats for Alexander McQueen‘s white Haute Couture collection at Givenchy in Paris, for Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, and for Valentino, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan. He was awarded the title of British Accessory Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards on five occasions during the early 1990s. The late Isabella Blow, style editor of Tatler, helped Treacy launch himself as a well known milliner and wore many of his hats.

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