Fall and Winter, ready and go

Fall and winter is coming visiting us now. Prepare for it or not? Let’s check them out!



Floral in shadow stitch way----You may find this trend last season, whatever kinds of cloth you have to see floral in lace or a transparent glossy way. Get tired of black or grey? You have bunches of other choices like warm or cool pink, champagne, milky, or white. The texture of clothes is changed a little bit. Convex feeling is going to plain now. Flower still goes on its way. Don’t want to be too overstated? But still want in style? Try them on, plain floral in a shady way.

Dark-color-frame glasses to adorn your face----I know you are going to say you have a sane vision, and even don’t ever think about the glasses. Glasses are the best decoration to adjust your face and will make you pop out. Try them and you’ll trust them.

Sweater----Classic pullover sweaters got an update this season with standout graphics adorning their fronts. You are sure to find another graphic sweater to match your personality. For a casual and stylish look, pair your graphic sweater with distressed boyfriend jeans and red suede brogues. Lastly, finish the look with a mustard backpack, circle sunnies. Pretty an androgynous look to try.

Variable Stripe----Zebra catches your eyes when you’re visiting the zoo. Not only the high contrast but also for the colors they have that are not from the earth tones, which is quite diverse from others. Delighted enough to see many designers trying stripe in a variable, collage way. If you’re really bored of black/white, you can try firebrick-red/grey, white/dim-grey, champagne/sliver, and coral/seashell and so on.

Dark color, with the gloss of metal, then adds some highlight of red----It’s the fall and winter visiting us, but not a gaily-colored summer. People always prefer some richer ones to company them in a colder temperature. That’s right. But we need some more. Metal colors have the gloss beyond compare. They will make you deep but elegant. Still too dark? Why not put some bright red on you? Red is always there waiting to highlight you. Not too much but a small, rich red chunk is enough for us. Like a crimson or dark-red lipstick, a medium-violet-red earring, a pair of cherry-brown socks, some hairpins or nail polish.

Irregular cut-out of body’s proportion----Waist is a watershed. High-waist and extremely-low waist are the things here we are talking about now. There’re two examples of them showing below.

Steven Meisel, a downright genius

Fashion photography is my favorite photographic genre; I never get bored looking at great fashion photographer’s work because there’s always a story to discover in the photo-shoot, the shoots are shot at beautiful locations and of course the extravagant clothes. Today we’ll look at an amazing fashion photographer who is a staple for Vogue magazine – US Vogue to be more – Steven Meisel.


As one of the most powerful photographers in the fashion industry, Meisel is credited with "discovering" or promoting the careers of many successful models, including top models Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Kristen McMenamy, Amber Valletta, Snejana Onopka, Viktoriya Sasonkina, Iris Strubegger, Lara Stone, Coco Rocha, Caroline Trentini, Liya Kebede, Karen Elson, Doutzen Kroes, and Raquel Zimmerman, propelling them to fame by regularly featuring them in Vogue and various campaigns, notably Prada, considered one of the most desired campaigns in the business. Meisel's influence and training seems to also extend past models. He used his influence among the fashion elite to create an issue of Vogue that would show only black models. The issue was released in July 2008 with the purpose of addressing the racism seen lately in fashion magazines, runways, and advertising campaigns. He also launched the career of Ross Van Der Heide, a young fashion designer, by showing Ross's artwork to Anna Sui.


Hel is also deemed by most as the “The Godfather” in the fashion world because of the great influence he carries, from having shot for every major fashion brand, to being able pluck a new model from obscurity into massive popularity from just one photo-shoot. He doesn’t have a distinct style of shooting like his other compatriots, allowing him to be more versatile, but he does have a long history of excellent work. What I mostly enjoy in his projects is his empowerment of bodies’ structure, the intense of story-telling, and the wonderful tension in his picture composition.


Let’s take an unforgettable adventure of him pictures: http://steven-meisel.tumblr.com/

Marc Jacobs, an outstanding one

Explaining his clothes, he has said "what I prefer is that even if someone feels hedonistic, they don't look it. Curiosity about sex is much more interesting to me than domination. ... My clothes are not hot. Never. Never."

Marc Jacobs, an American fashion designer. You probably can say he does what an ordinary super-designer does, i.e., create fashion-changing clothes for Marc Jacobs, as well for Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line and for a great French house Louis Vuitton. What’s more, you can call him a fashion designer who's changing the meaning of that job, where he also does so much more. His collaborations with Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami, and Richard Prince have shaken things up in both the fashion and the art worlds. Not to mention advertising that looks like art or boutiques that feel like clubs.

Andy Warhol used to talk about the best art being business art, though Marc Jacobs doesn’t like to be considered as another Andy Warhol. And it would be hard to find someone who has done more to apply an artist's thinking to running a creative big business than Marc Jacobs. Also, he thinks that mixing up art and fashion was kind of old, which was missing in the changeable trends, is the majority job to do.

Fashion Night Out hits you or not?

Vogue, which is an American fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 19 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast, has created a global initiative, "Fashion's Night Out" for 4 years, in order to help boost the economy by bringing together fashioners to support the cause of full price retails. From 2009 till now, cities across the globe participate to put on fabulous in store events and promotions.




In China, the FNO cities are Shanghai and Beijing. You can fine the hottest movie stars and super models showing their latest presentations. In Paris, people choose to stay a whole night-long outside the stores due to their longer working hours. Tons of shows will hit people's eyeball even though they cannot accept neither the sparkle ideas nor the price of the cloths. Anyhow, this activity is for the full-price sells and the economy recovery. But we can somehow enjoy the beautiful people wearing the beautiful things. That's adorable enough.




More pics here: http://www.fnolive.com/