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Showing posts with label high fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label high fashion. Show all posts
Sunday, September 28, 2008
FOR THE LADIES THAT KNOW.
Marc Jacobs and KAWS teamed up and designed this pair of sleek patent leather Mouse Flats to celebrate the shoes 10th anniversary. Limited to 200 pairs worldwide exclusive to Colette (Paris), Original Fake (Tokyo) and Marc Jacobs flagship stores (US and London) will be the only spots selling these ladies. Finally something for the ladies that love sneaker heads who look at their shoes and not their eyes. The flats are scheduled to release on Monday, September 29th.
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
COMME DES FUCC DOWN.
Louis Vuitton, the ultimate French luxury lugguage label, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons, the ultimate fashion rebel, will collaborate in coming September to open a joint store in Tokyo showcasing six one-off bags designed by Kawakubo for a temporary period of three months.
“Yves Carcelle, chairman and chief executive of Louis Vuitton, sitting front row at Kawakubo's show last weekend, said that he was approached by Comme and considers the project a fine way to celebrate 30 years since Vuitton first opened in Tokyo,
Rei Kawakubo stated that the memory of her excitement at the arrival of Parisian luxury in Japan in 1978, resulted in this unlikely idea of the new design duo creating the store within the Comme des Garcons shop off Omotosando.
For Comme acolytes, this move will be considered either as sleeping with the enemy – or a brilliant and imaginative partnership. Kawakubo has re-designed the entire Comme des Garcons store on Kottodori, Omotesando for the Vuitton project.
Kawakubo described her designs as "party" bags, promising multi-handles or two handles morphing into one. All will use the monogram toile, with the LV initials, and the offerings will hark back to the styles of 30 years when Vuitton made only bags and leather goods.”
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
HISTORY OF RAY-BANS.
Sarah Fakray discovers how the story of the iconic Ray-Ban sunglasses started in the skies...
Ray-Ban began manufacturing sunglasses with ergonomics rather than fashion in mind. Ray-Ban soon became the Army Air Force's sole supplier of sunglasses, and remained within the domain of aviation until 1936, when the company produced their first model to go on sale to the public a classic Aviator shape with a plastic frame.
The following year, the Ray-Ban trademark was registered, which came from the phrase "Banish Rays". Ray-Ban then produced a new model with a metal frame, the still-lauded Ray-Ban Aviator. During the war years of the 1940s, American air force pilots used Ray-Bans on their missions, and they became symbolic of war heroes like General Douglas MacArthur.
1952 marked Ray-Ban's ascension to iconic status, with the launch of its instant classic, the Wayfarer. They were the first pair of sunglasses to focus on the chunky, plastic frame rather than the lens. Big, shiny, and unspeakably glamorous, they decorated pin-up beauties Kim Novak, Marilyn Monroe, and most memorably Audrey Hepburn in the classic 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Ray-Ban's rock'n'roll credentials have remained consistently high, as the sunglasses have long gone hand-in-hand with a black leather jacket and bashed-up guitar. Freddie Mercury, Lou Reed and Michael Jackson were all committed to their Aviators, while Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Elvis Costello, Roy Orbisn and Bob Dylan have all been associated with Wayfarers. "Personally I think the association with Bob Dylan was a particularly lucky one," remarks Ray-Ban Brand Director Marcello Favagrossa. "He's rebellious with a cause, with content, with depth. About looks but also substance. And that's exactly how I would love the brand to remain."
For the 2007 spring/summer collection and to celebrate their 70th year, Ray-Ban considered a number of their classic models for relaunch, but in the end decided that the Wayfarer was the one that could change the style of catwalk collections the most after the huge success of the Aviator. Extra colours, a bold red and clean white, were added to the classic options, and for their S/S 2008 collection, Ray-Ban are offering a whole new line of pastel colours in green, blue, pink and purple.
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Ray-Ban began manufacturing sunglasses with ergonomics rather than fashion in mind. Ray-Ban soon became the Army Air Force's sole supplier of sunglasses, and remained within the domain of aviation until 1936, when the company produced their first model to go on sale to the public a classic Aviator shape with a plastic frame.
The following year, the Ray-Ban trademark was registered, which came from the phrase "Banish Rays". Ray-Ban then produced a new model with a metal frame, the still-lauded Ray-Ban Aviator. During the war years of the 1940s, American air force pilots used Ray-Bans on their missions, and they became symbolic of war heroes like General Douglas MacArthur.
1952 marked Ray-Ban's ascension to iconic status, with the launch of its instant classic, the Wayfarer. They were the first pair of sunglasses to focus on the chunky, plastic frame rather than the lens. Big, shiny, and unspeakably glamorous, they decorated pin-up beauties Kim Novak, Marilyn Monroe, and most memorably Audrey Hepburn in the classic 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Ray-Ban's rock'n'roll credentials have remained consistently high, as the sunglasses have long gone hand-in-hand with a black leather jacket and bashed-up guitar. Freddie Mercury, Lou Reed and Michael Jackson were all committed to their Aviators, while Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Elvis Costello, Roy Orbisn and Bob Dylan have all been associated with Wayfarers. "Personally I think the association with Bob Dylan was a particularly lucky one," remarks Ray-Ban Brand Director Marcello Favagrossa. "He's rebellious with a cause, with content, with depth. About looks but also substance. And that's exactly how I would love the brand to remain."
For the 2007 spring/summer collection and to celebrate their 70th year, Ray-Ban considered a number of their classic models for relaunch, but in the end decided that the Wayfarer was the one that could change the style of catwalk collections the most after the huge success of the Aviator. Extra colours, a bold red and clean white, were added to the classic options, and for their S/S 2008 collection, Ray-Ban are offering a whole new line of pastel colours in green, blue, pink and purple.
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