Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts

Monday, April 22, 2013

160. Kid Creature


“Kid Creature”, a tagline below the free hand drawing art over t-shirts struck my eyes when I was in Yoki Shop.
Heard a quite inspiring story of a 12 year old making his own line “Kid Creature” with his hand art drawings which are purely of his own imaginations. Each drawings over T-shirt shows his own way of expression. His line has been sold in few of the boutiques and retail stores.
He wants to donate 10% of the profit on all of his Kid Creature sales to help fight against cystic fibrosis. 
For more info, visit his web site, http://kidcreature.net/
 



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Saturday, April 20, 2013

159. Growing Clothes

“Growing our own cloths”, sounds so astounding.......and Yes it is possible.
Designer Suzanne Lee talks about her experiments with kombucha-based materials, which she uses as fabric and vegetable leather for clothing.
       
For more info, visit her web site, biocouture. She’s a Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins in London.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

158. Yoki Shop, I mean It

It was a great experience doing the store installation @ Yoki Shop.
The shop is cute located across the street of Newport Beach.
The store carries  vintage, surf and high fashion using overstock fabrics and trims to create unique, one-of-a-kind garments. They make new pieces every day which looks fresh and new. The store has a story and their designs have a story. The store is a great inspiration for kids, young designers and adults.
Yoki means Good in Japanese so the store is.




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Thursday, April 4, 2013

155. Field Trip to South Coast Plaza

Had good time learning the visual displays of various retail stores @ South Coast Plaza.
We spent  time in front of the store analysing their visuals and learning their design elements and principals. Each store has its own story, art and creativity which is hidden in their window visual presentation. It not only creates pleasantness to the store but also welcomes consumers helping in healthy economy to the store.
Displays has both art and craft. Having constant change in visual concepts and formulas is very important. Improvising the window visuals not only gives freshness but also reflects the stores creative sense.
Louis Vuitton window conveys rich, busy corporate and carries all required brand values. They used various design elements like balance, intensity, contrast, texture, lines, perspective, rhythm, value, shape, repetition and flow.
The way the repetition of metal papers which are bent in different ways gives the flow, adds the perspective. The contrast they played using white and metallic gold over black perfectly worked out. The pose and looks of mannequins and the placement of the customised silver typewriters are flawless.
Pics of various retail stores window displays @ SCP.

 




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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

154. NCL Fashion Show

Another great experience of volunteering  backstage @ National Charity League Fashion Show.
Working under James Campbell Productions, one of the LA’s premier fashion show and event producers was voluminous.
The production exposure was vast compared to Cameo’s Fashion Show. As the models were highschool teens who were not professionals, the experience is quite different and got to learn both pre and post show responsibilities of production team. 


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Monday, April 1, 2013

154. Rebecca Taylor Charity Event - Mercy House

Rebecca Taylor's Trunk Show @ Fashion Island, was fun.
The event had Rebecca Taylor team and fashion stylist Leslie Christen with an evening of light bites, champagne, music and raffle prizes. 20% of the profit with go to benefit Mercy House to support their mission in helping homeless communities.

The newest collection seemed urban, sporty and trendy. Noticed lots of high waist tops, leather mixed with other fabric materials.



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Thursday, March 28, 2013

153. Fun Installing the Window

Had great fun installing the Medical Assistance and Cardio Vascular window.
The exercise is quite challenging. As we chose medical, it made more difficult and @ same time helped us to think all possibilities available to make window visually subject specific.

Though we had hard time in finalising the concept, the outcome is kind of satisfactory.
3 dimensional heart is a key prop for Cardiovascular window which we initially thought of making with barbed wire.
We made a right choice going with our instructor, Steve Jones idea of foam board heart which is given depth by scaling. The rest of the space of window is filled with echocardiogram pictures.
The Medical Assistance window is again lined with quotational medical equipment images with hanging plastic syringes on either side. Few antique medical equipments provided by department adds needed attention to the window.

Both windows certainly imply simple, informative with required elements representing the respective departments.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

152. Flash of Fash for Spring Summer 2013

Finally my models got life on presentation board. Lets hope they rock @ fashion symposium. Good luck gals........ 


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151. Cameo Fashion Show

Had an awesome wonderful day volunteering backstage @ Cameo Fashion Show.
“An Afternoon in New York” is the theme for this year's fashion show.
The event included a luncheon with complimentary wine, fashion show, a live auction, silent auction, opportunity drawing.

Working backstage with models was so exciting. Thought the space was small, the models were professionals and organized well, so had friendly atmosphere.
Racks of clothes split up for each individual model with the shoes on the floor so that the dresser knows the match up. I have to admit, the people I worked with were really really nice and friendly. It all condense to a few intense minutes during a show when models change into a second or even third look. Dressers race to help the models out of one look and into another.
 
Being a dresser backstage furnish you for the fashion industry. The more shows you assist with, the more untroubled you get with the backstage production of a show.










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Thursday, March 21, 2013

150. Sixties Bright Graphical Vibes

As I was watching Anna Sui’s collection on fall 2103 Runway, I went back to my childhood dress up style in just a few outfits. Her sixties retro vibes completely worked on me.
It always seems the collection on runway are highly designer with rich looks. But Anna’s collection seemed ideal for mix and match wearable wardrobe. Lots of leggings and knee socks with A-line frocks, which looked so simple, elegant, trendy and whimsical and ready to wear with mix of retro style.
The flirty tender outfits in bright and vibrant colors with frisky and graphic prints just looks perfect on any teenage girl. The sixties look of collared shirt with neckties on A - line frocks seemed new and refresh.
Sometimes using more colors and patterns clashes the look, instead Anna’s collection had harmony and great blend and use of color with patterns .I would love to have any shred from Anna’s fall collection.



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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

148. Folktale of 31 Bits

As I heard the name 31 Bits, the things I knew about them was so little. When I researched, got really impressed and overwhelmed with the work of Kallie Dovel and team.

This organization is giving hope to number of women in Gulu, Uganda. They purchase handmade  jewelry of recycled papers from each women, providing with ample of income. And also the women in the programme are given with English lessons ,vocational training in business, business mentoring, AIDS awareness programmes, financial training, which helps in learning about business and saving money. These services are given so that the women can start their own business and living for future.

The organisation have become helping hand for the women each with a unique story of suffering. Now, each of the women in the program have a job, a community, and a future. They spend their days earning and caring for each other. These women now get to wake up everyday with hope and happiness.


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Saturday, March 9, 2013

145. Vintage Ad

I found this interesting Vintage retail concept of  Fashion Frocks from pinterest,
Recruiting housewives for the merchandise is brilliant idea of widening the sales.

(This vintage Fashion Frocks Ad was scanned from an original 1949 Modern Screen magazine. Fashion Frocks was a company from Cincinnati, OH that employed housewives as salespeople)

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

143. Shopping shopping........

Fashion Island, a must go place for all fashion lovers. In two years of my stay in Orange County, my visits to Fashion Island goes huge.
I love to shop and browse the stores. The mall is mostly filled with stylish and trendy glimpses. If you want to see the latest trends in fashion bias, you might want to go to this place.

When I was in Fashion Island this weekend, I noticed that stores have come up with creative and innovative window displays to wow their consumers.
I feel window presentations are sometimes more than a brand. When I passed by Quicksilver and Brandy Melville I couldn’t resist stepping in and browsing, but never forget I bought the stuff too.I feel the presentations are vital  for retail shopping.

I also observed most of the stores had lowered their prices. The stores like The Earnest Sewn are selling good stuff for best price, most of the stuff I saw doesn't looks off trend.
Specially the prices of Savy’s @ Nordstrom, seemed quite low.
 


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Saturday, March 2, 2013

140. Peach On Beach

Stripes, Graphic Prints, Seeing Red and Orange, Contrast, Sixties, Structural Look, Mixed Prints, Monochromatic........are moving spring trends, I spotted lots of peach color on laguna beach on Saturday sunny clime. The color seemed perfect for spending the outdoor on radiant sunny day.
Both in stores and near shore, the hues of peach was catching my sight. Though I saw few people wearing stripes and mixed prints, the more noticeable was pleasing peach.
 

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

137. Campus Street Style

The days have changed, the campuses have become style felicity. The previous shabby looks on campus are no more enlivened.
Now  the students can’t leave their dorm without winsome outfits.
As a blogger could not assail myself clicking their enticing look and update my blog.






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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

136. Mood Boards

Mood Boards are warm ups for any project. I often create some rough draft or mood board before starting any of new job. Though I change things in the process, I prefer having one mood board.
One of my recent mood board created just like that for Anthropology store.

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

134. Club Monaco

Lastly found the name of the store which had this brilliant Golden window display. I had snapped this spectacle few months back in some mall. And totally forgot where it was.
The visual presentation of the store seriously wows me whenever I see the pic. The window is so golden with all gold painted frames and household gears like cups, lamps, books, bottles, plates and more and more. As I hadn't bothered to see inside of store that day, I can't tell how the display exemplified the collection.
Finally found the same window display  in pinterest today and its “Club Monaco” clothing retail store.
Follow below pinterest link for more visual merchandise concepts.......


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Friday, February 15, 2013

133. NY Fashion Week Day 8

The last day of runway had following designers collection.....
Rachel Roy
Ralph Lauren
Juan Carlos Obando
Calvin Klein Collection
Marc Jacobs

Rachel Roy
Felt the collection is creative and well executed.




Ralph Lauren
Sail pants, silk skirts felt creative.






Juan Carlos Obando
The collection felt simple.



Calvin Klein Collection
Lots of leather and black is ruling the Calvin Klein runway today.


 
 Marc Jacobs
Tailored blazers and vests, silk pajamas, fox chubbies, scads of high-waisted briefs on runway.


 
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