Life Struggles and Fashion

THE JACKPOT

I sat on my bed waiting for my phone to ring. He was supposed to call to let me know when he was close, but by my standards he was late so I began to wonder if he decided he didn’t want to come anymore. Just then, my phone started vibrating on my desk. I jumped up and walked over looking down at the unfamiliar number guessing it was his.

“Hello?” I said after flipping the phone open. I was greeted by his gentle voice on the other end and I think my heart fluttered. I wasn’t sure, but I’m pretty sure my heart fluttered. He told me he was pulling into my apartment complex and asked if I would come down to make sure he parked in the right lot. I went down and opened my front door gazing out.

I saw a very nice car idly …

Fashion Spring Summer: The Latest Fashion Trends and What to Buy This Season

At the beginning of each season, women wonder what to buy from the new collections designed by the fashion world’s most creative minds. To start with, it is always a good idea to have a look at current trends before giving them a personal interpretation.

Cut, Colour, Combination

  • Cut creates the overall effect of proportion and the silhouette. This season, they are figure-flattering, loose or tight-fitting but always easy to wear. Shoulder pads and body-con cuts tell us that the eighties revival is not quite over yet, but comes in an updated version. All in all the silhouettes are rather balanced in proportion.
  • Prints are big in every sense of the word – they come as flowers and in ethnic styles. They may be digitally designed, which sometimes creates a rather fascinating tromp l’oeil effect.
  • Neutral shades and soft powdery tones counterbalance the strong prints. A fresh candy colour palette

Stella McCartney: Fashion With a Conscience

It was a media frenzy as a young McCartney gained notoriety for enlisting the help of her friends Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Yasmin LeBon to tread the catwalk at her graduating fashion show at the famed Central St. Martins College of Art in London as Twiggy and parents, Linda and Paul, looked on from the front row.

While some might say that the success of Stella McCartney was a given due to her famous name, that sentiment pays little due to the genuine talent, distinctive look, and staying power of a woman who apprenticed with Christian Lacroix at just fifteen, and whose early career seemed to draw much more vitriol from critics and naysayers (mostly from within the fashion industry) than it did praise.

Indeed, the appointment by the Paris fashion house Chloé in 1997 of a then barely 25-year-old daughter of a Beatle as their chief designer did …