"ACTION IS THE FOUNDATIONAL KEY TO SUCCESS."
-Pablo Picasso
Friday, August 29, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Right Back Atcha
"A SUCCESSFUL MAN IS ONE WHO CAN LAY A FIRM FOUNDATION
WITH THE BRICKS OTHERS HAVE THROWN AT HIM."
-David Brinkley
WITH THE BRICKS OTHERS HAVE THROWN AT HIM."
-David Brinkley
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Daks by Giles Deacon Fall 08 Runway Milan
Now in his third season at Daks, Giles Deacon has shown what he is made of by putting together a cohesive, complete collection. (That's why we are showing so many looks!) He started things off with leather outerwear, moving from a soft-shouldered olive trench to a brown cocoon coat with a gathered neck—both as smart as they were sensible. More sportif were a quilted jacket in safety orange and a black hooded stadium coat. The show's strongest toppers were trapeze-shaped and came in a substantial purple or iridescent gray tweed; he used the same fabric for a pencil skirt and a blouson jacket. Other skirtsuits—cropped and fitted jackets worn with the season's new calf-grazing, narrow skirt—came with neat little scarves tied at the neck, a reminder of this British label's proper past.
Who Amoung Us Is Not, At Times, Unlovable?
Who among us is not, at times, unlovable? And are not these the very times when we secretly yearn and need to be loved the most? Oh! The magic of receiving kindness in return from one to whom we have been un-kind...the miracle of hearing, when we have said, "I'm sorry I said such cruel things," the answer, "What cruel things? I didn't hear them."
Then the heart bursts with joy and our cup runneth over. For this most ancient alchemy secret of all is such a simple secret.
Then the heart bursts with joy and our cup runneth over. For this most ancient alchemy secret of all is such a simple secret.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Love Magic
All love is capable of energizing wishes into reality, but love between two people whose personal auras have thus harmoniously blended creates the kind of vibration poets write about, and can manifest marvelous magic.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
POPE INNOCENT
"My children, errors will be forgiven.
In our obsession with original sin, we do often forget...original innocence."
POPE INNOCENT, OF ASSISI
15TH Century A.D.
In our obsession with original sin, we do often forget...original innocence."
POPE INNOCENT, OF ASSISI
15TH Century A.D.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Scandinavians Form Fashion Association
COPENHAGEN — As some 55,000 visitors arrive here to see the latest Nordic collections at the capital’s fashion week opening today, the fashion bodies of Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Denmark have joined together in a bid to make sustainability the future hallmark of Scandinavian or Nordic fashion.
The Swedish Fashion Council, the Icelandic Fashion Council, Oslo Fashion Week, Helsinki Design Week and the Danish Fashion Institute will today unveil the Nordic Fashion Association in a move to extend Scandinavia’s global reputation for healthy living and sustainable energy to its fashion industries.
“The ambition is to become front-runners in this area,” said Eva Kruse, executive director of the Danish Fashion Institute, who explained the aim is to strengthen the region’s apparel industries by tackling environmental and social production challenges and put Nordic fashion firmly on the map.
“Many individual companies around the world have gone far in this direction,” Kruse continued. “But nowhere in the world is a whole region setting goals like this.”
The association’s aim is to implement a code of conduct for the Nordic countries’ estimated 3,000-plus fashion and textile players, plus draw up a 10-year plan to meet a host of environmental and social targets, dubbed the Nordic Initiative Clean and Ethical project, or NICE.
“We know that the fashion industry is one of the big sinners, not only in terms of the environmental impact from the production of textiles, but also because lots of textiles, jewelry and fashion are produced in low-cost countries, often in very poor conditions,” Kruse said. “The theory is that we now have a bigger voice to make a difference in production which takes place in countries far, far away from northern Europe. If we are going to change how they produce clothing in China, for example, we need to pool our resources.”
Key to NICE’s success will be the participation of Nordic fashion companies, who will themselves formulate the code of conduct, which likely will include social concerns like working hours and pay, plus issues such as reducing the environmental impacts of dyeing. The association will solicit the input of the region’s leading players, such as Sweden’s Hennes & Mauritz and Denmark’s Bestseller, plus trend-setting labels in the hope that their commitment will prompt others to follow.
Labels like Danish brand Noir already have helped ethical issues enter the high-fashion marketplace. “[Corporate and Social Responsibility] is part of our national heritage,” said Noir’s designer and founder Peter Ingwersen. “Paris will always have haute couture and prêt-à-porter, London has its street-savvy style, New York has its sportswear, Milan has its knitwear and its over-the-top Cavalli. The DNA here is ethics, equality and high quality.”
Once the code of conduct and 10-year plan have been agreed upon, they will be signed at a fashion summit to be held next year. The summit will coincide with the United Nations’ Global Climate Change Summit here, where the world’s political leaders will meet to draw up a pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.“
The fashion industry normally doesn’t set an agenda within politics,” Kruse acknowledged. “But it’s vital for us to be addressing global issues, along with the world’s biggest companies and with politicians.”
While developing its own Nordic label isn’t one of NICE’s fixed goals, the potential of existing international labeling systems, such as fair trade certification, will be evaluated. Other initiatives include developing an educational program for companies, plus a three-year research project into CSR conducted jointly by each nation’s business schools and spearheaded by the Copenhagen Business School.
In another move to boost the global competitiveness of the Nordic fashion, design and textile industries, the region hopes to open doors into the fast-growing Baltic and Russian markets by staging Nordic Look, a series of shows by new and established designers as well as conferences in Latvia during the fashion week in the country’s capital, Riga, in November.
Source : WWD.com
The Swedish Fashion Council, the Icelandic Fashion Council, Oslo Fashion Week, Helsinki Design Week and the Danish Fashion Institute will today unveil the Nordic Fashion Association in a move to extend Scandinavia’s global reputation for healthy living and sustainable energy to its fashion industries.
“The ambition is to become front-runners in this area,” said Eva Kruse, executive director of the Danish Fashion Institute, who explained the aim is to strengthen the region’s apparel industries by tackling environmental and social production challenges and put Nordic fashion firmly on the map.
“Many individual companies around the world have gone far in this direction,” Kruse continued. “But nowhere in the world is a whole region setting goals like this.”
The association’s aim is to implement a code of conduct for the Nordic countries’ estimated 3,000-plus fashion and textile players, plus draw up a 10-year plan to meet a host of environmental and social targets, dubbed the Nordic Initiative Clean and Ethical project, or NICE.
“We know that the fashion industry is one of the big sinners, not only in terms of the environmental impact from the production of textiles, but also because lots of textiles, jewelry and fashion are produced in low-cost countries, often in very poor conditions,” Kruse said. “The theory is that we now have a bigger voice to make a difference in production which takes place in countries far, far away from northern Europe. If we are going to change how they produce clothing in China, for example, we need to pool our resources.”
Key to NICE’s success will be the participation of Nordic fashion companies, who will themselves formulate the code of conduct, which likely will include social concerns like working hours and pay, plus issues such as reducing the environmental impacts of dyeing. The association will solicit the input of the region’s leading players, such as Sweden’s Hennes & Mauritz and Denmark’s Bestseller, plus trend-setting labels in the hope that their commitment will prompt others to follow.
Labels like Danish brand Noir already have helped ethical issues enter the high-fashion marketplace. “[Corporate and Social Responsibility] is part of our national heritage,” said Noir’s designer and founder Peter Ingwersen. “Paris will always have haute couture and prêt-à-porter, London has its street-savvy style, New York has its sportswear, Milan has its knitwear and its over-the-top Cavalli. The DNA here is ethics, equality and high quality.”
Once the code of conduct and 10-year plan have been agreed upon, they will be signed at a fashion summit to be held next year. The summit will coincide with the United Nations’ Global Climate Change Summit here, where the world’s political leaders will meet to draw up a pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.“
The fashion industry normally doesn’t set an agenda within politics,” Kruse acknowledged. “But it’s vital for us to be addressing global issues, along with the world’s biggest companies and with politicians.”
While developing its own Nordic label isn’t one of NICE’s fixed goals, the potential of existing international labeling systems, such as fair trade certification, will be evaluated. Other initiatives include developing an educational program for companies, plus a three-year research project into CSR conducted jointly by each nation’s business schools and spearheaded by the Copenhagen Business School.
In another move to boost the global competitiveness of the Nordic fashion, design and textile industries, the region hopes to open doors into the fast-growing Baltic and Russian markets by staging Nordic Look, a series of shows by new and established designers as well as conferences in Latvia during the fashion week in the country’s capital, Riga, in November.
Source : WWD.com
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
United Bamboo Fall08 Runway
United Bamboo is known for blending slightly twisted takes on preppy classics with kawaii elements. Cute returned for autumn with a leitmotif of bows, which popped up in different forms throughout the show. If some experiments with industrial materials (like a sequined dress with an overlay of cord and metallic tubes) fell flat, a series of ladylike blouses paired with paper bag-waist pants and skirts lifted the duo to higher ground – Laird Borrelli-Persson (Style.com)
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