Adidas, the official sportswear partner for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, announced on Wednesday, 07/14/2010,, appointed British fashion designer Stella McCartney as creative director for sportswear adidas Team GB bandwidth.
McCartney will oversee design of the kit and wear performance athlete village wear (after the events loungewear) and the outfits for the presentation ceremonies. This is the first time that a leading fashion designer has worked with a major sporting brand sportswear for the National Olympic and Paralympic Teams design.
There will also be a series of Adidas ladies and menswear collections available to the public sale of the autumn.
On one of the hottest days of the year so far in London and southeast England, fashionistas and wannabe models arrived in London’s Earls Court for the clothes show in London. Show clothes thrown by the brand as “Fabulous shopping, catwalk shows and autumn / winter preview”, the arena was buzzing with chatter and coo about fashion handbags, shoes and lots of beautiful floral dresses.
The main focus of the event is the fashion show Fashion Theatre. A 45 minute extravaganza of fashion, theme cities around the world, including mixed-with some great dance in harmony with the chosen cities. The choreography was well done and the music hit the spot, while the graphics and artwork to link everything together was wonderful. The show featured 415 different outfits mixing designer, couture, high street and boutique collections.
The show began in Tokyo, Japan with a great dance display based on the film Kill Bill, then quickly moves on a catwalk style Cosplay, Harajuku cute outfits that were loud and proud. Think neon pink, outrageous capes made of soft toys and color in your face collisions.
If you open your closet doors, there must be a timeless piece that you always trust. Whether it’s for a special meeting at the office, a grand night out, whether just one item that you feel “you” during wear. Investments and contemporary pieces you timeless style and a designer is trying to us an elegant and beautifully crafted collection of her label Z-Mode.
Z-Mode is the brand created by Lithuanian born designer Victoria Rangayah college graduate. A young, vibrant brand of private clients for just over one year. The Z-mode Ready to Wear collection will reach the ‘A La Mode catwalk in London Fashion Week in September this year feature. The catwalk show is an opportunity emerging and independent international designers to showcase their work. Z-Mode is a welcome and exciting addition to the line up.
The world of fashion is cutting edge, a tough but thriving place. Up and coming designers have the opportunity with both hands to grasp and focus on their own way to succeed. So often we see in the fashion world domination Womenswear. Meanwhile Menswear is a growing industry and really has much to offer to the fashion scene.
Who is she?
Katie, a London-based designer, graduated with a Masters from the famous Royal College of Art, London. She has an incredibly striking, raw talent, along with some great attitude that helps her to create bold and noble menswear collections.
Katie was ready to head to Paris after graduation, with the hope of working with great designers like John Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier, her latest collection of her Masters has been viewed by the fashionable British Vogue team and was picked up for a photoshoot by none other than the famous Mario Testino and Kate Moss modeled. Vogue Menswear turned in fashionable women’s clothing, a new concept. Katie described the Vogue to take its collection through a women’s eye line as a single, but the response is so beautiful. There is potential for a future Womenswear range. “Katie is overwhelmed by the interest in her collection.
What makes her inspiration?
Katie’s base for its collections show a strong notion of taking the books they read. Her latest A / W 1910 inspired the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, who deals with the interplay of good and evil. The concept of light and dark silhouettes and how the devil comes into our lives provides a powerful, yet dark presence in her work. “Therefore my collection a take on the military equipment and an exploration of scale and proportion” is Katie explains.
Style is often thought that the outward expression of inward-looking elements of fashion, combined with some creative personalization. A person has a different style of fashion nightmare and for most, it remains classic style, but can be adjusted and playful.
Fashion changes with the seasons and with the latest celebrity du jour, but the style comes from within each person. It was developed over the years as a reflection of character and everyone has a style, they have perhaps not sufficiently aware of or comfortable in their own skin to successfully display.
Most of today’s celebrities have a team of fashion stylists to co-ordinate and their outlook on their own personal style to create. One of these is the amazing creative stylist Lisa Maynard-Atem STYLISA of the company.
STYLISA
STYLISA is aa full-service consultancy that styling is ideal for all fashion styling requirements. Ranging from the press show styling, television, music videos and personal advice.
LadyM Presents Lisa interviewed to learn more about the good work the company did not learn;
When an online boutique will be featured in one of the most popular British fashion magazines, you know that you are on a good thing. That is exactly what LadyM Presents feels about Tara Lacey, appearing in Grazia Magazine UK on June 16, 2010.
In the world of fashion where online purchases “have increased by a massive 461% over the past five years alone (recent survey by Mintel Oxygen), with an exciting, high fashion-oriented website is a must.
Tara Lacey
Tara Lacey Online Boutique was founded by Tara Cowland, who is passionate about women through fashion and style to make themselves feel good. Tara Lacey’s goal is to house “online luxury fashion, selling an array of women’s brands both new and established, from all over the world. We specialize in beautifully designed clothes, beautiful accessories, stand-out swimwear and jewelry statement. The online shop was created for women of all ages who do not want mass-produced clothing, but do not want their bank balance to try to find them ruin.
“The feeling you get when you dress in something new, I want our customers to feel that sensation even on the fourth time wear.”
Nowadays with so many cheap collections in High Street stores and online discount sites, it is hard not immersed in the world of ‘throwaway fashion’. But it is important to invest in the key, unique pieces that can be expensive, but still stylish and in good condition years later.
Vintage clothing and accessories were the hot ticket at the Spring / Summer catwalks in London, New York and Paris earlier in the year. Vintage is seen as a good way to add feelings to an outfit and out from the crowd.
Fresh from the fashion press, the launch of a wonderful new online vintage boutique, Gigi Vintage. GiGi Vintage doing all the hard work of finding hundreds of great vintage pieces saves you the time and effort to do so. Forget lugging around a Parisian market or vintage shops in Spitalfields, just head online www.gigivintage.co.uk.
GiGi Vintage
Vintage GiGi was originally founded by Gurmeet Grewal in 2009. Gurmeet experience as a footwear buyer for high profile retailers in its knowledge and expertise is invaluable to a great online boutique concept to creation.
Gurmeet stores and is looking to find beautiful pieces for many years. Call inspiration from its parent unit in the years 1960 and thereafter, the beautiful vintage pieces that belonged to her late grandmother, Gurmeet has an “extremely strong passion for anything vintage and everything bandwagon. ”
Every year UK shoppers spent over £ 30 billion online. This is much higher than the expectation of the prediction Verdict Research in 2007 that online retailing would reach £ 28bn in 2011. In online fashion retailing is brilliant success and retailers are finding that having an online store to help strong sales results year after year to encourage.
An online store is up and coming A | Wear, Irish female clothing and accessories company. The company started on the Irish high streets in the early 1970s as part of a successful retail empire Galen Weston. Until the mid 2000s in the shops were operated by the Brown Thomas Group for a management buy-out occurred in May 2007 by a consortium which bought the company for € 70million. The new company continued to 26 independents working in Ireland, more recently, three stores open in the UK.
Inspiration
Previous fashion designed for A | Wear, John Rocha, Quinn and Donnelly. Prior to 2000, A | Wear shops in Ireland also had a range of menswear. Today, stores focus on women’s clothing and accessories.
A | Wear is the spring / summer and autumn / winter ranges are available for online purchase on its website that “has more than 400 fashion must-haves in fashion and new online stock prices three times a week … .. you will always find something to fall in love with “and the temptation is there free delivery on all orders over £ 100 / € 100.
Eclectic Collection Paradise
A | wear the new summer collection takes on the key trends of strong colors, floral, digital prints swarming with colorful accessories. It brightens your summer and are some of your best features. The bright and bold colors A | Wear have favored influenced by the vibrant cities of Miami, LA and Tokyo. The collection is diverse and stacked on the wrong accessories can really create an eclectic look for the summer. Catwalk inspiration comes from Basso and Brooke ‘maestros of avant-garde prints. Wear A | encourages you ‘to follow their example and have some fun with color.
The collection combines a great prints to ruffle a big soft edge to the spring / summer range. Also integration of embellishment and detail into an ethnic edge to the eclectic mix. Maxi dresses share the page with a cute shoulder dresses, tunics jeweled neck collar and contrast trim coats.