{fashion} the glamourai - living on a dream shoot

{photography: Jeremy James // art direction & styling: Kelly Framel // makeup: Katey Denno for FLIRT! Cosmetics // hair: Noelle Chen for Kerastase // manicure: Vanessa Washington // stylist’s assistant:Doug Wright // prop styling: Mat Sanders (Domino Magazine) // model: Mackenzie (One Management) // all bedding: Yves Delorme // all furniture: Mis en Demeure for Yves Delorme} Information and photographs via The Glamourai

While scrolling through The Glamourai, I came upon a shoot from February.  After pouring over it again, this time from a different point of view, I was left completely entranced.  It's so easy to take for granted the level of creative talent many of these stylists {ex/ Kelly Framel} possess.  I for one am of the belief that dressing well* is indicative of artistic proficiency {sort of how peeing the bed and torturing animals corresponds to serial killers, but less dark more chic}.   It's editorials like these which allows that gift to shine.

To see all of the gorgeous pictures from this shoot, click here


*This does not mean North Face jacket, Ugg boots, black leggings; a là the standard college girl uniform...

{designer} Semi-Couture

Semi-Couture was founded in Italy in 2008 by Erika Cavallini. Prior to launching Semi-Couture {which presented it's first collection during the A/W 2008 fashion week} Erika was a consultant for several of Italy's most well known fashion houses.

The branding was inspired by an old stamp that was discovered in a Provence market; but the idea for the name was to identify and relate to clothing that, "on one side can give the idea of “unfinished” like the intermediate check on the tailor’s dummy of “semi-couture” and on the other side remind" wearers of haute couture, without the cost {Think Mercedes...and it ain't no c-class} often found in couture.

{Images: Signe Vilstrup | Quote: Semi-Couture}

{nyfw} ooak

Well, this is strange. Or at least I think it is; you guys can be the final judge. To celebrate the global Fashion Weeks (which kick off today – everyone say a little prayer for me and my sanity) this season, Miu Miu is launching a grand total of 46 one-of-a-kind bags starting with 16 at the brand’s Prince Street boutique in New York. The bags went on sale this morning, with the remaining 30 showing up in London, Milan and Paris over the next few weeks.
All of the designs are a variation on the same theme – a small, ladylike satchel with an oversized frame that made its debut on the Spring 2012 runway. The materials vary from printed wovens to studded crocodile and the prices go from $1495 on up, but I’m not sure that there’s a single bag in this group on which I’d spend the money, not even for something one-of-a-kind from one of my all-time favorite designers.

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* Sexy Sirens



As I am not really one for reminiscing {especially when it comes to the disaster that was 2011}, I wouldn't normally look back on editorials from 2011 to feature.  However, June 2011's Italian Vogue, shot by fashion deity Steven Meisel, brought about what I believe to be one of the best cover/editorial combos in recent memory.  Not because it featured beautiful plus sized models looking sexy, but because it was sexy.  A visual feast filled with the kind of sensual eroticism that the fashion world could use more of...





{Photographer Steven Meisel; Fashion Editor/Stylist Edward Enninful; Hair Stylist Guido Palau; Makeup Artist Pat McGrath;  Set Designer Randall Peacock; Manicurist Jin Soon Choi;  Models Candice Huffine, Marquita Pring,  Robyn Lawley, Tara Lynn}

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