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History Of Dolce And Gabbana

Design duo Domenico Dolce (b. 1958, near Palermo, Sicily) and Stefano Gabbana (b.1962, Milan, Italy) are known for making "stars look like stars". Their sexy styles are often to be seen on the likes of Isabella Rossellini, Demi Moore, Nicole Kidman and Madonna, for whom they created the now-famous "Kylie Minogue" tribute T-shirt. They also created the costumes for Madonna's Girlie Show in 1993, as well as Whitney Houston's 1999 tour. Partners both in life and in business, the pair met while working as assistants in an atelier in Milan. Sharing a love of the baroque, they made their name together in 1985, when the organisers of the Milano Collezioni invited them to take part in a fashion show to launch "New Talents". The following year, they presented their first independent women's ready-to-wear show. Since then, they have introduced menswear and a line of signature fragrances, and opened shops in Italy, Japan, Hong Kong and, in 1999,in London (the London salon, designed by British architect David Chipperfield, is testament to the designers' love of mixing their own Mediterranean spirit with English eccentricity). Originally inspired by eclectic, thrift shop Bohemia, Dolce & Gabbana's deeply coloured, animal prints have been described as "haute hippydom" taking inspiration in particular from Italy's prestigious film history. "When we design it's like a movie," says Domenico Dolce. "We think of a story and we design the clothes to go with it." They claim to be more concerned about creating the best, most flattering clothes than sparking trends, once admitting that they wouldn't mind if their only contribution to fashion history was a black bra. D&G trademarks include underwear-as-outerwear (such as corsets and bra fastenings), gangster boss pinstripe suits, extravagantly printed and embroidered coats, and black. Meanwhile their fetish-meets-femininity collections are always backed by powerful ad campaigns, like the black-and-white La Sicilia, featuring model Marpessa photographed by Ferdinando Scianna in 1987. But fundamentally they are known for making women look, quite simply, devastatingly sexy. "They find their way out of any black dress, any buttoned-up blouse," says Rossellini. "The first piece of theirs I wore was a white shirt, very chaste, but cut to make my breasts look as if they were bursting out of it." Once dubbed the "Gilbert and George of Italian fashion", Dolce and Gabbana gave their fashion interests a musical turn in 1996, by recording their own single, in which they intoned the words "D&G is love" over a techno beat. Newer to the design game than other heavyweight Italian fashion houses such as Versace and Armani, the pair acknowledge that luck has played its part in their phenomenal success. By 1997, their company reported a turnover of £400 million, prompting both designers to announce that they planned to retire by the age of 40 - a promise they happily did not keep.

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Fashion Show Schedule 2012

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You can visit the fashion show, and see the new styles


if you from New York

NYFW Live Stream Schedule, 2012

Yep, it’s almost here: New York Fashion Week Spring 2013. By which we mean it’s now fall 2012. Or almost fall. Wow, this is confusing.


If you from London :

London Collections: Men, Live Streams Begin June 15, 2012

Let's see the new colection of london fashion! 

If you from Paris :

Julien Fournier Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week Fall Winter 2012

come and see the new colletion of Julien Fournier, fall winter! and you can get a new inspiration for your new winter styles... Don't Miss It guyssss... whoooppp

If you from LA :

First up: Project Ethos on March 13, 2011.

Live streaming runway is no longer the “future” of fashion weeks around the world: it’s the present.From New York to London to Milan, runway events once only open to industry insiders are now available for a world audience

COCO CHANNEL

COCO CHANEL

Chanel S.A is the French house of high fashion that specializes in haute couture and ready-to-wear clothes,luxury goods, and fashion accessories. In her youth, the couturière Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel gained the soubriquet “Coco” while achanteuse de café in provincial France. As a fashion designer, Coco Chanel catered to women’s taste for elegance in dress, with blouses and suits, trousers and dresses, and jewellry (gemstone and bijouterie) of simple design, that replaced the opulent, over-designed, and constrictive clothes and accessories of 19th-century fashion. Historically, the House of Chanel is most famous for the stylistically versatile “little black dress”, the perfume No. 5 de Chanel and the Chanel Suit.

As a business enterprise, Chanel S.A. is a privately held company owned by Alain Wertheimer and Gerard Wertheimer, grandsons ofPierre Wertheimer, an early business partner of Coco Chanel. Commercially, the brands of the House of Chanel have been personified by fashion models and actresses, by women such as Inès de la Fressange, Catherine Deneuve, Carole Bouquet, Vanessa Paradis,Nicole Kidman, Anna Mouglalis, Lucía Hiriart, Audrey Tautou, Keira Knightley and Marilyn Monroe, who epitomise the independent, self-confident Chanel Girl.

HISTORY

The House of Chanel (Chanel S.A.) originated in 1909, when Gabrielle Chanel opened a millinery shop at 160 Boulevard Malesherbes. She started on the ground floor below the flat of socialite and textile businessman Étienne Balsan, as his mistress. Because the Balsan flat was a salon for the French hunting and sporting élite, Chanel had opportunity to meet their fashion-conscious demi-mondaine mistresses, upon whom the rich men displayed their wealth. Chanel sold them the hats she designed and made and earned an independent living. Chanel befriended English socialite and polo player Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel; per the upper classsocial custom, Chanel became his mistress. Capel noticed her business acumen and in 1910 financed her first independent shop, Chanel Modes, at 21 rue Cambon, Paris. Because that address already housed a dress shop, her lease limited her to millinery rather than couture. Two years later, in 1913, she opened shops inDeauville and Biarritz, offering ready to wear sports clothes for women.

The economic imperatives of World War I (1914–18) affected European fashionthrough material scarcity and the socio-economic mobilisation of women. Besides active military service, the need for increased production of coal made men scarce in factories and fields, where they were replaced by women. Clothes makers had to produce practical and protective garments that would allow women the physical freedom required to do this work. By that time, Chanel had opened a large dress shop at 31 rue Cambon, near the Hôtel Ritz; among her offerings were flannelblazers, straight-line skirts of linen, sailor blouses, long sweaters made of jersey fabric and skirt-and-jacket suits. Jersey's practicality, low cost and other qualities such as its "drape" — how it falls on and away from the body — made it a popular choice. Some of Chanel’s designs derived from military uniforms. By 1915, her designs were known throughout France.

In 1915 and in 1917, Harper’s Bazaar magazine reported that the garments of the House of Chanel were “on the list of every buyer” for the clothing merchants of Europe. The Chanel dress shop presented day-wear dress-and-coat ensembles, black evening dresses trimmed with lace and tulle-fabric dresses decorated with jet, a minor gemstone. The high-quality confection (design, construction and finish) of these clothes established the professional reputation of Coco Chanel as a meticulous couturière. After the war, the House of Chanel produced beaded dresses for the Flapper woman. By 1920 Chanel had designed and presented a woman’s suit of clothes — composed of two or three pieces — which allowed the wearer to have a modern feminine appearance, while being comfortable and practical. Advocated as the “new uniform for afternoon and evening”, the ensemble became known as the Chanel Suit. In 1923, to explain the success of her clothes, Coco Chanel told Harper’s Bazaarmagazine that design “simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

In 1921, to complement her suits, Coco Chanel commissioned perfumer Ernest Beaux to create a perfume for the House of Chanel, and he produced several échantillons, including the perfume No.5, named after the number of the sample Chanel liked best. Originally, a flaçon of No. 5 de Chanel was given as a gift to her regular clients. The perfume's popularity prompted her to begin selling it in 1922. No. 5 quickly became Chanel's signature fragrance.

Massimo Dutti

MASSIMO DUTTI

Massimo Dutti (Spanish: [ˈmasimo ˈðuti]) is a company belonging to the Spanish Inditex group dedicated to the manufacturing ofclothing. It was created in 1985 and its product range was limited to men's clothing.

In 1991 Inditex acquired 65% of the shares of the company before acquiring it fully. The company has diversified its supply and offers clothes for women and children, as well as perfumes. It has around 542 stores in more than 45 countries.

The offices of Massimo Dutti are located in Barcelona, Spain, unlike Inditex which is located in Arteixo, Galicia, Spain.

Massimo Dutti fragances are marketed by Puig Company.