Photographer Leigh Keily – Make-up Anna Bourne – Model Lolita @FM agency – Styling: us

Sorry dear followers, I know I’ve been quite absent if not completely in the last weeks: right now I’m doing a short course in Fashion Styling at the Central Saint Martins, I’ll probably publish photos and stuff as soon as I can (which means in a while)… but I promise I’ll come back, and with more exciting stuff… so see you in a while, take care and above everything else, sorry for being such a bad commenter!

xx

Isy

p.s.: as for the images, it’s the editorial we styled at the CSM

p.p.s.: I ended up doing some crazy things in London, stay tuned for the ACNE opening pictures and much more…

Ok, I admit I would never have thought I would have considered a turban a fashion accessory one day (and not just the ultimate heroic attribute of Sandokan and this kind of kid figures).
I won’t argue about religious meaning because clearly, it isn’t the point… but the fact is that this trend is growing on me (yes I know, Prada created the buzz in 2007 and we are in 2010!). Not only because of its colorful quality (the first collage is rather kitsch, sorry) and exotic innuendo, but mainly because of its refinement. Maybe it’s always due to the ‘models’ (Catherine Baba especially), but I do think that turbans can give you a special touch. Grey perhaps, something like a minimalistic turn of a kitsch/exotic item! But let the images speak for themselves…

I know many will still be doubtful about this, but I bet turbans are going to be my summer favorite! (And even a winter favorite perhaps, how cool do they look with a coat?!) So now I’ll just have to learn how to wrap it…

Easy Rider is not only the movie of a generation (not mine unfortunately, even if it is truly immortal) but also a movie full of… fashion statements ! But even so, the designers always fail when they try to imitate this style: it’s not a style but a state of mind, a state of freedom! So just be inspired…

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Last season I tried to do a tiny ‘magazine‘ to show the main trends; this season I’m lazier so I just thought I’d do something which is really quite unoriginal because everyone’s doing it right now (remember How to get shot by the Sartorialist? by the Selby? are you happy? and my absolute favorite, So you need a typeface)… but anyway, tell me what you think about it, especially which questions I forgot to put in there!

p.s.: my most recent (superquick) collage… and a white wave.

The only things I did from the pictures above is to paint an old vintage bag and to transform a ring into an aluminum creation, and it really came out pretty cool. Other projects right now include paint my oxfords in IKB (the true Yves Klein one), do jewellery with military-badges, cut a vintage jean jacket to make a gilet and perhaps add some fur to it, make a Sprouse-like foulard, etc. etc. etc…. What about you?

160g HEAT WAVE ISSUE IS HERE !!

Run visit it, and find rossovelvet at ‘MODE NEWS’ !

…and the articles you may have missed:

Rick Owens bracelets IZIMA KAORU <3 Missoni FW10 Attila in… Prada YSL Mascara

P.S.: I love this Vogue Russia editorial; in fact it has so much in common with the collage above…

via fashiongonerogue

A for… Axl’ Rose

B for… best ( as in most stylish ) couple ever: Axl’ and Stephanie Seymour

C for… Carrés the Eighties way

D for… David Bowie

E for… Extraordinary shoes

F for… Fluorescent contrasts

G for… Green light

H for… Hairstyle (à la Alice Dellal)

I for… In Bruges

J for… Journey in the Death Valley

K for… Kate Lanphear

L for… London’s CSM

M for… ‘medical’ trend

N for… Nikita

O for… Oh my god the perfect dresses / gowns

P for… Pink (the Eighties one)

Q for… Quirky hair

R for… Red inglorious basterd

S for… Stephen Sprouse <3

T for… the Tee-shirt

U for… Unique tulle (shot) cakes

…

Go read 160grams magazine’s blog !

My recent articles: Châlet-girl trend, Heavenly Vaults, Prada Postcard sunglasses…

This was the Heidi-in-fashion idea…

p.s: it’s Wednesday, so let’s speak movies (it has been a while with fashion week & co)

‘Fashion’ is one of the reasons that make me think Rocky is a better boxing-movie than Raging Bull (it is also -my humble opinion- much more moving, less polished of course, but more true. But anyway. We all have our heroes, and Rocky is mine for sure).

But hey, it seems that Rocky is back on serious runways too ! From Philly to Paris?

Let’s take Rocky I quintessential style: you don’t need so many elements. Only:

-Grey sweaters, pullovers, trainings, everything. That’s the basic: two is a good number – a knitted one and a jersey one (for running and punching meat)

-Black Borsalino (fedora)… (+black beret)

-…combined with a (slightly) oversized leather jacket (very Wang)

-gloves & black Converse

-white Lonsdale shorts

-a bathrobe made of sponge

-…and then of course THE piece. The gold&rust red dressing gown (better with ‘Italian Stallion’ on it)

The boxing spirit on runways is DARKER than in Rocky: you will find red and black alone; the woman is dramatically gloved, hello leather and precious (!) fabrics.

p.p.s: I already wrote an article on (ex-)160g blog about this trend… but also take a look HERE: Lolita and myself always share our coups de coeur…

Vintage Balenciaga

…Thought I’d share some favorite ‘high vintage fashion moments’ of mine… what are yours then?

Mine are generally about eighties (in a Sprouse way), music bands… and yet also ‘classical’ designers… so which decade are you?