by editor | Mar 26, 2012 | Lifestyle
Giuliano Fujiwara –
FW12-13 Man
14 Mar 12
The FW12 Giuliano Fujiwara collection continues the brand’s quest to push the boundaries of innovative and refined tailoring, grounded by its streetwear edge.
Creative director Masataka Matsumura, has been inspired by the heavy-duty outerwear of Canada and the Inuits; the enveloping, slightly oversized silhouettes, the mixed natural and technical fabrications, the underlying connotations of outdoor workwear, and a great considerstion of practicality, layering and warmth have shaped a diverse fall-winter collection for the urban Fujiwara man.
Key wardrobe pieces are offered, classic styles with the Fujiwara twist from fur-trimmed technical sport parkas, elegant coats with velvet and shearling collars, technical wool jackets with leather workwear patches, to dynamic leather blousons with drop-out plaid wool linings, wearable as a seperate piece. Check shirts, and melange heavy gauge argyle knitwear provide the perfect vintgae-inspired underpinnings. Trousers shapes are modern- from cropped, wide to tapered styles and elasticated details for comfort. Signature Fujiwara finishing is visible though out, with raw wool edges, clean cut lines and discreet fastenings.
Accessories are utilitarian, classic work-boots, brogues and sneakers take an eccentric twist- offered in mixed fabrications and colourways- primarily robust nobuk leather and sturdy rubber soles. Whilst bags have multiple straps for different carrying methods, again mixing leathers and technical fabrics.
The colour palette has been driven by the natural colours of the Inuit attire, the beige, camel and brown alongside the male wardrobe classics like blue, grey and black. Shots of dusty yellow, petrol blue and red come into play, providing a modern, graphic contrast.
Web: www.giulianofujiwara.com
by editor | Mar 26, 2012 | Lifestyle
Fashion Journalist And
TV Presenter Emma Smith
Launches Your Style Fix
15 Mar 12
Fashion blog for real women launches. Your Style Fix will report back the latest trend reports, celebrity style, fashion news, tips and advice as well as pregnancy fashion.
Fashion journalist Emma Smith has launched her exciting online magazine and fashion blog Your Style Fix.
The site’s strapline is ‘Taking trends from the catwalk and bringing them to life for the real woman’ and it provides a platform from which followers can keep up to date with the latest trends, celebrity style, fashion news, tips and advice.
She says: “My blog is all about bringing beautiful timeless designs to real women.”
As well as providing the latest trend reports, celebrity style, fashion news, tips and advice Emma’s blog will also cover pregnancy fashion as she is expecting baby number two in the autumn.
A regular on the front row , Emma has a degree in fashion journalism and extensive experience as a presenter (Fashot TV, BBC, Heat! Radio) and as a fashion journalist (she is the fashion editor for London glossy Close Up) and is very excited about this new venture.
She says: “As a busy working mother I understand that at all stages in their lives it’s important for women to feel good about themselves and fashion can provide that. My blog is a natural extension of my passion for fashion and I am looking forward to inspiring women to interpret the catwalk trends.”
www.yourstylefix.com
Contact:
Chloe Goddard
[email protected]
by editor | Mar 25, 2012 | Lifestyle
THE BODY SHOP LAUNCHES
A NEW BEAUTY MOVEMENT:
BEAUTY WITH HEART
Lily Cole to act as first global Brand Advocate for pioneering beauty brand
London, 22nd March. The Body Shop, one of the 21st Century’s most iconic and pioneering Brands, today launched a new beauty movement – called Beauty With Heart – that will inspire individuals everywhere and transform the boundaries of beauty.
Beauty With Heart places emphasis on a beauty experience that is more than skin-deep, putting a human stamp on beauty and empowering people the world over to Look Good, Feel Good And Do Good.
Beauty With Heart will spring to life through a new store experience called Pulse, as well as through the active support of the first global Brand Advocate for The Body Shop, Lily Cole.
Activist, model and actor Lily Cole is the embodiment of the Brand’s strong Values and the first of a community of inspiring young activists.
Sophie Gasperment, Executive Chairman, The Body Shop, said: “We know that our Brand delivers more than beauty; our products truly contain heart as well. Today, we’re looking to a future where our vision of beauty can be experienced by new generations for whom it is all about looking good, feeling good and doing good, too.”
Lily Cole, global Brand Advocate for The Body Shop, said: “I have long been an advocate of the potential of using business and consumer power to cause positive change. The Body Shop takes a responsible attitude to people and the environment, and it feels amazing to be supporting a brand who are pioneers in that way of working.”
by editor | Mar 25, 2012 | Lifestyle
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Regatta – A walk through our history
With over 80 years and 3 generations experience in making high quality waterproofs, the Black family established the Regatta Brand in 1981 and has developed it into the UK’s largest supplier of outdoor and leisure clothing and a leading player in the European market.
Regatta caters for the whole family. Its ranges cover everything from high performance outdoor wear under the X-ert label to easy-to-wear everyday outdoor clothing in its Outdoor Classics and Heritage ranges. Regatta completes the outdoor offering with an excellent range of footwear, rucksacks and accessories.
by editor | Mar 25, 2012 | Lifestyle
Imagination is Everything
Three-year-old Jonathon is gifted. And precocious. I’m told that when his parents took him to a restaurant, he ordered a grilled cheese sandwich. “Jonathon, I’m sorry, we don’t serve grilled cheese sandwiches,” the server replied.
He asked playfully, “You have a grill, don’t you?”
She answered, “Yes.”
He continued, “You have cheese, don’t you?”
“Yes, we do.”
“You have bread, don’t you?”
“Yes.
“Well,” he said, “I’ll have a grilled cheese sandwich.”
Three years old. (You may think his parents should have taught him better manners, but please don’t let that keep you from seeing the marvel of this small child’s imagination.)
The smiling server returned after checking with the chef and told the boy they would be happy to fix him the sandwich. “But I forgot to ask you what you want to drink,” she said.
“I’ll have a milkshake, please.”
“I’m sorry, Jonathon, but we don’t serve milkshakes,” she answered. But this time she was ready for him. “Now, it is true we have milk. And it is true we have ice cream. But we don’t have syrup,” she explained.
He laughed. “You have a car, don’t you?”
There’s always a solution. Whatever other intellectual gifts Jonathon seems to have, the trait that may serve him best is imagination. He has the valuable ability to imagine a solution to whatever problem comes his way.
Albert Einstein famously said, “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” In other words, what we can see in our imagination today we may experience in life tomorrow. He also said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” He knew that we humans are limited by how much we can learn, but we are never limited by how much we can imagine.
I have come to realize that I am held back far more by my lack of imagination than by my circumstances. When I believe nothing can be done, I search for a way OUT of the difficulty when I OUGHT to be searching for solutions. How can I change anything when I’m looking for a way out? When I perceive my situation as impossible, I resign myself to that fate and give up.
But WHAT IF I were to look at it differently? WHAT IF I approached it in a different way? WHAT IF a creative answer could actually be found? I often settle for less when I should be asking myself powerful questions that begin with the words “what if. . .”
Some two hundred years ago a class of noisy boys in a German primary school was assigned a task to keep them busy. They were instructed to add up all the numbers from 1 to 100. The children settled down, scribbling busily on their slates — all but one. This boy looked off into space for a few moments, then wrote something on his slate and turned it in. His was the only right answer. When the amazed teacher asked how he did it, he said he wondered if there might be some shortcut. He went on to say, “I found one: 100 plus one is 101; 99 plus two is 101; 98 plus three is 101, and, if I continued the series all the way to 51 plus 50, I have 101 fifty times, which is 5,050.”
The teacher decided then that this child needed special tutoring. The boy was Karl Friedrich Gauss, and he became a great mathematician of the 19th century.
Gauss solved his problem when he asked himself the question, “What if there is a shortcut?” Two of the most powerful words I know are “what if.”
The solution to my problem, the way through a dilemma or the beginning of that next creative change in my life almost always starts when I decide that I am NOT locked in. “What if” questions release my imagination so I can better see what was hidden.
Imagination is everything. And what if I were to use the words “what if” more often? I can only imagine what might happen.
– Steve Goodier
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