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A Stellar Front Row Expected at Jill Stuart

Posted by Edgardo Hernandez @ 10:22 pm August 28, 2008
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NEW YORK, Aug 28, 2008 / FW/ — Autumn Reeser, Heather Graham, Jessica Szhor, Zoe Saldana are among the Hollywood A-listers and New York’s elite expected at Jill Stuart’s catwalk presentation on Monday, September 8 at 12:00 noon at the New York Public Library.

A native New Yorker, Jill Stuart is known for her fun and sexy looks that puts sensuality front and center. For Spring 2009, celebrity make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury, will be behind the scenes creating unforgettable looks.

With the models’ hairstyles created by Bob Recine and runway styling by Joanne Blades, the Spring 2009 Jill Stuart collection promises to be memorable.

JILL STUART Spring 2009
Monday, Sep 8, 2008, 12:00 NN
Astor Hall at the New York Public Library
11 West 40th Street between 5th & 6th
New York, NY

[EDGARDO HERNANDEZ]

Photo courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

Givenchy’s Fashion Moment with Madonna is truly Sticky & Sweet

Posted by Mari Davis @ 11:04 am August 26, 2008
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DALLAS, Aug 26, 2008 / FW/ — As announced early this month, Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci is dressing Madonna for her world tour, ‘Sticky & Sweet’. And in this fashion moment, as the title of the tour implies, it will sweetly stick into our minds for a very long time.

First, this is Madonna’s first tour since turning 50. The perennial pop star has done it again - reinvent herself at her half-century mark. In the entertainment business, for a woman, getting old is the biggest sin one can commit. Madonna proved that at 50, she is still bankable and still the reigning queen of pop.

Sporting a lean and toned body that even an Olympian will envy, Madonna sang her greatest hits and also new songs from her latest album. With 40,000 fans screaming in Cardiff, Madonna performed on stage wearing a one-piece sequined outfit in black by Riccardo Tisci, Creative Director of Givenchy.

The music and high fashion shown alone would have made this performance memorable. But, this is Madonna, the ultimate showman and also who can generate controversy by just batting an eyelash.

Because this is an election year, John McCain and Barack Obama took center stage with the American performer. While performing the song ‘Get Stupid,’ Madonna took a swipe at McCain as the senator’s photo was flashed alongside images of destruction and global warming as well as Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe.

Towards the end of the song, photos of John Lennon, Al Gore, and McCain’s Democrat rival Barack Obama appeared. Now we know whom Madonna will vote for if she is still a registered voter in the U.S.

Photos by Kevin Mazur for Givenchy

: Women Dancers - Blouses in stretch satin and silk Jersey

: Waistcoat in black stretch satin Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci.

: Frock coat in black stretch satin, trimmed with pleated black silk organza embroidered with jet beads.

: Long hooded cape in black silk taffeta, lined in fuchsia silk taffeta and embroidered with jet stones.

: Dress in black stretch chiffon

Jakarta Fashion Week: Cocktail Catwalk

Posted by Mari Davis @ 9:19 pm August 23, 2008
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JAKARTA, Aug 23, 2008 / FW/ — Seeing cocktail dresses as a separate category from eveningwear at Jakarta Fashion Week actually took me by surprise. First and foremost, as a fashion journo, I’m more used to the name of the designer on the calendar, not the ‘type of clothing’ as in eveningwear, ethnic, modern or in this case cocktail dresses.

So, with a catwalk dedicated to eveningwear, seeing one specifically for cocktail dresses was unexpected. Yes, gowns and cocktail dresses are very different from each other, though it can also be said that there is an overlap.

A cocktail dress or cocktail gown is a woman’s dress worn at cocktail parties, and semi-formal occasions, with the length varying form just above the knee to touching the ankle. Though traditionally a cocktail dress is defined by its length but since the 1980s, any dress can be considered a cocktail dress because of its level of sumptuousness.

Hence, to see Lenny Agustin, Jazzy Pasay, Oka Diputa, Rebecca Ing and Gregorius Vici interpret the cocktail dress was actually refreshing.

And just for a little bit of history, the ‘cocktail dress’ was actually ‘invented’ during the 20th century. There are two different claims on who invented, the English or the Americans.

Although many believe the inventor of the cocktail party to be Alec Waugh of London, who in 1924 found a need for this pleasant interlude before a dinner party, an article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press that ran in May 1917 credits Mrs. Julius S. Walsh Jr. of St. Louis, Missouri.

Mrs. Walsh invited 50 guests to her house on a Sunday at high noon for a one-hour affair. “The party scored an instant hit,” the St. Paul Pioneer Press declared. And within a matter of weeks, cocktail parties became “a St. Louis institution”.

So, what does this little history lesson add to the review of the dresses? Nothing really. It just makes the cocktail dress surprise less surprising, redundancy not intended.

Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/image.net