Fashion Salad

Hey our friends at the Ryde have launched a new blog…  http://blog.theryde.com/

Ricky from The Ryde dropped us a quick note to let us know that they now have a blog of their own where they’re going to be showing what’s going on at The Ryde and giving daily discounts on their tees.

 

For Duran Duran fans, here’s a bit of fashion news…

Model Yasmin Le Bon has been made the face one of the UK’s biggest department chains, House of Fraser. marking the first time that the department store chain has used a celebrity in its advertising.

Le Bon will appear in the retailer’s spring/summer campaign, which has been created by Hooper Galton and breaks on March 5. The glossy ads will headline her with witty bits such as:

"I only came out for lipstick."; "My favourite place in the world? My wardrobe"; "When the world is flat, I’ll buy sensible shoes."

Matt Chambers, brand director at House of Fraser, says: "Yasmin Le Bon is one of the pre-eminent models of recent times, and the campaign taps into both her fashion credibility and timeless elegance."

Source: Marketing Week

Check out W magazine’s Oscar Red Carpet TOP TEN list, naming the top ten best fashion looks from Sunday’s glamorous red carpet.

Top three best dressed include:

1.)    Heidi Klum in John Galliano Haute Couture

2.)   Cameron Diaz

3.)   Cate Blanchett

You can vote for your favorite look. And the other thing I like is the insider dish at Fashion Market Director Treena Lombardo’s Blog Entry on “The Good, The Bad and The…” naming the best and worst dressed from last night’s Oscars - http://www.wmagazine.com/w/blogs/editorsblog

Image: Source

Shu Uemura, the Japanese makeup artist who won acclaim in Hollywood and built an international cosmetics brand under his name, has died. He was 79.

Uemura, who gained acclaim working with actress Shirley MacLaine on the 1962 Hollywood film "My Geisha," died of pneumonia in Tokyo on Dec. 29, according to a statement released Tuesday by his company, also called Shu Uemura. Its products were mentioned in the more recent film "The Devil Wears Prada."

Twiggy would be jealous of the selection of false eyelashes in the Tokyo Eyelash Bar collection, coming in voluptuous lengths, colors and sparkling crystals — or the diamond version that Uemura created for Madonna.

Shu Uemura has stores in New York, Paris, London and Hong Kong, was acquired by French cosmetics maker L’Oreal SA in 2004.

- Hiroko Tabuchi APWriter

This year celebrates a whole lot of couture milestone birthdays. Get out the candles for the fashion houses and boutiques we covet.

* Christian Dior turns 60
* Coach is 55
* Colette in Paris rounds 10
* Holt Renfrew reigns at 170
* Jean Paul Gaultier is 30
* Pucci goes 60
* Ralph Lauren is a young 40
* And Valentino dawns 45 Image: Pucci

W magazine announces the first ever I-List in its October issue naming the most influential people and places shaping today’s fashion and style. The list includes actors Scarlett Johansson and Anne Hathaway, digital innovator Steve Jobs, designers Tory Burch and Vera Wang, and musicians Justin Timberlake and Timbaland.

W magazine’s complete I-List follows:

Throwing Curves - Scarlett Johansson: for maintaining her bombshell proportions that set her apart from her cookie-cutter contemporaries

The Anti-Lindsay - Anna Hathaway: for emerging as a wholesome, elegant young role model and living a radically alternative lifestyle by modern Hollywood standards

It Guru - Steve Jobs: for creating the most desirable accessory, the i-Pod, as no it-bag out there has come close to achieving its cultural resonance 

Social Star - Tory Burch: for parlaying her well-heeled image into a serious business that is immune to extracurricular publicity

Pop Rocks - Justin Timberlake: for evolving from a pretty-faced boy-bander into a superstar who can do no wrong wearing classic suits, a tie and sneakers

Beats Ahead – Timbaland: for being ahead of the curve with his fashion sense and working syncopated magic on everyone from Bjork to Madonna 

High-Low Queen - Vera Wang: for being the first designer to ink an ongoing deal with Kohl’s to carry her new label, Simply Vera Vera Wang, for budget conscious consumers

Revolving Door - Lily Allen, the Misshapes, Amy Winehouse and Kate Nash: for being famous for a mere nanosecond each and influencing fashion for about 5 minutes

Top Gun - Mickey Drexler: for bringing J. Crew to the top with his passion, gut instinct and strong day-to-day presence

Partners in Power - Marc Jacobs & Robert Duffy: for bringing Marc Jacobs brand to the top despite major obstacles including failed financial backing and Jacob’s battle with substance abuse

Net Effect - Natalie Massenet: for creating the luxury shopping site Net-a-porter.com where women can have whatever they want overnight 

Forever Chic - The Seventies: for providing the legacy of narrow silhouettes and goddess gowns that remain wearable today

Mass Marketing - The Oscars: for increasing designer-brand awareness exponentially around the globe

Green Goddess - Linda Loudermilk: for pioneering the concept of environmentally conscious fashion
Celluloid Style - Wes Anderson: for being the writer-director who depicts his curious vision through
meticulously stylized worlds including Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums

Franco Fabulous - Nicolas Ghesquiere: for turning Balenciaga from a sleepy couture name into an electrifying luxury brand for the modern age

New Romantics - Kate & Laura Mulleavy: for successfully launching the romantic Rodarte collection rather than following the safety-first business strategy of designing commercial sportswear

London Calling - Giles Deacon: for building a flourishing London-based fashion business in a country without the money or manufacturing facilities to help nurture it

Doctor Beautiful - Patricia Wexler: for managing to stay a few steps ahead of every doctor in New York while wearing four-inch Yves Saint Laurent platforms

Smilemakers - Lituchy & Lowenberg: for crafting the beautiful and natural looking smiles of such beauties as Heidi Klum and Gisele Bundchen 

Hair and Now - Orlando Pita: for being the hair genius sans-attitude that sets the standard

Eastern Bloc Party - Grace Models: for finding the next generation of super models who have stampeded out of Eastern Europe and onto fashion runways

Legally Chic - Elizabeth Q. Pearce: for being the attorney who oversees countless negotiations with top brands including Chloe, Derek Lam and Tod’s

Indie-Spirit - Dries Van Noten: for building his self-financed brand completely on his own terms

Cleansing Lady - Jill Pettijohn: for introducing the trend of body cleansing - drinking little and eating nothing - among the chic and famous

Hats On - Stephen Jones: for designing and creating innovative one-of-a kind hats for top designers including Dior and Giles Deacon

Group Effort - Glastonbury Festival: for being the festival that clings to nothing else but music

The New Nouveaux – Russia: for its wealth and the explosive long-dormant acquisitiveness of its nouveau-riche population Source & Image [W Magazine]

Style Sherlocks sniff out clues.

In this week’s New York magazine, on newsstands today, assistant editor Emma Rosenblum investigates the identity of the anonymous fashionista who’s been blogging as “View From the Fourth Row”. The blogger’s sniping tone—she maintains that Vogue’s Anna Wintour has “the worst shoe taste,” likens Harper’s Bazaar editor Glenda Bailey to an “oompa-loompa,” and keeps a running tally of which editors are “victim/poseurs” (including W’s Alex White)—has caused a certain amount of consternation in that clubby world as well as a lot of finger-pointing as to whom she really is.

The latest top suspect, according to these style sleuths, is Cosmopolitan’s fashion director, Michelle McCool, who also has a Cosmo-sanctioned blog called Fun Fearless Fashion (which went up in September, about a month after Fourth Row’s debut). She emphatically denies it.

The full item is available online at: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/29456/.

"The Agency," the new VH1 reality series premiering this week. VH1 goes inside The Wilhelmina Modeling Agency to reveal the pressures behind the posting. The verdict isn’t in on the show yet, but here’s a little insight as to what it’s all about.

The Agency infiltrates the modeling industry like no other television series has, with a stark look at the men and women who search for, mold, scold and comfort raw, young hopefuls. All in an effort to groom the world’s most marketable beautiful people. "The Agency" is not about glamour.

Taking a rare look at client meetings, casting calls, and backstage at fashion shows, "The Agency" casts an unblinking eye on the super-high-stress jobs of the people who are completely hooked on the business of brokering beauty.

Visit the Official Site

DC Fashion Week, a partnership of independent fashion designers, producers and models, continues its explosive growth as Washington ’s premier apparel exhibition. The weeklong event begins February 28 at multiple venues throughout the nation’s capital.

Washington, DC (PRWEB)  — DC Fashion Week, a partnership of independent fashion designers, producers and models, continues its explosive growth as Washington ’s premier apparel exhibition. The weeklong event begins February 28 at multiple venues throughout the nation’s capital.

Attractions newly added this year include a Menswear Collection Show and a special emphasis on up-and-coming designers from around the world, which will have the opportunity to showcase their styles alongside established names such as Bachrach, Sean John and Betsey-Johnson. "It is especially exciting to introduce the world to new designers from Ghana and other countries," says Ean Williams, executive director of DC Fashion Week. "Visitors to this year’s show will have a chance to view clothing and designs that have never been seen by American audiences before. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event." The Menswear Collection Show was added this year because DCFW continues its explosive growth as the nation’s capitol’s premier apparel trade exhibitor.

A partnership of independent fashion designers, producers and models, DCFASHIONWEEK creates increased economic development in the area of fashion design, clothing merchandising and modeling as well as enhances the visibility of the nation’s capital as a center of international fashion. DC Fashion Week is held twice a year (February/September) and draws thousand of patrons to its shows. The complete show schedule is available on the company’s website www.dcfashionweek.org.

Paris couture may be reserved for a handful of wealthy clients, but Giorgio Armani on Wednesday gave the whole world a glimpse of his exclusive creations by becoming the first designer to broadcast an haute couture collection live on the Internet.

"Now through the democracy of the Internet, we can provide a front row seat for everyone,'’ the 72-year-old Italian said in a statement.

The Armani Prive display capped a week of extravagant catwalk shows, signaling the start of a frenzied campaign by top fashion houses to dress Hollywood stars for the Oscars.

[via Guardian Unlimited]

A truck full of shoes were stolen enroute to this week’s Golden Globe awards. A total of 120 pairs of Taryn Rose footwear worth $50,000 were taken.

Luckily some of the bigger starlets, such as actress Felicity Huffman and Cate Blanchett, had already collected their shoes in advance. But many others were left to find last-minute replacements.

Dr. Taryn Rose changed the footwear industry in 1998 by creating a line of luxury shoes that are as fashionable as they are functional. It looks like many stars’ toes will have to wait for another time to feel glam & cushy!

Source: Post Chronicle 

Fashion Salad is proud to be associated with Apparel Search – only the fashion bible to anything and everything to do with the fashion industry (from models to textiles suppliers).

And now Apparel Search has launched three online job sites that are free to the apparel marketplace. Both www.ClothingIndustryJobs.com and www.fashionjobsearch.com offers descriptions and links to a diverse range of open positions, from executive sales roles to manufacturing and design jobs.

The third site, www.DesignerSearch.com facilitates connections between fashion and textile industry artists, designers, and design studios. Designers can post their portfolios and employers can use search tools to find artists and designers. Freelance bonus! potential employers can contact project seekers without seeing the artist’s full contact information.

If Britney could keep her music career on the same path her fashion sense has taken her she would be just fine. Instead, its her inability to dress (sometimes literally) that has put her at the top of Blackwell’s Worst Dressed Women in 2006. For Spears this is the 2nd year in a row atop the dubious chart.

Lucky for Britney she has company, celebutante Paris Hilton wasn’t content with her sixth place finish last year and did something about it. Or maybe she did nothing about it and that’s why she joins Brtiney Spears as  co-worst dressed women leading Blackwell to dub the pair “screamgirls.”

Blackwell went on to describe them as “style-free and fashion deprived – two peas in an over-exposed pod.”

Cammila Parker-Bowles found herself in the number two slot on the list. The Brit hasn’t won over many fans of the feathered hats she dons. Lindsay Lohan was labeled as “tragically trapped in fashion’s fast lane” and sped her way up the charts to number three.

Richard Blackwell has published his ten-worst dressed women list since 1960, and it has gained cult like status amongst the media. Blackwell was a fashion designer into the sixties.

Blackwell’s worst-dressed women of 2006 are:

 1) Britney Spears/Paris Hilton
 2) Camilla Parker-Bowles
 3) Lindsay Lohan
 4) Christina Aguilera
 5) Mariah Carey
 6) Paula Abdul
 7) Sharon Stone
 8) Tori Spelling
 9) Sandra Oh
10) Meryl Streep

[via Transworld News] Image: Source

Guess? has announced new roles for Maurice and Paul Marciano as the Company continues its global expansion. Effective immediately, Maurice Marciano will transition from his position as Co-Chairman of the Board and Co-Chief Executive Officer to the position of Chairman of the Board, and Paul Marciano will transition from his current position as Co-Chairman of the Board and Co-Chief Executive Officer to the role of Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer.

Commenting on the new roles and responsibilities, Maurice Marciano said, "Paul and I have worked together as partners for more than 30 years, and we have leveraged one another’s strengths as we built Guess? from a small denim company to the global lifestyle brand the Company represents today, with annual revenues in excess of $1.1 billion. In my new role, I plan to continue to be actively involved in driving the Company’s strategic vision…."

Mssrs. Marciano have served in the capacity of Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs since 1999. At the time of the Company’s initial public offering in 1996, Maurice Marciano served as Chairman and CEO while Paul Marciano served as President. Both have held executive positions with Guess? since 1981.

Guess?, Inc. designs, markets, distributes and licenses a lifestyle collection of contemporary apparel, accessories and related consumer products. At December 31, 2006 the Company operated 336 retail stores in the United States and Canada. The Company also distributes its products through better department and specialty stores around the world. For more information about the Company, please visit http://www.guessinc.com/.

[Via PRNewswire]