We are excited to announce our designer slate and our host Ali Landry for our UNITE Unveiled Fashion Show. Check out the invite for all of the details...
We were recently featured on Women's Wear Daily (WWD) for our new product launch as well as our partnership with Harrod's in London.
UNITE Unveiled Miami - We had an amazing turn out at the Shore Club in South Beach. Special thanks to all of the designers from including Whitney Port as well as our host Ken Paves for coming out to support UNITE! MTV "The City" dedicated an entire episode to our events in South Beach.
Whitney Port from MTV's "The City" showcasing one of her designs during UNITE Unveiled at the Shore Club, Miami.
Whitney Port and the cast of "The City".
UNITE stylists at the Gen Art Fresh Faces Show at the Miami Design Center.
UNITE at the "Fresh Faces in Fashion" in Miami.
Check out this video for a recap on LA Fashion Week. The photos can be found in the latest issue of LA Confidential.
Have a look at some of the photos taken during LA Fashion Week at Box 8 Studios. UNITE was responsible for all of the hair during the 3 day event & Dior handled the makeup. The full 16 pg. article can be found in the latest LA Confidential Magazine.
UNITE was proud to support our good friend Gordana from Project Runway at LA Fashion Week. Check out her runway show...
Project Ethos 12 - GOGA By Gordana from 99% Entertainment on Vimeo .
UNITE was a proud partner of LA Fashion Week along with Box Eight Studios and LA Confidential.
Whitney Port at the Gen Art Miami Fashion Show.
UNITE Unveiled Miami - We had an amazing turn out at the Shore Club in South Beach last night. Special thanks to all of the designers from Gen Art including Whitney Port as well as our host Ken Paves for coming out to support UNITE!
Whitney Port from MTV's "The City" showcasing one of her designs during UNITE Unveiled at the Shore Club, Miami.
Ken Paves on the red carpet prior to hosting UNITE Unveiled.
Whitney Port and the cast of "The City".
UNITE stylists at the Gen Art Fresh Faces Show at the Miami Design Center.
Our UNITE Stylists enjoyed being a part of several successful shows at NY Fashion Week.
Alexander McQueen
Our deepest symphathies are with the family and friends today of Alexander McQueen. He was a true genius in the fashion industry and will be GREATLY missed!
Hot Pants & Boy Shorts for Spring/Summer 2010
Many recent fashion trends have pointed to it, and given the popularity of the likes of lingerie as outerwear it should really come as no surprise. Yes, hem lines continually become shorter as time marches on, but Spring 2010 may be the first season where hem lines can be predominantly measured in negative figures.
Hot Pants:
Boy Shorts & Short Shorts
If hot pants don't take your fancy the consider boy shorts an alternative. Taking their inspiration from boy shorts knickers the cut is akin to hot pants, though differentiated by a featuring a hemline that doesn't curve up the body. Think of short shorts , just not in denim and without the rips, and you're on the money.
-Fashionising Written by Daniel P Dykes
Lady Gaga to headline yet another major Fashion Week Shindig...
Lady Gaga will be shaking up things again at this upcoming fashion week. The singer, who performed a memorable set at last season's Marc Jacobs/Visionaire party, will be taking the stage at amfAR's annual New York gala fund-raiser on Feb. 10 at Cipriani 42nd Street. Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep, Vanessa Redgrave, Carine Roitfeld, Diane von Furstenberg, and Donna Karan will also be in attendance.
Sir Elton John and David Furnish will be honored at the festivities, as will Louis Vuitton's chairman and chief executive officer Yves Carcelle. Rufus Wainwright will perform a portion of songs from his re-creation of the Judy Garland Carnegie Hall concert. -WWD
Dutch Design Coloring Dress
There are many things that remind us of childhood- hopscotch, summer, Peeps. But one oft forgotten arbiter of our youth is the paint-by-numbers drawing guide- for many their first introduction to the art world. These guides allowed you to re-create famous pictures and scenes, or choose your own color scheme to create something totally your own. It’s this DIY spirit which fuels the new pet project of fashion designer Berber Soepboer and graphic designer Michiel Schuurman, who have masterminded the world’s first Paint-By-Numbers dress, sold out of Schuurman’s Studio in The Netherlands.
The dress, which retails at 250 Euros a pop (and comes complete with your own nifty set of textile markers) is sold in a standard black and white template, which wearers can make-up to match an outfit, skin tone, or season. The creators of the dress hope this will encourage the wearer to let their inner muses free and flex some artistic muscle. -PSFK
Calvin Klein Shows Off in Seou
Calvin Klein last week brought its road show to South Korea, the brand’s most important market in Asia.
Women’s Collection creative director Francisco Costa, men’s wear designer Italo Zucchelli and Calvin Klein Inc. president and chief executive officer Tom Murry hosted a party Thursday night at the Kring Creative Culture Space to showcase the spring collections as well as special installations from artists Jean Shin and Neville Wakefield.
Zucchelli, who escorted the makeup-wearing members of Korean boy band 2PM into the venue, said he was impressed at how Korean men are “not afraid” when it comes to fashion. “They like to wear the special pieces,” he observed.
-WWD
Kristin Cavallari
Kristin proves that she has totally moved on from her Laguna Beach-bum look to being a more sophisticated Hills girl! She rocks this leather skirt and manages to look edgy, chic, and comfortable all at the same time! (Here she is pictured at UNITE Unveiled in Los Angeles, CA.) -SEVENTEEN
photo credit: Jordan Strauss/WireImage
KIM CATTRALL & MILEY CYRUS
Talk about a fashion faceoff! Cattrall and Cyrus glam it up in matching Matthew Williamson dresses and wrap-around Bebe boots topped with equally stunning statement necklaces by nOir Jewelry – a jeweled bib for Kim and a spiked collar for Miley – while filming Sex and the City 2 .
(Credit: Richie Buxo/Splash News Online)
Alexandar McQueen From the Paris Runway: Snake Pit
After a creepy film of slithering snakes kicked-off the show, serpent themes were in abundance at Alexander McQueen's spectacular runway presentation, which featured reptile shoes, clothing and elaborately braided hair. The inspiration for the towering 21-cm (8-inch) shoes with their pre-historic appearance was not fetish footwear but something entirely more feminine. A spokesperson at McQueen said the heels were "based on the visualization of a ballerina standing en pointe, even though models stood in a normal position." -WWD
Tom Ford to Launch Women's Line 'Very Soon'
TOKYO — Tom Ford is getting ready for his return to women’s wear — the only question now is when.
The designer, and now film director, finally acknowledged on the record he’s returning to the women’s arena and confirmed he and his longtime business partner and Tom Ford International chairman Domenico De Sole are on the hunt for financing.
“You know it will take me 18 months when I start, because [I have] to hire the team, find the factories, put everything together and then get the stores ready so there’s a place for these clothes,” said Ford as he sipped a Coke Zero to overcome his jet lag.
-WWD
Megan Fox & Armani
We are excited to be working behind the scenes of the new Armani campaign with Megan Fox.
We know that she is going to look stunning from top to bottom!
Photo by Courtesy Photo
Happy 7-0 Ralph Lauren
Designer Ralph Lauren is turning the big 7-0 today. Since he opened his first Polo necktie store in 1967, the man formerly known as Ralph Lifshitz has become iconic American designer with his famous short-sleeved collared shirts and classic women's suit. He's also made a bunch of friends along the way, from Anna Wintour to the Clintons to Lance Armstrong.
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Designer Ralph Lauren walks the runway the at Ralph Lauren Spring 2010 fashion show at Skylight on September 17, 2009 in New York City.
-Huffington Post
Louis Vuitton RTW Spring 2010
Marc Jacobs, one of fashion’s most fearless designers, who has made luxury wrapped in audacious signage his m.o. at Vuitton. “I think people love to show off,” Jacobs said recently. “No one I know is living such a private existence that they don’t want people to see that they’re carrying the newest bag or wearing the newest clothes. Even if they don’t want to admit it, there’s a kind of joy people get from the recognition.”
-Photo by Giovanni Giannoni
In the Vuitton collection he showed on Wednesday, Jacobs went for head-to-toe overstatement — literally, from Guido Palau’s brilliantly cartoonish Afros (each one five smaller wigs sewn together) to equally fanciful shoes — riffs on clogs, moccasins, fleecy slides and loafers — that hinted at comfort while flashing decorative hardware and flopping shearling tufts.
And yes, there were bags. Big, flashy, spectacular bags in leather, canvas and denim done up with tassels and tails and vibrant straps worn slung across the torso. Bags that probably already have waiting lists, because Vuitton live-streamed the show and Jacobs used the opportunity to flaunt the fabulous, love-to-show-it-off merch that keeps the Vuitton coffers brimming over. -WWD
Fall/Autumn 2009 Trend: Chunky Knits
While colour is often missing from the palette of fashion trends in the colder months, the same cannot be said for texture . As with the colder seasons of yesteryear, texture in the form of chunky knits will be a prevalent feature of Autumn 2009 / Fall 2009. However, as the world puts the economic down turn behind it, several fashion houses are banking on fashioniers being interested in taking their chunky knits to the level of an extreme sport: introducing super chunky knits .
-Written by Daniel P Dykes
THE BEST LOOKS FROM NEW YORK FASHION WEEK:
...and these are just a few of the favorite looks and trends that will define spring wardrobes in 2010
BCBG Maxazria Jason Wu
Marc Jacobs Rodarte
Oscar de la renta Vera Wang
Dkny Michael Kors
(photo credits: Dan and Corina Lecca)
Marchesa Spring 2010
Georgina Chapman leapt from ancient China to the lush exoticism of Madame Butterfly this time out, still taking her cues from the Far East yet showing even greater ambition in her craftsmanship. “I wanted to [capture] the real look of Japan, create layers and bits of origami,” Chapman said -WWD
Diane von Furstenberg RTW Spring 2010
Diane von Furstenberg 's global nomad bounced around the north African desert this season, making a sunset stop along the Nile River. Copper, gold, blue and green done with a dusty finish was the color scheme of her 2010 Spring Runway. The bounty of accessories on the runway were one-part Egyptian Queen (armfuls of woven bangles) and one part Greek Goddess (gold laurel wreaths), celebrating the free-spirited traveler that is Diane von Furstenberg.
-Excerpt by Coutorture; Photos by George Chinsee
Zac Posen Spring 2010
The clothes had the attitude of a partygoing good-time girl: a lot of fun and willing to make some questionable decisions. In a preview, Posen said he was designing with a “late-Seventies New York woman in mind.”
-By WWD
TAIANA DESIGN
Taiana Giefer is only 21 years old and a California native, but her edgy, felted merino wool textiles have already captured the attention of some influential fashion folk. All pieces are handmade by Taiana in the USA.
Looks from Francisco Costa’s fall Calvin Klein collection, made in collaboration with Taiana Giefer.
-Photos by Fernanda Calfat/Getty Images
2009 Fall Trends
We've seen BRIGHT PINK this spring and summer and it is here to stay for fall.
These were some of the hottest pink fashions walking down the runways.
(Clockwise from Top Left: Rebecca Taylor, Oscar de la Renta, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, Narciso Rodriguez, Marc Jacobs)
Chrisitan Dior Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2010
Photo By: Giovanni Giannoni
Hottest Trend in 2010: Thigh High Boots
Over-the-knee boots by Loewe, Hermes, Hussein Chalayan, and Louis Vuitton
-Fashionising By: Daniel P Dykes
Lovely Summer Look
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Style and technology come together with the Viktor & Rolf Paris Runway Show for Spring / Summer 2009. Featuring Shalom Harlow. Unbelievable!
