Hey gang, remember these memorable fashion and beauty moments from 2009?

Best Dressed
Michelle Obama. Her clothes are always First lady appropriate without looking dowdy. I especially love the way she accessorizes. I could open up an Etsy Store selling vintage jewellery and call it “Stuff Like Michelle Wears” and I would be rich, rich, rich!

Runner Up: Lady Gaga — Back in 2007, W wrote about young Stefani Germanotta making her own outfits out of lingerie and hardware store findings. She may have access to bigger names, but she still puts things together in an interesting way.

Fashion Trend of the Year
I gotta say, I love Canadiana. Why today I spotted not one but four Hudson’s Bay Point Blanket Coats (not including my own. I love Buffalo plaid and The Bay’s moosey curling sweaters.

Runner Up: Shoulders! From Rihanna’s spiky epaulettes to Beyoncé’s padded jackets, as long as we don’t go overboard with the linebacker look (like what happened in the 80s) i like to see some attention paid to the shoulder zone.

Best Accessory
Little purses. I don’t know if it’s a real reaction against women using gymbags as hand bags, or if this is a trend I’m just trying to will into existence. Let’s just keep repeating it until it becomes true.

Runner Up: Tom Binns Design. Tom Binns‘ stuff is not new, but I just loves his over-the-top assemblages (see photo above). To bring it back to 2009, Michelle Obama wore his Pearls in Peril necklace to the Governor’s Ball last February. What to expect in 2010: He’s been hired by Disney to design a line of bijoux inspired by Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice In Wonderland.

“now you can get your diamonds, emeralds and shit”

-tom binns

photos via style.com

This is SO LAST CENTURY in fashion time, but eff that.
I can’t believe I just came across this ingenious  designer.
His collection “Get REAL” debuted on March 7th 2009, went on sale @ COLETTE the next day.

ripped out of glossys, put together with panache, laminated, closed off with a safety pin, is TOM BINNS‘ wonderful new collection GET REAL. Hilarious, with a price tag of $125.

This is def going to be my craft project during the winter holidays.

Super fly Ms. JAZZI MCG has already done a  DIY

Creazioni di Tom Binns per Walt Disney Signature

Man mano che passano i mesi si delineano i contorni della collezione in edizione limitata che Tom Binns ha realizzato per la Walt Disney Signature, che si ispirano alla fiaba di Alice nel paese delle meraviglie. L’uscita dei pezzi è prevista per febbraio 2010 in contemporanea con il film Alice del regista Tim Burton (che al momento è in mostra al MoMA di New York).

Tom Binns è il primo di una serie di top designer e brand che collaborerà con la Disney per questo progetto. In attesa di sapere gli altri nomi, alcuni dettagli sulle collezioni di Binns. Ne sono previste due. Una couture in edizione limitata che si compone di 6 pezzi con prezzi che vanno dai 1000 ai 2000 dollari. Una più accessibile che si compone di 35 pezzi con prezzi dai 100 ai 500 dollari. I temi dei gioielli? Orecchini con il sorriso dello stregatto; braccialetti in resina e cristalli Swarovski con la regina di cuori; anelli a forma di serratura con immagini di Alice. Da vedere per dire se sono belli, ma l’idea è già vincente, e poi io adoro Alice, il bianconiglio, lo stregatto e sua maestade la regina di cuori, e sono contenta del loro momento di gloria.

Via | Glam Chic

so the three films i’m going to talk about are (in the order they are to be viewed, not in the order in which i love them):

in the mood for love

marie antoinette

wings of desire

these films are all favorites of mine, all time favorite favorites, best movies ever and i can’t pick which one would be my all time #1. it’s too hard. they have influenced how i think, feel, dress and view the world. i could do a full on blog for each one. the only way to settle it would be to have them fight for my favor but no matter who won i would be disappointed. sigh.

so instead i’m going to focus on the amazing fashion/style of each movie and talk about how to pick out an outfit from each one. now, this is an imaginary internet shopping outfit, i’ll list real prices but nothing is really affordable. i imagine the outfits i pick out to be like inspiration for you to go out and find your own at your local vintage shops and nordstrom racks.

i wish, sometimes, that this blog was one of those blogs where i am like a maria von trapp of  fashion and i can say “hey! remember that amazing white coat rachel weiss wore in the brothers bloom???? well, here is how to make it in a half hour with the fabric from your old sofa and six nickels”. but guys, i am just not that girl. so enjoy.

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

as i mentioned before, this is a movie that is seriously up for best movie ever award. it’s so beautiful and tragic with the most amazing costumes and music that it might melt you into the floor. it did me. hong kong 1960’s. hot, hot, hot tony leung. unrequited love that is so soft you can barely hear it but it’s deafening. is this another one of my quiet films? you betcha.

wong kar wai, i think, is all about the skin tight, crazy, crazy tight cheongsam. it’s what he puts all his ladies in and they all look amazing. if you are going to try this look, be sure to either have gone to the gym and dieted for at least two years before. like that all grapefruit diet. it was really hard to find cheongsam that didn’t look like bad prom night, but here it is a beautiful one clocking in at $129.99:

if you are looking for a gorgeous cheongsam of your own, please do not be deterred by the picture of paris hilton that instantly pops up when you google “cheongsam”. there are a lot of affordable ones and to achieve the full wong kar wai treatment, you’ll have to take it to be tailored. but you really can’t argue with those lines. they are beautiful. from here i’ll take you to proper accessories to give yourself the look of the heroine mrs. chan at the climax of the movie: stark reds and blacks.

stella mccartney red trench for $658. love those classic sharp lapels.

14k white gold and black pearl dangle earrings for $312

a black miu miu leather nappa shoulder bag for  $1,150

and dont’ forget your pumps! beautiful christian louboutin new decoltissimo 85 patent pumps for $565:if you want to go chan to the max, you’ll also need some silk stockings, a beehive and some killer black eyeliner. i suggest calvin klien for lingerie, mac for make up and some aqua net for hair (i used to have a roommate with a beehive and she swore by that stuff).

MARIE ANTOINETTE

so if you have been reading this blog for a bit you will know i am obsessed with sofia coppola’s marie antoinette. i have already talked a lot about how incredibly ornate yet quiet this film is. it’s really astonishing. and it is so, so beautiful and detailed. eating with your eyes, i call that. but i’ll shut up now and let you see for yourself, if you have not already.

now, all the blogs and magazine articles i checked out in prep for this blog in regards to marie antoinette inspired fashion, which seemed to peak around 2006 (but in my opinion is always in style) were all like “OMG! don’t over do it, pick ONE color you like or do ONE loud thing that is MA inspired and tone the rest down or you’ll look costume-y.” and you know what i say to that? FUCK THAT SHIT. i think if you’re going to pull together a marie antoinette inspired number you better look DECKED. it’s marie antoinette for crying out loud! i don’t want to see that you put on a jeweled cameo necklace over your black turtle neck because you were “inspired” by marie antoinette. no, no. if you are channeling the great MA, you better turn it out. that being said, i give you my marie antoinette outfit….waist up first:

first, pompadour your hair until it looks like candy floss.

then some tarina tarantino tulle flower clips scattered about in baby blue, clocking in at $70

pretty dangling pink earrings from betsy johnson for $41

next, a stack of fake pearls. necklaces, from top: pearl-and-chain necklace, $1488, pearl-and-safety-pin necklace, $963, tom binns; single-strand pearls, price upon request, mikimoto. stolen from marie claire, i think.

personal fave, the ostrich-feather vest, $3,275,  givenchy by riccardo tisci

underneath which will live this beautiful knit corset by ditu who only gives you prices and sizes on requests.

now waist down all valentino, poor you…

valentino red silk organza miniskirt for $495

then scare yourself up some baby blue tights and finally, finally, stuff your pretty manicured tootsies into…

these beauties are hot off the spring 2010 runway and i don’t have a price. i’m guessing they will cost you some kind of organ or access to your dna.

last step, powder your nose and rouge your cheeks. mac can help there (they don’t pay me to promote them so hard and i don’t work there, i swear, i just believe in the goodness of mac). and you have marie ala 2009. voila!

WINGS OF DESIRE

i feel like wim wenders, the director of wings of desire, would not be super happy to see his beloved ode to berlin end up on a blog that is mostly-ish about fashion but, whatever. this film isn’t especially fashion heavy like the other two but it is so beautiful, every word, every picture. it’s a love story to a city. it’s a love story to love. it’s a love story to life.

mostly black and white, it will occasionally blast into color and give you the greatest of shocks. “the world is such an amazing place!”,  you will think, “i didn’t know!”. set with adoration in the bleakness of berlin late 80’s (with a surprise nick cave guest spot! could this movie BE cooler?) it follows the story of an angel who becomes fascinated  by a circus performer, the etherial marion the acrobat. played beautifully by solveig dommartin. columbo is also in it. it’s amazing. there’s really no key outfit to this movie, just some fun bright circus colors, the colors of berlin and the graffiti and the architecture there. so i just had fun playing with what i thought marion would dress like.

it was hard to post something that didn’t look like porn off the american apparel website (which, sadly and gladly? i don’t know how i feel about that place, is where you go for 80’s inspired basic pieces) but i found this cute red turtle neck dress for $32…but remember when buying from AA always buy like 6 sizes bigger then you are. okay, enough with the AA frowning upon.

i loved this beautiful, exquisite burberry coat (can i get enough burberry coats? no i cannot) in purple over the red, having fun with my circus theme but not going too far. plus, marion wears trenches in the film. everyone wears trenches in the film. this coat is $1,084.

next we got some steve madden duffled boots with a fun fringe that isn’t too western for europe i don’t think clocking in at $159.90

finally, accessories. well, she’d need some sensible black stockings for that outfit because berlin is COLD in the winter time, she could pop into KaDeWe for those suckers and you could fly to berlin and do the same (or go to macys). marion loves big red lips, so again i’d send her to mac, because they do that well for people who understand lipstick (not me, sad to report).  then we have silver art deco earrings by hq design for $157

and last but not least for that wild red, pre-tori amos (tori amos copied it) hair i have some fun peacock feathers. marion needs feathers because she is an acrobat and closer to angels then she knows.

even though this picture looks very fancy, i can guarantee that YOU who are probably closer to bankruptcy then a glam career with the circus, can make that headband for under $7. why do i say this? because despite my earlier “i’m not maria von trapp” bit, i did make two feather headbands with a friend this summer that are NICER then the ones i see for sale for $30 and we made them for under $5. so there’s my dab of thrify this post. and here’s my dab of columbo, who really makes the film.

and please, please, pretty please, go check out these movies if you have not yet! they are so wonderful and beautiful and will make you feel all kinds of sad pangs and wild joys. if you watch them for the first time, i would love to hear you thoughts.

ain’t art grand?

Fall is finally here! Which means birthdays and holidays are in full effect… Bleach Black x Urban Outfitters necklace aka Tom Binns koff aka GIMME!

Margiela’s two finger ring. nuff said.

The Chloe Susan will likely forever stay on top of my lust list…

I’ve done my due diligence searching for the perfect basics… not Kain, AA, James Perse, or even A. Wang has done it as flawlessly as Isabel Marant. Trust.

Monogram 100% Cashmere Blanket. Birthday me!

I just love following …love Maegan. She has so many awesome fashion ideas!

Today she posted an awesome diy on making multi-strand necklaces like Tom Binns.

One of Tom Binns' Designs

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Isn’t that amazing? I have too many necklaces than opportunities to wear them that this would be an awesome way to glamorously consolidate them.

Does this inspire you to bust out some old necklaces and revamp them?

Many a fine jeweller has looked to myth and legend for their inspiration. Van Cleef & Arpels have produced collections inspired by the fairies of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the lost city of Atlantis, while one of De Beers most recent collections, Amulets, is based on the imagery of African tribal totems. Stephen Webster, recently appointed as creative director of the Crown Jeweller Garrard, works with a very different kind of visual currency. ‘For me,’ says Webster, ‘it’s Mick Rock’s photographs of David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars in the 1970s that capture the essence of what I do.’ Webster’s work is utterly unique but also very much a part of the new school of luxury – a kind of modern luxury that looks, and feels, like classic rock and roll.

Renowned for a muscular and offbeat way with silver and diamonds, Webster’s first collection for Garrard, Fire of London, features 18ct white and yellow gold, white and black diamonds, orange sapphires, garnets and citrines all sculpted into rings, cuffs and earrings in the shape of blazing flames.  Webster’s imagery is essentially a bold but luxe redux of the skull and crossbones, and his stock in trade is jewellery that — while not exclusively for the kind of individual who fathered Garrard’s previous creative director Jade Jagger — is certainly aimed at the client who wants a little more 21^st century attitude in their jewellery box than comes with a tiara and pearl drop earrings.

If there’s any one woman who embodies that 21^st century attitude, it’s dishevelled grunge queen turned Hollywood icon Courtney Love. Love recently appeared at London-based designer Todd Lynn’s catwalk show at the Pacific Design Centre in West Hollywood and is one of his most faithful customers. She can, on occasion, rock a look that might suggest she’s appeared on the red carpet via a backwards-facing hedge, but it’s always done with confidence and sophistication. ‘She always looks fearless,’ says Lynn, who is currently working on his spring/summer 2010 collection which he says will combine ‘something slick with something tattered…  a style adjustment that fits the new world attitude.’ Suzy Menkes of the International Herald Tribune, and the world’s most powerful fashion writer, commented of his autumn/winter 2009 presentation in February: ‘This is a show that seemed modern.’

Although Lynn has designed for Marilyn Manson and Keith Richards, continues to create U2’s tour wardrobe and cites as influences ‘The Cramps and Sisters of Mercy’, his collections combine leftfield edge with a sense of things haute and a wearability. He’s a sharp tailor, first and foremost, and works almost exclusively in monochrome. There are often black leather or fur touches, and there’s an obvious toughness to his work, but at the heart of his collections there is often The Perfect Black Jacket, or the most wonderful 21^st century Power Suit, all catwalked on custom made Louboutin heels. The quality of his menswear and womenswear, assured by top-level factory production in France and extremely limited runs (each item is numbered), is near couture standard.

Fashion and rock culture have, since the 50s, made for a passionate, if rowdy, bonding. In recent years the American designer John Varvatos has used leftfield rock stars (Franz Ferdinand, Ryan Adams and Cheap Trick) in the ad campaigns for his pared down, contemporary tailoring. Last winter’s Comme des Garçons Homme Plus collection was themed on the Sex Pistols, borrowing from a punk history that had already fused Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm Mclaren’s early sartorial exploits with the sounds of the Silver Jubilee. For this spring, rap star Kanye West collaborated with Louis Vuitton’s menswear designer, Paul Helbers, to launch a range of single-coloured sports shoes geared towards the Miami lounge bar more than the tennis court.

Other designers who are consistently inspired by rock style but interpret it in a very grown up, luxury, wearable way include Paula Thomas of Thomas Wylde, and John Richmond. For this summer Thomas showed soft layered dresses reminiscent of Ossie Clark, but with a skull print in the chiffon and press stud shoulders – feminine but dramatic. John Richmond started out in the 80s as one half of the wild, Taboo-era label Richmond Cornejo, and now shows his own label men’s and women’s collections in Milan. His palette, like those of Lynn and Thomas, includes lots of black. ‘I come from Manchester where everything is dark anyway,’ he says. ‘Versace grew up in Mediterranean light so colours look wonderful, but to me colour looked grim.’ Richmond, one of Stephen Webster’s favourite designers, describes himself as a ‘frustrated musician’, and takes most of his inspiration from ‘glam rock and punk.’ ‘Seeing David Bowie on Top of the Pops was like Paul on the road to Damascus,’ he says. His collections feature whisper-thin, angular noir sur le noir suits, but there are also sensual draped and folded liquid-silhouette evening dresses and gold sequin shifts – echoes of the glam rock of the 70s that offset the darker rock and roll era of CBGB and assorted fatalities within the confines of the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.

Rock and roll luxe blends together the magpie with the goth. Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God, a now iconic human skull covered with diamonds valued at £12mn, is a paradigm of the style: outre; dark and expensive. Frivolous too. It doesn’t so much flirt with bad taste as lift up its skirt and goose it.

It’s also a style that’s crossed from fashion into interiors. The bedrooms at Sanctum, the Soho boutique hotel opened earlier this year by music manager Mark Fuller, feature a mix of plush dark textiles and lurex-like flash details, including door handles encrusted with crystal. Room service includes amps and guitars. Fuller believes that rock and roll style isn’t so much a ‘look’ as a ‘state of mind.’ ‘I think rock and roll is what you feel,’ he says. ‘Sanctum is a hybrid of the best hotels in the world, including the Mondrian in Los Angeles, which is entirely white, so not what you could imagine as being rock and roll. But you have to couple it up with the social side of things, which is why there’s a hot tub for 8 people on the roof of Sanctum. It’s about hedonism.’

After Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood – who knows a thing or two about hedonism – left his wife Jo last year, Jo decided to launch a wedding business in the ample back garden of their rambling gothic Richmond Park mansion, Holmwood. She also set up a pop-up restaurant in her dining room with the not so much arresting as banged-to-rights name of Mrs Paisley’s Lashings. She announced that it would run through the mid-summer months, with a menu by Arthur Potts Dawson of Acorn House. Wood’s pop-up enterprise was intended to echo her main business, the Jo Wood Organics cosmetics range – the 21^st century rock chic doesn’t OD and nod off, she has an organic allotment and the keenest business sense.

Most guests booking for an evening of Mrs Paisley’s Lashings were, of course, primarily interested in a poke around Holmwood. A visit reveals a classic rock star pile: vast velvet sofas; wood panelled rooms and hallways; scores of oil paintings; suits of armour and a snooker room lined with gold discs aplenty. ‘That’s a Grayson Perry above the bar,’ says Jo, gesturing to a panoramic framed sketch above the fully stocked centre of the saloon. ‘It was a gift from Mick.’ Holmwood is a prime example of a shamelessly louche aesthetic that implies many a visit to an auction house or Clignancourt with a ‘fuck it, I’ll take the lot’ attitude, and a bank balance to match. It’s the kind of house that demands a party, which is another aspect of rock and roll luxe. It may be brash at times, but it’s certainly out for a good time.

There is a part of the new, post-maximilast tendency in interiors that embraces those good times, even if they’re apparently in short supply elsewhere. Mogul, a design company based in Los Angeles, has recently carved a niche for providing ‘fashion for your home’, and the brand’s aesthetic is absolutely in tune with the likes of Holmwood – particularly the Mogul Rock and Roll Bed, with a huge hooded headboard in distressed black leather with Chesterfield-style buttoning. Elsewhere there are sofas with Italianate chrome backs and a dramatic, perhaps even demonic, finely crafted black leather canopy chair with a carved skull at the top of its frame; a piece of furniture that would be splendid as a single dark accent in a space with theatrical scale.

Not all rock and roll interiors are so obvious. Molteni & C Dada, the Italian furniture company which started out life 45 years ago with a selection of Aldo Rossi pieces and now showcases designs by Jean Nouvel at its recently opened flagship stores in London and New York, launched a range of textile pieces with Vivienne Westwood last year. Westwood’s Squiggle print, which has also been used to great effect by the Rug Company on its products, appears on their Freestyle sofa, Glove chair, Domino pouf and on two sizes of cushion, in five different colourways. It’s an elegant, graphic print, inspired in part by the luxury-infatuated French Merveilleuses, but it has a darker, subcultural rock pedigree: the print was launched as part of the Pirates collection, Westwood and McLaren’s first real London catwalk presentation in 1981 under their World’s End label. Although it was a billowing, new romantic U-turn from their previously spiky punk work, it was still fashion for the young and the wildly rebellious; the pair were dressing the same urchins – or at least those that had survived the 70s – but in different clothes.

Just as Westwood’s work passed from underground to overground, so the late Stephen Sprouse – famed for dressing Blondie and the Warhol set – took his fluoro and graffiti style into interiors. Before his untimely death in 2004, he produced a range of textiles for Knoll, including Techno Tweed and a variety of prints based on the dayglo Warhol camouflage patterns he’d used for his mens- and womenswear previously. They are still available today – all of the seating at the rooftop lounge at the LES hotel in New York, which opened at the end of last year, is covered in the orange Graffiti Camo print – and earlier this year Jeffrey Deitch staged a retrospective of Sprouse’s work in fashion and on canvas at his SoHo New York gallery. At the same time as the Deitch Projects show, Louis Vuitton debuted a limited edition collection featuring Sprouse’s distinctive scrawl, which sold out within days.

The overgrounding of rock and roll style, an inherently underground movement, continues apace. It’s now a part of the fabric of modern luxe. As Stephen Webster says, ‘The luxury consumer in the 21st century tends to make more emotional choices that fit with their own lifestyle rather than wanting something because it is expensive or an investment. My “rock and roll” pieces sell well as they tend to make an emotional connection with our customers.’

If further evidence was needed, it was seen at the Governors Ball at the White House in February. The First Lady, Michelle Obama, made an entrance wearing a just-the-safe-side-of-avant-garde jumble of pearls by Tom Binns, a rock and roll jeweler through and through who started his career with the aforementioned McLaren and Westwood in London and whose last collection included a necklace with faux pearls and gold tone safety pins called Rhythm of Cruelty. With tough times ahead and ‘a new world attitude’ in place, it seems only fitting that there’s a bit of rock and roll style and spirit in the White House.

STOCKISTS/CONTACTS

www.garrard.com

www.jowoodorganics.com

www.johnrichmond.com

www.johnvarvatos.com

www.knoll.com

www.louisvuitton.com

Mogullife.com

www.molteni.it

www.sanctumsoho.com

www.stephenwebster.com

www.therugcompany.info

thomaswylde.com

www.toddlynn.com

www.tombinnsdesign.com

www.viviennewestwood.com

chanel-collar, thomas sabo-ring und blumenkette.
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Ivan Brackenbury, the fictional hospital radio host created by Tom Binns, is hilarious. I’ve only just discovered him and so I don’t have much material to work from but from what I’ve seen so far I’m really impressed. Brackenbury plays songs from decades past mixed with contemporary selections and uses them as set-ups or punch lines to jokes. For a great five minute clip see this video posted to Binn’s website. Much of the comedy comes from word ambiguity and a mixture of parody and characterisation, so there will be inevitable comparisons to Steve Coogan’s character Alan Partridge, but they aren’t really adequate. Whilst they cover the same comedy territory, Brackenbury and Partridge are distinctly different characters that produce different kinds of laughs. For a start Brackenbury doesn’t have the same melancholy or tragedy about him that Coogan refined so perfectly. Rather, there’s a more ‘special’ (read retarded) quality to Ivan with his slightly unusual speech patterns and impossibly pleasant demeanour. This offsets the often ingenious insights into the language of songs and conversational mix-ups.

Binn has blended this character with radio parody perfectly, as in the opening joke in the above clip but for the best fusion of those two genres see the joke about Joan Arkwright. Weirdly I don’t think that the style, as Binn’s describes it “Illness – song, illness – song, illness – song” will tire easily. It is rather repetitive but there are diversions, one-liners and short anecdotes sprinkled in that make the writing constantly amusing and fresh. So, if you’ve had a look at the first clip you’ll surely be wanting more; here’s another short one from this year’s Edinburgh Festival. Enjoy – and if anyone sees him play in Sheffield (I think that’s where he lives) let me know how it goes!

Acabamos de ler que o designer Tom Binns fechou uma parceria com a Walt Disney. Ele desenvolverá duas coleções de jóias para o novo filme de “Alice no País das Maravilhas”, que terá no elenco o bonitão Johnny Deep e cuja estréia está prevista nas telinhas dos cinemas em 2010. E antes disso, a Disney já iniciou um marketing certeiro ao redor do mundo fashion para divulgar o filme, que promete “bombar” nas bilheterias do mundo. A linha de jóias assinada como “Tom Binns for Walt Disney Signature” varia em torno de $1000.00 à $2000.00 doletas, e quem quiser comprar terá de correr, pois estarão disponíveis para o consumidor somente seis peças de cada modelo em seletas joalherias e boutiques. E para celebrar a parceria, a Disney Consumer Products (DCP) realizou um pequeno show em Las Vegas, que vocês conferem no vídeo abaixo e também um dos colares do design que Alice irá usar!

Fonte: www.joiabr.com.br

(posted by nfuzaro e mafuzaro)

Tom Binns

Alice Wonderland produced by Walt Disney and directed by Tim Burton starring Jonny Deep and Anne Hathaway will be out this spring.  To develop its jewelry collection, Walt Disney will collaborate with Tom Binns to create an exclusive jewelry line.  In a true fairy tales enchanted universe, the jewelry designer will use his extravagant inspirations to mix cheap gadgets with semi precious stones and sapphires. A mini line of six pieces from $500 to $ 1,000.  The winner of the price for best jewelry designer in 2007 will definitely produce an interesting composition of fashion experimentation.

By Naila Chbib

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Tom Binns fechou parceria com a Disney e vai assinar uma coleção para ‘Alice no País das Maravilhas‘! Serão apenas seis peças, que custarão entre US$1000 e US$ 2000.

Sonhando com as peças desde já!

Fonte: RG Vogue

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is already inspiring new fashions even before its movie release date. It was first introduced at the “flash mob” tea party during the MAGIC convention in Las Vegas. The collection will feature jewelry by designer Tom Binns (Council of Fashion Designers of America winner). It draws from the influence of characters including Alice, the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen, the White queen and the White Rabbit. Check out the video below!!

Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait until 2010 to get your hands on this line.
I’m thinking it’ll be worth the wait, Jessi

Tom Binns is one of the first in a series of designers and brands to collaborate with Disney to create unique pieces based on classic stories. Tom’s project, Alice In Wondeland:

The limited edition Tom Binns for Walt Disney Signature will consist of six high fashion pieces, which will retail from $1,000 to $2,000 at luxury retailers and fine boutiques nationwide. A more affordable collection, dubbed Tom Binns for Disney Couture will include 35 pieces designed in collaboration with Lucas Design International will retail from $100- $500; it will be available at department stores and specialty boutiques. Both collections will make their debut in Spring 2010.

Leave it to Disney to continually reinvent their brand, and make sure they are the number one go to brand when it comes to parents and kids. Kudo’s to Disney! Come on Nickelodeon…

Fall is creeping behind summer, and pretty soon we’ll have to start wearing more clothes besides the summer dresses and strappy sandals we  love so much.

For Fall, some designers are making the transition process a bit easier ,by keeping the details used for the spring/summer pieces and incorporating them into the must-haves for next season.

Studs, Fringe, Braided Leather and Suede, are some of the details that will be here for the cold months ahead.  See what some designers came up with to make us happy ladies for Fall/Winter!

www.theromeoreport.com

Pra quem gosta de acessórios fora do comum, aí vai:

Case para laptop de joaninhas, da Incase.

A Incase faz cases para laptop, além de cases específicos para macbook e i-pods. Lançou uma coleção de cases para skate, assinada pelo skateboarding Paul Rodriguez. Dá uma olhadinha no vídeo abaixo:

A Paul Rodriguez Signature Collection pode ser vista aqui no site da Incase.

Colar de zíperes criado pelo designer Tom Binns.

Anel de dentes de vampiro da BitterSweets

Mas fica a dica: como esse tipo de  acessório já chama muito a atenção, o ideal é escolher somente um tipo deles. Usá-los todos juntos, por exemplo, faria com que as particularidades de cada um se perdessem, deixando o look muito misturado.

Muita gente deve ter reparado que as pérolas voltaram com força, e junto delas os maxi colares. É só olhar os desfiles e revistas (nacionais e internacionais). Tem de todos os tipos, com peças geométricas de acetato enormes, madeira, tecidos, linhas, correntes, etc. Na verdade quem “deu o pontapé” inicial foi o designer de bijoux couture Tom Binns, ele criou vários colares desejos, cheio de pérolas e pedras, puro luxo! Ele faz bijouterias finas que parecem jóias, mas não utiliza pedras preciosas.

 Dá uma olhada:

uni duni tê

Celebs que usam:

a Jessica Biel usa o dela direto, fazendo a phyna e também casual chic

Michele Obama tem vários modelos diferentes dele

Heleninha Bordon e seu Tom Binns bapho

O modelo que eu mais curti e usaria é o que mistura pérolas de vários tamanhos com correntes de diferentes espessuras, strass e o que mais desejar. A Camila Coutinho do GE resolveu colocar a mão na massa e criar um pra ela, e ficou lindo!

 Olha só:

ela ensina passo a passo como fez o dela!

Eu não curto muito tanta coisa junta assim no pescoço, pois fica até pesado, então resolvi entrar na brincadeira e fazer um modelo mais simples, daí juntei alguns cordões que já tinha, mas fiquei com preguiça de ir no armarinho procurar correntes e tal. Ficou super simples, bem “murcho binns”, rs:

 Faltou uma corrente pra dar uma “quebrada” nas pérolas.

As pérolas na capa da Teen Vogue Jun/Jul 2009 com a Selena Gomez:

A Carrie Bradshaw já usou e Katherine Heigl “Izzi Stevens” tb:

"oi amiga, tudo bom? baba no meu Givenchy"

“Jóias são sempre um tesouro e mesmo que não sejam feitas de ouro e diamantes, elas ainda devem ter esse sentimento”.

Tom Binns.

Thursday, July 30, 2009
Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, California

It’s really crowded in here, I think.
Do I squeeze my way in too?
Uh, how could I forget that Thursday evenings are “Summer Jazz” concert nights?

The scene is J. Crew and it is filled wall-to-wall with women browsing and shopping until the jazz concert begins. Is it always this crowded? You see, I’ve never been to J. Crew before, unless I fell down and smacked my little head on the pavement and can’t recall , so I didn’t really know what to expect. Even though they have many lovely things, I never felt a strong urge to go there until I saw some of their Fall 2009 pictures at various online sites. I like what they are doing with their accessories, in particular, and THAT was what it took to get my attention. I always feel like I’m a little lean on fashion jewelry, so I bravely ventured into the crowded store.

I saw many cute items. I saw this …

src: jcrew.com

Comme des Garçons, Fall 2007, src: style.com

Moschino, Spring 2006, src: style.com

I bought the top and tried it on like this …

In the next picture, Mr. Sasy asks, “Are you going to work on a crab boat in that?” Of course, I respond, “Cool, I must have some Prada, Fall 2009, action happening!”

But, as you can see from the following Prada runway pictures, I’m not quite there yet. (Thank goodness)

Prada, Fall 2009, src: style.com

Prada, Fall 2009, src: style.com

In this try on post, I also wear a Michael Kors skirt, a Tom Binns safety pin bracelet, over knee socks from Wolford (Alaska), and Motorcycle boots from Target. I picked up these cute little boots about 3 months ago on clearance. I am v. excited about wearing them this fall. And here’s their closeup …

Anyway, not only did I buy the ribbon top (which I’m not 100% sure about keeping — it is a little boxy and very long), I picked up a pretty necklace with dangling daisies that I wear in the post immediately below this one. So, even if I don’t keep the ribbon top, I did meet my pick up some fashion jewelry goal, after all.

To close, I call this post “Impure” because I am no longer a J. Crew virgin. tbh, I secretly fear that I’ve crossed over to the dark side.

Thanks for reading. More soon. — Carole

Pra muita gente pode não ser novidade, mas sei que tem muita que não conhece. Toda temporada o Style.com faz um report com os acessórios de todas as marcas da temporada.
Tem 502 fotos de vários itens maravilhosos!!! Eu que amo sapatos, quase morro.
Clica aqui e vai lá sonhar…

Os tons nude vão estar em alta no verão e irão permanecer como tendência até o próximo inverno.

Para não deixar o look muito sem graça, combine as peças no tom com acessórios poderosos, como uma ankle boot e um maxi colar no estilo Tom Binns.  O boyfriend jeans com lavagem mais clara, moderniza a produção.

E aí, gostaram?!

Bjos.