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Mila Schon show, Milan

When model after model takes a spill on the runways, it's half-surprising. Not surprising because they're fed a bottle of champaign and a small salad a day and they're "shod" 25 centimers high heels but surprising for the serious and focused atmosphere on a fashion show... Demonstration.

It happens to the best, proved by Agyness... twice

Kamila W. at Vivienne Westwood, Spring 2007... the end of a career

Jessica Stam at Chloé, Fall 2006... the cuttest

Herve Leger Fall 2010, New York Fashion Week

...Laugh all you want, but I doubt you could bail on a runway with that straight face!

Vogue December Issues

Vogue Paris, Tom Ford
Photographed by Mert and Marcus


Vogue China, Lara Stone
Photographed by Willy Vanderperre

ASOS : "Launch Your Fashion Legacy"

"Anyone can buy & sell fashion on ASOS Marketplace. Welcome to the fashion democracy."

Great news! ASOS has launched this week its own Marketplace platform that implies that for £50 per month, everyone has now access to an account manager at ASOS.

The concept is simple : the site allows the vendors to trade from their own virtual market stalls to worldwide customers, sharing the same platform. The difference with other virtual Marketplace is that each brand/designer/boutique/individual can customize their shop front. They are also encouraged to photograph their stock in "Street Chic style".

Caren Downie, womenswear buying director at ASOS, comments: "Through Marketplace we can offer another level of support to emerging designers where they can access two million customers worldwide. Similarly, selected boutiques, vintage collectors and individual sellers will also be able to reach a much wider audience of fashion lovers. It fits perfectly into our creation of an online fashion destination."

If it sounds like another excuse to experiment shopping in a new fun way, it is also a good way to earn it back: "Individual sellers can sell their ‘wears’ directly back to the Marketplace community. Open your wardrobe to the world and create your own fashion legacy. Your ‘too tights’ are another’s ‘just rights’. Don’t leave a good buy behind; style it up, sell it on, let it fund your next fashion find." ... We sure will!

Lanvin Loves H&M... Do We?

It was announced last month and it arrived today in the stores : the collection of Lanvin for H&M is now all ours to take home! All over Europe, fashion lovers were standing this morning in gigantic queues from 5am on, to be the first ones to touch the Lanvin collection and make sure to get the few items they had spotted in the media...
But, as long as I'm concerned - and with all due respect to the artistic director Alber Elbaz, it can stay right where it hangs as the mix of Lanvin and H&M hasn't convinced me one bit!
The idea was to revisit some classics of the French couture house in a fun and modern way for the "general public". Well, personally, I think they had a bit too much fun...

So, I started thinking why I was so excited at the first place when I heard about this collaboration... I just wanted to be given the opportunity to have a couple of nice garments designed by a couture house that had somehow a magical touch and whose creations were timeless. Well, dream big! The collection seems to come right from a WaltDisney movie and it might dress you for New Year's Eve but will probably not be appropriate any other night of the year...

Besides, when did Lanvin start being trendy? To me they're the one ready-to-wear luxury brand that avoids the trends' influence and focuses on flattering every woman's beauty, which is what makes their collections special.
Anyway, thanks for nothing guys, I left H&M all confused and with empty hands thinking that the day I'm wearing some famous designers' clothes isn't going to happen soon. For now, I leave you with a couple of their dresses...

Showcase of the Brussels creative Industry

Discover belgian talents and creative professionals in the new Brussels Showcase magazine.
It's the 6th issue I produce for Production Paradise and this one is a little more fashion oriented.
For the ones who thought Belgium was too small and culturally challenged to have a respectable creative Indutry, please check that out and rephrase : Belgian talents rock!

Nella Balda


Kris De Smedt



Laurence Steyt


Maria Dawlat

And many more...

How to make a dress out of the boyfriend shirt

What your jacket zipper says about you...

Text Tees... Get the right message!

About 4 years ago, House of Holland launched their punky groupie tees with neon colors phrases and since then verbal fashion remained, to put a message across.
All kind of messages are being sent, some more relevant than others...

The fashion victim message in...

And out...

The bad ass message

I'm not a bitch, I'm THE bitch and that's Mrs Bitch to you!

The thoughtful - awarness message

The celebrities' message

And the personal message...

Hilary Alexander interviews Anna Dello Russo, Japanese Vogue fashion director, for Telegraph TV

Crystal Renn for Elle Canada December 2010

Crystal Renn, once a super skinny model and more recently plus-size model, also writer of a book against anorexia -Hungry-, seems to have lost all her curves since she appeared in this issue of Haper's Bazaar (on the right).
Indeed, in this new editorial shot by Leda & St. Jacques for Elle Canada she looks like a regular size.
But let's admit it, she's still beautiful and real and much more closer to reality than a Kate Moss...

She was part of the last fashion shows of Elena Miró and Jean-Paul Gauthier and also appears in the latest Chanel campaign, shot by Karl Lagerfeld (but only her face...).