MMM with H&M in New York Event Video

Watch the video from last night's Maison Martin Margiela with H&M celebration in New York.

MMM with H&M in New York

Art and dance performance to celebrate Maison Martin Magriela with H&M in New York

Julianne Moore, Sarah Jessica Parker, Mena Suvari, Kanye West, Helena Christensen, Selma Blair, Alan Cumming and Chace Crawford were among the guests at a party last night in New York to celebrate H&M’s collaboration with Maison Martin Margiela. The unique event was held across many floors of 5 Beekman Street, a historical building in the city’s financial district. Guests were able to discover the collection in dance performances by noted choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and through specially commissioned art installations, before DJ’s kept the party going into the early hours. The Maison Martin Margiela with H&M collection will be launched on November 15th in around 230 H&M stores worldwide.

Alan Cumming

Chase Crawford

Helena Christiensen

Julianne Moore

Mena Suvari

Selma Blair

Sarah Jessica Parker

Kanye West

   

ADR AT H&M

Yesterday night, at the peak of Paris fashion week, an extravagant party launched the AdR at H&M collection with theatrical flair. Hosted by H&M together with fashion icon Anna Dello Russo, the Paradis Ball took place in Paris famed cabaret nightclub Paradis Latin. The glitzy party married fashion, performance and a live showcase by music star Azealia Banks. Friends and fashionistas, including Olivier Theyskens, Rachel Zoe, Jefferson Hack, Poppy Delevingne, Peter Dundas and super models Karlie Kloss, Constance Jablonski, Liya Kebede and Isabeli Fontana gathered to celebrate.

Staying true to AdR’s belief that fashion is something that makes you dream, the eccentric party was the perfect backdrop to present the unabashedly glamorous, playful line of jewelry, shoes and accessories that Anna Dello Russo designed for H&M, which will be on sale from October 4, 2012, in 140 stores worldwide and online. 

“We wanted to give the guests an unforgettable experience: an ever-evolving night that started on the red carpet and ended on the dancefloor. We created an amusing cabaret show that, while being pure Parisian entertainment, could also function as a metaphor of the carousel of fashion. There was a vogueing performance, too, and I had an army of mini AdR around me, wearing the collection, just for the sake of something unexpected. Excess for me means success”, says Anna Dello Russo. 

“It is great to bring eccentricity to a wider public, and that’s what H&M is doing with this collaboration. It was truly a fun night”, says Caroline de Maigret.

“People love Anna: she is fearless, she loves the stage and she is a great communicator. Anna is totally pop: Andy Warhol would have loved her, I am sure”, says Giovanna Battaglia.

“The Paradis Ball was the perfect way to launch a collection that is all about fantasy and decoration. It was eye-catching, with an optimistic injection of energy that I found particularly inspiring. We hope that our customers are excited about the launch”, says Margareta van den Bosch, Creative Advisor at H&M.

NYFW - 81 years old and fabulous

Image: Lovelyish's Weblog

This fabulous lady is Carmen Dell' Orefice, an American model and actress born in 1931. Carmen's parents were Italian (of course!) and Hungarian.

She got started on a cover of Vogue in 1947 at the age of 15

Despite modeling, Carmen, who lived with her mother were poor. They had no telephone and Vogue sent runners to their apartment to let Carmen know about modeling jobs. She roller-skated to assignments to save bus fares. Carmen was so malnourished that famed fashion photographers had to pin back dresses and stuff her body with tissue.

On July 19, 2011 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the Arts London, in recognition of her contribution to the fashion industry. The university also presented a dedicated retrospective exhibition curated showing Carmen’s Vogue covers, some of her finest modelling moments, and photographs from her personal archives.
Source: Wikipedia

Did I mention, when I grow up I wanna be like her?

Anna Piaggi (1931-2012)

Italian fashion editor and style icon Ann Piaggi died yesterday at the age of 81.

Piaggi was born in 1931 in Milan, according to Italian Vogue.

While working as an interpreter at a press agency in the 1950s, she met the photographer Alfa Castaldi, who was a major contributor to Italian Vogue and who introduced her to the profession of fashion magazines. They were married in 1962 and worked together until Mr. Castaldi’s death in 1995.

From 1981 to 1983, Ms. Piaggi was the editor in chief of Vanity, a magazine that developed a cultlike following. Many covers were illustrated by Antonio Lopez.

When Franca Sozzani became the editor of Italian Vogue in 1988, she said she wanted to create a magazine that was very quick at spotting trends, and hired Ms. Piaggi as a creative consultant.

In 2006 there was an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, dedicated to her large collection of clothes, including among others 2.865 dresses nad 265 pairs of shoes. Such was her influence and Knowledge in the fashion world, Manolo Blahnik dubbed her "the world's last great authority on frocks".

Her trademark: white-powdered face highlighted by a dollop of bright rouge on each cheek, eyes ringed in blue or black shadow, lips painted with an exaggerated cupid's bow and a hat (usually by Stephen Jones) on top of her pale blue hair. Anna Piaggi claimed that she had not left home without a hat since the early 1980s.

For her style, Ms. Piaggi was named to the International Best Dressed List numerous times and was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2007.

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