Writing this is very unexpected, I have to admit. Rihanna is only 20 years old, and it usually takes a celebrity a good amount of trial and error, and personal exploration and experimentation before they are able to really put together their own signature style. But Rihanna has been impressing me a lot lately.
She's been making front row appearances at Chanel and Sonia Rykiel, to name a few, at Paris Fashion Week. And her outfits have been just perfect!
Here she is at Sonia Rykiel. I love this look so much. The colors are beautiful, and perfect for the season. The bright blue of her coat, and the yellow of the bag really stands out. And the outfit underneath: to die for! The pants are cut so beautifully, and I love how its modern and simple but still interesting. I've also always been really drawn to monochromatic outfits, for some reason. It makes the details of the design really stand out, instead of the colors.
And here she is again at Chanel. This look is perfect for her to wear to Chanel, its very age appropriate without being immature.
Another favorite look of hers, is this one from the Jack Gallery, where she bought seven Todd Goldman paintings last week. This looks like something I would wear out on the weekends. I love the black, white, hot pink color combination. Its girly and punk at the same time. The attitude of her haircut only brings out the vamp of the outfit. The leggings, I am jealous of, and want a pair just like them! And the shoes coordinate perfectly as well, I love the use of patent leather there. Who doesnt want to steal that jacket?
I have now raised my expectations. Someone should give Miley Cyrus the direct number to Rihanna's stylist!
I feel like purple is so unexpected when I see it. It certainly takes something to pull it off. You either look regal or like fright-night. Rhianna is definately regal.
Sunday night would have been the Golden Globes. Would have been. With the writer's still on strike, there was no red carpet in Hollywood tonight. No "tell us who you're wearing!", no best/worst dressed lists. No innovative hairstyles, no "look how thin she is!"... Whatever will we do?
Couture Cult to the rescue! Here are the nominee's for Best Actress, and what we think they should have worn...
Keira Knightley: Armani Prive Couture
Cate Blanchett: Chanel Couture
Julie Christie: Elie Saab Couture
Jodie Foster: Givenchy Couture
Angelina Jolie: Valentino Couture
WINNER: Julie Christie, for her role in "Away From Her"! Congratulations! Speech, and cue the music!
Thanks to Amy Winehouse, the beehive is back, and has been seen lately everywhere from the streets of London to the catwalks of Chanel. In the past, endless teasing and ratting of our hair would have been absolutely necessary to do a beehive. But things have changed. Check out this great video on how to do a polished and easy beehive on your own: without having to matte and tangle the hair we work so hard to keep healthy and from breaking!
Karl Lagerfeld In London, Reveals A Beautiful, Jeweled Chanel Maison d'Art Collection For Chanel
"My mother always said it was a good thing that I went into fashion because it proved I didn’t have any great expectations of myself, and she was right. I haven’t made an empire with my name on it. I don’t go around calling myself an artist," he told today's Times2. "If anything, I'm a whore. I go wherever they pay me".
The days when haute couture was shown to fabulously wealthy clients in an intimate salon are long gone. Today Hollywood starlets and the wives of multi-millionaires will first pick out their hand- beaded and embroidered frocks from a catwalk the size of a football pitch, as at yesterday's Chanel show. Held in a purpose-built arena inside the cavernous Grand Palais next to the Seine, this was a spectacle that proved that while couture is a costly anomaly that few designers can afford, for a wealthy house such as Chanel it remains worthwhile not least as a marketing exercise.
It is an opportunity for extravagance that Chanel knows how to maximise, from every angle. In the mammoth grey logo-printed rug that was unrolled down the catwalk, there was blatant branding. In the live soundtrack provided by the American singer Cat Power there was a cool factor. Most importantly, in Karl Lagerfeld the company has a designer who can interpret the basics of couture into feats of workmanship that are lovely and faithful to the heritage that Coco Chanel bequeathed.
Mini dresses based on a man's jacket, cinched at the waist with a belt, were a sexy update on Mademoiselle Chanel's taste for wearing the Duke of Westminster's hunting clothes when they were lovers in the 1920s. Full-skirted black and silver-sequinned evening dresses, with ribbon sashes at the waist, evoked Chanel's romantic collections of the 1940s. There were also numerous examples of her greatest invention, the little black dress. Here trimmed with frothy black ostrich feathers and jet beading, the classic party dress looked anything but minimalist - which should be to the taste of front-row guests such as Victoria Beckham and the actress Kate Bosworth. In July 2002 Chanel purchased several of the most important artisanal ateliers that supply the Paris houses, including the embroidery company Lesage. There was no shortage of their feats of workmanship on show. So for the finale, a curtain was raised to reveal the "petit-mains" - the men and women who bead and embroider in such workshops - taking their bow alongside Lagerfeld.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. ~ Coco Chanel
Mascara is something I absolutely cannot live without. Even on the days where I don't want to wear any makeup, I wear mascara. Being a natural blonde, who colors my hair darker, I almost need mascara to see that I even have eyelashes at all. I have tried practically every brand on the market, both drug store brands and department store brands. And my absolute cant-live-without-it favorite is:
Chanel Inimitable Mascara
I have it in both black for night time, and brown for day. At $26.50 it isnt too expensive, and you will definitely see what justifies the price when you use it. Your lashes truly will look longer and fuller, so you wont have to choose which aspect is more important to you. And it doesn't get clumpy, leaving you with those awful spidery looking lashes we sometimes see around. I find that if you put on one coat, and then wait a few minutes for it to dry, and add another, you will have the perfect look.
ALANA JOY Los Angeles, CA alanajoy.tumblr.com
I work in the fashion industry in Los Angeles. This blog is a place for me to talk about all things fashion and beauty related, hopefully touching on the real art, emotion, and sometimes humor of the industry as a whole.
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