How to Select Shoes to Wear With Jeans

1. Consider the color of the denim. The darker the color, the dressier the jeans
   
2. Remember that denim is a heavy material, and it should be coupled with shoes of a heavier weight, such as leather.
   
3. Pair dark blue or black jeans with leather sandals or Mary Jane-style pumps for an informal evening out.
   
4. Choose ankle boots or loafers when the climate gets cooler. Match socks to shoes for a dressier look, or incorporate a color that complements your top for a preppier contrast.
   
5. Wear cowboy boots or knee-high boots with boot-cut jeans. The wider leg will allow the shaft of the pant to hang comfortably over the boot. Tucking jeans into boots is a rather awkward look and can become uncomfortable.
   
6. Have some fun with color. Any color shoe will work with jeans. Match your shoe color to the color found in your top, or the trim of your jeans.
   
7. Be comfortable. Athletic shoes, including running shoes, hiking boots and after-swim slip-ons, have gained wide appeal and acceptance as the ultracasual mate to denim. Socks are optional, but wear them with longer jeans for a more balanced look.
   http://www.ehow.com/how_9683_select-shoes-wear.html
   

Swide Magazine by Dolce&Gabbana

Say it with a flower? Most definitely. The free-spirited D&G Women know how to be girlie, chic, and conquer her loved one. The perfect English Rose. Flip through the Fashion Editorial to copy the look.

 


A mix of flowers, you can definitely find the one that suits your personality and the frilly girl that lives inside of you. This year be romantic with the prints.

 
The best date ever? A picnic on Primrose Hill. So what attire could be more appropriate than: a mix and match of Vichy print and flowers. Create your own garden view to charm the paysage.


Fashion loves you or you love fashion. He loves me, he loves me not. Go straight into the heart of things: let the accessories speak for you outfit. Sunglasses to say: I am keeping my mystery, wedges to show off your legs, the right print you need to express yourself, be it Vichy, Flowers, Cherries, Leopard, or Natural.


Take a walk on the beach, a honeymoon on the go, a weekend getaway, show your girlie side with prints, colours and modern 50s cuts.
http://www.swide.com/luxury-magazine/Style/Must-Have/san-valentino-DG-Donna/2011/2/3

Is This Spring’s Can’t-Miss Accessory?

Noticed: One very vibrant outfit pick-me-up has surged ahead of the rest this spring. That’d be Prada’s neon-and-candy-striped stoles. A few eyebrows were raised when they marched down the Spring runway, but judging from the editors and tastemakers who’ve been sporting them at home and abroad, we’d say any objections have been long since laid to rest. At the men’s shows in Milan and Paris, Love’s Katie Grand (left) and Vogue Nippon’s Anna Dello Russo (right) brightened up their looks with the furs. The stoles aren’t restricted to the ladies, either. Here in New York, Marc Jacobs took his for a spin—reimagined as a scarf—at last night’s George Condo opening at the New Museum (center).
http://www.style.com/stylefile/category/trend-tracking/

GAP INTRODUCES GAPKIDS 1969 PREMIUM JEANS COLLECTION

 Gap introduced its latest collection of 1969 Premium Jeans – this time, made especially for GapKids. Re-engineered with a focus on style and quality, the new collection offers the most comfortable, long-lasting and versatile denim on the market for young fashionistas and fashionistos. Starting at $19.50, the new collection is making its debut in stores nationwide and online at gap.com.
Building upon GapKids’ already premium denim offering, GapKids 1969 Premium Jeans take the fashion quotient up a notch with new fits like the Super Skinny for girls and Skinny for boys, elevated washes and fabrics, and the addition of signature details like the chambray waistband and blue rivet borrowed from adult 1969 jeans. Featuring a wide range of fits, washes and details that let kids express their personal style, every kid – from trendsetters-in-training to playground athletes – can find their favorite pair of jeans.
http://www.fashionnews.com/category/fashion-industry/brands/gap-brands-fashion-industry/

Burberry's Girl

 

Jourdan Dunn for Burberry

JOURDAN DUNN is the latest face of Burberry for spring/summer 2011. Dunn will star alongside male model Sacha M'Baye as part of a series of couple shoots, which started with Cara Delevigne and Jacob Young in January.
"I love being British," Jourdan told us today, "and being supported by such a great British brand means a lot to me"
The pictures were taken on Brighton Beach by Mario Testino, Christopher Bailey's Burberry campaign photographer of choice - and aim to illustrate the brand's connection with British landscapes and weather, as well as fostering emerging talent. Each month's images will showcase a different aspect of the spring/summer 2011 collection, with Dunn's photos focusing on biker leathers and metallics.
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/110202-jourdan-dunn-is-the-new-burberry-fa/gallery.aspx

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Fashion Fund Winner

 

CHRISTOPHER KANE has won the 2011 BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund. The Scottish designer beat off stiff competition - from Osman Yousefzada, Richard Nicoll, Peter Pilotto, Jonathan Saunders, menswear designer Patrick Grant of E Tautz and shoe designers Nicholas Kirkwood and Charlotte Dellal of Charlotte Olympia - for the prize, which comprises a cash payout of £200,000 as well as business mentoring from some of the fashion industry's biggest hitters.
"I am delighted that Christopher has won the second BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund Award," Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman said. "The shortlist was very strong and we were impressed by the level of talent which was inspiring. Christopher and Tammy have worked immensely hard and it is wonderful to see a designer with his vision and commitment rewarded."
Kane, who designs the Versus collection with Donatella Versace as well as his eponymous line, first caught our eye when he burst on to the fashion scene with his Central Saint Martins MA graduate collection in February 2006. By September of the same year, noted fashion editors packed the venue - even sitting on the stairs - to catch the debut on-schedule collection of his label, set up with his sister Tammy, as it took to the London Fashion Week catwalk. Since then, he has become famous for each one of his shows having a defining characteristic, allowing fashion watchers to reference each by a different name: the checked one; the floral leather one; the sequin one; the denim one; the jungle one.
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/110131-bfcvogue-fashion-fund-winner-2011.aspx

 

 

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1. 1 Bad Copies
2. 2 The Green Beauty Challenge
3. 3 Be Careful What You Wish For
4. 4 Fashion Illustration Fun
5. 5 We're Going To The Oscars!

All eyes on stylist Blow, years after her death

Valentino admired her style, Naomi Campbell called her a huge inspiration and Boy George said she was what fashion was all about.

Isabella Blow, the eccentric British fashion editor and stylist best remembered for "discovering" and promoting Alexander McQueen, was one of the most influential personalities in the fashion world before she committed suicide in 2007.
Now two competing biographies — one being made into a movie — are telling her story, revealing a little-known struggle with depression and other emotional problems behind a glamorous facade of dramatic hats and decadent parties. Blow killed herself by drinking weed-killer, after repeat suicide attempts. She was just 48.
In some ways, Blow's story resembled a tragic, real-life version of "The Devil Wears Prada," the best-selling book and movie based around a fictional fashion magazine editor clearly inspired by the legendary American Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
Like that novel, Blow's biographies offer behind-the-scenes glimpses into the exclusive world of couture shows and designer soirees. And like it, they reveal the darker, cutthroat side of the high fashion industry.
Blow was a true fashionista, and she delighted in shocking people with bizarre headgear and daring clothes. She once wore a still-fishy smelling, crystal-studded lobster on her head to a fashion show, and for her wedding chose a dark purple medieval robe paired with a gold mesh, helmet-like headdress.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110113/ap_on_en_ot/eu_fea_fashion_blow_biographies