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A Look Back at the Year in Fashion

December 26th 2007 03:57
A Look Back at the Year in Fashion

Fashion 2007
Fashion 2007


As 2007 comes to a close many publications are beginning to look back and offer overviews of the year that has been. Sadly this writer’s finger slipped on and off the pulse of the industry over the last 12 months due to real world commitments.

Thankfully the WWW offers an abundance of sources to compensate and educate. Over at telegraph.co.uk
they have compiled some of the pivotal events, trends and revolutions that shaped this year and will influence the next. Observing all mediums to compile a broad critique of high’s and lows.


karl lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld


Tackling topics ranging from Most Covetable On Screen Wardrobe (Atonement and Factory Girl) to Most Obsessive Figure in Fashion (Karl Lagerfeld).

Atonement
Keira Knightley in Atonement


Then there’s Gauardian.com and their Best Dressed of 2007 or timesonline.com who have a Best and Worst of fashion for 2007 piece.

Both these lists envelope most areas of popular entertainment, business and politics to assess those in the public eye for head turning fashion dos and don’ts. A few making the grade are Lily Allen, designers Dolce and Gabbana, the movie Atonement and Behati Prinsloo.

Lily Allen and Bishato finuso
Lily Allen and Behati Prinsloo show what it takes to get the nod.


Myself I remember Lauren Upton the Miss Teen USA contestant who stammered out this disjointed answer in reply to the loaded question,
Q-"Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the US on a map. Why do you think this is?"
A-“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for our children.”


This one sticks in the mind because such an insignificant occurrence garnered excessive press coverage. So to flog a dad horse here it is one more time care of youtube.com


So what stuck in your mind within the world of fashion?

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Fashion blog diet

June 19th 2007 00:11
Fashion blogging, like most other blogging provides a forum for otherwise unqualified opinionators, like me. That is, except in the case of The Sartorialist whose blog has been listed by Time as one of the top 100 design influences. His images appear on Style.com and in Vanity Fair and his pithy comments and street shots are indeed a cultural record. He balances the male and female shots and favours the quirky or unconventional, those who don’t just follow trends but help create them. And his journeys to Berlin and Scandinavia, Milan and Paris provide a travel-poor Sydney-ite with the vicarious pleasure of the international flaneur.

The Sartorialist blog
From Thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

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Daria Werbowy: Canadian Amazon

June 15th 2007 00:07
Daria Werbowy
From Dariawerbowy.org


Pictured here all fresh faced and delightful is Daria Werbowy of Canada. Werbowy, like Jessica Stam, passes my knee test (if the thigh is wider than the knee then the model is not sick) and not only that but she exhibits an intelligence one may not expect from models. Maybe she’s simply learned to feign intent with those blue eyes of hers, or perhaps I’m prejudiced because she’s brunette but I do think there’s something more in Werbowy’s brain than is usually held in the mind of a model


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French, a singer and daughter of Serge, Charlotte Gainsbourg had to be gorgeous. Obviously inheriting more of her actress/model mother's (Jane Birkin of Hermes Birkin bag fame) looks than her brooding crooner dad. Recently she gained greater Australian exposure in The Science of Sleep, starring alongside Gael Garcia Bernaz as a Parisienne neighbour gradually drawn into a world of fantasy and phantasm. As you can see in this picture there was minimal attention paid to her hair and makeup, her wardrobe was dowdy and still she radiates beauty.

Charlotte Gainsbourg in the Science of Sleep
From MSN.com

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VivienneWestwood.com
From Viviennewestwood.com


After visiting the Victoria and Albert exhibition which travelled to the National Gallery in Canberra a few years ago, I’ve been obsessed with Vivienne Westwood. It’s not just that she’s sixty and has a beautiful thirty-year-old Italian lover, although that does impress me, and it’s not just that she’s been an inspiration for generations of fashionistas, mostly it’s because for Westwood, fashion is thought


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One of the most striking models of the contemporary brat pack is Jessica Stam, a statuesque Canadian who has the kind of natural physique required for catwalk shows. She is indeed long and slender but there is nothing painful about the proportions of her legs or the position of her clavicle. My general rule is that if the knee is wider than the thigh there’s a problem but Stam is in proportion as you can see from the Stella McCartney show.

Jessica Stam in McCartney
From Style.com

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Black is invariably the new black

June 5th 2007 23:49
Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy
From photobucket.com


Although Coco Chanel was really the first to bring the black dress into the everyday wardrobe of the modern woman, its place was indeed cemented with Hepburn’s appearance in Givenchy during Breakfast at Tiffany (see Sisi's post) last year for more on that dress


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Darling Natalie Portman

June 4th 2007 12:21
Recent Psychology graduate and general cutie-pie Natalie Portman has made the remarkable transition from child actor to adult star, in the non-pornographic sense, and astute style siren. With a particularly petite body and despite some onerous comparisons to Audrey Hepburn - no one needs that hanging over them - she has done rather well for herself.

Dramatically cropped Natalie Portman
From MSN.com

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Segolene Royal
From tygerland.net


The recent French presidential election highlighted the manner in which the French bring style and class to all sectors of life, even the muddy world of politics. In stark contrast we have Australian politicians, from the men who are altogether dull to the women who seem to shun fashion altogether


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Cannes again

May 28th 2007 23:41
Von Teese looking stunning
From Vogue.co.uk


Well the Palme D'or has been awarded (here’s to Romanian film) and the red carpet glitz is over but there's still time for one last analysis before these pictures become old news. Now Dita Von Teese has received quite a slice of publicity in Australia around our fashion week, and despite the entirely vapid interview she gave on Vogue.com.au I still quite like her. This dress is stunning and is perfectly complemented by her immaculate hairdo. Generally in her red carpet appearances, Teese manages to evoke sexuality rather than proclaim it


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Maggie Gyllenhaal, Style Maverick

May 28th 2007 00:57
Gyllenhaal in Secretary
From Filmweb.no


From her first appearance alongside brother Jake in Donnie Darko, enjoyably quirky as the impatient older sister to her role as a masochist in the Secretary (pictured above) Gyllenhaal has, on the whole, chosen film roles and fashion wisely


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Do the Cannes, cannes

May 23rd 2007 00:03
Zhang Ziyi looking great... again
From Vogue.com


Corny title aside, I love Cannes fashion. All of a sudden due to it's French location, the red carpet set decides to try for real style and elegance of the sort not appropriately appreciated in the US and elsewhere. I've been a fan of Zhang Ziyi's red carpet choices for some time and this ensemble reaffirms it. Looking a little outrageous and a lot glamorous, her petite figure is dramatised in this tuxedo-style sartorial statement


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