Fashion 2007 [The ZOO]
Fashion :: Back to the Future
Pierre Cardin's space age aesthetic was fashion-forward in the '60s and '70s, but even notions of the future need an update. Perhaps there's something more to our ambiguous sci-fiesque notion of the future than the boxy silhouettes and whites we have traditionally associated with generations to come. Create your fashion prophecy to incorporate the past: the desert highways of Born to Ride, the luxurious furs from the 'French Era' of the 1600's, the Bohemian layered look during the time of Dylan Thomas, the '60s Op Art or the decadent layering and shoulder proportions of the eighties. more...
The BUZZ
Fashion :: Elena Vasileva, Designer Profile
For the knit warrior, Elena Vasileva, honored as a 'Gen Art Fresh Face' in 2005, is the only designer. Having learned to knit in Russia at the tender age of seven, Elena has taken up her passion as a career goal rather recently, after working in various other industries and obtaining a degree in the design of airplanes. more...
Fashion :: Aurelio Costarella
Aurelio Costarella's design career has its origins in the era of Keith Haring and Malcolm McClaren's 'Buffalo Girls'. And although he named the pop elite of the likes of the Eurogliders and Baby Animals as his icons, this Bergdorfs and Bendel favorite designer is not limited to dressing Australia's Cremore Arcade club kids for the Red Parrot and the Silver Slipper (though he seems to be just as fond of the scene now). more...
Fashion :: Graduation Day
Chris Benz designs for the real life Elaine Robinsons out there: someone whose ease we covet, but whose natural qualities we can relate to. Benz is known for breathing life into classic silhouettes with surprising details. Under the tutelage of J.Crew and Marc Jacobs, the 24 year-old Benz manages to bring his tailoring know-how to his goal of creating 'American Sportswear' a category that belongs to that New England or Pacific Northwest Beauty who carries her sophisticated girlishness into her adulthood. more...
Charles Chang-Lima :: One Of A Kind
Charles Chang Lima is one of a kind. He wants to understand our voice and mind and he wants us to express ourselves.
In our video interview he tells us 'Designers say the same thing, 'they love women and understand womens' bodies'. But what is there not to understand about a woman's body? I have to understand their mind, what are they really thinking? It's the key ingredient for me. You have to understand I come from a country where there is no freedom. You have no voice and have to fit in a box. So, why would I come to America to fit in a box? I want the woman I design for to have a voice.' more...
Fashion :: C'est La Vie
La Vie Parisienne's creator Catherine Popesco always stresses her love of Paris. You would too if you were her. Besides being a native to the city, Popesco's jewelry line hatched soon after she discovered a treasure of original stampings in Parisian factories and workshops; these art moldings were from up to 200 years ago, some made by those who have been canonized into the art establishment: Lalique, Mucha, Galle, and Picasso. La Vie's jewelry are all offspring of these original moldings, made in the workshop Popesco built herself in a Loire Valley vineyard in France. In Au Bout de Reves, her workshop, her team of artisans enamels each piece and sets it with Austrian crystals. more...
Fashion :: Mel En Stel Designer Profile
Mel en Stel is not meant to be glamorous or luxurious. It's meant to be tough like the old war materials Ilse Eriksson (the Mel en Stel designer) once used in a few art fashion pieces. It's supposed to be a little earthy, a little rugged, a little barefoot like the Belgian brains behind this grounded one-woman clothing operation. It's meant to be a product of dissecting and loving shape and fabric (and dealing with the logistics of realizing such affection.). more...
Fashion :: Black Violette
Blood red lips and flowers tinged with black are symbols of sex, but like a black widow, they have the aftertaste of danger. That which has the power to allure also has the power to harm, particularly with women who exude these 'Black Violette' charms. In Violette Nozière, the 1978 French film directed by Claude Chabrol a fourteen-year-old girl named Violette has encounters with a number of older men. Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran portray characters based on a true French murder case in 1934. more...
Fashion :: The Secretary
Dark love stories and dark beauties go hand in hand. The movie 'Secretary' was exemplary of both; in Maggie Gyllenhaal's portrayal of Lee Holloway, her character, a secretary - (hence the name...) - clad in pencil skirts and button-downs, exerts her right to sex appeal, obsession, love, and S&M. Nowadays the dance between repression and expression of desires seems to go from one extreme to another. Freely expressing those workplace fantasies through cinema and fashion alike playfully confronts our culture's sexual preoccupations. And if that's too much for you to swallow, then just dwell on the sexy clothes and cheeky fun. more...
Fashion :: Water Water Everywhere
Water is ubiquitous. Its distinct forms provide a myriad of qualities to inspire fashion. Ice is clean and structured. Vapor is sheer and ever-changing. And in its liquid state, water's waves and undulations exhibit both predictable patterns and mysterious rogue waves. For its mystery, familiarity and constant change, the movement and structure of water inspires and mirrors the static nature of fashion. Here are some refreshing fashions to quench your thirst. more...
GMHC Fashion Forward 2007 :: Pictures of the Fashion Show
On November 1st, ZOOZOOM co-sponsored Fashion Forward, an effort on the part of the fashion industry to support the fight against AIDS and HIV in conjunction with Gay Men's Health Crisis, a non-profit organization. Amongst the likes of Diane von Furstenberg and Perry Ellis, ZOOZOOM attended the cocktail reception, silent auction, and runway show, and took portraits of its gorgeous attendees. This is our coverage of the show featuring Peter Som, John Bartlett, Rag and Bone, Buckler by Andrew Buckler, Heatherette and Perry Ellis. more...
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