Fashionistas tales - Fashion Designer life : January 2016

Sunday, January 31, 2016

SALES

There comes the time when every fashionista looses her grip over her credit card - the SALE period.

Fashion is a serious buisness ,and as with any other serious buisnesess there are certain words that are only used in it.

Fashion Vocabulary

Garments – another word for items of clothes, apparels.
Accessories – things (bags, belts or jewellery) that can be added to your outfit to make it more attractive and stylish.
Lingerie – women’s underwear, undergarments.
Fashion victim – a person who wears popular trends and looks really ridiculous because he/she ends up looking like a store mannequin.
Baggy – wide-legged pants or loose-fitting shirts/blouses.
Catwalk or runway – a narrow flat platform, used by models to present designer clothes. Clothes stall – a booth displaying clothes in a market. Fashion icon – someone or something who is very well known as an example of style and high fashion. Must-haves – highly essential clothes that you must have in your wardrobe this season. Clothing must-haves also comprise the essentials of your wardrobe.

Fashion idioms and expressions:

To have a sense of style – to know what looks good on you and have your own style and taste.
To be old-fashioned – to wear clothes or do something that is no longer in style.
Strike a pose – to take a particular posture in order to impress. You can strike a pose for the camera.
To be dressed to kill – wear something with an intention to stand out/impress people and be noticed.

To have an eye for fashion – to have a good taste and know what is “in fashion” and what is not.
Dress for the occasion – to wear something in the right place at the right time. Not to wear short skirt to church or bathing suit to a wedding (unless you are in Miami).
To be well dressed – attired in clothing that is of fashionable, expensive and properly fitted.

Monday, January 11, 2016

Golden Globes 2016 my faves !

Jennifer Lawrence

Cate Blanchett

Katy Perry

Eniko Parrish and actor Kevin Hart

Uzo Aduba

Rooney Mara

Saoirse Ronan

Kate Hudson

Natalie Dormer

Alicia Vikander

Lily James

Olivia Wilde

Corinne Bishop and actor Jamie Foxx

Jada Pinkett Smith

Kate Bosworth

Heidi Klum

Viola Davis

Brie Larson

Zendaya

Kristen Dunst

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Malin Akerman

Eva Green

Rachel Bloom

Gina Rodriguez

Joanne Froggatt

Melissa Benoist

Jamie Lee Curtis

Ana de la Reguera

Sunday, January 10, 2016

The story of Designer : Jean Paul Gaultier

Jean Paul Gaultier born 24 April 1952 in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. Gaultier was the creative director of Hermès from 2003 to 2010. In the past, he has hosted the television series Eurotrash.