Shoe designer Stuart Weitzman not looking to join others with low-price …
(Damian Dovarganes, FILE/Associated Press) – FILE- This Friday, Feb. 22, 2008 file photo shows designer Stuart Weitzman at his boutique in Beverly Hills, Calif. Weitzman’s most pricey footwear was his diamond-encrusted shoes worth $1 million. While he stopped creating that shoe in 2008, saying he did not feel right to put out such an extravagant shoe in hard economic times, he is now releasing “the millionaires” shoe. Instead of being bedazzled in diamonds, they are decorated with Swavorski crystals and priced at a little under $600.
It Starts With Lip Gloss
“She’s taken an interest in makeup, so she might as well learn to put it on properly,” the elder Ms. Kratzman said. “There’s so much out there now.”
“All my girlfriends are wearing makeup; it’s the stage,” Sloane agreed. She said she reads The Zoe Report, Teen Vogue and Seventeen, and looks up to Blake Lively and Lauren Conrad for beauty tips. “Everyone at least has lip gloss,” she said. “Benefit is the hot brand right now.”
A sixth grader, Sloane is part of an emerging demographic: the tween beauty sophisticate who might go to a salon for updos, facials or waxing. Ms. Ahnert, for one, said she has regular 12-year-old clients who have their makeup done before going out to a dinner or to a bat mitzvah.
Defined vaguely as ages 8 to 14, the tween category now has several product lines. In February 2011, GeoGirl, a collection touting natural ingredients like licorice extract, green tea and vitamin E, arrived on the market. Reactions were mixed, with some critics excoriating the line for marketing anti-aging products to children.
“Our target demographic is actually the beauty beginner,” said Janine Coppola, senior marketing director of Pacific World, the company behind GeoGirl. “We created more for stage and not an age.” (She said, though, that most cosmetic users start at 10.)
A year later, GeoGirl is thriving. Walmart renewed orders for 2012, and Drugstore.com began stocking the brand last September.
The sector is growing overall as well. The NPD Group, a market research company, found that in 2009 girls ages 8 to 12 had raised their average beauty product spending by 70 cents a month, when compared with two years earlier. And they increasingly have options aimed specifically at them.
On Dec. 12, Lourdes Leon, the daughter of Madonna, was on location in New York City for a photo shoot for Material Girl clothing. Ms. Leon, who is 15 and known casually as Lola, founded the brand, sold exclusively at Macy’s, with her mother in August 2010. A year later, the two introduced Material Girl beauty. Ms. Leon came up with the idea, she said, and designed the packaging (an ’80s-looking, bright graffiti typeface), flavors and scents. (Her favorite is Viva Vanilla, although she added, “I don’t like anything that smells too sweet.”)
“I was mostly using adult products before,” Ms. Leon later wrote in an e-mail. “For example, I was using Bare Minerals, Benefit and MAC.”
Her interest in beauty began early. “When I was 2 years old!” she wrote. “Growing up in London and NYC, I was always fascinated by makeup.”
With a range of offerings, Material Girl beauty is as much Holly Hobbie as Lolita. Lip glosses, at $7 a tube, come in the sweetly innocent “Butterscotch Sundae” or the vampy “Plum Like It Hot.” The “Flirty Fruit” body wash ($12) is a blast of playground nostalgia. Meanwhile, the “Smoky and Sexy” eye palette, Ms. Leon’s favorite item at the moment, packages four shadows and a black liner for the adult price tag of $20.
Where the preteen category ends and teen and adult beauty begin has become as well-blended as Ms. Leon’s expert smoky eye.
“The tween market is performing well, but it’s hard to separate from the value market,” said José Barra, senior vice president for health care and beauty at Target. Mr. Barra defined value products as those with price tags 20 percent lower than national brands., like e.l.f. cosmetics, with items priced from $1 to $3.
“If you think about what the tween is doing, she is trying to figure herself out,” Mr. Barra said. “She wants to use what her mom and older sister are using, but it has to be low-cost for her because she’s more on a budget. For it to work, it has to be a brand that can take her into puberty and maybe even college.” (It’s also a challenge for a brand to grow with its spokesmodel; earlier tween lines, like one by the Olsen twins for Walmart, have foundered.)
Tinker Bell, at least, is timeless: in March, Target will introduce a collection themed to the Disney character by PixiGlow cosmetics. The same month, the chain will begin stocking Willa, a beauty line aimed at the 7-to-14 set.
In attractive white packaging accented by royal purple and silver hologram accents, Willa has more design kudos than many adult drugstore brands.
The founder, Christy Prunier, a former Hollywood film executive, got the idea three years ago when looking for beauty options for her 8-year-old daughter, Willa Doss. “Everything had cheap chemicals in it,” Ms. Prunier, 43, said.
After prevailing in a trademark battle with the hair care company Wella, Willa’s first collection focuses on skin care (all products are sulfate- and paraben-free), but also offers sheer color and shimmer products. “I wasn’t interested in my daughter looking like a Vegas showgirl,” Ms. Prunier said.
In December, mother and daughter, now 11, of Greenwich, Conn., hosted a breakfast for beauty editors at Maialino in the Gramercy Park Hotel in Manhattan. The company’s namesake, a fresh-faced young beauty, wore her classic private-school uniform with pink metallic Dr. Martens boots. Over bites of oatmeal, she smoothly pitched the product, pointing to individual items like the St. Tropez Strawberry lip balm ($7.50).
Describing why the tinted sunscreen ($14.50) had a dry-finish, she declared: “I hate sunscreen. It’s sticky and gooey. It drives me nuts.” On the minimalist packaging: “Sparkle hearts? No one would buy that!”
A couple of days later, this reporter received a purple handwritten thank-you-for-coming note in a childish scrawl.
A charming face doesn’t hurt, but with higher than average prices, Target is positioning the line with the naturals category, where prices have more flexibility. On the shelf, it will go next to the adult brand Burt’s Bees.
“We’ll see how well Willa does in tween,” Mr. Barra said. “In our experience, the tween shopper is not looking for a specific brand as much.” But, he added, “The tween is more participative in decision-making than 10 years ago.”
Some of that shift can be attributed to the spread of celebrity pop culture. But growing up is not all fun and glitter, Ms. Coppola of Pacific World pointed out.
“Some girls are hitting puberty at 9 or 10 years old,” she said. “They’re popping up with pimples. It makes them self-conscious. And that’s why we have a concealer that covers up the acne.”
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Fashion Star Contestants Announced By NBC
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Fashion Star Contestants Announced By NBC
January 30, 2012 12:00 PM by Lisa Princ
NBC’s upcoming design competition Fashion Star , starring Jessica Simpson and Nicole Richie is set to premiere this March. If you are anxiously awaiting this hot, new series, keep reading as NBC announced the 14 contestants who will be battling it out! More after the jump…
A recent NBC press release said:
Fashion Star revealed today the 14 designers competing to become America’s next big Fashion Star and a chance to win the multi-million dollar prize of launching their collections in three of America’s largest retailers: Macy’s, HM and Saks Fifth Avenue. The new series, hosted and executive-produced by Elle Macpherson, and featuring celebrity mentors Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and John Varvatos will premiere on Tuesday, March 13 (9:30-11 p.m. ET) and resume with one-hour episodes on Tuesday, March 20 (10-11 p.m. ET).
The competing designers are:
BARBARA BATES (Age: 55) — Chicago, Ill. — A recent breast cancer survivor, Bates, is a Chicago native and designer who has been working in the fashion industry for over 25 years knows what it means to be a fighter. In 1999, she founded the Bates Foundation, which provides custom prom attire/dresses for underprivileged young women and men from inner-city Chicago schools.
EDMOND NEWTON (Age: 32) — Atlanta, Ga. — From his junior high school days when he was voted “best dressed” to later becoming a professional male model at the age of 17, Edmond Newton has always been destined for a career in the fashion world. His ultimate dream is to create a successful fashion house and become a household name.
@edmondnewton
KARA LARICKS (Age: 38) — New York City, N.Y. — Former fourth-grade school teacher Laricks always told her students to be true to themselves. Finally, she took her own advice and pursued a career in fashion. She designs androgynous clothing for women, inspired by her love of menswear and an avant-garde Japanese design aesthetic.
@karalaricks
LISA VIAN HUNTER (Age: 47) — Mercer Island, Wash. — Women’s wear designer Vian Hunter is a mother of two and lover of all things vintage. Hunter says that women are desperate for gorgeous, affordable clothing made in the USA — and that’s exactly what she intends to give them.
@lisavianhunter
LIZZIE PARKER (Age: 41) — Seattle, Wash. –Parker has always made it a point to follow her dreams, even if it meant leaving something behind. That’s exactly what she did when she left her corporate job in software development to pursue a career in fashion. Parker loves designing clothing that works for the everyday consumer, sizes 0-16, and creating a wardrobe that truly performs for today’s modern, multifaceted woman.
@lizzie_parker
LUCIANA SCARABELLO (Age: 30) –Miami, Fla. — Born and raised in Argentina, Scarabello did not move to America until she attended college in Boston. Upon graduating, Scarabello went on to study at Parsons School of Design. She ultimately wants to see her dress collection expand into a line that includes separates.
@l_scarabello
NICHOLAS BOWES (Age: 38) –Los Angeles, Calif.–Born in Australia, Bowes began his career in fashion as a model in the mid-1990s but soon cultivated his fashion interests into a screen printing business. This venture led to designing vintage tees and leather jackets and ultimately creating his own clothing line. Bowes hopes to become the next commercially viable brand.
@nicholasbowes
NIKKI POULOS (Age: 43) –Delray Beach, Fla. — Poulos grew up on a farm with no electricity in the Australian Outback on 54,000 acres of land. With no television — and only the outdoors to entertain her and her siblings — they were forced to be creative. Poulos could not stay away from fashion and she is selling her clothing online and in stores across the U.S., Caribbean and Australia.
@nikkipoulos
NZIMIRO OPUTA (Age: 28) –New York, N.Y. — A Detroit native and the youngest male of five siblings, Oputa was no stranger to hand-me-downs from his older brothers while growing up. The beginning of Oputa’s fashion creativity was finding innovative way to transform his brother’s old clothes into new designs. Although he credits his upbringing for his creativity, he quit his job as an engineer to pursue his lifelong dream of a career in fashion.
@nzimirooputa
ORLY SHANI(Age: 26) — New York, N.Y. — In high school Shani was determined to emulate the clothes she loved in magazines and would spend a few dollars at local thrift stores and transform what she bought into masterpieces. This later became her first business venture. Shani who specializes in convertible fashion wants to build an empire, and with her strong entrepreneurial mindset and determination, nothing will stand in her way.
@orlyshani
OSCAR FIERRO (Age: 37) — Lewisville, Texas–Growing up in his poverty-stricken hometown in El Salvador only further fed the ambitious Oscar Fierro’s desire to become successful. Fierro is a thriving businessman who owns four assisted living facilities and has designed several clothing lines including couture dresses and a “To Go” line, which features women’s wear for under $30.
@theoscarfierro
RONNIE ESCALANTE (Age: 32) — San Francisco, Calif. — Raised in the Philippines, Escalante spent most of his days on an agricultural province. At the age of 17, Escalante and his family moved to the U.S. in search of a better life and soon after, he joined the U.S. Navy where he served for four years. Keeping his chic and confident female consumers in mind, Escalante wants to keep the price point of his collection affordable.
@escalanteronnie
ROSS BENNETT (Age: 27) — Austin, Texas — Raised in Texas, Bennett is a mixture of a big city kid and true country boy who likes to hunt, fish and design custom one-of-a kind dresses and other tailored items for women. Bennett studied under some of the most prestigious presidential tailors in the state. He currently has a dress shop in Austin, Texas where he designs cocktail, formal, and wedding dresses, along with suiting and garments needed for everyday at the office.
@TheRBColleciton
SARAH PARROTT (Age: 31) — Marietta, Ga. — Parrott may be a newcomer to the fashion world, but she has always had a penchant for style. This stay-at-home mom decided to pursue her passion when she turned 30. She recently entered her first collection into the Charleston fashion week and won the People’s Choice Award. With such a successful first showing, Parrott is an emerging designer to keep in sight.
@sarahgparrott
In a weekly one-hour format, the 14 competing designers will participate in tasks, where they will be mentored by Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and John Varvatos, designed to further develop and expand their brands.
At the end of each episode, America will have the chance to immediately purchase the winning designs showcased on the episode that week at Macy’s, HM and Saks Fifth Avenue. The winning designs will be available on-line immediately and in-stores the following day. With just a single trip down an extravagant runway, “Fashion Star” will change the lives and fortunes of these aspiring designers forever.
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From the fashion cupboard: The return of the backpack
This week’s hot topic from the fashion cupboard: the return of the backpack.
BY Frankie Graddon
30 January 2012
A backpack at Alexander Wang
Once reserved for school children and tourists, the trusty backpack is making its come back as the
bag du jour
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Backpacks were all over the spring/ summer 2012 catwalks, cementing themselves as a key feature in the dominating ‘sport luxe’ trend.
SHOP: Our pick of the best backpacks
Alexander Wang showed them in grown-up burgundy leather worn with a single strap across the body, whilst Felder Felder took a girly punk approach, incarnating them in metallic green paired with skater skirts and studded cuffs.
Interpreted across the high street in a myriad of colours and fabrics, the practical (dare I say it) bag, is sure to be a welcome fixture in the working woman’s wardrobe. Not only does a backpack provide ample space for ever-increasing handbag essentials, worn on two shoulders it eradicates that all too familiar backache caused by over-stuffed shoulder bags.
However, if the thought of replacing your ladylike shoulder bag with apparel favoured by ramblers leaves you a little dubious, try breaking yourself into the trend with a chic mini backpack in black or navy leather. Sling just one strap over the shoulder and you’ll hardly notice you’ve crossed into backpack territory.
Before donning said tote, here’s a quick note on positioning: wear your bag in the centre of the back so the bottom sits just below your waistline. Worn too high and you look like an eager exchange student, but too low and you resemble a sulky teenager – hardly ideal.
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Fashion Alert: Halle Berry Launches Shoe Collection
Halle Berry is definitely a woman of many trades, and she can now add shoe designer to her résumé. Ms. Berry is set to launch 5th Avenue by Halle Berry in the UK this coming March, a 40-piece collection that are mostly spring and summer looks. The gorgeous 45-year-old star expressed her excitement about the new venture stating:
“Women have always loved shoes. It’s like if your hair is not right and your shoes are not right, the woman is not right. If both of them are right, you’re pretty much OK. And shoes are a statement. They can be very sexy; they can say something about where you are in the day; they can say what your mood is; they give you a chance to accessorize. And I’m a girl that loves to change my shoes all the time. It’s an expression of who you are really. I’m a girl if I find a shoe that I really like I like to get them in all colours. I’m big on that.”
The collection has a variety of styles, mostly low heeled shoes with a slight wedge and sandals. Can’t wait till the line hits the US!
Get Sofia Vergara’s Rosy SAG Awards Makeup
Sofia’s pink and plum beauty look at the 2012 SAG awards was inspired by her stunning jewels. Find out how to get her look!
Celebrity makeup artist Kayleen McAdams created this gorgeous look on CoverGirl spokeperson Sofia Vergara. See Kayleen’s how-to and shop her product picks below.
“You’ll see that Sofia’s jewelry had purple tones, in both the bracelet and earrings so I wanted to subtly bring that out in the eye with a plum shadow,” explains Kayleen. “To bring the whole look together, I used a mauve lipstick as it complemented the eye and also accented the jewelry.”
Face:
- “I applied COVERGIRL TRUconceal Concealer #4 under the eyes and around the nose first, and then applied COVERGIRL NatureLuxe Silk Foundation in Nutmeg #360 using a sponge starting at the center of the face and then blending outwards. To set these creamy products, I used a good, fluffy brush and COVERGIRL Clean Pressed Powder in Soft Honey. To brighten the face, I applied COVERGIRL Cheekers Blush in Classic Pink along the cheekbones.
Eyes:
- I started with COVERGIRL Liquiline Blast Eyeliner in Brown Blaze at the outer corner of the upper lash line and all the way along the bottom. I applied COVERGIRL Eye Enhancers 1-Kit Shadows in Forever Fig over the entire lid starting at the outer corners and blending towards the center.
- I then used COVERGIRL Eye Enhancers 1-Kit Shadows in Brown Smolder at the outer corners and along the bottom lash line. I finished the eyes with two coats of COVERGIRL LashBlast Volume Blasting Mascara in Very Black on both the top and bottom lashes.
Lips:
- I started with COVERGIRL LipPerfection Lipcolor in Eternal to fill in Sofia’s entire lip. To add dimension to the lip, I used new COVERGIRL Blast Flipstick Lipcolor in Vixen in the center to give it a little shimmer.
Further Prep:
- At the last minute, I decided to add a little more brown liner to the upper lash line to give it further depth. Other than that the look was all set!
- I gave Sofia the lip products I used as well as a pressed powder to combat any potential shine throughout the night. When I applied COVERGIRL Blast Flipstick Lipcolor, I started with a lighter pink but eventually decided to switch to a mauve shade. The COVERGIRL LipPerfection Lipcolor in Eternal is one of our absolute favorites so I knew we wanted to use that one.”
What is your favorite part of Sofia’s look?
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Exploring use cases for electronic clothes
Adafruit Industries, an open-source hardware company, recently announced a new wearable electronic platform that is Arduino compatible. Called Flora, the 1.75″ device will soon be available to Adafruit’s community of makers, hackers, crafters, artists, designers and engineers. Using the open source device, they’ll be able to create a matrix of up to hundreds or someday, more than 1,000 small LED “pixels” and embed them it into fabric.
Inventor Limor Fried, named one of the “Most influential Women in Technology” by Fast Company, said that she envisions a world where people carry handbags with text or video, or wear TV screens on their T-shirts.
Here is a short Flora demo:
Embedding screens and sensors into clothing is not a new idea, but the approach Adafruit presents could be a boost for a concept that is not without technical hurdles (How do you wash an electrified shirt?). Fried was once part of the wearable computing group at MIT and if you look at the specs, she designed the platform to be beginner-friendly, fabric-friendly, and loaded with standardized hardware and protocols, such as built-in USB and USB HID support, and forthcoming iPhone/iPad/Android apps. The kit even includes premium stainless steel thread.
In an interview on Wired, Fried and her partner Phillip Torrone, Adafruit’s creative director, discussed how Flora could be used to control electronics, such as lights, sensors, and Internet communications. “I mean, what do people really want? They want to be rock stars. They want to wear jackets with flashing lights that have flexible LED displays that can play whole videos on them,” Fried told Wired.
That may be true for some and there’s no doubt the Burning Man crowd would be among the first to join artists and fashion designers in that trajectory. But would the mainstream shop for clothing laced with flexible screens or t-shits that could loop YouTube clips? Perhaps, but there are a lot of applications across many domains and embedded electronic could ultimately improve our lives:
- Fashion/Art - The best example is Galaxy Dress, which Singularity Hub called an “extravagant example of what happens when technology collides full on with haute couture.” There are also light-up bras and shirts with embedded speakers. This use case is most prominent since integrated electronics is still a novelty.
- Branding – Embroidered or silk-screened logos not enough? Nothing will express your intense brand affinity or adoration for a product or ad than using your body as an electronic billboard.
- Entertainment – If in the future, you can watch a music video on your sleeve with the same quality and resolution as your portable handheld device, then why not?
- Communications – Military applications are most noteworthy as high-tech soldiers increasingly don sophisticated gadgets and weapons that are linked together. For example, Ohio State University researchers have created a lightweight wearable antenna that could eventually replace bulky conventional antennas.
- Health/Data logging – Wearable sensors are essential for monitoring body signals, medical diagnosis, mHealth applications, and body area networks. They could also be used in treatment. For instance, there’s a scarf that is designed to calm Autistic sufferers using textures, sounds and smells.
- Gaming/Controllers – Vibrating game controllers are no match for haptic clothing. A few years ago, Philips Electronics created a jacket lined with vibration motors allow you to “feel” games and movies. From MP3 player/smartphone controls to wearable gestural interfaces like SixthSense, such interfaces could someday be as common as the mouse, keyboard, and touchscreen.
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Milanoo Valentine’s Day Sale Takes 20% Off for All Selected Lovely Items
CHENGDU, China, Jan. 29, 2012 — /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Global fashion apparels supplier Milanoo.com established special Valentine’s Day boutique (http://www.milanoo.com/en/promotions/specials-id-112121.html) for gift choosing ideas to tie in love, relationships, marriage, dating, attraction, lust, sex, and weddings.
In Milanoo Valentine’s Day boutique, the boost in Valentine’s Day spending will cover everything from women dresses and sexy costumes, shoes and bags to occasion dresses for getting ready for flirty days and romantic nights. All selected lovely items at this boutique are 20% off, making them affordably priced. The sale prices are displayed directly for convenient shopping.
To thrill the hearts, Milanoo occasion dresses and women party dresses only for Valentine’s Day are the latest fashion designs, including one-shoulder dresses in elegant black and profuse red with chiffon materials, making amazing impressions for evening time. The Milanoo 2012 Valentine’s Day featured products are bustiers and corsets, which are ideal choices to make you appear more lusty and sexy for your lover. Shoes and bags in this boutique turn to be shining and fashionable for her.
Valentine’s Day is a beautiful occasion that speaks of love and romance. All of us want to do something different and special for our loved ones on this day. To give your lover a special Valentine’s Day gift, Milanoo fashion may be the right choice with affordable prices. Please feel free to log in their official sites at http://www.milanoo.com/.
About MilanooMilanoo.com is one of the most established websites where people can find latest trends in fine jewelry, Cosplay items and wigs as well as women’s lingerie, formal wear, wedding attire, shoes and handbags. Milanoo.com’s inventory also includes men’s fashion and accessories, bedding, housewares and yoga essentials. The site is developed especially for those having a passion for fashion. Being the leading online retail shop for fashion, it always strives to bring something new and unique to fashion lovers. Amazing discount offers is one major attraction of Milanoo.com that make more and more fashion enthusiasts visit and purchase from the site.
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