Danish Award Dresses

Danish Fashion Award, the Fashion Event of the year took place a few weeks ago at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. Danish Fashion Award was founded 5 years ago by Uffe Buchard and Kim Grenaa, also founders of the fashion magazine DANSK, that just celebrated its 10th Anniversary with an Exhibition at Danish Design Centre. They founded this event to celebrate and promote Danish fashion industry, since it is the 4. biggest business in Denmark.

This year they finally succeeded in making Aqua-singer, Lene Nystrøm a Co-Hostess.
Ten designers/brands were appointed to dress her up for the Event. Among them, three stod out in my opinion.
Unfortunately I only found this photo of  the very nice dress from Designers Remix, that looked so contemporary.

But a black and white dress by the very talented Ann Sofie Madsen and a futuristic fairytaledress from Trash Couture by Ann Wiberg looked stunning too.
The rest of her dresses was a little bit out of touch: some quite ordinary and not very well fitted, like some of the attending guests. . .

-An Exception was the tv-host, Signe Lindquist, who looked quite stylish and radiant in a vintage-dress from F92.

Another dress I don´t know what to think of was this dress from Award-winning Henrik Vibskov, singer Aura was wearing. I guess it´s more a "fashion statement" or maybe a joke, than anything else. What do YOU think ?

Photos: ScanPix

What about Reality ?

Grace Jones

Social Media, like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, Slideshare, VooPod, FlickR, Digg, Delicious. . . Where does it stop ? Is there a limit ? What to do ? Do we really need them all ? - and Why ? Why do we need to be all over the internet ? Because we can ?

I have reached a point where I feel like I am loosing my time. Because it is timeconsuming and takes time to maintain and keep up, if you don´t want to repeat yourself everywhere. Preventing you from doing what you really want. . .

What will the consequences be ? That you will loose focus and event-ually yourself, if you don´t pay attention ? -That you don´t recognize who you are anymore, questioning what happened. . .

Do You know the feeling ? What do you think ? What do you do ?

Celebrity Designers . . .

-Do we really need them ? Yet another performer has ambitions in fashion. Rihanna is trying to make the most of it. After a few Capsule collections for Armani, she wants to pursue her own Fashion Line :
-"I want to design. This is also a road that I want to earn it. So I’m working with designers. Designers that I respect, and companies that I respect. I want people to really trust me before I just say 'Buy it because it's mine.'" From Style.mtv.com

Courtesy of Armani

What is her qualifications for doing that ? Does she has a degree in fashion ? Because to be famous and perhaps a brand doesn´t qualify to do that in my opinion.
I am thinking exploitation and lack of respect for all fashiondesigners that has a passion for fashion and have used years to qualify, to make their dream come true.

Like a friend on facebbok said:  -"whom does the real job is anonymous. The worst thing is we have to limit our creative potential to submit to personal taste of our employers with no technical knowledge. Imagine how more interesting fashion would be if it was made only by capable professionals". Ingrid Lima, Fashion Editor at IDsetters. - and I agree.

Maybe designers should consider to start a new career as actors or entertainers. . . instead of sticking to what they are good at. Read more about Suzy Menkes thoughts on the subject here and tell me what YOU think ?

Fabric Addiction

If you are in a creative field, you may be familiar with this addiction.
Even though I have a lot of fabrics on stock, I always get tempted, when I shop for sewing-stuff and discover new exciting fabrics, ideas immedia-tely pops to my mind. . . Usually it is a nice colour, a special pattern, texture and the quality of the fabric that attracts me. I always buy it, because you never know if it will be there later on.

But - I have plenty of projects to finish before I can start new ones. At the moment I´m trying to finish four different bridal-projects : a short skirt, a short- and two long dresses.
Tell me about your addiction and have a nice weekend out there.

The Style of an Icon

Jacqueline Bouvier, better known as Jackie Kennedy (1929-1994) was The Style Icon of her time.

She made a lasting impact on fashion, because of her impeccable style-consciousness. Her style was simple and classical, but at the same time very modern. That is maybe why she continues to inspire today.

The "Jackie-look" was created by the French-born American Fashion designer, Oleg Cassini (1913-2006), who was appointed "Secretary of Style" in 1961.

Take a look at some of his dresses on The John F. Kennedy - Presidential Library and Museum.
If you want to know more about Cassini, read his "A Thousand Days of Magic: Dressing Jacqueline Kennedy for the White House".

New Cocktaildress

This cocktaildress in a lightblue silk with black lace is one of a kind and now available in size 6 / 36. The upper part is underlined with silkorgan-dy and is just waiting to be adjusted and lined for the right customer.

Imagine it with a narrow black belt and a customized hat, the right shoes and perhaps a bag. You will get noticed.

Appreciation

I just wanted to say THANK YOU to the bloggers that support my Easter Give Away, by posting about it on their own blogs. It is very appreciated.
I hope we will reach 100 followers before long, so that all of you don´t have to wait longer than necessary.

While I am at it, I will Call on you All to share your best fashion experi-ence or contribute by writing a post about something related to fashion. You´ll get noticed and can link back to your own blog. Take a look at the previous ones here on the right side.