WILLABELLE ONG

WILLABELLE-ONGBorn and raised in Singapore, now Australian-based Willabelle Ong is the creative professional, influencer, and travel enthusiast behind the luxury lifestyle and fashion site, Pale Division. She has collaborated and blogged for a diverse clientele, with profiles ranging from Gucci, Longines, and Schwarzkopf, to eBay, Sony, and Lenovo.

Other celebrated brands that have reached out include SK-II, Mode Creation Munich (MCM), Logitech, Nokia, Magnum, NARS, Benefit, ASOS, Reebonz, Melissa, River Island, and so on.

Travel-wise, Willabelle’s work has taken her on sponsored trips to remarkable countries — the most recent being France for instance, as well as the opportunity to Continue reading

WELCOME TO RALPH TOLENADO

International Herald Tribune Heritage Luxury Conference - Day 2
Today, the Annual General Meeting of the French Fashion Federation, Haute Couture, Ready-To-Wear and Designers announced that the actual President, Didier Grumbach, will not be renewed as President of the Federation.

Mr Stéphane Wargnier was appointed as the new Executive President. We congratulate him and wish him a successful presidency. We hope that he will better understand the significant role of the Key Opinion Leaders in the fashion industry.

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CEO Canal-Luxe.org

SAINT LAURENT

1b-200x300 Mr. Slimane, I hated being sit on the ground like a student, and you know why? Just because I have 55 years old,  when we noticed that Mr Pinault sat also on the floor we remained silent and shut up. The designer gives us his vision on California in the 1970s, at the highlight of the anti-war movement.  He mixes all the influences; Hippy, Flower Power, Folk Music, Rock, Surf Culture, and war veterans to create one of the most diverse and sartorially disruptive moments in recent history.

Leather cow patchwork poncho, Baja hoodie or pony skin cape. There were perfectos, intricately embellished hippy vests and studded suede jackets.

Then he added the essential accessories such as neck scarves, silver jewelry. He mixed western gringos and flower power culture; very difficult to understand any way. Oh, by the way I could not see anything as the spotlights were in my face.

DIOR FOR DEVOTED CLIENTS

DIOR1BThe Designer Kris Van Assche gets points for coming up with a rather original interpretation of the used and abused style. The introduction of Breton-esque bumble bee striped tank tops first worn like vest with the suits and then later, on their own, and paired with comfy denim jeans.

Showing suits, jeans, and blazers covered in hand written musing of Mr. Christian Dior. It was featured on short sleeve shirts, denim jackets, and most captivating on cropped sweatshirts worn over shirts that peeked out from above and below. Van Assche once again produced a surprisingly novel offering for the devoted Dior customer, very devoted indeed.

WOOYOUNGMI PARIS 2015

Wooyoungmi, Menswear Spring Summer 2015 Fashion Show in ParisBorn in Seoul, South Korea, in 1959 and growing up in a post-war country brimming with political unrest, Woo Youngmi was fortunate to find creativity close to home. Her father, the head of an architectural firm, and her mother, who taught both art and piano, did their utmost to use what they had to provide a creative environment for their five children.

In 1978 Woo Youngmi enters Sung-kyun-kwan University in Seoul to begin her fashion studies. On graduating in 1983 she wins the Osaka International Fashion award.

By 1988 Woo Youngmi has launched the menswear brand SOLID HOMME, starting out with a small boutique in Seoul. She becomes the first menswear ready-to-wear female designer in Korea.

In 1989 her younger sister Woo Janghee, having completed her studies in applied fine arts, joins Woo Youngmi at the design helm. Side-by-side they build one of the leading brands in Korea.

In 1993 Woo Youngmi and some young designer friends begin ‘New Wave’, as a platform for young designers to Continue reading

JUUN J MENSWEAR SPRING 2015

This is one of those designers who always have a vision ahead of the others. Pure white is the absolute chic. He has understood that gender is not a subject in itself, what matters is the beauty of the artistic print that gives our secular eyes, we never see the obvious. Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant …

KIRKWOOD AND LVMH

SHOESSince last year LVMH has become one of the main shareholders of the virtuoso shoemaker who has presented several innovative models to his male clientele, for whom he has been designing since 2013. It is only the third menswear collection for Maria Luisa’s darling, following a mini-capsule presented in January 2013. 

“My male client is the best friend or the boyfriend of my female client!” joked Kirkwood on Monday, June 16 during his London men presentation. “I wanted to reinterpret the classic derby Continue reading

PHILIPP PLEIN NOT EMPTY

PLEINStarting with a personal vision more than ten years ago, by now the company PHILIPP PLEIN can look back on a successful history. Based in Switzerland, he has been creating an exclusive, surprising and uncompromising brand.

Today it is a global luxury lifestyle brand, rich in variety with more than ten different categories: fashion for men, women and kids, luggage, jewellery and lunettes. The home collection includes home furniture, home accessories, garden furniture, dog accessories, lightning and kitchen.

The noble aura of the brand opened the doors to the best stores worldwide, in over 60 different countries the company distributes products, including PHILIPP PLEIN monobrand stores in: Monte Carlo, Saint Tropez, Cannes, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Kitzbühel, Continue reading

BJÖRK BODY OF PROOF

bjork-momaLast week, it seems when, MoMA announced it would acquire Björk’s Biophilia app — made in collaboration with the graphic-design duo M/M (Paris) — for its permanent collection, the first such induction of an app for the art museum, they were only getting started.

Today MoMA made the bombshell announcement that a retrospective of the Icelandic shrieker-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s career would go on view from March 7 to June 7, 2015.

” Björk is an extraordinarily innovative artist whose contributions to contemporary music, video, film, fashion, and art have had a major impact on her generation worldwide.” This highly experimental exhibition offers visitors a direct experience of her hugely collaborative body of work.

LAFAYETTE MADE IN MILANO

lafayetteThe international Galeries Lafayette development have announced that they have reached an agreement with Westfield and Gruppo Stilo – two leading international mall specialists – to open their first and wholly-owned store in Milan within Westfield Milan, the expected largest mall in Italy.

The future Galeries Lafayette « flagship » store (18,000 m2, four floors) will be one of the main attractions of Westfield Milan, expected to open in 2017/2018.

Located 20 minutes away from the centre of Milan and 10 minutes away from the airport, this prestigious Continue reading

MARIA VON

maria-sharapova3The Russian tennis player, who won her second French Open title on Saturday, has joined forces with Avon Products Inc. to front campaigns for their latest scents for men and women.

Vice president of global fine fragrances at Avon, Danielle Bibas, cites Maria as the perfect choice for the venture. “Maria is an amazing athlete and businesswoman who has lots of success in life and she has this sophisticated natural beauty.”

Besides, “She’s someone who really exudes happiness.” Maria has already dipped Continue reading

NICOLE KOHN

Nicole-KohnNobody knows how to take us for a long memory trip, except  Nicole Kohn. The carpediem realistic vision invites us to travel in a dream forest.  The power of imagination and the power of creation are the print between Sun Valley and New York City. Everything that was created first existed as a mental picture in somebody’s mind. What things do you see around you?

They are the fruits of people’s imagination. George Benard Shaw expressed it so well, ‘Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.’ Our desires take the form of mental pictures. But the mental image alone will not become reality without action.

Think creatively, solve problems and Continue reading

FROM HASH COUTURE TO VALERIE ASH

ANNEVALERIEHASH2A few month ago, the Chambre Syndicale of Haute Couture nominated Anne-Valérie Hash as a talented Haute Couture Designer.

What has happened to Anne-Valérie Hash? Or has the Chambre Syndicale of Haute Couture made a pure mistake in rewarding a ready-to-wear designer as Haute Couture designer? We can really wonder how does the Chambre Syndicale of Haute Couture select the candidates and on which criteria it nominates the Haute Couture Designers? For a little while it has been quite a nonsense and Anne-Valérie Hash is a good example.

Anne-Valérie Hash has recently been nominated the designer of the Parisian studio of Comptoir des Cotonniers and Princess Tam Tam. Comptoir des Cotonniers and Princess Tam Tam are very optimistics and we wish them good luck in their choice!!!

Anne-Valérie Hash put her eponymous label on hold in February in order to rethink her business strategy. “I learned the basics of my work on the job and I now may need to consider adopting a different perspective,” said the designer, whose latest Spring/Summer 2014 collection is Continue reading