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Tuesday, 25 November 2014

FASHION DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA

FASHION DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA

The Victorian Era of British History was the time of Her Royal Highness, Queen Victoria's rule from 1837 till her passing in 1901. The style amid this period was ostentatious and overflowing. Individuals dressed suitably as indicated by their age and position in the general public.

Ladies amid this period wore long skirts and dresses joined by a cap or a hat. There was an exceptionally general thought that a lady's waist size was chosen by subtracting the most obvious from her age. Along these lines, if a lady's age was 20, her waist size was as far as anyone knows 19. There were by and large three sorts of articles of clothing worn by ladies. In the first place, was the Lounge Gown, normally worn at home and it was produced using the finest of fabrics that included velvet, cashmere, trim, silk and so on. Second, was the Day Dress, which by and large comprised of a v-neck area loaded with a high unsettle neckline. The women to go out for general purposes wore the day dress. Third, was the Ballroom Gown that just must be worn to exceptional occasions and gatherings. The outfit comprised of a low shoulder bodice edged with an ornamentation. 
A Crinoline
Additionally, amid this period the crinoline was designed. A crinoline was a light dress produced using steel circles, generally worn by the ladies to improve their rump and emanate an inclination of sexuality. The undergarment likewise experienced an uncommon change amid the Victorian period. It gave ladies a conelike structure while lifting and supporting their breasts, therefore structuring the state of an hourglass.
Women during the Victorian Era


The hair amid this time was confused as well as bragged of indulgence. It was by and large tied in a bun or hung as twists. Ladies could likewise be seen wearing false pieces and augmentations and those having a place with the high society, additionally wore showy head pieces encrusted with gems and pearls. The British were well known for their caps. Ladies would frequently utilize quills, or now and again, an entire fledgling to enhance their caps. It was the most pined for extra worn to flawlessly compliment the entire look.

Men's design was essentially easier and less expand as contrasted with ladies. Brandishing an exceptionally English look, the vast majority of the men would wear a waistcoat with tailed edges. Rich men wore a top cap while, men fitting in with the lower strata made do with a basic top. Honorable men constantly made a point to stroll with a stick/stick to depict predominance and class.


Impacts of the style show in the Victorian period can in any case be seen in today's apparel. Planners like Phillip Treacy, Alexander Mcqueen, Burberry and Ralph & Russo keep on carrying on the British society through their dazzling and amazing articles of clothing.

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Visual research

Subcultures

Since we had to research upon any two subcultures , here are the mood boards inspired by Tenny Boppers and Vampirism 





Sunday, 2 November 2014

FASHION IN THE ROCOCO PERIOD

FASHION IN THE ROCOCO PERIOD

Fashion designers gained even more influence during this era, as people scrambled to be clothed in the latest styles. Fashion magazines emerged during this period.
The expression Rococo is seen as an issue of the French rocaille, or shell, and the Italian barocco, or Baroque style. The Rococo style superseded the Baroque style starting in France in the late 1720s, particularly for insides, compositions and the enriching expressions. Rich Baroque outlines were offering approach to lighter components with more bends and common examples. The delicacy and fun loving nature of Rococo outlines is regularly seen as an issue to the overabundances of Louis XIV's administration. The 1730s spoke to the stature of Rococo advancement in France. The style had spread past construction modeling and furniture to painting and figure. Extravagant still kept up the Baroque taste for complex structures and perplexing examples. By this point, it had started to incorporate a mixture of assorted attributes, including a taste for Oriental plans and deviated arrangements.
a scene from Marie Antoinette
Ladies' style additionally saw a noteworthy change. A shape for ladies was created as they could be seen wearing skirts that opened at the front emulated by plunging neck areas. Likewise, pagoda sleeves came into the picture. These were tight from shoulders to the elbow and finished with flared ribbon and strips. Likewise, ladies wore panniers under their skirts amid this period. Panniers are essentially underpants worn by ladies to broaden the width of the skirts while leaving the front and back moderately level. Additionally, a large portion of the exclusive class women wore a Robe à la Françoise, which was a tight bodice containing a low-cut square neck area, typically with huge strip bows down to the front. Likewise, one of the greatest astonishments amid this period was that the ladies did not wear any undergarments and the regular figure was clear. Ladies' heels got to be daintier with pretty enhancements done on them. Ladies wore their hair tight to the head with trim hankies. A bandanna was like a handkerchief that was fixed to the head for security purposes.

 
Men's style additionally took a lofty wind in the Rococo time. They wore diverse varieties of waistcoats, as it was the most alluring bit of the whole profile. White tights were wore under breeches (flared shorts used to cover legs, finishing at the knees) joined by heeled shoes with expansive square clasps. Likewise, men wore Tricorne caps that were edged with interlace and enriched with ostrich quills.
A man wearing an embellished waistcoat, followed by breeches worn underneath.


The Rococo time was characterized by apparently differentiating perspectives: luxury and a journey for effortlessness, light colors and substantial materials. The climax delivered an exceptionally assorted time in style like none ever in the recent past.



Controversy

The Demise
 Of
Princess Diana

10 years and-a-half on, fear inspired notions encompassing the demise of Princess Diana have at last been let go. On second thoughts have they?

The accident happened just after 12 pm on August 31, 1997. A limousine convey Diana, the separated Princess of Wales, and her then-lover Dodi Al Fayed, the child of an Egyptian uber-rich person, impacted a column in the Alma Tunnel in focal Paris. Al Fayed and the driver, Henri Paul, were professed dead at the scene. Diana was taken by emergency vehicle to Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital, where she passed on a couple of hours after the fact of acute myocardial infarction. Just Al Fayed's bodyguard survived the mischance.

At the point when Diana was let go on September 6, a great many individuals lined the roads of London to watch the memorial service parade; no less than two billion all the more all through the world viewed on TV. Her sibling, the ninth Earl of Spencer, praised Diana as "the very embodiment of empathy, of obligation, of style, of magnificence." Then he included: "It is a point to recollect that of every last one of incongruities about Diana, maybe the best was this: a young lady given the name of the old goddess of chasing was, at last, the most chased individual of the advanced age."

Hypothesis #1: The paparazzi did it

He was alluding, obviously, to the paparazzi. From the minute it was uncovered in 1980 that Prince Charles had taken an enthusiasm toward the young and alluring Lady Diana Spencer, she had been harassed by the press. She was to turn into the most well known lady on the planet her each deed, regardless of how private or trifling, fastidiously shot, recorded, and sprinkled over the front pages of tabloids all around. Up until the snippet of her demise, the press were close behind.

Among the first subtle elements to surface about the mishap that murdered her was the way that the driver of the limousine had been speeding to sidestep paparazzi picture takers. Obviously, the fault was quickly laid on them. Commentators called them "legitimized stalkers," "weak killers," and "professional killers." And positively they exhaust a percentage of the obligation regarding taking part in a fast pursue under extremely hazardous conditions. Be that as it may, examination comes about soon uncovered that Henri Paul, the driver, had a blood liquor level no less than three times as far as possible. Toward the end of a two-year police examination, the paparazzi were to a great extent absolved and the dominance of the accuse - in official rings, at any rate - moved to Paul.

Hypothesis #2: The illustrious family did it

Not everybody was fulfilled by the authority adaptation of occasions, in any case. Inside hours of the advertisement of her demise, gossipy tidbits about a plot to kill Princess Diana had started to swirl. The principle guilty parties: the regal family, supported by the British brainpower administration.

Why, you solicit, would the House from Windsor need Princess Diana dead? Since, the whisper fight went, she was ready to humiliate the crown by wedding Dodi Al Fayed, a Muslim, who would get to be stepfather to Princes William and Harry, the beneficiaries to the British throne. It was even estimated that Diana was pregnant with Al Fayed's kid.

These suspicious allegations picked up more footing than they merited because of their tabloid offer, also the eager championing of Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi's father, who declines right up 'til the present time to accept the deadly pile up was an insignificant mishap. It was recommended that an operators of Mi6, the British sagacity administration, was available at the scene, acting like a part of the press. It was proposed that a baffling vehicle, a white Fiat Uno, was utilized by the plotters to piece the limousine's way, compelling it to impact the column. It was recommended that recordings from shut circuit cams in the Alma Tunnel which should have archived the exact arrangement of occasions were either messed around with or summarily discarded. Et cetera.

None of these declarations have held up under investigation. Diana was not, indeed, pregnant, as indicated by tests run on specimens of her blood gathered at the scene. Nor were Diana and Dodi wanting to get hitched, as indicated by sources near to the principals. There were no unaccounted-for vehicles, in particular a ghost Fiat, included in the accident. Of the 10 movement cams placed in and around the shaft, none were legitimately situated to record the mishap itself. What's more no persuading confirmation of government contribution has ever been found.

Hypothesis #3: Al Fayed's adversaries did it


An alternate bogeyman evoked by the individuals who decline to acknowledge the authority clarification is a gathering of shadowy figures lumped under the heading "Foes of Al Fayed." In this rendition of occasions, the genuine focus of the death plot was Dodi Al Fayed. The thought process was reprisal against his father. Diana's passing was coincidental, or a redirection at most.

It makes sense that a man as well off and effective as Mohamed Al Fayed procured some similarly influential adversaries throughout the years, yet - who are they? What are their names? Where is the confirmation of a scheme? Nothing substantial has ever been advanced. One would imagine that if there were even a shred of truth to this situation, Al Fayed himself would have since a long time ago requested a proper examination and discipline of the genuine wrongdoers.

Hypothesis #4: Diana herself did it

Beyond question the strangest paranoid notion progressed to clarify the occasions of August 31, 1997 spins around the claim that Princess Diana faked her own particular passing. With the assistance of Dodi and his family's gigantic riches, Diana deliberately arranged the "mishap" as a cover so the couple could slip away, change their characters, and start another life far from open investigation. This would mean, obviously, that the bodies covered in Princess Diana's and Dodi Al Fayed's graves really have a place with another person.

What makes this conceivable, as far as anyone knows, is the "actuality" that there was no posthumous examination of Diana's body which is patently false. A full after death exam was directed on August 31 by Home Office pathologist Dr. Robert Chapman when Diana's remaining parts were come back to England. In the event that the purpose of this plot was for Diana to escape into concealing alive and unharmed, something went frightfully wrong between the arranging and the execution.


By what means would we be able to accept the consequences of the request, they ask, when it was led by authorities of the same government that executed the crime? Still others, uncovered from the stun of Diana's unfavorable passing, keep on thinking that it difficult to acknowledge the haphazardness of the occasion.

It was to these factions, and to the individuals who just lament the loss of the "people's princess" right up 'til the present time, that Lord Stevens tended to these last words:

"Three people tragically lost their lives in the accident and one was seriously injured. Many more have suffered from the intense scrutiny, speculation and misinformed judgements in the years that have followed. I very much hope that all the work we have done and the publication of this report will help to bring some closure to all who continue to mourn the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Al Fayed, and Henri Paul."


For some, it's safe to say, the case will never be closed.


Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Ice cream with Anaita Shroff

Ice cream with

Anaita  Shroff  Adajania

Since having a conversation over coffee is too mainstream, I caught hold of Anaita while she was enjoying an ice cream. You hardly tend to find people who commute oh so perfectly with Bollywood and the Fashion industry . The fashion director for Vogue India has styled for all my favourite actors , not just worked with them but gave them a complete image makeover , ( Ash in Dhoom , Deepika in cocktail)

10 th October 2014  


Me : You have worked with all my Favourite people in the industry but who is your personal favourite ?

Anaita:  I only work with people I love, and who inspire me. So  I’ll have to say all the people I dress.


Me : Not many people switch perfectly from working in both industries ( ie mainstream bollywood and the fashion world) , but does your heart reside in one ?

Aniata : My heart and creativity lies with fashion . I m more myself , in the fashion industry whereas in a film , the director keeps on giving in insights and the actor’s opinions also count.


Me: Women like Grace coddington are still working at the age of 71, do you think you ll be working a few decades later?

Aniata : Well it’s easy for me not to work(smiles). I could be with my family at a beach , painting , cooking or just shopping . I like keeping busy and I love what I do , so as per now no plans for retirement.


Me: So lastly what are some tips you’d like to give all the aspiring stylist out there?

Aniata : Firstly , love and live Fashion , read loads of fashion magazines and trend reports. Second , assist a stylist ,there is no better way rather than to assist someone who is great at what they do. Building a portfolio is also a must and lastly build relations , its always good to stay connect and know the people that you ‘ ll probably work with in the future.


And alas , her ice cream finished and it was time for me to head back from the Dream world that Aniata stays in and back to reality . But I did leave with my head filled with notions of where I want to end up.



Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Up and Close with
Kanishtha Dhankar
The former Miss India and now one of the highest paid models for fashion weeks . You ll see her in most of the shows , being an indispensable part of most of the Designer’s collections. She obliged me with a quick rapid fire session .

So when i asked her about her love for the ramp , she told me “ Well fashion is something i was always interested in. I started modelling before Miss India happened.” So i was interested in knowing where she came from , she told me she belonged from Haryana but she had been born and bought up in Mumbai. 
 I was shocked to know that she is a graduate in Accounting not just that she holds a Post graduate diploma in advertising and public relationships ( she had a very big smile on her face when i told her that that’s the stream I m following too ) . 
Seeing that the conversation was going towards a boring end I asked her what gives her a high and being the unexpected girl she is she said “ watching sunrise on an isolated beach”. 
Quickly thinking about more questions I could  ask her , I inquired about  the Best pick up line used on her “ If beauty was time , you ‘d be eternity “ and i couldn't help put purr an “awwwwww”  Since I couldn't be there to catch all the action backstage I asked  her about all the nerves and excitement that goes on backstage , she said “ the backstage is always exiting , like you said there is alot of nerves and energy . Everyone’s at their best. To be surrounded by soo many people is fun and motivating. Since I had seen her  arranging girl’s in order backstage  when I asked her about this she smiled and said that she feels a part of any show fully and wants the best she can to make it the best. 

Undoubtedly she is amongst the Most famous and top paid model of our times.Despite being at that level she is so adorably sweet and kind , and according to be if you are humble after reaching such heights then you know what success means in it’s right terms.

PS she took the Selfie herself 

Egyptian Fashion and Art

Ancient egyptian were very Fashion savy to say at least . I love the way they paid attention at details , accessories and their prints . they preffered light clothing made with plant fibera ( mainly liken from flax )mainly and occasionally cotton ( imported from India ) the manufacturingprocess was mainly done by women at homeThe clothes were generally made of linen and kept simple: a short loincloth resembling a kilt for men, a dress with straps for women. These basic garments with minor variations accounting for fashion, social status and wealth did not change fundamentally throughout Egypt's history.
Women
Egyptian women wore full length straight dresses with one or two shoulder straps. During the New Kingdom period it became fashionable for dresses to be pleated or draped. The dresses worn by rich Egyptian women were made from fine transparent linen. Like the men, rich Egyptian women decorated their clothes and wore jewellery and headdresses.
Men
All men wore a wrap-round skirt that was tied at the waist with a belt. Sometimes the material was wrapped around the legs as well. The length of the skirt varied depending on the fashion of the time - in the time of the Old Kingdom they were short while in the Middle Kingdom they were calf length. During the New Kingdom period it was fashionable to wear a pleated garment.

Jewelry

Egyptian Jewelry
The Ancient Egyptians wore jewelry to show their wealth and also because they believed it made them more attractive to the Gods.

They wore rings, ear-rings, bracelets, decorated buttons, necklaces, neck collars and pendants.Only the very rich could afford jewelry made of gold and precious stones. Ordinary people made jewelry from coloured pottery beads.

Make up

Egyptian men and women wore make up.They used black kohl eyeliner to line their eyes and darken their eye lashes and eye brows. Theycoloured their eye lids with blue or green eye shadow made from powdered minerals.

Henna dye was used to colour their lips and nails.



 

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