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Miss Unkon: a kaleidesope mind

You see a girl. She has a youth that's an attitude, not an age; she wears feminine layers and beaten up boots, she's unafraid and unaffected, and she wants to change the world.
That girl is the Miss Unkon girl. A figment of the creative process the label's Creative Director Courtney Meyer goes through with each collection's creation. Meyer's clear vision and understanding of her customer is what makes Miss Unkon a stable yet evolving brand, and one we're looking forward to seeing on the runway at the impending RAFW (Australian fashion week). So much so that we borrowed more then a few moments of Meyer's times to see just we and other Miss Unkon enthusiasts have in store when her spring 2011 collection takes to the catwalk.


 

When asked what spring 2011 will hold for Miss Unkon, Meyer tells us it's an extension of the autumn / winter 2011 story of light fabrics mixed with the cut-outs. For spring and summer, however, the collection moves to seasonal shorter pieces and more feminine shapes. The spring collection goes under the name of 'Girls with Kaleidoscope Minds'. Meyer tells us it's all about the magic of the imagination; the "part of a girl that has that deeper creativity, sometimes hidden, where she is quite free to express her emotional essence of herself."
Colour wise we can anticipate that the Miss Unkon's RAFW runway will be awash with the soft, dreamy colours we expect of the label: dusty mauve, cream, and mocha, mixed in with coral and mustard. An on-trend palette that fits the 70s fashion revival themes of freedom, sandy deserts and faded photographs.
So what does it mean to have a kaleidescopic mind? Meyer would undoubtedly know. We can't help but think that the passion that's central to the Miss Unkon girl is reflected in - or is that a reflection of? - Meyer's own. Similarly her view of dressing rings true for many a fashioniser:

Fashion comes alive when all three things come together, the girl that connects to the essence of the collection, the feeling that the environment creates and the way her personality shines through the clothes. A statement piece for me is a piece that a girl makes her own, rather than it standing out alone."

Fashionising.com will bring you full coverage of Miss Unkon's spring 2011 collection, along with all the other key RAFW catwalks, during the first week of May. In the meantime, you can take in Miss Unkon's autumn / winter 2011 look book by clicking on the photos below.
 shared from fashionising.com

Street Shots In San Francisco Part 1--Couple

Galina&Micheal have married for 44 years.They've moved to San Francisco for 5 years. Everyday when they dress, they try to match their clothes together.

They like nuture colors with lots of yellow, they also think spring is good for yellow,light cotton and cashmere.

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sunglasses and hat

Coz "The sun is very strong in SF and it damages your skin."

CJ&Cott are from South California. They think San Francisco's weather is freezing and cold, but sometimes nice and warm.

Because Cott likes to dress for the inside, so he can deal with the cold.

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                light jacket and some good walking shoes




Photoed by Gloria

Retro Trend In China--Wear like When Mom&Dad Was Young

The latest few years, retro trend is more and more popular all around the world. This kind of retro trend is presenting in totally different forms and styles in different countries, due to the various culture and history background.

Haihunshan

In rencent China, a bunch of young people like to wear Haihunshan, which was popular in their mother&fathers' young age. At that time, 1960s-1970s,which was a really specific time in China. People adored the leader and the army very much and pinched. So this kind of clothing was really matching and you could see people wear this clothes everywhere in China at that time.

Celebrity couple: Yingcaier and Chen Xiaochun

Huili Shoes

Not only the common fashionable young generation, even some of the celebrities are choosing these kind of remarkable clothes for their specific dress-up.

Dior FALL 2011 Review

John Galiano was fired by Dior, because of his indecent speech to Jews. So this was the last time for his work be presented in Dior. Let's have a look for the fashion genius' final show with Dior.

If Galiano says he is the second best fashion designer whom can mix various of fabric and materials, no one can be the NO.1. This sounds be a little bit exaggereted, but I think there's no one would doubt his talented mixing skill.

Fur,perspective fabric,lace,chiffon,velvet,silk, and so on. These bunch of elements are all the 2011 fashion new trends. But few designers can combine all of these in one collection together, Galiano just one the of few.

Dior Fall 2011 Fashion Show

Dior Designer Group without Galiano

Fashion Icon In China--Fan Bingbing

Fan Bingbing appeared in the Paris Fashion Week with a classic Christian Dior ensemble: A white cap sleeved belted top was paired with a simple pencil black skirt.

The most impressive element was absolutely the black sunglasses, which was more like Lady Gaga style, but it still looked matchable on Fan Bingbing. 

She is really more and more enjoying her every appearance in Red Carpet. Such as the last attractive show-off: Her dragon robe by Laurence Hsu.

Besides, she is still one of the most controversial stars in China.

Favorite Dressing For Summer

If you asked me, what's my favorite clothing in this summer. I will absolutely say: Dress with lace or chiffon!

Lace always makes lady more elegant ; and chiffon is the one makes lady cuter. You have to try at least one of these two during this summer, which would never make you regret.

There are the two pieces below, which I choose to myself for wearing in the spring break~ They are all black, but totally different style. 

The left side one is a white dot strap dress, which is a pretty simple design. BTW, I like the simple style for the daily dressing. Due to the chiffon fabric and the classic dot, the whole feeling is changed, which seems like more fashionable and suit for most of girls. Even you are an office lady, you can add a belt and wear a high-wheel go to work. Otherwise you wanna have a holiday, still can just wear a pair of flip sandals~

The right piece is another clipper style, which is mixed by lace and chamois. The most impressive part is the back deep-v-collar design, every skinny girl put on this dress might be elegant and hot.

ENJOY THE SHINING  SUMMER!

 

THE FITTEST, THE BEST

No one will doubt that the Red Carpet in Oscar is one of the touchstones in fashion on Feb.27.2011,5pm.You can easily find the fashion trends of this Oscar is red or silver color dress with sequin jewelry, not only continues the retro style, and more fit.  

The 83rd Oscar started with the first star and also the co-host Annie Hathaway in Kodak Theatre, Hollywood.What Hathaway worn was an low-cut red dress with fluffy hem, elegant yet lively.  Red is always suit for the people who have white skin like her.

Scarlett Johansson has always been a photographer’s “Beloved Girl”, her dark red and long skirt, plus the extensive use of the hollow body lace design,which inspired bursts of screaming fans.

Double Academy Award and Golden Globe Actress Hilary Swank’s silver low-cut dress,with lively feathers dotted hem, was really impressive. 

“Black Pearl” Halle Berry would never let people down, she chose a gold dress covered with mosaic crystals and sequins, super fantastic. Her feature and skin color is perfect for the cream color, which looks positive.

With previous years Oscar, there are still some artists chosen the dress not for their own style. 

Although her performance is great , but this kind of heavy metal which surrounded by the upper body and the radial pyramid dress really made the Best Supporting Actress nominee Jackie-Weaver looked worse.

Although the retro style is very popular, but it doesn’t mean you have to put the 30‘s polyester curtains on . Florence Welch was just this kind of  artist who didn’t show her good feature off.

Another bad look was Cuddy Horn’s black printed dress and her fishnet gloves. The design of chest part was totally fail, which totally didn’t show woman’s sexy. Besides, the texture of this very ordinary small floral print was really hard to match the Oscar---one of the biggest film festival. 

No matter what kind of material and designs the actresses chose, most of them looked more appropriate and  charming, because they’ve found their own personalities and chosen to follow.

by Luyang Wang