Sophie Turner's wedding dress took 350 hours to execute
Share 5th Jul 2019 Following their surprise wedding ceremony in Las Vegas earlier this year in May, Game of Thrones starlet Sophie Turner and Jonas Brothers front man Joe Jonas wed again in a lavish celebration in France this past weekend, with plenty of celebrity guests including Turner’s sister-in-law, Priyanka Chopra, and her Game of…
Win the ultimate educational experience in beauty for you and a friend!
Share Ends 10th Jul 2019 COMPETITION Beauty Decoded Live is designed to educate consumers on cosmetic treatments, the importance of having a proper consultation with a trained aesthetic practitioner, and how to achieve a desired aesthetic look. The aim is to educate consumers on cosmetic treatments and be confident in the knowledge of knowing what…
Where to eat, drink and stay in Matera
Chiesa di San Pietro Caveoso in Matera in southern Italy. Photographer credit: Lea Anouchinsky Matera rises up on both sides of a deep ravine, its houses carved out of pale limestone, one piled on top of the other, forming a dazzling beehive of humanity. Known as the ‘City of Stones’, Matera was one of Italy’s…
Get to know Ancuta Sarca, the London-based Romanian designer upcycling old shoes
Share 5th Jul 2019 In matters of high fashion, high performance sneakers don’t immediately spring to mind. But then again, fashion’s bedrock is built on oxymoron: clothes deemed classics become old with the dawn of a new season, trends quickly become tired, and fashion faux pas (think bike shorts and bum bags) regain popularity. Even…
Australians in Paris: the designers from Down Under conquering haute couture week
Ralph & Russo haute couture autumn/winter ’19/’20. Image credit: GoRunway.com Of all the fashion weeks in the world, Paris haute couture is the pinnacle, period — just ask any aspiring designer or fashion aficionado. Translating to high dressmaking or high fashion, the realm of haute couture is the luxurious reserve of the industry’s preeminent designers,…
Meet the artist behind the Dior couture golden house dress
Share 4th Jul 2019 Penny Slinger has a history with houses. In the early 1970s, the artist responsible for giving Dior’s recent couture show an occult edge, made surreal sculptures out of doll’s houses and used an abandoned country mansion as the backdrop for haunting collage works. Born in London in 1947, Slinger studied at…
All the Disney live-action remakes coming soon to a screen near you
The Little Mermaid, 1989 Talks about this live-action remake have been happening for a few years now with Variety reporting it is finally coming together. According to the publication the upcoming film is set to feature new music from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken, as well as old favourites from the original. Mary Poppins Returns…
This is what royal weddings looked like in the 1800s
Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on February 10, 1840, at the Chapel Royal of St. James’s Palace in London. The pair met at Kensington Palace and Queen Victoria proposed on their second meeting, as was customary back then. At the time of her 19th-century nuptials, wedding dresses were not strictly white,…
Dior’s couture show gave the smokey eye a modern update
Share 3rd Jul 2019 Post-show at Dior haute couture autumn/winter ’19/’20, Peter Philips is upbeat. On the phone to Vogue, he explains how he’d wanted to hit refresh on the traditional smokey eye, but at the same time leave room for the model’s personality to define the final mood. “On one girl it can look…
5 things to know about Virginie Viard’s first solo Chanel haute couture show
Welcome to the most exclusive book club in the world: on July 2, Paris’s Grand Palais was transformed into a circular library, stuffed full with books and complete with walkways. Taking Mademoiselle Chanel’s library at her 31 Rue Cambon apartment as a reference, the space was arranged as a peaceful living room with elegant sofas,…