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Stylocrat: Leopard and Denim [mystyle]

Stylocrat: Leopard and Denim [mystyle]: While in New York last month, we visited the Met mostly for the Egyptian and Modern art. I loved seeing my absolute favorite post-Impression...

Leather Skirts

Leather skirts have this immediate power of basically making you look like a sex goddess. This is apparent on all catwalk shows of the last 50 years. In my view black is best, keep it short and tight and very very shiny, for that domitratix "I know everyone wants to be me right now" look. Joy and Annabel model this very well in the last shoot for Wandering Minds (@WaneringM) and you can follow what they are up to here: http://ourwanderingminds.tumblr.com/  
In 2009 we paired it with a loose silk top of all colours and textures, in 2011 we paired it with brights, in 2012 let's pair it with baggy pastel cotton patterned jumpers, boyfriend-esque Tees and jean shirts.

Lets look through some of the brilliant catwalk appearances which have allowed the Leather Skirt to shine:

From left to right: Matthew Williamson, Rag&Bone, Stærk, Zero Maria Cornejo S/S 2009 NY

Bally SS2012

Altuzarra SS 2011

Diesel ss2012

Add captionWandering Minds SS 2012

Wandering Minds SS 2012

Wandering Minds SS 2012

How Jeans Took Over, Calvin Klein

 

Wandering Minds

This is reblogged from the Blog Our Wandering Minds, which follows the behind the scenes of a London Fashion Start Up (you can also folow them on Twitter here:

Seoul Spring/Summer Collection Photoshoot

Yesterday, we had our first ‘editorial’ photoshoot of the season; it went really well, thanks to great team effort and a chilled and fun atmosphere; it was all laughter, muddy walks in the park to get some cool shots, excessive tweeting and networking and greasy pizza eating.
We shot our first spring-summer collection of the year,  which is a great little capsule collection that we bought during our latest trip to Seoul just a week ago. Seoul style is all about playful, slightly boyish, easy-to-wear pieces, and we tried to reflect this mood in our photoshoot; we layered floral dresses with hoodies and other trendy sporty separates, preppy knitwear with a bohemian twist, colourful wooly socks and can’t-live-without lace-up ankle boots.
Roxane ‘Hi-I’m-Roxane’ Haydon, Denny ‘The Hunk’ Lv and myself gathered a wonderfully diverse team of people; it was a great reflection of what the London fashion scene is like these days: Clara, our super talented peruvian photographer and her assistants; Erica, mexican make-up artist who has a solid career both in Paris and London, an expert at the whole natural beauty look and great fun to be with; our models, Amanda Renberg, our swedish stunner, all big blue eyes and alluring pout, is also an actress and refreshingly clever and normal; Joy, Roxane’s friend from Edinburgh University, rushed between two trains to attend our shoot; she arrived looking all sweet and innocent, and ended up looking like sex on legs, while managing to also look intelligent and utterly cool; Gaelle, a friend from school who now attends film school in London, quirky and quiet (a great combination) filmed the whole shoot and is now creating a behind-the-scene video.
Here’s a small selection of non-retouched shots from yesterday.

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It's to celebrate their 11th Birthday.

French Connection: New Campaign, All about the Colour

The agency 101 has created a new campaign for French Connection, based on the ongoing theme"I am the collection". Love it or hate it, the tagline definetly sticks.Most of the pictures have a beautifully eary and artsy feel to them, where the clothes seem to live and breathe and crawl out of the 2D frame of which they are in.
There are 20 films to watch, varying between artsy to quite abstract interpretations of fashion, with a nice fun edge, keeping the mundane unmudane.

Credits:
Agency: 101
Creative director: Richard Flintham
Creative: Alice Stein
Design: Mark Elwood
Film production and editing: Antony & Olli, 11 Little Films
Production company: Webber Represents
Photographer: Gregoire Alexandre