Vogue, founded in the US in 1892, has been the longest-lasting and most successful of the hundreds of fashion magazines that have come and gone.
This is Vogue magazine in Italy This issue costs 3.30 pounds
Vogue homepage:http://www.vogue.com
Text:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion /10.02
Pictures http://www.modelinia.com/_content/slideshows/139/images/11_Vogue-Italia-Steven-Meisel-May-2007.jpg and http://cdni.condenast.co.uk/320x421/s_v/VoguecoverJul04_XL_320x421.jpg
Mary Quant
Mary Quant, OBE, FCSD (born 11 February 1934 in Blackheath, Kent, England) is a British fashion designer, one of the many designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. Born to Welsh parents, Quant went to Blackheath High School then studied illustration at Goldsmiths College before taking a career with a couture milliner. She is also famed for her work on pop art in fashion.
Skirts had been getting shorter since about 1958 – a development Mary Quant considered to be practical and liberating, allowing women the ability to run for a bus. The miniskirt, for which she is arguably most famous, became one of the defining fashions of the 1960s.
In the late 1960s, Quant popularised hot pants. Through the 1970s and 1980s she concentrated on household goods and make-up, rather than just her clothing lines. At a talk at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2007 she claimed to have invented duvet covers.
She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers, and winner of the Minerva Medal, the Society's highest award.
In 2000, she resigned as director of Mary Quant Ltd., her cosmetics company, after a Japanese buy-out. There are over 200 Mary Quant Colour shops in Japan, where Quant fashions continue to enjoy more popularity.
See also Daisy doll by Mary Quant Sewing patterns by Mary Quant http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Mary_Quant Click on a Butterwick 3288 (for example)
Mary Quant
Text:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Quant
Pictures http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/25723-large.jpg and http://minxboutique.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/queenie_mary_quant_caschetto.jpg
Haute couture
Haute couture refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finish, often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques. Couture is a common abbreviation of Haute Couture, which refers to the same thing in spirit.
French leadership in European fashion may date from the 18th century, when the art, architecture, music, and fashions of the French court at Versailles were imitated across Europe. Visitors to Paris brought back clothing that was then copied by local dressmakers. Stylish women also ordered fashion dolls dressed in the latest Parisian fashion to serve as models.
The couturier Charles Frederick Worth (October 13, 1826–March 10, 1895), is widely considered the father of haute couture as it is known today. Although born in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, Worth made his mark in the French fashion industry. Revolutionizing how dressmaking had been previously perceived, Worth made it so the dressmaker became the artist of garnishment: a fashion designer. While he created one-of-a-kind designs to please some of his titled or wealthy customers, he is best known for preparing a portfolio of designs that were shown on live models at the House of Worth. Clients selected one model, specified colors and fabrics, and had a duplicate garment tailor-made in Worth's workshop. Worth combined individual tailoring with a standardization more characteristic of the ready-to-wear clothing industry, which was also developing during this period.
Jean-Paul Gaultier (born 24 April 1952 in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, France) is a French haute couture fashion designer and previous host of television series Eurotrash.
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Sarah Jessica Parker in haute couture (dior)
Text:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute_couture and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Gaultier /15.02
Picture hhttp://nymag.com/daily/fashion/photos/news060909_gaultier_300 and https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktjlkxPYb7UF3FNJsQ0FvaNLl3WxeEJ29C0KhqHDocG1i5PLsIQqd5kCon6yBWXf-zfvBmPSRwuPowOzwOaICc4Rw1-EO7dVNqnHfeLF2sg9c3OUaGDY_cQAoAgrni3ms4JiH8ALGhYE/s400/sarah-jessica-parker-2009-oscars-01diorhautecouture.jpg
The Function of Buttons on Jacket Sleeves
According to information passed down through the ages, none other than Napoleon Bonaparte dictated that buttons be attached to jacket sleeves to stop the annoying habit soldiers had of wiping their runny noses on their jacket sleeves.
Text:http://beyondjane.com/fashion/trends/six-fascinating-facts-about-fashion-that-you-probably-dont-know /15.02
Picture:http://fashionworld14.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/buttons-on-jacket-sleeves.jpeg /15.02
Women’s wigs in 18 century
In eighteenth-century England, women's wigs were sometimes 4 feet high. These remarkable headdresses were dusted with flour and decorated with Stuffed birds, replicas of gardens, plates of fruit, or even model ships. Sometimes the wigs were so elaborate they were worn continuously for several months. They were matted with lard to keep them from coming apart, which made mice and insects a constant hazard. Special pillows had to be constructed to hold these giant creations, and rat-resistant caps made of gilt wire were common items. Mercifully, the wig craze died out quite suddenly in England in 1795, when a hair-powder tax made their upkeep too expensive.
Text:http://www.skygaze.com/content/facts/fashion.shtml /15.02
Picture:http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jezebel/2009/09/3944120186_6296e978d5_o.jpg /15.02
What Makes an Item Vintage?
A clothing item is considered vintage if it dates from 1920 to 1960. After that date, an item is considered to be retro, not vintage.
Vintage items(1920)
Also look some other fascinating facts about fashion http://beyondjane.com/fashion/trends/six-fascinating-facts-about-fashion-that-you-probably-dont-know /15.02
Text:http://beyondjane.com/fashion/trends/six-fascinating-facts-about-fashion-that-you-probably-dont-know /15.02
Picture:http://artfiles.art.com/5/p/LRG/19/1923/BOT9D00Z/ximena-zapatos-1920.jpg /15.02
Brassiere and negligee
A brassiere is an article of clothing that covers, supports, and elevates the breasts. Since the late 19th century, it has replaced the corset as the most widely accepted method for supporting a woman's breasts. Bras are these days worn by women in almost all parts of the world.
During recorded history, women have used a variety of garments and devices to cover, restrain, or elevate their breasts. Brassiere or bikini-like garments are depicted on some female athletes in the 1400s BC during the Minoan civilization era. Similar functionality was achieved by both outerwear and underwear. In China during the Ming Dynasty a form of foundation cloth complete with cups and straps drawn over shoulders and tied to the girth seam at the lower back called a dudou was in vogue among rich women. Popularity continued into the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). In English they are known as "stomach protectors" or "tummy covers".
Elastic brassiere from 1907
Negligee
The negligee is a form of womens wear intended for wear at night and in the bedroom. It is a form of nightgown; first introduced in France in the 18th-century, where it mimicked the heavy head-to-toe style of women's day dresses of the time.
By the 1920s it began to mimic women's satin single-layer evening dresses of the period. The term "negligee" was used of a Royal Doulton run of ceramic figurines in 1927, showing women wearing what appears to be a one-piece knee-length silk or rayon slip, trimmed with lace. Although the evening-dresses style of nightwear made moves towards the modern negligee style, it was only after World War II that nightwear changed from being primarily utilitarian to being primarily sensual or even erotic; the negligee emerged strongly as a form of lingerie.
In the UK in 2004, negligees accounted for only four percent of women's nightwear sales, women's pyjamas having dominated since the mid 1980s. However, UK negligee sales are said to have been the fastest increasing sector of the market since 1998.
Text:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligee and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassiere /14.02
Pictures:http://f00.inventorspot.com/images/383px-CorsetLeonJulesRAINAL_Freres13b.img_assist_custom.png
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2404/2025253053_a9d85264c0.jpg and http://www.jossip.com/wp/docs/2007/06/pink-slip-negligee.JPG /14.02
Perfumes
Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, animals, objects, and living spaces a pleasant scent.
The word perfume used today derives from the Latin "per fumus", meaning through smoke. Perfumery, or the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt and was further refined by the Romans and Persians.
Although perfume and perfumery also existed in India, much of its fragrances are incense based. The earliest distillation of Attar was mentioned in the Hindu Ayurvedic text Charaka Samhita. The Harshacharita, written in 7th century A.D. in Northern India mentions use of fragrant agarwood oil.
The world's first recorded chemist is considered to be a woman named Tapputi, a perfume maker who was mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second millennium BC in Mesopotamia. She distilled flowers, oil, and calamus with other aromatics then filtered and put them back in the still several times.
Recently, archaeologists have uncovered what are believed to be the world's oldest perfumes in Pyrgos, Cyprus. The perfumes date back more than 4,000 years. The perfumes were discovered in an ancient perfumery. At least 60 stills, mixing bowls, funnels and perfume bottles were found in the 43,000-square-foot (4,000 m2) factory. In ancient times people used herbs and spices, like almond, coriander, myrtle, conifer resin, bergamot, as well as flowers.
All kind of perfume bottles.
Text http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfumes /14.02
Picture http://bluemooncandles.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/perfume-bottles.jpg /14.02
Who is the top model ranked 15 among Top Icon models?
Gisele Caroline Nonnenmacher Bündchen (born July 20, 1980) is a Brazilian model and occasional film actress. According to Forbes, she is the highest-paid model in the world and also the sixteenth richest woman in the entertainment world, with an estimated $70 million fortune. Bündchen also acts as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme.
Birth name
Gisele Caroline Bündchen
Date of birth July 20, 1980 (1980-07-20) (age 29)
Place of birth Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Hair colour Light brown
Eye colour Blue/Green
Measurements 35-23-35.5 (89-59-90)
35-26.5-36 (89-67-91)
Weight 57 kg (130 lb; 9.0 st)
Dress size 34 EU/4 US/6 UK
Shoe size 37 EU/7 US/5 UK
Agency IMG Models
2pm Model Management
Spouse(s) Tom Brady (2009-present)
Also look her website http://www.giselebundchen.com.br
Gisele has said
“ I was born in Horizontina, a town in the backcountry of (Brazilian) state Rio Grande do Sul. The town was once mainly colonized by Germans. In the school which I attended, learning German was actually obligatory from third grade on. But being out of touch with the language for such a long time, I unfortunately forgot it. [...] I belong to the sixth generation of my family in Brazil. ”
Gisele cover of the magazine
…and on a runway
Text http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisele_B%C3%BCndchen and http://models.com/icons/icons.html?fnumber=5&lnumber=1 /15.02
Pictures http://www.dailystab.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/gisele-bundchen-harpers-bazaar.jpg and https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh6os6B2mHj4065kkrK4-2J17915lsZOJ9Jaa8nMFhI0p5f3J-TdWDacB_8F_8G-MpthAuXoZHEmgi-T0y0m8pP8FRuDwZyt62jKFG4lwObVZX5hGXc5CFN_j949LQe4IB2QGh9OimBi8/s400/Gisele+Elle01.jpg
What is the name of the company, which first started to produce denim jeans?
1850th in Germany was of Jewish descent, Levi Straussil San Francisco, USA, a small wholesale, which sold the "Levi's" brand jeans for California mining workers and dealers. One of his clients, Jacob Davis, had the idea to strengthen the pockets of the jeans copper rivets corners. Davis has not have enough money to register the patent. Therefore, he turned to Levi Strauss's proposals to cooperate in this area. 20. May 1873rd register. In the U.S. Patent and Trade Mark Patent No. 139.121. This date is considered the beginning of modern jeans.
Also watch how jeans are made http://www.jeansinfo.org/how_they_make_jeans.html
Text http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teksad
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