FOS by Fenia Labropoulou

I've found some amazing pictures by the FOS and I noticed that maybe the photos were inspired by America's Sweetheart - Lana del Rey, I mean the flower wreath, the 70's makeup and puffed hair which are Lana's characteristics. What about the clothes? I noticed the bright colours with a 80's glam-rock feeling vs. the vintage 50's statements.
Finally watch and listen Lana's hit 'Video Games'.

Photos via weheartit, fashionising.com

Fashion Star - 2nd Ep. - Who's your customer?

Another week, another Fashion Star :) The task for this week was to design clothes for real customers. As Nicole Richie said, the feedback from the buyers is necesarry in order the final product to be perfect and to know what the people want from a designer. (Just to notice, Nicole looked amazing, I loved her dress and her outfit in this episode) As is usual, the designers had to create three different types of their garment, on which the real buyers had to bid on, and at the end of the show make available for the people out there to purchase.
Well, this week was full of surprises. My favourite designer, Orly Shani, didn't succed to get an order, her garment was a similar one to the previous week's, it was a covertible maxi dress, maybe it was the same idea for an other round, but I think it was very creative and innovative.

Plaid tie dress

As past week Kara Laricks wasn't my favourite, now she managed to win the bid of the represantative of the Saks with the draped tie dress (unfortunately I haven't found more pics :( :

The surprise of the night was Sarah Parrott, who in the last minute changed her mind and it was a great idea, because her 'Tuxedo pants' won in front of the judges. She was surprized too. Although, those pants wasn't my favourite...

The other winner of the night was Lisa Vian Hunter, whose classic shaped dresses won. I think these garment are to simple to succed on the market, but there are people who want dresses like these. Okay, I admit, simple but pretty. I would wear them too!

The only menswear of the night was , who inspired from the Western world and put his inspiration into some amazing men shirts.



And if there are winners, there is always someone who goes home. This week Oscar was this person. From the bottom three: Lizzie, Ross and Oscar, Ross was saved by the mentors, Lizzie by the buyers and Oscar was sent home.
To be honest, I didn't like Oscar designs...some party, coctail dresses, which can found almost at every store, wherever you want to buy a dress and you need it now. I agreed with the mentor John Varvatos, when he said that the designed dresses by Oscar were 'hootcy' and not fashionable and sophisticated.

After such a week at the Fashion Star, I cannot wait to see more surprises and challenges! 

Fashion Star - 1st episode

I was kindly inactive in this period, waiting for inspiration to come...and I got it! Past week I just couldn't wait to finally watch the fresh and new all-about-fashion, reality show 'Fashion Star'. I must to admit that I love everything is fashion and if is on TV, like the 'Project Runway' is much much better.
So, I challenged myself, and I decided that I will review the episodes.
Indeed the mentors are interesting, I couldn't wait to see mentoring my favorite Nicole Richie, singer turned in designer Jessica Simpson and designer John Varvatos. Actually they are really working very well together, and I thought that Jessica Simpson will be much more glitzy, but I was pleasently surprised after all.
I like the fact that, this show allows the contestants to create menswear too, because logically not everything is for women, and I agree with that.
My one negative point was the music, it was too much...the less is more.
I don't want to forget that the whole concept is very innovative, and as I was watching the show, I was wondering, why it wasn't found earlier?I think is very fresh and practical that the manufactured garment to being presented not only for judges to decide whether their products are wearable or not, but they must know if their designs are good for sell, if there is demand for their product. That's why I found interesting that the representants of the Macy's, the H&M and the Saks Fifth Avenue tell their opinion and decide to make an offer or not. This the show where fashion - art and business meet, and that's why I love that every garment for which is given an offer will be being sell and can be purchased by these businesses.
What is a review without images?

I really like the creative idea of the first black, mini skirt, at which is added a zipper, so it could be worn as mini or in a more unique way as it is shown in the picture. This skirt is made by the bartender Orly Shandi.
I didn't like that mini, white dress, a black line on the waist, although is pretty.
Although I see more in Sarah Parrot, the designer who made that bright blue dres
In conclusion these are the winner garments of the previous week, and I couldn't wait for seeing more in the future!

Eastern folk - Western pop

La Blouse Roumaine - Henri Matisse

   I was reading the news, when an article caught up my attention in a Romanian local newspaper. Adele, the famous songbird was on the cover of the prestigious Vogue and she was wearing a Tom Ford blouse.
The famous peasant blouse by the "Tom Ford Spring Collection 2012" are

That magazine cover become famous here, because the blouse was inspired by the traditional Romanian peasant blouses. Because I love everything traditional, folk and bohemian, I thought that it's the time for a post what is 'mine' :) I made a little research and I realized that this kind of inspiration by the Romanian traditional folk dresses is not something new.
   Back in the day of 2006, Jean Paul Gaultier created a country-side inspired collection, and for the native Romanians the inspiration was obvious, take a look:

I also came across into a blouse created by Emilio Pucci (Spring Collection 2011), and the inspiration is obvious.

Emilio Pucci Spring 2011

Traditional Romanian peasant blouse

Mad Men for Banana Republic

Honestly I had been waiting so long for a Tv show inspired from the 50's-60's, and I finally discovered the "Mad Men". It's amazing. I love the whole story, the evoluation of characters, the ideas of that era and of course - I love the most the fashion of the life of the Mad Men. Now I really think that I have something with that era - just take a look back at my previous posts (and I think that will be more about the 50's).
So, I discovered that the Banana Republic had launched past year, a line inspired by the Mad Men. I'm trully glad that the fashion of the 50's is coming back, because it is really fashionable and ladylike - I think that in some pieces like coats we felt a little the influence of the 50's.
A little bit about the clothes I liked: I really love this office feeling of the clothes, the combination of the suit trousers with the lace top and/or the cardigan. I also love that grey suit, that's definitely 50's.
I also love that blue printed dress, it's really pretty. But my favorite is that creme color dress and the leopard printed coat with a belt and sunglasses. 50's!
Unfortunately there are some dresses that I didn't like... sorry, but I am not satisfied with the materials of the skirts, it looks like they need to be constantly ironed. The dress what I liked the least is that wine-red dress - sorry to say but that dress reminds me of those bridesmaid dresses what you can purchase from any kind of malls and stores.
I've put the photos in this order(loved - not really loved).

Beside the women, there had always been the men - pardon - gentlemen, whose life I think, is a little bit more focused on the show, but that is logic, since in the 50's the men were mostly working, in the case of the upper-classes, like in the family of Don Draper. As he is working ( in the Tv series) in an advertising agency, the suit is required, that's the reason why suits were designed.

photo source: fashionising.com