Fashion Designers A to Z: Adolfo Dominguez

Adolfo Dominguez was born 1950 in Ourense, Galicia, an impoverished area of Spain which none the less has given the country some prominent figures in the industry.
Dominguez who studied design and cinematography in Paris, with further studies in London, took over his father's fashion boutique in Ourense in the early 1970s. He spent the following developing his own designs, and finally made the big jump with a presentation of his work in Madrid in 1981. He also became the first Spanish designer to open his own brand-name store in Spain and abroad.
Finally it went public (another first for a fashion designer), and became one of the Madrid stock market's hottest properties.
His style is urban, functional, casual and eminently comfortable, making use of loose, natural fabrics. One of his key marketing strategies has been to avoid distribution through multi-brand shops and target the ultimate consumer directly, reducing delivery time and cost to the buyers.
He was among the first to inject  a new, fresh approach in Spanish fashion, spearheading the rise of a generation of new designers. He became famous among other things for his 1980s motto, "La arruga es bella" -"Wrinkles are beautiful".

  

Fashion Designers A to Z: Adnan Akbar

Adnan Akbar born in Mecca. Is a Saudi fashion designer described as "The Saint Laurent of the Middle East.

He studied embroidery in Lebanon and in Karachi. In 1989, he entered a licensing agreement for embroidered luxury fabrics with the French textile company Bianchini Férier.

1987, Akbar participated in the Second Fashion Festival in Paris. Not only was the first time his country had been been invited, it was also the Akbar debut in the fashion world.

In 1989, he launched a colection of Prêt-à-Porter was well received in the United States.

It girl: Coco Mademoiselle

 

Keira Knightley has become since 2008, in Coco Mademoiselle for Chanel. 

The first film was released, like I already said, in 2008, and I have to say is my favorite one darlings.

With the song L-O-V-E by Joss Stone (the originally sung by Nat King Cole), its a mixture of elegance, sophistication and wildness, that describe Coco Chanel very well.

The second film was really different, even when Joss Stone sung again this time with "It's man's world". Keira appeared with a lovely cream motorcycle suit, and goes to a photo session, crossing Paris riding a motorcycle, but shows too this elegance and wildness, characteristically of Coco.

Check it out the two films:   

Fashion Designers A to Z: Adeline André

Adeline Andre is born in Bagui; French Equatorial Africa, where her family mined gold and diamonds.During her adolescense she dreamt of becoming a fashion photographer and left for London. Returning to Paris she enrolled in the "Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne" (School of the Syndicate Chamber of Parisian Couture).

She took fine art lessons given by Salvador Dali at the Meurice Hotel and entered in 1970 at Cristian Dior working next to Marc Bohan as an assistan for the Haute Couture collections.

In 1981 Adeline decided to launch the brand ADELINE ANDRE.

August 27th of the same year Adeline registered the original pattern of her three-sleeve-hole garment at the I.NP.I. (National Institute of Industrial Property) in Paris and February 26th 1982 at the W.I.P.O. (World Intellectual Property Organization) in Geneva. Among other works three-sleeve-hole garments are also part of museum collections such as the French Fashion Museum in Paris, the F.I.T. (Fashion Institute of Technology) in New York and recently the new Fashion Museum in Lisbon.

Her first show a ready-to-wear collection for Fall-Winter 83/84 was held at the Daniel Templon Gallery in Paris March 16th 1983. Staged within a grand painting-set by Gerard Garouste the guests, wearing the garments posed for giant Polaroid shots.

The label ADELINE ANDRÉ has been officially registered in Paris November 1983.

Up until March 1987 Adeline presented her collections in places that had never before been used for fashion shows for example the "Cour Vitree" of the Natial School of Fine Arts at Rue Bonaparte, or the "Grand Salon" of the International Conferences Center at Avenue Kleber. In these places she showed her collections on models such as Dovanna, Anh Duong, Terry Toye... whom she asked to mingle among the guests.The following years Adeline André concentrated on creating collections exclusively for her private clientele, male and female, for whom she produced new bespoken designs, displayed for the first time at parties called "topowear", traveling private shows in galleries, ateliers or the salons of her friends in either Paris, London and New York.

May 1997 Adeline became an invited-member of the Syndicate Chamber of Parisian Couture. For the first time, as officially part of the Haute Couture shows organized by the Syndicate Chamber she presented her Fall-Winter 97/98 Couture collection July 7th at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art at Boulevard Raspail.1997 December Adeline was appointed "Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

Adeline André is one of the greatest and important Couture designers from all time, check out her designs:

Lovely Movies: The Lost Valentine

In this movie Jennifer Love Hewitt is a TV journalist; Susan, who knows Caroline Thomas (Betty White); an old woman waiting, every Valentine's Day in a railway station, his husband, who disappeared in the World War II.

Caroline then, in an interview, tells Susan her story and how her husband disappeared. The journalist touched by Caroline's story, promise her find out what happened with her lost love, while she tries not to fall in love with Caroline's grandson.

Fashion Designers A to Z: Achille Maramotti

Maramotti is a italian fashion designer who born in 1927, maybe you don't know that but he is the creator of Max Mara brand.

After studying in Rome, he received a law degree from Parma University. While working on behalf of a Swiss client that manufactured raincoats, he decided to go into the garment business for himself.According to the family, the name Max Mara was a blend of Maramotti and that of a local bon vivant called Count Max, who apparently, drank away his fortune across Europe.

To have his clothes seen by women, he persuaded local fabric shops to give him selling space and promote the new label in their windows. To give Max Mara's classic look a sense of chic, he hired designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Jean-Charles Castelbajac to work for him anonymously.

Although Max Mara was based on the ideal of real clothes, Maramotti used the world's top fashion photographers, including Sarah Moon an Richard Avedon, to give the company's advertisements a visionary look.

Responding to the youthful demands of the 1960's, he added a younger-looking line under the Sport max label. Today the company has mora than 20 different labels, about 1, 700 shops around the world.

Lancôme: Rouge in Love

Rouge in Love is the name of the new lipsticks and nail polish of Lancôme.

You haven't seen the commercial with Emma Watson yet, darlings? What are you waiting for?

Check it out here:

I completely adore it! And I bet you will too.