Amazon Fashion Week 2015; Pankaj, Nidhi @ India

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     Sampson I.M Onwuka

We are yet to fully access the impact of Indian Culture and entertainment on the world.


Bollywood leads the film industry behind Hollywood, and like many film industries they have a way of influencing fashion and what makes haute culture.

Nowhere else can of this nature bear any fruit that how outsiders perceive the Indian culture and fashion, especially the Amazon Fashion Week at New Delhi.

Among the Indian designers we are likely to consider are Taru Tahiliani, Manish Arora, Rohit Bal, and Ritu Kumar.

These are among the selected few and nowhere the greatest, some - if not all - recycle known classics and place new price on its head.   

Below is a consideration of two important designers in a recent concluded Amazon Fashion Week in India, Pankaj and Nidhi.


The cloths themselves do not standout but there are elements of modern India in all of them.

               There is a separation between the way we look and the way we are perceived. We                                 

Wang Yatua (Beautyberry) @ Beijing.

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Sampson I.M Onwuka


BeautyBerry for names is a bit fruity for men. But some names work better than others, like killingbird, a name that exorcise the engrossing killer specie but the idiot was quite fruity.

Fashion may be done a bad service to define it as whatever works or what people want.

2012 is bad apple for 2015 but from the stables of the Yatua Run Way, we have an insight into oriental suits and new fashionable women dresses.



 



 
 That hurts.


What the public is buying is the only definition of fashion when the books come in. China-Mercedes Fashion week is hard to follow, but of course the story may be presented different and we can look at some of the promising designers such as Wang Yatua.  



 



In choosing the synthetic for this outfit, the designer would have sorted through several header for fabric. But the nature of the fashion industry is that little is left to information regarding the make, much little to the access of the product.




A cut on the shoulder, the soft-envelop from shoulder blades to the shin, makes an argument on formality. There are names that have used these Asia style in forcing an argument about the outfit, even Jimmy Choo, Ellery J. Chun, and to some extent Vivienne Tan, but here there is emphasis on oriental, and we can say perhaps, Hindu, perhaps not the case. We can appreciate the austerity of the color; brown, gifted perhaps the brightness of new material.






 

Fashion week Spring 2015 ; Melissa Nepton @ Toronto

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Sampson I.M Onwuka


It is impossible to deny hints of Greek tapestry and Indian patterns. But could be something else. It is amazing how the impression from art is what design speaks for the dress.

Melisa Nepton run way reflect this background, but the black blouse over checkered shorts its a recurrent style and a recycled trend.




Melissa Nepton - half starched personality shows off. There is a kindly but decided nature with hints of ineluctable. Somewhat delicate






It may or may not make to special occasion, but the occasion with this vignette dressing is special. Mast with drapery of the material and high hills, impresses you with images of Russian Fashion. You are wrong when she argues otherwise, but again, we, the retailers.


 

There is something that is missing from the composition, perhaps the austerity of the audience which wishes to address or the controlling influence.  Some may be undone with lasting fore-saying of some Eurasian with Greeks or similar cultures acquired and assimilated.






There is purpose in the walk-way of the model, whether or not it elevates the design to retailer's desirable land is how such combination papers out for customers. The title is the Melissa Nepton Romantic Warrior. 







But this is perhaps fashion with a relapse to Indian Canada, shows distinct and somewhat unfulfilled elegy on the Canadian fashion for Canada. I disagree, the author of the composition wanted a deliberate audience, she wanted to strike unusual with the modern, with or without the sparing from the local expertise.  



 This is actually striking, easy and comforting, with elements of intricacy.

Gui Pei. A China woman and true Couturier, Imhotep different

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Sampson I.M Onwuka 

 

I have been  trying to offer some felicity to the new image from China and the artist expression which attempt to impress with foreboding all the disappearing influences in China and in Asia. Perhaps too early to imitate the oracle that if and when artist in later years come together, there will be Gui Pei among the luminaries. 

For Midas, she is to be maintained by the sponsorship at the Fide Asian Fashion but the lavish couturier expresses the sublimity of the disappearing influences and cultures and vent for new meaning in the age China seeking to welter the problems of cultural repression.





















But here as perhaps elsewhere, I speak not in art alone or for art alone, for fashion is a world for itself and by itself and there are people who decide its future. A transition from Costume design to outfits and cloths we can wear is a thousand cuts to a thousand page.

But there is something about 1002th Arabian that is selected especially for people devoted to this kind of rendition. Art speak to art in cinema culture, it is a story told from the eyes of those who were there, perhaps not in person as they say but in ideas.

I beg a move on the ideas. What is Chinese in Fashion that is not fashion among the Chinese?

These idea suffer in gradual awakening beginning with fickleness of choosing the materials with cuts and tapers to make life what is on paper, then the execution of process endears the limits of the Arts. We speak clearly when we notice a wall separate Europe from China or Asia from Africa. That such walls is invisible, entirely active when they thread between Asia and Africa, for the monolith Arabian, the closer that to historic the more poetic and perhaps religious altogether.

The tales Arabian Nights, like Chinese Dragon stands out, but Gui Pei stand taller, magic the visceral from conception to Run Way, assures us of the connection between Africa and Asia or the world is sustained by Fashion. But away from tapestry as from art, there is a in-laid fashion that dispels these walls.

What we notice is academic exercise where in words of a certain African literati, Chinua Achebe,  the 'walls come down.' How thinly spread the ashes of these Ancient Arts vanishing with imbroglio explains the influence Asia - if not China - if not Gui Pei will more than likely on the ancient and undying continent; Africa.      

  

From a page addressed to her Art, it reads, "Having dressed many biggest Chinese stars and A-listers. Guo Pei is the biggest and most renowned name in China’s fashion scene, She has been designing Couture in Beijing through her Atelier “Mei Gui Fang” for many years. Her creations reflect a strong Oriental culture, with a striking mix of classic fantasy and modern avant-garde."




The page mentions that, "Conceiving and overseeing every outfit, her ideas are turned into reality by over 400 craftsmen, all of whom are trained by the artist herself. Her collections are entirely sewn by hand, with some dresses requiring over 50,000 man-hours before completion."

"Her last and most notable show, The Legend of the Dragon, which took nearly 3 years of preparation, first showed at Beijing in 2012. She also designed a costume for the Beijing Olympics." But this trite is good, inimitable but have it backwards.  Approached from behind, her is the definition of Beijing Olympic, excellence of the Eagle not withstanding.  

            





 





 

Fashion Week 2015 : Mackage Fall, Eran Elfassy and Elisa Dahan @ Toronto

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Sampson I.M Onwuka




 


Define Mackage? A laid back dress code during and after party or social occasion. Well, this is my definition of the term based loosely on urban dictionary and online sources.

But in fashion - at least since 1999 - it is obvious that the term is associated with a Montreal based fashion company, Mackage, founded by Eran Elfassy and Elisa Dahan, both pronounced names in Canada, make cloths for Canada and have the audacity to challenge the main stream in North America.






Understanding the dimension of fashion involves a propagation any brand or any main brand over a period of time makes it an axis. The combination above is not new either is the blue color pants new. It's popularity and stand-ease gives it an early death though prosperity of public acceptance endeared differently as a line of Mackage 

Majority of the pictures here is generated from gettyimages who in the interest of fashion need to edit the page of their presentation. The symbol cannot dominate the image; it is unfashionable to suppress the intent of the artist. 

 

 But the separation between this designers and other we have seen is the theme of consistency. Compared to Tokyo, there is a sharp separation and increase in quality between Toronto and Tokyo, who and if the wealth of value holds water is between choice and the consumer markets.





There is a problem with this zeal in defining a class of 'outer garments'  in context of fashion and from the stables of designing.




It is how we define it and how - if any - can the manufacturer and production groups of the fashion industries translate 'Ready to Wear' cloths into the hand made or at least hand printed designer outfit.





 "There is no fashion if no body buys it" Lagarfield

The temptation to present a cloth line assembled by Bloomingdale, Bergdorf-Goodman or SAKs, in context of fashion industries and designs requires a real time discourses on the project presented so far at the fairs in Toronto.

 

The ready made fashion representing some ideologies of street cloth or after party, speak in other forms of future fashions, fashion that stand for itself or one that defends its meaning in more exhibit t driven context.

But the fashion week is what is current and fashion, all of which can rise, peak, decline and become rejected somewhere between 6 months to 18 months from inception.






In essence, a designer's cloth is best valued as a lasting impression, although the trend setters use several outlets to make their products available, it is how well a brand of cloths and generalized brand of cloth lines such Mackage, representing Canadian Montreal montage and urban Cinderella of Toronto, may break even with presorted versions of ready to wear, reflecting above all the presentation and combination as opposed styles and the diction of trends.
  

Fashion Week 2015 ; Mikael D @ Toronto

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Sampson Onwuka

Toronto Canada is not new to fashion or fashion new Toronto. Canada has not in the last century or so defined itself in the world of fashion, or at least it struggles between inherited traditions and the need to engineer growth for the increasingly forward demographic.

This dress and its apparel says Toronto, and from all information available from all vendors, especially what is currently available, there hints of styles and emphasis on combination in the output.


The Blonde combination with the blonde dress may or may not serve as a light wit and example for a fashion week, but it suffers in energy as if places meaning from movie impression than the Couturier whose machination is evident is the final product.


It shows a deviation not so much from the norms, it show that the intricacy of experience or severity of a fashion school.   



 



Mikael D @ Toronto Fashion Week 2015

The price, the texture, style, fit, and the trimming explains the wallet of Canadians.

The names of its designers are obviously well known - they represent industries best kept secrets and perhaps Paul Poiret, Madelaine Vionnet, Coco Chanel and Gabriele Chanel, and Jean Pateau all French forerunners who ran the show for a minute and left their mark in Toronto as well.





  Mikael D @ Toronto 2015

The designer is playing for a familiar audience with tradition, this final cut is between even Shriapelli and Dior, perhaps in keeping to cycles of fashion business and its fundamental concept of consumer demand, there is a temptation to present a model formula. 



We see element of Michele Obama's smash dress which the designer may have replicated, as if the industry is running into new ideas by doing the old. 



    Picture by Chic

Mikael D is the author of these marvelous pieces and with it a strain of definition and practicality.  So far, we have seen from improvement from pacesetters in Milan to Paris which led fashion for such a long time.



I shall indicate that a dress of this nature meets both the Couturier sampling of industries treatment and reaching out to other interrelationship between levels of industries of businesses.

Amanda Seyfried and binary impressions on Fashion Designers.

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Sampson I.M Onwuka

Amanda Seyfried @ Street and Style Tokyo

Alligator

Costume like skin care and Cosmetics is an alligator business, full of extreme care, flaccid rendition and finish. Alligators can withstand extreme street situation and as well as Run way.  

  Roland Mouret.

A beautiful Mouret for Amanda Seyfried. Perhaps an Alligator 'different', in exercise but in Costume Design, this is artist and art complimentary. It will be difficult to surpass this composition whatever the size of her future maintenance.

Unfortunately there is exclusivity in her appearance which pales on the skin of a different alligator.

There is exuberance in the composition and the artist away from the very object would like the spectators participate in the veracity of nature. We are equally aware of serendipity and magnolia rising.

This is not an average 'mean girl', there is no bone for errors in the deliberate imagining.  

                                                               Marc Jacobs.
This is not a composition for everybody, the dress is made for all for fittingly for few. Perhaps the business of retailing may demand additional compromise in details.

The meaning collapse into one explicating, that the model wishes to say, that she is comfortable in her own world - in her skin perhaps - most perhaps the cloths.

Marc Jacobs for a street and regular outfit is not a article for fashion, there is no sparing of expense, it is rich, detailed, but may fail if none other than a model - perhaps a star should enter the perimeters of the outfits.

Marc Jacobs from outsider seem to clearly define his cloth and dressing. This here is a start.

                                    

                                              Amanda Seyfried @ Oscars  (Valentino)

Perhaps a target practice for spectacular audience looking to school or be schooled at the illustrious academy awards. Her hair stands out and there is argument with the eye lashes which agree with the peering water color of her contacts.

But there is ample issue of statement which the occasion calls for, but in fashion if not in life, some  occasion surpass others in meaning, in second meaning and in magnitude.....

                                       Amanda Seyfried @ Oscars (Armani)

Once in the average life of a Star - any star, there is a picture that explains it all. This shot here is placed and argued differently and like Italian dressing, there is beauty is exuberance. The dress rest converge into interpretation, it leads differently and from all intent of reasons, this dress has a staying power. 

Prabal Gurung.

It is weird how the hair stands out from the picture, how it is wore with education in social sparing. 

No doubt the spectator see the woman; the designer and the hair. But a dress to speak for the hair, there is costume design speaking accurately and well.

The diligent approval is not meeting for a young Costume expert with years to prove, but in future perhaps, perhaps, there will more window for the open back and the author and designer Prabal Gurung can exercise additional SPOR.

    

Fashion Week 2015; Christian Dada, et al, Dressedundressed; @ Tokyo

 

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Sampson I.M Onwuka

 

 

 

 

 

Tokyo Fashion Week and Christian Dada is part of the opening week to remember.

Tokyo's Fashion week is memorable for the world fashion and retail expo that begins some time from April 1st, 2015. But here we consider some of the designers who made the cut for the Run Way.

 

Considering what we have seen from Christian Dada and attitude to dressing, the designer wants the spectator to see ‘a well-dressed person of interest’, there is a Dutch influence, perhaps a matter of pop culture removed from the 90’s and perhaps earlier 80’s. We are not part of their world, they have moved on.

Christian Dada @ Tokyo.

 

 

A first look at the Dressedundressed inspire images of pop artist Milli Vanilli but personified with straight jacket and clean cut. It is a classic ready to wear, a cast between designers choice and public consumptions.

 

 

The leather suits in trims of short tunnels, reflect influences from 90’s. There is a Matrix adaptation in the suit, it leads to suggest mode form, a bit of trunk suits with colored leather jackets, fitting for colder countries than perhaps Tokyo.

 

 

 

 

There is tradition in his taste and it’s charisma of the leather suits including the printed leather for women, reflect austerity, pop interest but tradition.  You wonder how now we dress in an age reduced to fiber optics. 

 

In fashion, it is perhaps an argument that the outer jackets compliments and not necessarily part of the overall attire. This is not always the case,

 

There is vibrancy is the outfit, there is a relapse to the 80's - perhaps, there is a Tokyo post cultural relativism, there is Dada and perhaps a Geisha imahing. This not a savage beauty it is part of the past raised with meaning for 2015 and for Tokyo