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The Dress – A New Fashion Gift from Rizzoli

October 27, 2014 by Raluca Stoica

Publisher Rizzoli, New York, famous for its books about fashion, prepared another gift for all the aesthetes – this October they published The Dress. The book contains the most inspiring dresses in the history of modern fashion – Prada, Alexander McQueen and Chanel, the legendary white dress of Marilyn Monroe from “The Seven Year Itch,” Audrey Hepburn’s black Givenchy, Princess Diana‘s wedding dress, and others – a collection of 100 illustrations realised by Megan Hess ( The international fashion illustrator […]

Categories: books, fashion • Tags: illustrations, megan hess, Rizzoli, the dress

Carolina Ballesteros and Beata Grabowska for L’Officiel Turkey February 2014

February 11, 2014 by Raluca Stoica

Models: Carolina Ballesteros and Beata Grabowska; Photographed by Ahmet Unver; Stylist Ayca Elkap; Illustrations James Dawe; Hair Ibrahim Zengin; Makeup Gulun Erzincan.

Categories: design, fashion • Tags: Ahmet Unver, Beata Grabowska, Carolina Ballesteros, fashion, illustrations, James Dawe, l'officiel turkey

Lanvin Celebrates Its 125th Birthday

January 15, 2014 by Raluca Stoica

Lanvin prepares to celebrate its 125th birthday. In 1889, Jeanne Lanvin founded her Fashion House, on the corner of rue Boissy d’Anglas and rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. It was the success of her hat designs that led her to launch her own business – “Lanvin (Mademoiselle Jeanne) Modes” – and to design the hats of the most fashionable Parisiennes at the time. Lanvin made such beautiful clothes for her daughter Marie-Blanche de Polignac that they began to attract the attention of […]

Categories: fashion • Tags: aglaia popescu, art, couture, design, fashion, fashion history, France, hat, illustrations, jeanne lanvin, Marie-Blanche de Polignac, paris, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré