Saturday, April 30, 2011

British Shag Hairstyle

British Shag Hairstyle are the hairstyle, which is made up of a number of layers of the whole time, and as at the end of the hair is a little browsing. Bangs are optional and may be pushed out of the face with the use of the right style of substances.The model of hair of Sedu is usually considered right hairstyle, but nothing distant this is mentioned, while speaking about the hair about Sedu. Thus, we can light our imagination and start to seek for the perfect match of color to your own model of hair of Sedu.

To decide of which color hair to choose is a careful process of ve-e-ry. You think of the description, or brown changing in the black, or fair in the red. This day you would like to take hazel nut and the sun of next day will return you to it fair love, and the autumn will force you to choose the red.

There are hundreds of occasions for the color of hair. However, the principal element is to find something which will make with your hairstyle Sedu one. The crucial keypoints of the best choice is your character, your dye, the color of your eyes, and your age.

#1: Your character

To choose the perfect color of hair so that your means of character employ these models of color which will reflect your personality naturally. Your image is whole simple, and the suitable color of hair will help you to make sure that your hairstyle of Sedu indicates your character in the best way.



. The red nuances and of copper discover passion and the desire, and the culminating points express the people like whom to compose of contrasts.

Even the acid green for your color of hair can adapt you, until it matches your personality. Thus, you of your character occupy, by deciding your own color of hair of Sedu.

#2: Your dye

To express the part of Sedu of your image and not to damage it with something not very suitable, you should remember about the dye. Not that it should limit you colors, but nuances should be taken rather carefully.

Do not listen to people who say that the ethnic hair can be only of particular color to match the dye of skin. It is not true. But it is always necessary to pay attention which the color chose you of the costumes your image. Do you point out Halle Berry at the X-men? Does it seem bad? Naturally, not.
The colors of hair of Brown and hazel nut will adapt to everyone of the businesswomen to the teenagers.

. The black color will be good for the people full with insurance, while blonde can highlight the soft character.


Hot Swimsuit Trends for Summer 2011

 
Summer is just around the corner, and we all have our hearts set on warm weather and sunny beaches. The swimsuit hunt has begun and it's time to check out the Spring 2011 runways for some stylish inspiration

 
Sexy cut outs weren't left to sassy cocktail dresses and sultry evening gowns this season, swimwear has also slashed out in a major way.

This macrame trend has us in knots! Emilio Pucci made this unique textile technique ultra sexy with a revealing black one-piece suit, as well as a more playful paisley print beaded bikini. Elie Tahari jumped on the trend with a modest yet captivating strapless suit with an overlay of rich macrame inspired texture.

 
This is the season of the girly girl! Ditsy flower prints, ruffles and modest retro silhouettes have hit swimwear in a hard way.


 The 80's are back in full force, and with them comes graphic prints! Suno's high-waisted bikini was a definite stand-out for Spring 2011 swimwear with it's African inspired print.

 Salvatore styled a classic nude bikini with a suede overcoat for his subtle but chic look.

 
vibrant and neon colors are hitting the beach this year! Yigal Azrouël combined a sunshine yellow with a chic minimalist design on the Spring '11 catwalk.

From bell bottoms to lime green hues and peasant tops, 70's fashion has been in full swing this season. Swimsuit trends didn't miss a beat with a multitude of vibrant halter one-piece suits.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys Action On The Stage

Alicia Keys Playing The Piano

Alicia Keys Looks Glamor Girl On Oscar

Alicia Keys Sharpen Gaze

Alicia Keys Unique Hairstyle

Alicia Keys Minimalist Clothes

Alicia Keys and Bubble Gum

Straight Hairstyles Photos

Medium hairstyles offer comfortable hair length that is not too long and not too short. These hairstyles vary between long hairstyles and short hair styles. Some of the choicest long hairstyles as well as short hair styles can be conceived with medium hair. The bob is a great sample of a medium haircut that can go shorter or a little longer for several different hair styles.A casual medium straight hairstyle is one that can be described as free-flowing, easy-going, and one that falls into place on its own. This type of hairstyle can be worn as an everyday look at work, home, or play. These hairstyles consist of precision cuts, one length looks, varying layer cuts, and razor cuts. Layered and razor cuts will require some styling effort, whereas a one length looks relies only on gravity to maintain the hairstyle's shape. Self styling for one length looks saves so much time. For medium styles, where the sides are to the shoulders, the hair can be pulled back for a sleek short appearance or to get it out of the way; or it can be put up to make the look more formal. This hair length is not too short or long!



So … you think about taking the plunge and replace your current long style with one of those cute short hairstyles you’ve been seeing everywhere? This would be the best decision you ever made for your appearance, but there is much to consider when venturing into territory short hairstyles. The most important aspect of getting that new short haircut – will it suit you? A fresh, short coupe gets a lot of public attention, ranging from “Wow, you look so great. I wish I could go short.”
To “Oh my, what did her hair?” Before you head down to your favorite barber, stylist check out online software. Many online programs give you a taste of what you would look like this with a bold, new, short hairstyles.

There are different styles of short hair styles to consider. The style and length of the cut will depend on the shape of your face, facial features and texture of your hair. An experienced stylist will be looking at you and come up with a cut and style that is perfect for you.

Emo Hairstyles are attractive and increasingly accepted these days – What has led to such an enlarging demand in people wanting to accept this fresh emo haircut? For Beginners, bands for e.g. Green Day & My Chemical Romance have conveyed the communication to facilitate these emo hair cuts as the latest style.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

(All about the costume designers)



Famous iconic Costume Designers and the roles they play in Fashion and Films-


The Costume designer is the person who designs costumes for a film or stage production. He or she forms an important part of the "production team," alongside the director, scenic and lighting designers. Costume design is the design of the appearance of the characters in a theater or cinema performance which potrays the real character of the actor. This usually involves designing or choosing clothing for the actors to wear, but it may also include designing masks, makeup or other unusual forms.

Costume designers  try to enhance a character's personality to potray the various social and cultural context through the way that character is dressed, while at the same time giving space to  the actor to move and perform actions and show emotions as required by the script. The designer needs to possess a keen eye , strong artistic capabilities and a thorough knowledge of fashion history.


Famous Costume Designers in Films-
Cecil Beaton - My Fair Lady, Gigi
Jenny Beavan - Howards End, Sense and Sensibility
John Bright - Howards End, Sense and Sensibility
Milena Canonero - Out of Africa, Titus  Ngila Dickson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Last Samurai
Danilo Donati - Romeo and Juliet
Edith Head - Sabrina (1954), The Sting
 Dorothy Jeakins - The Sound of Music
Jean Louis - From Here to Eternity
Orry-Kelly - Gypsy
Cecil Beaton - My Fair Lady, Gigi
Walter Plunkett - Gone with the Wind, Singin' in the Rain
Sandy Powell - The Wings of the Dove, Shakespeare in Love
Ann Roth - The English Patient
Irene Sharaff - Call Me Madam, Guys and Dolls
Theodora van Runkle - Bonnie and Clyde





Costume Designers With Profound Effect on Film


Adrian (costume designer)- The Wizard of Oz
 Adrian, was an American costume designer who became  famous for his costumes for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s. During his entire career, he designed costumes for over 250 films and his screen credits usually read as "Gowns by Adrian". Adrian was hired by Rudolph Valentino's wife Natacha Rambova to design costumes for A Sainted Devil in 1924. He also designed for Rambova's film, What Price Beauty? (1925). Adrian became head costume designer for Cecil B. DeMille's independent film studio. Adrian was hired as chief costume designer at the studio. Adrian worked at MGM. In that studio during his career , Adrian designed costumes for over 200 films.


Edith Head(Costume Designer)-The Sting
Edith Head  was a known and  legendary Hollywood costume designer .She  dressed the silent film stars of the 1920s, designed the dress of the Hitchcock blondes, She made Audrey Hepburn into a princess and put Princess Grace into the frame of  GOLDEN GIRL: Edith Head won eight Oscars during her career of over 50 years as a costume designer.She was the costume designer for various well known films that  include The Heiress (1949), Samson and Delilah (1950), All About Eve (1950), A Place in  theSun (1951), Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), The Facts of Life (1960) and The Sting (1973).In  fashion, Head was truly competitive . Her career is emnamoured with well known  achievements. "Accentuate the positive and camouflage the rest," was the spirit behind  famous Edithism.







Patricia Field(Costume Designer)-Sex and the city
Patricia Field, is an American costume designer, stylist and fashion designer.  Field's was a well known costume designer for Sex and the City, the show became famous for the fashions it showcased. Field was nominated for 5 Emmy Awards for her work on sex and city. She was nominated for 6 Costume Designers Guild Awards. She is one out of six Honorees of the 2008 Reel Time Film Festival. She went on to return as Costume Designer for the movie "Sex and the City’ (2008) and the sequel "Sex and the City 2" (2010). Field has worked in the Asian market also by creating the fashionShe has served as a costume designer for the feature film The Devil Wears Prada, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design. 
 

Mise-en-Scene

Mise-en-scène; a French term that originates from theater. It means to "put in the scene", literally. 


It has a broader meaning for film and refers to almost everything that goes into the composed shot, including the composition, framing, movement of the camera and characters, lighting, set design and general visual environment, even sound because it helps explain the composition. The composition can be defined as the articulation of the cinematic space, and is precisely about space. Cutting is about time; the shot is about what occurs in a defined area of space, surrounded by the frame of the movie screen and derived by what the camera has been made to record. The mise-en-scène can be unique, closed off by the frame, or open, providing the illusion of more space around it. 


Mise-en-scène is also used when the director wishes to give an impression of the characters or situation without having to say it out verbally through the framework of spoken dialogue, and typically does not represent a realistic setting. 



Key aspects of mise en scène

Set design 
An important element of "putting in the scene" is set design—the setting of a scene and the objects (props) there in. Set design can be used to amplify character emotion or the dominant mood of a film, or to establish aspects of the character.
Lighting 
The intensity, direction, and quality of lighting have an amazing effect on the way an image is perceived. Light and shade can emphasize on the texture, the shape, thebdistance, mood, the time of day or night, the season, the glamor; it affects the way colors are renderedband can focus attention on particular elements of the composition.
Space 
The representation of space affects the reading of a film. Depth, proximity, size and proportions of the places and objects in a film can be manipulated through camera placement and lenses, lighting, set design, effectively determining mood or relationships between elements in the story world.
Costume 
Costume simply refers to the clothes that characters wear. Using certain colors or designs, costumes in narrative cinema are used to signify characters or to make clear distinctions between characters.
Acting 
There is large amounts os historical and cultural variation in performance styles in the cinema. Early melodramatic styles, clearly indebted to the 19th century theater, gave way in Western cinema to a relatively naturalistic style.
It's definitely been a while since I last posted on my blog. I've been real busy with university work as I went on a work placement unit with Disorder Magazine http://disordermagazine.com/ (Check online for some of the written pieces I did for them in the style section. I did pieces on Tom Ford, Carine Roitfeld and an interview with the creators of the brand Horace among others.) Apart from going on work placement I have also been looking for a summer placement and have one with Tank magazine for a month (CHUFFED.) Also not long ago I had my photo taken by Yvan Rodric the creator of Facehunter (this was on my way to my Tank magazine interview funnily enough.) I was uber excited n' chuffed to have my picture taken by him so im'a share it with you.
This is just a quick post anyways, i'll do a proper one with all the info and photos from my work placement once I start to sort out my life. In the meantime I started a tumblr as more of a personal thing as this is more for my fashion ramblings, I guess im just gonna stick stuff on there that I like that so I keep things a little separate so check it out: http://kyanishasaphiremarie.tumblr.com/

Communication of fashion- through film


Understanding of Fashion communication in Fashion and Films      
a.    Signifier and signified
b.    Denotation and Connotation
c.    The three roles involved in communicating  through dress
d.    The three rules on how to understand the meaning of dress
e.    The three contexts involved in better understanding the meaning of dress



Fashion on the silver screen is used as a descriptive counterpart to the narrative counterpart of the film script to communicate and establish the emotional concerns of the actors/scene in a film to the audience.
Films are also a mode of communication; they communicate a story, an idea, and a concept.  Films use visual cues such as props, costumes, facial expressions, movements as well as sound cues such as the dialogues. we use costumes/fashion as a visual cue in reality.


Penelope Cruz

Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born April 28, 1974) is a Spanish actress. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón, jamón (1992), to critical acclaim. Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000). Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in Vanilla Sky and Blow. Both films were released in 2001 and were commercially successful worldwide. In the 2000s she has appeared in films from a wide range of genres, including the comedy Waking Up in Reno (2002), the thriller Gothika (2003), the Christmas movie Noel (2004), the action adventure Sahara (2005), the animated G-Force and the musical drama Nine. Her most notable films to date are Volver (2006), for which she earned Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), for which she received an Academy Award. She was the first Spanish actress in history to receive an Academy Award and the first Spanish actress to receive a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Cruz has modeled for companies such as Mango, Ralph Lauren and L'Oréal. Cruz and her younger sister Mónica Cruz have designed items for Mango. She has donated both her time and money to charities. Cruz has volunteered in Uganda and India, where she spent one week working for Mother Teresa; she donated her salary from The Hi-Lo Country to help fund the late nun's mission. Cruz has donated money and time to charity. In addition to work in Nepal, she has volunteered in Uganda and India, where she spent a week working for Mother Teresa that included assisting in a leprosy clinic. That trip inspired Cruz to help start a foundation to support homeless girls in India, where she sponsors two young women. She donated her salary from her first Hollywood movie, The Hi-Lo Country, to Mother Teresa's mission. In the early 2000s she spent time in Nepal photographing Tibetan children for an exhibition attended by the Dalai Lama. She also photographed residents at the Pacific Lodge Boys' Home, most of whom are former gang members and recovering substance abusers. She said: "These kids break my heart. I have to control myself not to cry. Not out of pity, but seeing how tricky life is and how hard it is to make the right choices." Cruz showed her support along with her baby bump for the battle against AIDS by lighting up the Empire State Building with red lights in New York City December 1, 2010 on International AIDS Day, as part of (RED)'s new awareness campaign, 'An AIDS Free Generation is Due in 2015,' which aims to eradicate the HIV virus from pregnant mothers to their babies.

Penelope Cruz Sensational Pose

Penelope Cruz Sexy Dress

Penelope Cruz Great Make Up

Penelope Cruz Nice Smile

Penelope Cruz Looks Elegant With Her Hair Model

Penelope Cruz Prom Dress

Penelope Cruz Prom Hairstyle