While at Turkish Fashion Week last month, we sat beside and mingled with the editors of the soon to launch Turkish Vogue, in the front rows of the young designers presentation and Hakan Yildrim’s shows. It was only after about the second day that my curiosity led me to find out who the woman getting all the hype was. It turned out it was Ece Sukan, former model, photographer, stylist and shop vintage shop owner who had recently been crowned title of Editor-at-large for Vogue Turkey…We were very curious to get our hands on their first issue, March 2010, to get a feeling for their vibe.

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Though neither of Giorgio Armani’s collection’s made our Milan Runway Review, we took some major trend notes from the Emporio show on the hair. These asymmetric pixie-bob’s were such a distraction I had to go back through the pictures two and a half times to actually see the collection, and even then my eyes kept trailing off to the hairstyles. This is a preview of something big coming. We have seen the pixie come in and out of style and the Bob has been haunting us ever since Anna Wintour became a household name, but its time for a new signature bold, and I think this is the direction. I can finally imagine myself chopping my hair off after all these years.

Slouchy Chic

Scandinavian Folklore Remixed

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In a conversation with a friend last night about the past week of art overload in New York, we spoke about the anticipation of being to able to buy art, and filling our space with things that profoundly touch our inner mechanics in ways we don’t necessarily want to express with words. Of all the things we had seen over the week, we stopped to discuss to work of Michael Zelehoski, an artist she had met who spoke a language in his work, that she connected to so deeply it made her think, where can I get 10,000$ right now. There was no future tense in that thought, it had to be now!

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Elizabeth Carruther’s is a talented Sydney-based graphic designer who goes by the name of No-ellk. I found this series of “Facet Boards”, or mood boards, she created for The Last Magazine and was drawn to all the shapes within shapes. The beautiful geometric inspirations boards are bursting with concepts and colors drawn from eclectic sources which allow each viewer to create their own narrative.

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Despite the growing trend in in fashion today to identify with the artisan,  authentic artisanship is far and few within our contemporary consumer culture. La Maison du Pastel is one of these rare gems of history whose workmanship dates back to the 18th century. Since the acquisition by Henri Roche 1878, the house has specialized solely in the hand-making of pastels, at which time there were only 100 tints. By 1887 the range expands to 500 colors and from then on, “La Maison du Pastel” sees a continuous growth in palette, and Roché pastels become renown worldwide for their specific qualities.

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