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Fashion Reverie’s Supermodel/Mom List

May 6, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

What better way to celebrate Mother’s Day then to give kudos to Supermodels who have managed to continue to stay at the top of the fashion/entertainment game while raising a family. Now, most moms don’t have these ladies physical assets, but like most moms these Supermodels not the challenges of managing career and family. They seem to do so effortlessly with grace and stunning beauty.

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Tyra Banks, 42, is the newest member to the Supermodel mom clan. Between executive producing the new and revised “American’s Next Model,” Banks will have her hands full with her new bundle of joy (York Banks Asla) that arrived January 27, 2016. Banks does have some help with Norwegian photographer boyfriend, Erik Asla.

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Supermodel Adriana Lima has two kids (Valentina Lima Jaric and Sienna Lima Jaric) but looking at recent cover and editorial in the February issue of Elle UK you would never know it. Though recently divorced from Marko Jaric, the 34-year-old Victoria Secret’s Angel continues her almost two decade long modeling career with both kids in two. Talk about Superwoman!!

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Though she may have retired from the runway, as of 2015, according to Forbes magazine, Gisele Bundchen, 35, is still the top-earning Supermodel ($44 million.) Bunchen has two kids with New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.

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Cindy Crawford, 50, ruled fashion runways in the 1980s and 90s as well as gracing the covers of countless magazines. Crawford is currently worked a miniseries about the fashion industry in the 80s while raising her two kids (Presley Walker and Kala Jordan) with former model Rande Gerber.

Image courtesy of currentmagazine.com and Vogue Brazil February 2016 issue

Starting young is the order of the day for 25-year-old Jourdan Dunn. Dunn has been modeling for 10 years and had her son at 18. Being six-month pregnant did keep her from walking in Jean-Paul Gaultier’s spring 2010 show.

“More than anything, having a son has made me realize I have to make shit work: I’m his voice, I’m his lifeline, I have to be driven. I think he pushed me in the right direction. I’ve always been ambitious, but now I have more focus. I’m more hardworking.” In 2014 and 2015, Dunn appeared on Forbes magazine’s top modeling earning list.

Images courtesy of Intimates by Heidi Klum and dailymail.co.uk

Fashion designers may be in or out on “Project Runway,” but host/supermodel Heidi Klum is never out. Having four kids (Henry, Helene, Lou Sulola, and Johan) does not impede Klum’s trajectory, it only gives her more energy and motivation. At 42, Klum continues to be the host of “Project Runway” and recently launched a lingerie line.

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She helped usher in the ugly/pretty era of fashion in the late 80s. And at 51, Kristen McMenamy is still going strong. Her shocking red hair and later androgynous look of short dyed black hair with shaved eyebrows made her favorite of Karl Lagerfeld, and her ugly/pretty look launched a new beauty aesthetic for Chanel. Having three kids has not really slowed McMenamy down and with her totally gray she fronted the Balenciaga 2013 fall/winter campaign.

Images courtesy of H&M, hellomagazine.com, fashionunited.com

What would this list be without Jerry Hall? At 59, Hall is still modeling and her daughter Georgia May Jagger is a top model. Recently, Hall shocked the fashion industry by marrying medial mogul Rupert Murdock, 86. In 2011, Hall shared an H&M campaign with daughter Georgia May. Hall shares four kids (Georgia May, Elisabeth, James, and Gabriel) with rock n’ roll superstar Mick Jagger.

—Staff

Fashion Reverie Exclusive: JAKE, Finding that Fashion Balance

May 2, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

JAKE Spring 2016 image courtesy of JRC & Associates

JAKE Spring 2016 image courtesy of Kelly Pulieo for JAKE

What’s in a name? Apparently, if you are launching a fashion brand, the right name can mean everything. From household name recognition to brand awareness, finding the right name for your fashion line can have the effect or consistently registering in the mind of consumers or doing your fashion brand to obscurity. Surprisingly, the name does not have to be catchy or evoke images of luxury, sophistication, or immaculate style. Quirky, avant-garde, and even quixotic names can work also. What is most important is that the brand name is memorable.

The fashion brand JAKE has found that its unique name, when deciphered, evokes an All-American masculine style and sophistication married with a product that is deeply rooted in originality and modern sensibility. And it’s been proven that a one-word brand name comfortably etches into the minds of modern consumers.

However, coming to that one-name distinction was not an easy journey in that the company prior to the name change went through some structural changes. And that name change occurred after creative director Jake Wall appeared on “Project Runway” season 14.

“Artful Gentleman became JAKE in August 2015. The very evolution of the brand goes back to our first year of business when we noticed that our business was almost evenly split, 60% male and 40% female. In those early days we leaned toward what we called the androgynous client, the female that wanted a more masculine edge in her suiting. As time went on were seeing that that was becoming more pluralistic and it shifted more to 50/50. Now we had a gender man name and that was becoming a roadblock for our potential audience who thought we only made menswear,” explained Jake Wall.

That said; the name JAKE was selected for this new brand iteration. Hmm, a fashion brand named after the creator, now, that’s an original idea‼ Wait, now let’s see, there is Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, and Calvin Klein, just to name a few. So, originality is out the window. Still, an eponymous namesake had nothing to do with the choice of the brand name JAKE.

Jake Wall and Nathan Johnson images courtesy of TRC & Associates

Jake Wall and Nathan Johnson images courtesy Kelly Pulieo Photography

“I actually didn’t want to give the brand my name. It is my name and I don’t feel like it should belong to everyone else. The brand is not just me; it is me and Nathan (business partner) and our ministry of makers. Going to a specific name worried us, but we soldiered on. We learned that a lot of women has a crush on Jake Ryan from John Hughes’ “Pretty in Pink” and every man wants to be Jake Ryan, so the name tested really well. And the rest in history.”

Still, at the end of the day, especially in the fashion industry, a name is a name is a name, and what matters are the clothes. And with JAKE the clothes are glorious‼ Which is amazing coming from two folks who never went to design school and have bucked the established fashion trajectory route.

“Some of our mentors liked the fact that we haven’t taken the traditional designer route … We haven’t gone through a fashion curriculum that tells us what we can and cannot do. We get up every day and decide what we want to do. And most of the time when someone tells us we cannot do something, we get a little pissed out and put our full commitment behind doing it,” proclaims Wall.

JAKE spring 2016 campaign images courtesy Kelly Pulieo for JAKE

Along with their atypical path toward creating a fashion company is their process in identifying their consumer and brand aesthetic. Most fashion brands start out marketing to one gender, later adding on the other gender, followed by accessories and other products, solidifying the brand as a one-stop lifestyle brand. For the JAKE team, designing for men or women or both is not an end goal, the impetus for the company is creating clothes that speak to how the modern consumer live their lives and wants exceptional clothing. “We make clothes for people who want to be noticed. And you can decide if you want to be noticed in the supermarket or noticed at a gala. We don’t care how you live your life, but that you are enjoying your life. We put a lot of work into the things that we do and we want to make amazing things. We think of the work that we do as exceptional ready-to-wear and we are making clothes that are not meant to hang in the back of the closet. We are making garments that our customers find so amazing that they are making excuses to wear and finding places to wear our clothes,” details Wall.

Business partner Nathan Johnson concurs, “Our clothes are for consumers that have a certain kind of style and panache, who wants to make up excuses to wear our clothes because they feel amazing in our clothes … They get that confidence from our clothes and they come back again and again. We believe that everyone has personal style and our clothes provide the platform or the fertile ground for consumers to find and explore that personal style.”

Spring 2016 images courtesy of JRC & Associates

Spring 2016 images courtesy of Kelly Pulieo for JAKE

While some would concede that JAKE is for a particular niche market－polk-dotted men suiting, men’s camouflage tuxedo suiting, and women’s polka-dotted suiting with black silk lapels is not for the fashionably tepid－Jake Wall and Nathan Johnson would soundly disagree. Wall declares, “I think the audience that we have is not nearly as niche as the market would define it … there are a lot more people that want to have more style and have innovation, creativity, and edge to their clothes, but the major retailers are too afraid to take that risks.” “When consumers came to our store, they love the way the clothes look and feel and they have told us that we show them a way that they should be dressing. They do want to ‘peacock’ a little bit more. We give our customer’s a sense of fashion adventure and more freedom,” explains Johnson.

And isn’t that what fashion should be about, making fantastic clothes that gives consumers the freedom and ability to express themselves. And with the JAKE flagship store recently opening in San Francisco, the JAKE design team is giving the modern consumer just that, as well as finding that marketable balance between gender and fashion-forward sensibility. Well done guys‼

－William S. Gooch

Fashion Reverie Exclusive: Prince and Ponzo

April 29, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

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Most people in the fashion community know Rosemary Ponzo from her red carpet and New York Fashion Week appearances—regularly photographed by Patrick McMullen and Bill Cunningham— and for the many interesting and sometimes outrageous hats that don her Liza Minelli–like coif. She is a New York City Easter Parade constant presence with a new an dinnovative hat each season.

That said; Rosemary Ponzo is so much more than that. For many years she taught fashion styling for film, television and magazine editorials at Fashion Institute of Technology and LIM College. Ponzo is an Emmy-nominated stylist for the “Roman Era” and has styled for many films, television series, commercials, theater, and celebrities including Gwenyth Paltrow, Josh Lucas, Mary J. Blige, and Michael Bolton.

What has been left out of Rosemary Ponzo’s extensive resume is that Ponzo met and worked with the late great Prince. If you examine Rosemary Ponzo’s personal style and Prince’s sometimes outré stylings, the combination of Prince and Ponzo seems like a match orchestrated by the fashion gods.

A few weeks after Prince’s untimely death, Rosemary Ponzo sat down with Fashion Reverie and talked about designing stage costumes for the “Purple One.”

Fashion Reverie: How did you get to work with Prince?

Rosemary Ponzo: I met Prince’s manager at a nightclub in NYC. I told him I was a designer and he came to my workspace and he asked me to sketch three designs for Prince’s 1998 tour that was beginning with a two-week engagement at Radio City Music Hall.

FR: Had you ever designed for a pop musician before that?

Rosemary Ponzo: Yes, I had designed for LL Cool J, Tone Loc, and Whitney Houston who was being honored at NJ PAC. I styled and designed for these musical artists.

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FR: What impressed you about Prince’s personal style?

Rosemary Ponzo: Prince was always a step ahead of everyone; he did his own thing. He was the off the beaten path of most pop musicians. I would look at his music videos when MTV and VH1 was at an all-time high so you could get a sense of how musicians could project themselves through music and their own personal style. I loved “Diamond and Pearls,” which gave me a direction of how I wanted to sketch for Prince.

FR: Were you given any design direction?

Rosemary Ponzo: Yes, the direction was very 70s with bell-bottomed pants and an Edwardian look with brocade jackets. I sketched Edwardian bell-bottomed pants with a pleated flair that matched the brocade jacket. I sketched one design where Prince is wearing bell bottomed slacks with a white ruffled shirt and a crown as an accessory. All or his ornaments had to be solid gold.

Rosemary Ponzo’s sketch for Prince’s 1998 tour. Image courtesy of Rosemary Ponzo

FR: What fabrications and color palettes did Prince want?

Rosemary Ponzo: He let me choose the color palette and fabrications. However, he did not want anything purple. Most people don’t realize that Prince liked a range of bold colors and fabrications and he didn’t use purple as much as the press reports that he did.

There were two other designers that were designing for the tour. I never did meet the other designers, but I can say we were all paid extremely well. His team took my sketches and translated them into stage costumes that were made at his design studio in Minneapolis.

FR: How long was this tour supposed to last?

Rosemary Ponzo: Prince was supposed to have a two-week engagement at Radio City Music Hall that was to be the launch pad for his tour. However, Prince cancelled the engagement at Radio City Music Hall and subsequently the 1998 tour was cancelled.

Image courtesy of Rosemary Ponzo

FR: Did you actually meet Prince?

Rosemary Ponzo: Of course, I did. I had two meetings with Prince and one with the manager alone. When I first met him I didn’t realize how small he was in stature, so on some level that informed me to go in a slight different direction design wise.

I had to call him Mr. Prince. His manager was with him at all times. But, they really had no need to be concerned with me because I accustomed to being around celebrity personalities and was very out there at the time. I had red and blue streaks in my hair, and I wore a lot of studded jackets. Prince liked my personality.

FR: What was Prince’s personality like?

Rosemary Ponzo: He was very quiet and reserved at first. He was friendly when he got to know you. He would look you up and down at first to get a sense of who you were. He was a musical genius and his music will sell more now than ever before.

FR: Were you designing just for Prince or his entire musical group?

Rosemary Ponzo: Initially it was supposed to be just for Prince; however, when the tour took off it was to be expanded to the entire band.

FR: We know the Radio City Music Hall appearance was cancelling as well as the tour. What ever happened to your designs?

Rosemary Ponzo: My designs are either in the Prince archives in Minneapolis or they are gone. But the clothes were made at his design studio in Minnesota. I only met with him in NYC because at that time Prince had a recording studio in NYC where he would record and hangout with Madonna.

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FR: Where were you when you found out he had passed away?

Rosemary Ponzo: I was in my home and I looked at my phone and someone sent me an image of Prince Street with the word Prince crossed out and then I went online and it was all over the news. So sad, he can never be replaced!!

For more information about Rosemary Ponzo, go to rosemaryponzo.com.

—William S. Gooch

New York International Bridal Week Spring 2017 Preview

April 12, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

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Is it that time again, yes it is!! It seems only yesterday that Fashion Reverie was posting reviews of the bridal collections for fall 2016. Now, after surviving another New York Fashion Week: The Shows and New York Fashion Men’s, fall 2016 press previews, we are on to New York International Bridal Week spring 2017.

New York International Bridal week officially begins on April 14. And Fashion Reverie will keep you informed on the latest bridal styles and trends from bridal favorites Theia, Ines Di Santo, and Rivini by Rita Visnieris to bridal mavericks Mira Zwillinger, Galia Lahav, and Kelly Faetanini, to the more traditional designs of Oleg Cassini, Anne Barge, Anna Maier, and Peter Langner. And there will be a few new surprises this season Victoria Kyriakides, and some others.

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Remember, with all the hustle and bustle, and stress of modern life, brides start planning their weddings sometimes over a year in advance. So, what you may currently be looking at in bridal magazines is already out of step with what you will find at the upcoming nuptials of friends and family.

Fashion Reverie always aims to keep its readers ahead of the curve. So, luxuriate in the froth and fantasy of Bridal spring 2017.

—Staff

New York Fashion Week: Men’s Fall 2016 Preview

January 26, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

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In less than a week, the second iteration of New York Fashion Week: Men’s (NYFWM) will take place. The inaugural season was a success, though there was a distinct absence of a lot of the international menswear press.

This time around, particularly for fall 2016, the big question that hangs in the proverbial fashion atmosphere is if separating men’s fashion from women is worth all the brouhaha and financial expense. The CFDA, the governing body for NYFWM, would trumpet a resounding, affirmative yes to that query. Others would contend that the verdict is still out. Particularly, with some mainstream menswear designers still missing from the roster of designers scheduled to showcase fall 2016 collection (Michael Bastian, Asaf Ganot, and Y3 have opted out this season.)

Still, there are some wonderful additions this time around. From Joseph Abboud, returning after an absence of several seasons from NYFW, to General Idea’s return to the NYFW scene to newcomers Palmiers du Mal, Deveaux, Devon Halfnight LeFlufy, Max n’ Chester, and Craft Atlantic over 60 designers are showcasing their fall 2016 collection this season. And the Cadillac-sponsored shows at Industrio Superstudio are back again, providing a less expensive way for emerging designers to present their collections.

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True to form, Fashion Reverie will be front and center bringing its readers pre-coverage and coverage during NYFWM. New York Fashion Week: Men’s is from February 1–4.

—Staff

Fashion Reverie Exclusive: Charles Harbison

January 25, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

HARBISON spring 2014 images courtesy of examiner.com

In the wake of the 2016 Oscar Blackout, Black Lives Matter protests, and a 2016 presidential race that is beginning to place race relations as a key issue, very few medial outlets or cultural pundits are taking a critical look at diversity in the fashion industry and the lack of African American designers that have a major US retail presence.

In this critical fashion season as the Council Federation of Designers of America (CFDA) is looking at ways to reposition and invigorate a lagging US retail market and US fashion weeks that no larger attract wide media coverage, there is a blight of journalism on the state of designers of color. Though CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg has addressed this issue, during New York Fashion: The Shows spring 2016 season only a handful of African American designers of note presented collections. And as of 2010 there were only 12 African Americans that were members of the CFDA.

And, if there has been a discussion in the media over the lack of diversity in fashion, it is always centered on black models, rarely designers of color. That is probably due to the fact that there are several well-known Asian and Hispanic designers/brands—Alexander Wang, Oscar de la Renta, Vivienne Tam, Anna Sui, Tadashi Shoji, Narcisco Rodriguez, Thakoon, Derek Lam, Monique Lhuillier, Custo Barcelona, Angel Sanchez, Jason Wu, Carolina Herrera, Desigual , Lie Sang Bong, and the least goes on—that present collections every season. When you ponder black designers, only a few names come to mind—Tracy Reese, B. Michael, Maxwell Osborne of Public School, and Stephen Burrows, though he only shows sporadically.

HARBISON spring 2016 images courtesy of Charles Harbison/fashionreverie.com

However, at closer examinations there are some rising black design stars on the horizon. Though they are getting limited media coverage, for those fashion folks in the know, these black designers are blazing a new path and causing the fashion community to rethink they way they look at the contemporary shopper. Charles Harbison is one such designer.

Slender, mild mannered, but highly passionate about his design aesthetic, his brand’s DNA, and its market viability, Charles Harbison is taking the fashion industry by storm by forging a unique brand identity and breaking new ground in niche marketing, customer curating, and retention. And like many young, new fashion designers, Charles’ path into fashion was not linear, it was a circuitous trajectory of ‘a ha’ moments and Eureka-like realizations.

“I had initially gone to North Carolina State University (NCSU) to study architecture because I thought that was how a creative mind could make money. I soon found that architecture was bit to stringent and rigid for me. In my fundamentals class I started working with materials and fabric and fell in love with that medium that led me to follow the path of textiles. I put all my energies into becoming a textile weaver and technician,” explains Charles Harbison.

spring 2016 images courtesy of Charles Harbison/fashionreverie.com

“While following this new passion, I wove 17 yards of this incredible new textile and later did not know what to do with it. The fabric had a very beautiful, tactile tribal motif. The tribal references in the textile were Native American. … When I put the textile as clothing on some friends, I just loved the process. By my senior your at NCSU, my thesis was all in garments.”

After successfully working as an associate designer at Luca Luca, Billy Reid, and Michael Kors, Charles struck out on his own, launching his eponymous brand, HARBISON. “I was professionally satisfied at these companies but I was not personally satisfied. My personal life was not centered; I wasn’t putting enough time into self-care. It was sustainable for me, but I didn’t want that kind of life,” continues Harbison. “At HARBISON, I can configure business so that my professional and personal life don’t have to be polar opposites. I can work with my friends in the industry, if I choose to; I can also commission my friends. I get to surround myself with people that I know and trust. I also get to instate processes that are more thoughtful of myself.”

Spring 2016 images courtesy of Charles Harbison

And Charles can also play with a variety of cultural influences, motifs, color palettes, and fabrications and meld these seemingly disparate points of view into a seamless dissertation on how the modern woman and man might express themselves through wearable art. Take Charles Harbison’s spring 2016 collection. At a perfunctory glance, the collection might seem a smorgasbord of dissimilar abstractions. However, at closer examination, the randomness adds to the beauty and craftsmanship of the collection.

“The primary reference for the spring 2016 collection was the iconic film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” So, there was a strong lean toward simplicity expressed in shift dresses, linear elements. I was inspired by these sun-bleached pastels, horizon colors; punch reds, but also stark whites. There is also this 60s preppy aesthetic that you see Katherine Hepburn donning in the film. That aesthetic was turned into the navy story in this collection. I also wanted a color story that spoke to Sidney Poitier, so I have these bricks and reds that look beautiful on a chocolate skin tone,” explained Charles.

“Surf and swim references were also important to this collection. I imagined Katherine Houghton as a renegade surf girl. There are other aquatic references in the collection. The ruffles in the collection reference ripples in the ocean; there is mesh that speaks to fisherman’s net and seaweed.”

Spring 2016 images courtesy of Charles Harbison

“There is also this underwater sculpture called “Vicissitudes” that is off the coast of Grenada. This sculpture is life-sized humans linked and entwined together that has been dropped to the bottom of the ocean. The sculpture now has coral and sea life growing all over it. So, the ruffle and other embellishments speak to sea life growing on top of this sculpture.”

“Constatine Brancusi designed beautiful brass and gold sculptures. He also worked in marble. Thus, my shapes are bit more sculptural this season, I wanted to use fabrics and textures that held shape in a very organic way. I like to put four finite things in the pot, so to speak, and when you hybridize them you can come up with something pretty unique and amazing.“

With HARBISON, Charles Harbison is getting to do exactly what he wants to do. Expressing his unique design aesthetic, designing for a consumer that reflects his own penchant for ‘art meets fashion’ seen through a lens of modernity, sophistication, and wearable charm and expand and test the waters of his own creativity.

Spring 2016 images courtesy of Charles Harbison

“The exciting thing I am building with Harbison is that there are so many product categories that can sit underneath this brand identity. I am excited about servicing him and her with the things and experiencing that I love. At the end of the day, I want my customer to be more powerful in their life. I want to give my customer the tools to aesthetically present him or herself to the world. I want men to be more comfortable opting into that softer more fragile part of themselves and women opting into the more directional powerful parts of their personality.”

And we are excited with and for you!!

—William S. Gooch

Fashion Reverie Campaign Spotlight: Dolce and Gabbana’s Hajib and Abaya Collection

January 23, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

Images courtesy of lesfacons.com

Unlike the Academy of Arts and Science, the fashion industry aims for and embraces diversity. And while some fear mongers and very uninformed folks are afraid of people and things that are different and unique, the fashion industry celebrates different points of view and perspectives.

This inclusion of world diversity could not be showcased any better than in Dolce and Gabbana’s first ever collection of hajbs and abayas, appealing to Muslims that makes up 27 percent of the world’s population. Smart, economic move, some would say!! (Read Fashion Reverie’s inclusion of this first ever collection in our January 6, 2016 post.)

Images courtesy of lesfacons.com

A little education may be in order for those who don’t know what abayas and hajibs are. A hajib is a veil that covers the head and chest, which is particularly worn by some Muslim women beyond the age of puberty in the presence of adult males outside of their immediate family. The abaya is a simple, loose over-garment, essentially a robe-like dress, worn by some women in parts of the Muslim world including in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Traditional abayat are black and may be either a large square of fabric draped from the shoulders or head or a long caftan. The abaya covers the whole body except the face, feet, and hands. It can be worn with the niqāb, a face veil covering all but the eyes. Some women also wear long black gloves, so their hands are covered as well.

Reem Acra images courtesy of John Aquino/vogue.com

Definitions aside, Dolce and Gabbana are not the first designers to be inspired by Middle Eastern and/or Muslim culture. For spring 2016, Reem Acra looked to her Lebanese background for inspiration. This collection had a strong emphasis on bold color, sequined embellishments and embroidered florals. And though there were lots of short skirts and low décolletage, the collection contained some more modest garments that fashion-forward Muslim could wear with a hajib.

Images courtesy of lesfacons.com

Though the Dolce & Gabbana hajib and abaya collection stayed mostly with a neutral color palette, the design duo did inject some floral embellishments and playful polka dots, reminiscent of their spring 2016 ready-to-wear collection. The hijabs and abayas come in sheer georgette and satin weave charmeuse fabrics, and the brand’s signature lace detailing is also a strong presence. One floating neutral colored abaya is heavily embellished with intricate black lace, echoing the brand’s penchant for dramatic femininity, while another is embellished with an all over lace pattern. And the luxurious, ornate D&G shades and handbags added that extra pop to the campaign images, solidly placing Muslim women in the modern coterie of well-traveled, global fashionistas.

—William S. Gooch

Fashion Reverie Campaign Spotlight: Moschino Spring 2016

January 12, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

Images courtesy of Yannis Vlamos/Digital Images

Without a doubt, Jeremy Scott is one of the most exciting fashion designers in the pantheon of current designers. No longer fashion’s enfant terrible, Jeremy Scott is experiencing a wave of acceptance and market proliferation that few fashion designers ever experience; particularly, in such an oversaturated market. He’s come a long way from Kansas City and his post as Moschino’s creative director proves that Jeremy Scott’s fashion vision and trajectory is relevant, true, and much needed.

Images courtesy of Yannis Vlamos/Digital Images

For the Moschino spring 2016 collection, Jeremy Scott looked to street signs, a construction site and a 1970s retro car wash for inspiration. As always with Jeremy Scott, his overtop runway presentations have a multitude of themes and reference points, harkening back to past fashion motifs with models that really know how to strut on a catwalk.

Images courtesy of lesfacons.com

That said; Scott is a genius at funneling current trends and design aesthetic through a prism familiar styles and silhouettes. And for the Moschino spring 2016 ad campaign Scott successfully mixes the old with the new. Employing supermodels Joan Smalls, Fei Fei Sun, Lexi Boling, and Maartje Verhoef, this bright and frolic-filled campaign was styled by Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, and shot by Steven Meisel.

Images courtesy of lesfacons.com

In a retro couture salon theme, the ladies pose somberly in some of the collection’s most outlandish pieces, including a feather dress, a gown adorned with ’50s-style taillights and sequined eveningwear meant to mimic flashing neon signs. The car wash brushes and brush mops from the runway presentation create a humorous, fantastical tableau, and the season’s accessories—including a Powerpuff Girl handbag and a Moschino hard hat —are given plenty of attention as well.

—Staff

Fashion Reverie Spotlight: Hanro of Switzerland Celebrates 30 Years

January 5, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

What woman does not adore a great camisole? Traditionally, these female sleeveless undergarments are made of silk, nylon or cotton. And though these women’s intimates are usually not openly exposed, women oftentimes like to have camisoles embellished with lace or luxury details.

For 30 years, HANRO of Switzerland has provided women camisoles that are the quintessential example of timeless elegance, flawless perfection, and understated luxury. Its COTTON SEAMLESS camisoles that appeared on the market in 1985 symbolizes HANRO’s signature styling. This V-neck spaghetti strap camisole is crafted from 100% finest mercerized cotton with a seamless and hem-less construction, and trimmed with a subtle, sophisticated satin edging. It offers the ultimate in comfort and luxury for every day wear.

HANRO’s COTTON SEAMLESS camisoles have also been featured in magazines, editorial shoots and films. From Kate Moss in British Vogue, Sharon Stone in a Dior Cosmetics campaign and Nicole Kidman in “Eyes Wide Shut,” to HANRO campaigns featuring supermodels Carla Bruni and Alessandra Ambrosio, HANRO of Switzerland has become one of the go-to camisole brands for celebrities and supermodels, particularly when a campaign of film segment requires camisole exposure.

In this 30-year anniversary celebration, HANRO of Switzerland dedicates a special exclusive 1601 edition in six fresh and summery shades to this iconic wardrobe staple. The colors represent a preview to the upcoming spring/summer 2016 collection from HANRO.

Images courtesy of HANRO of Switzerland

The fresh and lively color palette underlines the fashionable diversity of the elegant COTTON SEAMLESS camisole and shows the many versatile styling options—either worn as underwear, layered under a jacket or a blazer, worn on its own as outerwear, or easily combined with favorite styles from your own wardrobe. The 1601 COTTON SEAMLESS 30 Years edition launches in store and online early Spring 2016, and will be offered from sizes XS-L for a retail price of $62 per camisole.

—Staff

Happy 2016!!

January 1, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

Fashion Reverie wishes a Happy New Year and a prosperous 2016 to all. There were many changes in the fashion industry in 2015 from Donna Karan stepping down from her company, Alber Elbaz’ s release from Lanvin, Ralph Lauren stepping down as CEO to the inaugural season of New York Fashion Week: Men’s, and the final cycle of America’s Next Top Model, 2015 was all about change.

It is often said that the only constant in life is change and the fashion industry embraces change probably better than any other industry. May 2016 produce change that includes more diversity in fashion and more spontaneity and excitement in the industry. Whatever happens in 2016, Fashion Reverie will be front and center, bringing all the details and highlights to our valued viewers. Happy 2016!!

—William S. Gooch, Editor-in-Chief