Classixx's fantastic remix of fellow L.A based rocker Hanni El Khatib's single "Penny".
Friday, September 27, 2013
Peter Pilotto X Target
Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos, the London-based designing duo behind Peter Pilotto, are teaming up with Target for a bold, spring womenswear collection debuting Feb. 9, 2014.
Given the brand's UK roots, Target is making the collection available to international fans through online luxury retailer Net-a-Porter, which will carry a curated assortment of the limited-edition collection. After all, Target has always partnered with the best and brightest - from both near and far - to make a great design accessible.
Expect to see the same distinct and elegance of Peter Pilotto in the Target collection, with kaleidoscopic prints, bold color combinations (picture striking and greens and warm reds and oranges) and sculpted silhouettes.
With celebs following including the likes of Kerry Washington, Kristen Stewart, Miranda Kerr, Kate Bosworth, Sienna Miller and Emma Watson, there's rarely a red carpet without Peter Pilotto sighting.
The designs duo first made fashion headlines when they were awarded the Best Emerging Talent Award and the Women's Swarovski Award for New Potential High-Level Garments at the British Fashion Awards in the late 2009. Additional accolades followed in 2011 when the label received the prestigious Fashion Forward Award by the British Fashion Council.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Coolest Brands: Britain's Taste for Luxury
A list attempting to
chose the "coolest" brands in the UK has been dominated by high-value
brands - topped off by Apple products.
The poll is assembled
by a panel of 37 experts, including the designer Kelly Hoppen and the model
Daisy Lowe, with votes from 2,000 consumers.
Other names in the top
20 include Chanel, Prada and Alexander McQueen.
Names that are no
longer in the top 20 include Haagen-Dazs, Ben & Jerry's and Vogue.
The brands are a
mixture of the internationally dominant such as Nike, Google and YouTube, with
other internationally well-known but niche names, such as Glastonbury and the
music streaming service Spotify.
Cool in the 1980s but
not in 2013 - Design Council chief executive John Mather says cool brands have
a "timeless quality"
Cool-hunters
Stephen Cheliotis, chairman
of the CoolBrands council, said Apple's days as the leading brand might be
numbered: "While Apple remained number one this year, question marks
remain as to how long they might hold this position in the face of an
increasingly competitive set of rivals.
"Overall the top
20 saw a definite swing back to luxury brands as the affordable everyday brands
slipped back.
"Whether it's due
to strong heritage, product quality or quite simply a correlation with the
reviving British economy, this year's CoolBrands list shows an increasing
number of luxury brands are back at the top of the cool list, reversing last
years' trend of affordable everyday luxuries dominating."
Some of the names on
the list may surprise cool-hunters.
Virgin Money and the
savoury spread Marmite are both winners of the coolest brands in their own
categories.
KORA Organics by Miranda Kerr
"Creating KORA Organics has given me a platform to share this passion with others."
- MK
Miranda Kerr created KORA because she wanted to develop a range of products that brought together the very best in skincare ingredients designed to nourish, replenish and hydrate skin. "The products represent my healthy/balances lifestyle, my beliefs and love of organics."
KORA Organics products only use the highest quality certified organic and natural ingredients. Their products have been specifically formulated to work synergistically with each other to maximize results.
Our Favorite KORA Products
Foaming Cleanser, $44.95 AUD
Calming Lavender Mist, $39.95 AUD
Hydrating Day & Night Cream, $59.99 AUD
Clay Purifying Mask, $49.95 AUD
Our Favorite KORA Products
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Burberry CEO Says Women Can't do It All
Angela Ahrendts, one of Britain's most successful businesswomen,
has admitted that women "can't do it all", adding fresh fuel to the
debate about whether women can combine harmony in the home with business
success.
Mother of three teenagers, Ms Ahrendts is
credited with reviving the fortunes of Burberry, the fashion brand where she is
chief executive, and establishing herself as one of the most astute in the
sparse ranks of female bosses.
Does she achieve a balance that suits the
family as well as shareholders? She thinks so but works hard at it.
Her working day starts at 4.35am, but she
rations out-of-hours work to one evening a week and insists on arriving home on
Friday after travelling.
She has turned down invites to the Oscars
because: "It's not more important than my husband. It's not more important
than my kids. It's not more important than Burberry".
She said in an
interview with The Sunday Times: “I don’t want to be a great executive without
being a great mum and a great wife. I don’t want to look back and say I wish I
had done things differently. Balance is a really big word for me."
"It's one of the most important parts of
my job, showing that you can't do it all."
Ms Ahrendts' comments are the latest in a
debate led by Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. Ms Sandberg has
called for working women to "lean in" to their careers and demand
husbands bear a greater share of the domestic burden.
While both are American, they appear to have
different takes on the issue.
Sandberg believes women are penalised at work
because of gender stereotypes, one of the themes in her book ‘Lean In: Women,
Work and the Will to Lead.”
She has said: “Give us a world where half our
homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty
sure that would be a better world. Our culture needs to find a robust image of
female success that is first, not male and second, not a white woman on the
phone, holding a crying baby.”
Ms Ahrendts says it is impossible to have it
all. "I’m here to run Burberry and I’m here to be a really great wife to
my husband. And we have three amazing teens so that’s three really big jobs,”
she said.
She tries to lead by
example. “We have a lot of women working here and I always tell them they are
mothers first. Those children are their legacy and they have partners and
that’s a big obligation.”
Cotton Or Nothing: Join the Movement
In response to clothing manufacturers replacing cotton with unreliable and uncomfortable fabrics, mannequins ditched their clothes and gathered in New York City during Fashion Week to protest. Their message - Cotton or Nothing. Hundreds of people joined them to create a stop-motion film of the 3-day protest.
Why you should join:
Manufacturers are replacing the cotton in your favorite cloths with unreliable and uncomfortable fabrics.
It's easy to mistake a mystery fabric replacement for cotton. It can look like a cotton and even feel like cotton, but only at first. Here are some of the fabric fails you can expect if you don't check the label:
Pilling - Odor - Itching - Clinging - Loss of Shape
If any of these sound familiar, you may have been fooled by fabric substitution.
How to Boil an Egg
A collection of simple and nutritious ways to cook and eat eggs from the ever popular Rose Bakery.
Rose Cerrarini and her husband Jean-Charles set up the original Rose Bakery, a small Anglo-French restaurant, shop and bakery, tucked away in a street near the Gare du Nord in Paris in 2002. Serving simple, fresh and healthy meals, their food blurs the boundaries between home and restaurant cooking.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Karen Walker Eyewear Campaign
Karen Walker's Forever 2nd Summer Campaign
What was the best thing you did at kindy last week? I made some bats and fish and apples and pigs
and also I made some ducks. I made them out of lots of sorts of things. I
wasn’t there on the day they made the sheep.
What’s your favourite animal? My favourite animal is my pet bunny rabbit because they’re
always so fluffy.
What do you want to do when you grow up? Be in the same house with my mum and dad and
my big brother.
What’s your favourite colour? Pink and purple and gold and black and white and silver and grey
and also blue and also purple.
How old are you? Four.
Elise
What was the best thing you did at preschool last week? Painting a pink and green and blue butterfly.
Where do you want to live when you grow up? In the city where my mummy and daddy are.
What’s your favourite animal? Zebras because they’re very stripy.
What do you want to do when you grow up? I want to be a vet.
How old are you? Four.
Tyler
What was the best thing you did at preschool last week? I didn’t go to preschool, but I got to travel
to Thailand with my mum and dad.
Where do you want to live when you grow up? Disneyland.
What’s your favourite animal? Dog.
What do you want to do when you grow up? Be a model.
How old are you? Three.
What was the best thing you did at school last week? I made a tree out of leaves and apples.
Where do you want to live when you grow up? In a big house.
What’s your favourite animal? A duck because they swim in water.
What do you want to do when you grow up? I want to work on a computer.
How old are you? Five.
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