Fashion Styling

Indian Henna

Henna is traditionally worn in India by brides on their wedding day, they have their hands, arms, legs and feet covered by the tiny detailed symbols and free hand designs. It's seen as an art of beauty and pride. Henna is a nectar based liquid, it takes minutes to apply and stain your skin. I've recently got henna on my fingers hand and wrist. It's so beautiful and I believe doesn't have to he worn for tradition occasion or religeon these days. Any way to express beauty and imagination should be represented to the full. I love henna it's lasted about a week and a half, the colours eventually fade. I think anybody who is artistic or believes in symbolic writings and meanings should try it. Not expensive or time consuming.. And way better than a permanent tattoo!!

Holographic

Holographic is slowly expanding in the fashion world. I was looking at the “Bilbao Guggenheim Holographic Exhibit” that took place last year. 

These are my favourite looks. I like these because they are sexy, however classy. They show confidence and sex appeal without having to be revealing or short. The holographic fabric is very complimentary because the light shines off of it, mirroring the colours surrounding. Another thing I love about holographic is that it looks amazing when the whole outfit is matching. Some fabrics can only be worn as one item on the body because they may look too boysterous or just not right. However some of the models are dressed head to toe in holographic including their shoes, and the look just really works perfectly. Looks so high fashion and original. 

It’s a fashion phenomenon that has seemingly exploded in the last few years, making it “the hottest” trend that you could possibly reference heading into 2013. One of the first fashion houses to showcase a collection laden with holographic items was Blumarine’s delightfully tongue-in-cheek and ultra-modern Ready-To-Wear Fall/Winter Collection for 2012. The models quite literally dripped in shiny synthetics and the feel was sort of futuristic punk…

Some high street stores have caught on to this amazing look:

Fashion Fact File....

the firstfashion magazine was published in Germany in 1586

 the pencil skirt and the A-line skirt were designed by Frenchman Christian Dior, who is singlehandedly credited with inspiring 1950s fashion.

More than 2 billion t-shirts are sold each year.

 In Rome, purple clothing was exclusively reserved for emperors and magistrates Until around the beginning of the 20th century, Chinese culture regarded small feet as beautiful, and it was a common practice to bind women’s feet from an early age to keep their feet small.

This practice was limited to the wealthy, however, as the feet of women who underwent this procedure were so deformed that they had difficulty walking.

The fashion industry generates an average revenue of $20 billion each year. the first bust support patented was made out of handkerchief.

A New York socialite in the name of Mary Phelps gave birth to bras. And with this, women started to create and reinvent different sizes for everyone. 

 clothing would only be called vintage if it dates back from the years 1920-1960. Any piece of clothing after those years are not considered vintage but retro

Greek analogies..

Have you heard about the curse of The 'Evil Eye'? In Greece (as this varies from country to country), this is a glance believed to have the ability to harm those on whom it falls, can come from anyone at any moment, or you can draw it to yourself. The cause can be zealous admiration, envy or even malevolent jealousy.'fatimas hand' which is an Islamic symbol which can also be known as Hasma hand. Hasma hand is the and of Prophet Muhammad's daughter Fatima. It is the symbol of patience, loyalty, faith and resistance against difficulties. the two are usually seen together as a symbol. The eye usually being in the palm of the hand. I think this must represent loyalty faith etc, however the eye must show that even though the person who wears it has many humble moral aspects about themself, they also have a very evil eye watching over them.
Generally in huge countries like the US and UK, people dont look behind the meaning of symbols, they are seen to be very chic and high fashion. you can find pendants like these almost anywhere now,

 Hamsa Hand Gold bracelet by Vanessa Kandiyoti via Net-a-Porter

Hamsa Hand & Evil Eye charm Necklace by Vanessa Kandiyoti
via Net-a-Porter

#UNIF

Unifclothing.com

I love unif clothing so ,ugh right now. Their twitter and Instagram are both unifclothing. The evidence is clear that the number of trendy, current people that are recently discovering unif is increasing. All you have to do is hash tag #unifclothing and pictures and positive feedback are all over the Internet! 

Unif reminds me very much of urban outfitters, the ragged priest, true religion. This is because they are all kind of gothic, grunge but not too much meaning, they are nothing like the over the top 'grunge' brands that are usually seen in places like Camden. 

Here are a few of my favourite bits at the moment that caught my eye on the unif clothing website; 

Inspiring..