{Runway} Amato Couture Perth Fashion Week

I have no words to utter but marvelling affection for this Amato Haute Couture collection made exclusively for Perth Fashion Week 2012. Treating us to a never before seen range of couture gowns, along with badassical glittering embellished headdresses and colossal chandelier earrings and beads chains draped across their faces. I'm definitely feeling an extravagant Indian maharaja vibe from the ornate accessories. Creative master Furne One is proudly carrying the Philippine flag.

Inspired by the World War One era exotic dancer turned spy Mata Hari, the collection featured intricately embellished and highly detailed haute couture garments with a hint of Indian opulence.

Jaw droppingly extravagant pieces, with studded embellished bells and whistles that only maharajahs could bring, hitting all the high notes of Haute Couture. 2012 will be a monumental year for Furne One and Amato Couture following the successful opening of the brands first boutique in the US, in Los Angeles and plans to expand further.

Photo's courtesy of Emma Bergmeier

Music Monday Playlist

hey hey hey afternoon folks ! Mondays can sometimes be rough especially for the red side of Manchester today, for those of you who follow football.. you'll know I mean !! I hope your Monday is wonderful, here’s to another week!

I claim no responsibility should you go deaf  ; )

TRACKLIST

01 Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood
02 I Know Where You Sleep - Lissy Trullie
03 Beautiful Life - jj
04 Need Your love - The Temper Trap
05 Jasmine - Jai Paul
06 Let it Go - Dragonette
07 Flutterby - Starlight Girls
08 White Coats - Foxes

Listen 

Your portrait as a vintage Chinese propaganda hero

History was always one of my favourite subjects.. politics not so much !! but both of them go hand in hand. 

I know pretty much zilch about Chinese Maoism, though im aware Chinese vintage propaganda posters has always been notable for it's red and black artistic impressions of a surreal cartoonist style and producing extraordinary poster designs, capturing the stalwart nature of the soaring human spirit of the peoples optimism. A large number of the posters are quite unique, and will bedazzle forever in the history of Chinese art. 

Now you can have your portrait oil painted like a chinese propoganda artist ! Become a hero ! check out Maoart. 

Maoart paintings integrate with virtuosity real people’s faces into faithfully reproduced propaganda posters. Based on a photograph provided by you and a poster of your choice, an artist renders you as a socialist hero. Each painting requires several days of work, and the result is always outstanding. It's a very original gift idea.

The element of romanticism makes the arts more visionary and what has more sentimentality than yours or your loved ones portrait. Beware not to brainwash the masses!

DIY nutshell No.1

Row 1 :

make your very own DIY film roll place cards over at ruffled blog 
print on fabric free decorative monograms for photo albums
create a DIY studded collar denim shirt

Row 2 :

paint a moss graffiti for your walls or garden
Get ombre colored nails without buying multiple shades of the same color
customize your paper bag with anything you would like on the front!

Row 3 :

craigslist desk drawer makeover 

make your own solar jar for garden or camping
dip dyed hair tutorial 

Jan Taminiau Couture Spring Summer 2012

It would be unambiguous to say these are not your garden variety shoes, kudos to the models who manoeuvred these magnificent sculptures with there legs and feet. Dutch designer Jan Taminiau showed his "Tarnished Beauty" collection during Paris Haute Couture.

The World's First Interactive Shoppable Music Video

Folks at SSENSE have launched the first interactive shoppable music video! pretty cool huh! [though I heard ASOS did it first] All performers in the video of the premier 'I think she ready' were styled exclusively by SSENSE, where you can shop Iggy’s, FKi’s and Diplo’s looks using interactive hotspot technology from wireWAX. Although viewers probably couldn't afford half of the clothes for sale including moi, the video is a tribute to high fashion and the next generation of shopping.

SSENSE CEO Rami Atallah explains, “This is the first time the worlds of music, fashion and commerce have truly overlapped. The integration we are introducing between technology, entertainment and retail with this video not only creates a unique experience for the audience, but also has utility. People often wonder what performers are wearing, where they can purchase that item – we have bridged that gap.”

You can use the exact same technology for free, if you as bloggers like to create make-up, diy video tutorials. There's a free package available at wireWAX though it's probably limited as subscription provides more, but I anticipate we'll be seeing alot more of taggable video tools soon. 

Check out an older music post I created with an image taggable tool called Thinglink, they now charge for the service but it's a pretty neat tool. 

Colorific Brows

To the hair colour chameleons, would you consider experimenting with color on your eyebrows ? 

It may not be surprising that colour has migrated to the eyebrows, there's abundance of different colour for lips, mascara, eye-liner & hair, so are eyebrows a swing too far? Could be yeah! but that's a not a bad thing in my book, pushing the boundaries and being individual is a quality I admire. 

Speaking for myself, I would not be able to pull off coloured eyebrows. Randomly enough I feel compelled to conjure up the image of Spock with Vulcan upward pointed coloured eyebrows ? His eyebrows were always a trademark as well as his pointed ears.

Leutton Postle backstage image courtesy of Krisatomtic CQQUSD4YJRQC

Link Love: Three Floor Fashion

This instalment of link love is sent to Central Saint Martins graduate Han Chong , he is the mind behind the affordable, stylish Three Floor Fashion.com. There's a super range of edgy individual womenswear with surprisingly reasonable prices all under the £150 mark, it's rare to see a graduate of Central Saint Martins emerge with a debut line that is both affordable which does not compromise on design or quality. I'm not sure quite how I managed to miss out on Three Floor Fashion until now.

THREE FLOOR FASHION

Launched in November 2011, THREE FLOOR is a new online fashion brand breaking the mould for affordable design. Showcasing a cleverly seductive style ...