Leopard Delicious

Leopard Delicious by CaramelCandy featuring glass shades

Incoming :: Fashion Workshop !

Nothing to do in September? Join DAA and their new project! 18 to 28 -year olds will get the opportunity to participate in their new Safe Sex Fashion Show, with perhaps YOU as designer !

Designers Against AIDS has once again found an exellent way to raise awareness for AIDS/HIV in the world. Via an exiting  fashion workshop for students, they will be guiding and creating amazing stuff for the good cause.

 

Happy Birthday to .... The Body Shop

As announced, The Body Shop turned 35 last week. Obviously they  had to throw a party, and they did it on their own well-known TBS-style. Green balloons, green carpet, cocktails, lets have some fun !

I don't think that there is one person alive in both the States and Europe that doesn't know The Body Shop. Honestly, that store has made real statements in the past that made them inevitably in today's beauty sphere. Every beauty-adept has at least one TBS-item, and for good reasons! Against animal testing, the use of natural products and the fighting for good causes (such as fighting against child abuse)  makes them not only a green, but a very conscious company that makes every woman feel good.

                                                                        "Love Your Body" 

That quote smiles at you every time you walk into one of their stores. The strong message they are sending out is much appreciated by women all over the world, because we should! Roddick (the late Dame Anita Roddick) launched in 1997 a global campaign against the media stereotyping of woman and to raise self-esteem in woman. Since the numbers of anorexia and bulimia kept on raising ridiculously fast, she decided to do something about it, fighting for women who became insecure because of the false image of "perfect people" that the media kept poisoning the population with. The fact that the runway models, who are considered to have "the ultimate beauty", were practically bones and skin, didn't help either. So the fact that TBS helps everybody feel better about themselves would be enough to support them, but it wouldn't be fair not to discuss their products! Everybody knows how TBS = yummy smells. Any type of body butter, shampoo or even hand cream smells so delicious, sometimes I just walk into a store just for the smell of it :P. 

I spy I spy with my little eye ... Vanessa Hudgens !

There are many reasons why I could hate Vanessa Hudgens. Her incredibly gawwjusshh hair, for starters. Then you got the fact that she actually could get Zac Effron (sigghh...) But if I had to mention one reason why I love her, than it would be the fact that she dresses just the way I like, in every designer that I like, being probably a thousand times more stunning in them than I could ever be. More reason to hate her, but let's stay positive today :D

The reason of me drooling (again) is because I was looking for my latest 'must have object' : A floppy hat. Googeling around I found pictures of V. rocking this hat, and it looked just stunning on her. Like really. 

Oh, America .. [Spotlight : Designer David Giampiccolo]

Logging on to my facebook account a while ago, I saw that designer David Giampiccolo, -a very promising designer from Brussels by the way- was preparing his new collection. That got me interested and I went looking for more of his work, and I must say, not bad  at all !

You can imagine that after seeing this I had to go google him. But nothing, so like a scared ass groupie I took the easiest way and asked the designer himself what he had to say about this collection and himself ofcourse !

 " Je crée uniquement par rapport a mes envies et par rapport a mon instinct et mes etats d'âmes, jamais en fonction des tendances et autres.
The strange music box etait tres sombre " 

So he sais : " I only create using what I feel like and following my instinct, the emotional state of my being, never  following the trends or what other people do. The strange music box was really sober-minded"

"c'était une collection qui re-transcrivait mon etat a l'époque qui n'etait pas top! des moments d'angoisses et une vie pas toujour evidente! le theme etait les cauchemars passé a travers mes peurs.. " 

He continues saying :" It was a collection that really showed how I felt back then, which wasn't really happy at all ! Moments of axienty and a life not always that easy ! The theme was the nightmares through my fears .." 

After this 'dark' collection, he surprised everybody with an all white one, called "See you in hell mr David". It all became clear why when he told me that "It was after I solved all the problems with my inner me, and I wanted to say goodbye to the old David, the one that caused me so much trouble! The one that was always anxious and who had to support himself, that's whyI told him 'see you in hell' "

Picture of the 'see you in hell, mr. David' collection

 About his new collection: "America America " he says :

" la nouvelle collection est un regard sur mon futur et sur le passé, car je suis un paradox vivant!Le futur c'est les Etats-Unis car j'y parts en janvier pour quelque temps.Le passé c 'est pour toutes mes influences que j'y ai mise, comme l'afrique, les années 80, le hip hop, les couleurs et la nouvelle joie de vivre! "

" The new collection is a view on my future and the past, since I am full of ambiguity! The future is the USA, because I'm going there in January for a while. The past because of all the influences I put in there ; Africa, the 80ies, Hip Hop, the colors and the new 'joie de vivre' ! "

 

Pictures of "America America" are made by Gilles Geekk, and the make up artist is Caroline Nizet

Mister Designer himself during the 'The strange music box' photo shoot

What do you think about this designer? 

Love and Kisses,