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Biggest Trends From Bridal Fashion Week Spring 2016

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Biggest Trends From Bridal Fashion Week Spring 2016

by Nicole Adlman

Bridal Fashion Week has come to a close, leaving us with a crop of chic wedding dresses that we would say “I do” to in, like, a hot second.

We’ve already given you roundups of the best bridal gowns on the runway this weekend, and now it’s time to assess the major trends of the moment. Luckily, the spring 2016 collections kept things fresh and unexpected (it’s not all about white and lace, although those gowns were as beautiful as ever). Read on for the biggest, must-wed-in trends from this season:

1. Crop Tops And Ball Skirts: That’s right, guys, the crop top trend has become so ubiquitous that even brides are getting two-piece happy. And there’s something seriously appealing about these midriff-baring confections, which appeared with multihued appliqués at Theia, in a sexy, plunging style at Reem Acra and a sweet sheer tee number from newcomer Mira Zwillinger.

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2. Nude Tones: So long blush tones, there’s a new nude in town. Creamy neutrals got new life this season with the aid of the embellishments that accompanied them—from feathered skirts to fringe midis, there was nothing boring about these novel nude gowns.

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3. Sheer Illusion Sleeves: Short and sheer sleeves were major this season, and we can see why: The look is light and eye-catching without being too fanciful, and adds a touch of interest to the neckline (where you might otherwise have to drop more than a pretty penny on jewelry).

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4. Short Frocks: For the spring 2016 collections, designers took a note from the red carpet regarding hemlines. Short dresses (some falling above the knee, some in the form of a high-low hem) were seen on several runways, including Jenny Packham, Oscar de la Renta, Reem Acra, Ines di Santo and Houghton—perfect for the warm weather-ready bride.

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5. All-White Pantsuits: It’s 2015, which means things can be super-modern in terms of bridalwear, starting with, well, wearing pants in place of a gown! Pretty white pantsuits were an unexpected (and welcome) surprise, and no two designers presented the look the same way. At Carolina Herrera, the pants were cropped (all the better to show your statement heels in), while at Theia, a crisp white silk tuxedo made waves down the runway. And at Houghton, an airy, loose-leg version of the trend provided the perfect inspiration for a chic beachside wedding look.

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6. Floral Print: Floral lace is nothing new to bridal runways, but colorful floral print saw some floortime this season, too. At Houghton, a tiered dress with floral layers offered a bit of humor and whimsy for brides who want to wear anything but white, while Naeem Khan and Randi Rahm went a subtler route, with watercolor flower prints adorning traditionally stunning white gowns. (We’re all for flower power if the dresses are this chic.)

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Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld given custom all-gold Apple Watch band

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Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld given custom all-gold Apple Watch band

By Roger Fingas on Newswire

Apple has gifted Karl Lagerfeld with a specially-crafted Apple Watch featuring not just a yellow gold body but also a matching gold link bracelet, according to the fashion designer’s personal assistant and bodyguard.

Sebastien Jondeau shared a photo of the gift in a Wednesday post on Instagram. The value of the device wasn’t mentioned, but a yellow gold 42mm Watch costs $12,000 to $15,000, which could easily make Lagerfeld’s model twice as expensive or more. Regular Edition models use gold only in the body and parts like clasps and buckles.

Lagerfeld is the head of Chanel, Fendi, and his own fashion brand. The designer turned up at a Paris Apple Watch event in September alongside other famous fashion icons such as Vogue editor Anna Wintour. His solid-gold band was first noted by MacRumors.

The gift appears to be another example of Apple securing strategic product placement. The device has already been spotted in fashion spreads and on the wrists of celebrities like Drake, Pharrell Williams, and Katy Perry, despite it not officially shipping until April 24. Lagerfeld though is a major figure in the fashion industry, and targeting him could help build the Watch’s cachet in those circles.

Apple will be showcasing the gadget later this week during the Salone del Mobile, a major Italian furniture fair which also accepts some other design entries.

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Royal Baby Fever: The Countdown Has Started

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Royal Baby Fever: The Countdown Has Started
Prince William and Princess Kate
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Princess Kate’s hometown of Bucklebury, England, is preparing for the arrival of the new royal baby by doing what it does best – keeping calm and carrying on.

“The excitement is bubbling away, but Bucklebury is just as sleepy as ever,” says local shop owner Lynda Tillotson. “Nothing really changes here.”

In fact, just about the only sign that a famous new member of their tight-knit country community is about to arrive is the sudden appearance of some diehard royal fans.

“The real royalists and the people who get really excited have started to come into the village,” adds Tillotson, mirroring the gathering at the London hospital where Kate, 33, will give birth.

“They are beside themselves in anticipation. So you could say the official countdown has started!”
This sudden influx of royal fans is nothing new to the people of Bucklebury. The village has, after all, previously experienced the hoopla of a royal wedding and the birth of Prince George.

But don’t mistake the English cool for a lack of enthusiasm.

“It’s exactly the same as last time,” a local source tells PEOPLE. “A new royal baby is always an exciting thing isn’t it?”

Of course, unlike with the royal wedding, the locals cannot pre-arrange the traditional British celebration of “wetting the baby’s head” in one of the local pubs.

“You can’t organize a party for a large number of people on the spur of the moment,” notes the source.

“The royal wedding was obviously a bit of a different case, because everyone knew months in advance when it was going to happen. With a baby the logistics don’t just add up.

“I am quite sure when the baby is born that the baby’s head will be properly wetted though. Nobody is going to let that opportunity pass!”

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Giuliana Rancic returning to Fashion Police

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Giuliana Rancic returning to Fashion Police

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Even death threats won’t stop Giuliana Rancic from doing her thing, as the E! News co-host told Access Hollywood Live on Wednesday that she will be returning to E!’s Fashion Police this fall.

Though co-hosts Kelly Osbourne and Kathy Griffin left the show following remarks Rancic made about Zendaya’s dreads during their post-Oscars recap, Rancic told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover that the controversy is actually helping the show.

“I think more than ever, [Fashion Police] is definitely coming back, because [the controversy] shows that a lot of people were watching the show and enjoyed the show. So yeah, it’s coming back in September, in time for the Emmys,” Rancic said. She also confirmed that Brad Goreski will be on the show, and now they just have to fill a few vacancies.

Rancic, who will be moving to Chicago full-time in August, may also have a new TV project in the works with husband Bill Rancic. “I have a great marriage, and we’re thinking maybe something in the relationship space to help people—not just bring them on to fight and get ratings—but actually bring them on to talk about their problems and get them a real solution to their problems,” she said.

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New York Fashion Week Officially Has a New Home

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New York Fashion Week Officially Has a New Home

Since IMG announced that New York Fashion Week would no longer be held at Lincoln Center, it’s been anyone’s guess where the event would end up. Now, the company has confirmed that Fashion Week will officially relocate to Skylight at Moynihan Station on West 33rd Street, and Skylight Clarkson Square on Washington Street downtown, beginning this September. Neither space is new to fashion — both have played host to many shows over the years, including Kanye West’s Adidas launch, and runway shows for the likes Phillip Lim, Prabal Gurung, and more. Mayor de Blasio and his team were reportedly heavily involved in the selection process of the new spaces.

In addition to the new venues, Fashion Week will apparently also get another makeover, according to a statement released by IMG this morning. “We are focused on creating the best possible experiences that extend beyond a physical location and moment in time,” says Mark Shapiro, IMG’s chief content officer. “We’re looking forward to reintroducing the industry to a showcase of creative talent, style, and innovation that made the New York runways famous. Part of this showcase involves staying close to inspirational hubs for fashion, art, and music, and we’ve found great new homes for that in Skylight at Moynihan Station and Skylight Clarkson Square.”

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Gucci Soho leather tote

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Gucci Soho leather tote
RUNWAY purse pick. Check out the Gucci Soho, add a touch of practicality without sacrificing style. crafted in black leather for timeless everyday elegance. With a tried-and-true shape and chain details that exude confidence, our soho shoulder bag leaves its mark season and season again. crafted in our light, natural grain leather.
  • light fine gold hardware
  • natural cotton linen lining
  • medium size: 15″W x 10.6″H x 5.5″D

 http://www.gucci.com/us/category/f/soho

 

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Fashion of Coachella

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Fashion of Coachella

Where there are celebrities, fashion follows. And so it is once again at Coachella, where fashionistas came dressed for the sun and sand Friday to kick off the annual music and arts festival. Here’s a look at Coachella style, circa 2015.

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Such fashion, much polka dots. Rocking that in the front row at the Disney Coachella party!

 

Coachella Lineup For 2015

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Coachella Lineup For 2015

Welcome to Day One of Coachella 2015. The line up poster is below, and we’d like to know who you are most looking forward to catching.  Every Spring we look forward to this celebration of the merging of music and fashion culture when we release our Spring Music issue, celebrating the two creative worlds that seem to work harmoniously together under the open sky of Indio, California.

Follow our social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) to stay up to date on photos and backstage peeks from this weekends festivities.

Coachella Line Up 2015

Fleeting beauty: Japanese cherry blossoms

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Fleeting beauty: Japanese cherry blossoms

By Diane Durston

Life is a fragile thing. The light of dawn often slips by unnoticed, a day passes quickly, and the sun seems to set too soon. Winter turns to spring at last in Washington and the days are counted to the moment when the cherry blossoms return to the Tidal Basin. Friends make plans for a stroll on the two or three days projected as “full bloom.” Blink twice, however, and they will be gone with first errant breeze, and just like life, they are all the more precious for it.

In Japan, an appreciation for the beauty of nature adds simple pleasures to daily life. Living in Kyoto, I learned to relish the small celebrations that took place with every change in the season in Japan. In early spring, the daily “blossom reports” were featured on the nightly news with the latest predictions of exactly when the cherry trees will be blooming in every different region of Japan. Everyone—almost everyone, took time to visit Maruyama Park to see the 100-year-old tree that has been its centerpiece for as long as anyone can remember.  Old women settle down together on their goza mats under the blossoming trees and open their bento boxes to compare spring delicacies prepared especially for the occasion. Office workers take a needed day off for staff parties outdoors. The job of Office Picnic Scout is key—a worker is sent out ahead in the morning to stake out the best spot for his colleagues. By noon the park has come to life. By nightfall, it is awash in revelers giddy with the beauty of the flowers, the blush of too much sake and the excuse for a carefree moment with friends.

Yoshida Kenko, hermit priest and revered poet of 12th-century Japan, wrote eloquently about the uncertainties of life—and of the cherry trees:

Inside Fleeting beauty

“Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of spring—these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to bloom or gardens strewn with faded flowers are worthier of our admiration—in all things, it is the beginnings and endings that are interesting….If man were never to fade away but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.” 

The Japanese words “wabi” and “sabi “ express the rather complicated feeling we have for this kind of simple beauty; a loveliness that is all the more precious because of the realization that nothing lasts. They describe the quietly moving beauty of a handcrafted bowl that has been handed down in the family for generations—you feel the touch of the hands of everyone who has cared for it over time. It may no longer be a perfect bowl, and you understand that, like the cherry blossoms, it won’t last forever, but that is what makes it all the more exquisite. As Leonard Cohen said, “Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.”

The cherry trees along the Tidal Basin were a gift from Japan to the people of Washington D.C. in 1912. Trees have died and new ones have been planted. Two of the original 2,000 Yoshino cherry trees still stand several hundred yards west of the John Paul Jones Memorial. The number of trees has expanded to more than 3,700 trees of many varieties. Each year, the people of Washington and Japan celebrate this symbol of the enduring friendship between the citizens of the two nations—a friendship that has survived war, natural disasters and economic woes.

The Beauty Approach

What more lasting and meaningful gift could the Japanese have sent us than these trees symbolizing their abiding cultural affinity for nature and its evanescence?  There is something about the fragile beauty of cherry blossoms that has captivated the imagination of the Japanese for centuries. They bloom early in spring, last just a few days, and fall with the first rains. The samurai of centuries past wrote countless poems using the cherry blossoms as a metaphor for their own all too brief lives.

Cherry trees were not the only gift of nature that Japan has bestowed on the U.S. From New York to San Francisco, over the past 100 years, there have been more than 300 Japanese gardens built in the U.S., many of them as symbols of Japan’s wish for goodwill and friendship. They are also living expressions of the best instincts of Japanese culture, human interpretations of the essence of nature and the belief that we and nature are really one and the same.

Washington D.C. has its own Hillside Estate with a lovely Japanese garden, and the commemorative Japanese Stone Lantern Plaza that now sits at the northwest corner of the Tidal Basin is a recently-renovated reminder of the 1912 gift of trees. One of the finest examples of a Japanese friendship garden is the Portland Japanese Garden, where I am privileged to be a curator. It has been a place of quiet refuge in a busy urban community for more than 50 years.

Time under the cherry trees, like time in a Japanese garden, can be a moving experience. How can a life so chaotic also hold such beauty? How can a quiet moment in nature refresh the human spirit so completely?

Thousands of cherry trees are blooming in Washington, D.C., this weekend. Take the time to walk beneath them and cherish the moment, however fragile and fleeting.

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RUNWAY Pick – Dsquared2 – Man Bags

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RUNWAY Pick - Dsquared2 - Man Bags

RUNWAY Spring Pick – Dsquared Man Bags..

Find them Here. http://www.dsquared2.com/us/men/handbags

Canadian twin brothers, Dean and Dan Caten, have operated in the international fashion business since 1984. After attending The Parsons School of Design in New York, they moved to Italy, launching a succession of runway shows that have captured attention for their combination of fashion, music and theatre. The mix of irreverent Canadian wit and refined Italian tailoring are the foundations of today’s Dsquared2 philosophy: Born in Canada, living in London, made in Italy.

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Kelly Frye Interview

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Kelly Frye Interview

2014 has been a phenomenal year for Texas-born actress Kelly Frye. Starting off the year playing alongside Greg Kinnear in Rake as his sassy assistant, Frye is now starring as ex-military specialist turned superhero Plastique in the CW’s The Flash. Her bad-ass new role is inspiring girls around the world to go for what they want. Frye talks growing up with comic book fanatics, her love of feminine fashion and her desire to take flight in her exclusive interview with Runway.

Kelly Frye on The Flash and Playing Plastique

You were recently cast as Bette Sans Souci aka Plastique on The CW’s The Flash. Playing a bomb disposal expert in Iraq, what kind of research did you do to prepare yourself for the role?
My oldest brother, Jason, is a huge DC Comics fan. When I told him about booking
Plastique he said, “I can’t believe MY little sister is going to be PLASTIQUE!” I made
sure to learn as much about the original character as I could before filming to make
DC Comic fans proud, especially my brother. Plastique in the TV show is different from
Plastique in the comics. I think people are really going to like her. The writers did an
awesome job adapting the character to fit into the world of the show. Plastique has a
military background on the show and one of the writers, Brooke Eikmeier, was in the
army herself. She was able to give me great advice on set.
Growing up with brothers, were you yourself exposed to comic books as a child? Did you have a favorite?
Comic book characters actually came to life in my home. My brothers created stories about their favorite characters and put on productions all the time. Jason always played Batman and I always wanted to be Batgirl. I definitely knew a lot more about Batman and The Beatles than any of my friends at school.
The benefits of having older brothers. As Plastique, your superpower is turning objects into weapons. That has to come in handy. If you could have any superpower in real life, what would it be?
You know, I’ve been thinking about that a lot. It would be incredible to be fast like The Flash or to be able to create explosives by just touching an object like Plastique, but I’ve always wanted to fly. What an incredible feeling to take off and soar through the sky whenever you want. Yeah, my superpower
would be flight.

Rake, Acting Range and Dream Roles

Touching on your other roles, you also recently worked on the Fox series Rake alongside Greg Kinnear. Can you tell us a little more about your role as Cindy? Cindy Beck was a load of fun to play. She
was really smart, sassy, wore fab clothes and got frisky with Greg Kinnear’s character,
Keegan Deane. That job was fantastic on so many levels. On Rake, Cindy was Keegan
Deane’s new assistant at Leon & Associates. Keegan wasn’t too sure about working there
until he met Cindy and got the run-down of all the perks of working for the company.
When coming to the law firm, Keegan already had an assistant, Leanne, played by
the amazing Tara Summers. Tara’s character and my character got to butt heads a few
times. Playing Cindy was a great way to kick off 2014.
What has been your most memorable role to date, and what is your dream role?
I’ve had the chance to be a part of quite a few great productions, but joining The Flash has been the most exciting. The opportunity to be a part of a show of this magnitude and to see the audience’s reaction from the beginning has been an amazing gift. The
You are an inspiration to many young women and aspiring actors who want to

Inspiration, Fitness and Beauty

play strong roles. How do you stay inspired and motivated?
My mom is a strong woman herself, a constant inspiration and a great motivator. She gave my brothers and me the confidence to go after what we want in life. When my own confidence wavers, I call and ask her to
tell me a few magic stories from our life. I call them “magic stories” because they tend to
be situations where fate has played a heavy hand. She’s a wonderful storyteller and they
always lift my spirits and remind me that what is meant to be will be. I attribute my
ability to go after what I want completely to my mom. I surround myself with like-minded
people and they motivate me every day in their pursuit of their dreams. It’s never easy,
but nothing worth having ever is.
You are a natural beauty! You have great
hair and your complexion is gorgeous. What
are a few of your beauty secrets?
Thank you! I hope I don’t sound like a broken
record, but this is something else I attribute
to my mom. She’s a redhead as well and
has wonderful skin. She told me as a young
woman to never smoke, drink much, or
spend a lot of time in the sun. I don’t smoke,
drink much, or spend a lot of time in the sun,
or if I am in the sun, I’m slathered in SPF
50+. I also eat plenty of vegetables, drink an
inordinate amount of water, and go for long
walks with my pup, Coco.
How do you change up your routine to
combat winter weather?
I wear sunblock year round. It’s the one
product I can’t do without. Wintertime
usually has me moisturizing a bit more to
keep the dryness away.
When you lived in Oahu that probably
wasn’t much of a problem. That must be a
relaxing lifestyle! Did you enjoy island life?
I LOVED living on Oahu. I must have been
Hawaiian in a past life, because I take to
Hawaii like a fish takes to water. It is what
I imagine Heaven is like. I’d love to end up
back there at some point.
We have seen you both casually dressed
down and all decked out on the red carpet.

Personal Style and Seasonal Fashion

What style makes you feel most like “you”?
I am a Texas girl and we looooooove getting
dressed up for events! The idea of dressing
up every day does not interest me, but
everything surrounding getting ready for an
event can be so much fun! I’m a total girl’s
girl in that way. In my day to day life, I’d
describe my style as polished with a little
edge.
And last, but certainly not least, we must
know… is there a favorite winter style trend
you are excited about this season?
I keep seeing the over the knee boot and think
it looks so chic. I need to get to Neiman’s
and get myself a pair.
whole Flash experience has been magical
for me. To get to play a kick ass, strong
woman has always been a dream of mine. I
get to play my kick ass, strong woman in the
DC Comics Universe as a metahuman! Pretty
memorable!
Plastique would be any actress’s dream
role, and I get to be the one chosen to play
her! I hope to continue playing strong, kick
ass women for the rest of my career. I love
watching strong female characters and I love
playing them. Another dream would be to
work with Charlie Kaufman. I love his movies
and working with him has been on my wish
list for as long as I can remember.
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