What's the easiest way to make a boring outfit interesting and be functional in the fall/winter season? Hats! Anna sui has done a great job at updating the simple stocking cap. The caps feature feathers of different colors and size and beautiful jewels. Every cool girl needs one of these hats for this season. You'll be the coolest girl in the room for the smallest effort.
A great shoe to wear to all the fall events you have planned. It incorporates the embezzled shoe trend of the season. You could wear it bare during the warmer nights of fall or with opaque tights in the winter. 
These pumps look great and comfortable. You could wear them to work or a night out. This season we've seen an update on the traditional pump. This is a great way to look classic but fashion forward. 
Everyone needs a pair of booties this season. It's the perfect way to make an edgy look out of a basic pair of jeans. You can also wear these booties with a dress or skirt for a more dressy look. These booties also have buckles and cut outs on the side to make it out stand out from the other ankle boots you'll see this season. 
A light breeze whipped away the billowing black and white chiffon robes and Arabic headgear, revealing gilded, jewelled armour and crowns, at the Givenchy haute couture collection for autumn/winter 2009/10 in Paris this afternoon.
As two youths played the ‘karkabou’ – nomadic castanets which replicate galloping steeds on cobblestones – the models paraded on a wooden stage built, appropriately enough in a former stables, out in the 15th arrondissement.
Givenchy’s couturier and creative director, the young Italian, Riccardo Tisci – who is currently dressing Madonna for her “Sticky & Sweet” tour – took his inspiration from medieval queens and the robes of North Africa, updated with python, spike-heeled shoe-boots which would not last a second in the sands of the Sahara, and plastic embellishments.
The models were barefaced, their slicked-back hair semi-veiled in chiffon hoods and snoods which rested atop spiky, golden coronets. Their arms were encircled with gilded cuffs, their hands bristling with metal, knuckle-duster-rings.
The silhouette spoke of a sharply-tailored warrior-women or a more sensual harem-style seductress, who quite possibly had a dagger concealed in the folds of her sarouel-trousers or jet-jewelled belt.
The largely monochromatic palette was punctuated with dramatic gowns and trousersuits in a flesh-tone silk crepe, emblazoned with red and green spikes, cones and studs.
Folded peplums and pannier-effects on trousers and gowns echoed the olde-worlde nature of the silhouettes, in stark contrast to the modernist embellishments in cellophane.
The couturier, Christian Lacroix, fresh from his own emotion-charged showing, and the new designer at Emilio Pucci, Peter Dundas, were among the front-row guests.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/paris-haute-couture-week/5770688/Paris-Haute-Couture-Givenchy-by-Riccardo-Tisci-aw-0910-collection.html>Alexander, Hilary. July, 2009.
I love seeing couture shows, in comparison to the ready-to-wear shows, how the inspiration is much more tangible and obvious down to the runway set.
De Rigo Vision and French couture fashion and ready-towear fashion label Givenchy have announced the early renewal of the worldwide licence for the design, production and distribution of Givenchy eyewear.The partnership is now set to last until 2015 and continues a 10-year relationship between the two companies. Fabrizio Malverdi, president of Givenchy, said of the agreement: The contract renewal of an already successful collaboration between Givenchy and De Rigo will focus on the strategy for a highly designed and qualitative product.
"De Rigo seals Givenchy deal." Optician 238.6211 (2009): 8. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2009.
Can't wait to see Givenchy eyewear next to Versace and Prada at Lenscrafters.
IN the five years since he assumed the position of Givenchy's artistic director, Riccardo Tisci has become one of Paris's most influential designers, initiating a brand of hard-core chic that entails lots of metal and no eyebrows. (Hey, it's a look.) Now he's bringing back some of the house's best hits, with a small collection of iconic pieces, at lower prices.
The premier edition, which just arrived in stores, is based around the Bettina, a romantic white blouse designed by Hubert de Givenchy in 1952, and studs, which Mr. Tisci introduced in his breakthrough fall 2007 collection and hasn't yet grown tired of. For this collection, he has adorned pants, blouses, jackets, a dress and handbags in the stuff.
''Studs are emblematic for me!'' he effused in an e-mail message. ''They're rich and decorative, but with a slightly 'bad girl' edge. I feel they will always be a part of my signature.''
Sleeveless white
ruffled lace blouse, $840; black stretch
jersey leggings, $470; studded charmeuse blouse, $875; studded cotton gabardine
trousers, $860; all at Bergdorf Goodman
NewYorkTimes. An Encore of Lace and Studs. Nelson, Karen. Section ST; Column 0; Style Desk; Pg. 3.Nov 1, 2009
I love that he's paying homage to Hubert's Givenchy at cheaper price point. Although generally speaking, it's not that cheap at all.
Justin Timberlake is bringing sexy back -- again -- this time as the face for PLAY, Givenchy's new men's fragrance.
Available in both PLAY and PLAY Intense, some of the scents include top notes of bergamot and mandarin orange, middle notes of amyris wood, black pepper and coffee flower and bottom notes of vetiver and patchouli.
The ad campaign, photographed by Tom Munro, is inspired by Timberlake's life.
Find behind-the-scenes footage from the shoot here.
Prices range from $53 - $76 for the eau de toilette spray. PLAY is available at Macy's, Nordstrom, Dillard'sand Sephora.
Timberlake says he wears the scent, but tells People's StyleWatch: "The greatest scents in the world are pheromones. Just the actual smell of a person's skin."
JT is far from a newbie when it comes to appearing in ads. He's been in campaigns for Pepsi, McDonald'sand his denim line William Rast
Although I think Justin Timberlake is the sort of man you want to be the face of your fragrance line, I dont' think he really fits givenchy.
>> The 2009 CFDA Awards are on Monday — the afterparties are planned, various outlets are hedging their bets on the winners, and to the disappointment of many, Board of Director’s Special Tribute honoree Michelle Obama will not be in attendance — fashion has been foiled once again — her cultural ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter will receive the award in her stead.
But the rumor about the mini fashion show at the awards ceremony is true: As a preview of New York Fashion Week's move to Lincoln Center next year, a runway presentation of Lifetime Achievement honoree Anna Sui, plus the work of other womenswear nominees, will take place on the Center's Alice Tully Hall stage. According to Fashion Week Daily, "Don’t expect anything less than stellar models to strut their stuff on stage, nearly every big name is already booked for the mini-shows."
Even though she's still young, I feel like she's very deserving of this award. She such a powerhouse in fashion.
If you’ve ever ridden the subways in NYC, you’ve seen them- the brightly colored billboards for FitFlop, the flip flops that promise to help you exercise without having to break a sweat. The image, a woman with toned legs walking her dog (while sporting the somewhat aesthetically unappealing shoe) illustrates that by wearing FitFlops on your daily errands you can help build muscle tone and burn fat through their unique design. However, previously it was this “unique design” which most prohibited the fitness shoe from being more popular- until now. In the first of what will surely be a string of collaborations, designer Anna Sui (fresh off a different collab with Target) has created a limited edition boot.
This new fitness-shoe trend has also caught on with other retailers, including sketchers who recently introduced Shape Ups, which boast “Get in shape without setting foot in a gym.” Many are saying this new shoe trend will help inspire the gym shy to get themselves into shape, while others say it only promotes the culture of inactivity which is causing the current obesity epidemic in America. Regardless, we should be seeing much more of this trend in the near future.
<http://www.psfk.com/2009/10/anna-sui-designs-limited-edition-boot-for-fitflop-shoes.html>AnnaSuiDesignsLimitedEditionBootForFitflopShoe. Oct 29, 2009.
I've been interested in the effectiveness of the fitflop for a while, but the attractiveness of the shoe was unappealing to me. This makes me interesting in trying if I can afford this boot.
Target’s clothing line by fashion designer Anna Sui is still a go, but the hotly anticipated outfits may no longer be “Gossip Girl”-themed.
“One of Target’s top executives got nervous about being that closely associated with the show, given the [debauchery] its characters get into,” says an on-the-set source. For example, Blake Lively’s character, Serena, killed a man, and most of the characters frequently get wasted, do drugs and have promiscuous sex.
A “Gossip Girl” insider tells us that a party scene featuring Blair and Chuck (played by Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick) was set to shoot at Sui’s flagship store in SoHo last Tuesday; models being used as extras were to wear Sui’s Target collection. “There was going to be signage, as well as Target symbols in purple and black — Anna’s signature colors,” says the snitch. “And it was rumored that Anna herself was going to be making a cameo appearance.”
Target staffers even sent over boxes of clothes for the episode, labeled with the names of each female character (Jessica Szohr’s Vanessa, Taylor Momsen’s Jenny, Meester’s Blair and the aforementioned Serena). But the store pulled out at the last second.
Now, claims our source, everyone on set is furious. “The crew was thrown into a frenzy because they had to scrap everything they had planned,” says the insider. “They can’t believe Target would bail on them, especially after publicly announcing the collaboration. It’s Target’s loss, because the line would have sold better if it had played a part in the show.”
<:http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/07/13/2009-07-13_targets_anna_suidesigned_line_a_go__but_might_not_be_gossip_girlthemed.html#ixzz0XBNjZTcX>Nydailynews.com.
