Shiseido Commercial

The Year of Blue Iris

A mix of blue and purple that suggests dependability and magic.
-Pantone

Majolica Majorca Cosmetics: Shiseido

Chapter 14: "Like A Doll" ~ 2007 Cyber Lyons Winner.

Synopsis:
A website for a cosmetic brand that fulfills young women's desires for a makeover. A real pop-up picture book, called "Like A Doll," was constructed, and the entire site was put together based on that book, using time-lapse animation for everything from the brand image to the product information.

Continue with Chapter 16: "Beauty in Black"

Calligraphy in Vogue

Saks Fifth Avenue released a beautiful catalog and store campaign titled "Want It!" ~ featuring the original artwork of Canadian typographer Marian Bantjes :


Masked Animations: Saks Fall Trends
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Bantjes also designed the poster and program for last month's Typcon convention in Seattle.

Veer introduces the Swash buckle:

Photos: Brides Trash Wedding Dresses

ABC News Photo Galleries presents Trash the Dress

RIP: Liz Claiborne

Fashion loses another great this week, designer Liz Claiborne dies at 78, following a long battle with cancer.

She made her mark designing clothes a working woman could afford.

"Liz Claiborne's current portfolio includes more than 40 brands - from rapidly growing, hipster lines such as Juicy Couture to luxury names like Narciso Rodriguez and denim from Lucky Brand Jeans as well as moderate sportswear lines like Dana Buchman and Ellen Tracy - all in addition to the company's namesake label." -stuff.co.nz

RIP: The "Architect of Fashion"

Gianfranco Ferre
Aug. 15, 1944 - June 16, 2007

Italian couturier and designer, died suddenly yesterday suffering a massive brain haemorrhage. He was 62.

Ness: fresh modern Scottish Apparel

A favorite Edinburgh shop, Ness . Don't think the web site does justice to the merchandise—the shops are full of wonderful colors and knits with signature tartan handbags, Wellies, and corsages.


...I'm still dreaming about the Harris Tweed 2006 pocket bag.


About Harris Tweed

This world famous fabric is hand woven from 100% pure new Scottish wool in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. One of the requirements for certification by the Harris Tweed Authority is that the weaving must be done at the weaver’s home.

This tweed is lovely to work with and great to wear. One of the features of the wool is that there are lots of different colours of fibres making up the yarn. From a distance a plain cloth may look green, but look closely and you will find fibres of blue, gold, purple, brown blending in with the main colour.

Many people think that all Harris Tweed is earth-toned herringbone, but while there are many such patterns woven, this is not the whole story. There are plains, twills, tartans, checks and stripes in every colour imaginable. In addition, there are different qualities of tweed from the traditional heavy variety through to the new baby soft tweeds, with several grades in between.