Carolina Herrera Launches the Book of Fashion on the 35th Anniversary

American fashion house Carolina Herrera is a symbol of luxury, femininity and flawless taste. Established for 35 years, the brand has set up its unique style and charm while continuously revolutionizing the definitions for chic and beauty, to create a more perfect fashion look for women.

Perennial favorites on red carpets around the world, Herrera’s gowns are favored by First Ladies (from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama), celebrities (Paloma Picasso, Renee Zellweger, Tina Fey, Penelope Cruz), international royalty, and her own faithful clientele for their refinement, timelessness, glamour, and romance.

Carolina Herrera is a fashion designer who has unique opinions and ideas for fashion and is recognized, respected and admired by many celebrities and fashion lovers. A true empress of style, she has inspired the likes of pop-art icon Andy Warhol and legendary Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland (who encouraged Herrera to open her fashion house in 1981). Being a determined person on challenging and improving the idea of fashion, she created collections of chic and modern outfits which gave her brand an elegant, luxurious modernity and exquisite texture. One of her achievements is that she was awarded the 2004 CFDA Womenswear Designer of the year award. As a talented designer, Carolina Herrera used to say that she intended to make every woman shows their best look in this field of chic and beauty.

Stepping into the 35th anniversary milestone, the brand specially launches ‘Carolina Herrera 35 Years of Fashion’. This book is written by Carolina Herrera and writer JJ Martin. With a total of 240 pages, the content includes some quotes, records on the first show, interviews, behind the scenes and some precious photos. It allows you to appreciate the brand’s effort, ideas and aesthetic interpretation in these 35 years.

Carolina Herrera: 35 Years of Fashion is both a portrait of a universally acclaimed American designer’s career and a look forward to her future. The selection of images includes editorial pictures by renowned fashion photographers, stylists, and editors, as well as two portfolios of new photography created exclusively for this book that interpret looks from the Carolina Herrera archive through a contemporary lens. The designer’s distinctive aesthetic and signature elegance emerge clearly from this body of work. It succeeds in capturing the timeless and always relevant style of the inimitable Carolina Herrera.

Art directed by Fabien Baron, this book is an exciting look at one of the leading figures in American fashion. Come into the beautiful world of Carolina Herrera. You can shop the book here.

 

 

 

 

Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb

This floral explosion releases a profusion of flowers that has the power to make everything seem more positive. Magically evocative notes immediately awaken your deepest senses, giving you the impression of living life in your own secret garden, away from reality.

Created by one of my favourite perfumers Olivier Polge, along with Carlos Benaim and Domitille Berthier, it was introduced ten years ago, in 2005 as an oriental and floral fragrance, and became a true classic and was Allure Best of Beauty award winner.

I found that this has a really sweet, powdery scent that could be overpowering but isn’t. Normally this would put me off a perfume but it hasn’t with this one.  You can really smell the patchouli and the orchid adds a sweet elegance to the scent.  When this is combined to the subtle luxury of the green tea, you have a really pretty perfume. It is really long-lasting and a few sprays will last for hours, which I always love with a fragrance.

• Top notes: Bergamot, Green Tea, Osmanthus
• Heart notes: Jasmine, African Orange Flower, Freesia, Rose, Orchid
• Base notes: Musk, Patchouli

 

The gorgeous bottle was designed by Fabien Baron in the shape of a diamond grenade.

You love Viktor & Rolf’s Flowerbomb? Use it with Body Lotion or for the dry skin Flowerbomb Bodycream in its beautiful jar. Or, very special: with Flowerbomb Hair Mist, to give your hair a vèry subtile smell. And when your hair ‘moves’….(wink)…

 

Fendi Fan di Fendi

Breathtaking! Italian fashion house Fendi launched its latest feminine fragrance Fan di Fendi in 2010 and has already won praise and compliments from a lot of women. Ladies who are Fendi fan will definitely buy this luxurious and stylish perfume. Fendi perfumes are always breathtaking for their lightly sweet smell with touches of pure and soft notes.

Created by famous perfumer Fabien Baron Fendi Fan di Fendi is an exciting fragrance, a sexy scent for the skin: radiant, sensual and addictive. The eau de parfum is classified as a playful, crazy, passionate and addictive fragrance for women. Fan di Fendi is a floral/fruity fragrance with soft notes of pear juice fruit, mandarin, black currant, rose, pink pepper, jasmine, patchouli and leather.

Fan di Fendi is a pure object of desire. A glamorous piece of sensual gold. Fendi Fan di Fendi is sealed in a massive glass bottle decorated with a golden frame as the shape of the logo of the company and with a golden-black top engraved with the name of the design house, Fendi.

 

Fan di Fendi is available in three sizes, 30, 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum.

The stunning Fendi perfume is advertised by gorgeous models Anja Rubik, Abbey Lee Kershaw and Karmen Pedaru. Fan di Fendi features the music theme played by The Kills.

 

 

Dahlia Noir Givenchy Paris

The Black Dahlia was the name given to actress Elizabeth Short, a young American actress who was brutally murdered and mutilated in 1947. The crime was never solved. And the gruesome case inspired attention both on the big and small screen.

Maison Givenchy is launching a new fragrance for women, Dahlia Noir. Compelling then that designer Riccardo Tisci chose the name for his debut fragrance at the house of Givenchy. Tisci’s Black Dahlia scent is most definitely dark and compelling; rest assured it’s more glamorous than gruesome. A couture fragrance all in pure lines, a return to supreme luxury. The quintessence of the Givenchy style.

 

 

Created by Francois Demachy, the new fragrance embodies elegance, seduction and a touch of pure subtleness. Givenchy Dahlia Noir has a floral composition, is very intense and with sensual notes that constantly lure. Dahlia Noir also named as a ‘Fatal Flower’ is designed to delight all mysterious women and to melt their hearts.

Givenchy’s Dahlia Noir has a chypre floral composition. Perfume opens with mandarin, mimosa and pink pepper notes along with heart notes of rose, patchouli and iris. Dahlia Noir calms on the skin with long-lasting motes of vanilla, sandalwood and Tonka bean.

 

To personify the perfume’s dark beauty, Tisci chose Italian model Mariacarla Boscono, a model he has worked with for several years, ever since their shared student days at Central Saint Martins School in London. In fact, she has been the face of Givenchy’s ads since 2005.

The Dahlia Noir campaign – print images by Mert & Marcus, and the Dahlia Noir ad film, which was directed by Fabien Baron – Boscono wears black-leather-and-silk Givenchy couture. As her raven-black hair and the black chiffon of her gown dance in the current of Baron’s wind machine, she personifies Tisci’s vision, a windswept flower in some dark and brooding dream.

Givenchy Dahlia Noir is sealed in a simple yet elegant flacon. Exquisite, with its heavy glass embellished by black lacquer and silver, it is solid yet delicate, elegant yet modest. Its well-structured shape recalls the 1950s, the golden age of perfumery. It is available in three sizes, 30, 50 and 75 ml Eau de Parfum, and as Parfum.