Bourjwah!

I attended the "Luxury for a Cause" Event last week at The Fairmont Nile City.
There were a couple of new emerging designers which i want to cover...

Heres my first one...

Bourjwah is a male clothing line created & designed by Moustafa Tonbol based in Toronto.
It is devoted to reinventing the image of the 1940’s and 1950’s vintage Parisian lifestyle. A line of luxury, the designs are exclusive as they are hand-made and created only in limited quantities. With only six new designs a season, Bourjwah is always current and fresh.

It is extremely refreshing to find someone creating a male fashion line. I personally loved the T-shirts with their vintage yet modern Parisian preppy chicness.
I got a volunteer to model my favorite T-shirt for me:)

Post It Art

Illegal Art is a collaboration of artists based in NY, whose goal is to create interactive public art to inspire self-reflection, thought and human connection.

Each piece is then presented or distributed in a method in which participation is simple and encouraged.

To Do Art Installation is one of the many projects of ILLEGALART.ORG.

Where passers by are free to write their to- do lists, commands, reminders or mantras on a post it

Here are some of my favorite post its :)

I Want Lanvin-Not Diamonds :)

Ok so here it is, the full video by Lanvin for H&M.

I absolutely love the video.

I love the assortment of models with different ages & body types.

I also love the different takes on the same dresses.

Lots of beautiful garments to lust for.

Now all we can do is wait for Nov 20th.

Question:Does anyone know if these things will be available in our Egypt H&M??

Here are my favorite looks from their lookbook...

Battle of the Gap

Looking at these beautiful pictures of Georgia May Jagger by Hedi Slimane for the November 2010 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, I noticed I’ve been seeing a lot of models with this cute little teeth gap recently.

Not to mention Brigit Bardot, Venessa Paradis & of coarse Madonna which i consider three of the most beautiful influential women in the industry have gapped teeth too.

Here are the top 3 new faces in modeling world which have been taking it by storm.

Which gapped toothed beauty do u prefer?

Georgia May Jagger

or

Lara Stone

or

Abbey Lee Kershaw

Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

While I was in Amsterdam in late August, I made sure to visit the FOAM Gallery. Its main Gallery staged a retrospective "Pretty Much Everything – photographs 1985-2010" featuring over 300 photographs spanning Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin’s 25 year career together.

Inez & Vinoodh are a Dutch couple who have been taking outstanding photographs since 1985.

Honestly Ive known just a little about them before going to FOAM, but little did i know that almost all the ad campaigns, editorials or magazine covers that have left an impact on me were by this duo.

From YSL, Cavalli, Versace, Herve Leger, Balenciaga, Isabel Marant, Gucci & Moschino to name a few to Bjork's new album cover, their bold & innovative approach is consistent. They have also created ground-breaking editorial shots for American, French, and Italian Vogue, V and many portraits forThe New York Times Magazine.

Check out some of my favorite works of theirs....

also check out the video of the duo talking about their work.

FOAM gallery from the banks

Inside the exhibition

Narciso Rodriguez Campaign 2007

Kate Moss Vogue France Oct 2009

Lanvin men s/s 2010 (self portraits by inez and vinoodh kissing)

YSL 2009

YSL S/S 2010

Chloe 2010

Vogue Paris August 2009

Vogue Paris August 2009

Chloe Fall 2004

Latest Lust: Christian Louboutin Studded Boots

So Biker chic - So now

Love love love

Blondie

Ive wondered about the one shouldered grey dress Debbie Harry wore in "Heart of Glass" 1978 video since I can remember. Ive always loved that song & her look in that video in particular. The dress, the 2 toned messy bob (very now) & the perplex heels (checkout Prada's SS2010).

But when i found out that the video was shot at Studio 54 & her outfit & styling was by Stephen Sprouse (adore him), i think i just fell in love with it all over again.

Apparently Stephen was a close friend of Blondie's & has designed all her outfits since 1976.

To create this dress, Sprouse photo-printed a picture of television scan lines onto a piece of fabric, and then, according to Blondie, "put a layer of cotton fabric underneath and a layer of chiffon on top, and then the scan-lines would do this op-art thing"