Shoe Line Named Violette By Terry Richardson

Nina Tsiotsias is a creative fashionista whose passion lies with vintage clothing. At sixteen, Nina began modeling with NEXT models and thrived in the world of fashion, gaining valuable experience in front of and behind the camera. A muse to the iconic Garren, Nina's style is 100% authentic. Her intuitive nature inspires her to create confident cool-girl looks that prove irreplicable. You will find Nina to be resourceful, inventive and a quick learner. She was recently published in the Summer 2017 issue of Venice magazine. She continues to model and style as she prepares for the soft launch of her vintage shop "Uniform Violation".

Francesca’s collections attracts many different demographics, but their target market include fashion conscious females between the ages of 18-35. They are mainly college educated and have a moderate to large disposable income. Their customer has a taste for classic items mixed with ethnic inspirations and seek exclusivity and disassociation from others. In a geographic perspective Francesca’s is widely available nationwide in a variety of formats such as free standing and shopping malls. They possess 283 locations in 41 states and continue to grow rapidly.

In the novella, “The House on Mango Street,” by Sandra Cisneros, the symbol of shoes represents how attractive you are and how you are portrayed by society. For example, “It’s Rachel who learns to walk the best all strutted in those magic high heels. She teaches us to cross and uncross our legs, and to run like a double dutch rope, and how to walk down to the corner so that the shoes talk back to you.” (pg. 40). This quote shows how Esperanza and her friends want to act very mature and lady like, and how the shoes play a huge role in this.

Betsey Johnson is an American designer from Terryville, Connecticut. She designs off beat, alternative style clothing that has throughout the world become famous and well known. Her style consists of bright, neon colors, low cuts, short hemlines, and a flair for the unusual. Celebrities such as Hayley Williams, Miley Cyrus, and Cassadee Pope wear her line. Johnson has been in the fashion industry since the 1960’s, and at age 72 she has yet to slow down, and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.

According to column writer Aubrey Almanza of the Readers Digest, in her article of, “What Your Favorite Shoes Say About Your Personality” she references the author/life coach Kathy Kelda who wrote a book titled, “Be the Shoe”. According to the book, “If you are someone who enjoys fitness challenges, takes your New Year’s resolutions to heart, and has been known to go the extra mile with a label maker, we bet you prefer running shoes. This is someone who is confident, very goal oriented, and very organized.” Kelda says, “They really illustrate the idea of multitasking, taking care of everything, and being everywhere. I always think of moms when I picture the running shoe.”

Laurence Dacade is a Paris-based shoe designer who lives on a houseboat in Saint-Claud Paris with her husband and children. She currently designs for her own label and for other brands such as Chanel, Kenzo, Givenchy, Jill Sander, Thakoon, Matthew Williamson, and more. When she was in college she started off studying art history and fashion design but soon discovered her passion for shoe design. So, after school she trained at the AFPIC School of Shoe Design and immediately started to work for big fashion houses. And not long after that created her own company to create and sell her own designs. Her shoe designs are known to be sexy, elegant, and chic and have become very popular. She says she is inspired by the cultures of women throughout

Lulu’s Golden Shoes is a play about a young Latino barrio girl called Ana who is based in North Philadelphia. In the play, try who finds her feminine power through an unclear path of fantasy and the imitation of her neighbor, Rosie Lulu. The performance or play is a hilariously dark, comic book exceptional satire. Lulu’s Golden Shoes was by Quiara Alegría Hudes and directed by Brenna Geffers. The play started out not so interesting to me but as time went on the actors made me understand it more. At particular times in the play the conversations of the actors were intense and aggressive, especially from the alchemist. This displayed the actors’ great participation in the various characters they portrayed.

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In 2004 she launched as a home collection brand called Kate Spade at Home featured bath items, bedding, wallpaper and various items for the home. In 2016 Spade launched Frances Valentine – a collection of luxury footwear and handbag. She is the currently designer and co-founder of Frances

The modern woman, feminine and empowered, reconnects with nature. This is the statement that comes to my mind when I see Lily Rouse's Autumn Winter 17/18 collection. Inspired by Decay and Decadence, it was also Georgina Lily Rouse's final project after studying Fashion Contour at London College of Fashion. With a neutral palette, lightweight transparent fabrics, fishing flies and flowers embellishments, the British lingerie designer gives a glimpse of her upcoming lingerie label's essence. Here, she shares her inspirations and she tells us what we should know about her new brand, which will be launched in September

Tom Ford’s aesthetics and drive is for the sexy-edgy everyday woman in their 20s to their 60s and who attends to events like movie premieres, galas, or celebrity dinners even for those feeling the Studio 54’s vibes. Sarah Burton vibe or inspiration is in between modern art statues meets the young street look. Ford shows it more in Spring/Summer 2011 & 2015 collection with the sparking sequins, shiny animal print and see-thru fabrics and well-tailored and well-detailed dresses and suits. The creative director Sarah Burton demonstrates the McQueen’s brand aesthetics with flowy and soft lacey fabrics within the color ranges from solid blacks to the shades of light browns and peach-white tones as on Alexander McQueen’s latest collection Spring/Summer 2016. Tom Ford is keeping his Gucci & Yves Saint Laurent aesthetics by designing sexy but sophisticated because Gucci and well-designed and well-tailored in Fall/Winter 2004 for Yves Saint Laurent.

CEO and Creative Director Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart has stunned the world with the first entirely vegan label, Vaute Couture. While several vegan apparel brands have sprung up in recent years – occasionally selling clothes fashioned with organic cotton, or faux-leather bags – Vaute Couture takes the next by refusing to employ any materials derived from animals. For the vegan-illiterate like yours truly, that means no silk, wool or suede beyond the obvious leather. The fledgling fashion brand also had the honor of becoming the first vegan label to show at New York fashion week back in 2013. Thanks to this early exposure and the rapidly developing green conscious market, Vaute has recently

Fashion has been around ever since ancient times, since the time of the Romans, it survived the world wars and is yet today a business with rapid changes. Fashion started off as an art form, a way for the riches to show their social status with unique and innovative designs that only they could afford. It was a way to separate the social classes of the society. In this paper I will include the creator of haute couture, and how the following designers developed couture, as well as having leading names in today’s ready-to-wear industry. The list is long, but I chose to focus on the three most important designers of the modern fashion industry.

He started with the removal of all visible logos from the brand’s products, made the signature intrecciato weave a prominent feature on all leather goods and took the brand’s focus solely back to artisanal production. Tomas Maier is the creative talent behind the renaissance of Bottega Veneta. With its re-found fame, the fashion house released a women's ready-to-wear line in 2005, and a men's line in 2006 in parallel with their international expansion plan which had begun in 2002. In April 2006, Bottega Veneta launched its first jewelry line, and branched out into interiors and furniture design. In summer 2006, recognizing the importance of craftsmanship and the fragility of this traditional way of life, Bottega Veneta opened a school to train and support future generations of leather craftsmen. The label received the ultimate recognition from the Luxury Institute of New York who chose Bottega Veneta as the most prestigious design house for the richest women of the United States in 2006. In 2011, the Italian house launched its first fragrance simply named Bottega Veneta and chose the daughter of Inès de la Fressange, Nine d'Urso, to front the

Paul Poiret was born on April 20th, 1879 in Paris, France. His contributions to twentieth-century fashion has earned him the title in many people’s eyes as the “King of Fashion”, because he established the principle of modern dress and created the blueprint of the modern fashion industry. Poiret’s designs and ideas led the direction of modern design history. He was born into a working class family and his natural charisma eventually gained him entry into some of the most exclusive ateliers of the Belle Époque. Jacques Doucet, one of the capital’s most prominent couturiers, hired him after seeing promising sketches he had sold to other dressmakers. Furthermore, he was hired by the House of Worth and was put to work to create less