Need style tips? say hi to your virtual stylist

Do you have a party to attend or a brunch you cant miss but haven’t decided your outfit? In today’s world we have help for everything and in case of any fashion emergency. You can always rely on a virtual stylist to help you crack the code and get an eye-candy look.

What is a virtual stylist ? Well, a virtual stylist is a creator who puts up a flat lay for a head to toe look with all the necessitates to enhance your aesthetic, you can either pay a virtual stylist and get your wardrobe personally customized or you can search the web and find so many flat lays made by the creator in his aesthetic for free!

With fashion week(s) happening all around the world, us fashion gurls need to have runway ready look on the go. Now here are six ready to wear looks which will turn heads.

A New Day, A New City


Be the visitor in your own city with this look, to decode the look you’ll need a turtle neck sweater, a high waist skirt, combat boots, and a sling bag. to complete the look you can put your hair up in a bun and you are good to go.

the Insta baddie

Say hello to the fashion slayer with this very upbeat 90’s inspired look. For cracking this look you’ll need an off-shoulder crop top, a pair of wide-leg denim, chunky 90’s boot and accessorize the simple outfit with a pair of silver earrings, silver accent belt, cute tinted sunglasses, and micro bag to flaunt the trend away.

AVID VOGUE READER

A day out with the girls sounds perfect with this outfit. Steal your dad’s blazer pair it up with a bralette, the very trendy bicycling shorts, chunky sneakers and accessorize with gold accents such as necklaces, dangling earrings, quirky rings, and tiny framed sunglasses.

the real bling

A classic black dress is a staple piece and a need in every girl’s closet, and you can serve lewks at a formal dinner or a romantic date. To style, you’ll need is a strapless body-con dress, strappy rhinestoned mules, a handbag(black preferred), some dangling earrings and rhinestoned hair clips.

lunch which ends at breakfast

You know when you catch up with friends for an early brunch, time flies and its time for breakfast… yup this is that look, let’s help you get this look. Rock the 2000’s leather pant with a cute top/crop top pair them up with some chunky sneakers for comfort and carry matrix styled sunglasses at all times. For the bag, you wanna make sure you pack lite as you gonna sport this look for a whole 20 hours.

British Vogue guest editor – hardly phenomenal

By Rahul Jamble

Lady Diana, Princess of Wales was deemed the ultimate Vogue cover girl and the Duchess of Cambridge followed in her foot steps.

For the September issue of British Vogue, the iconic magazine got Meghan Markle the Duchess of Sussex, as a guest editor to work alongside the editor-in-chief of British Vogue Edward Enninful. For the cover, she decided place 15 women, who according to her, are powerful and influential.

I was surprised to not see Queen Elizabeth in this powerful group of 15. That is a HUGE miss. For the first time ever, Vogue has made a political statement despite being a fashion magazine. The Duchess worked secretly for seven months to give us the forthcoming edition of the fashion bible. But it didn’t work for me because fashion was sidelined.

Inclusivity was the main topic for this cover. The motto of the campaign was to spread awareness on how the world is changing. But honestly, she could have done way better with the powerful resources at her disposal. The magazine, which is known to set trends, has astonishing imagery and gives millions of people fashion inspiration every month, lacked fashion on its most crucial issue of the year.

Meghan hand picked articles curated in the issue for “trailblazing changemakers” entitled Forces for Change. Apparently, the Duchess has been heavily involved in every decision – from styling the clothes to helping shoot the cover. But the end result wasn’t phenomenal. I expected more from the best of the best team.

week 15

Today we presented our work to our mentor and other mentors from different classes. The asked us questions about our model and how was it made and what was the idea behind it. And we got a chance to interact with our peers to and explain them our model.

installation

The only criteria we had for our installation was that it should not exceed the size of 1 by 1 feet.

So we decided that as all our movies have some really strong personalities portrayed we will try to show that in our work. We decided that we will have 5 boxes in which each box will be smaller than the other that is the number of sides of the boxes will go in a decreasing order.

week 14

Today after brainstorming with my group mates we decided that we will make a model out of teacups and saucers but after we spoke to our mentor the idea wasn’t as strong as we taught it was. So after talking to our mentor for a while we decided that we will use the Russian doll concept of one doll inside the another doll.

week 14

Today we were asked  to do whatever changes we had to do and get our final draft ready and printed

BIRKIN

When it comes to handbag hierarchy, the Hermès Birkin is the ultimate status symbol in the arm-candy stake. The bag has its own worth, which drives people insane for it; well we shall see it from its creations.

Created in 1984, the iconic bag boasts as its namesake muse Paris-based British actress Jane Birkin. Its existence was a happy accident, borne out of an exchange between Birkin and former Hermès chief executive Jean-Louis Dumas on an Air France flight from Paris to London in the early ’80s. Birkin, who had been upgraded, ended up sitting next to the executive; when the contents spilled out of her bag, Dumas suggested she needed one with pockets, and this sparked a conversation about her ideal accessory. The actress ended up doodling her specifications for “a handbag that is bigger than the Kelly but smaller than the Serge [Gainsbourg]’s suitcase” on a sick bag.  Jane Birkin.” I.pinimg.com, Pinterest, i.pinimg.com/originals/7d/01/14/7d0114073ba5c38e307705bcea0494c7.jpg.

The rest is handbag history. A roomy, elegant-yet-sporty bag with handles, designed to be carried in the hand or wrist, with four studs on the base. The Birkin represented a new, modern statement from a fashion house known for its traditional, classical stance. Up until that point, the Kelly bag – ladylike, stiff and boxy by comparison – epitomized Hermès’ world. The only other Hermès bag to carry a celebrity moniker, their Sac à Dépêches, renamed in 1956 after Grace Kelly was snapped using it to shield her pregnant belly, having first been introduced to the item on the set of Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief.

The Birkin arguably played a major role in making Hermès the fashionable house it is today. “It opened Hermès up to new markets and customers, but it also changed the typical Hermès client,” says Jérôme Lalande, an antique dealer specializing in 20th-Century leather goods. “Hundreds and hundreds” of Kellys and Birkins have passed through his hands during his career, as both a long-time collaborator of Hermès, sourcing items for the house’s museums and the bag-and-luggage expert at second-hand luxury goods specialists Collector Square, an e-boutique with a showroom on Rue Bonaparte in Paris. A single artisan in one of the brand’s workshops craft’s all Birkin’s. It takes each artisan 48 hours of work to create a single bag. In addition, bare hands do not touch the bag until the client purchases it.

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One of the signature features on a Hermes Birkin bag is the lock and keys. The lock features the Hermes “H” logo and other unique engravings to make the bag special. The keys stay tucked away in a clochet or a leather lanyard. These are more than just a decoration. The lock is fully functional and adds an element of security to the bag. Users lock the bag by closing the top flaps through the loops and then securing the lock in place. Each lock has a number engraved on the bottom to indicate the batch number. Older bags have a single number while releases that are more recent, have two numbers engraved on the bottom. The lock matches the other metal hardware on the bag.

“Anatomy of a Birkin.” Pursebop, 2 Oct. 2017, i2.wp.com/www.pursebop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/anatmy-birkin.jpg?resize=971%2C971&ssl=1.

Hermès is known for its quality materials, and their leather is no exception. A few of the most popular materials include box calf, alligator, Clemence, Epsom, Togo, and Ostrich leather. After Jane Birkin made headlines for protesting the treatment of animals in 2015, the company’s ethical standards for the sourcing of materials became more standardized. Birkin bags are found in a variety of colors, they are largely made from the leathers. Box calf is the oldest type of leather available, initially used for the Kelly bags. The smoothness of this leather means scratches are easy to see, unlike many other popular materials used.

Alligator material comes in either matte or lisse, which is shiny.

Epsom is also scratch resistant, but has much finer grains than Clemence and is known to be easy to clean.

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Togo, also scratch resistant, made from a calf and has a soft, pebbled finish. Ostrich is an iconic material, easily distinguishable due to the large pores.

Ostrich is an iconic material, easily distinguishable due to the large pores.

As a result, Hermès no longer takes special orders for the bag, and customers must wait for Birkins in the shades they desire to arrive in stores or if you are too keen to buy it then you can rent one for a week   the e-commerce site VillageLuxe, which launched last year, lets you try before you buy. You can rent a birkin for $295 per week, and then either send it back, or pull the trigger.

A new study finds that purchasing a Birkin bag is a less risky investment than buying gold or entering the stock market. However, it is still a fascinating look at the Birkin’s constantly high demand in a world full of fickle shoppers.

Researchers compared the S&P 500, gold and Birkin bags to see how their value changed over the past 35 years. An average return that beats out both the S&P 500 index and the price of gold. The lowest rate it can be sold is$ 7,000/- i.e.4,55,000/- in Indian Rupee. Famous rapper Drake is collecting birkin’s for his future wife and it even acts as an investment of his money.

The birkin is a timeless design, a river of expensive materials, a flow of smart and amazing craftsmen, and sold by a loop of people who know what its worth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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week 14

today in the lecture I had a chance to speak to my mentor personally and we decided to do some changes along with the bag.

As we live in a world which has a lot of pollution and wastage of material no one thinks of how it is affecting our planets. as a result, there are almost 3.6 million plastic bottles found thrown away. And the worst of all is that it takes 450 years for it to degrade. So I came up with a bag design which recycles 8 plastic bottles for making one bag. To make it durable and last long it is blended with denim material. The bag is made of 20 percent post-consumer waste- specifically, recycled plastic bottles. That works out to an average of three to eight plastic bottles per bag. And the lock system for the bag is like you have never seen before. It has 3 different style setting which helps the bag turn into a backpack, messenger, and a sling bag.