HEIGHTS of FASHION

Seeing Red

Lately, Gisela and I have been talking about what colors have been inspiring us this Fall season. As you all know, we always wear tons and tons of black, but this season we are trying to look more into COLOR. As a result, Gisela has been obsessing over RED RED RED lately, and it didn't take long for me to notice and be influenced as well. I have a knack for colors in Interiors, but don't really try it on my myself when buying clothes or trying things on. Lately, Gisela has been scouting all over Ebay for an amazing Tailored suit just like the Givenchy ones, and I of course have been looking at spaces that inspire me for some of my clients.  We wanted to share some pics of some of the looks we are loving and some of the spaces that oomph the color red. Well, I guess you guys can't wait to see one of us wear RED, I guess we are going to start painting the town in RED.  BTW, What are some of your favorite looks showing red?

Givenchy Fall10

Brioni SP11

Bottega Veneta

Dree Hemingway in the Red Carpet

It Girl....Miroslava Dumas- Love this girl so much!!!

Puerto Rican Model of the Moment, Joan Smalls

Giovanna Battiglia wearing Alaia

 The Master of Red...Valentino celebrating his 45th year in Rome

Jonathan Adler's Design for Barbie in celebration of Barbie's 50th Anniversary

The Legend of Diana Vreeland's NYC Park Avenue Apt. As soon as I thought of Red, I thought about her. She is one of my favorite inspirations of all time!!!!

Miles Redd Interiors..always using a punch of red. 

Christian Louboutin Boutique

Interior Designer Michael Smith's Powder Room

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Maury and Gisela

Karl Templer - A Fashion Stylist Powerhouse!

This past Sunday I went to Barnes & Noble and quicky riffled through the latest issue of Vogue Italia. I was completely taken aback when I saw this photograph of a model wearing a Conway pink shopping bag as a headpiece! I tried to guess who the stylist was before I even looked at the credits.. was it Joe McKenna, Patti Wilson, Edward Enniful, who was it? I couldn't keep guessing, I just had to know who the culprit was so i flipped to the credits page and lo and behold, the stylist for this Steven Meisel shoot was the irreverent Karl Templer! The shoot, aptly titled "Fashion Bailout" pokes fun at the current status of the fashion industry. Seems we've gone from shopping at Alessandro Dell'Aqua (whom closed his NYC store recently) to shopping at Conway's on 34th Street due to our flailing economy. LOL. And while scrutinizing the story I thought to myself, why not wear everything I own, all at once? I mean, I paid for it, right? These are my favorite shots below..notice the Conway shopping bag in every shot?
 
 

I consider this editorial to be quite a masterpiece and we can't forget that the bad boy of photographers, Steven Meisel, is behind this work of art. Always breaking barriers and and gladly sharing his vision and perspective with fashion fanatics. BTW, did you guys see him photographed in this month's American Vogue?  I was very surprised that, he who is so mysterious and who purposely hides from the media, would even agree to pose for a shoot nonetheless for an American magazine such as Vogue....very interesting. The guy looks 20 and he's pushing 50! Implausible!

Lastly, a brief background on Stylist Karl Templer: currently the right-hand man of Francisco Costa at Calvin Klein. He's been key in streamlining the look of the brand, from the runway to its edgy advertisement campaigns. Karl's work has graced the pages of Vogue Italia, W and V and in addition to styling uber celebs, he's also the ex editor-in-chief at Arena Homme and was the former Creative Director at Interview.

PS: Jules, of Styleanthem, boldly posted a few shots of this editorial on her blog yesterday and I wrote to her saying how she is one step ahead of me everytime! I meant to blog about this amazing story yesterday but she had already posted it. Shout out to her for staying on top of cutting edge stories!

NICK KNIGHT worships Anja Rubik in UK VOGUE MARCH 09

We are addicted to great magazine editorials, and more so when the combo of artistry is as marvelous as the one in the March UK Vogue issue.

Photographer: Nick Knight ( We have always been a fan of the VISIONARY Mr. Knight, as he always never fails to impress us! Not only is he a great photographer but he is also the director of one of our favorite websites SHOWSTUDIO)

Model: Anja Rubik ( This Polish 23 year old beauty ROCKS and has the hair cut that I am dying to get, but Gisela would never let me cut my long curly hair...dammit GIsela! I need a signature look too!...LOL)

Stylist: Charlotte Stocksdale ( A contributing editor at UK Vogue and 10 Mag and her style quite reminds me of Gisela's editorials, so no wonder we are loving this spread!)

What do we love? We love the graphic elements of the use of black and white. These 2 colors never fail to excite us and are the ones that most vividly  communicate to us. We love the crazy platforms and the punk rock jewelry which are beautifully styled. The bondage that was use throughout the story was just splendid!! Enjoy

 

(pictures courtesy of FS)