Emma Sweeney

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From studying Emma Sweeney‘s work, one understands a few things.

First, Emma has a very keen sense of what it takes to portray soft, bliss like, Garden of Eden-esque photographs. Each of her photographs gives the feeling of floating in something like a fairy tale, wings and balloons and soft spoken words. Don’t get me wrong, her photographs also have a bit of ruthless in them too, just a little bit.

The viewer also understands Emma likes to use rather muted earthly tones. Most of her photographs blend with light olives and tans. Perhaps this could be a result of so much skin in her photographs.. No complaints here.

Emma has graduated from London’s Central Saint Martins, a College of Art and Design specializing in photography, after which she worked with Nick Knight.

Photo source: Emma Sweeney | www.emmasweeney.co.uk

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Le Happy Lua P

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Photo source: Le Happy | http://glossfashion.com/le-happy/

 

Jacket ~ Modekungen
Jumper ~ Illustrated People
Blouse ~ Vintage
Leggings/ high waisted pants ~  Shop Market HQ

She calls herself a Peruvian living in LA. Her style sings the torn lyrics of Alice in Chains, the cool-aid dyed hair, burgundy Dr. Martens, and single ear earrings. Lua P of Le Happy has got some classic style with modern accessories. We like Lua P. I mean, look at that studded collar!

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Fashion Blogger The Sartorialist

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Once and a while you run across some great videos that inspire you and get your knees shaking and the sweat and gears turning.

This is an introspective into the man/blogger known as The Sartorialist.

I find it great when he stops the girls and the one is like: “Which blog?” and the friend is like THE SARTORIALIST! haha.

Thanks to Baron S. Cameron, a brilliant photographer and writer himself, for sharing this.

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Andrey Yakovlev & Lili Aleeva are True Creators

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Take photographs, sure, but lets do it in such a way that it creates swirling dreams that dance around your minds eye and whispers little secrets into the overwhelming expanse of that which invites drop jaw and stare. NOW we have creation. Now we have tapped into what it is to create and to inspire.

Behold Andrey Yakovlev & Lili Aleeva. Possibly some of the most outstanding examples of fashion photography available.

Andrey and Lili create an experience for the viewer. They dissect the landscape and place models into the scene, making what can only be called a romantic dance dream.

The wardrobe choices, the accessories, the makeup. This, it is easy to say, is inspiration.

In this work, Andrey Yakovlev is the photographer, and Lili Aleeva is the art director and MUAH.

Photo source: Andrey Yakovlev & Lili Aleeva | Tropicana Unity | http://www.behance.net/gallery/TROPICANA-unity-/4697015

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Please, Just a Black And White Night

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This started off as a search for a black and white dress, an elegant dress, one that is fit for beauty queens shimmering through the night with long black silk gloves on sipping from champagne glasses with perfect lipstick impressions planted confidently along the edge of the nights caress.

Then I found Kendra Spears photographed by Claudia Knoepfel and Stefan Indlekofer for Vogue Paris, May 2012 and I had to look no further; immediately enchanted I was and whisked off to a romance I had only to don my black rimmed Ray-Bans and pilot my Rolls Royce and precious cargo to the evenings gala.

I love the stockings, not to mention the hair..

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Alexandra Valenti is Up In Smoke

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This article started off about fashion in smoke, then quickly turned to a profile of Alexandra Valenti after I looked at her photographs, where I found her smoke work.

Simply beautiful.

There are some artists you look at their work and you see a distance, a disconnect between personality and style. Then, there are other artists who integrate every essence of their body into what they capture with the lens. As an outside viewer, I almost get the feeling that I have just read Alexandra’s secret pages of a notebook she’s tirelessly drawn flowers, hearts, vines, and birds all over.

Oh, and she does it with some amazing style.

Photo source: Alexandra Valenti | http://alexandravalenti.com/

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Men, That’s a Good Tie

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The tie is the easiest thing to throw into a guy’s repertoire to get them feeling like a champion. Well, I guess I could argue that a collared shirt is the best thing, but I’m pretty sure it’s the tie. Or perhaps it’s the sleek vest that just fits like it’s been personally tailored.. Perhaps I’m just dreaming about a very light gray [almost white] shirt, perhaps a hint of a pinstripe, with a thin black tie, strapping vest and a blazer. There’s a clean shave, with hair that really defines sharp, and shoes that we just can’t start talking about now.

No, he’s not walking down the street with his blazer slung over his back, he’s a man: holding the door open for an equally smart woman…

[Is this the movies? Some Dick Tracy meets Richard Avedon dream?]

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Photo source: Hedi Slimane | LONDON / BRITISH YOUTH 2 / DAZED / JULY 2011 | http://www.hedislimane.com/fashiondiary/index.php?id=121

 

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Photo source: Adrián Cano | Memories Back Home | http://itsadriancano.blogspot.ca/2012/03/memories-back-home.html

 

Photo source: Yannick K | http://yannicksowhat.blogspot.de/

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Photo source: Julia Trotti | Weddings Jess & CLint | http://juliatrottiweddings.com/?p=282

 

Photo source: Wicked Clothes Shop | Harry Potter Hogwarts House

 

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She Had Flowers In Her Hair

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Summer season brings out the gypsy in most people, throwing the long black ball gowns in the closet and pulling out the cut up jeans and sandals, weaving flowers in their hair. We love the summer. We dream about it for the rest of the seasons, for a time when we can run in the sand with bare feet, or lay in the park upon green green grass and laugh the day away with friends.

When the night time comes, how do you keep the summer spirit though? We can hold onto it with loads of bracelets beautifying our wrists, but perhaps we want to get just a little bit different. Perhaps we’ll put some flowers back in our hair?

Photo source: Brazilian Treatment | Karlie Kloss | Mario Testino #photography| Vogue US July 2012

 

Photo source: Tina Patni, http://www.tinapatni.com

 

Photo source: Tina Patni, http://www.tinapatni.com

 

Photo source: Judy Pak, http://www.judypak.com/

 

Photo source: Laura Ferreira, http://lauraferreira.com/

 

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Photo source: unknownPhoto source: Vogue | March 2010 | Anja Rubik and Nippon

 

Photo source: Vogue Italia | December 2011 | Karlie Kloss by Steven Meisel

 

Photo source: Vogue | 1965 | Jean Shrimpton by Bert Stern

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Artist Review: Ashley Joncas

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Ashley Joncas is an artist, photographer, editor, fashionista, model, blogger, and overall, badass creative soul. We like Ashley.

Ashley is 20 years old, and I enjoy the web she spins on her blog, her words are mesmerizing.

What I find is the best how her images are frequently washed out a bit, and almost always in black and white, or very damn close to it. Her style is very alley cat style, meow meow foxy with Ramones bangs. It’s a good dig.

Photo Credit: Ashley Joncas

 

Photo Credit: Ashley Joncas

 

Photo Credit: Ashley Joncas

 

Photo Credit: Ashley Joncas

 

Photo Credit: Ashley Joncas

 

Photo Credit: Ashley Joncas

 

For more of her style, more of her photographs, more of her, head over to her blog: Purely Couture and More. (ps. it’s a good idea to do that).

 

 

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MAFFASHION: Big Style, Doing It Right

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We’ve recently been introduced to a fashion blogger that goes by Maffashion. She is, to say the least, driving us wild here with fashion sense and an instant desire to copy her wardrobe bit by bit. Specifically, her choice in accessories are out of this world.

Photo Credits: Łukasz Plewa / Maffashion

Photo Credits: Łukasz Plewa / Maffashion

Photo Credits: Łukasz Plewa / Maffashion

Photo Credits: Łukasz Plewa / Maffashion

Photo Credits: Łukasz Plewa / Maffashion

Photo Credits: Łukasz Plewa / Maffashion

Obviously she’s a BlackMilk Clothing fan, like the rest of us.

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