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March 2010 - IV: Beach style


Beach - Beach Biker Style Web/Mobile/Map
She is cycling from one beach to the other, she is thinking of him...

Beach - Men's Beach Style Web/Mobile/
"Electric is the love" sings Bobby Womack on the track 'Stylo' from Gorillaz' new album 'Plastic Beach'. The track has inspired Fashionoffice for the 'Male Beach Style'...

Beach - Travel pack Web/Mobile/Map
The bikini flight-season in Europe begins in mid-April! Fashionoffice has packed for Nice, Palermo, Mykonos with fashion by Palmers, Kipling, Liniert, Beata Dirycz, beauty by Veld's...


Beach - Swimming pool presentation - photo update; catwalk sight by Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile/Map
On the same day, later in the evening, Fashionoffice received professional photos from the swimming pool presentation, which I don't want to hide...


SHORT MESSAGES:

'An Officer And A Gentleman' in The NoMad Hotel in New York
The hotel looks in this video like a condemned house - but this seems to be the concept. The hotel has even rooms with spartanic bunk beds and on their website they are offering 'free ramen noodles from the minibar on your first night's stay'! But this is not the main attraction in the video. The designer of the collection and co-founder Anthony Keegan, he has studied tailoring at London College of Fashion and Design at Central St. Martins College, has chosen models like Chad White and Terron Wood to appear in a down-dressed but perfectly tailored 50ies/60ies inspired male style with sportive appeal. Commonwealth Utilities' creative brain and partner of Keegan, co-founder Richard Christiansen has already art directed 4 short films.

Stylebible for the Life Ball 2010
The Vienna Life Ball, which invites on 17 July again since 1993 to the Vienna city hall, has released a Stylebible.org with outfits such as shoes and socks for 'Atlas', a naked man who is bearing the world's weight, or 'Odin's Raven', the ambassador of truth and solidarity in shiny black feathers. This year, the Life Ball is the opening event to 'AIDS 2010'. The 18th annual world-conference by the international AIDS Society will be held from 18 - 23 July in Vienna. The motto of the conference is 'Rights Here, Rights Now'.

The Vienna city hall hosts the Filmball
On Friday 26 April 2010, the Filmball pays homage to the 'film town Vienna' in the city hall. Austria's capital city Vienna experiences since the 20ies film-celebrity-dust. 'Casablanca' director Michael Curtiz lived and worked here on numerous film productions until the mid 20ies, Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten have played in the movie 'The Third Man' which was filmed in the devastated town in 1949, and until the 60ies, film was a lively business. Now, star-dust flutters again above the city: Stefan Rubinowitz and Christoph Waltz had been recently awarded with the Oscar; Götz Spielmann and Michael Haneke are honored by their Oscar nominations. Maximilian Schell, Christine Neubauer, Nina Proll, Uschi Glas, Christiane Hörbiger, Barbara Wussow, Pierre Brice, Robert Dornhelm,... have already announced to appear on the red carpet; and, not to forget, the ones who bring the glitter of Hollywood to town.

Asia Fashion Summit at the Four Seasons Hotel in Singapore
Fashionoffice is invited by the Asia Fashion Summit (AFS) 2010, which will take place from the 28-30 April 2010 in the Four Seasons Hotel in Singapore. The conference and exhibition will bring together over 200 industry leaders, experts and innovators of the apparel fashion and textile industry from the Asia Pacific region. The AFS is the region’s premier fashion event, where you can get an insight into Asia’s fast-changing fashion market.

Sexy Swim Soiree in Florida
Fashionoffice has received an invitation from Kimaje' Kreations to the 'Sexy Swim Soiree' on 27 March at AIZIA in the Diplomat Hotel in Florida where the Kimaje' Kreations designers Tahaji Samona and Karine Melissa will present swimwear inspired by their home islands, the Bahamas and Jamaica. The fashion show has a beneficial aspect too: Kimaje' Kreations is raising money for The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale's EDMC Scholarship Foundation. On the label's website is announced that Kimaje' Kreations will participate in the next Fashion Designers Expo Florida from 14th-15th May.

Making of the 'Leçons de Séduction'
The French lingerie label Aubade publishes the making of video, directed by Youri Zakovitch. In the preface of the video, the concept of the photo shoot is explained by sketches and how the ideas get real. Then you can see the photographer of the 'Leçons de Séduction' Michel Perez and the art director of the photo production, Laure Doussaud from Carlin International for Aubade.

A fashion shooting in the Hotel Le Palais Rhoul in Marrakech
The Spanish brand XTG with the Canary designer Luis Mentado as the head of the design team, presents the shooting of the new underwear spring/summer 2010 images with a making of on YouTube. The label was inspired for this collection by the colours and the mysterious, fascinating culture of the African country. The team, photographer Ivan Hidalgo and stylist Vicente Soler have chosen Dutch model Nicolle Witte and the Kazakhastan born, now in Germany living Eugen Bauder who worked already for Armani, Dsquared, Hugo Boss or D&G.

Fashion show at the pool of the Divi Carina Bay Beach Resort in St. Croix, Virgin Islands
Andres Aquino, designer and organiser of the Couture Fashion Week in New York (10 - 12 Sept 2010), has sent Fashionoffice the schedule for the next events such as the St. Croix Couture Fashion Show on 7 May. (St. Croix belongs to the Virgin Islands and is right below Puerto Rico.) The fashion show with Andres Aquino's own new collection and performances of local students will be held at the pool of the Divi Carina Bay Beach Resort.

Fashionoffice is powered by 100% wind energy
Fashionoffice's hosting provider Globat announced that the website and email are powered eco-friendly. Globat's offices and data centers are powered by 100% wind energy.

MUSIC:

Fashionoffice music video tip for beach and party feeling: 'Sexy Chick' by David Guetta ft. Akon

'Driving' by the indie folk label 'Setting Sun' is the first track from the album 'Fantasurreal' (release on 1st June 2010). The plastic figure(s) on cycles are animated by artist Charles Pieper; in the main role, songwriter Gary Levitt. Charles Pieper pays tribute to "90s independent animation, a la MTV’s iconic 'Liquid Television' series". In Queens (New York) born singer and guitarist Gary Levitt (aka Setting Sun) is addicted to film: he has studied film and music during college time. Levitt’s songs have appeared in a number of reality shows and independent films, and most recently, his song 'Morning Song' was used in a commercial for 'The National Parks Foundation'.

Behind the scenes of the opener's at Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour
The behind the scenes video shows the Brooklyn glam-rock band 'Semi Precious Weapons' during the Monster Ball Tour in UK, and especially the lead singer with the punky voice and glitter style, Justin Tranter. "Vogue described the band as 'unashamedly crass and deliciously animated' (Wikipedia). The band will appear in Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s forthcoming 'Telephone' video. Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour is traveling in March, April in Australia, mid-April they arrive in Japan, the Europe tour starts in May. On the band's website you can find the recently released 3 songs EP and you can get a free track by leaving your email address. http://semipreciousweapons.com/

'Hey Ho' by the New Zealand born, now in Sydney living singer Gin Wigmore. Recently - on 16 March 2010, her debut album 'Holy Smoke' was released by the same producer who has worked already with Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, or Nelly Furtado. The album was recorded in Hollywood at the legendary Capitol Studios. "It was amazing," says Gin. "We were standing in the amazing Capitol Studios, working in Studio B, sitting on Frank Sinatra’s chair, it was just ridiculous. Aretha Franklin has walked through those hallways."

'Happyland', showing the Swedish singer Amanda Jenssen in Nina Simone, Edith Piaf style on Tom Waits a-like broken beats in the scenery of a smoky bar. The track is from her second album 'Happyland', released in October 2009. In March and in the following months, Amanda Jenssen is on tour in Sweden.