Men's suits: cuts, styles, what to buy and how to wear them
Picking a new suit is never an easy task; there's the cut, the fabric and the quality all to worry about. Though men's fashion trends change at a slow pace, and suits slowest of all, 2009 will see a major move away from the monochromatic skinny-boy suit to something a lot more masculine and adventurous. But don't worry, the slim cuts aren't going anywhere. Click to read more on men's suits in 2009 including our tips on buying the perfect suit.
Accessories for men: Brooches
Accessories for men are few and far between, but with the gradual revitalization of men's fashion, coupled with a greater proportion of men willing to express their individuality without fear of sexuality orientated labeling, the men's brooches have emerged as a new category for men looking for that extra something. Read the article for Daniel P. Dykes' exploration of the styles and influences of the latest "hoorah" in men's accessories.
Deep V-Neck on Tops trend for men
Men It's one of the key cuts across men's clothing in 2009, and yet the Deep-V Neck has Daniel distinctly worried. Will deep v-neck cardigans be its saving grace, or will men be wearing it in completely the wrong way and throw 2009's men's fashion to the wall? Click here to read more on the deep v-neck trend.
Goth Ninja Menswear Trend
Swathed in layers of black fabric and leather, they may not be aiming for stealth but they sure are channelling the ninja. Bubbling up from the underground comes this growing menswear trend. Click here to read more on the goth ninja trend of 2009.
Tuxedo / Dinner Jacket trend for men
The death of the dress code factors in on the new wave of tuxedo dressing for men. Pairing dinner and tuxedo jackets with more casual elements is not unusual for 2009, though if you're looking to pick one up a timeless cut will last forever. Click here to read more on men's tuxedos and dinner jackets, and how to wear them.
Top 10 Shoe Designers for 2009 According to a recent study undertaken by handbag.com, Jimmy Choo has been voted the nation's favorite shoe designer for 2009.
The research, based on over 1,000 respondents throughout the UK, was conducted by handbag.com, a leading women's website, to discover which shoe British women could not live without. The 2009 top shoe designers are:
Jimmy Choo topped the list of best shoe designers with 23% of the votes and Christian Louboutin second with 12%. handbag.com Fashion Director Belinda White says, "Congratulations to Jimmy Choo; for over eleven years the brand has created innovative and fresh collections that combine classic elegance, beauty and sexiness."
Designer Shoes Giveaway
To celebrate Britain's love of shoes, handbag.com has created shoe month to give away a brand new pair of designer shoes each day. Each day through March 31, 2009 handbag.com is giving away vouchers from favorite high street and designer shoe stores. Log on daily to find out which shoe retailer is showcasing your dream pair of shoes.
This competition is well on the way with a number of great looking designer shoes including Alexander McQueen, Studio TMLS, Vivienne Westwood and Mulberry having already been given away each day so far in the month of March. But still there's a week or so to go and each single day you have a chance to win a pair of designer shoes.
Simply visit shoemonth at www.handbag.com/shoemonth to enter into the daily competition and get your hands on a brand new pair of designer shoes from A-list’s favourite fashion designers including Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin and Gina to the best that the high street can offer.
All of the designer shoes shown in the images above have or will be given away during this awesome shoemonth giveaway competition. A girl can never have too many shoes, especially these chic designer shoes and we love them all.
The third image above shows the gorgeous Black leather shoe boots by shoe designerAlexander McQueen. This signature Alexander McQueen style is really chic and can be worn to toughen up the most feminine of looks and are sure to add a jolt of brights to your favorite LBD. This boot, having a heel height measuring approximately 140mm / 5.5 inches and a 20mm / 1 inch platform, has an open toe, an elasticated contrasting strap at the back and a striking pink sole. The Neon flash shoe boot by Alexander McQueen retails at £445 and can be found in net-a-porter.
The last image above shows the See by Chloé chunky platform sandals in a cool Mauve/Blue tone. These Light Blue suede and satin sandals are just perfect for updating your wardrobe for the new season. They have an open toe, two straps and an adjustable buckle at the back to fasten. The retail price for the See by Chloé chunky platform sandals is £225.
Shoeaholics! Do let us know what you think about these chic shoes!
Truth, justice, and the American Way... oh no, wait a minute, that's Superman.... hmmm, I guess I stand for creativity and not just photography. I've always loved art. I can't draw worth a darn, so photography is the creative outlet for me.
Photography has been your thing for many, many years now. Who was your most memorable model and why?
Oh my, "many, many" sounds like it would make me "very VERY" old! But I'm young at heart!
The most memorable model I have shot with was a young lady named Amanda. She was the first serious model I worked with, and she was the one who encouraged me to do artistic nudes. Over the next several years we became friends and she continued to be my easiest subject to shoot. Her attitude toward art, ability to pose, her completely relaxed manner when in front of the lens, and her encouragement all made her special to me. She and her husband are now living in Florida, so sadly we haven't shot in a few years.
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I'm humbled that you would consider it an honor. I'm just your average photographer with vision in their head that needs to be released. I love what I do, but I also know that I have a lot more to learn. I remember hearing about the circle of knowledge and how, as you learn more, it touches even more things to learn. I think that's where I am now - discovering more and more each day.
What inspires you?
The greatest inspiration for my work comes from the reactions of clients to the images we create together. One that stands out the most in my memory was a client who sat crying at the monitor while reviewing her images and saying "I can't believe how beautiful I am." Reactions like that are what keep me going. If you've ever watched the show "How to Look Good Naked", you would know the reactions I get at almost every photo session with a client. I honestly love to get images of them that make them feel wonderful about themselves. A quote that I love from an unknown author is "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." That's what I hope to do with my photography.
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you HAD to shoot but couldn't get to your cam?
Actually, yes. My wife, Ruth and I try to spend a relaxing week in the North Georgia Mountains each year. Ruth always says she hopes we see a bear when we are winding our way up the road to the cabin we rent, but each year we've come up empty. On our last trip, Ruth spotted a black bear shuffling through the woods just off the road. She started exclaiming "Grab the camera! Grab the camera!" and we looked into the back seat, and then remembered it was packed in the trunk. She still hasn't forgiven me :) (Note to self - Keep a camera in the back seat at all times).
How many models have you worked with?
Wow, that's a good question, can I count my kids and grandkids as models? I would estimate well over 200 in the past 8 years or so. Many of them were models that I worked with on a TFP basis so that they could get time in front of the lens and learn a bit more about the business. I try to give back to the industry by doing TFP shoots when I can.
What's a cool concept that you want to shoot but haven't had the opportunity to yet?
I have this vision of a leggy, brunette model, a microwave, a black lab pup, and etch-a-sketch, and a man's button up shirt... Oh wait, I think that comes later! Actually I have been thinking lately that I'd like to do an artistic nude shot, outdoors in the woods, black & white, fog, with sun filtering through the trees. It's on my list of things to make happen this year.
If you could change the world with one photograph, what would it be of?
If I knew the answer to that question, believe me, I'd do it in a heartbeat! Right now I am trying to change the world one small image at a time. I feel that what I do has a big impact on the lives of my clients - it changes the way they view themselves. I can honestly say that every client I have ever shot left the studio with a whole new attitude and sense of empowerment. I like making that contribution to their lives.
So you've got a leggy, brunette model, a microwave, a black lab pup, an etch-a-sketch, and a man's button up shirt...how would you shoot this?
Very very carefully... Seriously, the "ingredients" scream PINUP to me. Brunette wearing only the man's shirt. Sitting on a stool, with legs crossed in a very sexy pose, her face with a "cutesy" baffled expression that pinup is known for. Wearing extremely high heels, with her hair done up 50's style. She's using the etch-a-sketch to try to make a drawing of the black lab puppy who is - hopefully - sitting in front of her. There's smoke coming out of the microwave, as if she had forgotten all about what she was doing before she got absorbed in the Etch-a-sketch. I'd call it "Nora Sketches while Dinner Burns" -- a play on words for Nero Fiddles While Rome Burns.
If you were forced to stop doing photography, what would be the last picture you took?
Well I hope there will never become a time when I would be forced to stop doing photography, but if I had to stop I think my last photo would be a self portrait with my wife, Ruth, and me. I'd want to be able to look at it and feel the rush that creating art and having her beside me had given me all those years.
You seem pretty cool...where can I check out your work?
While that perv in the back is busy shooting HRP-4C's firm buttocks shaped from a glossy Stormtrooper alloy, the rest of us can marvel at the fact that Japan has produced a walking, talking fashion robot. Standing at just over 5-feet tall and 95-pounds, HRP-4C, developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, will make its catwalk debut next week at the Tokyo fashion show. The she-bot features 30 motors spread throughout its body with an additional eight motors in its face for expressing general boredom and disgust with the help. Its main purpose is entertainment and to attract crowds much like its fleshy counterparts -- so don't expect home cooked meals and laundry service should you take the $200,000 robot home. Unfortunately, HRP-4C didn't function as planned today. Reports say that the robot, "kept looking surprised, opening its mouth and eyes in a stunned expression, when the demonstrator had asked it to smile or look angry."
Yes, born and raised from GA- a Georgia Peach!Even so, I do have international parents.My mother is French and my father is Lebanese.
If there was something you wanted to be known for, what would it be and why?
It used to be that once I graduated from Georgia Tech I wanted to be known for Atlanta Fashion Week, however, somebody beat me to the punch. Now I would just like to be known for helping boost the Atlanta Fashion Industry.
Hot or Cold. Which best describes your personality?
Cold best describes my personality perhaps because I am driven and tend to be stubborn and independent. Don’t get me wrong though, I’m hot to and love to network and be seen.
How many years do you have under your belt in the fashion industry?
For over 15 years.
Where did you get your start with modeling?
I started modeling as a child for The Limited Too clothing doing freeze pose modeling in the mall window. Then I signed with an agency that wanted to send me to Milan for modeling but missing school and swimming training was not an option for me.I was recruited to do collegiate distance freestyle swimming at Georgia Tech then I had to give up the modeling.I was juggling too many balls with family, academics, and swimming.I retired from swimming after 1 year after I injured my back. Soon thereafter, I went back to modeling and worked with great photographers such as Patrick, Drexina, Dwayne, and Anthony who took me under their wings to get my book redeveloped.
What do you have planned for in the near future?
In the near future I’d like to incorporate dance more- perhaps Aerial/Trapeze and Belly dance or Asian/Indian dance.I am also learning photography. I shoot a range from events, models, or weddings. I currently plan fashion shows and would like to continue to do so. Apart from the arts, this year I am hoping to learn the stock market more as my father and sister have been extremely successful in it and it’s always good to learn the things that others close to you do.
We know that you are a drop dead gorgeous model but what ELSE do you do?
Aside from being a runway model and photographer, I teach at a local finishing school.
Being 5'10, do you find that men (and even possibly women) are intimidated by you?
Being 5’10 is really great. It would not have lead me to making top 100 on America’s Next Top Model and having the opportunity to go down to FL for the gruesome 12 hours of interviews and mug shots for the 2nd to last cut before being on the show.
I love being tall and still rocking the tallest pair of shoes- no sense in buying granny style flats and jeopardizing my youth and height. I don’t mind towering over the men and women. It actually intimidates a lot of other people and, quite frankly, I don’t get approached as much because of it.
Outside of physical attributes, what would you consider your best quality?
My work ethic and persistence are my best qualities. Sometimes when things get to be too much, I do forget to eat and relax but I really enjoy what I do.
If you had access to loads of indispensable cash, what would be the first thing you did with it?
I would buy Chanel dresses to expand my closet. I would have some tech nerd hook me up with a computerized closet so I could be type in “red shirt” and the red shirts would roll around towards me or “silver pumps” and all of the silver pumps would pop out.
An offshoot of the uber-popular Lingerie Bowl halftime show that's appeared during Super Bowls past, there's now a league of extraordinary women who play tackle football against one another in their underwear. The Super Bowl halftime special called ‘Lingerie Bowl’ has become one of television’s most watched properties and apart of Super Bowl Sunday festivities for millions worldwide.
Due to the overall viewership/commercial success of the past Lingerie Bowls, a new professional football league has formed called the Lingerie Football League (LFL) with 10 franchises across the country which include Atlanta, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, New England, Miami and Tampa.
Atlanta is home to the LFL’s Atlanta Steam which will comprise of Atlanta’s most attractive and athletic women. The players auditioned at a mini-camp and were tested through a series of football drills. The Lingerie Football League will be a full-contact tackle football league, for more details please logo onto http://www.lflus.com/atlantasteam/. This is not a joke…these girls REALLY play football!
Photography was developed in the 1830s, but the earliest popular technique, the daguerreotype, was unsuitable for mass printing.[1] In 1856, Adolphe Braun published a book containing 288 photographs of Virginia Oldoini, Countess deCastiglione, a Tuscan noblewoman at the court of Napoleon III. The photos depict her in her official court garb, making her the first fashion model.[2]
In the first decade of the 20th century, advances in halftoneprinting allowed fashion photographs to be featured in magazines. Fashion photography made its first appearance in French magazines such as La mode practique. In 1909, CondéNast took over Vogue magazine and also contributed to the beginnings of fashion photography. Special emphasis was placed on staging the shots, a process first developed by Baron Adolf de Meyer, who shot his models in natural environments and poses. Vogue was followed by its rival, Harper's Bazaar, and the two companies were leaders in the field of fashion photography throughout the 1920s and 1930s. House photographers such as Edward Steichen, George Hoyningen-Huene, Horst P. Horst and Cecil Beaton transformed the genre into an outstanding art form. Europe, and especially Germany, was for a short time the leader in fashion photography.
But now with the change in time every country has taken considerable measures to promote the field of photography.
In the Mid of 1940s As World War II approached the focus shifted to the United States, where Vogue and Harper's continued their old rivalry. House photographers such as Irving Penn, Martin Munkacsi, Richard Avedon, and Louise Dahl-Wolfe would shape the look of fashion photography for the following decades. The artists abandoned their rigid forms for a much freer style. In 1936 Martin Munkacsi made the first photographs of models in sporty poses at the beach. Under the artistic direction of Alexander Brodovich, the Harper's Bazaar quickly introduced this new style into its magazine.
Italian fashion week is over but it left a lot to imagination. Agatha Ruiz presented her collection of outfits and some of them were really … fantastic or awful?
"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought."
Robert Fousch, Jr., ofSublime Lightworks, is a management professional who has been photographing a varietysubjects for 12 years.His current works include professional cycling, special needs children, and pin-up fashion photography.
Mr. Fousch has a Bachelor’s degree inElectrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Business Administration.Starting hiscareer in New Orleans with a defenserelated electronics firm, Robert hasadvanced to director management in one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world.
His photography interests began whileobserving andlearning basic techniques from his father, a sports photographer for a local football newspaper in New Orleansduring the 70’s and 80’s.His experiences grew in the late 1990’s.He suppliedphotography for several web sites andAtlanta based special needs children’s events.
In the past several years, Bob has beenphotographing national professionalcycling events such as the Tour de Georgia, Tour of Missouri, and the U.S. National Championships.Today, Bob is exploring creative techniques in neo-style pin-upphotography and has expanded hisinvolvement with special needs children’s events, as his autistic son has brought him closer to many groups supporting families with disabled children.
His reputation among models and agencies is stellar and he carries a level ofprofessionalism in his work that has earned him the respect of many peers.
We have been in business since 2004 and we continue to grow. We have worked with clients such as Tyler Perry Studios, MAC Cosmetics, Showtime Networks, Inc, and Markwins International. We are family owned and we originated in St. Louis in 2004 and then we moved to Atlanta. We represent talent ranging from promo models and actors to high fashion models. Services we offer include wardrobe consultations, photo shoots with outstanding photographers for those who do not have professional photos, and extensive marketing to keep you working. You may submit your photos, as attachments only, your resume if you have one, your height, your weight, and your age to info@envisagemodelgroup.com for review. We do not accept talent under the age of 18. Please allow up to two weeks for us to get back with you. If you do not hear back from us, do not be discouraged. You may resubmit your information in six months. If you have been accepted, you will receive a welcome package via email explaining how we work and what is expected of you. Be sure to opt in our monthly E-Letter at the bottom of our blog.
