Thursday, 24 March 2011

latest fashion


Latest Pakistani Fashion
Wear trendy black in wedding functions to look elegant and glamorous.
After Eid-ul-Azha, the wedding season is ON with its excitement, enjoyment, along with the fever of latest fashion trends and stylish ladies dresses. When it comes to wedding gatherings, it is the inner desire of every women to steal the show by wearing the most trendy and stylish dress with respect to the latest fashion trends and styles.
Picking up dresses for important wedding functions and gatherings is a very tricky job, as the formal dresses are bit expensive and all of us think once or twice before getting decided on any particular dress amidst of vast variety of designs and styles. With so many marriages and functions around the corner, it is undoubtedly very difficult to decide what to wear on the special occasion. However, with appropriate selection in formal dresses, you can stand out in your family functions.
Since it is winters, and the weather is quite cold and dry, the color selection in the formal dresses is very important. In the cool winters, dark colors like black, brown, maroon and navy blue are the ideal colors for formal dresses. Among all the bold colors, black usually stand out as elegant and charming in formal dresses.
Black is always in fashion and this winters also, black is among the latest fashion trends. When you will have Black formal dresses in your wardrobe, it will not give an ethnic touch, but also looks great in large gatherings. The latest fashion trends in formal dresses offer flowing frocks, peshwas, and long shirts, and black will look pretty with all of the designs and styles.
The young girls can make their presence noticeable by wearing light weight silver jewelry and strapped high-heeled sandals with trendy black formal dresses. Moreover, for the ladies who are overweight and want to hide their bulges and muffin-tops in the wedding gatherings, black is the most suitable choice for them in formal dresses.
The best way to hide excess weight around your belly is to wear black color in formal dresses, as it gives illusion that you have shed some extra pounds. Not only will you look slimmer in your black formal dresses but you will appear attractive and glamorous. If you want to introduce some contrast in your black color formal dresses, you can get the bodice of some different color like red, or pink stitched to make your dress elegant and stylish, according to latest fashion trends.

Sunday, 20 March 2011

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 di Castiglione, 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 halftone printing allowed fashion photographs to be featured in magazines. Fashion photography made its first appearance in French magazines such as La mode practique. In 1909, Condé Nast took over Vogue magazine and also contributed to the beginnings of fashion photography. In 1911, photographer Edward Steichen was "dared" by Lucien Vogel, the publisher of Jardin des Modes and La Gazette du Bon Ton, to promote fashion as a fine art by the use of photography.[3] Steichen then took photos of gowns designed by couturier Paul Poiret.[3] These photographs were published in the April 1911 issue of the magazine Art et Décoration.[3] According to Jesse Alexander, This is "...now considered to be the first ever modern fashion photography shoot. That is, photographing the garments in such a way as to convey a sense of their physical quality as well as their formal appearance, as opposed to simply illustrating the object."[4] At this time, 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 that change in time every country has taken considerable measures to promote the field of photography.
In the mid 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. Richard Avedon revolutionized fashion photography — and redefined the role of the fashion photographer — in the post-World War II era with his imaginative images of the modern woman. Today, his work is being exhibited in the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, FL. This exhibition features more than 200 works and spans Avedon’s entire career, including vintage prints, contact sheets, and original magazines from Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and The New Yorker.
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 Alexey Brodovitch, the Harper's Bazaar quickly introduced this new style into its magazine.