Posts Tagged Haute Couture

Pierre Cardin Clothing

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

Pierre Cardin, a French fashion designer born on July 7, 1922 at San Biagio di Callalta, Italy. Pierre Cardin focused on innovative and experimental creations that clearly depicted arts, culture and politics in his designs. He also pioneered Space-age collection that constitutes technical and geometric designs ignoring the feminine figure. Pierre Cardin basically promoted a unisex collection of fashion clothes which were though innovative but was often limited to unrealistic fashions. Pierre Cardin used ultramodern designs and trends in his designer fashionable clothes. Cardin pursued his academics in architecture in Paris. Lately he started working for haute couture. Soon in 1950’s Japan emerged as a new market amongst other fashion markets of the world, due to his hardwork and dedication. In 1954 he inaugurated the “bubble dress”, which gained a lot of popularity in the fashion world. In the year 1970, this man of customs and culture hit the headlines by inaugurating ‘Escape Cardin’ at Cardin’s own place for promoting his designer and talented artistic collection like musicians, theatre ensembles etc. From 1981 he was working under the control of a popular restaurant Maxim’s de Paris where he initiated the complete range of secondary line products, with their trademark. He won a great deal of awards for the remarkable designs, he has always remained as the most appreciated decorated courtier. He searched for new markets and entered the automotive market in America for designing the interiors of station wagons, where his quality and innovative work was quite appreciated and he was loaded with work. He gave his designer views for thousands of cars and hence gained popularity. Later on, in 1994, he started with designer clothes after gaining knowledge in different types of design work. His customers were selected and specifically journalists who had a taste for his designs. He gains the success in having his fashion popularized as a complete art. Pierre Cardin has maintained his rising fame for more than 4 decades in the world of fashion. He was the first to modernize the men’s fashion style and to make fashion more common. Lateran after firming his feet in fashion industry he started operating in Japan, China and the USSR. Due to his futuristic outlook he will always remain the main player in fashion world with a vision of future. His fashion collection includes clothing, furniture, accessories and art and environment. His range includes fashionable men’s wear, formal shirts, casual shirts, ladies apparels, skirts, office wear, unisex jackets and accessories like shoes, eyewear, wallets, belts, pens etc.. this is admired by most of the fashionable people who have a value for branded collection. He has immensely satisfied the brand conscious people with his creative collection of innovative and geometric design. The avant-garde style and space-age designs were new to the fashion world. his designs were unique and highly recognized. Pierre Cardin has shared a fantastic good-will and his wide range of specific collection which triggered the new concept of fashion in the international market that is quite valued till date. He set a unique trend of fashionable clothes that became a widely accepted brand-Pierre Cardin!

Impact of Celebrity Magazines on Hollywood

Friday, May 13th, 2011

There has always been attention given to the activities of various celebrities. In recent years, celebrity news has become more popular. This trend has paved the way for more celebrity magazines to emerge in order to satisfy the public’s appetite for celebrity gossip. However, although celebrity magazines have had an impact on the magazine world, the magazines have also had an impact on Hollywood as well.

With the dramatic increase in attention the celebrity magazines provide, there has been both positive and negative effects in Hollywood. For instance, in a positive development, there has been a giant push for celebrities to promote charities and other organizations that strive to benefit humankind and the world at large. This promotion is done often through the celebrity magazines. When one of these stories is picked up by the gossip magazines, millions of people are made aware of these causes and can contribute to these benevolent organizations. Putting pressure on major organizations to enact change is something positive that celebrity magazines have done. Also, due to the fact that celebrities have recognizable names and therefore powerful voices, what celebrities say and the organizations that they support receive an increase in attention through celebrity magazines and other venues.

It is important to remember, however, that celebrity magazines are for entertainment. In many cases, no matter what magazines say about celebrities, the individuals that they are covering are sometimes people who do not want the hype. Obviously, these artists and power-brokers are in the public eye, but, in the end, many are just hardworking individuals who are doing what they love to do, and are not looking for extra attention. Nowadays, with so many celebrity magazines on the market, more reporters and photographers than ever before are fighting for stories and photos. This can be distracting to those that simply want to work in Hollywood or elsewhere, and in the worst cases, can affect the quality of their work. .

Consequently, the more celebrity magazines that are available to the public means more pages that are needed to be filled with celebrity gossip. The various magazines require stories and pictures to satisfy their readership. What this leads to, ultimately, is that each magazine must develop an angle to attract the reader, and sometimes these angles might not be accurate, or even an obvious lie. Some couples claim that the constant pressure from the celebrity magazines is what ultimately led to their breakups, and some claim that by doing these things out in public where everyone can see them, the couples themselves have allowed the magazines to have an impact on what they are doing and where they are going as a couple. This can be very entertaining for readers, but perhaps damaging to the stars’ career. Managing these situations from a public relations point of view is crucial to the stars maintaining a positive image.

There are stars, however, which use this spotlight to increase their status. The old adage, “there’s no such thing as bad press” is taken advantage of on a weekly basis. Publicity stunts are more common, as is outrageous behavior. Due to the broad spotlight that celebrity magazines cast, it has become difficult to determine whether or not a star’s behavior is genuine, or fabricated to get attention. Perhaps an artist wants attention that their roles or their records are not getting them; they can do something outrageous and get the coverage. Also, celebrities use the magazines to plug and promote the projects they are working on. A downside of this trend is that celebrity magazines pay handily for insider information, and some projects are leaked ahead of schedule. Many stars, actors in particular, feel that their believability in an on-screen role is compromised by the celebrity magazine’s focus on their personal lives. Clearly, the increase in popularity of celebrity magazines has become a force to be reckoned with in the Hollywood community.

Like many things, the impact on Hollywood from celebrity magazines has been both bad and good. For instance, there has been an upward trend in the amount of coverage that has been given to things that celebrities endorse and other organizations that celebrities feel are positive organizations. This coverage can only help those causes. Also, the magazines that talk about celebrities have a tendency to report on everything – and something that they are very good at doing is showing the nation at large that celebrities are just regular people. Because they are always going to be under scrutiny from the magazines, some celebrities try harder to project a positive image. The attention provided by celebrity magazines has engineered a general push in Hollywood for celebrities to stand as examples to the rest of the world. This has helped to provide more role models, as well. All of these things are a result of the celebrity magazines, and their current upward shift in popularity.