Yumi Lambert By An Le For Sachi + Babi Spring 2015 Ad Campaign

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The world has plenty of basic things,” BabiAhluwalia told Hamptons Magazine. “If you’re going to show your point of view, then you have to make it a bit unique, yet functional, no?” Babi was discussing Sachin + Babi, the contemporary womenswear label she designs with her husband, Sachin. The couple are both from India and met as students at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology in 1994. Read on about this exciting New York couple with major tenacles in the world of fashion design and now home furnishings.

Eye | John Galliano Returns At Teatime London | Hollywood Stands For Charlie | Adidas Originals Ad Campaign

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Helen Mirren shows support for free speech, holding Je Suis Charlie sign at January 11 Golden Globe awards in Hollywood.Adidas Originals | #OriginalSuperstar

Some of the best, memorable ad campaigns are launched by athletic brands, and the new Adidas Originals campaign hits a real high note inspite of a strong bass line. In the age of selfiedom — now promoted in more not memorable Spring 2015 campaigns than we can count — Adidas has a values-driven message: stop being obsessed with your own fame.

You can live through the lives of celebrities, says Adidas, even if you are Rebecca Harrington writing about her adventures in celebrity dieting in I’ll Have What She’s Having, out this week from Vintage. New York Magazine features Harrington’s ‘I Tried Taylor Swift’s Diet and It Was A Joy’.

John Galliano Returns to Runway Today

John Galliano with model Cara Delevingne at a London party December 2014.Former Dior Creative Director and Designer John Galliano will return to the fashion world today, as he debut’s French Label Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal collection at London’s menswear show. WWD reports that Lanvin’s Alber Elbaz, Burberry’s Christopher Bailey and milliner Stephen Jones are expected to attend the event.

Jones says that the event will occur at 4:30 pn London time at a “warehouse space in Westminster”.” It’s ‘Teatime’,” explained Margiela spokeswoman Jade Guishard, “which is very English.”

Perfect Timing?

If Guishard is right and timing is everything in life, Galliano might wish for a different day to showcase his work. The impetuous, alcoholic design talent, who has received major support from Vogue’s Anna Wintour and supermodel Kate Moss in his recovery, faced a deadly public relations backlash over his antisemetic, drunken February 2011 rant at the La Perle cafe in the Marais.

Unfortunately, the Marais is also the location of Paris’ terrorist attack at a kosher supermarket, with four dead bodies now headed for Israel, rather than burial in France. Anti-Semetic attacks and incidents in France more than doubled during 2014, says the French Ministry of Interior. About 7,000 French Jews moved to Israel from France in 2014 up from 3,300 in 2013. It’s believed that 15,000 French Jews will migrate to Israel this year, writes Middle East Eye.

Note that anti-Muslim attacks have also increased in France and throughout Europe over the same period.

Whether current events will impact the viability of Galliano’s return to fashion design will be decided after the first collections are shown. Galliano may no longer be relevant as a designer, writes The Guardian. Certainly his theatrical, over-the-top designs have no place at Martin Margiela. After phase one’s focus on the clothes, European retailers will decide whether or not to embrace again fashion’s bad boy now enjoying a revitalized, sober life based on values that resonate — or so he says.

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Terry Richardson Double Dares Valentino Lovers To "Take Me Out"

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Terry Richardson Double Dares Valentino Lovers To “Take Me Out”

I’m curious what it is about these super-simple, ordinary, Terry Richardson tattoed arms that is so important to the folks at Valentino. Richardson continues with another 2015 Resort Valentino Accessories campaign that screams ‘We love Terry’ — as only Richardson’s egomaniac campaigns can bellow. “I’m the guy with the swingin’ big dick, and don’t you forget it,” Richardson informs us in his campaigns. 

Dear readers …  ahem … we know that Richardson has a big swingin’ dick because … well, because he’s photographed it for us. This is not creative license or an exaggerated metaphor on my part.

My long-held issues with Terry Richardson’s photography focus on talent, not his top-of-the-heap, badboy reputation in the fashion industry. And yes, I agree that Richardson was set up on an April 2014 Facebook message to UK model Emma Appleton.

Maybe Terry Richardson is really a great guy; I don’t know him personally. I love his sidekick Tom Ford to death, so don’t call me a prude. And anyone who spends 15 minutes on Anne of Carversville knows I’m not against a free expression of sexy in advertising or in bed.

This week Terry Richardson is drawn into the Bill Cosby controversy — and there is no way that Bill Cosby will dig himself out of this mess. His bag man has receipts from 40 years ago.

 

Bao Bao Wan & MAC Cosmetics Launch Spring 2015 Makeup Collaboration

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MAC Cosmetics has announced a makeup collaboration with China’s jewelery designer Bao Bao Wan for a gem-inspired makeup range collection in Spring 2015. Bao Bao Wan is not only a jewellery designer but also China’s high-society darling, artist, pop philosopher and muse, and granddaughter of the legendary Wan Li, former Chairman of the National People’s Congress.

Bao Bao Wan spent the first eight years of her life in the Presidential compound. At age 15, she spread her global wings, graduating from the Master’s School in Westchester, NY and then Sarah Lawrence college outside of Manhattan.From New York, Bao Bao Wan headed for Paris after reciving a GIA Graduate Gemologist degree in Hong Kong.

Describing her jewelry, Bao Bao Wan says: “Every piece of my jewelry represents myself and a generation of Chinese women who are fragile yet very bold and crazy.”

Lea T Is New Redken Muse & A Vision Of Global Beauty

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“Lea T is a true pioneer for beauty,” says Shane Wolf, Global General Manager of Redken 5th Avenue, in announcing the first major beauty contract for a transgender model. “She reflects Redken’s vision of global beauty, and has a unique sense of self and a beauty that is undeniably her own.”

“We’re all people with our own personality, our own beauty, our own life,” says Lea T. “I love working with Redken because they appreciate all kinds of beauty. They believe in the individuality of the person, and I think that’s really important.”

From Givenchy muse to fronting Love Magazine with Kate Moss, her provocative pose for Carine Roitfeld’s Vogue Paris to her famous Oprah interview about being a transgender person prior to her surgery, Lea T has maintained an always sophisticated, articulate warmth and composure. 

Read more Lea T at AOC