Kate Moss Collection

Fashion Models, Kate Moss is a star and millions of girls want to be like her. She is beautiful and talented, she is too slim to be true but she has never looked skinny or unhealthy. She is completely natural and she loves herself the way she is. Her self-confidence is evident and killing. That is why her cloting line for Top Shop is on the top of popularity.

Fashion is all things bright and bold clothes, with colourful prints and patterns. The collection is optimistic and fresh.

The Academy Of Country Music Awards: Nicole Kidman

Fashion Style, Nicole Kidman knows when to stick with something good: Witness her loyalty to L’Wren Scott, the six foot gal pal of Mick Jagger, stylist, and designer. NK absolutely dazzled last night in a three-layer black and green embroidered halter-neck, open-back Scott gown—rarely has she looked more radiant. Our question to you: As beautiful as Kidman looked, was she too “Oscar” for the Academy of Country Music Awards? Should she have chosen a more down-home look? You tell us if she hit the right note.

Audrey Tautou

Fashion Style, A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. That’s  Fashion just one of Coco Chanel’s many long-lived bons mots. Well, we’re going to wager that Mademoiselle Chanel would have been proud of her celluloid stand-in Audrey Tautou’s ensemble at last night’s Paris premiere of Coco Avant Chanel, which easily hit both marks. In the spirit of the legendary designer’s belief in ease, Tautou sported her couture dress—a strapless and bubble-skirted floral number (look 54 from Spring 2009)—with nary a hint of preciousness. She even topped it with a boyish little Chanel black leather jacket, sleeves nattily pushed up. (Hello, what’s more Coco than that?) With her cute cropped hair and minimal makeup, Tautou gets a big oui from us for a pretty perfect off-screen scene, but tell us what you think.

LilyPad Arduino Workshop in Berkeley This Summer

Want to get your hands working with the LilyPad Arduino system? There’s a workshop being held in Berkeley this summer on the topic. It will be two full days of getting started with the LilyPad and conductive materials for use in your own projects, taught by Adrian Freed. Via Fashioning Technology.

By cutting, sewing, sticking, weaving, and layering unusual e-textiles we will build interactive clothing and musical instruments in a collaborative workshop environment. We will connect our fabric pressure, stretch, bend, and displacement sensors to lilypad e-sewing computing platform, we will sew connections to arrays of leds and sound makers. We will explore CNMAT’s extensive library of e-textiles and more advanced techniques such as computer controlled embroidery and laser cutting. We will look at variants and alternatives to the lilypad such as wireless xbee or uOSC.

E-textile Workshop

July 25-26, 10 AM-5 PM

CNMAT, Berkeley, CA

Fee: $300 (includes materials fee with lilypad system you keep after the class)

More:

CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino 101

New Soft Circuit Kits in the Maker Shed and Massive Soft Electronics Roundup

Fashion Model Marissa Nadler

Fashion Models, A folk singer isn’t supposed to be high-tech. In the popular fashion imagination, the folkie travels a lonely road from coffee house, with only her guitar to keep her company. Her songs are stripped down, her sound acoustic, her soul bared. She smells like patchouli. That’s the idea, anyway. But Marissa Nadler is shifting the folkie paradigm: Though the six-string balladeering on Nadler’s fourth album, Little Hells (Kemado), binds it to the traditions of American folk, the ghostly overdubbing and sharp, multi-track production Nadler has introduced this time out make her music feel commandingly new. “I never set out to be a typical singer-songwriter,” Nadler explains. “What I always wanted was this dreamy, hazy feeling. And I think each record has gotten closer to the amalgam I’ve had in mind.” Indeed, Little Hells, released in late February, owes as much of a debt to shoegazing bands such as Mazzy Star and My Bloody Valentine as it does to Nadler’s more anticipatable references, like Leonard Cohen. (Imagine Cohen as a pretty girl with a blog, a distortion pedal, and a drum machine, and you’d be in striking range of Nadler’s haunting appeal, in fact.) Tonight, the Boston-based singer launches a two-month tour with a gig at Hotel Café in Los Angeles. Here, Nadler talks to Style.com about her latest folk makeover.

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Balmains By The Truckload Moscow

Fashion Style, One of the questions people ask when they see the hefty price tags for Balmain’s tiny cocktail dress fashion is who exactly is buying this stuff. Well, I figured out the answer last night: rich Russian ladies. At a dinner for Dasha Zhukova’s museum in Moscow, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld thought she would represent the French label in a sparkly pink metal mesh number. (That’s her in the picture, though you should ignore the iridescent straps on her legs—those were a regretful late-night styling tip from a friend who found a storage of VIP slap bracelets at the after-party.) Too bad two Russian gals had already beat her to the punch: Aizel Trudel, a businesswoman who opened the Louboutin boutique here, showed up in the sparkly green number most recently seen on Jennifer Connelly; and Liza Molchanova, a housewife who wore a jacket often described as the Michael Jackson (think lots of sparkly bits and epaulets). Apparently, in this part of the world, there are whole factions of housewives who are desperate to get their hands on Balmain. “Like crack,” someone put it, which I think is a great analogy. So now that we’ve answered the question about where one finds all the world’s Balmain.

Beads and Pearls Make the Rounds

Fashion Style, Karl Lagerfeld may have swapped Chanel’s traditional pearls for jade this season, but the lustrous gem showed up on plenty of other runways. Pearls were outsized at Moschino Cheap & Chic, strung onto ribbon at 3.1 Phillip Lim, and embroidered and buried in tulle at Comme des Garçons. Hidden treasures also popped up at Givenchy, where Riccardo Tisci hung strands of fabric-encased beads from draped tops, and at Sinha-Stanic, where twinkly buttons were applied to rock-chick dresses after the style of the Cockney Pearlies. At Louis Vuitton, meanwhile, ankle-strap party shoes featured pearl-pierced hourglass-shaped heels. Click for a slideshow, then tell us if you’ve taken a shine to this trend.

Fashion Illustration

Fashion Style, Now on view at the Society of Illustrators, in association with the Leslie/Lohman Gay Arts Foundation, The Line of Fashion pays tribute to some of the most venerable names in illustration, including Antonio Lopez (more on him in our Jerry Hall piece), Kenneth Paul Block, and René Bouché. Spanning nearly a century of work, the group exhibition focuses primarily on the medium’s heyday—the fifties, sixties, and seventies—a fact not lost on participant Michael Vollbracht. “It’s still necessary to promote fashion illustration,” the ex-Bill Blass designer explained at Friday evening’s launch. “It is a dying art, I’m sorry to say.” While photography may have supplanted drawing in print adverts and fashion spreads, fiscally speaking at least, Vollbracht thinks it might be in a couple of his former employers’ best interests to revert back to the old model. “I’m very surprised that with the terrible downturn of the economy more stores like Bendel’s and Bloomingdale’s and Saks don’t use fashion illustrators,” he said. “If you have no money to pay that model and no money to pay Steven Meisel…”