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The Spring 2013 Milan Mens’ Shows Kick Off in a Blue Mood
It’s only late June, but savvy femmes starting to think about their fall 2012 wardrobes (it’s never too early!) know that one of the big trends in womens’ clothes upcoming is dresses, jackets and suits in all shades of blue: navy, cobalt, sky, ice blue, pale blue, power blue, indigo, etc.
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One major trend is mixing varied hues of blue in one look, layering on the varied blue tones. But it looks like menswear for spring 2013 is headed in the same direction, and why not? Most guys look great in blue. Navy, yes, but all tones. It always has a bit of a military subtext.
The Milan menswear shows got underway this weekend, with a smattering of celebrities (Ed Westwick, Kellan Lutz) and while color is a big theme — red suits, orange suits — the one abiding look that all guys can get behind is blue. Etro showed layered looks in different shades of blue, and while men piling on the clothes isn’t as big a hit as the female layered look, in these tones, it looks masculine and interesting.
Gucci showed snappy blue suits, but there’s nothing conservative about them, and nothing Easter egg about them, either. The medium blue and lighter blue suits have crisp cut, a nice fit (not too loose or snug), and we can actually imagine Hollywood or New York entertainment industry guys cutting a rug — or red carpet — in these looks.
STORY: The Spring 2013 Joseph Abboud Collection Will Be Based on ‘Drive’
Of course, women accompanying them would be wise to be in their best blue periods, too. Interesting how menswear trends do often echo the female fashions from the season before.
Article source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fash-track/spring-2013-milan-menswear-show-blue-341457
The Spring 2013 Milan Mens’ Shows Kick Off in a Blue Mood
It’s only late June, but savvy femmes starting to think about their fall 2012 wardrobes (it’s never too early!) know that one of the big trends in womens’ clothes upcoming is dresses, jackets and suits in all shades of blue: navy, cobalt, sky, ice blue, pale blue, power blue, indigo, etc.
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One major trend is mixing varied hues of blue in one look, layering on the varied blue tones. But it looks like menswear for spring 2013 is headed in the same direction, and why not? Most guys look great in blue. Navy, yes, but all tones. It always has a bit of a military subtext.
The Milan menswear shows got underway this weekend, with a smattering of celebrities (Ed Westwick, Kellan Lutz) and while color is a big theme — red suits, orange suits — the one abiding look that all guys can get behind is blue. Etro showed layered looks in different shades of blue, and while men piling on the clothes isn’t as big a hit as the female layered look, in these tones, it looks masculine and interesting.
Gucci showed snappy blue suits, but there’s nothing conservative about them, and nothing Easter egg about them, either. The medium blue and lighter blue suits have crisp cut, a nice fit (not too loose or snug), and we can actually imagine Hollywood or New York entertainment industry guys cutting a rug — or red carpet — in these looks.
STORY: The Spring 2013 Joseph Abboud Collection Will Be Based on ‘Drive’
Of course, women accompanying them would be wise to be in their best blue periods, too. Interesting how menswear trends do often echo the female fashions from the season before.
Article source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fash-track/spring-2013-milan-menswear-show-blue-341457
The Spring 2013 Milan Mens’ Shows Kick Off in a Blue Mood
It’s only late June, but savvy femmes starting to think about their fall 2012 wardrobes (it’s never too early!) know that one of the big trends in womens’ clothes upcoming is dresses, jackets and suits in all shades of blue: navy, cobalt, sky, ice blue, pale blue, power blue, indigo, etc.
The Spring 2013 Joseph Abboud Collection Will Be Based on ‘Drive’
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One major trend is mixing varied hues of blue in one look, layering on the varied blue tones. But it looks like menswear for spring 2013 is headed in the same direction, and why not? Most guys look great in blue. Navy, yes, but all tones. It always has a bit of a military subtext.
The Milan menswear shows got underway this weekend, with a smattering of celebrities (Ed Westwick, Kellan Lutz) and while color is a big theme — red suits, orange suits — the one abiding look that all guys can get behind is blue. Etro showed layered looks in different shades of blue, and while men piling on the clothes isn’t as big a hit as the female layered look, in these tones, it looks masculine and interesting.
Gucci showed snappy blue suits, but there’s nothing conservative about them, and nothing Easter egg about them, either. The medium blue and lighter blue suits have crisp cut, a nice fit (not too loose or snug), and we can actually imagine Hollywood or New York entertainment industry guys cutting a rug — or red carpet — in these looks.
STORY: The Spring 2013 Joseph Abboud Collection Will Be Based on ‘Drive’
Of course, women accompanying them would be wise to be in their best blue periods, too. Interesting how menswear trends do often echo the female fashions from the season before.
Article source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fash-track/spring-2013-milan-menswear-show-blue-341457
The Spring 2013 Milan Mens’ Shows Kick Off in a Blue Mood
It’s only late June, but savvy femmes starting to think about their fall 2012 wardrobes (it’s never too early!) know that one of the big trends in womens’ clothes upcoming is dresses, jackets and suits in all shades of blue: navy, cobalt, sky, ice blue, pale blue, power blue, indigo, etc.
The Spring 2013 Joseph Abboud Collection Will Be Based on ‘Drive’
Blake Lively Named New Face of Gucci Fragrance
Sean Menswear to Open in West Hollywood
One major trend is mixing varied hues of blue in one look, layering on the varied blue tones. But it looks like menswear for spring 2013 is headed in the same direction, and why not? Most guys look great in blue. Navy, yes, but all tones. It always has a bit of a military subtext.
The Milan menswear shows got underway this weekend, with a smattering of celebrities (Ed Westwick, Kellan Lutz) and while color is a big theme — red suits, orange suits — the one abiding look that all guys can get behind is blue. Etro showed layered looks in different shades of blue, and while men piling on the clothes isn’t as big a hit as the female layered look, in these tones, it looks masculine and interesting.
Gucci showed snappy blue suits, but there’s nothing conservative about them, and nothing Easter egg about them, either. The medium blue and lighter blue suits have crisp cut, a nice fit (not too loose or snug), and we can actually imagine Hollywood or New York entertainment industry guys cutting a rug — or red carpet — in these looks.
STORY: The Spring 2013 Joseph Abboud Collection Will Be Based on ‘Drive’
Of course, women accompanying them would be wise to be in their best blue periods, too. Interesting how menswear trends do often echo the female fashions from the season before.
Article source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fash-track/spring-2013-milan-menswear-show-blue-341457
Burma’s Armed Forces Day: Men in Business Suits, Not Uniforms, Seize the Moment
March 27 was Armed Forces Day in Burma, the 67th anniversary of the founding of the modern Burmese military. Given that Burma was ruled for nearly half a century by a military regime and even today is helmed by a hybrid civilian-army government, this should be a momentous occasion. After all, with some 400,000 troops, the country officially known as Myanmar is one of the most militarized nations in the world. But in the commercial capital of Rangoon on Tuesday, there was little evidence of the men in green. Instead, the city was abuzz in anticipation of another event of great magnitude: the Myanmar Oil, Gas and Power Summit, which gets going on Wednesday and has lured representatives from 20-plus nations eager to secure access to Burma’s largely untapped natural resources.
Rangoon, a crumbling assortment of colonial edifices and golden spires, is in the midst of a frantic self-improvement campaign. In April 1 by-elections, veteran opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy colleagues are running to fill fewer than 50 vacant parliamentary seats. If these polls proceed without a hitch — just one of a remarkable series of reforms that have unfolded in recent months in Burma — Western governments are likely to start lifting the economic sanctions that have isolated the country for so long. Any effect will not be immediate: in the U.S., for instance, changes to financial embargoes will have to make their way through Congress. Nevertheless, many in this nation of 50 million–plus people are busily preparing for a postsanctions environment.
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That means conferences, seminars and delegations galore in a country that just passed a new foreign-investment law. This month, the city has played host to a two-day media-development conference and a job fair, as well as welcoming trade officials from Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand. In February, Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel-winning economist, was in town to assess the country’s economic reforms. In the coming weeks, a South Korean trade delegation is scheduled to arrive, along with hundreds of business delegates from just one Chinese province, Guangxi. During the first two months of 2012, foreign-visitor arrivals increased 40% year-on-year.
To meet the demands of all these potential investors, Burmese are brushing up on a range of skills. English signboards scattered across Rangoon promise the fruits of “Multi-Language Academies,” “Diplomas in Business Enhancements” and even a preschool that will help toddlers “Get Knowledged.”
The two-day oil and gas conference about to take place in Rangoon speaks to both Burma’s geostrategic position (squeezed between China and India) and natural-resource wealth (natural gas, timber, gems and hydropower, to mention just a few treasures). Between 2010 and ’11, the country attracted around $20 billion in foreign investment, mostly in the energy sector and mostly from China. So far, most of that money has flowed into the pockets of government-linked enterprises or the regime’s business cronies. Now, with the possibility of Western nations being able to invest once sanctions are lifted, an even bigger rush is on. With seminars on everything from pipeline development to securing upstream-oil-and-gas-exploration ventures, the March 28-29 energy summit has attracted 250-plus delegates.
The big question is whether Burma can avoid the natural-resources curse that has bedeviled other impoverished countries with deep energy reserves. At one hotel breakfast in Rangoon, also known as Yangon, a linen-suited European talked expansively about the dangers of doing business in the delta. It turns out that he wasn’t talking about Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta. Instead, he was referring to the Niger Delta, where riches from oil exploitation has failed to trickle down to the local populace. “The last thing we need,” says local economist Khin Maung Nyo, “is for foreign companies to come in and operate without the kind of controls needed to make sure investment helps the Burmese.”
(MORE: With U.S.-Burma Ties on the Mend, Will Sanctions Be Lifted?)
Meanwhile, up in Naypyidaw, the surreal new capital built by the former ruling junta, some 10,000 soldiers marched across a vast parade ground in celebration of Armed Forces Day. Army chief Min Aung Hlaing hailed the accomplishments of the Tatmadaw, as the Burmese military is known. Then he went on to defend the country’s mixed parliamentary system, which came into force last year with 75% of seats filled by civilians (or retired army personnel) and 25% reserved for active military members. “Protecting the constitution is one of the main responsibilities of the army,” Min Aung Hlaing said, “as we build our country into becoming a modern, prosperous and developed democracy.”
If Nobel laureate Suu Kyi gains a parliamentary seat in the upcoming by-elections, she has indicated that she will push to diminish the military’s shadow over politics. In fact, the democracy icon — who on Sunday suspended her campaign due to poor health — wants to amend the constitution to ensure a greater voice for civilian leaders. In a country frenetically remaking itself, that would be the biggest — and unlikeliest — change of all.
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Article source: http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/03/27/burmas-armed-forces-day-men-in-business-suits-not-uniforms-seize-the-moment/
‘Mad Men’ Star January Jones Bulks Up to Play Betty Draper (Poll)
All of the Mad Men fans who thought January Jones’ real-life pregnancy caused her weight-gain storyline on the show can breathe a sigh of relief.
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Jones was never as large as she looked in Sunday night’s premiere episode of the hit AMC series, where her character, Betty Draper, is seen carrying some mega-poundage caused by boredom, unhappiness and emotional distance from her second husband, Henry.
The Mad Men prosthetics makeup artists did for Jones what they did for Elizabeth Moss when her character Peggy Olsen was pregnant during Season One: They covered her in a fat suit and prosthetic facial and neck appliances. They also used a back double for Betty when she’s seen getting out of the shower.
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In Season One, episode 11, Peggy disappeared to have her baby and put it up for adoption. But her coworkers whispered that she was at a fat farm. And when she came back nice and slim, no one was the wiser.
But Betty’s weight gain is more disturbing, given the character’s history — being admittedly chubby as a child and having her food policed by her mother. She later became a fashion model, a profession which demands a slender frame and lettuce-leaf lunches.
Betty’s sense of shame over her own weight gain (unwilling to be seen in public or appear naked in front of her husband) is understandable. But what doesn’t make sense is why her weight gain didn’t happen when she was unhappily married to Mr. Distant himself, Don Draper. Maybe her emotional eating also has something to do with his slender, sexy younger wife, Megan Draper (Jessica Pare). We have yet to see these two characters confront each other.
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What will be interesting is to see how Betty copes with the weight gain — and loss — in the next episodes. Thankfully, Betty’s increased size was not due to a tumor, as we learned Sunday. But then we saw her secretly finishing off her daughter’s ice cream sundae and can’t help but worry what’s coming next. Perhaps she will develop a reliance on what the Rolling Stones called “Mother’s Little Helpers,” pills that were routinely prescribed for women in the ’60s and ’70s.
As the song goes: “And although she’s not really ill/ there’s a little yellow pill/ she goes running for the shelter of her mother’s little helper/ and it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day.”
In real life, Jones — who did not gain much weight during her pregnancy — gave birth in September 2011 and snapped back in shape, crediting unconventional recovery methods including ingesting her own placenta. Before you go “eww,” Jones vouches for the holistic practice and insists women should try it.
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“It’s not witch-crafty or anything. It’s something I was very hesitant about,” she told People. “But we’re only the only mammals who don’t ingest our own placentas.” Jones ingested the lining of her own uterus in a more modern way: pill form. Her doula (labor coach) had her placenta dehydrated and made into vitamins.
Placentas aside, tell us: What do you think about Betty Draper’s weight gain?
What Do You Think About Betty Draper’s Weight Gain?
Article source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fash-track/mad-men-january-jones-fat-suit-betty-draper-307313
Mad’ About Fashion: ‘Mad Men’ Stars Jon Hamm, January Jones Dish on How Clothes Make the Characters
ABC News’ Victoria Thompson (@VicThompsonABC) and Lauren Effron (@leffron831) report:
“Mad Men,” a show about the sin, swagger and back-stabbing salesmanship of a New York City advertising firm in the 1960s, not only became a smash hit TV show, but also launched a style revolution and a cultural phenomenon.
“It’s a pretty cool thing when you think about it,” actor Jon Hamm, who plays the silver-tongued Don Draper, ready to woo any woman with a single light of his cigarette, told ABC’s Chris Connelly.
The clean-cut style of the “Mad Men” characters, which later spawned a successful Banana Republic clothing line, was originally the vision of show creator Matt Weiner, said actor John Slattery, who plays the no-nonsense ad boss, Roger Sterling.
“Matt was telling me early on and still does, that it needs to be more formal because I’m sort of more slouchy,” Slattery said. “But the clothes go a long way. It helps because you really can’t breathe or slouch, or do anything but stand up straight if you want to breathe at all.”
For the men on the hit AMC show, the straight-cut business suit and an ironed pocket square. For the women, dresses with a clinched waist, lots of floral patterns, multiple strands of pearls and heels that are no longer just your grandmother’s pumps.
“Nightline” was granted exclusive access inside the show’s costume closet with “Mad Men” costume designer Janie Bryant, whose team creates looks that are now synonymous with the show.
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Actress January Jones, who plays Don Draper’s icy ex-wife Betty, said the clothes help the cast develop the characters they play on-screen.
“We come [to the costume closet] before each episode to get fitted, and it just kind of starts the creative process, at least for me, to get to know what I’m doing, and what I’ll be wearing,” Jones said. “Through the course of the different seasons we’ve changed Betty’s silhouette several times, and it’s kind of a big part of the storytelling, whether she’s been, you know, riding horses, or pregnant, or a politician’s wife – or divorced.”
Credit: ABC News/Victoria Thompson
The Drapers’ divorce was a major turning point in the show’s plot. Afterwards, Bryant said she moved Jones’ character away from the cupcake dresses she wore as Don Draper’s wife and into the pencil skirt-wearing politician’s wife when Betty married Henry Francis in season four.
“The big influence for me, for Betty’s character, then was Jackie Kennedy, as opposed to a big influence for me in season one, Grace Kelly,” Bryant said.
Jones told Connelly she has nicknames for her outfits and one of her favorites was a dress she dubbed “sad clown.”
“It was a polka-dot dress, and the episode started out very happy for Betty,” Jones said. “I stayed in the outfit, and was progressively more miserable. The dress got more miserable.”
As for the man himself, Hamm said he takes style cues from memories he has of his late father.
“I remember going in my dad’s closet and seeing row upon row of suits, probably 70 suits,” he said. “Who has 70 suits now? It’s kind of a lost part of dressing up now, but I think the show’s kind of bringing it back a little bit.”
The Emmy award-winning “Mad Men” returns for its fifth season on AMC on March 25.
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