Taylor Swift - Get the Look

 

TAYLOR SWIFT

Taylor Swift is fast becoming a fashion style icon for all young girls and woman.

She is bringing retro back.......

with her blond hair and red lips she is doing the 50's style right.

If your like me and just loving her 50's style her is how to get the look

 I just love this waisted skirt and white shirt.  Perfect for day out on the boats or a walk in the park. 

Get this look at Zando - your online fashion shopping

Adam and Eve design for just R569 @ Zando

Gordon Smith design for just R979 @Zando

and round of the look with this cute Utopia peep toe pump for R179 @ Zando

This is just perfect for going shopping or having lunch with your girlfriends

Very cute red polkadot design by Revenge for just R519

Round this look of with ffc-new york peep toe shoe for just R349

Mint design with peter pan collar for just R569

and your shoe off course peep toe by Crysalis for R699

But.......

There is one more item left to complete this look and it is.......

yes you guessed it...

the RED LIPS

Black opal plum coloured for R109

you can go to www.zando.co.za to get this whole look........

American Music Awards 2012

American music awards 2012 was held on 18 November 2012.

With almost one of the last Award Ceremony’s for 2012, I wonder if we will see this trend at the Globes, Oscars and Grammys.  I must say personally the dresses were much better that at the mtv Europe Awards.

Two major trends I saw was the “mini-dress” and pastel dresses (which I love)

Soooo here is my Best and Worst dressed.....................................

The Mini-Dresses

Taylor Swift as always stunning

Heidi Klum looking stunning in gold lace dress

Stacey Keibler

Keisha but ladies check out those shoes

The Dresses

Carley Rae Jepsen

Carrie Underwood - I just love this colour on her

Jennifer Morrison - you can't go wrong with black STUNNING

Niki Minash - she looked stunning

The Worst Dressed 

Christina Aguilera - this dresses is so not flattering on her body

Jordan Sparks - Looking like a tribal queen flop

Pink

MY BEST DRESSES PICK IS.........

CARLEY RAE JEPSEN

Everything works with the outfit, the colour

the hair, the cluch back and I bet my bottom even the underwear.

HOPE YOU AGREE WITH MY PICS

XOXO

The History of Visual Merchandising

The History of Visual Merchandising

So I had a bit of difficulty finding info on the history of Window display and even more difficulty on Visual Merchandising.  But here is what I got.

Visual Merchandising is part drama, part fantasy and always dripping with objects of desire. 

Window in London

With Historical roots in merchandising and theatre it’s little wonder that dressing windows for display is as much a art as it is commerce.

The Origins of Window Dressing  came to light with the use of the plated glass in the 1890’s.  Before that lovely invention (plated glass) window dressing was almost in non-existent.  Store owners used true standbys as painted billboards, wooden signs and poster to advertise their wares.

In the early windows displays it was focused on the quantity of products rather than the quality of design.  In these early stages windows had no impression to the consumer  and needed a “little drama” to catch their eyes.

Thats when the fun started.   More lifelike mannequins contributed to more creative window displays.  A wide variety of innovations came to light in the turn of the century and sparked a creative outburst in the window dressing industry.  Electric lights was used to make windows more visible in day and night, mannequins were used instead of dressmakers bust.

A window of a store selling hats - see quantity

Its wasn’t long before major forms of movies, musicals, actors and artists alike impacted the overall approach to window dressing in the 1930’s.

                    

What I could find of the term “visual merchandising” wasn’t much only that it became the popular in 2004 and replaced window dressing.

window in 1918

Window 1923

Window in the 1950's

Olympic inspired window in 1948

Hope you enjoyed this little bit of history..........

xoxo



MTV Europe Music Awards 2012 - Best and Worst Dress

The Best and Worst Dresses

at the

THE BEST

Taylor Swift in a J. Mendel number

                                                  Alicia Keys in a Stella McCartney

                                                    Rita Ora in a Marchesa scarlet gown

                                                     Carly Ray Jepsens in a Johanna Johnson

                                                               

                                                              THE WORST DRESSED

                                               apparently being dressed slutty was in

Anna V

Heidi Klum in Versage

Kim Kardasian in a  Stephane Rolland number

Lana Del Ray

But the BEST DRESSED in my books

Miss Taylor Swift