Fashion's Night Out Fabulous

Vogue is celebrating fashion - and as fit for the bible of fashion, it is not content with a daytime slot. Fashion is celebrated at night. And, also, fashion is not just celebrated in one city - actually it deserves to be celebrated in all corners of the world.

Fashion's Night Out has established itself as compulsory fashion madness:
Designer darlings, marvellous models, industry superstars, bloggers, stylists and all other fashionable crowd are getting ready for a nocturnal foray through their favorite boutiques, department stores and shops.
Vogue supplies expert styling teams, fashion celebrity appearances and a lot of special events in every major city where the event is occuring.

As Fashion's Night Out does not require tickets and is open to everyone, expect mass pilgrimages of fabulous fashionistas and large numbers of curious spectators and fashion-/fun-loving crowd in every city.

Fashion's Night Out kick-off is in Paris today, Tuesday 7th 2010 at 18:00pm and a live webcast from New York City with Vogue's Andre Leon Talley on CBS at 7:00pm ET with the biggest fashion show NYC has ever seen. Over 150 models will be walking down a catwalk, amongst them industry superstars like Coco Rocha, Carolina Kurkova, Chanel Iman, Doutzen Kroes, Jessica Stam, just to name a few. FNO will revolve around the globe in 15 countries- the global event is certainly going to reach its climax in New York on Friday, September 10th 2010 and will end in  Greece & Turkey on September 16th. Make sure to follow the Twitter Buzz to know more details for Paris FNO: #FVN - for NYC: #FNO - check the website for Fashion's Night Out for more details.

"The 2010 edition of the biggest fashion party in history promises to be equally epic, splurge inspiring and full of even more stylish surprises." 

So if you're inhabitant of one of those superstylish fashion cities, get your heels your purse and your credit card and off you go. In the end, the stylish event is not just about Vogue, fashion and blatant advertising but about reflating the economy and giving us yet another opportunity to get the latest look.

xoxo
Glamazone

Source:  vogue.com, fashionnightsout.com, cbs.com

MET Ball 2010

The Costume Institute celebrated the exhibition “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity” with the annual, much anticipated fundraising event that is always frequented by A-Listers, celebrities, designers, models & muses. This year's gala was hosted by Patrick Robinson of The Gap and co-hosted by Vogue editor Anna Wintour and Oprah Winfrey. The annual Gala Benefit is the Costume Institute's main source of annual funding for exhibitions, operations, and capital improvements.

So, taking this advance information aside, could we please address the following subject: I was wondering, at an event like the MET Gala - what is the dress code? I mean, apart from the fact, that very often designers dress their favorite celebrities and bring them along (and you can hardly ever go wrong with that) - is it preferable to wear a long gown or can you actually get away with a cocktail dress?

Clicking through the pictures, I have to say, there was a few who actually made me gasp (and I mean that both positively and negatively) in front of my justjared.com ( Yeah, I had to go there first, because style.com wasn't fast enough - how dare you, style.com). So, amongst the best dressed of the evening - according to my personal taste level - was Emily Rossum, who, fresh-looking in her cornflower-blue Kenneth Cole dress, with a House of Lavande semi-precious stone necklace set herself apart from the mass of glitterati ascending the stairs of the MET.
Also worth mentioning Jessica Stam in her plum shaded Rachel Roy gown with Bulgari jewellery and Jimmy Choo shoes and clutch who impressed through simplicity. Finally somebody who realises that wearing a dress with a huge décolleté only looks stunning and elegant if your breasts are not huge - and yes, that was a broad hint to you, Janet Jackson -I have never seen a Lanvin dress looking less elegant. Also head-turning, was the old-school hollywood glamour that was channeled by the likes of Jennifer Lopez, in Zuhair Murad, with Cartier jewels , Anne Hathaway in Valentino with Bulgari jewels and Marion Cotillard in - what a surprise...not - Christian Dior.

Coco Rocha looked like an elf in a marvellous flowy  Zac Posen dress with a huge train and jewels by Everlon. Doutzen Kroes, however, also in Zac Posen, with Tiffany & Co. jewels, looked like a Disney cinderella spin-off - and as much that might be the phantasy of a 5-8 year old - in this context, I think that is rather a bad thing.
Sienna Miller looked her absolute best in a night blue short Emilio Pucci dress, endorsed with Solange Azagury-Partridge and Lorraine Schwartz jewels and Emilio Pucci shoes  - also, the accessory that simply suits her best: Jude Law.

So just a question here - if you do not sport a ball gown at the MET gala - where else?! Despite a few stunning cocktail dresses (Sienna's Pucci, i.e.), in my opinion, this clearly is an event for ball gowns. I guess I will be sitting here for another few hours and taking a look at those pieces of art and wishing myself to be cinderella (however in a better -more fashionable dress), losing my shoe on the stairs of the MET.


xoxo
Glamazone

Picture Source: Justjared.com 
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