FASHION's NIGHT OUT TOKYO ON NOVEMBER 5TH, 2011

I THOUGHT I MIGHT ADD SOME PICTURES OF TOKYO FASHION's NIGHT OUT 2011 WHICH WAS HELD A LITTLE LATER THAN OTHER PLACES OF THE WORLD.

From www.tokyofashion.com

 SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST RENOWNED EDITORS OF VOGUE MAGAZINE WERE IN ATTENDANCE!

ANNA DELLO RUSSO, EDITOR  IN CHIEF OF Vogue JAPAN. Pic from Dolce & Gabanna page on FACEBOOK

FRANCA SOZZANI, EDITOR  IN CHIEF OF Vogue ITALIA. Pic from Dolce & Gabanna page on FACEBOOK

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN, EDITOR  IN CHIEF OF Vogue UK. Pic from Dolce & Gabanna page on FACEBOOK

THE ONE AND ONLY ANNA WINTOUR, EDITOR  IN CHIEF OF Vogue US @DOLCE & GABANNA. Pic from Dolce & Gabanna page on FACEBOOK

BEE SHAFFER AND HER MOM, ANNA WINTOUR

AND HERE IS ONE PICTURE OF AN ATTENDANT AT FNO TOKYO:

Pic from TokyoFashion

 A WINDOW DISPLAY AT LOUIS VUITTON, FNO TOKYO 2011:

Pic from TokyoFashion

THE GOODWILL AMBASSADOR (FRANCA SOZZANI)'s SPEECH.

When people ask me about my job, they always say "so fun, so glamorous, you are so lucky!". Yes, today I feel very lucky to be here with all of you, with a life-changing challenge not only for me, but for all the people I can help. I asked myself in these few weeks what could be my commitment and what I could really do in this new role.

I will tell you.

I really want to do something important, something that could help changing the life of people.

I'm a dreamer, but even a businesswoman and a creative person and I'm used to achieve what I want. And I don't see any reason for which I couldn't do that this time.


I don't need to have a new honorific name in front of my own name. Today I don't care anymore. I want to do. I want to work. I want to become " the project".

How? To create a method, a system.

If I create a method, that of course could be adapted for the different countries, I can manage to build up a real project. I think fashion will never end and for any woman in the world it is a dream. But we have to make this dream affordable to everyone. How? With work.

I want to consider first who are the new designers who have the possibility of being known internationally and how to help them to get visibility. I have to understand which is the main ability of a Country, as  manufacturing, fabrics, embroideries, printing, coloring, beads, leather, wood, straw and create a sort of school where young people can learn.

Bringing people from Europe, America, India who could teach them how to work.

Opening small laboratories, which could become small factories and employ people and give them a salary and the opportunity to have a life, a real life, through their own work.

I want to collaborate with the government, You, the first ladies, prime ministers, ambassadors, to be sure that  your people are protected in their human rights.

They need to have a salary proportioned to the cost of the life in the Country they live in.

People should have the possibility to have places where they can work in the respect of the dignity of a human being. I need to have the support of the Government. I can do a lot involving designers and creative and technical people.

But I want the respect of the people and environment.

In many countries, where you go as a tourist, you can see how people are able to make wonderful clothes, bags, belts. They don't have a method, a system, and they sell for almost nothing to tourists. I can do more involving professional people.

I want to think big because big is this project.

I'm not a political person. I don't want to make promises that I could never keep.

I want to arrive at the end of 2012 and be seated here with you, and

share our satisfaction to have built up something. It couldn't happen everywhere.

With the good partners, we could start in many places.

I cannot change the world in one year but I can spend a lot of time and creativity to accomplish part of a system. I need you, your help. I need not to be alone because i know that a good group of people can really make a miracle.

I don't think to talk about project is easy. But I know my determination and strength in the fashion world and I want to use at maximum all the possibilities.

I want to make the same success I did with Vogue. You deserve it.

I only believe in culture and work to change the situation of the human being. Fashion can do a lot

I'll do it. Promise. and I think no quote could be better referred to fashion than the one that has been chosen this year by the United Nations " Giving back is  the new luxury".

- Franca Sozzani


(Source: Vogue)

FRANCA SOZZANI: GOODWILL AMBASSADOR FOR FASHION FOR DEVELOPMENT.

Fashion 4 Development, an official platform on South South News, part of the United Nations (UN) private and public sectors, has chosen Franca Sozzani as their first Goodwill Ambassador.

Photo by Pierpaolo Ferrari

F4D is a global awareness campaign that unites diplomacy, business, media, and the creative industries for the purpose of helping to achieve the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals
# 1 – End Poverty and Hunger,
# 3 – Gender Equality – Empowering Women, and  
# 8 – Global Partnership, through the Expression of Fashion.
The main goal is to implement creative strategies for sustainable economic growth and autonomy.
"Fashion 4 Development, has the full support of South South News, the United Nations and its Member States" said Ambassador Francis Lorenzo, president of South South News.
Such prestigious and challenging recognition will be officialised in New York on September 19th at the South South Awards Gala at New York’s Waldorf Astoria concurrently with the opening of the  65th session of the United Nations, in the presence of Heads of State and First Ladies from all over the globe, personalities from fashion, the diplomatic world and the media. South South News was launched in February 2010 during the sixteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly High-level Committee on South South Cooperation.
The theme of the First Ladies & Fashion for Development Luncheon during the day on September 19th ,  will be Giving Back is the New Luxury and will revolve around  the increasingly decisive role of fashion in creating economic growth in developing countries. Franca Sozzani will be acknowledged and speak to an audience of First Ladies from around the world and other distinguished guests. “Franca Sozzani is a perfect choice to lead our mission as Goodwill Ambassador, her professional career as well as her philanthropic efforts are truly an inspiration that will garner the support of fashion elite worldwide “, said Evie Evangelou, Co-Founder, Fashion 4 Development and World Fashion Development Programme.
(Source: from Vogue)

Franca Sozzani for John Galliano

Franca Sozzani, who publicly stated her allegiance to John Galliano right after he was fired from Dior in February, hasn't changed her tune: “Hire back John Galliano."

She continues: “Look. I understand their point of view [at Dior]. I understand they couldn’t just say, ‘Bad boy! We forgive you! Come back!’ But it’s really a pity. And I will never believe he believed what he said. I think he was drunk and alone in a bar. When people go crazy, they go crazy. It’s a human case, it’s not political or religious. He didn’t kill anyone!”
She also gives an opinion on her former Vogue colleague Carine Roitfeld, who she says was “very good at building up her own image.” Sozzani suggests that Roitfeld forgot she worked for Conde Nast and became too interested in having her picture taken. “I’m not a celebrity, I’m an editor,” Sozzani says. “If you feel that to be the editor of Vogue you have to be a celebrity, something is wrong in your life.”

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JUMPSUIT by Franca Sozzani !!!

We all love Jumpsuit, I love Jumpsuit, I wore it at Mimi Renthlei's Wedding

 and I looked quite alright too. My Jumpsuit was made by Muanpuii Chinzah and I adored every bit of it. In fact, my column at LUNGLEN Magazine, Aizawl, Mizoram, for this month will feature "J for Jumpsuit" in which I put some of my thoughts on the trend. And now, Franca Sozzani has written such a beautiful portrayal of the history and germination of this wonderful Fashion Trend. 

1919, the first jumpsuit. Invented by the Florentine Thayat (that model is now part of the collection of Palazzo Pitti), it was launched as a subversive and liberating garment during the Futuristic period. Its T shape was cut from one piece of cotton or African canvas. Thayat considered it a universal item of clothing, a creative, do-it-yourself and anti-bourgeois solution: seven buttons, a belt, a straight cut, a few seams.

1935

1923. A similar creation, but Russian and constructivist, by Rodchenko and his wife Stepanova: the name was Varst, the jumpsuit was – again – the revolutionary garment of the new man.

1950

Even Elsa Schiaparelli designed a bunker suit, a hooded light-blue jumpsuit, braided decorations on cuffs, ankles and waist-line, and a cross-body water bottle.

The futuristic connotation is clear, when the jumpsuit is the costume of sci-fi fiction. For example, Star Trek turned the shiny bi-color jumpsuit into a cult piece.

The basic model was still the one worn by parachutists, skiers and aviators, but it progressively moved from the world of sports to closets. In 1943 The Little Prince was published: Saint Exupery, an aviator, drew the protagonist standing on his planet, wearing a jumpsuit and watching the horizons of life.

Photo by Ugo Mulas, 1966

Later came the bomber pilot Emilio Pucci, marquis and designer, who patented the fabric Emilioform, silk shantung and helanca, a combination of elastic fibers which ensured the success of the first total look, even in jumpsuit version. This happened in 1960. At Pitti the garment which can be considered a high society version of the jumpsuit was shown: the palazzo pyjama by Irene Galitzine, a princess designer who dressed Sofia Loren and Liz Taylor, Paola of Liège and Jackie Kennedy.

Photo by Helmut Newton, 1966

Photo by Giampaolo Barbieri 1969

Photo by Bugat, 1969

Talking of the world of rock, many jumpsuits were sported on stage by men who anticipated the contemporary feminine version of this garment: theirs were skin-tight and a bit kitsch, while ours are loose, with a more couture impact, or sportswear-inspired, made of different fabrics, thus following the evolution of taste.

Memorable, on stage, the flared and over-decorated jumpsuits, embroidered in gold and completed by a short mantle, seen on an exhilarating Elvis Presley.

Characterized by a glam and psychedelic vibe, the striped jumpsuit with exaggerated cut, worn by David Bowie in the role of his androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust in 1972. Unforgettable the black and white check jumpsuit on Freddie Mercury and the diamond-print one on Mick Jagger. Today, the red patent jumpsuit of Britney Spears, a leopard-printed model seen on the Spice Girls, the vintage fluorescent yellow piece worn by the electro artist David Sugalski, known as The Polish Ambassador, during his live performances.

Photo by Bugat, 1972

1973

Madonna has a tuxedo-jumpsuit designed by her friends Dolce & Gabbana. As for designers, we remember a loose and white jumpsuit – super-flared pants, bodice cut as a double-breast jacket – a couture model by Valentino from 1971. Helmut Newton made it famous in a picture shot at night: the model wore it with a huge burgundy tie, cuff links and high heels, posing in the streets.

Photo by Herbert Feurer 1981

White (again) the jumpsuit designed by Cerruti, paying homage to early 20^th-century aviators; the  piece with a Forties curvy silhouette by Donna Karan and the blue working class jumpsuit by Yamamoto.

1983

Photo by Herb Ritts 1990

Photo by Steven Meisel 1991

Photo by Steven Meisel 1992

Recently spotted.

Stella McCartney in total black, lace jumpsuit, bow belt and high-heel pumps. Silver sequins on Juliette Lewis. Black super-short jumpsuit on Agyness Deyn. Katie Holmes wearing one of her own creations, a loose jumpsuit in white silk with sheer black lace straps. Keira Knightley wearing a white model with a Seventies cut, echoing Saturday Night Fever. Peaches Geldof with a short and futuristic piece, plunging neckline, silver with fuchsia trims. Sophie Marceau in silver at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, wearing a couture strapless jumpsuit with flared pants.

Rihanna dares to wear Catwoman-like, skin-tight zebra-print jumpsuits. Silver mirror effect on Amber Rose. A loose but luminescent style on Kylie Minogue. Tight as a black glove on Beyonce.

Summer 2010. Among the most famous jumpsuit, the floral-printed one by Stella McCartney, the multi-pocket one by Givenchy, the one made of plaid silk by Prada. Pixie Geldof attended the H&M flagship store opening in London and wore a short mustard jumpsuit. Erin Wasson attended a party in Los Angeles wearing the above mentioned Prada piece. Elettra Wiedemann and Helena Christensen wore loose and long jumpsuits: the first attended a Swarovski cocktail wearing an orange number, while the second was spotted at a party for Antony Todd wearing a jumpsuit with no accessories. Rihanna was snapped in Los Angeles wearing the floral, ultra-girly and frilled jumpsuit by Stella McCartney.

2011. The super couture model by Saint Laurent; silk fabrics for Alexander Wang; python-print or sunny yellow models by Paul & Joe. Purple and hooded for Diane Von Furstenberg; a plum maxi bow closes the pink jumpsuit by Marc Jacobs; horizontal stripes – a trademark – at Sonia Rykiel.


Images above: Liza (by Rebecca Moses)

Franca Sozzani

Published:
08/15/2011

All the colored words are by Franca Sozzani, the Editor in chief of Vogue Italia. And the pictures are from http://www.vogue.it/