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Think of all those little treasures, scattered across the world: a stash of emerald-green beads, a sunshine yellow resin flower, the plumes of an exotic bird… With a magpie’s curiosity and a keen imagination, jewellery designer Wendy Powitt travels the world collecting together those little treasures before returning home to re-shape them into more contemporary accessories.

The latest collection from her label, Ghost & Lola, is an eclectic yet ultimately feminine mix of such motifs as soaring birds and blooming flowers. Modelling these limited edition pieces for the collection’s look book is Robyn Lawley, styled with the kind of soft, bouncy waves and flicked-out eyeliner that are the perfect on-trend accompaniments to the feminine accessories.

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How do you describe a dream? Dreams are fragmented, they have no logical sequence and no sense of time. But they can evoke something; they can leave a mood as a lasting impression that inspires you for the rest of the day.

It was a dream that photographer Fenia Labropoulou had that inspired the concept of this shoot, titled, quite aptly, Dreamcatcher.

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Were it not for the punchline at the end that finally furnishes this video with some semblance of a point (the punchline being “Go-go to the new Vogue.fr”) you’d wonder what relevance Wham! could possibly have to a relaunch of the Vogue Paris website. But there it is, a video of Emmanuelle Alt miming to Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go. Telling you to Go-Go to the new Vogue-Vogue.

That being the guise of a purpose, there does seem to be a deeper mission to Alt’s ’80s popstar fantasy. This video wants us to know that Alt is cool in a dorky, approachable kind of way. It wants us to know that she has a personality, albeit it one vastly different to that of her predecessor Carine Roitfeld. It implores us to believe that – look! – she can have fun too.

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Mariacarla Boscono might be the star with main billing in this shoot for Vogue Italia – in fact the shoot is even titled after her: The Outstanding M.C.B. But the best supporting cast members are surely Gucci’s Art Deco dresses, making their way into almost every shot.

The great thing about Patrick Demarchelier’s editorial is that it shows just how versatile these shining deco dresses are. All it takes to transform them is a little bit of magic with styling, hair and makeup. A micro fringed pixie crop and thick lashes places the Outstanding M.C.B somewhere between Liza Minnelli and Twiggy. A sleek shoulder-length bob keeps it classically ’40s. Full bouffant hair and winged out liner, on the other hand, is decidedly 1960s.

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There’s more than one view of every runway show, and it was no different for Mattijs van Bergen’s fall / winter 2012 showing. Fashionising.com captured this alternative view at Amsterdam fashion week (AIFW).

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Knight. Dragon slayer. White witch. Human butterfly. Kristen McMenamy has just the right look – etherial but not too soft, timeless and ageless – to play them all. Kristen’s beauty is in the fact that she doesn’t have to look beautiful. In one of Tim Walker’s shots for this Love Magazine editorial she cries and smokes with equal conviction. In others her silvery-blonde elfin hair is replaced with a bowl-like short fringe sitting starkly atop near invisible blonde eyebrows.

There’s no clear narrative to the shoot, titled The Origin of Monsters, which skips from scene to scene like a dream sequence of twisted fairytales. Between Katie Grand’s styling and Tim Walker’s photography it seems to have been dreamed up from collective imaginations. And isn’t that where all monsters, really, originate from? The Imagination?

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We fawn over the clothes and enjoy the backstage antics, but it’s hard work and preparation that goes on for hours before a collection takes to the runway that brings all the magic and the mood together. That’s why we captured all the beauty looks at Obakki’s fall / winter 2012 showing at New York fashion week (NYFW).

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Obakki’s fall / winter 2012 runway show was unveiled on one of the many catwalks of New York fashion week (NYFW) and Fashionising.com was there to capture each look.

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Aesthetically there’s only so much you can do with swimwear to differentiate – particularly if you goal is to produce products that actually lend themselves to such practical activities as swimming or running around on the beach (and let’s face it, not all swimwear is made for swimming). So instead of aiming for the avant garde, the girls behind Eau Paix Vie distinguish themselves via simple philosophy. Woven into every bikini is their sense of adventure, lust for travel, belief that life in general – and summer in particular – is about having fun.

In the brand’s own words, they’re looking to “invoke the happiness, good feelings and fun that come only from a beautiful summers day at the beach.” Each bikini is made from imported italian fabrics and other fabrics hand sourced around the world.

We have one Eau Paix Vie bikini to give away. Read on for details.

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Giorgio Armani Beauty lancia una nuova linea di trattamenti: si tratta di Regenessence High Lift, una crema per il viso rigenerativa. Della linea fanno parte due prodotti, una rich cream e un eye balm,…

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