In Dogue

Need the perfect Christmas present for a dog lover? Dogs in Vogue is a beautiful coffee table book composed by a brilliant fashion historian/writer Judith Watt. The book features stunning photography from the likes of Mario Testino and Patrick Demarchalier, where furry model kind pose with supermodels and personalities like Kate Moss, Manolo Blahnik, Liz Taylor, and Alfred Hitchcock. The images are collected from Vogue pages starting in the 1910�s to present day. Available on Amazon and select bookstores.

Supermodels?

Is the world ready to let the supermodels go? And apparently Katie is not pregnant...


�Est� el mundo preparado para dejar irse a las supermodelos? Y aparentemente Kate Moss no est� embarazada...

*source: dailymail

The clothes of our lives: the bikini

Halle Berry

The bikini is the greatest exponent of the rule �less is more�. The bikini has this name after an atomic bomb testing site on a remote Pacific atoll called Bikini. One more time, was in Europe where the bikini became popular. Officially, the first time the bikini appeared in a fashion event was at a poolside show at the Piscine Molitor in Paris on July 5, in 1946, to the dismay of more conservative bathers. It was introduced by designer Louis R�ard. He wasn't able to find a model who dare to wear the bikini, and its debut was on a stripper, Micheline Bernardini.

Though a success in postwar France, American girls deemed the bikini too risky until Hollywood stars like Rita Hayworth or Ava Gardner were photographed wearing them. Nowadays, wearing a bikini has not the same meaning that had when first appeared. The bikini represented a social leap involving moral concerns and sexual attitudes, and today bikini is the garment that most of the girls use to go to the beach and get tanned.

French actress, Brigitte Bardot

El biquini es el mejor exponente de la regla, ya cl�sica "menos es m�s". Debe su nombre a un lugar en el que se probaban bombas at�micas, y que est� situado en un remoto atol�n del Pac�fico, llamado Bikini. Una vez m�s, fue en Europe donde el bikini se volvi� popular. Oficialmente, la primera vez que un bikini apareci� en una evento de moda fue en un desfile en la piscina Molitor, en Par�s, el cinco de julio de 1946, para el desmayo de los ba�istas m�s conservadores. Louis R�ard fue el dise�ador que lo llev� a cabo, y para dar a conocer su nueva creaci�n tuvo que contratar a una stripper, ya que ni siquiera las modelos se atrev�an a pon�rselo.

A pesar del �xito que pronto logr� en Francia, las chicas americanas lo consideraron demasiado arriesgado hasta que estrellas del cine como Rita Hayworth o Ava Gardner fueron fotografiadas llevando uno. Hoy en d�a llevar un bikini no tiene el mismo significado que ten�a cuando apareci� por primera vez. El bikini represent� anta�o un salto social que conllevaba una gran carga moral, as� como una actitud provocativa, sexy. Hoy en d�a el bikini es simplemente la prenda que la mayor�a de las chicas usan para ir a la playa y ponerse morenas.

Kate Moss Gisele B�ndchen