Oct 31, 2013

Closing of October

October has been quiet. My apologies for not to be more active here in Style Pigeon, but I'm in my last weeks of pregnancy and have been mostly sleeping or without energy the whole October.

Alexander McQueen started the October and now Hempel Award 2014 will close it. Folks; Hempel Award the 22nd China International Young Fashion Designers Contest is open for the year 2014! Here the link for the information.
Theme of the contest for this year is The Golden Age of each country.
Good luck for everyone who decides to participate! I would love to repeat the experience as since this years' contest I was left with the feeling that I could do it better...but I think this year I will pass it thanks to my approaching maternity. Fair enough.

Few practical tips:
Tip 1. In most of the recent editions the winning collection has been white, white, white. So no need to complicate the color palette for the contest as curious enough the winner seems to be in most cases the white one.
Tip 2. When being in Beijing don't pay the fee for sending a CD/DVD of the contest as it will never arrive and the organizers are no longer interested in replying emails regarding that.

Few picks from this years experience:

Creative solution for shoes from Norway.

I was Nr.20 and here fixing clothes & camera.


Oct 1, 2013

Gorgeous McQueen

Alexander McQueen doesn't fail; out of the 902 pages of American Vogue his add was one that captured my attention.  You just had to stay looking on it and give credit that they know what they are doing. Impressive.