Knit Picks

Narciso Rodriguez_spring 08 RTW_style.com



Jodie sweater dress_Marc by Marc Jacobs_$248_net-a-porter.com



Navy cabled sweater_Ports 1961_$545_vivre.com



Custom Needles_$25



Long sleeve shawl collar top_Thread Social_$218.50_chickdowntown.com



Novelty Knits square neck dress_$95_rk



dress by Jonathan Saunders for Topshop_fashion156.com



Knit buckle cardigan_$80_rkstores.com



Miu Miu leather lace-up boot_style.com



Westfield cashmere scarf_$157



Avon chenille scarf_$84



Cheyenne scarf_$130_smARTWORKS



Mark Fast knits everything by hand on a domestic knitting machine. His work is formed onto the body as he knits, and he has devised innovative stitching techniques, blending Lycra with viscose, angora or wool.



I believe that there is a growing attention to craftsmanship in fashion these days, as opposed to quick-fix disposable pieces. I am focusing on timeless classics.
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Mark Fast



Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef



4,500 hand-crocheted pieces conceived by twin sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim in homage to the Great Barrier Reef of their native Queensland, Australia.
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef



In Deep Knit stitch markers + tin_$10.25_Chelle

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Bio

Mario Testino

Fashion Photographer

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Vogue UK editorial_2006

Young London

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Kate in Blue Cafe_artificialgallery.co.uk

Italian Vogue_2002

Vogue editorial_2006_flickr.com

Salma Hayek_Campari Calendar 2007_Hotel Campari

Jessica Alba_Campari Calendar 2009

Club Campari

V47 cover_models.com

Mario Testino_Moscow_Feb.08_daylife.com

Now considered an iconic figure in fashion photography, his pictures have produced some of the defining images of an era, and have adorned the walls of art galleries.
CNN Bio

CNN: Describe the conflict to do with commercial versus artistic fashion photography.
Testino: I like to believe that I'm not just a photographer. I quite like the idea of commerce and art mixed together, in the sense that our job as fashion photographers -- whether you like it or not -- can be done very commercially or very artistically. Our job is to make people want to buy clothes. That's what we do, and however much it is fascinating to have our pictures hanging on walls afterwards and selling as fine art prints, I think that our initial job is to sell clothes and magazines and whatever we're told to sell.

I like to believe that I do make a difference because my productions are expensive. I hire the best team of hair and make-up artists, the best team of set designers, the best stylists, the best models and when a company is spending all that money you want to make sure they're making a profit because otherwise you are redundant.

For a while I was criticized for it. Some people believe that as photographers we should be more artists than focus on commerce, but for me I chose fashion photography because I didn't choose to be a fine artist because I didn't want to be alone in a studio. I prefer seeing my work in a magazine and I like making a difference in how people see something. CNN Interview

Mario Testino is also credited with bringing to an end the reign of the ubermodel. Rather than pay the fees demanded by Linda, Naomi et al, in the early Nineties Testino championed a new breed of model - including Kate Moss ("my favourite"), and Stella Tennant.
Vogue Bio

Mario Testino - official site
Obsessed By You

Gowns

Emilio Pucci_fall 04 RTW_style.com



Valentino_spring 05 Couture_style.com



Badgley Mischka_spring 06 RTW_elle.com



Versace_spring 09 RTW_nymag.com



Carolina Herrera_spring 09 RTW_style.com



Carolina Herrera_spring 09 RTW_style.com



Carolina Herrera_spring 09 RTW_style.com



Balmain_fall 08 RTW_style.com



Nicole Miller_fall 08 RTW_elle.com



Monique L'Huillier_spring 06 RTW_style.com

WTF?

Katie Holmes_jezebel.com


Erin Wasson_Teen Vogue party_jezebel.com


Perez Hilton_MTV Europe Awards_jezebel.com


Roisin Murphy_fashionism.ca


Stephanie Seymour_Paris Fashion Week_jezebel.com

Ten Things We Learned From Celeb Fashion in 2008

A Better Day

The Birth of a Better Day_COWsignal_flickr.com


Fireworks New Years Eve_motleypixel_flickr.com

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -Anne Frank

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. -Arthur Schopenhauer

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. -Charles Darwin

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. -Epictetus

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. -Helen Keller

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in. -Heraclitus

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso

In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces. -Unknown

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. -Woodrow Wilson

When you are through changing, you are through. -Bruce Barton

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. -Ellen Glasgow

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. -Lynn Hall

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