Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Focus on designers: Mugler: Fashion.Fetish.Fantasy

Inspired by the Thierry Mugler fragrances, "ALIEN" and "ANGEL", i created these style sets for the upcoming Mugler fashion show in paris.


MUGLER: Fashion. Fetish. Fantasy.

MUGLER: Fashion. Fetish. Fantasy. by tope-1990 featuring a v neck dress

MUGLER: Fashion. Fetish. Fantasy.

MUGLER: Fashion. Fetish. Fantasy. by tope-1990 featuring long sleeve shirts

Mugler was born in Strasbourg, France on 21 December 1948. The first dress he ever created was for a girlfriend at the age of 14.  At the age of 24, He travelled the world and left Strasbourg to go live in Paris. He began designing clothes for a small, trendy Parisian boutique by the name of "Gudule".  

At 26, Mugler, who was working as a freelance designer, began to work for a variety of large ready-to-wear fashion houses in Paris, Milan, London and Barcelona.

In 1973 Mugler created his first personal collection called "CafĂ© de Paris". The style of the collection was both sophisticated and urban. In 1978 he opened his first Paris boutique at the place des Victoires (in the 1st arrondissement). 

For his collections, classical masculinity give a definitively modern style. Clean, precise, structured cut that outline a highly-recognizable silhouette: prominent shoulders, both "anatomical and classic", for a dynamic and slender, almost other-worldly look, like an ALIEN OR ANGEL 

During the 1980s and 1990s Thierry Mugler became an internationally recognized designer and his collections have been huge commercial successes. At the request of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, he completed his first haute couture collection in 1992.

He also created the famous black dress worn by Demi Moore in the 1993 movie, 'Indecent Proposal.

Here is his Fall 2012 collection shown at paris fashion week.



































Thierry Mugler


Wednesday, 4 July 2012

What to wear: Coral Dream


Nike says, "I'm going for a dinner next week and I have a beautiful coral, pleated maxi dress but i dont know what to wear with it. I need help on color codes, shoes, purses, nail color and hairstyles too. I dont like heels so nothing too high. P.S: I want to look young and chic. thanks"

Hey Nike, I’m here to assist! For every look, I kept in mind your requests and put together elegant style sets that i'm sure you'll love.

First up is the 'Coral and Nude'. I love the coral and nude (gold) combo, it screams goddess. Its very simple, elegant and chic. Keep face fresh and bronzed with gold eyeshadow palettes and a pink rosy cheek like the model below. Slightly tousled hair is always young and sexy. You also expressed your dislike for heels so i kept it moderate with this 4" Giuseppe Zanottis.


Coral Dream


Next up, I went for a bit of color using Teal accessories and blood red nail polish. Colors are huge this season and its quite easy to co-ordinate them, especially when its done for you. Go for subtle smoky eyes and keep lips nude/natural. Went for a shorter, wavy hair cut this time; very young and sexy.


Coral Dream 3

 A bun, braid or side sweep would also be perfect for this look





Finally, I went for darker colors; 'Coral and Black'. Black goes with everything, its safe functional and edgy. Inline with that i chose a sleek bob for hairstyle and electric blue nail lacquer; keep eyes soft and pair with bold red lips.


Coral Dream 2

I hope this helped you Nike. Would you mind checking back in after the event by sending me pictures at acliquenamedt@yahoo.com showing how you interpreted this style inspiration? would love to see!

If you need more ideas, be inspired by the celebs in coral maxis






Monday, 2 July 2012

Its my birthday!!!!!!

Its my birthday!!!!!!


Thank God for life!!!!!!!! Its been a good year, many ups and downs, but an all-round good year. I just want to praise His Mighty name for keeping me till this day; its been 22 years now and I know He still has a lot more in-store for me, greater accomplishments for me, my family, my friends and well wishers. 

I dont have anything anything planned for today, honestly just want to give myself time off from work and sleep all day, but duty calls.  Anyway it goes, my heart is filled with joy and i feel (am) very blessed and grateful. I am content with the life God has given me, i wouldn't have it any other way. I love you Lord.

Hope each and everyone of you has a wonderful and fun-filled day, Love you and thank you for visiting. 
TOPE

Saturday, 30 June 2012

The Good Girl: sunday style

The Good Girl

Saw this closet flared belted dress and just had to create a set around it, its so cute and i love the turquoise color. I think I'd like to add stylist to my resume. What do you think?

Sunday, 24 June 2012

Sunday - Cancer Style

cancer

If you were born between June 22 and July 22, then you're a Cancer! and summer is our season, it's our time now. Cancers are gentle, conservative, nurturing, defensive, contemplative and we prefer traditional pieces and are attracted to monochrome colors and pastels.




 Dress- Nine West, Shoes- Nine west, Bag- Vintage

Thursday, 21 June 2012

Daily beauty Routine- All this and I still look natural

Daily beauty Routine- All this and I still look natural

Hi people, 

This is a post about my daily beauty routine and products i use. A lot of people ask me what i do to keep my skin looking the way it does, *blush* :), here it is:
  1. Wash my face with Neutrogena deep clean facial scrub
  2. Cleanse with Royallux Astringent
  3. Apply Mary Kay Foundation primer as a base for the Mary Kay luminous foundation
  4. For my brows, I use Tara eyebrow pencil
  5. Then I apply my Sleek Divine "Bad girl" eyeshadow
  6. After that, I use my FM eyeliner
  7. Then I highlight my brow bone with a sleek angle brush, T Zone and below my eyes with Prestige highlighter and powder brush 
  8. I then apply sleek power with my powder brush and contour with Prestige bronzer
  9. I lengthen my lashes with Prestige's My biggest eyelashes
  10. Then apply prestige blush (number 7 in the picture above is a blush and highlighter combination) on the apples of my cheek 
  11. Then apply Mary Kay nude lipstick
  12. And finally, I spray Lola by Marc Jacobs Eau De Parfum all over  which leaves my skin wrapped in sensuous florals all day long.


I use step 7 and 8 to sculpt my face. The basic sculpting method involves highlighting and contouring the face. Basically, everything you highlight comes forward and everything you contour stays in the background. It is actually a trick to make you look thinner and make your face appear Oval in shape (which is the ideal face shape). The image above depicts places to highlight and contour. Will post more on this later.

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