Fashion Fact of the Day: Yoshiki Hishinuma

After taking my textiles class in school and learning about Yoshiki Hishinuma, my love grew deeper for fashion because I was finally able to connect and relate my love for both nature and fashion together.

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Textile designer Yoshiki Hishinuma trained at the Issey Miyake Design Studio giving him a solid background in experimental fabric technology in fashions most scientific field. In 1984, he launched his own Tokyo based label.











He holds the New Designers Prize at Tokyo's Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix for his frelance work and owns his own studio where he produces fabric effects and chiffon.





Yoshiki's Work

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Fashion Fact of the Day: Horst P. - Photographer

A 65 year career doesn't mean fans focus on all of it, they just focus on the best part and with photographer Horst P., the best part included his portraiture of the inter-war years.

At the start of his career he worked with George Hoyringen-Huene  at Vogue which contributed to the development of an unmistakable fashion style that yoked elements of Greek sculpture with elegance of the current time in 1932.

"I liked taking photographs, because I like life," he said. 

His work is Madonna "Like A Virgin" approved. 

Check out Horst's photography below.

Source: The Fashion Book, Horst P. Photography

Thanks for reading.

-TeArra

Fashion Fact Of The Day: Paco Rabanne - Designer

 

When you study architecture but turn to fashion, what do you get? You get designer Paco Rabanne.

Paco Rabanne opened his own fashion house in 1960 after being a supplier of buttons and jewelry to Givenchy, Dior, and Balenciaga. With his fashion house he sold space-age fashions based off of his space travel and architectural study as he used alternstive and experimental materisls that weren't usually worn on the street.

Other designers that experimented with the space age were Pierre Cardin, André Courregés, Tudi Gernsrich, and Yves Saint Laurent.

Check out his designs below.

Source: The Fashion Book

By: TeArra Boone

Fashion Fact of the Day: Emma Hope - Shoe Designer

The 1985 mule by Emma Hope consisted of brocade worn to finish off Scott Crollás antiquarian clothes. 

Nosaltalgic, delicate, bespoke, ready-to-wear, and a joy, just a few adjectives to describe Emma Hope's shoes.

Check out images below.

Source: The Fashion Book

By: TeArra Boone

Fashion Fact of the Day: Norma Kamali - American Fashion

Did she discover the jogger way before it became big and we just didn't know about it? Maybe.

Norma Kamali was known for creating a fashion phenomenon when she used sweatshirt fleece fabric for leggings, kick shirts, and wide-shouldered dresses.

She went against fashion's dictated rules of structure and ostentatious formality allowing women to be cute and comfortable and she gave us the unitard! 

To all the ladies that love wearing body suits and cat suits today you need to thank Norma right now! 

Source: The Fashion Book

By: TeArra Boone

Fashion Fact of the Day: Charles Jourdan on Shoes

Did you know that shoe designer Charles Jourdan was the first to advertise in fashion magazines?

I guess he started up an entire epidemic as we can see today. 

His ads were legendary, as if being the first wasn't enough, and he always gave a mystery in the advertisements by "placing the shoe in surreal scenes making them components of a larger story." 

Amazing don't you think?!

Check out more of Charles Jourdan legendary shoe advertisements below.

Source: The Fashion Book

By: TeArra Boone

Fashion Fact of the Day: André Courréges - Designer

Did you know André Courréges was a civil engineer before he pursued a career in the fashion industry?

Yup it's true!

His fashion was a combination of the meticulously cut and the idealism of the youth and future.

He also predicted that womenswear would become at least as practical as menswear. 

Do you think his predictions came true since 1960?

Practical, nah, but I'd say fierce!

Source: The Fashion Book

By: TeArra Boone