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Masashi Nozaki: rethinking traditional constructions

Friday, 11 June 2010 06:26 - Author: Joel Nikolaou

Masashi Nozaki: rethinking traditional constructions Masashi Nozaki is a 23 yr old Japanese London College of fashion graduate 2010.

The following is a sample of his first collection for fall 2010.

Masashi Nozaki rethinks traditional constructions and details and creates new forms, and a new aesthetic.

See my previous article on Adam Andrascik on new young fashion designers and their search for new fashion aesthetics. This is critical to maintain and grow fashion, and move it forward. Fashion has to keep moving forward in order to stay relevant in a rapidly changing global environment.

Basics are always the requisite. New things are always created
from the old basics. But it is from the old, that builds the basics of the new. Art like fashion isn't created out of a vacuum. Instead of redoing the same looks from the past, the retro death trap of fashion currently, where fashion today is basically doing the looks of the past over, and over again, ad nauseum, these young fashion designers are creating the future of fashion.

The collection is based on military uniforms as an origin of modern menswear with unique details inspired by and taken from the foolishness and vanity of mankind through the Second World War."Twisted details with traditional yet contemporary shape in natural material give impression of “something is wrong”.

Masashi Nozaki was inspired by history of the Second World War, for his collection. According to Masashi Nozaki, and his research for his first men's collection, Germany was in ruins after WW1. The Treaty of Versailles which Germany was forced to sign, as retribution for their defeat by the allies was forced to make reparations they couldn't afford, to the allies for damages and debt incurred by the war. Germans were angered, and felt that the French and British were trying to starve their children to death. The value of the Deutsch Mark was devastated and their currrency made practically worthless. People at one point used their Deutsch Marks for fuel for fire, because it was nearly worthless. Amidst this calamity the German people looked for answers to why this was happening to them. Horrific hyperinflation wiped out the German middle class, and left millions penniless, and angry. The Germans wanted answers, and they blamed the Jews, and scapegoated them for all the horrors that were inflicted on them, after the war. The Jews controlled the banks, was the reasoning, and they were behind the harsh reparations the allies were forcing them to pay. "When people are very close to a crisis, they tend to panic and try to blame someone and something, they just cannot realize what has gone wrong while it was happening. They find out later as it becomes escalated or after the period has finished. Wrong things can become right sometimes, and when it occupied the majority, right things would look wrong".

Prepping the Skin for Summer Waxing

Friday, 11 June 2010 06:22 - Author: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Among the rituals that mark the start of summer, waxing away unwanted hair is not the most joyfully anticipated. But with the proper prepping, you can make it go more smoothly.

Before she has any waxing done, Shelley Bawiec, global director of spa sales and education for Aveda, starts trying to get her skin in "optimal condition." The prep work can be done in a few days, but if her skin is damaged, she allows a couple of weeks.
"Waxing is a pretty deep exfoliation," she says. "If your skin is ... sensitized or dry because of tanning, sunburns or using harsh chemicals, then you really can't be waxing over that." Waxing can inflame or even tear at damaged skin.

Ms. Bawiec avoids using "aggressive treatments" such as harsh exfoliants, chemical peels and skin products with glycolic acid for at least a week before waxing. But she does gently exfoliate her skin to remove dead skin cells that can clog pores and grip hair follicles. While granular scrubs can be gentle enough for the body, she uses a lighter exfoliant, with ingredients like salicylic acid, for the bikini area.

Ms. Bawiec generally uses an exfoliating cleanser twice a week, and as summer approaches, she gets a professional full-body scrub at a spa. After that, she lets her skin rest for at least 48 hours before waxing. She also uses a gentle cleanser and moisturizer on her body, seeking out products with softening ingredients like jojoba oil.

Ms. Bawiec always goes to a spa to have her waxing done. At home, "managing the temperature of the wax is a difficult thing to do," she says. "A lot of people burn themselves."

Ideally, body hair that's being waxed should be at least a quarter-inch long. "If it's too short, it hurts a lot more, because [the hair] just won't adhere to the wax," says Ms. Bawiec.

If it's too long, she adds, the wax may not come off cleanly. "If you don't get a clean pull, you can get ingrown hairs," she says.

Trendy Fashion Bret Michaels and Perfect

Friday, 21 May 2010 15:24 - Author: admin

Bret Michaels always wear good clothes in any event event, both when the party as well as formal events and also at the time for casual clothing. He's a smart pick her clothes fashion.

Health Scare, part 2: Bret Michaels back in the hospital after "warning stroke" and, while there, docs discover hole in the unlucky rocker's heart. But what caused his original brain hemorrhage? In a new Rolling Stone interview, Michaels blames the movie he was watching when the hemorrhage struck: "Busty Cops 3."

You Cut: Eric Cantor Launches Voter Driven Spending Cuts

Friday, 14 May 2010 08:45 - Author: By Tara Lynn Thompson

Washington is looking more and more like American Idol, minus the longevity of solid approval ratings and the Sinatra renditions. The new Simon Cowell is less British and more southern and strongly resembles House Minority Whip Eric Cantor. The hopefuls are no longer unknown singers with an itch for fame but government programs with a disease for spending. And if you don’t like the sound of them, text your vote “no”.

That’s “You Cut”, a program designed by the House Republican Economic Working Group that opens government spending cut options to the up or down approval of voters via the Internet. It’s interactive, it’s about voter involvement, and it’s about dang time.

“It allows YOU to vote, both online and on your cell phone, on spending cuts that you want to see the House – YOUR HOUSE – enact. That’s right, instead of Washington telling YOU how THEY will spend YOUR money, YOU can tell THEM how to save it,” said Cantor, in an exclusive article on Breitbart’s Big Government site.

The initiative launched this week offers five government spending programs which can be voted on via internet or text. The winner will be announced on Monday, May 17, and given a simple “up-or-down vote”by the House Republicans.

The following week, the cycle repeats and continues until the end of the year.

It won’t balance the budget. Not yet. Cantor isn’t touting the belief it will, saying the deficit problems won’t be solved overnight or with “one silver bullet.”

Allapundit at HotAir says, “I am, shall we say, skeptical.” Allapundit usually is, shall we say, skeptical. And with good reason. The cuts are small. Government spending is big. And, usually, never the twain shall meet.

But Cantor says “this is not the same GOP as it was a few years ago” and this is one move to prove it. YouCut won’t be the silver bullet. But it changes the tide. It reverses the runaway barge of unchecked spending taking the nation toward the horizon where eventually we’ll reach the end of debt flexibility, and like the idea of a flat earth, fall off the edge of the world.

YouCut is designed to create an open communication between voters and their Republican constituents, showing their Congressional representatives where they don’t want their taxpayer money spent. It’s a way, Cantor says, to alter the “culture of spending”.

Here are the first five programs, via Cantor at BigGovernment:

1. Presidential Election Fund. $260 million
This program matches funds to political candidates and conventions during Presidential primaries, a program apparently more important than funding a $50 million DC Voucher program, a successful program, that provided 3,300 low-income children with a better education. Democrats killed the voucher program last year yet funding for political candidates and conventions remain. As Cantor explains, during 2008 the candidates raised $1.3 billion from donations and PACs. And they need $260 million in taxpayer money, too?

I think not.