Who says that you have to wait to be a designer "when you grow up"? FunnyPeopleCo is the collaboration of two young sisters based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sophie, 22, and Louie Touassa, 18, create quirky jewelry and accessories for fun-loving teens.How did you get started as designers? We have been designing our whole life, from fashion to accessories to just anything you can think of! We even designed clothes for our Barbies!
What inspires your work? Anything, it can be colors, or nature, something on the street or even a jar of cookies! Artists see inspiration everywhere.
Who are your favorite designers? Our fave designer is Luella! She is the Queen of Youthful Chic, we just love her style!
What are your top fashion & beauty must-haves? We really don't have must-haves, anything comfortable that flatters our body and compliments our style sticks with us, we experiment al lot!
Any advice you would give to aspiring designers? As we are aspiring designers ourselves, we want young designers out there to know that it is possible to make it! Be true to what you love, study and work hard and don't let people and critiques let you down.
Where can people find your work? You can find our shop at FunnyPeopleCo.etsy.com, our blog: diaryofayoungdesigner.blogspot.com and our Myspace page: myspace.com/funnypeopleco Anything else? We are both 22 and 18 yrs old, young people that really want to make a difference in the world and want to share our love for fashion and style to everyone!
We love all of the amazing independent designers out there and we wanted to find out more about what makes these creative types tick. If you do too, check out more of our Indie Designer Interviews.
Fall 2009 Fashion Week - Backstage with Badgley Mischka
SHOW: Badgley MischkaMAKEUP: Tom Pecheux for M.A.CHAIR: Peter Gray for RedkenBEAUTY SNAPSHOT: Elegant and Chic THE SCOOP:Tom Pecheux inspiration came straight from the brand, "it really is about the Badgley Mischka woman. When you see a Badgley Mischka dress you just know, you don't have to see the tag. The woman should be the same." With that in mind he created a cocktail look for a young woman "who loves luxury and beauty, who is elegant and sophisticated, but isn't flashy." To start, create a matte finish skin and then cover the eyelid in a deep blue shimmery shade of eyeshadow. Next lightly dusk a gold shadow across the lid and under the eye. Then apply mascara to the top lashed leaving the bottom plain. Finally a subtle dusk of rose on the cheek bones and a lavender lip gloss rounds out the makeup.
The theme for the show? "Badgley Mischka meets Blade Runner, at least for me," said hairstylist Peter Gray. "What I tried to do was add a bit of a futuristic flare to this traditional red carpet brand." The look is actually rather easy to do, put the shaper (basically a doughnut shaped brillo pad) around your hair and then slide it to the tip, then simply roll up and pin. Once the hair is in position apply a generous amount to hairspray to help it stay put. While the shape is simple Gray cautions it shouldn't been done with clean hair. "When you wash your hair it is very slippery. To really make this work let it get a bit dirty so it grips." GET THE LOOK MAKEUP: M.A.C Eyeshadow in Deep Truth and Goldmine, Cremesheen Glass in Ever So Rich, Pro Lash Mascara Coal BlackGET THE LOOK HAIR: Redken Guts 10 Volume Spran Foam, Workfource 09 Fleximble Volumizing Spray
SHOW: BarbieMAKEUP: Sarah Lucero for StilaHAIR: Orlando Pita for T3BEAUTY SNAPSHOT: Barbie! Fun, fresh, and feminine. THE SCOOP:The 50 models that took to the runway as part of the Barbie show depicted the iconic doll in the past, present, and future. Ranging from the fantastical to the easily wearable, each gorgeous look captured Barbie's glamorous femininity, but that was about all they had in common! As makeup artist Sarah Lucero explained "Barbie of the past was taken from the original 1959 Barbie doll. She has a really plastic thick lash, so when you blink it isn't even separated, with big sculpted eyeliner. The lip is red glossy lacquer finished off with Stila's Strawberry Lip Glaze. Barbie of the present's really glowy skin and pink colors can can come straight off the runway, it's fun, fresh and very wearable. Barbie of the future is bright and colorful, it's a masquerade look. It's exaggerated but to take it down you can literally use eyeliner pencils and shadows in the same pinks, teals and purples." As for the hair: "We did Barbie by the decades," said stylist Orlando Pita. "Barbie isn't really a little girl, she's a woman. We wanted to make her fun and elegant and not go to much into the draggy thing."
GET THE LOOK MAKEUP: For Barbie of the past you'll need Stila's liquid eyeliner, gobs of mascara, Dominique lipstick and Strawberry Lip Glaze. For the present pick up Stila's Illuminating Liquid Foundation, All Over Shimmer, and Giggle light pink lip vinyl when it hits stores. To get the essence of future Barbie try Glitter Eyeliner in Purple Silver, and the Starlet Pastel Palette.
GET THE LOOK HAIR: You will have to wait until September to nab it but T3's limited edition Barbie edition of their Featherweight dryer is a must have for every Barbie girl.
FALL 2009 FASHION WEEK - Backstage Beauty at Todd Lynn
SHOW: TODD LYNN MAKEUP: TERRY BARBER FOR M.A.C BEAUTY SNAPSHOT: Tilda Swinton in a remake of Mad Max that's set in Siberia – an ecclesiastic natural beauty
THE SCOOP: There's nothing forgiving about skintight black leather pants, but they sure do look hot on models with impossibly skinny, long legs. Paired with body-skimming jackets and sky high Louboutins, London designer Todd Lynn's collection was certainly chic, if a bit grim in its austerity. Terry Barber's description of the makeup inspiration for the show followed suit: "Imagine Tilda Swinton in a remake of Mad Max but set in Siberia – ecclesiastic natural beauty." Though that reference is a bit obscure, it's not lost on me as I look at the models' pale, matte skin, peach-rimmed eyes and grey-tinged lips. Grey lips are an emerging trend we've been seeing at both NY and London Fashion Week. It'll be interesting to see it this trend continues, or if it makes it off the runways and on to our lips. GET THE LOOK - MAKEUP: Barber brushed M·A·C Pro Loose Powder in Peach along the lower lashline and applied it over lids to set the concealer creating a "tired peach" lid. Next was M.A.C Pro Eye Pencil in Pale Yellow drawn into waterline and between lashes, which were combed through with Select Cover-up Concealer. Lip Conditioner blended with Eye Pencil in Ebony were applied to the lips in a thin, sheer layer.
Most times the word extension parallels the word weave which evokes images of horrible, fake hair on fried, damaged heads. But after consulting with extension gurus Nikki and Riawna, who hail from the famous Ken Paves Salon, we learned that this is far from the truth. The styling team, who do extensions for Hollywood stars like Lindsay Lohan, say that extensions of wrongfully gotten a bad rap. So we're here to turn this extensions myth around once and for all.
Nikki says, "Sure there are girls walkin' around here and we're just like 'Those extensions aren't right!' But you get what you pay for." Riawna quickly chimed in, "Yeah, many stylists get greedy and say, 'I can do it!' But they can't." Also most salons use metal or plastic to bond the extensions to the hair but using these materials is just asking for damage, or worse, for your hair to break off completely.
"Do your research," says Nikki. Go for quality over quantity. Both Nikki and Riawna went through a certified Great Lengths course where they learned how to properly do extensions. Everything from the hair quality to the way it's attached, even to the angle it's attached at matters, the girl's say.
Ken Paves Salon uses Great Lengths which attaches hair to hair so that not even an ounce of damage is detectable after the extensions are taken out. Find a salon that does similar work, teaches you how to care for it, and uses quality and you can't go wrong.
Fabiola Beracasa with the Ecco Domani Young Designer Winners
The Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation taps seven young designers every year to honor as possibly-the-next-big-things -- and the award is usually spot-on. Past winners have included Alexander Wang, Rodarte and Zac Posen.
See who it is this year when Fabiola Beracasa visits a breakfast to honor the 2010 winners during this edition of "Absolutely Fab." Watch the video to see some truly beautiful clothes and hear from some of the most creative voices of today.
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Fabiola Beracasa at New York Fashion Week: What People Are Wearing In the Freezing Cold
New York Fashion Week has been blustery cold and to find out how fashionistas are coping, we dispatched our resident style correspondent Fabiola Beracasa to hit the tents at Bryant Park. In this episode of "Fab on the Street' she queries editors, stylists, and models about sacrificing style for comfort in sub zero temps.
Also on people's minds? Valentine's Day of course! Find out what our interviewees are planning to wear - or not wear in one woman's case - for their evening de amor.
Like what you see? View Fabiola's exclusive interviews with Robert Verdi, Prabal Gurung, and more.
It must be fall. Get out your bad jean jackets.
Here, on sale from Cerry5354, we have a green satin disaster. This is like a castoff from that scene in Return to Oz when Dorothy had to touch everything that was green to bring Oz back to life or something, I don't know, I was only half watching by that point because that Rock dude really freaked my shiz out. And the flying moose box. WTF, moose box? Anyway, all the stuff that was green in that scene was like, really awkwardly and sort of aggressively green. Like this jacket.
Also, can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that Dorothy was played by Fairuza Balk? Thanks.
Ahem. We intend to bring you a good helping of bad denim jackets this fall, so you can avoid any confusion about what is and is not all right to do with your scissors and your Bedazzler.
The lesson of this coat:Don't cut the arms off your denim jacket and replace them with green satin, throw the cuffs back on, and then lace some of the leftover satin up by the pockets. WTF?
Here we are, a crime against leather and foxes alike.
Places fox fur does not belong:
The ocean.Guernsey (there are no foxes on the isle of Guernsey).All over a leather jacket. WTF?
It's like someone took a sort of ugly leather jacket and decided to "improve" it by putting a fox vest over it.
The fox fur is beautiful, we'll give you that, but this combination is a disaster and you know it, Fivesisters23. Even if you zip off the zippered arms, we're still gonna see that weird gray leather bit at the bottom there.
You don't even show us what the front looks like.
This is a clustershag of animal death. WTF?
"Oh my god, that girl must be freezing."
You know what we're talking about. You're heading home from dinner or out for drinks and some skinny little thing is standing there with like, no clothes on, waiting to get into a hot nightclub. Clubbing in winter without looking like a douche is tricky, but it must be done! Dancing can really raise your body temperature -- and keep off the pounds, too. Lemondrop has put together a great collection of tips, and here's what we think:
We agree when Lemondrop's article, Sexy, Not Skimpy: Winter-Proofing Your Club Clothes, says to put on some pants or at least tights, go easy on the wintry accessories like mittens and scarves, and to keep your shoes closed-toe, but we want to warn you that the blazer-over-a-dress thing is like, kind of black diamond difficult. Make sure you look like a Gossip Girl and not like an 90's child star like Blossom or Clarissa in their mismatched, dated glory (hey, we agree the look was once glorious). And nipple shields? As if.
We've always gone with the "wear a sweater you can take off and stuff in your jacket sleeve when you check it" trick.