Fashion & Style
Long Live Monroe
January 20, 2012 by Melissa Emersonby Helena Davies The mention of Marilyn Monroe immediately conjures up the image of a beautiful woman with iconic blonde hair, red lips, in THAT white halter-neck dress unfortunately placed over THAT street grate. She is an icon still recognisable… Continue reading →
Designer Collaborations becoming a mockery?
December 8, 2011 by Melissa EmersonBy Kate Jelly Hot on the heels of the news that Versace’s recent line for H&M sold out in less than 24 hours, with large crowds camping outside stores overnight, is the debate around the importance of designer collaborations. The question… Continue reading →
“Women’s beauty on a pedestal”
December 8, 2011 by Melissa EmersonVivienne Westwood once said “shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women’s beauty on a pedestal”. This idea of elegance in elevation is in one form or another hundreds of years old, but the coverage surrounding fashion… Continue reading →
Interview with Jack Addis: digital artist hailing from Bristol.
November 13, 2011 by Lowenna WatersWe live in a visual reality saturated by the digital. Increasingly, we play out our social lives and construct our own identities through the mediated forum of a plasma screen. It is easy to see how this can promote an… Continue reading →
Philanthropic Fashion
November 4, 2011 by Melissa EmersonThe House of Avalon VIntage Fashion Show and its Volunteers The House of Avalon is a fabulous vintage store in the city of York. Combined with its in-house coffee shop it is ‘quintessentially English’. The recent fashion show displayed its… Continue reading →
High Street Heaven
August 22, 2011 by Paris BennettH & M and Versace are at it. Christopher Kane and Topshop have done it and Stella McCartney seems to constantly be doing it with Adidas. The new waves of High street designer collaborations wash over us each season and… Continue reading →
Jessica Douaihy Interview
August 1, 2011 by Hamid DouaihyHAUS MAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL INTERVIEW Author Hamid Douaihy In short words, who is Jessica Douaihy? How do you introduce yourself? Jessica Douaihy is a girl with lots of ambition… I came from a small town called Zgharta in North… Continue reading →
BE BEAT
July 20, 2011 by Paris BennettSkull Candy, Fanny Wang, Beats and Monster Beats are some of the most stylish names around at present. But what products to these bizarre titles belong to? Where on the body would you place a Fanny… Continue reading →
Fashion Undercover: KALDA and Iceland’s emerging fashion scene
July 18, 2011 by Melissa EmersonI recently spoke with designer Katrin Alda Rafnsdottir who with sister Rebekka co-owns fashion label KALDA. The label was founded in Reykjavik in 2010. Reykjavik, a name not often cited in fashion vocabulary, is in fact the capital of Iceland:… Continue reading →
An American in Rome: Jessica Harris
July 18, 2011 by Melissa EmersonAdmittedly in Rome and not in Paris (if you recall the famous film), the story of this American is still nonetheless of an artistic talent breaking cover in a new country. Jessica Harris has been in Italy now for around… Continue reading →