Spring/ Summer 2012 Dress Trend #1: Airy maxi dresses. Maxi dresses are always in vogue but during Spring/ Summer 2012 season it is airy maxis that will be top trendy. Made of chiffon, taffeta, organza and other sheer fabrics maxi dresses come in colorful prints. D&G and Emilio Pucci offer us multilayered dresses with scarf-inspired prints, Just Cavalli and Naeem Khan go for leopard and polka dots while Roccobarocco simply combines contrast colors.

Spring/ Summer 2012 Dress Trend #2: Mini dresses. While some ladies opt for airy maxi dresses others will definitely want to show more of their bodies and trendy mini dresses will help them a lot with this. Paco Rabanne, Balmain and other designers have made a variety of super mini dresses in different colors and designs.

Spring/ Summer 2012 Dress Trend #3: Midi-length dresses. Midi-length dresses are perfect for those who dislike maxi dresses but feel shy or inappropriate to wear mini dresses. Midi dresses look good on women of all ages and can be good for many occasions. In a dress from Giorgio Armani you can visit a red carpet event. Victoria Beckham’s tight-fitting midi will look perfect at a book launch or a store opening and a stylish Etro will make you feel gorgeous everywhere you go.

Spring/ Summer 2012 Dress Trend #4: Glittering dresses. If you want all attention centered at you just go for one of glittering dresses designers provided in plenty for Spring/ Summer 2012. Try a silver or gold dress or find a bolder option in green, red or blue. Elie Saab designed fantastic sequined gowns. Giorgio Armani made a few dresses in color of liquid metal. And Paco Rabanne worked with iridescent hues.

Spring/ Summer 2012 Dress Trend #5: Asymmetrical hemlines. Asymmetrical hemline is a big Spring/ Summer 2012 trend which extends not only to dresses but to various tops and coats, too. Mary Katrantzou made a number of fabulous dresses with trains. Missoni cut hemlines to one side, while majority of designers simply re-invented a mullet dress (which has been a hot Winter 2012 trend).

Spring/ Summer 2012 Dress Trend #6: Floral-printed dresses. Floral print is very trendy during Spring/ Summer 2012. Delicate and small or large prints look feminine and very beautiful. Every brand from Valentino to Proenza Schouler and of course Anna Sui (who nearly every season uses the print in her collections) have used it. And some, like Iceberg, even combined different floral prints together.

Spring/ Summer 2012 Dress Trend #7: Lace dresses. Lace has been a trend since last spring but it doesn’t lose its popularity in Spring/ Summer 2012. Lace has become more delicate though. Erdem, Preen, Oscar de la Renta, Bebe and other designers and brands used lace in their ranges.

Spring/ Summer 2012 Dress Trend #8: White dresses. Like in every warm season white dresses are among favorites during Spring/ Summer 2012. They come in different fabrics and styles but always look lovely.

Spring/ Summer 2012 Dress Trend #9: Peplums. Just like lace peplums are not new in vogue. They have been with us for a couple of seasons and will stay for Spring/ Summer 2012. Peplums have become bigger and bolder and now come on both casual and evening dresses. Versace peplums are long and flat. Badgley Mischka, Alexander McQueen and Jason Wu made more voluminous peplums. And Rodarte peplums are very puffy.

Spring/ Summer 2012 Dress Trend #10: Frills. Spring/ Summer 2012 collections have many dresses with frills and pleats. While some look neat and classy others are huge and eye-catching.

And of course Spring/ Summer 2012 collections abound with evening dresses which are luxurious and sophisticated, perfect for a red carpet event or an important occasion.

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Beyonce looked super chic in a bright orange dress from Lanvin Fall 2011 collection. Its flowing style made her look very very graceful. Despite announcing the baby news Beyonce still went to perform at the show sporting Dolce & Gabbana outfit with a purple glitzy tuxedo jacket from their Fall 2011 RTW collection.

Beyonce friend singer Kelly Rowland has opted for black mini dress from Falguni & Shane Peacock Fall 2011 collection with gold appliques and feathery front. It looks great on Kelly who has paired the dress with Christian Louboutin peep toe shoes.

Another best-dressed celeb was Selena Gomez who looked great in black lace Julien Macdonald mini dress with a long train. The bodice embroidery is amazing and the gold accessories add a bit of shine to the outfit. The gold gold Brian Atwood shoes perfectly match the Judith Leiber clutch and Ofira jewelry.

Katie Holmes looked relaxed and playful in her Azzedine Alaia in an intricate print that she paired with brown Proenza Schouler shoes with black lacing. I would opt for other shoes here but she still looks great.

Zoe Saldana looks gorgeous in her mini Barbara Bui dress from Fall 2011 at 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. The dress/tunic has an embellished top and a plunging neck. The actress also wore Barbara Bui reptile skin sandals, black Lanvin clutch and Ofira jewelry.

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FULL LIST OF 2011 CFDA AWARD WINNERS:

WOMENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR – Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler
MENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR – Michael Bastian
ACCESSORY DESIGNER OF THE YEAR – Alexander Wang
SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR WOMENSWEAR – Prabal Gurung
SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR MENSWEAR – Robert Geller
SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR ACCESSORY DESIGN – Eddie Borgo
GEOFFREY BEENE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – Marc Jacobs
INTERNATIONAL AWARD – Phoebe Philo for Celine
EUGENIA SHEPPARD MEDIA AWARD – Hilary Alexander of The Daily Telegraph
FOUNDERS AWARD – Hal Rubenstein of InStyle
FASHION ICON AWARD – Lady Gaga
SPECIAL TRIBUTE AWARD – Arthur Elgort

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At 2011 MET Ball Kristen Stewart appeared wearing a simple but sumptuous dress by Proenza Schouler which she accessorized with a pair of 19th century Berlin iron scrollwork bracelets by Fred Leighton and strappy sandals.

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Do you like Kristen Stewart’s look at 2011 MET Ball?

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Marc Jacobs along with Proenza Schouler are nominated for Womenswear Designer of the Year. And the third person to join these designers is Alexander Wang, who’s taken home two CFDA awards already, two years in succession. He is actually nominated for three categories, the one already mentioned, Accessory Designer of the Year and Swarovski Awards for Menswear. So, he will definitely win at least one. Good luck anyway!

I’m also happy to see the Olsen sisters as nominees for the Swarovski Award for Womenswear category for their The Row line. I do hope they take the accolade.

Without any more details read the list of CFDA Awards 2011 nominees:

WOMENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Marc Jacobs
Alexander Wang
Proenza Schouler

MENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Simon Spurr
Michael Bastian
Patrick Ervell

ACCESSORY DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Reed Krakoff
Proenza Schouler
Alexander Wang

SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR WOMENSWEAR
Prabal Gurung
Joseph Altuzarra
The Row

SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR MENSWEAR
Alexander Wang
Phillip Lim
Robert Geller

SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR ACCESSORY DESIGN
Alejandro Ingelmo
Jason Wu
Eddie Borgo
Pamela Love

INTERNATIONAL AWARD
Phoebe Philo

GEOFFREY BEENE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Marc Jacobs

ELEANOR LAMBERT FOUNDERS AWARD
Hal Rubenstein

EUGENIA SHEPPARD MEDIA AWARD
Hilary Alexander

CFDA BOARD OF DIRECTOR’S SPECIAL TRIBUTE AWARD
Arthur Elgort

FASHION ICON AWARD
Lady Gaga

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On the cover Kristen Stewart is featured in Proenza Schouler white blouse. She also wears a few pretty dresses, some are richly embellished with sequins and others are decorated with frills and pleats.

In the interview for Vogue US February 2011 Kristen Stewart talks about how complicated it is to play Bella Swan in the Twilight series, on the absence of privacy and being a dork instead of a sexy star.

Kristen Stewart on her struggle with visiting place she likes: “There’s no way to eloquently put this. I just can’t go to the mall. It bothers me that I can’t be outside very often. And also to not ever be just ‘some girl’ again. Just being some chick at some place, that’s gone.”

Kristen Stewart on feeling it difficult playing Bella Swan: “[Bella is] a character who is embedded in so many people’s psyches at this point. It’s starting to enter my head a lot more than it used to because it’s at the end and it’s come such a long way. I just want the fans of the book to be happy.”

Kristen Stewart on being paid well (estimated at $20 million per film) for her role in Twilight: “It’s funny when you are endowed not only with public recognition on a f***ing seriously vast level, but also money. Like, funds.”

Kristen Stewart Covers Elle USA June 2010

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The winner is chosen by a jury of 2,500 designers, journalists, educators, cultural and corporate leaders stateswide on a few criteria. These include: 7 years’ experience in designing, ‘excellence, innovation, and enhancement of the quality of life’.

Rodarte will receive their prize at the National Design Awards gala dinner which is to be held on October 14 at Cipriani 42nd Street. And First Lady Michelle Obama will be the event’s honorary patron.

The Mulleavys aren’t new to fashion awards. Last year they took home CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year award.

The lucky winners of 2010 National Design are:

Lifetime Achievement: Jane Thompson
Design Mind: Ralph Caplan
Corporate and Institutional Achievement: U.S. Green Building Council
Finalists: Design that Matters and OXO
Architecture Design: KieranTimberlake
Finalists: Lake|Flato Architects and Design Corps
Communication Design: Stephen Doyle
Finalists: John Jay and Maira Kalman
Fashion Design: Rodarte
Finalists: Behnaz Sarafpour and Proenza Schouler
Interaction Design: Lisa Strausfeld
Finalists: Potion and Local Projects
Interior Design: William Sofield
Finalists: Clive Wilkinson Architects and Aidlin Darling Design
Landscape Design: James Corner Field Operations
Finalists: Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture and Stoss Landscape Urbanism
Product Design: Smart Design
Finalists: Continuum and Frog Design

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Nothing was really innovative except for the idea of track jackets wrapped around waists and prolonged into tank dresses and shirtdresses.

The pieces looked unusual and they might be interesting for those who like style experiments.

Generally the collection was focused on short dresses most of which were blue and green bright. Some were adorned with feathers and sequins but mostly it was the gloss of satin that made them so noticable.

Some dresses were an absolute mess: with huge cutouts and even bra parts separated from the skirt ones.

Just a few accessories were used including chunky braceletes, a coulpe of vibrant-colored handbads and sunglasses that turned the heads of the audience.

What really was catchy is the hair – dyed in violet, green and blue tones. I don’t think it looked great, just another piece of mess in the collection.

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Ralph Lauren was admitted the most favorite American designer. He received the first-ever Popular Vote award winning the majority of the 15,000 online votes.

Mr. Lauren, whose fans are style stars Blake Lively and Angelina Jolie, accepted his award wearing a tuxedo jacket and jeans.

Rodarte sisters – Kate and Laura Mulleavy – got Womenwear Designer of the Year, that is absolutely deservedly!

Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez were awarded with Accessory Designer of the Year.

Alexander Wang amazed everyone wearing shorts to the ceremony but this didn’t bother him and Subversive’s Justin Giunta to take home the Swarovski Awards for young designers.

Marc Jacobs was given the International Award for his work at Louis Vuitton while the First Lady Michelle Obama received a Special Tribute for being a walking billboard of support for the fashion industry.

Michael Kors created the metallic one-shoulder mini for the mom-to-be Heidi Klum. This is what he said about it:

It’s a cousin of a dress from my collection.” Klum commented jokingly: “You mean this dress isn’t straight off the runway?” Her dress was perfect and looked pretty on her new figure. But those sky-high Louboutin spikes didn’t seem so adequate for her. But Heidi just said: “Nah, I’m a model, this is what I do.”

Blake Lively arrived a bit late for the event but she was able to make quite an entrance in her neon pink scissor sheath from Michael Kors.

Presenter Diane Kruger looked stunning in a Jason Wu lipstick red faille dress with micro beading and Swarovski embroidered epaulets.

Mr Wu was shining when, via video tape, CFDA Board of Directors’ Special Tribute award winner Michelle Obama told she was thankful to “the many designers who so graciously and beautifully play a part,” in her First Lady style.

Kerry Washington showed off in her wonderful gunmetal gown created by Doo Ri.

“She designed this dress for me,” she said smiling.

Michelle Trachtenberg was also a nice-looking star accessorizing her Behnaz Sarafpour dress with nearly one million dollars in Tiffany diamonds. She obviously didn’t feel much comfortable wearing it:

In red carpet pictures, you’ll often see me touching my necklace. That’s because I’m so terrified of losing something that I periodically check to make sure everything is still there.”

Claire Danes was wearing an embroidered black silk crepe gown from Narciso Rodriguez. The girl always stays true to the designer.

They have been friends since Rodriguez dressed the then 17-year-old actress for her first Academy Awards.

Nicole Miller confessed:

I designed ten dresses for Melissa to choose from.” She was speaking about Melissa George who wanted to have the perfect look for the ceremony. “But in the end, we ended up choosing a dress from my latest collection.” George replied giggling: “Now I have ten new gowns to take home with me!”

Despite the fact Zoe Saldana told it “takes a village,” to keep her looking chic, Calvin Klein’s Francisco Costa begged to differ.

Look at her, she’s perfect! You just have to do her justice,” Costa said of dressing the star, who wakled beside him to the CFDA after-party, hosted by Calvin Klein Collection.

The evening wouldn’t be so interesting unless some of Hollywood’s most outstanding people helped celebrate emerging designers at the 2009 CFDA Awards. Among those we can mention Molly Sims (in Dolce & Gabbana), Kirsten Dunst and Justin Timberlake.

GQ creative director Jim Moore received the Eleanor Lambert award and was personally honoured by Justin Timberlake and Emmanuelle Chriqui.

It turns out I’m a guy who could pull off wearing a kilt,” Timberlake, who is the co-creator of the William Rast line, said of Moore’s influence on his fashion sense. “Who knew?”

Some designers are used to the ceremony and are not surprised to hear their names in the list of awardees. But there are some who are quite new to the fashion industry and still can’t believe they are honored to be at the event and receive the award. Now I’m talking about Rodarte.

It’s so hard to be up here when we think where we started, making clothes in our house three years ago,” said Kate Mulleavy. “We never thought we’d be a part of this world.”

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As you probably know at the ceremony CFDA Journal is distributed among the attendees. This time the nominees are featured in it wearing their own creations. It is worth seeing!

For example, Swarovski Womenswear Designer nominee Jason Wu models one of his evening gowns over a suit.
Designer of the Year nominees Laura and Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte are featured with rosy cheeks. International Award winner for Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, dons a pair of the bunny ears from his latest show on.

Another Swarovski Award For Womenswear Alexander Wang also poses in his creations.

The Journal itself won’t be available for ordinary customers unfortunately, but those who wish to be involved somehow can participate in a Popular Vote Award introduced by the CFDA.

So, anyone can nominate their favorite designer to win until June 9.

Here is the list of designer nominees:

Womenswear Designer Of The Year:
Marc Jacobs
Narciso Rodriguez
Rodarte’s Laura and Kate Mulleavy

Menswear Designer Of The Year:
Calvin Klein’s Italo Zucchelli
Michael Bastian
Band of Outsiders’s Scott Sternberg

Accessory Designer Of The Year:
Marc Jacobs
Vera Wang
Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez

Swarovski Award For Womenswear:
Jason Wu
Thakoon Panichgul
Alexander Wang

Swarovski Award For Menswear:
Patrik Ervell
Tim Hamilton
Robert Geller

Swarovski Award For Accessory Design:
Albertus Q. Swanepoel of Albertus Quartus
Justin Giunta for Subversive Jewelry
Alejandro Ingelmo

International Award:
Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton
Geoffrey Beene

Lifetime Achievement Award:
Anna Sui

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