2015年10月30日
Cringy Wedding Hashtags
Right now there are 35,562 #MrAndMrsSmith posts on Instagram.
You can probably guess that a fair amount are an ode to the film that gave us #Brangelina. The rest? Well, they belong to the unoriginal couples who attempted to generate a non-obvious hashtag for their wedding day.
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Nice try, guys.
By now, we all know splicing together first names for the sake of a cool couple moniker is no longer fetch, and so early 2000s (Bennifer anyone?). Sorry, #GIJoe.
It seems that now, the true measure of your relationship compatibility is that unique, witty wedding pound sign you attribute to your big day.
Your strategically selected wedding #phrase has arguably become one of the most important parts of getting married. It amasses all the pics of your drunk-dancing friends and family into an e-scrapbook, assembled for your joy (or embarrassment) at a later date.
Those memories are forever locked into the Matrix, and it’s easier than getting your friend’s photographer to capture the moments for a pricey fee.
However, adding an uninspired hashtag like #RyanLovesAlex to your Instagram caption eliminates the fun from holy Millennial matrimony.
#WhyYouShouldHaveOne
I’ll be honest: I hated my friend’s wedding hashtag. And since brides are especially sensitive about their bridal responsibilities, I secretly created a separate one for my own Instagram posts rather than point out her lack of creative genius.
There was a weird play on her hubby’s last name, and they crammed the wedding date on the end of their already-too-long hashtag.
Several friends must’ve had a similar aversion to the hashtag, since our group chat was filled with plenty of “Hey, what happened to that picture we took?” messages the next day.
We all agreed: The hashtag sucked more than not finding a potential bae at the event.
I know it all sounds like petty bullsh*t, but trust me, happiness consumes me when friends and family start settling down. I’ve endured my fair share of baby showers and wedding days, and I cry every time.
Still, bearing witness to every step of my friends’ peak #adulting years needs some ingenuity to separate their particular pomp and circumstance from the social media humdrum.
#WhyItCantBeCorny
Whether you want a royal ceremony like George and Amal Clooney or a nontraditional, intimate fête like Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux, every detail of your day should be dynamic and personalized.
According to The Knot and Mashable, over 55 percent of all weddings had a hashtag in 2014, so nailing one down for your I Do’s should be as important as making your floral arrangements and bridesmaids gifts Pinterest-picture.
Jazz it up a bit, will you? No one cares if your stress levels are higher than Wiz Khalifa on 4/20. You CAN generate a fabulous wedding hashtag! If your own creativity fails you, phone a friend.
For the record, I’m not married. Like, not even close.
Still, my fantasy wedding has a hashtag that’s so unique, witty (and slightly ironic) my hubby and I will remember it as much as our first dance. As should yours.
All it takes is a proper pun to make for a happier recap of your happily ever after. But if you have even the slightly inkling your wedding hashtag is gonna suck more than your beach wedding dresses, save us all the trouble of having to gossip about how bad it is and just nix it.
2015年10月27日
ChicOrnate Presents Fall 2015 Wedding Dress Trends
ChicOrnate, an online wedding retailer, announces its list of 7 trends for Fall 2015 wedding dresses.
October 19, 2015 (Los Angeles, CA) – ChicOrnate.com is the premier destination to find fashion forward dresses at affordable prices. As part of its recent design additions, ChicOrnate is announcing its seven Fall 2015 wedding dress trends.
ìWe are pleased to announce these Fall trends which were highlighted at Bridal Fashion Week. We at ChicOrnate never stop in the pursuit of the latest fashion tends and have cheap wedding dresses online that meet the needs of every type of bride. This Fall, many brides to be will be looking for the perfect dress and we are committed to helping them become a fashion leader and look astonishing on their special day.î
Fully Sleeved
One of the most expected trends this year is fully sleeved dresses. Theia, Dennis Basso, Claire Pettibone and Houghton have all included fully sleeved wedding dresses in their collections this Fall. Most designers are including tulle and lace to make the sleeves feel airy and light yet cohesive with the overall dress.
Spaghetti Straps
While strapless wedding gowns typically dominate the dress collections, spaghetti straps are certainly making a comeback. Designers such as Christos, Naeem Khan and Temperley London are all incorporating practical, supportive and complementary spaghetti straps into their wedding dresses.
Crop Top & Cut Out
Typically reserved for the red carpet and completely unexpected, designers are including crop tops and cut outs for their collections. Designers Monique Lhuillier, Theia and Carolina Herrera have all showcased these unique designs for Fall 2015.
Long Slit
One trend that we absolutely love this year from Bridal Fashion Week is the long slit. Designers are once again revisiting dresses typically found on the Hollywood red carpet and incorporating their designs into bridal collections. Badgley Mischka, Houghton and Pamella Roland are all featuring this highly noticeable and irresistible addition.
Backless
Backless wedding dresses are certainly not new, but this year Badgley Mischka and Temperley London have taken them to a whole new level. Many of these designs deserve as much attention in the back as they do on the front.
Tiered Layers
Badgley Mischka, Marchesa, Amsale and Pamella Roland are all featuring cascading tiers on their dresses this Fall. These ruffled layers add serious volume and are perfect for the more fashionably adventurous bride to be.
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Subtle Illusion Detailing
Designers such as Kenneth Pool and Amsale are including optical illusions in their dresses this Fall particularly around the neckline and arms. These wedding dresses add interesting detail and will have your groom doing a double take and your guests enjoying the view.
About ChicOrnate:
ChicOrnate is an online fashion retailer that features the latest, fashion forward designs for wedding dresses, prom dresses, evening dresses, cocktail dresses, homecoming and plus size dresses. We simplify the entire dress buying process by putting the best products and services directly into the hands of our customers worldwide. ChicOrnate provides the best quality and price since we hand make each and every dress at our factory. From the procurement of the finest material to the finishing of the ultimate product, we take control of the whole process, which allows us to provide superior quality dresses and to pass our savings onto you.
2015年10月22日
An Italian Wedding Fit For A Princess
“Beatrice Borromeo is a journalist who works with Newsweek, The Daily Beast and Il Fatto Quotidiano.”
That’s how the caption reads under Beatrice Borromeo’s photo for the guest list of Giorgio Armani’s latest fashion show at Milan’s fashion week.
But there is much more to say about 25-year-old Beatrice Borromeo, married to Pierre Casiraghi, son of Caroline of Monaco and grandson of Grace Kelly. Let's start with her last name. Beatrice Borromeo Arese Taverna, now Casiraghi, is the daughter of Paola Marzotto and Count Ferdinando Borromeo, whose noble family goes back to 1300. The Borromeos have been counts of Arona, a town on Lake Maggiore, since 1445 and Angera princes since 1916. They are related to Cardinal Carlo, who was archbishop and then patron saint of Milan, as well as Federigo, likewise a cardinal, who was mentioned in Manzoni’s The Betrothed, a masterpiece in Italian literature, and who founded the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.
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The reception for Beatrice and Pierre Casiraghi’s royal wedding was held at the Borromeo Castle, which faces the islands the family owns on Lake Maggiore. However lavish, it was by no means a royal wedding, as Beatrice does not vaunt a noble title (counts can only pass the title on to male children) and did not acquire one through marriage (her husband is not a prince). But she has the status, celebrity and – above all – the allure of royalty.
Her wedding was stunning, also thanks to the fashion show she offered the world with her constant lace wedding dresses australia changes, which reminded her long-standing admirers of her early appearances as a public figure and model. In the 2000s, she modeled for Italian and international brands, lending her face to ad campaigns for fashion houses. She then developed a passion for journalism and decided to get her master’s in journalism at Columbia University in New York after earning her law degree at Milan’s Bocconi University, where she met her future husband. While cementing her professional career, participating in news programs like Italy’s Annozero, her family connections confirmed her key role in the jet set.
Lavinia, her half-sister on her father’s side, married John Elkann, the Agnelli heir and now president of Fiat. Her brother Carlo (who is a count) married designer Marta Ferri (daughter of the photographer Fabrizio Ferri). Matilde, her other sister, marred a von Fürstenberg. And so the dynastic marriages and connections continue. Beatrice has a befitting pedigree on her mother’s side too. Grandmother Marta Marzotto is also a countess and mother to Matteo, who was president of Valentino and Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend.
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But let’s get back to Bea. Storytelling is her passion and after creating a television documentary about women and the ’Ndrangheta, her investigative report about teenagers and sex, vividly titled "Sexandtheteens," aired on SkyTg24. She collaborates with Il Fatto Quotidiano, where she writes about finance as well as books or whatever else crosses her path. In spite of her angelic appearance, slender figure, blonde hair and bright blue eyes, she is very resilient, especially in work. After all, she commuted to school on the tram, the nineteenth-century cable cars that still rattle through Milan, a city where an ancestral palace dating back to the late 1300s overlooks a piazza named after her family.
2015年10月19日
The most expensive clothing item
For epochs, women have spent tons of money on their wedding dresses — and they still do.
According to The Knot's most recent Real Wedding Study, the average wedding dress costs $1,357 — but given the wide disparity between of overall wedding costs (a Manhattan wedding is an average $76,328 and a Utah wedding is an average $15,257), it's likely that there are plenty of brides out there forking over upwards of $2000 on their dresses.
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But why do brides spend this much money on dresses that will only be worn once?
This is a divisive question, as some brides will loudly protest that this is the most important day of their lives, that they will proceed to look back on the photographs for eternities upon eternities, and would prefer something that fits like a glove and lets them sparkle in ways that nothing else could.
"It's not just a white dress," wedding dress designer Anne Barge said to NPR. "It's the fabric, and it's the workmanship, and it's the lining, and it's the fit."
"It's the dress of your life, and if there is ever one picture your [descendants] have of you it's the one in your wedding dress," Barge explained.
Additionally, NPR suggested that going all-out indicated total commitment. Go big, or go home.
Still, other brides deplore the wedding industrial complex, and others are on strict budgets.
But somewhere in between appealing to the defiant bride who doesn't want to fork over thousands of dollars and the highly profitable wedding industry, mass market retailers are selling wedding dresses.
J. Crew hopped on the wedding band in 2004, paving the way for other mass retailers to do the same. Most of the dresses are sold online or in the catalog. The retailer had a boutique on Madison Avenue Manhattan, but now its bridal sales are limited to a bridal salon in its Flatiron location. J. Crew sells a variety of wedding styles — even jumpsuits.
Jennifer Aniston even reportedly wore a wedding veil from J. Crew, according to Us Weekly.
Ann Taylor has sent brides down the aisle, as well. Ann Taylor dresses are even more modestly priced than J. Crew's — all are under $1,000, many are under $500, and some are under $250.
Even Target has forayed into the wedding industry with its line Tevolio. A wedding dress at Target costs just $52.48.
Anthropologie has a bridal offshoot called BHLDN — but the dresses run on the pricier side, compared to other mass retailers. However, shopping at BHLDN — while potentially comparable price-wise to buying a dress at a boutique — offers stressed-out brides the ease of purchasing the simple wedding dresses, as does buying a dress online from any of the aforementioned retailers.
That ideology is behind many of these mass retailer's bridal lines.
"Certainly as women—who are working and living very full lives—are planning a wedding, they're interested in shopping online," Christine Beauchamp, former president of Ann Taylor, said to The Wall Street Journal in 2010.
Wedding experts agree. "Especially for girls in a hurry, it’s really great because the majority of J. Crew [wedding dresses] is online and in the catalogs," Anne Chertoff, WeddingWire's trend expert, said to Business Insider.
"It's really great and really easy," she added.
And mass market dresses tend to evoke the sentiment of a relaxed bride (which not all brides can confess to be).
But the real heart of the matter is not the dress is mass market, but that there are problems that come with purchasing a wedding dress online.
Chertoff says she encourages brides to go to stores to try dresses on, at the very least.
"I usually encourage people to have that experience even if they're on a budget, you know, if there’s a J. Crew store in their area that sells bridal dresses, if there’s BHLDN [which has bridal boutiques in select markets], or even if it’s David’s Bridal, I think it’s really important that people — if this dress is something that has somewhat of a significance to them — go to a store and try it on," she said. "It’s not like trying a dress that you would wear to work. Bridal sizing is very different." Brides thereby forego receiving experts' advice, she explained, including on how alterations might work.
And it's less emotional.
"By ordering from a catalog, you miss out on that moment and that experience — especially if your mom's still around," she said. "That moment on the television shows — 'Say Yes to The Dress' — even when the cameras aren’t rolling on every single bride, that happens You’re twirling in it! You'll never want to take it off! You'll be beaming in it! ... It's something you'll never forget."
And places like Kleinfeld's specialize in dress for every kind of bride — including the modest bride, as Racked reported — which is something that a mass market retailer may struggle to provide.
Still, budget-minded Learnvest advises cash-strapped brides to look to mass market retailers as a way to save on cash. But Chertoff warns that a traditional retailer's wedding dress might not be so cheap. A J. Crew wedding dress can be $650 — or it can be $2,200. Chertoff advises that brides can pick up discounted designer dresses at David's Bridal without foregoing the experience.
That said, Chertoff concedes, "[buying a dress online is] a really easy way to do it — especially if the dress isn’t the most important thing."
But wedding dresses going mass market might not even be about the bride — a shock for most on their wedding days. More than anything, entering the wedding industry is a huge boon to businesses. It's no secret that the wedding industrial complex is real.
In fact, choosing to get into the profitable wedding industry helped J. Crew after the bridal line launched. "It's been an important growth business for us," CEO Mickey Drexler told the Wall Street Journal in 2010.
2015年10月15日
Newlyweds heartbroken after thief steals wedding photos
David Oh stares at the shattered rear window of his SUV, shards of glass around his feet.
"Can't believe this actually happened," he says.
The professional photographer's heavy sighs speak volumes. Somebody broke into his Hyundai while he was in a boxing gym working out Tuesday on Capitol Hill and stole Oh's backpack.
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"I felt like someone kicked me in my stomach," said Jessie Green.
Green and his new bride Liana hired Oh to photograph their October 3rd wedding at Seattle's Yacht Club. Liana noticed that Oh posted on Facebook that his backpack was stolen. Her husband called Oh and she realized from his face that their wedding photos were gone. They were on a laptop and hard drive that were inside the backpack.
Liana went from blissful to heartbroken.
"I just put my head in my hands," she said after learning theMacBook Pro with 800 images of their wedding day was was.
David had 12 pictures on his home computer from the event, but nothing from the first dance or the nervous walk down the aisle.
"I have that moment in my head, but it's different than having something tangible that I can reflect back on," said Liana.
The bride and groom paid half the thousand dollar photo fee in advance and have yet to work out further details with David but say they hurt for him and the burden he bears.
"It's just sheer shock, like oh my God, what am I going to do?" Oh said.
The Greens say this isn't their first hurdle as a couple. They survived the stress of long distance relationship. Then immigration issues almost kept Jessie's Canadian wife from the wedding.
"We planned a wedding and then didn't know if I was gonna be able to be there," she said.
Monday before their Saturday vows, the paperwork came through.
"In the end we have each other which is what we wanted," Jessie said.
But they still want the pictures from their picture-perfect day and encourage anyone with information about the missing laptop or hard drive to contact Seattle Police.
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2015年10月12日
The Day My View of Weddings Changed
When I was little, I was a flower girl in a couple of weddings. Back then, I just thought weddings were pretty. Pretty flowers, pretty dresses, pretty girls. Just pretty.
As I began growing up, I would start putting myself in the bride’s shoes. What would my wedding be like? Who would I marry? Who would my bridesmaids be? What would my dress look like?
After I myself got married, I would go to weddings and reflect on my own marriage. I knew what it meant to be married. I would think about my husband. I would remember the feeling of being the bride. I would think about how excited the bride must be. How nervous. Unsure of what the future would hold as her role would change to wife instead of girlfriend.
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This week, that all changed. This week, I realized that I am relating less to the bride, and more to someone else.
This week, I was at a wedding and I watched the family being escorted in. It was the typical walk in—the sweet great-grandparents, followed by grandparents, siblings, and then boom– the mother of the bride walked in.
I thought to myself “Oh she looks gorgeous! I wonder if the grooms or brides moms stress over their diet, hair, nails, and dress before their child’s wedding…” Then it hit me. I got the chills. One day I will be that mom. I will be the mom watching as her son gets married. I will be the one giving his heart to another woman.
I will be the one spending hours praying over my son’s wedding. I will be the one who hopes the bride will involve me. Hoping that I get to be there to watch her pick a dress. Watch her take bridal pictures. Help decorate. That young bride will be the girl I have prayed for, for years and years.
Someday it will be my time to be that mom.
And I feel that time closing in on me. I know it is still years away. But years turn to months, which turn to weeks, which turn to days, to hours, to minutes. It will be here before I know it.
I’ve never put much thought into it. I knew that the moms spend time on the wedding, but now I’m realizing that the moms spend years on the marriage itself. They spend years pouring their love, kindness, discipline, into that future bride or groom. Years are spent investing into their child’s future marriage.
And I realized as I watched that mom walk down the aisle this week that much more goes into preparing for your child’s wedding than just hair, nails, makeup, dresses and diets. I am preparing my child right now. My husband and I are raising him to be a husband, friend, servant, lover and more.
So while my time to be that mom may seem distant, I know that what I am doing right now will have a lasting impact on who my son will become when it is his turn to walk the aisle.
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2015年10月06日
For the real hits of fashion week
Fall fashion season is drawing to a close in Paris this week. Among this year’s runway trends are glitter (London),stripes (Milan) and penises (good old New York). For a more detailed analysis of which looks will percolate down to the masses, you might turn to a sartorial mainstay such as Vogue. Or you could ask a computer scientist.
It turns out that for identifying general trends, a computer program might be as good a fashion guide as Vogue’slegendary editor Anna Wintour. Researchers from Taiwan and the University of Rochester in New York have developed machine learning algorithms that enable a computer to spot the fashion trends that make their way from the runway to the street. The work may lead to tricks for quickly pinpointing what’s popular with the people, Kezhen Chen, computer science major and study coauthor told me.
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Chen started the project while taking a course with the University of Rochester’s Jiebo Luo, an expert in data mining and computer vision. Luo says the research might eventually help garment makers and distributors better tailor the supply side of the chain. This might mean that in the future, stores could keep up with demand if a superpopular style of shoe or shirt is flying off the racks.
To start, researchers trained a collection of algorithms to identify things like a body and clothing. Using a training set of images of people from the Web, the machine learning algorithms mastered identifying a human figure and nine anatomical sections, such as torso, upper left arm or lower right leg. The algorithms also learned to assess features such as color and texture, clothing categories such as “skirt” and elements such as a placket (an opening in a garment, like those at the neck or sleeve of a dress shirt, that can be decorative or that hosts the buttons and button holes, thank you Google).
Then the team created two datasets: One contained thousands of images from the February 2014 and 2015 New York fashion shows and the other contained hundreds of images of people’s clothes gleaned from social media sites like Facebook and Twitter (see #streetchic) from the corresponding spring and summers. (The researchers’ paper, “Who are the devils wearing Prada in New York City?,” will be presented at the ACM Multimedia conference in Brisbane, Australia, at the end of October.)
The computer picked up on several general trends. In the February 2015 fashion show, for example, tank tops, plackets and necks with collars became more prominent, as did longer length skirts. These styles also made their way to the street with similar representation in the street chic dataset as they had on the fashion show set. Blue in the lower body and blue, cyan, red and multicolor items in the upper body also were prominent in both datasets.
The program also spotted modifications to the catwalk styles. People on the street were more likely to wear longer sleeves, for example, and bright colors on both the upper and lower body, while fashion shows kept their brights to the upper body.
If you knew what a placket was before reading this post, congratulations. But if you are congratulating yourself for your lack of fashion knowledge — maybe you’re that person who bucked the trend by wearing bright pants — don’t be too smug. Variations on the fashion show styles were pretty minor compared with the amount of style that did influence the outfits of the masses.
So perhaps Miranda Priestly of Devil Wears Prada (played in the film by Meryl Streep and supposedly modeled after Anna Wintour) was right in that scene where she dresses down journalist Andrea Sachs (played by Anne Hathaway) for thinking the schlumpy blue sweater she’s wearing means that she doesn’t care about fashion. The sweater’s color, Priestly notes, is the direct result of color choices made by the crème de la crème of fashion designers.
“It’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry,” Priestly says, “when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room.”
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