2010 NYC Fashion Week

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week is one of the most important fashion events of 2010 .It is an early forecas to chase new years upcoming trends, including makeup trends. It seems that after the flood of dark make up colors that were popular this winter, designers are heading in a much more neutral direction in terms of make up. There were a great many of pale or bare lips and smokey eyes with browns, taupes, golds and blush-less, sharply defined cheeks. It’s all very ’90s looking,but these are a few highlights:

Christian Siraino must have used Frida Kahlo as his muse this season as his models all sported big, bushy overdrawn eyebrows, brick red lips and even a hint of mustache. While I know that the actual look of his models is extreme, I feel that he is heading in the right direction by celebrating full natural brows and my favorite part of being a girl: Red, red lipstick.

Anna Sui, one of the long-sighted designer,went for an almost pale goth look with her models sporting alabaster skin, sharp cheekbones, brown smokey almost sunken eyes and (groan) brown lipsticks with darker brown lip liner. Really? Are we going down the path of Sharpie lip-liner again? It was awful in the ’90s and it’s still awful now.

By far the most use of color in a make up was not from one major designer, but from The Heart Truth’s Red Dress Collection. This line promoting heart disease awareness is modeled by celebs not supermodels and Joan Collins rocked the runway with her classic big hair and Dynasty make up. Felicity Huffman looks stunning and fresh faced too, and I even appreciated Kim Kardashian’s turn on the runway because at least she wasn’t wearing brown lipstick like every other model in New York.

Over all, Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week Fall 2010 just wrapped up–the last NY Fashion Week in Bryant Park (they’re moving to Lincoln Center). As always, it did not disappoint.And I have to say that I am kind of disappointed in the make up looks this year. In my opinion, nobody took any risks, with Siraino’s look being the most creative. With vampires, zombies and all things supernatural as popular as they are, designers are trying to emulate that, but I have a feeling that the emaciated pale/brown look with un-rouged cheekbones that could cut glass only works on Robert Pattinson and supermodels. That’s kind of what this years fashion week looked like to me, a VERY well-dressed zombie fashion show.

In addition,confidence,independent,brave and hardworking are core elements to woman who wants to be a charming stunner.

This year’s upcoming extravaganza – scheduled from Thursday, February 11 to Thursday, February 18, 2010 – will see designers gather from around the world to exhibit their Fall 2010 collections.

2010 London 3D Fashion Week

Fashion house Burberry is becoming the first major design house to screen a catwalk show in 3D across the world.

Burberry’s chief creative officer said the 3D show was evidence the label has embraced the technology of the 21st century.

Not only could the 3-D guests evaluate from all angles the latest way that the designer Christopher Bailey gave heritage a hitch, with vast aviator collars fanning behind narrow faces and wispy hair. But the worldwide audience watching on the Burberry Web site could click on an item and order it on the spot. The vision of catwalk to consumer via cyberspace has become a reality. And this show may herald a new 21st-century use of the runway.

The show was good strong stuff, in those khaki, muddy green and mustard colors that Burberry owns, with a richer cranberry palette for the cut-up velvet evening dresses. If the collection did not have quite the dash or daring of last season