Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs on TED - Ideas Worth Spreading

Aimee Mullins on TED talk. She is inspiring by taking her disability and changing the conversation in society today. She talks about fashion and beauty and how that she can transform her legs into art forms.

"From an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.” (Aimee Mullins)

Check out this fantasy movie poster where Aimee was an actress in the movie!

I Heart Gossip Girl's Fashion!

Pinterest has Gossip Girl Style of pins from their episodes.


I would love to own the 5th season! The CW knows how to put on the drama and add amazing fashion!

Designers, Fashions and Runways | Entertainment Studios

Designers, Fashions and Runways | Entertainment Studios

You can watch season one on Netflix and to continue the series it's now an online TV show. What I enjoy about this show is that I can learn about designers that I haven't heard of before. It's also a behind the scenes and interview with the designer during each episode. The designers tell their stories of how they began their career in the fashion industry.

This site also gives you the option to subscribe through Google Reader for alerts when they publish new episodes. I recommend buying a sketchpad and watch for inspiration.

Valentino: The Last Emperor (2008)

It's been 4 years since Valentino's documentary that takes you through his process from start to finish of his last few collections of his life. If you are curious about how creativity can build a Fashion Empire this is must see!

Short Synopsis

Produced and directed by Matt Tyrnauer, Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine, Valentino: The Last Emperor provides a first-time glimpse into Valentino’s world of bygone glamour. Filmed from June 2005 to July 2007, the crew shot over 250 hours of footage with exclusive, unprecedented access to Valentino and his entourage. The resulting non-fiction film is a portrait of an extraordinary partnership, the longest running in fashion, and a dramatic story about a master confronting the final act of his celebrated career.

The Twilight of Haute Couture

One of the film’s brightest stars is haute couture itself. Today, haute couture appears to have entered a twilight phase amidst an era of global branding and mass retailing. The opportunity to capture, in the highest level of detail, the process of making haute couture was one of the reasons director Matt Tyrnauer was so attracted to the project. “This was something very remarkable. I felt it was very important to capture what may be the last great couture house of the golden era still operating under the man who founded it,” Tyrnauer says.

Each haute couture dress sells for tens, sometimes hundreds, of thousands of dollars. Valentino is often considered the last of the true couture masters, having been trained during the 1950’s under Jean Desses, who learned the craft of couture in the 1920’s. There is an unbroken lineage in the work of Valentino from the golden age of couture to the present day.

The Seamstresses

Valentino: The Last Emperor details the passion and emotion and labor that is a part of the haute couture process. From the sketchbook to the runway, the film captures the human drama of a dying art. To achieve this, many hours were spent filming Valentino’s team of highly trained couture seamstresses, who work in white lab coats in white rooms at Valentino headquarters in Rome’s Palazzo Mignanelli.

The seamstresses, for the most part, have worked for Valentino for generations. Some are the daughters of women who have worked there in the past, others have been there for nearly half a century. While the seamstresses are apprenticed and not formally trained, their mastery of the craft is unparalleled. At one time, there were two hundred seamstresses at work making Valentino couture, all by hand. At the time the movie was shot, there were approximately seventy.

Director Matt Tyrnauer was very intrigued with the couture process, and saw a lot of potential in elaborating on the process on film. “In film school, when a professor showed us Buster Keaton’s The General, about a train engineer during the Civil War, he quoted Keaton as saying that, at the film’s end, he wanted the viewer to know how to drive a locomotive,” says Tyrnauer. “I had that in mind as we filmed the movie. I told the cinematographer that I wanted viewers to feel they knew how to make a couture dress by the time the film was over.”

Kim Kardashian was Flour-Bomed

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This is my follow up post from my original post here regarding one of the Kardashian sisters advertising campaign with PETA against wearing fur! Kim Kardashian was flour-bombed at a fragrance launch in Hollywood! She mysteriously dropped all of the charges.  I don't believe it has anything to do with her marriage, but more that people are tired of her ripping their ideas off. They probably have something on her in order to have the guts to pull off a stunt like this!

People can't protect ideas but they can protect trademarks and copyrights. The best thing you can do for your creations is learn more about Intellectual Property law!