| Brit-rock hairstyle: men’s hair trend There's a men's hairstyle that hasn't left the catwalk in some time: the slightly tousled, slightly devil-may-care, forward sweeping men's hairstyle. It's been called many a thing, but with its Regency overtones and the fact that it continues to be favoured and interpreted by many a British indie band, it's a hairstyle we've dubbed the Brit-rock hairstyle. It's also a hairstyle with enduring appeal and while we've been talking about it since 2009, we have to be clear that it has evolved. The 'wet look' of 2010, for instance, will look positively outdated in 2012 for instance. Read on for more information about the men's Brit rock hairstyle, including a how-to guide on how to wear this 2012 men's hair trend. And don't forget to keep up to date with all of 2012's fashion trends by subscribing to Fashionising.com's newsletter or RSS feed.  Click to read 'Brit-rock hairstyle: men’s hair trend for 2011 / 2012' Hippie living with Anja Rubik Vogue Paris isn't ready to farewell the '70s just yet. Or, if they are, they'd prefer to do it with a bang not a whimper. Anja Rubik is the September issue's hippie icon. Melanie Ward's styling does its best to embrace every possible bohemian free-loving '70s cliche in living memory, from cossack hats to suede fringing, high-waisted denim to all kinds of luxe fur coats. But there's also a kind of modern softness that forms in floating white sunday pleats and sophisticated cuts.  Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Hippie living with Anja Rubik' A beautiful facade: Madonna’s W.E in Vanity Fair Let the wardrobe-lust truly begin. We already had a pretty good inkling that the costuming in Madonna's W.E would leave us inspired, such is the power of Arianne Phillips (you may note A Single Man and Walk The Line amongst her list of previous wardrobe credits); now that inkling has become a certainty. James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough (who play King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in the film) step into their regal roles for a shoot in the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine, photographed by Tom Munro.  Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'A beautiful facade: Madonna’s W.E in Vanity Fair' Anna Selezneva: a stunning deja vu Anna Selezneva looks so gorgeous in this shoot for the latest issue of Vogue Russia that I'm willing to ignore the deja vu that gently tugs at the back of my mind. The styling - in this instance by Geraldine Saglio - just doesn't seem entirely new. Thinking back that's probably because it might as well be a direct sequel to last month's shoot starring Daria Strokous, who also posed in a mix of floating evening gowns and masculine tuxedo-inspired suiting, and who also hid mysteriously under the wide brims of floppy black hats.  Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Anna Selezneva: a stunning deja vu' Anja Rubik rocks a Mark Fast mini Anja Rubik has a knack for pulling off the damn near impossible. She made wearing a see-through practically non-existent skirt in broad daylight look like a stylish walk in the proverbial park. And her next feat: a dress that's both gapingly open-weave and body consciously skin tight. Once again Anja paints over a revealing dress with the smooth brush of sophistication. And once again it's her long legs and elegantly lanky frame that allow her to do it so effortlessly; not to mention that ever-important air of confidence. Without that, her ensemble just wouldn't reach the same high score.  Click to read 'Anja Rubik rocks a Mark Fast mini' Planking: how to do it fashionably It's a fact that the best fashion designers are often the ones who can interpret where society is going; such designers create a 'chicken or the egg' conundrum - did they create the trend, or merely spot it before anyone else? Photo shoots are different, however. The ones that resonate the strongest tend not to be those that show an interpretation of society's future, but rather an interpretation of where society is right now. Case in point: Vogue Italia's interpretation of Twitter and the plethora of rehab inspired photo shoots that emerged in 2007 mirroring many a starlets fall from grace. Today the fact Twitter is common and rehab a faux pas leaves us with... 'planking'. Given just how many daily papers have opined that planking will in fact kill you, it hardly needs an introduction. Suffice to say that the overreaction to something that is effectively whimsical, if not entirely out of line with Diesel's Be Stupid campaign, has inspired a fashion pictorial.  Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Planking: how to do it fashionably' Goddess legs & L.A glamour If you have legs like a Goddess and enough daring to pull off a skin-tight fuchsia bodysuit and lime green platform heels, then you're probably in the vast minority. Tiiu Kuik has the legs (really has the legs) but probably doesn't go about in this kind of outfit when she's not in front of Max Abadian's lens. That doesn't matter though. Fashion is about fantasy, and while some of the outfits in this saturated, summery assault of L.A glamour aren't exactly ready for day-wear, they serve their purpose as a fashion editorial. They grab your eye. For the other outfits you need legs (even if not the legs) and a bit of daring, but it's a more toned-down L.A glamour that works away from the palm trees, too. The key to it all is that, whether you're decked out in a teeny bikini or floating in a bold summer frock, this kind of glamour look is pretty much guaranteed if you just add three things: lashings of gold jewellery, bright red lips, and slick hair.  Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Goddess legs & L.A glamour' Fashion Trend Inspiration Fashionising.com not only brings you all the latest fashion trends, we constantly bring you inspiration on how they can be worn and styled too. Here's the most recent inspiration: Current Fashion Sales If you'd like to advertise a fashion sale follow the link. Featured Editorial Recent Reviews Old Retail vs. New Retail: the other fashion war As it is in many a part of the world, fashion retail in Australia is in trouble. So much so that some commentators have stated that the future will see the death of retail. Personally I see that as a melodramatic: retail has existed for millennia and isn't about to disappear. Rather, I firmly believe that the issue, and the debate that comes with it, is better viewed through the lens of 'new versus old'. In much the same way that we recognise that, while there's new media and old media, some form of media will continue to exist, so too must we recognise that there's Old Retail and New Retail. And Old Retail doesn't mean a store comprised of bricks and mortar, in much the same way that Old Media isn't restricted to print. In fact, it's all about the attitude. Case in point: Paris' Colette. With one store in a sole city of the world, it should be facing the same crisis as many of its retail counterparts. Nothing could be further from the truth. While others opine their plummeting sales figures, Colette is instead announcing a collaboration with Aston Martin. Facing the same odds as every other retail, Colette has stayed relevant, stayed cool. They've got the right attitude. Slowly other retailers are waking up to that fact.  Click to read 'Old Retail vs. New Retail: the other fashion war' Read: fashion & the future The nature of the way that Fashionising.com is structured is such that it sees us always talk about things relevant to a fashioniser, but seldom about the view we have of the world that makes the editorials and pictorials relevant in the first place. Off hand I can only thing of our curated wardrobe manifesto as a piece that speaks directly about the life and ideals of a fashioniser and little else. Another piece that speaks directly to the heart of what we're about is a recently published interview with Daniel P Dykes, this publication's Editor-in-chief. In it Daniel discusses everything from what Fashionising.com is about and who it is for, the loaded topic of Print vs. Online Media, what's best and what's sexy. 
Click to read 'Read: fashion & the future' Coming soon: Fashion Exposed, Melbourne 2011 Fashion Exposed, Australia's must-go fashion industry trade fair, will be in Melbourne before we know it. Taking place from the 28th-30th of August, its schedule is jam-packed as usual full of exhibitors, business seminars, parades, salon shows and more. Also running concurrent to Fashion Exposed this year at the Royal Exhibition Building is Premiere - the boutique fair for exclusive labels. If you haven't already registered to visit, you can still do so now. For Premiere registrations head here, or visit here to register for Fashion Exposed.  Click to read 'Coming soon: Fashion Exposed, Melbourne 2011' Topshop officially confirmed for for Oz The details exclusively revealed by Fashionising.com in June about the coming of Topshop to Australia have now been confirmed by Topshop's owner Sir Philip Green. The announcement has confirmed the following details on the brand's move into Australia;  Click to read 'Topshop officially confirmed for for Oz' Young models: is it what we want? The allure of a normal, beautiful model is now lost somewhere between the changing seasons, trends and society's ideologies. The emphasis on a 'normal model' is vital here because, initially, it revolved around their perfection and no one poked a finger at them. Everyone admired the healthy hair, enviable curves and irresistible features. That normalcy is not appreciated in the industry anymore, it's often labelled as boring and goes unnoticed. Foreseeing a booming career for someone who is a regular long-legged stunner is high risk. Contrarily, a good portion of the fashion industry today seeks out the atypical model. A model who stands out as a result of being plus size, anorexic, androgynous, a grandmother with heavy-duty botox or a 10-year old girl. Only then will someone notice, write about it and fill the comment box with passive-aggressive remarks. Advertisements, editorials, look books and fashion shows have to bubble up a controversy. A spring/summer campaign has to come with a side serve of a worldwide debate if it's going to stick in minds. And so it did in the past week, when images of French model Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau resurfaced and got severe media critique. The uproar of a 10-year old draped in a leopard print throw, lying suggestively on a bed has hit the roof. The images of her sultry stare and voluptuous pout are a viral sensation. Psychologists are analysing how young is too young for seduction and parents are worrying whether their little girls are growing up too fast.  Picture Gallery Preview Click To View Full Gallery Click to read 'Young models: is it what we want?' The curated wardrobe in Collection Magazine Decadence. It's a word that often finds its way into discussions around fashion: fashion as excess, fashion as luxury. And it's a word that echoes through the second issue of Collection Magazine, not just forming the overarching theme but asking the question of where decadence fits with fashion throughout history. If you happen to pick up a copy of the issue which, like issue 1, features a hard cover and perforated pages that you can gently pull out and collect, you'll find 12 features around the decadence theme. One of them is by Fashionising.com's Daniel P Dykes, talking about the idea of a curated wardrobe and how it sits alongside notions of luxury and decadence.  Click to read 'The curated wardrobe in Collection Magazine' Wardrobe upgrade: the perfect, custom made shirt A man starts off life by having his clothes bought for him. In time he begins to buy them for himself 'off the rack'. And then there's a fork in the road. When it's encountered some chaps opt to return to the beginning and have their clothes bought for them. Others decide to continue to self-indulge, a journey that oft sees them pursue greater fineries. For such men, bespoke pieces are not just something of the ultimate, sartorial luxury, but when first indulged in bespoke pieces are also a right of passage. Adding to their lustre, bespoke pieces were for a long time out of the reach of many. With the rise of the fashion label and all that it brought with it, bespoke suits became less coveted, custom made shirts almost unheard of. As it has done with so many other things, the rise of new media and e-commerce has changed all that. Now bespoke is firmly back on in the fashion forwards' conscious, replacing the too often talked about 'label'. And something else has cropped up in the middle, something that has always existed but was never as easily accessible: made-to-measure. The internet is now full of sites offering each of us the 'tailored' experience, with suits and shirts of all varieties offered at prices far cheaper than other custom offerings and sometimes cheaper than the high-street's offerings. But cheap doesn't necessarily mean good. And made to measure don't always convey quality. So with men everywhere at risk of buying made-to-measure shirts that make them look the fool, Fashionising.com has set out to help find the perfect shirts to go along with the perfect suit. Because we're that nice. After the break you'll find my thoughts on getting the best shirts possible, along with a review of the best clothiers from which to get them. 
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