Born This Way - God Bless Fashion | The CFDA Fashion Award

The CFDA Fashion Awards are the Oscars of the fashion industry, honoring the best and brightest designers. Check out the style hot  spots of this year's event.

-Edisa

(Disi'sCoutureLifestyle®)

Fashion Icon Award winner Lady Gaga, in custom Mugler.       

 Swarovski Award for Womenswear winner Prabal Gurung, with Alessandra Ambrosio, in a dress by the designer, with Robert Lee Morris jewels.

 Doutzen Kroes, in J. Mendel.

 Diane von Furstenberg in her on design

 Jessica Alba, in custom Diane von Furstenberg, with Fallon and Swarovski jewels.

Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen,

both in The Row,

with Cartier jewels and The Row bags.

Liv Tyler, in Proenza Schouler.   

                                                       Miranda Kerr, dress by Michael Kors

Kerry Washington, in Calvin Klein.

 Naomi Watts, in Calvin Klein Collection.

 Zac Posen with Sessilee Lopez, in a dress by the designer.

Karolina Kurkova, in Diane von Furstenberg and Atelier Swarovski jewels.

(images: Style.com)

The Royal Wedding

Last weekend was the most important weekend and a historical moment in England, in honor to celebrate Catherine Middleton and Prince William’s wedding and millions of people enjoyed watching the wedding live from screen.

As almost everyone, I had to work on Friday 29^th of April, but of course I watched the wedding online from livestream. I was so excited to se Kate’s wedding dress, and when she came out,  wow she really looked like those porcelain princess dolls.

Kate Middleton and Sarah Burton have successfully kept the secret in fashion history.

The wedding dress is pure, classy and elegant. Catherine has followed her own taste: a V-neck décolleté and a silhouette that stayed close to her torso, and long, delicate lace sleeves that evoked, perhaps, the wedding dress worn by Grace Kelly when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956.

She wore the Cartier Halo tiara (lent by the Queen, who herself was given it by her mother on the occasion of her eighteenth birthday) which carried the nuanced balance of simplicity, regalia, and family meaning. 

Just married! <3

So in Love!

“The best design,” Cartier’s director of image, style, and heritage, Pierre Rainero, said last night at dinner at the Lion in New York, “requires no explanation.” That’s the beauty of the brand’s Love collection, which was founded in the seventies by designer Aldo Cipullo’s now-iconic Love Bracelet. Its closure system is legendary: A tiny screw affixes it semi-permanently onto the wrist, only to be removed by the included screwdriver. According to Rainero, around the time of its debut, salespeople encouraged couples to buy them in pairs and toss away the key, as it were, making a commitment to love for life. (They were also instructed to avoid selling them to singletons, at least those who weren’t buying them as gifts for significant others.)

For the latest edition of the Love collection (in Cartier stores and online today), however, not all of the pieces are so permanent. Pendant earrings in white gold and diamonds, drop necklaces, and sapphire-and-amethyst-crusted rings round out the offerings. But Love will always be known for its bracelets, and its newest is a stylish update, not to mention a fine concession to a more contemporary view of “forever.” Love everlasting? It’s a beautiful goal. But just in case it doesn’t work out, the pink gold chain comes with an easy-to-open lobster-claw clasp.

—Matthew Schneier

Photo: Vincent Wulveryck, Cartier 2010

ROSE GOLD JEWERLY

I love pink gold for Fall.  Its slightly unexpected, and a softer choice than yellow gold.  This Cartier ring is beautifully simple and the colour offsets a fading tan beautifully.
Cartier “Entrelacés” ring in 18K rose gold, $850

Available at Cartier boutiques and www.cartier.com