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WHAT: Miami Fashion Week
WHEN: March 20-23
WHERE: Miami Beach Convention Center

Photos and Text by Kiangsy Palmini / @lpetitki

CoolHunting Project traveled to the East Coast to bring you the highlights of the Miami Fashion Week. The event, all dressed in glamour, celebrated with more than sixty designers and more than a hundred famous guests its 15th anniversary.

The Miami Fashion Week was helmed at the Miami Beach Convention Center from March 20^th to the 23^rd. Among the attendees we spotted the Venezuelan fashion designer Ángel Sánchez, the Mexican singer Paulina Rubio, and the Puerto Rican TV host Giselle Blondet. The event had the honor to have an exquisite selection of designers such as Kayce Armstrong, Crystal 4 U, Lisu Vega & Dolcevita Cashmere. Without a doubt the most anticipated moment was the closing night with appearances by a list of well-known European designers like Roberto Cavalli, Alberta Ferretti, Iceberg, Byblos, Moschino, Kriza, Vivienne Westwood & Stella McCartney.

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WHAT: Wearable Drawings de Elvira ‘t Hart
WHY: Because wearing “drawings” will be a trend

By Lizandro Melean / @lizandro_melean

Designer Elvira ‘t Hart has taken fashion one step further, or should I say one step back?…Hart has a new clothing line called Wearable Drawings. The collection shows dresses, ready to wear, that look like sketches, those first lines a designer draws to illustrate what he wants for his/her next collection.

Elvira has taken all her 2D sketches and she has turned them in 3D wearable pieces of clothing, the process was made using a laser to cut black leather and affixing it to sheer white fabric. “This project is about the research on how to translate something from 2D to 3D, which includes how we look at things that are flat or spatial, how we misinterpret or subconsciously use our imagination to fill in the missing information”, shares the artist.

This designer loves to draw everything that invades her imagination. She’s really imaginative and now she has turned every little line she has drawn in the past into a wearable piece of fabric “A lot of details contained within the first sketches are lost during the process of designing and executing clothing. By literally creating clothing patterns from the lines of sketches or sketching the patterns of clothing and cutting this out by laser, new shapes or suggestions of shapes are created.”

We can affirm that  turning your closet into a living sketchbook will be a trend this year.

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WHAT: The Blonds / NYFW Fall 2013
LINK: http://www.theblondsnewyork.com/

Text by Greta Alvarez / @Grets

Photos by Milk Studios

If Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock would have been fashionistas instead of well-known filmmakers, the result could have been pretty similar to the latest runway by The Blonds. Phillipe and David Blond were responsible of giving screams and drops of blood to the New York Fashion Week with their fall 2013 collection.

The knife is seen as a glam accessory and the horror and suspense as fashion elements, meanwhile Jack “Here’s Johnny” Torrance (Jack Nicholson) breaking the door in The Shining, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) in the last scene from Psycho, and the horror queen Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), captured giving one of the biggest movie screams in history are all the stars of this horrific, but stylish clothing pieces.

The nails were done by CND Nail Fashion, MAC cosmetics did the make-up, and the models walked just as if they were inside The Overlook Hotel or at The Bates Motel. The front row had famous people like Carmen Electra, and on the runway they had tons of blond wigs and a lot of crystals that are already a signature of the brand.

The Blonds gave yesterday one of the best tributes to Psycho and The Shining that the fashion world has ever seen.

Don’t blink, you can miss the entire runway (below)

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WHAT: The new LED earrings
$: $26.99

By Lizandro Melean / @lizandro_melean

Earrings. Everyone use them. Women, men and even Justin Bieber. Girls love earrings, necklaces, and others pieces of jewelry. If they shine a lot they’re better, that’s why people say “diamonds are a girl’s best friend”. These new LED earrings are for the geekiest girls around (and if you’re not too geeky, don’t cry girl, you can still wear them).

These earrings work with batteries. They come in white, blue, and red. When you want to go incognito (or when the batteries of your precious earrings are dying), wear the rubber backs (included in the package) and these will appear to be simple studs. We are in the future and we know you want to shine, so throw away your old earrings and open the door to the LED generation!

You can buy them @ Think Geek.

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WHAT: TOP 5 Pantyhoses

 @Grets 

Link: Nylon Journal

Link: via Luulla

LINK: URB Clothing

LINK: BZRStore

Link: Nylon Journal

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WHAT: Vintage de la Provincia
WHERE: Argentina
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/DLPVINTAGE

 Photos and Text by Sofía Blanco

Vintage de la Provincia was born like a concept created by Leandro Oro and Sandra Marini. They alongside other partners are in charge to recollect a unique selection of vintage clothes with a style that can be summarized in three words: election, fun and colors.

Although right now they’re located in Buenos Aires, the name comes from their trips to the Argentinian provinces. Furthermore, the project has also been shown in Berlin, Croatia, Milan, England and Chile.

Through events they create via Facebook, Vintage de la Provincia organizes the sales of each new batch of clothes. These sales are usually made in fairs that also offer good music and the perfect mood to go shopping. They don’t have a store and they don’t stay in a single place because the itinerant nature of its showroom is what makes the concept appealing. If you want to be in touch with the brand you should be subscribed to the Facebook account so they can fill yours with updates.

Inside you can find clothing, accessories, purses, etc. Some clothes are from prestigious designers and others are from local talents. The prices are affordable and they vary depending on the style, model or brand you choose (Gucci, Moschino, Balenciaga and others).