Fashion Week!

The Spring 2015 collections are here! Follow Juno Says Hello on Twitter and Facebook for regular updates from NY-London-Milan-Paris, including photos from the shows. 

Juan Carlos Obando Spring 2015

Christian Siriano Spring 2015

Sally LaPointe Spring 2015

We also post photographs from earlier fashion weeks:

  

Front row with Diane von Furstenberg and Nan Kempner, 1974

Anna Wintour, 1990

A fashion show in New York, 1964 by Elliott Erwitt

Remember that it's Fashion's Night Out on 23rd September! For more details of #FNO events around London please click on this link. 

Retro manicures: Dietrich to von Teese

The right dress is just a starting point. Perfume, jewellery and a killer manicure finish an outfit. Here is our selection of the finest talons from films, magazines and runway shows. Enjoy.

Rita Hayworth in 1941 movie Blood and Sand 

Vogue, 1952

Bette Davis painting her nails, 1939

Beauty editorial from Vogue, 1956

Diana Dors 

Lucille Ball 

Jean Harlow's Art Deco manicure

Victoria von Hagen in Vogue, 1952

Joan Crawford with her femme fatale nails

Beauty pages from Vogue, 1952

A fantastic trashy novel cover from 1959. Ladies take note - if you want to be badass, you need a decent manicure. 

Marlene Dietrich was famous for her long fingers and beautiful nails. The scene in Blue Venus where she pulls off the hand of her gorilla suit to reveal a lily-white hand caused a scandal at the time. Check out the video here - the big reveal happens around 2min35. 

 


Suzy Parker


Would you mess with this woman?


Nail polish ad photographed by John Rawlings

And 21st century women wear it well... 

Blake Lively with her half-moon nails

Nail art queen Rihanna with her reverse tips. Love the fur!

Lana del Rey tried a similar look for Vogue magazine in 2011

Adele with her red-backed 'Louboutin' manicure

The mistress of retro nails, Dita von Teese

DvT: never knowingly underdressed 

Nicola Roberts's heart-shape manicure 

The proliferation of digital cameras backstage at fashion shows mean that no detail goes unnoticed. Here is a selection of images from recent designer collections: 

Backstage at Vena Cava

The finished result 

Donna Karan 

Jason Wu

Thakoon 

Badgley Mischka

Nail kit backstage at PPQ

Ruffian 

Philip Lim 

Behnaz Sarafpour 

Glamour Magazine, France 

Alessandro dell'Acqua's bags do the hard work for you

Our next ten online customers will receive a bottle of Chanel nail polish in Pirate with their order. To visit our e-boutique, please click here. 

Looking for more inspiration? This link has 50 photos of amazing half-moon manicures.

Sequins & Style: British Couturier Nicholas Oakwell and the Influence of 1970s Nightlife

A few days before Paris haute couture fashion week started, British designer Nicholas Oakwell presented his own collection in the ballroom at Claridges Hotel. 'We're flying the flag for British couture. It's all made in Britain and a lot of the models were British, too'.

I am completely in love with his designs -  inspired by the jewellery house Grima, established in the 1960s. Andrew Grima created the beautiful jewellery for 1967 movie Casino Royale, starring Ursula Andress...

Other points of reference include the New York nightlife of the 1970s, the work of artist Franz Klein and 1978 movie Eyes of Laura Mars starring Faye Dunaway. Have a look at this amazing promo clip for its original release. The costumes are unbelievable... 

This particular sense of glamour comes through in Oakwell's collection. The designer is noted for his heavily-beaded evening gowns. 

Here is the back of the same gown. Love the disco-luxe hairstyle... 

Photo: Reem Kanj

Here is the video of the entire AW12 couture collection, styled by Gianluca Longo. The beaded evening dresses begin around 4.20...




If you love this look but can't quite justify the couture price tag, we have something very similar in the boutique at the moment: an original 1960s silvery-blue sequin gown by Harrods Atelier. 

Click here to view this dress in our online store.

We have another vintage sequin gown in stock, Dark Side of the Moon. 

 Click here to view this dress in our online store.

I'm going to post about Studio 54-inspired eveningwear later this month - in the meantime enjoy the stunning finale from Oakwell's SS2012 show: