About me: Launched in 2007 by Joost van Gorsel, award-winning creative director and publisher of Rotterdam-based top-10 international fashion zine Iconique.com and Melissa Sterry, founder & CEO of London-based sustainable innovation think tank, agency and incubator Societás - the ‘Iconique Societás Awards’ bring the global spotlight to the best emerging talent in fashion photography, illustration and styling and celebrate innovation in the fashion visual arts.
The awards jury for 2009 includes acclaimed milliner Louis Mariette - credited as one of the 250 most influential creatives in the world by I-D Magazine, Sandor Lubbe - creator of Dutch magazine and owner of Zoo Magazine co-founded by Bryan Adams, James Mills - CEO of StyleNoir.co.uk and publisher of The Black Book of Fashion and Art, award-winning New York designer, surfer and tri-athlete Natalia Allen of Design Futurist, Cypriot fashion designer, filmmaker and publisher of cult fashion blog UnNoUVEaUiDEAL Filep Motwary, McCann Worldwide's Head of Innovation and awarding-winning creative director Justin Champney, Celebrity Make-up Artist Emma Day whose clients have included Daniel Craig, Kiera Knightly and Róisín Murphy, Editor of jotta.com’s magazine Millie Ross, National President of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada Rod Roodenburg , fashion stylist and Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair Italia Michael Dye, award-winning fashion designer, author and contributor to Fashion Capital Samata Angel, award-winning Australian Skin Illustrator, photographer and sculptor Emma Hack, Co-Chairman & Co-Founder of Fashion Business Club Courtney Blackman and the award founders Joost van Gorsel of Iconique.com and Melissa Sterry of Societás.
Media Partners of the Iconique Societás Awards include über chic online fashion magazine Stylenoir.co.uk and jotta.com – digital community for the arts founded in partnership with Central Saint Martins and The University of the Arts.
FESTIVAL FASHION BAZAAR BRICK LANE THIS SUNDAY! (next to the truman brewery by the bus n the pink car n that!)
Festival Fashion Bazaar is a one off special pop-up market of independent designer festival-geared fashion and accessories situated next to the Truman Brewery, in Ely's Yard, Brick Lane.
Come and enjoy the bohemian atmosphere as this is not your everyday market! Expect roaming mannequins, bazaar performers from Prangsta Entertainments, Whoopie Club and other festival acts along with Ely's Yard's usual fine selection of world foods.
Expect to see Playsuit Parlour’s cutesy playsuits and shorts, OOPS! Fashion's African/vintage mash up pieces, MissChief Glitz head-dresses,
Havelli’s delicately block-printed tent bedding, Temple of Sensuality’s seductive lingerie, Shock and Souls sparkly spectacular french vintage,
Lily Vanilli’s exquisite cupcakes, Antic Establishment’s roaming minstrels,
Woppie Club’s show girls and much more!!!
beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's
best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that
tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies”
ML E:)GROS KISS