Ania B for Avenue

Here are the shots from my shoot in the fall for Avenue Magazine with the beautiful Ania B.! This shoot was for the style Q&A and I got to use Ania's own clothes to come up with a fun fashion shoot in the newly renovated Memorial park. 


Photos by Jason Eng, Art Direction by Anders Knudsen, Hair and Make-up by Alicja Wilkosz, Styling by Leah Van Loon, and Model Ania B.

 

My favourite, of course, is the red Lanvin for H&M dress in front of the fountain so here is a little shot of it from my iPhone with a dog that happened by and a behind the scenes shot. 

Leah Van Loon - Stylist

I started a fan page. That sounds so smarmy but really I just wanted a place that I could be a bit more off the cuff and share my fashion finds with you and not annoy my Facebook friends too much. You will find some of my work published there and I am TRYING to keep the content different than my Twitter or my blog. It is also a place for us to discuss fashion or ask questions, a place to interact more. 


 In the interest of keeping things varied I will just post a few shots from my recent editorial on The Ones 2 Watch, and you can view the rest on my page --- Leah Van Loon - Stylist!

If you aren't on FB or are just not into it you can also view this story on The Ones 2 Watch.


Photography by Wilkosz & Way
Styling by Leah Van Loon
Hair & Makeup by Alicja Wilkosz using MAC and Bumble&Bumble
Model(s) Aleisia Arkley @ Mode Models & Ania Boniecka @ Next Canada

Lingerie

Finally our lingerie story from We Like We Love magazine is out! Actually it was out last week online but as of this week it is launched in print (HERE). The story was shot in my house, which was a treat for me because I didn't have to haul all my stuff to the shoot and back! Not that panties are that cumbersome. 

When I first decided to do a lingerie story Ania B was the number one choice and she did an amazing job. I wanted to style it in a way that showed more clothes (and less T and A) so half-dressed seemed right. I managed to get Agent Provocateur samples and pulled the rest from Holt's with some jewelry from our friends at Rubaiyat. I love what photographer Colin Way  did with the shots,  Joanne Black did beautiful make-up as always and the hair by Hedkandi Salon was the perfect touch. Alyssa Yuhas always does a great job with the design of the magazine and deserves a special thanks. Lastly, thanks to Aly Velji for the loan of the beautiful Afera rug, designed by him and available at the Rug Shop. I wish I could have kept it!

Move it!!

Have you ever had a dream that you woke up from and thought was real and later began to tell someone how you had a dentist appointment to remove that glass tooth and then realized that it never happened? Well, it turns out I wasn't dreaming when I saw this Move It! function on Style.com a couple of months ago. 

It is not on the Fall 2010 RTW shows where I originally found it BUT if you look at the couture 2011 shows right now you can have a go. The Dior show looks amazing and it's great to see the models in action. I didn't know how much hamming it up they had to for that show! 


Also there is an accessories section too now! So great!

Belle de Jour

I wish I had this fur lined leather coat today. Not to mention that apartment. And throw in the maid while you're at it.

Alber Elbaz

I love listening to Alber Elbaz talk about fashion (watch HERE). I feel like we could be great friends, which is always a funny way to feel about someone you have never meet and are unlikely to. It helps that I am a huge fan of the work he has done for Lanvin, and have actually bought pieces from at least 3 collections. 

His work for the latest collection for Spring 2011 is a combination of impeccable silks restrained with leather harnesses, showing his genius with draping and his covetable accessories. 

Pierre Cardin

I was looking through the new V Magazine online and lo and behold, an article on one of my favorite all time designers, Pierre Cardin! I didn't even know he was still alive, never mind living in the Marquis de Sade's chateau in France. He certainly has outgrown any modesty he may have had and continues to work designing costumes for a ballet in the quarry behind his house (?)! Read the article here.

Looks like Gene Roddenberry might have seen this picture before Star Trek.

Pierre's "Bubble House" which he built in his 30's. Amazing!

Miu Miu S/S 2011

Why doesn't anyone in Canada sell Miu Miu ready to wear?!

 

 

 

                                
I L♡VE the dresses and the leather pleated skirts! MUST HAVE!

Deja-vu

Everything has been done before in some form or another but its the people that make something old look fresh that are the vanguards of the fashion industry. I was struck by the amazing similarities between this old photo of the Balenciaga Salon in 1954 and the colors of the Jil Sander collection by Raf Simons for S/S 2011.

Paris Vogue

Rick Owens and a Band-aid

I went to get my copy of Paris vogue this week and turns out they are still on November at the mag store, but I didn't even mind. That is how great an editor Carine Roitfeld is. I won't even look at American Vogue, too many socialites (even though I love Grace Coddington's styling). I hope now that she is resigning that the magazine keeps it's amazing editorial standards and I also hope I learn enough french to actually read it. Bon Voyage Carine! 

Minimalism

Part of why I have been so busy is I have been shooting with my friends Wilcosz & Way. We shot the amazing Samantha Ypma from Mode Models International and I cannot wait to see the finished product. 

Here is a sneak peek from Wilkosz & Way...

And some behind the scenes shots!

This is as close as I got to a photo of me on the shoot.

Marta hamming it up.

Alicja's hand pallete

This does no justice to the colors, they were INTENSE.

Such an amazing girl! As you can see I was keeping it light.

I cannot wait to see the outcome. Stay tuned!

Go on! Ask me!

Hey, guess what? I joined this new site called VYou where you can ask all your fashion and style questions and I will answer via video. The site is still in development but it seems like a good way  for me to waste some time to answer your questions. You don't have to join in order to ask me things so query away!                                              

Knit Picks!

While I was away the issue of We Like We Love dropped with our knitwear story from Barrier Lake! Shot on location in Kananaskis Country outside of Calgary, the weather started off beautifully and then turned on us so by the end we were shooting in the wind and the rain. Wilkosz and Way did a great job bringing it all together and Alicja Wilcosz's make-up skills made our model April K. from Mode look gorgeousl (like she needed any help!). Paul Hardy loaned us his sumptuous knitwear and those monkey fur boot covers (don't worry, it's not really monkey, it's goat), and the rest was mostly from Holt Renfrew including that amazing Céline cardigan with the leather patch pockets that inspired the whole shoot. Rubber boots from Gravity Pope.


Thanks to everyone especially to Alyssa Yuhas and WLWL for publishing it! You can view the rest of the magazine here and purchase it (the printing is very well done and worth it) here.

Toronto

I am off to Toronto tomorrow for a week long vacation that somehow turned into working as well (no rest for the wicked). I am styling a show at LG fashion week, more specifically the Lauren Bagliore Spring 2011 show! I am super excited to help her out as she is a fellow Calgarian as well as a very talented designer and her jersey dresses are literally a cut above. I will be attending a couple of events and shows as well and will keep you posted on my week of fun and fashion.

Now I have to figure out what outfits to bring!

Mad(ish) Men

This month's Avenue Magazine features some of Calgary's finest Ad execs which I styled up in a modern Mad Men vein. Hair and Make-up by Teslin Ward and Photography by Jared Sych. Shot on Location at Rush Restaurant here in Calgary. 

Joe Hospodarec from Wax Partnership

Mike Meadus from MacLaren McCann

Zahara Al-Hazari from Foundry Creative

Phil Copithorne from Karo

FFWD Fall Fashion

It is always challenging to shoot spring in winter and fall in summer so after posting about the amazing installation, River of Light, this summer, I decided to set the ffwd fall fashion issue against it as a backdrop. I love the way Creatmosphere lights their projects and it made me think of fall and the changing colors of the trees.  Colin Way was so fast on this one as we only had 2 hours between it getting dark and when they cut the power to the installation at Prince's Island Park. Teslin Ward did the make-up at the studio, beforehand along with Phillip Elliot on hair, and we set up a makeshift wardrobe room in the park. Kelsey Sirucek from Mode Models and her boyfriend Jeremy Scnieder were good sports as the weather here in August was terrible. In fact there was a huge thunderstorm (with hail!) right before we left for the location. All in all a fun shoot and it was amazing to see the installation so late at night with no one else around.

  

You can view the full story on line (we had a page cut!) and pick up your hard copy this week.

Outlooks Magazine shoot

Check out the September cover and fashion story for Outlooks Canada right now. We wanted to portray an anrdogynous feeling and the historic Lougheed House provided a nice foil to the modern styling. Lots of clothes from Paul Hardy and some key pieces from Holt Renfrew, Primitive, Leo, and Gravity Pope, with jewelry from Rubaiyat.  i Model Management models Ryan and Stella did a great job, and Olga Olunov's make-up made them fit perfectly with the androgynous look. Thanks to Gerard Yunker for shooting it and Len Mastaler from Outlooks for asking me to do it! The issue is available for free at many magazine and coffee shops nationally, or you can purchase it online here.


Here are a few shots for you. He is wearing almost all ladies clothes!