Our Featured Artist in Fashion this week, Belinda Zollo, is a make-up artists, stylist, creative director, and mentor who has travelled all over the world perfecting her craft. She began her career in a successful beauty salon and soon discovered a creative flair for make-up. Many admire her for her ability to create fresh, beautiful looks. As the makeup director for Australian Melbourne Fashion Festival over a 5 year period, Belinda showcased her skills in design, leadership and team management. She has since had the privilege of working with the best in the industry for New York, Milan and London Fashion weeks.
Her work is regularly featured in global magazines and advertising campaigns such as InStyle, Vanity Fair, Spanish Harpers, Loreal and Benefit Cosmetics to name a few.
Hanna Balcerak is our Featured Artist in Fashion this week and is studying fashion design in Berlin. She is currently developing her skills in industrial knitting which is her greatest passion. She has won several art and design awards and has had her work showcased in various exhibitions. Congrats, Hanna!
Our Featured Artist in Fashion this week is Kyrre Wangen, a fashion photographer based out of Norway who frequently travels to London to find inspiration and work on photo shoots. He’s influenced by films, music, art, people, Travels Francis Bacon, Iriving Penn, MGMT, and The Doors.
After many, many weeks of anticipation around the Talenthouse offices, we are very happy to announce the launch of the Florence + the Machine Invite!
In this Creative Invite hosted by LuckyMag.com, Florence Welch, lead singer of Florence + the Machine, invites Talenthouse fashion designers to design a stage outfit for her. The winning design will be worn by Florence at a performance at Terminal 5 in New York!
Deadline for submissions is Oct. 4, 2010 with voting taking place Oct. 5-8, 2010. The selected designer will be announced Oct. 14, 2010. The submissions will be judged by Florence, her stylist Aldene Johnson, and Lucky Magazine’s Creative Director Andrea Linett. And there are plenty of rewards to go around:
- The winning designer will receive $500 in cash, transportation to New York, a 2-nights’ accommodation at Soho House NY and will also meet Florence and the band backstage. - The People’s Choice winner (top vote-getter) will receive a special edition jewel box designed by Florence and Faye Sawyer. This jewel box will contain the band’s new album Lungs, and an envelope with hand-drawn artwork by Florence containing a personal handwritten letter. - The top 10 runners-up will each receive a signed copy of Florence + the Machine’s new album, Lungs. - The top 5 ‘judges choice’ designers, will be mentioned on Luckymag.com.
So exciting, right?! To learn more about Florence + the Machine and find inspiration for your design, please visit http://florenceandthemachine.net/
Alberto Hernandez is a fashion photographer from Venezuela who began his career as a journalist. He’s been a working photographer for the last 14 years and has been published in many magazines from various countries. He is known as one of the best photographers in his country where he leads the big ad campaigns as well as fashion editorials for magazines.
He in generally influenced by arts, cinema and literature and more specifically by the “magic realism” from Latin American writers and musicians including Beethoven and Portishead.
Congratulations to Alberto on being out Featured Artist in Fashion this week!
Olga Lavrukhina is an emerging fashion photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, originally from Russia. Her experience starts from shooting exotic destination weddings in Hawaii and now in San Francisco, she is able to incorporate her Eastern European style with new fashion influences in America.
She considers herself a very fortunate person for the life she is able to live. She is looking forward to learning more from fellow industry professionals and to giving more of her creative ideas to the world.
Diana Baltazar produces one-of-a-kind limited edition fashion designs, zero waste fashion projects, costumes for film and television, and she also styles for fashion photography. She has been training in the arts since her lessons with a private drawing teacher at the age of 9 and she started sewing her own clothes at 11.
She earned two Bachelor degrees from Brown University and soon-thereafter started her own fashion line. She made the move to NYC in 2005 where she worked as a Stylist for Fashion Photography until her philosophical side called her to enter graduate studies at NYU’s Visual Culture: Costume Studies department, where she is currently a Master’s candidate.
Congratulations on being our Featured Artist in Fashion this week, Diana!
Nadia Masot has loved photography since the age of 12 and comes from an extremely artistic family. Photography acts as the greatest creative outlet for her and she enjoys collaborating with clients and various members of the industry.
She loves beauty, especially bringing out the beauty of another individual as there is beauty in everyone, regardless of their physical features. She sees it as her quest to draw it out, hence her favorite niche in her work is Beauty.
Congratulations to Nadia for being a Featured Artist!
Sarah-Jane Hedges is an incredibly passionate freelance footwear designer inspired by contrasting themes and loves to challenge conventionality in her designs. She graduated from the London College of Fashion last summer where she received her BA in Product Design and Development for the Fashion Industries: Footwear.
In 2007 she took a year out to work in Montreal, Canada as a designer for a prolific high street retailer, Le Chateau; and then went on to create styles for the designer brand Fornarina in Civitanova Marche, Italy.
Congratulations to Sarah-Jane for being our Featured Artist in Fashion this week!
The Art of Elysium is dedicated to enriching the lives of artists and critically ill children. The Art of Elysium, a 501 (c) (3) organization founded in 1997, encourages working visual artists, actors, musicians, fashion designers, comedians, writers, and more to voluntarily dedicate their time and talent to children who are battling serious medical conditions. Theye provide artistic workshops and support services throughout various pediatric hospitals in NYC. The Art of Elysium believes that there is a powerful and mutual exchange of hope and appreciation that occurs when artists share their creativity with children in the hospital environment. Please take a look at their website www.theartofelysium.org. To get involved with The Art of Elysium in NYC please contact Rachel Glickman, Program Director-NYC, at rglickman@theartofelysium.org
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