HOPE YOU HAD A WONDERFUL HOLIDAYS AND A HAPPY NEW YEARS...

holiday kiss... or something closely resembling one...

holiday jacket... hand painted xmas trees & snowmen... he found it at a craft fair in the back woods of the mighty state of georgia...

holiday shoes... very interesting...

MINI PROFILE... HAIR & MAKE-UP STYLIST... CATHERINE LEHTONEN

PHOTO OF: CATHERINE LEHTONEN

SO I'VE DECIDED MY SECOND BLOG POST EVER SHOULD BE A MINI-PROFILE OF A FASHION INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL... THIS IS SOMETHING I PLAN ON DOING FROM TIME TO TIME TO TIME... I HOPE YOU ENJOY....

WIIN: what is your name?
CL: catherine lehtonen

WIIN: what do you do and for how long have you done it?
CL: I'm a hair and make up artist have worked for 12 years

WIIN: where are you from and how long have you been in NY?
CL: I'm from Sweden and have lived in NYC for 4 years

WIIN: who are you represented by?
CL: I'm represented by See management

WIIN: how do you approach your job?
CL: believe it or not in my job less is more

WIIN: what is the best thing about your job?
CL: the best thing about my job is the travel I can see the world.......and get payed for it

WIIN: what are the new trends in your line of work?
CL: 80's style make-up and classic hair up-do's... i also see a lot of big hair again like in the pic i sent you

WIIN: on a personal note... please describe your personal style in 5 words or less?
CL: spontaneous feminine and 70's sexy

WIIN: what place do you want to visit but haven't yet?
CL: I want to go to Africa

photo: DAVID ROEMER hair & makeup: CATHERINE LEHTONEN


photo: JIMMY BACKIUS hair & makeup: CATHERINE LEHTONEN

photo: DAVID ROEMER hair & makeup: CATHERINE LEHTONEN

photo: DAVID ROEMER hair & makeup: CATHERINE LEHTONEN

OLD NEWS... ERIN KNOCKS OFF BLISS LAU

THIS IS MY FIRST EVER BLOG POST... IT OLD NEWS TO SOME SINCE IT HAPPENED AWHILE AGO (USING THE FASHION CALENDER)IN THE FALL TIME 08... BUT BLISS IS A FRIEND (WHO UNBEKNOWNST TO HER AT THE MOMENT... I WILL DO A MINI PROFILE ON HER AT A LATER DATE) SO I THOUGHT IT FITTING TO PUT IT OUT THERE AGAIN FOR YOU MY DARLINGS...

long story short(er)... you have a very sucessful model (namely erin wasson) who buys a piece of Bliss's body jewelry from Eva's on mulberry(closed now but relocating and opening in spg09) and loves it, wears it all the time and even photographed in it (see below) all good so far? pay attention... so Erin decides to do it herself (you know like when you were a kid and decided to sew your own polo man on the no-name polo type shirt) thats make her own body-jewelry collection... and uses evan yurman (son of sucessfull jewelry designer david yurman) to make it...

so thats all good we know fashion inspires and that everything we love today can be traced back to something else... but what is sooo disrepectful (in my humble opinion) is to be pictured in the original design (bliss's piece) in a national publication (nylon mag) talking about your original inspiration being your designer friend (alexander wang) suggesting that you come out with your own collection and not even mentioning bliss's obvious inspiration... shame on you Erin

Bliss's original version as seen in her spg 08 lookbook (above)

Erin Wasson pictured in Bliss's original piece (above)

Erin's article in Nylon Mag talking about her designs (see inset) while pictured wearing Bliss's piece... BTW Erins's collection launched fall 08 while Bliss's piece (tuxedo = style name) was a part of her spg 08 collection