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I'm so EXCITED to announce that the first videos are up now on  Look TV's YouTube Channel---So Check them out! First up:

*Pattern Making for Fashion Design: The Basics

*The Quick Sketch: Design School w/ Nick Verreos, and

*How To Draw Your Own Croquis



Pattern Making for Fashion Design--the Basics/Look TV Design School With Nick Verreos:




The Quick Sketch--Look TV Design School With Nick Verreos: 




Nick's Trick's--How To Draw Your Own Croquis/Look TV Design School With Nick Verreos:




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Two things have recently caused a big "stir" on the web in regards to "Flight Attendant Couture". One had to do with the new uniforms for Turkish Airlines and the other, the ones for United Airlines. Both were not so good. So naturally, since I LOVE ME some Flight Attendants (especially those 70's/80's fierce ones!), I had to discuss.







First off: last month, a big Twitter and Web hub-a-loo occurred when photos of the supposed new designs for Turkish Airlines uniforms were "released" and well, most people were not very amused. Turkey’s proposed new and more modest dress code for its flight
attendants has been criticized by the country’s seculars with some
Twitter users deriding the new suggested uniforms as reminiscent of the
costumes worn in the Ottoman Empire.







Critics likened the suggested uniforms to those worn in the
“Magnificent Century,” a popular Turkish soap opera about the decadent
reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century. Many found these new
"uniforms" to be too conservative: “Even my students with head scarves find these ridiculous,” said Ayse Saktanber, a sociologist at the Middle East Technical University in
Ankara.




The
uproar has cast a spotlight on the Turkish designer Dilek Hanif (above), who
was commissioned by the airline to redesign the uniforms. Hanif's designs are often
inspired by Ottoman fashions, and she is said to be a favorite of
Turkey’s head-scarf-wearing first lady, Hayrunnisa Gul. In
an interview, Ms. Hanif said the uniform designs that appeared online
were not final. She attributed the negative reaction to the callousness of the fashion industry, apparently as
fierce in Istanbul as it is in New York, Paris and Milan. “Contrary to the photos that were leaked,” she said, “we are also working on a range of modern designs”...“I
am still working on different designs, colors and alternatives,” she
said. “When the designs are finished, they will be presented to Turkey
and the world.” I'm not sure about these supposed new uniforms.




They do look a tad bit too conservative and "Mumsy". I LOVE the little "Fez" hats but the rest is a bit of a mess. And poor BOY: what is he wearing? It is like outfits a Costume Designer would come up with for a really campy Almodovar film about Turkish Airlines flight attendants. Seriously. I still kind of wish the Turkish Airlines uniforms looked like these:








Now, let's discuss the drab, un-imaginative new United Airlines uniforms:







First off: Oh Dear! This is making me want to order THREE Bloody Mary's really quick. These have to be some of the most DRAB uniforms I have ever witnessed...since my last American Airlines flight! GREY? Bland Blue? Too-long sleeves, too-long hem lengths? Are we at Church? OK, I'll stop...Let's talk about what is going on here:




Starting June 25, United Airlines employees will don uniforms that further underscore
the reality that United is a new airline sprung from the merger of
United Airlines and Continental Airlines. The new designs come in various shades of blue, gray and black, a
range of colors familiar to passengers of both the merged carriers. According to a United spokesman, the airline did not seek out a name
fashion designer to create the new look. Rather the carrier considered
several suppliers, but finally went with the one that made what United
employees considered the most comfortable, yet attractive options. The uniforms were made--and designed by a very formidable uniform company, Cintas. However, I remember when...




Back in 2009, Cynthia Rowley was named as the designer who was hired to create the new United Airlines uniforms. However, according to some news reports, Rowley abruptly left during the project's final stages in 2011 when new
management heads, post-merger, demanded downgrades in the materials used.
She refused to put her name onto said materials. I'm sure she still got payed a nice amount of money for it all--even though it never came to fruition. I heard some different rumblings through "the grapevine" about what really went down but that's for "Nick off-the-record Cocktail Hour" darlings...The end result (the newly-released United Airlines Uniforms), I think, are rather drab and un-creative; very "corporate" from my point of view. I get that, nowadays, the flight attendants don't look like FAB Braniff  Emilio Pucci-designed Stewardesses. But...why should they look like "Sister Wives" of a Mormon Compound? Just my "Nick Two Cents".



Click Below to Watch the new United Airlines Uniforms Fashion Show Presentation:




With all this above, my favorite Flight Attendant Uniforms remain being:













So which is WORSE? The new (supposed) Turkish Airlines uniforms or the (ba-ba boring) United Airlines ones? Let me know!

Several weeks ago, I had the honor--and yes, privilege--to be the "Celebrity Judge" at this year's FIDM National Scholarship Competition. Open to all High School Seniors, Graduates, and College Transfer
Students, FIDM's National Scholarship Competition (also known as The
Designer of Tomorrow Scholarship Competition) looks for students who are
creative thinkers and have an eye for unconventional thinking. To
enter, entrants are asked to submit a project according to the
guidelines set within each category:

• Fashion Executive of Tomorrow


• Interior Designer of Tomorrow


• Graphic Designer of Tomorrow


• Fashion Designer of Tomorrow


• Visual Designer of Tomorrow


• Digital Media Artist of Tomorrow


• Trend Spotter of Tomorrow

A
winner and three top Finalists from each category are chosen based on
creativity, thoughtfulness, presentation, and promise. The top winner will get a full one-year scholarship to attend FIDM.

Celebrity Judge Project Runway Star, FIDM Grad & FIDM Instructor Nick Verreos is the celebrity judge for our scholarship competition.

I went to the Downtown L.A. Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising/FIDM campus to judge these categories and see for myself all the wonderful--and very creative--boards the students created...

Here are some "Sneak Peak" pics of what I had to judge:











After my judging--which took several hours--I headed downstairs to the ground floor "rotunda" area to head home--but then I was stopped by all the commotion that was happening. As it turned out, it was also the day of the FIDM Graduation "Grad Carnival" in Hope Park:







Graduating FIDM students--and their friends and families--were enjoying a bunch of fun activities as well as lots of great food (corn dogs, sliders, pizza!) at this fun FIDM Grad Carnival. Even though I am not a 2013 Grad, I sneaked in and took in some of the festivities.



Best of Luck to all the 2013 FIDM National Scholarship applicants!

*Contact your FIDM adviser for results.

Yesterday...on the "Today Show"...style expert Jene Luciani wore my NV Nick Verreos "Gemma" green draped jersey dress! I was so excited to wake up and see this--Jene was part of a "Today's Style" segment on NBC's "The Today Show"; the segment was "Picking the Perfect Bathing Suit Online"...









Here are a couple of more screen caps form today's segment and Jene wearing my FABULOUS "Gemma" dress...











Click Below for video of the NBC "Today Show" segment:

Last year, it was announced that King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden's youngest child--after Crown Princess Victoria, 35, and Prince Carl Philip (the Hottie McSwedish Hottie!), 34--Princess Madeleine, 30 was engaged to British-US financier Christopher O'Neill, 38.







Their wedding is coming up on Saturday June 8th. The engagement--and pairing of the two--did not come as a surprise, since the couple had been a New York "item" since the Swedish princess' sojourn in Manhattan in late 2010. Just last week, the "Official Portraits" of the soon-to-be-Bride-and-Groom were released. In them, Princess Madeleine, who also hold the titles of Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, is wearing a mint green suit of crepe and intricate lace with a peplum and satin waist belt detail.





THE DISH: Who Is Christopher O'Neill, the Groom...


Christopher O'Neill was born in London, England and is the son of Paul Cesario O'Neill and Eva Marie O'Neill. His father moved to London in the 1960's to help establish the European headquarters of New York investment bank Oppenheimer & Co. Chris' mother is Austrian. The soon-to-be  husband of a Swedish Princes is a product of a very wealthy environment (you don't think for a minute she would marry MIDDLE CLASS darlings!), he attended the Institut auf dem Rosenberg boarding school in St. Gallen Switzerland, received his BA in International Relations form Boston University and then got his Master's in Business Administration from the Columbia Business School in NYC.Today, he is a Partner and Head of Research at Noster Capital, an investment firm with offices in London and NY.