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Elegance and Beauty are making a comeback in Finland
Haute Couture with an edge by the Finnish Design Team
Karlsson Concept
One of a kind Art to Wear are created by Kalervo and Niina Karlsson.
We brought in Jere Hietala, one of the finest young photographers today, to do the photo shoot for the RioVida US introduction. MORE
Niina and Kalervo Karlsson brought together their clique of the Finnish super chics. Kalervo will talk with us about them.
The concept for the presentation is created by Niina & Kalervo Karlsson of Karlsson Concept, the Finnish Fashion Power Couple.
Janne Suono is a fabulous make-up artist from the North. His popularity spans from Northern Europe all the way down to South Africa, where he lives and enjoys to work during the dark period, Kaamos, which is what Finnish people call their winter. In the light period, Yoton Yo, he mostly works with Elle Magazine in Scandinavia.
He, Niina, and Kalervo have developed a great friendship and they enjoy working together on fashion projects. Karlsson has worked only with top make up artists in Helsinki and Paris and they are told that Janne Suono is one of the top people in the world.. MORE
The stylist Outi Broux is considered one of the world's top stylist and hairdressers. Kalervo enthusiastically exclaims: Outi convinced me totally when we did the Ultra Blue fashion show. MORE
In the Ultra Blue fashion show which was held in Helsinki, she was responsible for styling and for our models hair styles. She often works with us and has been responsible for our last four fashion shows. Christelle Nouviaire who is a top stylist for Italian Vogue and frequents Paris is another one of our favorite stylist. She provided the classic styles for our Paris Haute Couture show. MORE
Niina and Kalervo feel that they have been extremely lucky and blessed: "We have only worked with the best like Outi and Christelle. MORE
Both of these wonderful ladies have the ability to intuitively know exactly how to play with the fashion and the models best assets, how to highlight our fashion concepts and how to play with the light. They immediately understand our world and step into it with the speed of light...no words needed, everything seems so simple when we have a group our power fashion clique working together in perfect harmony.
Model Anette shows off black hat by Outi Broux, photo by Jere Hietala.
Anette wearing hat by Outi Broux and top trem of dress by Karlsson Concept, photo by Jere Hietala.
Anette Montin
Paparazzi model Anette is a new face and we were lucky to have her as our face for the photo shoot. She has this new etheric and fragile, yet strong look that we were looking for.
Despite her youth our entire fashion clique enjoyed working with her. We are certain that she will have a grand career ahead of her.
We feel fortunate to have found faces and models that fit the image we were looking for so perfectly. We are happy to have so many top talents join us for our journey into a world of beauty.
Name: Anette MontinHair: Light Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 183cm/6'0"
Bust: 84cm/33"
Waist: 62cm/24.5"
Hips: 90cm/35.5"
Agency: Paparazzi
Anette shows "Black Butterfly" by Karlsson Concept, photo by Jere Hietala.
PUNKATECTURE
Karlsson Concept's most well known dress was shown in Paris Le Printemps exhibition with the most famous black dresses of the century.
Nina and Kalervo explaing this as Punkatecture…..a combination of artistic mood and flowing architecture….we brought the structures to the surface like in contemporary architecture, flowing organza and silk crepe
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Anette in Punkatecture by Karlsson Concept, photo by Jere Hietala
Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth was on stage by the age of six (1924) as a member of The Dancing Cansinos, a famous family of Spanish flamenco dancers working in vaudeville. Her father had performed in a dancing duo with his sister Elisa earlier in his career, and later he revived the duo with his daughter Rita as his dancing partner, performing in nightclubs in California and the Foreign Club in Tijuana, Mexico. At age sixteen, already an accomplished professional dancer, Hayworth attracted the attention of film producers and was signed by Fox Studios in 1935, where she appeared mostly in small roles.
She gave an impressive performance in Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings (1939), as part of an ensemble cast headed by Cary Grant. (1941) She performed opposite Tyrone Powers in a remake of "Blood and Sand." (1941) Hayworth achieved top stardom with her sizzling performance as the amoral and seductive "Doña Sol des Muire". and it was this Technicolor film which branded her forever as one of Hollywood's most beautiful redheads.
Hayworth's well-known films include the musicals that made her famous: You'll Never Get Rich (1941) and You Were Never Lovelier (1942) (both with Fred Astaire, who wrote in his autobiography that she "danced with trained perfection and individuality", and later cited Hayworth as his favorite dancing partner), the Technicolor My Gal Sal (1942) (again at Fox) with Victor Mature, and her best known musical, Cover Girl (1944) , her first Technicolor film at Columbia Pictures, with Gene Kelly. Jack Cole choreographed one of Hayworth's best remembered dance routines, the samba from 1945's Tonight and Every Night, which Hayworth performed while pregnant with her first child, Rebecca Welles (daughter of Orson Welles).
She was the first dance partner for both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly and had dance numbers in Gilda which was the film that established her as the true American femme fatale. Rita Hayworth combined innocents with alluring beauty.
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Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Jean Dandridge was born in Cleveland Ohio's City Hospital on November 9, 1922. Her mother was an aspiring actress named Ruby Dandridge. Ruby had walked out on Dorothy's father, Cyrus, five months previous to Dorothy's birth taking her first child, Vivian, with her. Cyrus still lived with his mother and Ruby was not pleased about that. She moved in with Geneva Williams who taught Dorothy and Vivian singing, dancing and playing the piano.
The Wonder Children moved to Nashville and were signed with the National Baptist Convention to tour churches. Eventually they moved to Hollywood.
Dorothy and Vivian made friends at the dancing school with a girl named Etta Jones. They would sing together with Geneva at the piano and Ruby decided that the three girls would make a terrific singing trio. The Dandridge Sisters received an uncredited cameo in the film The Big Broadcast of 1936.
Subsequent small film roles followed until the summer of 1938 when their manager informed them that he had booked them in the prestigious Cotton Club in New York City. Dorothy was almost 16 and she was developing into a beautiful young woman. The Dandridge Sisters were a hit in The Cotton Club and the critics gave them glowing reviews.
Their success earned them another exciting engagement - they would tour in Europe. Dorothy decided to have a solo career and went on to small parts in Lady From Louisiana and Sundown. She was teamed with the Nicholas Brothers for a lively rendition of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" in the film Sun Valley Serenade.
After a brief marriage and the birth of a daughter she returned to work. Phil Moore, an arranger, helped Dorothy with her songs and image. The result was a smoldering and sexy Dorothy that left audiences mesmerized. The nightclub reviews were very good and gave her the much needed publicity that would help her get film work in Hollywood.
She was offered the role of Melmendi in Tarzan's Peril in 1951. Dorothy first balked at playing a jungle queen but after reading the script she didn't think it was that bad. Next up, she played an athlete's girlfriend in the low budget but successful The Harlem Globetrotters. She returned to the nightclub scene in May of 1951 and opened in Hollywood's top club, The Mocambo.
This very successful appearance led to offers to appear in Paris (Cafe de Paris), New York (La Vie en Rose) as well as numerous guest television appearances. She was the first black woman to perform at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
MGM planned to make an all black drama called Bright Road where she worked with Harry Bellafonte. She soon landed a role she had dreamed of. Carmen Jones was an Americanized version of the Bizet opera with new lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. The lead character, Carmen, is a sultry vixen whose independent inclinations to love her men and then leave them lead to her violent demise. The project was the mastermind of Austrian director Otto Preminger.
Dorothy Dandridge was the first black woman to be nominated in the category of Best Actress along with Audrey Hepburn, Jane Wyman, Judy Garland and Grace Kelly.
She was cast for Porgy and Bess and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance.February of 1955.,
