Anna Scholz Blog

Muse modeling agency posted this hot promotional video on YouTube.
It features the agency’s amazing curvy models posing for the camera, and includes Harriet Coleman, who is the model for Anna’s Spring-Summer 2012 Black Label campaign imagery.

…in her feather print belted shirt dress from the Spring-Summer 2012 Black Label collection.

She wore it into the office yesterday and we just had to share!

We’re loving the YouTube fashion program “Big Girl in a Skinny World” based on the beloved Marie Claire magazine column of the same name written by Nicolette Mason.

Marcy Guevara hosts the YouTube show which will definitely be featuring some of Anna’s clothes in the near future. Guevara describes herself as “a curvy girl obsessed with looking and feeling fabulous in a world where it seems like fashion only caters to skinny women.”

The show promises to “change your fashion attitude” as Guevara pulls together some of her “best fashion tips and the world’s most knowledgeable experts to help you look and feel amazing every day, on every occasion. ”

This first installment is called “Plus-Size Fashion Inspiration from Style Icons and Celebrities”.

Tell us what you think of it!

We were very excited to catch a couple of Anna’s dresses featured recently in episode 2 of the BBC series The Syndicate.

Anna’s snake print jersey gathered dress is part of a scene where Denise, played by actress Lorraine Bruce, goes on a huge shopping spree after winning the lottery. Denise later wears Anna’s velvet jersey pleat dress to a party.

This dress is my new best friend.  It’s perfect for the day or evening.

This is my first ever purchase from Anna Scholz, and I love it! I wore it to work for our exhibition opening.

Cassandra has won a £100 shopping voucher for use on www.annascholz.com!

Customers: we invite you to submit your photos now for the photo contest for the next month. Send us snaps of you in your favourite Anna Scholz looks for publication on our blog, and you’ll be entered to win a £100 online shopping voucher. Whether you’re just hanging out or out on the town, we’d love to see how you lend your personal flavour to Anna’s clothes.

Just e-mail your photo to info@annascholz.com

In the city of Matehuala, Mexico, in the northern state of San Luís Potosí on the high plateau of the Huasteca Potosina, a small team from Vice Magazine discovered a daring, swaggering subculture of rodeo dancers who enjoy extreme pointiness in their foot wear.

Martín Hernandez Rodriguez (red shirt), Saul Nicolás Coronado (black shirt), and Gabriel Rodriguez Flores (white shirt) are a dance crew from Buenavista.

Fans of this botas vaqueras exóticas phenomenon customise their boots, some of which have been known to measure upward of  5 feet. The boots are further pimped with paint, glitter, LED lights, bits of hardware, mirrors or sequins.

Various cowboy venues in Matehuala, host dance-offs to music known as tribal guarachero. The music is described as “a combination of thumpy house music, ancient Hispanic chants and flute work, and Colombian dance songs known as cumbia.” Pointy-toed participants in these dance contests spend ages  choreographing intricate footwork routines and creating original outfits out of fabric and paint. At these events, there usually are pointy boot contests as well. The prize may only be a bottle of whiskey or the prestige of winning, but pointy boot designers and wearers are devoted and serious.

Gustavo, 11, and Carlos Mendoza, 15, are known as Los Hermanos. They took second place in the dance contest finals.

Though the Vice team found the subculture to be flourishing in Matehuala, there is some disagreement on its origins. For example, Gabriel Amaro Barajas, aka Minri, insisted that his crew, Barrio Apache Hyphy, started the trend—not in Matahuala but in the small neighboring community of Zaragoza de Solís.

See original article on Vice.com. Words by Esteban Sheridan Cardenas. Photos by Edith Valle.

We are thrilled to announce that Anna Scholz is now available on the Bloomingdales.com website! Anna has just launched on Bloomingdales.com with a selection of Black Label pieces from her Spring-Summer 2012 collection.

Now it will be easier for our US and Canadian customers to purchase great Anna Scholz styles. There are a few styles on the Bloomingdales website that aren’t available on annascholz.com, so it’s definitely worth a look!

These amazing looks are brought to you courtesey of the Takanakuy fighting ceremony from the Peruvian state of Chumbivilcas. The roots of this rather brutal ceremony reach back to the Andes’s pre-Spanish, pre-Incan history as a way of settling grudges without a real active police force. Villagers and townspeople from the region bring their built-up grievances from the past year into the fighting ring each Christmas Day (of all days) and duke it out.

The costumes are meant to be intimidating and original.  They involve knitted ski masks, stuffed animals and leather boots and chaps. They often use symbols and regional styles and invoke animal spirits. Part Mad Max, part WWF, it sure looks like one heckuva way to spend Christmas.

Article from Vice Magazine: The Fashion Issue, March 2012, vol 10, no 2. Photos by Lele Saveri