YouTube's golden girl Tanya Burr suffers a fashion fail

She made her millions by becoming one of the globe’s biggest vloggers, dishing advice on all things beauty and fashion as well as general musings on life to keen twentysomethings.



But as the creme de la creme of the fashion world united at the London Coliseum on Monday for the British Fashion Awards, Tanya Burr made quite an impression in her questionable style choice.

Accompanied by her husband Jim Chapman, the 26-year-old YouTube star stood out in bold ensemble, consisting of a black sheer pleated skirt and knitted grey blouse.
She happily drew attention to her toned curves in the dramatic flowing number, which allowed her to show off her limbs, elongated in a pair of chic Christian Louboutin heels.

With her luscious locks left loose in glamorous waves, Tanya plumped up her pout with rich slick of matted burgundy lipstick and emphasised her gorgeous eyes with several coats of jet-black mascara.

And that’s exactly what went through Tanya Burr’s mind as she got ready for the BFA’s with this gorgeous cotton-mesh and pleated gown by Barbara Casasola.
Whether the risk paid off is a matter of a opinion, but we reckon Tanya looks elegant in this semi sheer dress which features a see-through black skirt.


Barbara Casasola draws inspiration from the raw nature and rich modernist tradition of her native Brazil when it comes to her designs, and this dress really is the picture of contemporary style.

'Project Runway' winner shatters the fashion industry's status quo

On Sept. 11, six Project Runway finalists showed collections at Skylight at Moynihan Station for the reality series' annual New York Fashion Week show. The designs of one contestant — whose identity was kept secret at the time to avoid spoilers — made a particular splash.



And on Thursday night, the designer behind that line — Ashley Nell Tipton — was crowned the winner of Season 14. Tipton was the first Project Runway contestant to show a completely plus-size collection at fashion week; now she's the first winner to specialize in full-figure fashion.

Even before participating in the series, Tipton created and sold clothing that went against the plus-size industry status quo. Her garments were full of bright colors and patterns.

"My mission is to represent for full-figured women and to enable them to have options to express their style and individuality through fashion as women who wear 'standard' sizes," Tipton states on her website.

Tipton, who has a store launching soon, hopes to set an example for future plus-size designers.

"I feel happier than I have ever felt in my life — not just to have won Project Runway, but more so that the world will get to see my voice and my heart through my designs," Tipton tells Mashable. "I can wait to shine a light in the fashion world for plus-sized women everywhere."

H & M’s Ongoing High-Fashion Experiment

H& M launched its first-ever designer collaboration, with the Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld, eleven years ago, in November of 2004. My wife, a fashion illustrator, was sure something historic was in the offing, and she convinced me to go with her to check it out. We arrived at H & M’s flagship store, on Fifth Avenue, shortly before the doors opened, at 9 A.M. A line of men and women, ranging from twentysomethings to senior citizens, and dressed in everything from jeans to luxury labels, snaked down Fifth and around the block. Inside, they fought their way through the crowds, garments heaped over their arms; they stripped to their underwear in the aisles to try things on. In the melee, I managed to grab and try on a black military-style wool-and-cashmere overcoat. Cut long and slim, it elongated my frame, narrowed it, lent it a subtle drama that touched off fantasies of myself as a windswept Byronic wanderer (as opposed to a middle-aged deskbound writer). The price: a hundred and forty-nine dollars. A Lagerfeld original would have cost a thousand dollars. I bought two. I still wear that coat, and strangers still stop me in the street to ask where I got it. The backup, tags intact, is stuffed at the back of my closet, ready to be called into service when the original starts to look shabby.



Donald Schneider, who is now the creative director of H & M, came up with the idea of that first collaboration with Lagerfeld. At the time, Schneider ran a fashion-consulting firm hired by H & M to review its advertising campaigns, and he had worked for eight years as the art director of Vogue Paris. A soft-spoken German now in his mid-fifties, with glinting gray stubble and a bald head, he continues to dream up, and oversee, the collaborations today. When I met with him in June, at a photo shoot for the Balmain launch, I admitted that I had been among the hoards who lined up for the Lagerfeld début, and that I scored the black military-style overcoat. He nodded vigorously and said, “a fantastic piece,” adding that he is still wearing the suit jacket from that collection, and still gets compliments on it. Up to that point, he said, anyone who mentioned an H & M ad campaign would talk primarily about the models. “I wondered, could we do a campaign where people talked about the fashion?”