London Fashion Week: Must it take a fire alarm to warm the ice queens’ hearts?
Posted by Lucky on Feb 26, 2010
Pity the bread waiters at London Fashion Week. I’ve seen disdain and I’ve seen hatred, but never so pungent a fusion of the two being beamed, en masse, at one man and his basket.
Fashion Week, generally, is a pretty Arctic affair. In The September Issue, American Vogue editor Anna Wintour states with touching conviction: “People [...]
Trudy’s dedicates fashion show to real women with Real Curves
Posted by Lucky on Feb 26, 2010
Not every bride is a “perfect 10.” In fact, sizes 14 and 16 are the two most common sizes ordered, according to designers at Enzoani, one of the country’s leading bridal manufacturers. Even in California, where women are seemingly obsessed with squeezing into their skinny jeans, plus sizes in bridal are ordered daily. And that’s [...]
[Read More]Trudy’s dedicates fashion show to real women with Real Curves
Posted by Lucky on Feb 26, 2010
Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Stella McCartney, Sam Taylor-Wood and Daphne Guinness were among the black-clad mourners to arrive at St Paul’s Church in Knightbridge, west London, to celebrate the life of the man who, his friends said, made “all he touched beautiful”.
His father Ronald was joined by his five children at the service – they [...]
Burberry first to broadcast 3D show at London’s Fashion Week
Posted by Lucky on Feb 26, 2010
Thunder clapped and rain poured down inside the huge marquee. The label might be 154 years old, but is so much at the forefront of catwalk technological innovation the brand can even control the weather.
Well, not quite. The rain was a filmed projection beamed on to screens inside the tent. But the label was the [...]
London Fashion Week | Burberry’s Christopher Bailey
Posted by Lucky on Feb 26, 2010
For the second season running, Burberry showed its Prorsum collection at the end of London fashion week. It’s quite fun, all things considered — all the big editors come out, Rachel Zoe turns up, and a bit of quality and excitement gets injected into proceedings. And people harass Christopher Bailey, too. Seriously, the whole of [...]
[Read More]Vintage Fashion promises more glamour than Glastonbury
Posted by Lucky on Feb 26, 2010
The celebrated English fashion designer Wayne Hemingway knows who won’t be interested in his new summer festival: the teenager “who’s out on the lash, who wants to escape their parents and get plastered and leaves a load of empty tins at their ripped tent”.
Instead it will be for people who want style and glamour, those [...]
Olympics fashion from good to goofy
Posted by Lucky on Feb 26, 2010
The Vancouver Olympics have not been for the fashion faint of heart.
From Russian ice dancers tricked out — to high controversy — as Australian aborigines, to tight-panted Canadian snowboarders (that’s harsh, dude), culture and fashion have clashed as badly as athletes and clowns. Oh wait — there were German pairs skaters actually dressed as clowns.
But [...]
London Fashion Week: Osman’s designs for all sizes
Posted by Lucky on Feb 25, 2010
Real women of all shapes and sizes (from Dannii Minogue to Sarah Brown) will love these beautifully draped clothes
Osman Yousefzada makes some of the most flattering clothes in London. This is a designer who really is comfortable with women’s bodies in all their myriad permutations: fans include Dannii Minogue and Sarah Brown (who came to [...]
Point of View: Fashion Week shines for last time in Bryant Park
Posted by Lucky on Feb 25, 2010
New York Fashion Week kicked off on Feb. 11. It marked the start of the last New York Fashion to be held at Bryant Park, and now will also be remembered as the day acclaimed British fashion designer Alexander McQueen was found dead in his London home.
Between the massive screen updating live with Twitter feeds [...]
Student designers show their stuff at Wear in the World fashion show
Posted by Lucky on Feb 25, 2010
I think student fashion shows are really interesting to attend, and every year I look forward to them. The students are completely invested in the creative process and totally immersed in exploring their artistic vision. It’s exciting to see them living their dream while their creations grace the runway.
There are always a few standouts from [...]
De Grisogono on the catwalk at Naomi Campbell’s Haiti relief fashion show
Posted by Lucky on Feb 25, 2010
Pixie Geldof, Freddie Flintoff and Jo Wood were among the celebrities wearing de Grisogono pieces at Naomi Campbell’s Fashion For Relief charity fashion show for Haiti.
The event took place last week at Somerset House and the proceeds went towards the Haiti relief efforts. Fashion For Relief took centre stage at the British Fashion Council’s official London [...]
London Fashion Week | Burberry’s Christopher Bailey
Posted by Lucky on Feb 25, 2010
For the second season running, Burberry showed its Prorsum collection at the end of London fashion week. It’s quite fun, all things considered — all the big editors come out, Rachel Zoe turns up, and a bit of quality and excitement gets injected into proceedings. And people harass Christopher Bailey, too. Seriously, the whole of [...]
[Read More]wiggy slams designers for using ‘intolerably cruel’ fur in London Fashion Week collections
Posted by Lucky on Feb 25, 2010
Twiggy has criticised designers for continuing to use real fur at London Fashion Week.
The model, who fronts Marks and Spencer’s advertising campaigns, said she was disappointed in designers that persisted in using fur from animals kept in ‘terrible and inhumane conditions’.
She called using 20 foxes or 80 mink to make a single coat ‘intolerably cruel’.
I [...]
Milan fashion starts with tighter schedule
Posted by Lucky on Feb 25, 2010
Milan kicked off the Italian leg of the international fashion run on Wednesday with a tighter schedule of catwalk shows aimed at meeting the needs of the foreign press but which has ruffled designers’ feathers.
Thousands of journalists and buyers have descended on the Italian fashion capital to see designers such as Giorgio Armani, Prada and [...]
Would you ignore fashion advice from Anna Wintour?
Posted by Lucky on Feb 24, 2010
If Anna Wintour were to pop into the Secret Sales office and impart some of her extensive fashion knowledge onto me then I don’t think I’d be ignoring it in a hurry.
The Vogue editor is largely regarded as one of the world’s most powerful fashion figures and even though I regard myself as something of [...]
