Fashion: What is your favourite Canadian fashion label?
Posted by Lucky on Mar 31, 2011
Toronto’s LG Fashion Week is in full swing, highlighting an expansive display of designs from diverse talents making waves on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border and beyond.
Toronto’s bi-annual fashion showcase is billed as the second largest in North America. This season’s show, held on the grounds of Exhibition Place, launches the fall-winter 2011-2012 collections [...]
Joe Fresh Style packs a zesty punch at LG Fashion Week
Posted by Lucky on Mar 31, 2011
His orange crush dominated the opening look, a neoprene swing coat featuring bucket-sized pockets and a rigid collar. It packed a zesty punch. Paired with a drawstring grey skirt, the outfit was very scuba and the city.
As with previous seasons, the collection moved through many stories, reintroducing the neoprene in shades of Kelly green and [...]
Catwalk gives way to cricket at Pakistan Fashion Week
Posted by Lucky on Mar 30, 2011
The second day of Pakistan Sunsilk Fashion Week, which opens here tomorrow, has been cancelled because of the Cricket World Cup semi-finals match between historic rivals and neighbours, India and Pakistan.
The crucial game, nicknamed ‘clash of the titans’ by the leading national daily, Dawn, is taking place on Wednesday, March 30, and it has struck [...]
[Read More]Kirk Norcross and Lauren Pope get cosy at Essex Fashion Week
Posted by Lucky on Mar 30, 2011
Kirk Norcross was, like, totally all over Lauren Pope at Essex Fashion Week. He was proper, like, playing with her hair and stuff. And they looked like they were getting proper deep ’n’ meaningful.
And they only, like, split up on Sunday’s episode of reality TV series The Only Way Is Essex. And she was, like, [...]
TOUCH invited to perform at Singapore’s “Men’s Fashion Week”
Posted by Lucky on Mar 30, 2011
Rookie boyband TOUCH have distinguished themselves as ‘fashion idols’, thanks to their appointment as Korea’s representatives for Singapore’s “Men’s Fashion Week“.
On March 29th, YYJ Entertainment revealed, “TOUCH was invited to perform at the gala party for the first ‘Men’s Fashion Week’ in Singapore.”
Held at the Sands Expo & Convention Center from March 30th through April [...]
China Fashion Week [PHOTOS]
Posted by Lucky on Mar 30, 2011
China Fashion Week opened today in the capital city of Beijing. A total of 40 brands, 29 collections, 15 lectures and 7 competitions joined the event, which is 14-years-old this year.
This fashion show exclusively showcases products made and designed in China. While China may be known for producing cheap clothing and accessories, this show hopes [...]
PHOTO GALLERY: see Juma’s fall/winter 2011 collection
Posted by Lucky on Mar 30, 2011
Juma closed the first night of Fashion Week with a cool, youthful selection of prints and draped options, fit for New York (and possibly even Toronto). We’re not convinced that local fashion plates will wear the sibling duo’s offerings, but they certainly fits a more global context. Check out our complete runway coverage below.
[Read More]At 37, super-model Moss says she’s “going with the flow”
Posted by Lucky on Mar 30, 2011
“I’m paranoid,” she said. “Paparazzi are a nightmare. “I don’t think you ever get used to some man hiding in a bush … It’s unnerving to be watched all the time,” said the blonde 37-year old on Tuesday, in Hong Kong to launch an Asian flagship store for French handbag label Longchamp. A doyenne of [...]
[Read More]A Canadiana celebration with Holts
Posted by Lucky on Mar 30, 2011
Todd Lynn, Ezra Constantine, Greta Constantine, Jeremy Laing, Denis Gagnon, Canada Goose, Pink TArtan, Lida Baday, Smythe, TwentyCluny, Wings Horns
The one sentence summary:
Canadians bunker down for fall with covered-up styles and somber hues.
Wish-you-were-there factor:
The show opened with a tongue-in-cheek homage to LG Fashion Week’s “The Business of Fashion” theme, showing a Justin Wu-created video of [...]
China Fashion Week [PHOTOS]
Posted by Lucky on Mar 30, 2011
China Fashion Week opened today in the capital city of Beijing. A total of 40 brands, 29 collections, 15 lectures and 7 competitions joined the event, which is 14-years-old this year.
This fashion show exclusively showcases products made and designed in China. While China may be known for producing cheap clothing and accessories, this show hopes [...]
A gentleman should NEVER wear shorts, warns male fashion guru Tom Ford
Posted by Lucky on Mar 28, 2011
With the promise of warmer weather many men may be tempted to pull on a pair of shorts.
However, before exposing those hairy legs to the world, a word of warning from one of the world’s experts in male fashion: Gentlemen don’t wear shorts.
U.S. designer Tom Ford says they should not be worn in the summer [...]
Julia Restoin-Roitfeld: Fashion’s new face
Posted by Lucky on Mar 28, 2011
When the formidably exacting Tom Ford has described you as “exactly what beauty is to me” you might, you’d think, be pretty confident of your charms. But Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, a woman with the most claim to being fashion’s face of the year, seems almost pained by his compliment.
“I can’t believe he wrote that,” she murmurs. [...]
Frugal fashion: Clothing swaps take off in Germany
Posted by Lucky on Mar 28, 2011
Among fashionistas, expensive shopping sprees are so last season. An increasingly popular way to freshen up a wardrobe without breaking the bank is to find a clothes-exchange event like Swap in the City.
The concept is simple: fashion-conscious women who have some perfectly good Prada blouses or Jil Sander skirts in the closet they don’t [...]
Fabulous fashion gets the five-star treatment at the Merchant
Posted by Lucky on Mar 28, 2011
Glitz and glamour descended on the Merchant Hotel in Belfast at the weekend for the second in a series of fashion shows at the five-star hotel.
The Fabulous Fashion Teas will run until Saturday, April 2, featuring some of the city’s finest designer flair.
Guests at the luxurious events are treated to a delectable array of fashion [...]
Prom fashions reflect old and new
Posted by Lucky on Mar 28, 2011
The seminal occasion allows young ladies to play dress up in a big way, whether they have a Prince Charming or not. It is also an official way of letting the world know she knows how to strike high fashion notes with style and grace.
This prom season is a happy marriage between traditional and contemporary [...]
