Madonna possibly launching fashion line
Posted by Lucky on Feb 18, 2010
The Queen of Pop is in talks to launch her own clothing line, which will only be exclusive to US departmental store Macy’s. The line is said to include apparel, accessories, intimates and footwear.
This will not be Madonna’s first venture into fashion, having previously designed for Swedish clothing company, H&M in 2007. She has also [...]
Posh Spice calls up the lookalikes as she launches latest New York fashion show
Posted by Lucky on Feb 16, 2010
FASHIONISTAS did a double take as Victoria Beckham unveiled her latest collection in New York.
The waif-like singer turned designer sent her models on to the catwalk wearing her trademark oversized sunglasses and dresses and hairdos straight out of her own back catalogue.
And the former Posh Spice, who famously lives on 800 calories a day, opted [...]
Reality Bites: ‘Kell on Earth’ is educational, after a fashion, plus ‘Idol’ and ‘The Bachelor’
Posted by Lucky on Feb 5, 2010
“Kell On Earth” (Bravo) With Fashion Week almost upon us again, we can use a lot of what we learned in the premiere of Kelly Cutrone’s Bravo reality series, “Kell on Earth,” to navigate the taffeta and pointy elbows of Bryant Park.
Lesson one! “If you’re in rows one, two or three, you’re in the game,” [...]
CITY FOCUS: Floating is now back in fashion in London
Posted by Lucky on Feb 1, 2010
With travel services group Travelport leading the way with a £2.2bn stock market listing, London appears set to become a hive of investment activity once more.
But bankers warn there is only a small window of opportunity to get deals away before a spring General Election brings uncertainty back to the City.
Furthermore, with the credit markets [...]
Kelly Cutrone’s fashion battle plan
Posted by Lucky on Feb 1, 2010
Kelly Cutrone delivers Madison Avenue by way of Sun Tzu. “The fashion industry is war, which is why we have a take-no-prisoners kind of attitude,” she announces at the beginning of her reality series “Kell on Earth,” which premieres Monday night (Bravo, 10 p.m.).
For the last couple of years, Cutrone, the founder and owner of [...]
Middle East fashion industry set to grow 15% in 2010 – study
Posted by Lucky on Jan 25, 2010
The Middle East fashion sector is expected to post 15% growth in 2010, according to a study conducted by the French Fashion University Esmod – Dubai, the leading fashion institution in the region.
The study foresees numerous opportunities in the $12bn Gulf clothing market, which is attracting more brands to the affluent and increasingly fashion-conscious region.
The [...]
Fashion week’s split is showing- February to witness catwalk catfight between KFW and KFLW
Posted by Lucky on Jan 22, 2010
Calcutta, which got its first fashion week in 2009, nine years after Delhi had one, will soon host two fashion weeks thanks to a rift in the ramp managers’ ranks.
The double dose of February fashion will see Kolkata Fashion Week (KFW) Season 3 and Kolkata Fashion & Lifestyle Week (KFLW) Season 1 slug it out.
This [...]
Coffee and boxing inspire at Paris Fashion Week
Posted by Lucky on Jan 22, 2010
Fashion blogger Isaac Hindin-Miller files from Milan Fashion Week
Backstage at Issey Miyake stood 15 male models dressed in dark pants and white lab coats like tall, rail thin, particularly good looking pharmacists. I was ecstatic to be there with them. Not because of the models; nor because of the show; but because I was in [...]
[Read More]Alexa Chung gets fashion range
Posted by Lucky on Jan 22, 2010
Alexa Chung is collaborating with US store J. Crew.
The British TV presenter will be working with the chain retailers to create her own fashion range, which will be inspired by her personal style.
Alexa, 26, said: “I was being offered so many collaborations for a long time, but I held off. I thought it was quite [...]
Sarah Jessica Parker Dishes On Her New Gig as Fashion Exec at Halston
Posted by Lucky on Jan 21, 2010
More details have emerged about Sarah Jessica Parker’s newly cemented role at storied American fashion label Halston. The actress will not only weigh in on the aesthetic of the collections as its chief creative officer, but the balance sheets too, as she was also named president and given an equity stake in the company. Parker [...]
[Read More]Roberto Mancini muffles his sense of fashion
Posted by Lucky on Jan 15, 2010
IT has taken some weeks but finally Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has adapted to the British sense of style.
Gone are the expensive labels from Milan’s top fashion houses and in have come acrylic hand-me-downs as the dapper 45-year-old swaps Lombardy for Lancashire.
It turns out Mancini’s now-famous lucky blue and [...]
Sarah Jessica Parker could be in line for top fashion job with Halston
Posted by Lucky on Jan 14, 2010
Sarah Jessica Parker is rumored to be in line for a consulting job with Halston. The ‘Sex and the City‘ actress – who is often regarded as one of the most stylish women of her generation – is believed to be in talks about working with the coveted U.S. fashion range [...]
[Read More]Patrick Vieira’s fashion sense sinks below plimsoll line
Posted by Lucky on Jan 11, 2010
Patrick Vieira got no farther than the touchline at the City of Manchester Stadium last night, something he was used to at Inter Milan, where he was left out of the team so often that José Mourinho appeared to have forgotten he was there.
It was a lack of match fitness rather than [...]
Fashion in the freeze
Posted by Lucky on Jan 7, 2010
The weather crisis has plunged urban fashion into full utility mode, writes DEIRDRE McQUILLAN Fashion Editor
THIN LAYERS, thick scarves and snug hats; that was the true sartorial grit in evidence everywhere on the treacherous streets and footpaths of Dublin yesterday.
The weather crisis has plunged urban fashion into full utility mode with [...]
Review of the decade: Fashion
Posted by Lucky on Jan 6, 2010
OK, it’s not strictly a TV series from the noughties – Sex and the City was first broadcast in 1998 and finished in 2004 – but it won eight Golden Globes and even spawned a movie in 2008, so it’s worthy of a mention. Patricia Field was the stylist on the show [...]
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