Mumbai all set for Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Summer/ Resort 2010
Posted by Lucky on Mar 5, 2010
The five-day fashion extravaganza, that begins today, will see designers dish out a riot of colours on the ramp.
Designer Rocky S says, “I have always been doing a lot of traditional wear and in this fashion week I will make a strong statement with colours in traditional summer wear. My line is almost like a [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lily Collins Checks out London Fashion Week
Posted by Lucky on Feb 24, 2010
Lily Collins pulls her hair back for a couple of London Fashion Week shows earlier in the week.
The 19-year-old actress checked both the Matthew Williamson show and the Pringle of Scotland Fashion Show at the Serpentine Gallery.
Lily also stopped by the Love Ball, in aid of The Naked Heart Foundation, at The Roundhouse on Tuesday [...]
Youthful Luxury Brand House of Holland Hits The Catwalk At London Fashion Week
Posted by Lucky on Feb 22, 2010
Youthful Luxury Brand House of Holland Hits The Catwalk At London Fashion WeekPosted by Elena Knightsbridge On February – 21 – 2010
Designer Henry Holland has managed to create one of Britain’s most unique luxury fashion brands over the last few years and he showed his brand new Autmun Winter 2010 collection at London Fashion Week [...]
London stays vibrant with young fashion talent
Posted by Lucky on Feb 22, 2010
LONDON — London’s taste for the avant garde makes it vital for young talent and veterans alike, designers and industry watchers said, brushing aside fears the city is being squeezed out by rivals Milan, New York and Paris.
“It is eclectic. The diversity you have in London you just don’t have anywhere else,” Kinder Aggugini, an [...]
London Fashion Week: Nicola Roberts wows with a daring thigh-skimming skirt at Vivienne Westwood catwalk show
Posted by Lucky on Feb 22, 2010
Fashionista: Nicola Roberts, who was at the Vivienne Westwood Red Label show last night, has become a keen follower of fashionShe’s slowly but surely morphed into a fashionista since her humble beginnings with Girls Aloud.
And Nicola Roberts proved she can pull off a show-stopping look when she made an appearance at Vivienne Westwood’s Red Label [...]
London Fashion Week: Twenty8Twelve Autumn/Winter 2010/2011 collection
Posted by Lucky on Feb 22, 2010
As Covent Garden played host to the BAFTAS, just down the road, on the banks of the River Thames, London Fashion Week was in fierce and stylish competition with its own global superstars, red carpet-worthy gowns and the ‘premiere’ of a new movie, starring Sienna Miller.
Ms Miller played a sexy rock-chick in a short film [...]
