Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci lead Milan fashion week’s fightback
Posted by Lucky on Mar 2, 2010
As the last outfit exited the Dolce & Gabbana catwalk in Milan yesterday, the cinema-sized screen of backstage images cut to a shot of the house seamstresses in their white coats, spectacles and tape measures strung around their necks, and the entire audience of 1,000 people burst into spontaneous applause.
It was the defining moment of [...]
The new cool in Milan fashion
Posted by Lucky on Mar 2, 2010
Milan fashion has always been about overt sexiness. Tight, bright and sparkly. But all that has changed, says Jess Cartner-Morley
Milan fashion week used to be so simple. It did sexy. Molto sexy. Revealing, attention-seeking frocks of the it-does-what-it-says-on-the-tin, hormone-charging variety. Some seasons it was sexy-boho, sometimes it was fierce-sexy, sometimes it was Lolita-sexy, but – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Triumph for British fashion at Baftas
Posted by Lucky on Feb 22, 2010
The Baftas turned into a triumph for British fashion designers tonight, with the red carpet becoming an extension of the London catwalk. A buoyant British fashion scene, and a desire to pay red carpet tribute to combined to make the Baftas a near-landslide for British fashion.
who on Tuesday stage their second catwalk show in London since [...]
McQueen’s legacy uncertain as accounts show fashion house had £32m liabilities
Posted by Lucky on Feb 17, 2010
His dramatic creations dazzled the catwalks for a decade, but the legacy of the fashion designer Alexander McQueen could be decided on the basis of a balance sheet.
An indication of the future of his fashion label will be given this morning — a week after the designer’s apparent suicide — by the French luxury group [...]
New York Fashion Week sombre affair
Posted by Lucky on Feb 15, 2010
New York Fashion Week has kicked off, with Gwen Stefani one of the first designers to show a collection.
The star was debuting her new LAMB clothing line, and brought her 17-month-old son Zuma along for moral support. The tot was dressed in a miniature version of Gwen’s black leather jacket, teamed with jeans and slicked [...]
When New York Fashion Met the World
Posted by Lucky on Feb 11, 2010
GEOGRAPHY has always been a convenient form of branding in Manhattan, where Madison Avenue, Broadway and Wall Street are shorthand for career tracks as much as they are addresses.
As the home of New York Fashion Week, Bryant Park is, to much of the world, synonymous with fashion. That is a fitting distinction since its wide-open [...]
London fashion week meets the Baftas
Posted by Lucky on Feb 10, 2010
The fortunes of London fashion week switch more often than Lady Gaga swaps hairstyles. And – just like Gaga – change is just about the only thing you can rely on. If one catwalk week is awash with space-age mini-dresses and replete with standing ovations, then you can bet your best Prada sunglasses that the following [...]
[Read More]Here comes the 411 on Fashion East!
Posted by Lucky on Jan 30, 2010
Everyone knows London (in terms of fashion at least) is the cabbage patch that all the most talented fashion babies come from, many to grow up and take over the catwalks of Paris, New York and Milan. The reason? Well, the fashion students here have some of the world’s top colleges to choose from (like [...]
[Read More]Milan Fashion Week: Dsquared serves up pure hockey camp
Posted by Lucky on Jan 22, 2010
I’ll admit it, at the Dsquared show on the final day of Milan Fashion Week, when the leather-clad fellow with the black feathered plumage appeared at the top of the runway and people started cheering madly, my first thought was that it was second-place “American Idol” contestant Adam Lambert in the aftermath of a severe [...]
[Read More]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]Milan Fashion Week: Emporio Armani works the angles
Posted by Lucky on Jan 18, 2010
Reporting from Milan — Circle gets the square. Although most of the other designers at Milan Fashion Week were going soft and fuzzy with voluminous sheepskins and blanket coats for their Fall/Winter 2010 collections, Giorgio Armani’s Emporio Armani line was crisp, clean and cool.
Titled “A Geometric Theorem,” it was themed around five basic shapes: squares, [...]
Fashion goes online, live, as Milan runways show menswear
Posted by Lucky on Jan 18, 2010
Fashion goes online, live, as Milan runways show menswear
By Daniela Petroff (CP) – 10 hours ago
MILAN, Italy — The fall-winter 2010-2011 preview presentations, the first shows of the year, got underway over the weekend with a new fashion passion: live online showcasing.
Gone are the days when house bouncers, trained to spot [...]
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 [...]
