Project Runway Season 7: RealityWanted Hits Up The Finale At New York Fashion Week
Posted by Lucky on Feb 15, 2010
On Friday, Project Runway held their finale runway show at New York City’s Bryant Park for Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week and RealityWanted was there to experience it all! Currently, there are 10 designers left in the competition and in order to keep the press and fans in the dark, the show let all 10 present their [...]
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Chris Brown and Others Rip the Runway for Naomi Campbell’s Fashion For Relief Haiti Fashion Show
Posted by Lucky on Feb 15, 2010
In keeping with hosting events in the name of charity for Haiti, supermodel Naomi Campbell threw a fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week 2010 Friday night (Feb 12) in New York City. Proceeds from ticket sales and the auction of the outfits will go to CARE, which plans to help rebuild Haiti’s health care system.
Some [...]
Diane von Furstenberg: Fashion on the Red Carpet
Posted by Lucky on Feb 11, 2010
Fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg and actress Eva Longoria Parker attend “The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion” Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2009 in New York City. Von Furstenberg is known for being a fashion innovator. Her signature piece — the wrap dress — is a staple in [...]
[Read More]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 [...]
Preparing for N.Y.’s fashion week
Posted by Lucky on Feb 10, 2010
NEW YORK — Starting Thursday, New York City will become even more stylish than usual as the Big Apple prepares to open the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.
The event is huge in New York. Throughout the events’ eight days, nearly 100,000 people will pass through the famous white tents in Bryant Park. The week alone will bring [...]
Celebrities and fashionistas are pooling their resources to aid Haiti yet again. After George Clooney created the mega phonathon fundraiser and John Travolta flew supplies to Haiti, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and Naomi Campbell are involved in creating a spectacular runway show on February 12.
Posted by Lucky on Feb 10, 2010
Fashion for Relief-Haiti NYC 2010 will take center stage the evening of February 12 as its show and auction will be held in aid of CARE to raise crucial funds towards rebuilding Haiti’s healthcare system for mothers and children.
Fashion for Relief-Haiti NYC 2010 will be hosted by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, and feature internationally [...]
Paul’s writings set trend for spiritual fashion
Posted by Lucky on Feb 5, 2010
Some weeks back I was reading a previewabout New York City fashion shows. I found out what’s anticipated to be in and what’s out for the up coming season. I saw what’s cool and what’s hot for the women’s wear for this next season.I read about lipstick, flowers pinned in your hair to make a [...]
[Read More]Lysacek teams up with fashion designer, skating fan Vera Wang
Posted by Lucky on Feb 2, 2010
Mid-February is Fashion Week in New York City and clearly the organizers did not have the Olympics in mind when they scheduled Vera Wang’s show on Feb. 16.
That night the men’s short program will be held in Vancouver and Wang would love to be there. “My fashion show is at 11 (a.m.) and we all [...]
Local girl’s passion for fashion may land her Fashion Week trip
Posted by Lucky on Jan 21, 2010
Brianna Bilik’s passion for fashion has begun to payoff.
The 17-year-old of Arcanum High School senior was recently named the local first place winner at The Art Institute of Ohio – Cincinnati in The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition in the fashion marketing, merchandising and retail management category.
The competition is designed to encourage and reward [...]
Jack Bauer Fights Terrorists and Bad Fashion
Posted by Lucky on Jan 18, 2010
Here at TVOvermind, we often receive material from the networks that, out of good conscience, we cannot share with our readers. For instance, last week I got my grubby paws on the first five minutes from the Season 8 premiere of ‘24,’ airing tonight at 9/8c. The whole “good conscience” thing [...]
[Read More]Sales and fashion news: American Apparel; FIG Finale; Kacky & Carl
Posted by Lucky on Jan 14, 2010
Known for neon, it was only a matter of time before American Apparel branched out with its own brightly shaded nail polish line. Aptly named Poppy (left), Factory Grey and Cotton, and light-pink Coney Island and bright-pink Berries were already on back-order when we tried to order the $6 bottles from www.americanapparel.com. [...]
[Read More]‘Project Runway’ Season 7: Two Portland-area fashion designers make the cut
Posted by Lucky on Jan 13, 2010
Portland fashion designer Janeane Ceccanti almost didn’t audition for “Project Runway.”
“I really wasn’t planning on it,” the 28-year-old says. But at the urging of fans and friends, she made a video talking about herself and her work, and sent it off. She was invited to Seattle for an in-person audition session in [...]
American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion On View At FIT Through 4/10
Posted by Lucky on Jan 5, 2010
This winter you may have picked out a jacket or dress with padded shoulders. You are proudly following in the footsteps of celebs such as Rihanna and Victoria Beckham and wearing a look that you know is hot because it was all over the autumn-winter catwalks.
But for one Londoner, your exaggerated shoulders are old news. [...]
Hanna H. Ebert, of Madison, a war bride and fashion house quality control manager, has died
Posted by Lucky on Dec 31, 2009
After a long illness, Hanna (aka Hanni [pronounced “Honey”]) of Madison died on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. She was the beloved wife of Harry Ebert with whom she had been happily married for more than 62 years and the daughter of Ludwig and Hertha Sesselmann.
She was born in 1922 in the green [...]
Photoshop ‘Til You Drop
Posted by Lucky on Dec 28, 2009
The world of haute couture has always been one of make-believe, fantasy, outrageousness and the fantabulous. If high fashion were ordinary, who would buy it?
But even give those wide parameters, in its never-ending struggle to be more, better and different, haute couture has exploited high tech graphic design to a level [...]
