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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pakistan – Fashion Week
Posted by Lucky on Feb 22, 2010
LAHORE, Pakistan — Security for Lahore Fashion Week was, inevitably, tight.
The show was organized by the Pakistan Fashion Design Council and it saw the glitterati of Lahore applauding 32 designers from around the country who gathered to celebrate a glamorous event that organizers showcased as being representative of Pakistan’s rich culture, and burgeoning fashion industry.
Arif [...]
Sarah Brown, who wore Erdem to open London Fashion Week, is just one of his many high-profile fans. The rising star of British design talks to Roya Nikkhah
Posted by Lucky on Feb 22, 2010
Erdem is so busy putting the finishing touches to a hand-embroidered cashmere-and-silk poncho for tomorrow’s catwalk show that he is oblivious to having missed one of London Fashion Week’s most hotly anticipated moments: what the Prime Minister’s wife would wear to open the biggest event in Britain’s fashion calendar.
When I tell him that, in fact, [...]
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Posted by Lucky on Feb 19, 2010
For the final day of Fashion Week, and the last time that the showcase will be held under the Bryant Park tents (next season, the fashion flock heads to Lincoln Center), Isaac Mizrahi set his runway presentation in a park. But it wasn’t Bryant for Mizrahi; he went for Central Park. Leaves hung from the [...]
[Read More]Our London Fashion Week blog
Posted by Lucky on Feb 19, 2010
It’s February, it’s freezing, but it’s Fashion Week! And here at YOU we are ready and raring.
Welcome to the YOU View, where you’ll find the YOU take on London’s five-day moment under the fashion flashbulb.
We’ll feedback on the clothes and the shows, but also on the people, the parties and the goings-on that we love [...]
Pamela Anderson Almost Naked on Fashion Week’s Runway
Posted by Lucky on Feb 19, 2010
WENN Pamela Anderson displayed her best assets for all the world to see when she strut down the runway at Mercedes-Benz IMG New York Fashion Week almost naked. On Wednesday, February 17, the busty blonde put on Richie Rich’s sparkling silver swimsuit which is scarce material in the belly and breasts area.
Pamela, who is a [...]
Cozy layers, wools set tone at NY fashion week
Posted by Lucky on Feb 19, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Designers showed cozy layered looks in New York this week, wrapping thick scarves over chunky sweaters and rugged jackets in hopes that a trend of casual comfort will appeal to consumers coping with uncertain times.
Warm layers of hand-knit sweaters, roomy tweed coats and softly distressed leather jackets dominated the runways at [...]
Star-less Marc Jacobs shines at New York fashion week
Posted by Lucky on Feb 18, 2010
Muted colours and sequins were the order of the day at the Marc Jacobs show at New York fashion week. Photograph: Seth Wenig/Associated Press
“There are no celebrities at the show,” confirmed a spokesperson. For some fashion designers this would be tantamount to admitting they didn’t have the money to spend on guaranteeing a star-studded front row. [...]
New York Fashion Week: Playing it safe, but still luxe
Posted by Lucky on Feb 18, 2010
To look at the sheer amount of fur, designer boots and handbags being toted around the Bryant Park tents and on the runways during Fashion Week, you wouldn’t suspect America is in the midst of a recession.
But the looks shown here twice a year to media and buyers aren’t the mass-market clothes that wind up [...]
