Goodbye Size Zero: Plus-size designer fashion finally makes its debut, courtesy of U.S. department store
Posted by Lucky on Jul 28, 2010
The fashion world may continue to argue the plus-size debate for years to come, but one company has taken matters in to its own hands.
Saks Fifth Avenue, the ultra chic American department store, will soon be adding plus-sized clothing to the high-end floor of its world famous New York branch – a major coup for [...]
Fashion Photographer: ‘I was blown away’
Posted by Lucky on Jul 12, 2010
LOS ANGELES—Olesja Mueller and Thomas Astrauskas were impressed by Shen Yun, and felt that they could not have chosen a better way to celebrate Olesja’s birthday.
“Yeah, an amazing impression. You couldn’t do anything better for your birthday. It will stay with you for many years,” said Ms. Mueller.
Being a fashion photographer, Olesja has an eye [...]
Rachel Bilson Is Saving the World with Fashion
Posted by Lucky on Jul 2, 2010
Rachel Bilson is dedicating her time toward making the world a better place—through fashion. Early in 2010, Rachel helped design a bracelet to benefit education in Africa. Now, she’s teamed up with Coach to raise money for the Art of Elysium, a children’s charity. Art of Elysium is a non-profit org that encourages working artists, [...]
[Read More]Men’s Fashion Week Roundup
Posted by Lucky on Jun 30, 2010
For those of you who have lives beyond fashion (sadly I do not!), you might be unaware that for the last two weeks some of the best designers in the world have been showing their new menswear collections. Now it took me a while to get to grips with the season, it actually still leaves [...]
[Read More]A winning way with fashion
Posted by Lucky on Jun 19, 2010
‘I was born into fashion,’ says designer Donna Karan, as she opens up about her two decades in the fashion world, the various products she has designed and all that she has achieved. An exclusive e-mail interview.
“Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul,” says fashion icon Donna Karan. “For me, designing [...]
LIZ JONES: Olé! Zara’s the new king of High Street fashion
Posted by Lucky on Jun 14, 2010
While there have been many stories of late of fashion brands going to the wall, there is one soaring success story on the High Street. Zara, the Spanish brand that made its name bringing a wearable working wardrobe within reach of the masses, has posted record profits.
Last week, its parent company Inditex posted a 63 [...]
Why fashion on screen lacks style
Posted by Lucky on Jun 11, 2010
As a film on Isabella Blow is planned, Geoffrey Macnab argues that haute couture and cinema are more likely to clash than complement
The news that a film is being planned about the late Isabella Blow, possibly with Sam Taylor-Wood directing, isn’t a surprise. There was something inherently cinematic about Blow, who died in 2007 at [...]
Fantasy Football Fashion
Posted by Lucky on Jun 11, 2010
IN MILAN’S HIGH-FASHION shopping district, the “quadrilatero d’oro,” or golden rectangle, just about all the designers are playing the same game — buy my clothes, they seem to say, and you, too, can look like a fashion model. But not Dirk Bikkembergs, the German-Belgian designer, who opened up his first flagship store here last year.
[dirk [...]
The oriental class of 2010 at Graduate Fashion Week
Posted by Lucky on Jun 10, 2010
It’s Graduate Fashion Week, but fashion students have been graduating since Central Saint Martins’s MA show in March. Sitting at these shows, you try to patch together future trends from what you see – and this year, I’m beginning to see a huge trend. Every time I glance down to check who has done what, [...]
The oriental class of 2010 at Graduate Fashion Week
Posted by Lucky on Jun 9, 2010
Cadbury’s new Flake advert as directed by Baillie Walsh and styled by Antony Price
The oriental class of 2010
It’s Graduate Fashion Week, but fashion students have been graduating since Central Saint Martins’s MA show in March. Sitting at these shows, you try to patch together future trends from what you see – and this year, [...]
[Read More]Graduate Fashion Week: patriotic chiffon perfect for WAGs
Posted by Lucky on Jun 8, 2010
Any self-respecting WAG who wants to fly the flag in style terms at the World Cup, should look no further than the final-year collection of Sara Wadsworth, shown at Graduate Fashion Week in London on Sunday.
The BA graduate’s collection was the last word in ‘Rule Brittannia’ chic.
Her models wore chiffon tunics and kaftans, printed with [...]
Fashion makes a difference
Posted by Lucky on Jun 2, 2010
Buy any lace-trimmed cami from habits in Cape Town and they’ll give 10% of of the price to Noah – an organisation that looks after Aids orphans. Now if only everyone in fashion could use a bit of glamour to make a difference to the world.
Go to for more information.
Remember Bono started the Red campaign [...]
The Tuhami mix: Saudi fashion designer blends East with West
Posted by Lucky on Jun 2, 2010
Tuhami Al-Arabi is a young Saudi fashion designer and artist who has worked in several diverse and creative fields — from designing clothes to painting pictures. Just like a DJ, he blends Western and Eastern fashion together and cooperates with international companies to target both people in the Gulf and Western regions.
Even though he didn’t [...]
[Read More]Christian Louboutin: How killer heels conquered fashion
Posted by Lucky on Mar 20, 2010
There is music to a shoe, there is attitude, there is sound.’ Photograph: Denis Rouvre
God forgive me, I interviewed Christian Louboutin while wearing a pair of trainers. Not fancy sci-fi ones either, but properly old and grimy ones. Louboutin is one of the most famous shoe designers in the world and officially the most prestigious, [...]
Ukrainian fashion designers are gradually finding their individuality and are increasingly concerned with important social processes
Posted by Lucky on Mar 18, 2010
The Ukrainian Fashion Week is now well in line with the global catwalk. The European fashion calendar places Kyiv immediately after the Paris Fashion Week preceeded by similar weeks in New York, Milan, and London. So the Ukrainian fashion event gets off to a start when the main European fashion capitals have already said their [...]
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