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Judas Priest's Rob Halford Sets Out to Dress the Metal Gods

2009-10-09T05:10:00.000-07:00

While it might seem like a difficult task to reinvent that fashion staple of heavy metal music fans, the t-shirt, if anyone has the right credentials for the task it’s Rob Halford, lead singer of legendary metal band Judas Priest.

Halford just launched Metal God, his signature brand of t-shirts that have all the soft-worn appeal of a vintage concert t-shirt but with all-new original graphics that he’s betting will appeal to die-hard metal fans and aspiring rockers alike.

“The imagery is simply an extension of what I do with my music,” explained Halford at a preview of the collection on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at a New York hotel in the East Village, not far from dive bars where heavy metal music aficionados like DJ Lady Starlight spin Judas Priest classics. “Metal God” refers to the nickname given to Halford by fans.

“Quite simply, Rob Halford invented heavy metal style,” said DJ Lady Starlight, who writes a fashion and music blog chronicling the history of hard rock and airs a heavy metal podcast, “Metal for Muthas,” on American Apparel internet radio. “The biker and leather boy look Halford adopted for promoting 'Hell Bent For Leather' in 1978 became the look every metal band emulated going forward.”

At Wednesday’s preview, Halford was sporting one of his own designs. “If you see something like this thing I’m wearing, with this fantasy mythical creature with a guitar, it says something strong and powerful,” he said. “That’s just been a natural progression over the years in rock and roll, to try and find a way of saying something about yourself with the item of clothing you’re wearing.”

“A metalhead is rarely seen without a t-shirt or at least one patch or badge of their favorite bands,” said DJ Lady Starlight. Other signatures of heavy metal style, she explained, include studs, spandex, lace and most definitively, elements of fantasy literature and art like chainmail, armor and other Medieval and Renaissance influences.

As such, many of the Metal God t-shirt designs feature mythical creatures, like the Cerberus, a ferocious three-headed dog that guards the gates to the underworld in ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Fantasy in heavy metal, said Balford, is “a cool association.”

“You can see I’m covered in tattoos of dragons and all this other mythical imagery, and that’s again a part of my background as a lyricist,” he said. “I’ve got a very vivid imagination and a lot of characters I create are made up in a fantasy kind of way. They always carry realistic virtues and attributes. So if I’m writing a song like ‘Painkiller,’ it may be, like, about, this really evil, menacing guy, which is the persona of the creature that you create, but he’s doing good. I always have a lot of fun with that.”

So far, the collection only features t-shirts, for both men and women, retailing between $55 and $65 – but eventually Halford hopes to branch out, albeit dependent on the economy.

“I think that you have to have a little bit of a leash on what you do, otherwise it’s chaos,” he said. “But we always see the light at the end of the tunnel. I don’t think we can suddenly stop, Don’t make records, don’t make clothes, don’t make movies. I think we have a responsibility to try and keep that creative optimism going, no matter what we do.”

Halford’s confident that his particular take on things – he is the Metal God, after all – will distinguish his brand of rock-related apparel.

“I think that my connection is a little bit more personal than some of the other great things that are going on around me,” said Halford. “This is a direct connection to me. It’s called a ‘Metal God’ t-shirt. I think we’ve all got a bit of Metal God inside of us.”

He’s also hoping to extend the heavy metal spirit beyond just music fans.

“I was talking to someone earlier and they were saying, it’s like everybody wants to be a metalhead, but people are like, ‘Can I really be one? I don’t really know what this is about, but I see it, and I look at what they where and the shows they go to, and I see it on VH1 Classic Metal Mania, and I’m like, wow, it looks so cool,’” said Halford. “But if you’re into that rock and roll, edgy, exciting type of passionate world, then I think that these t-shirts and this initial launch have a way of connecting to you as a person.”

Source: www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Balenciaga: Haute Warriors

2009-10-02T05:28:00.000-07:00

At the latest women's ready-to-wear collection from Balenciaga, unveiled Thursday, Oct. 1, in Paris, the mood was futuristic, though with clothes that somehow seem pulled out of the earth.

Excellent leather mini skirts in colors that recalled transactional photos of the earth's crust, woolen cocktail dresses in marble hues and leather pants that recalled Amazonian plants gave the collection an organically earthy feel.

This was a highly decorative collection, cut with a stark symmetry, where the contrast between hard colors like blood oranges or painterly reds with soft grays, white woven leather and plastic tops was elegant and very new.

Though strikingly inventive, the collection did reference a lot of the ideas that Balenciaga's creative director Nicolas Ghesquiere first began developing half a decade ago.

"I wanted to go back to the graphic ideas that are part of Balenciaga," said Ghesquiere backstage. "It's true that I was trying something similar three or four years ago, but this time a little softer."

A faint sense of the prehistoric also wafted through the show, from the reptilian teeth shaped baubles used on bracelets to animal skin platform shoes and black eye shadow smeared back to the hairline.

Staged in the gilded opulence of the Crillon Hotel, the show opened with a series of hooded tops, though the leather used did look a bit hot for a summer soiree. But the sheer panache of the tops construction - cut off at the armpit, made with flared hips and finished with arcane straps made them all look great.

The designer also showed snazzy men's dress shirts, largely transparent except for a cotton pique breastplate, a look that will likely be highly influential.

And Ghesquiere sent out a sensational collection of shoes - zigzag patterned high-heels with slim conical heels and earth-crust, laced mini platforms that will be bestsellers.

Source: www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Short is hot for summer 2010 at Milan Fashion Week

2009-09-25T04:27:00.000-07:00

It looks like it's going to be a short summer in 2010 — at least where hemlines are concerned.

On Thursday, the opening day of Milan fashion week of preview showings for next year's warm weather fashion, short dresses, short skirts and short shorts showed up on almost every runway.

But in this round, the cropped look is more demure than daring. Ruffles and bubble shapes replace the clinging styles that often symbolize Made in Italy label.

Even Dolce&Gabbana, best known for their sexy styles, opted for a pert cowgirl look of short ruffled chiffon skirts paired with corset tops and boots with leather fringe for their second line D&G label, which is aimed at the younger set.

Already hinted at on the winter runway, summer marks the return of the jacket, complete with its 1980's powersuit shoulder padding.

Footwear looks like it's stepping down from the platform heights of recent seasons, with a sensible heel at Prada and flat sandals at Armani.

Perhaps in an effort to combat the current grim economic mood, designers brighten up their palette, replacing staple black-and-white with colorful pink, yellow, blue and green.

Over the next five days, top Italian designers including Fendi, Ferre, Missoni, Gucci, Bottega Veneta and Versace will present their ideas for the upcoming summer. Thursday's shows included Armani, Moschino Cheap and Chic, D&G and Prada.

ARMANI

Giorgio Armani presented a bright and upbeat spring/summer 2010 collection, an apt response to speculation over succession at his Milan fashion house after the 75 year old designer's recent bout with hepatitis.

The normally urban Armani went for a bright summer look with cheerful houndstooth prints and youthful short styles.

The collection featured lots of loose-fitting and comfortable pieces paired with more structured looks — a bubble skirt and cropped jacket, or loose blousey tops and short pleated skirts.

Everything was short, even evening wear, which included loose shorts, or sparkly shorts under slightly shorter dresses.

Deep open V backs were ideal for showing off well-tanned backs, sometimes crisscrossed by strips of fabric.

Janet Jackson, spending the week in Milan ahead of a charity dinner she is chairing next week, made an appearance at the second show.

A well-tanned Armani, dressed completely in black, waved to the crowd after the show before disappearing backstage.

"No purchases, no sales," the designer told reporters after the show, answering speculation about succession at the fashion house after his illness.

PRADA

Models with ruby red lips and pigtails wearing chiffon veils paired with silk sport shorts wandering down the corridors of a seaside Belle Epoque hotel re-created on the runway underlined the enigmatic mood of the Prada collection.

"It is quite contemporary, a little bit nostalgic and very mysterious," was how designer Miuccia Prada described her collection to reporters backstage after the much-applauded show.

On hand for one of the most sought after shows in town was tennis star Roger Federer in an impeccable gray suit and tie.

The Prada print this round is a series of photos from a 1960's beach scene complete with deck chairs, umbrellas and people in bikinis, reproduced in miniature on delicate techno fabrics. The designer uses these prints for coats cocktail sheaths, blouson tops and a myriad of shorts ranging from bikers to an ultra short version to reveal the panties underneath.

The latest Prada accessories include shoes and bags in see-through plastic. After many a season of models tottering and sometimes toppling on their ultrahigh platform shoes, the latest Prada collection sports a sensible heel.

"Platforms are dead — at least until next season," the designer said.

MOSCHINO CHEAP AND CHIC

It's clear Moschino wants its Cheap and Chic line's spring/summer 2010 women's collection to be seen through the rose-colored lenses of daisy-shaped glasses. A cardboard pair was included in each invitation to its show.

Not to disappoint, the runway was filled with daisies, dainty and bold, prints and sunglasses. Oh, and there were big summer hats with oversized daisy petals forming the brim, among the many whimsical touches in the collection, which included also one necklace featuring a true-to-size gold banana on a chain, and another with oversized chili peppers.

The colors suggested an era when television was a newfangled contraption, idealized for the transition from black-and-white to color broadcasts: bold floral patterns, alternating with that small-screen classic black and white separates, alternating with multicolor panels or stripes in shades of blue, red, orange, yellow and pink, reminiscent of early television's color stripes.

On the delicate end of the scale, a daisy print short pleated skirt was paired with a ruffle shirt accented by a thin yellow belt followed by a black-and-white striped bikini perfect for Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island. Toward the bolder end, there were pink bubble shorts with a black shirt emblazoned with the word "Peace" or a generous pink blouse, long sleeved on one arm, sleeveless on the other, with an oversized bow, worn with black shorts. Purses could be anything, clutches, long-strapped bags, totes.

Source : Associated Press

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Fashion Week ends with seasonless look for spring

2009-09-18T04:37:00.000-07:00

The styles shown at New York Fashion Week were meant for next spring — not that you'd know it.

The collections that wrapped up eight days of previews on Thursday have been more covered-up than usual. Leather, suede, long sleeves and black have been all over the runways.

There were nods to the season — leather was lightened up to be more luxurious and buttery than the rock-star looks in stores for fall. Proenza Schouler showed a leather mesh style, similar to the material golfers use for their gloves.

Peter Som offered a silver leather bomber, and a mix of hemlines and sleeve lengths. "I wanted to address all aspects of her life and wherever she might be," he said.

The clothes speak to the idea of seasonless dressing, which is all the buzz among retailers since the weather — and the economy — are so unpredictable.

TOMMY HILFIGER

Fashion Week ended on a high note, with Tommy Hilfiger sending out a strong spring collection and filling his front row with celebrities that sent photographers into a frenzy.

Taylor Swift set off the most flashbulbs just days after the flap with Kanye West at the VMAs, but Naomi Watts, Mary Louise Parker and Rosario Dawson also captured a lot of attention.

The clothes on the runway deserved notice too: Hilfiger's theme was the "relaxed glamour" of a Southern California boardwalk, which meant a surprisingly cohesive mix of crisp nautical looks and disco-era slinky styles.

The opening look featured a robelike swing coat in a dusty rose silk with a complementary button-down blouse — that was, indeed, mostly unbuttoned — and his finale was a one-shouldered draped goddess gown in white jersey.

The jacket-and-shorts set that very well might become the hot womenswear suit for fall was done nicely with a champagne-colored silk bomber, khaki pleated shorts and a silk tank with gold trim.

RALPH LAUREN

Basic means something else when you're Ralph Lauren. It means silver-sequined slashed jeans, organza "work-shirt" dresses and even a metallic blue-lame gown with all the trademark details of coveralls.

Lauren, who embodies the classic American sportswear look, said he wanted to craft spring-season clothes that reflected the "resilient spirit" of the nation — and its work ethic.

He seemed keenly aware of how the economy has beaten up on the fashion industry, especially the luxury market where his runway collection operates.

The simplest looks on the catwalk, which was lined with the Lauren clan and Janet Jackson, were the floral dresses that featured sweet, delicate floral prints reminiscent of those farm wives wore in the 1930s. Denim was more dominant than usual with silhouettes ranging from a tailored, suit-style jacket to rolled-ankle work jeans.

CALVIN KLEIN

The easy elegance that has become the hallmark of the spring shows was alive and well on the Calvin Klein runway.

The simple and sophisticated palette that creative director Francisco Costa favors this season was dominated by white, black and a neutral color he called porcelain.

What's new here is the looser shape and an emphasis on textures. In recent history, Costa has focused on architecture, but this was more about needle-punched fabrics, crinkle silk and a bit of mohair. A white dress with all-over crushed pleats was the perfect thing to wear for cocktails after a day at the beach.

Most styles were short, as has been the trend, and the looks that were long mostly had a sheer bottom, adding to the feeling of lightness, even if the sleeves often were long or models were wearing jackets.

ISAAC MIZRAHI

Forget clothes for a minute: Isaac Mizrahi knows how to put on a show.

With a rain spray, wind machine, spotlights and a staircase incorporated into his catwalk, Mizrahi even sent out one model in a golf cart wearing a black-sequin shorts suit — and a white top hat, of course.

The eveningwear is what sparkled: A strapless black cocktail dress with a giant white rose on the bustline, and a fluted gown covered in black lace and tufts of tulle, both captured classic Mizrahi and his theme of a retro country club.

Mizrahi also needs a fix of kookiness, though, and this go around he accomplished that with an iridescent lava lamp-fringe coat.

PROENZA SCHOULER

Feathers or tinsel? Take your pick from the Proenza Schouler runway.

The design duo of Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez had plenty to keep the fashion flock — including Leighton Meester and Courtney Love — buzzing. The first set of skirts and dresses had the jacket-tied-around-the-waist look with the silhouettes permanently fixed with zippers and buttons on the backside.

Skirts were often paired with navy tailored jackets with very sculptured shoulders, an evolution of a current trend.

Next up were short shift dresses that alternated feathers and tinsel at the hemline. Then came the lingerie-inspired cocktail dresses, some with bra tops and cutout midriffs — another Fashion Week trend — and tiers of mini ruffles as the skirt.

ANNA SUI

It took some guts to put band majorette hats on the runway, but the faces of a clearly entertained audience must have made it worthwhile for Anna Sui.

The bouncy, youthful dresses in the spring collection Sui presented Wednesday were born from the designer's love of the 1967 movie "Doctor Dolittle." The Victorian circus was the most inspirational part of the film, she said. That came through in bow blouses and cropped-pants and shorts suits, albeit shrunken ones.

Anyone who follows Sui's look knows she is a bit of a '60s junkie — it came through this season in mod-shaped shift dresses and psychedelic colors, especially purples, yellows, greens and turquoise blue. Most of the outfits captured the optimistic vibe that Sui said she thinks the industry — and consumers — are ready for now.

MARCHESA

Marchesa turned out some real showstoppers, dresses tailor-made for the label's red-carpet fans.

The greatest feat was a black-and-white duchesse satin strapless gown folded like a fan in the front and with a fully laser-cut skirt.

Designer Georgina Chapman said the late Anthony Minghella's production of "Madame Butterfly" served as her inspiration: "The music is so beautiful. I listened to it recently and thought about how feminine and fragile it was, and that it was about love."

The Asian aesthetic was carried throughout, including an oyster-colored, hand-painted floral obi coat and an embroidered obi jacket, worn with black evening shorts. Chapman also played with some sheer fabrics, often in a nude color, which ended up a game of strategic peek-a-boo.

PETER SOM

It was time for Peter Som to do happy. And it turns out it suits him.

It's been trying times for the young designer, parting ways with Bill Blass and losing a financial investor, but — at least when it comes to design — it seems he's found his way out of the storm.

Earlier in his career, he sometimes faced criticism that his eye was too mature for the uptown party girl he was courting. But that customer now has a choice of a silver leather bomber over a lemon-yellow, petal-print skirt or a shimmery steel-color leopard coat with an exploding-floral print short.

DOO.RI

It was a gray day Wednesday on the Doo.Ri runway, where the designer presented an ensemble of shorts, dresses and blouses in varying shades of gray.

But while gray is certainly plain, Doo.Ri's spring collection was anything but. Pleats, plisse, tulle and ruffles brought class and sophistication.

Dresses ranged from a gray short sleeve V-neck dress with a drawstring at the waist and a crinkled skirt bottom to a short sheath tulle dress with silver sequins on the sides making it look like a sewn-on, flashy jacket.

Even with a few flashes of dark blues and pinks, the sun never seemed to come out — but that's OK.

Source : Associated Press

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BCBG Max Azria: Fashion's Future is Here Now

2009-09-11T04:24:00.000-07:00

As the latest fashion week in New York got underway on Thursday, Sept. 10 - over the course of the next week over 200 designers will show their Spring 2010 offerings - the million dollar question facing the fashion industry is, “What will customers buy?”

Vogue’s Fashion’s Night Out initiative simultaneously kicked off on Thursday night in cities worldwide in an attempt to tantalize and persuade shoppers to buy full-priced fall fare in a retail climate that has been in decline for the past year.

If the spring collection by BCBG Max Azria is any indication of what’s in store for customers six months from now - their morning runway show was the first official presentation in the Bryant Park tents - customers might still be inclined to continue shopping their closets, as the collection was short on new ideas.

The brand that most often graces the pages of Us Weekly and is sold in over 550 stores worldwide served up a slim collection of 31 looks, which contained a similar refrain throughout of t-shirt dressing, painterly abstract expressionist prints, asymmetry and draped jersey. Bright colors attempted to lighten the mood, but the sack-like silhouette proved to be uninspiring - more beach cover-up than evening attire.

Several looks played with contrasting textures, like a minidress with a smooth puzzle-shaped crepe panel mixed with a delicately ruched printed fabric, while a whisper thin handkerchief hem jersey dress featured a quilted architectural shoulder. Metallic beading adorned a series of black or white gowns, but this type of detail has already made its way to mass market stores for a number of seasons now.

At time BCBG felt like it was taking cues from one of the other brands in the Max Azria stable, Herve Leger. Neon triple mesh ruched dresses looked like a lighter version of the ubiquitous bandage dress.

If it seemed like the collection, meant to present what we’ll be wearing six months into the future, tended to evoke the present and the recent past, it turns out that’s not so far from being the truth - a couple of select dresses from the Spring 2010 collection went up for sale on the company’s Web site immediately following the show. If celebrities are “just like us,” now thanks to BCBG Max Azria we can be “just like them.”

Source: www.fashionwiredaily.com

Rachel Rachel Roy Debuts at Macy's

2009-09-04T05:31:00.000-07:00

Just in time for back-to-school shopping - and for fashionistas getting their wardrobes ready for fashion week - Rachel Roy and Jones Apparel Group launched Rachel Rachel Roy, a diffusion collection designed exclusively for Macy’s.

“Rachel Rachel Roy is the younger sister of the Rachel Roy collection,” said Rachel Roy via email “She is worldly, educated, and modern.”

The first round of the Fall 2009 collection - new pieces will be introduced in stores on a monthly basis - is playful, with artistic prints like the sassy brushstroke a-line dress or pixel print silk blouse. A short wrap “24 Hour” dress with draped pockets makes a good case as a new basic, a cool-meets-comfort piece that would works for day or night.

Roy’s jackets, on the other hand, are anything but basic, like a quilted brushstroke swing coat with oversized snaps and the smart, soft cape-like cropped jacket with delicate dangling metal chains. Chains also adorn a white tee to function like built-in jewelry, though the Rachel Rachel Roy jewelry collection also features very affordable stand-alone statement pieces.

“I was inspired by the incredible, strong, forward thinking girls that surround me everyday,” said Roy.

The line will retail from $59 to $299 for sportswear, $79 to $199 for footwear, $40 to $195 for jewelry and $69 to $109 for handbags.

“I have always known I wanted to create an affordable yet fashion forward line, as I believe in good clothing at a good price,” said Roy.

Source: www.fashionwiredaily.com

`Runway' champ campaigns for Kidman to wear dress

2009-08-28T05:13:00.001-07:00

Fashion designer Daniel Vosovic has someone very A-list in mind for the winning dress he created for the "Project Runway: All-Star Challenge."

Vosovic dreams of getting none other than Nicole Kidman to wear the elegant black-and-white ensemble that secured his victory on Thursday's special edition of the fashion-competition franchise.

Vosovic says he feels the urge to start a Web site for his case. Because, as he puts it, "I WANT that woman in my dress."

The style-savvy actress helped set up a design contest for Vosovic and seven other top contestants from past "Runway" seasons. In a video message, Kidman asked them to create a red carpet-ready look for the upcoming premiere of her film "Nine," which also stars Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and Kate Hudson.

She didn't say who'd wear the chosen dress.

"As excited as we were, we certainly got it," he said. "I mean, she has an international image to uphold. ... I think that she just wanted to have a little bit of a look, so hopefully she's watching the show, she loves what I did and she'll want to wear the dress."

Representatives for Kidman could not immediately be reached for comment Friday.

Vosovic, 28, is planning to debut his namesake collection at New York Fashion Week in February. He recently published a book, "Fashion Inside Out."

He was booted from "Project Runway" in 2006 after making it to the final round. Armed with more experience and confidence, Vosovic was happy to return for another shot at the title of top designer and the $100,000 grand prize. He out-sewed the competition on the one-episode challenge with four looks that were notably edgier than his understated designs on season two.

He says Michael Kors, one of the show's judges alongside Heidi Klum and Nina Garcia, once told him he created beautiful clothes that women want to wear but he was still learning how to put on a show.

"As harsh and real and honest as that was, I learned from it," he says. "And I learned, that, you know, sometimes you gotta turn up the volume a little bit."

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Fashion Front-and-Center at "My One and Only" Premiere

2009-08-20T04:01:00.001-07:00

What brings fashion designers running? If you're in New York City on a hot summer night, it is Renee Zellweger, who stars in the new film "My One and Only." The premiere of that Fifties-era comedy drew a who's who of well-known couturiers on Tuesday, Aug. 18.

Donna Karan greeted the super-slim Zellweger, who wore a sleek black one-shouldered cocktail dress, and Rachel Roy wasn't far behind. And the designing duo of Mark Badgley and James Mischka spiffed up the red carpet themselves, as they joined producer-actor George Hamilton at for the glittery premiere.

"My One and Only" follows Hamilton's real-life family odyssey, as his single mother loaded her sons into the car and headed west, looking to recruit one of her old boyfriends into the role of stepfather to her kids. It's a story with a happy ending, as Hamilton explained to reporters earlier in the day.

"The madness of my family, which was extraordinary, and the wonderful lessons that my mother taught me about life gave me the ability to withstand fifty two years of Hollywood," he laughed. "I've never had any addictions. Maybe a little to the sun, but bottom the line is that I live a very healthy life."

Hamilton brought his girlfriend, Dr. Barbara Strum, while Zellweger hit the premiere solo. The duo greeted the other stars of their new film, including Logan Lerman, Mark Rendall, Robin Weigert, and Holly Palmer, as well as famous faces including Bethenny Frankel, Emily Senko, Veronica Taylor, Zach Grenier, and artist LeRoy Neiman, who at 88 still sports his signature crazy mustache.

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Back to School Fashion returns to 1980

2009-08-14T04:35:00.000-07:00

Brace yourself moms, the 1980s are back in school fashion. Go grab your AquaNet hairspray and your Bananarama cassettes and get ready to go “Back to the Future.”

Leggings, skinny jeans, and stirrup pants are back. Bright neon accents and shiny colors have returned, and ankle boots and wide belts have resurfaced.

“We’re seeing a return of the early ’80s influence that you wish we had forgotten,” says Jacqueline Burris, assistant professor of Fashion and Product Design at the University of Cincinnati, “but it’s back with a 2009 twist.”

The Converse high tops and sneakers, a hot commodity during the ’80s, continue to be popular for boys and girls. They are now in eye-catching patterns and designs.

Burris says not to lace them all the way up to get that “just running out the door” look. Or change the color of the laces. Burris also says it’s okay to mismatch polka dots with plaids and other bright colors for fun.

Fashion isn’t just about decades ago. It also reflects the current social and economic times. This season, Burris says it’s all about utility and ease, and getting that extra bang for your buck. For example, all jackets, knits and shirts should have few buttons and be “easy on and easy off” for kids.

Layering is a great way to stretch your children’s summer wardrobe into fall while keeping your kids comfortable with the changing weather, Burris said.

For boys, Burris suggests layering graphic T-shirts over long sleeve shirts and adding even another short sleeve shirt on top to get an updated and modern look. Another way is to layer two different colored polo shirts, one on top of another with the sleeves turned up, to pop the colors and patterns, such as horizontal stripes.

“For button down shirts, we’re seeing some light embroidery detailing and the retro cowboy shirts in plaid. The T-shirts have lots of graffiti-inspired patterns such as skull and bones and griffins (think Harry Potter). Wear them with faded, ripped jeans,” Burris says.

For girls, there are shirt and sweater-dresses with exposed zippers and buckles.

“We’re seeing lots of bold colored plaids, quilted looks and bright mustard yellow colors for accessories,” she says.

When it comes to neck scarves, Burris says not be afraid to mix and match colors and patterns and advises against having one be too “matchy-matchy” with an outfit. In addition to the light and dark wash skinny jeans, a Crayola assortment of colors such as grape purple and hot pink are popular.

With jewelry, Burris looks for oversized clustered necklaces or those with lots of trinkets and charms. Shoes include highly decorated Mary Janes, open-toe boots and ankle boots.

So if parents are feeling a big nostalgic for the ’80s, they should get out “Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink,” and watch them again, this time with their kids. Mom may warm up to leggings and stirrup pants again.

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Hayden Panettiere: I Still Have My Insecurities

2009-07-10T05:22:00.000-07:00

Hayden Panettiere won fans as a cheerleader helping to save the world in NBC's popular 'Heroes.' Now, she's a cheerleader on the big screen in "I Love You, Beth Cooper," which is getting additional buzz for her nude scene. As Parade.com's Jeanne Wolf discovered, the 19-year-old actress was very mellow about taking it all off.

What it takes to get naked: "I don't think it takes much thought, and I don't think it takes much preparation as an actor. My dad has always said I was an exhibitionist when I was growing up. As a young girl, I'd be running around with no clothes and I was like, 'La, la, la, la.' So, I didn't find it very hard being naked. It's like I drop my towel and that's it. But that's just me though. Maybe other people find it harder."

She had more fun doing stunts: "I did some of the driving and I'd like to say I'm a much better driver than Beth. I do as much as they'll let me do. The insurance company people are not always my favorites because they're like, 'No you can't do this and you can't do that.' But I'm always up for stunts and I always have a great time. It's like my sport."

Connecting with a high school girl: "Beth is kind of a metaphor for me. She's very popular -- I might not be going through the same exact thing and I might not have the same exact insecurities as her -- but I still have my own insecurities and I still am unsure about things and unsure about the future. I can relate to people who behave a certain way because of anger or sadness or just genuine insecurity about who they are and the fear of who'll they'll become."

The high school moment missed: "I was mostly home schooled because I was on so many film sets. But I did get to go to homecoming and prom, and even ended up running from the cops once. We went to a place that we weren't supposed to be where we had a little party. Some of the older kids thought it would be funny to light fireworks just as some cops drove by and they started chasing us. I was just like 'Oh, this is funny' because I had gone from the adult world of making films to running from the cops. I got a kick out of it until three of my friends got grabbed and suddenly you're going, 'Oops, big doo doo, you're in trouble.'"

Dealing with stardom: "I am an image, what people want to make me. They don't really know me. They don't know who I am. They don't know what I'm like. And sometimes I get some bad things said about me and I think, 'You've never hung out with me, you never had a conversation with me, so how do you know?'"

Putting those rumors to rest: "Is there something that's not a misconception about me? I'm single and mingling. I am not dating anyone specifically. I'm not pregnant, if you see any rumors like that. I'm not getting married. I'm not looking for a house with anyone. Let's see, what else could there be? They're all rumors. Don't believe any of it. None of it's true."

Sneak peek of next season's 'Heroes': "Claire's in college and she has a new roommate who we don't really know much about in the beginning and we'll find out more about her. There's also this new group in town called The Carnival and they're the opposite of The Company, which wanted to keep their powers secret. The Carnival wants everyone to know what they're up to and that should make things interesting."What you don't see on the tube: "We tease each other unmercifully. Zach Quinto showed up on set with no eyebrows because he was still filming 'Star Trek.' I was like, 'Hey, dude. What happened?' We would be like, 'OK, Spock, whatever you say, Spock.' But we're all like brothers and sisters that just sit there and poke each other's buttons and take each other's egos and shove them on the ground and stomp on them a little. They do it to me all the time. I'm the butt of everyone's jokes. I'm the little sister who gets it more often than not. I'm always going, 'Leave me alone.'"

Standing up for dolphins and whales in The Cove: "I just grew up a big fan of animals. If I could work with animals for the rest of my life I'd be the happiest person. So that's why I got involved with the whales and dolphins. We filmed in this bay in Japan where they herd dolphins and whales and kill them. It was horrible to see the water run blood red and I'll never forget what I saw. But it made me feel like I was doing something instead of sitting in a studio doing a PSA to tell people, 'save the whales and dolphins.' It's going to be a long battle but I'm in until the bitter end."

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Sachin and Babi for Ankasa: Sequins and Shine

2009-07-02T03:31:00.001-07:00

Husband and wife designers Sachin and Babi have just finished their first full year rotation of fashion collections with their ready-to-wear line, yet their experience in the fashion industry is much further extended. The duo has taken their skills and expertise in embroidery and home decor and sophisticatedly segued into the women's wear scene.

"Our dream when we started off was to have our own collection," said Sachin Ahluwalia who met his wife and "most severe critic" at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, where they studied. After graduating, the couple began developing their brand and specialty, where embroidery was the focal point of all their designs. Working with designers such as Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera and Derek Lam, Sachin explained, was a sub-schooling for him and Babi.

"Obviously, whatever we learned in FIT was education but I think in terms of stylization and in terms of aesthetic sense much has been adopted from these great men and woman that we've worked with," said Sachin in an interview in his New York studio on Monday, June 29.

Sachin explained that by manufacturing everything in-house, he and Babi can ensure quality and finish are in tune with their vision. With more than 200 people on staff, the embroidering, sewing, and fabric dying is all done in Mumbai, India, where Sachin originates. No outside contracting translates into approachable prices for wearers, without sacrificing luxury, according to Sachin.

For their Sachin and Babi for Ankasa Resort 2010 collection that debuted earlier this month in New York, the couple successfully fused their experiences both in and out of the classroom, with their textile talent honed from their home store, as well as a brush of Indian influence, evident in draping and color selections that hint at the indigenous sari. Fabric manipulation and embroidery crossed with sequins and shine strike the perfect cord for the season, making every outfit transferable from day to night.

Sachin and Babi for Ankasa, as Sachin said, take pride in their customers feeling good in their pieces and appreciating them for their value. "It's not having to save sequined shorts or a silver lame tunic for an occasion, but being able to wear it that day," said Sachin. "It's a designer look, and a designer name at a contemporary price."

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Equestrian Fashion

2009-06-04T03:11:00.000-07:00

The equestrian look could be directly inspired from the ‘riding coat’ look ie the riding coat worn with white jodhpurs. Thus instead of jodhpurs, white shaped pants/trousers could be used and since we are taking inspiration from the equestrian look, white shaped trousers are not the only choice. Perhaps black or gray too, maybe a specific charcoal gray are suitable colors. Maybe a red hue too is a choice too for shaped trousers. What is meant by shaped relates to the way jodhpurs are structured with proper fabric and shape.

In some way, to create the equestrian look, one can focus on that hip-length riding coat, or a coat that is styled like the riding coat as well as tight shaped pants. The fabric is important for the pants/trousers, perhaps a twill. The main thing re: pants is the shaping to look like jodhpurs and to get this perhaps cuffs are suitable as well as the full shaping around the waist to crotch to hip.

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Versace says no friction between Donatella and CEO

2009-05-26T03:44:00.000-07:00

Italian fashion house Versace on Monday denied news reports there was friction between design head Donatella Versace and Chief Executive Giancarlo Di Risio.

Newspapers have speculated about Di Risio possibly leaving the company. Daily Il Sole 24 Ore last week said he and design head Donatella Versace were "close to a divorce" because of disagreement over strategy.

"With regards to the recent news items and articles that have appeared in the press, the board unanimously and categorically denies the existence of friction between the CEO and the Creative Director Donatella Versace regarding the necessary policy of cutting costs," the fashion house said in a statement.

Di Risio was hired at Versace in 2004.

Versace's board also approved first-quarter results, which showed a fall in revenues of 13.4 percent compared with last year "but with a positive net result."

April and May have shown an improvement, it said. The board also approved a three-year plan, focused on measures to adapt to the financial crisis.

Versace is owned by Donatella, her brother Santo and her daughter Allegra. The company, known for its Medusa-head logo and penchant for gold, last year turned in an 8.2 percent rise in revenues to 336 million euros ($470.2 million).

Source : http://www.reuters.com/

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Giorgio Armani recovering after hepatitis

2009-05-25T03:47:00.000-07:00

Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani said on Thursday he had had a case of hepatitis and is now recovering.

The 74-year-old said in a statement he had decided to "calm worries" after a high level of interest concerning his personal well-being in the last few days.

"I have in fact suffered from hepatitis by poisoning, which, certainly is not a rare illness. Nevertheless it is one which requires some time for a complete recovery," Armani said.

The designer, who counts numerous celebrities as his fans, added that he was recovering and that the company had continued to operate "normally with business as usual."

"My commitment both on the creative and management side has never relented," he said.

"Consequently there has been no shift in delegation of my authorities to any one of the executives and everything in the company is proceeding with the usual energy."

Armani is considered the doyen of Italian fashion. His clothes are known for their classically elegant lines and muted colors.

He is due to showcase his menswear collections for the Giorgio Armani and Emporio Armani brands during Milan's fashion week in June.

Source : http://www.reuters.com/

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Tulips & Pansies: The Headdress Affair - A Night of Flowers and Fashion to be Remembered

2009-05-19T03:43:00.000-07:00

If you hadn't yet become savvy to the fact that pollen season has begun in New York City, then the "Tulips & Pansies: The Headdress Affair" fashion show fundraiser thrown by Village Care New York on Thursday, May 14, was a true spring awakening, merging fashion and flowers for a good cause.

Fashion designers and florists, 17 duos in total, teamed up for the eighth annual VCNY event where there was more coming down the catwalk to look at than just a pretty dress. Each florist worked with a clothing designer to come up with an extravagantly decorative headpiece that models adorned, complementing the runway look. Lilies, orchids, poppies, roses and even palm leaves all served in the cast of foliage that stood high atop the models' crowns.

The event was hosted by James Aguiar from Full Frontal Fashion and Style Network and featured apparel designers including Tory Burch, Pamella Rowland, Ralph Rucci and Cynthia Steffe.

Winning accreditation from the judges for most entertaining design was Sara Jordan of Sara Claire and Esther, who paired fishnet stockings to her Bordeaux colored, man-tailored cropped jacket highlighting this season's special vintage embellishment - lace. "Lots of feathers," said Amy Wolk of Fleurs as she made final preparations backstage before the show, which proved to be essential to her winning top hat design that completed the cabaret inspired ensemble.

The headdresses, each with their own themes, styles and inspirations, were floral masterpieces in height and length, some towering over four feet high and others spanning the same in width. Creativity was in full bloom with designs that included a fantasy bird's nest with eggs, a Greco-Roman Cleopatra hair style, a floppy "over the top" brim hat made of roses, and a Napoleon hat.

Fashion entrepreneur and founder of public relations firm People's Revolution, Kelly Cutrone chaired the event for Village Care New York along with Jack Curry. "This is the only place that helps people with HIV when they have no where else to go," said Cutrone. Having lived in the West Village area of Manhattan, she reaffirmed her loyalty to the cause, as well as her old neighborhood, shrugging her shoulders and saying, "What can I say. I'm a downtown girl."

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Paulina Porizkova say she was fired by 'Top Model'

2009-05-14T02:22:00.000-07:00

Paulina Porizkova got a pink slip from "America's Next Top Model." That's what the model-actress said Tuesday night on CBS' "The Late Late Show," dropping this bombshell to host Craig Ferguson: "Do you know why I'm in Los Angeles, besides seeing you? ... Because I'm looking for a job. Because I was fired by `America's Next Top Model' on my birthday."

Porizkova, who turned 44 on April 9, joined the judges' panel of the popular model-scouting series last year. Wednesday night's 12th season finale on the CW network marks her final appearance.

According to Porizkova, the firing happened over the phone.

"Just to be fair here, the reason I was told I was fired was because ... it seemed that `America's Next Top Model' had gotten too fat and they needed to cut some fat — and the fat was me," she explained to Ferguson.

Porizkova judged the crop of `Top Model' wannabes alongside fashion insiders J. Alexander, Nigel Barker and the show's creator and host, Tyra Banks.

Show representatives Jeff Tobler and Chelsea Hettrick declined to comment beyond confirming Porizkova's departure. The supermodel's publicist, Meghan Prophet, did not return a phone call regarding Tuesday's announcement.

Porizkova joked that her "gigantic huge ego" might have contributed to her untimely reality-show elimination. That prompted Ferguson to ponder whether there was rivalry between her and Banks.

Getting serious, she added: "I really believe that they just felt like they didn't need me, which, of course, they don't."

Source: http://www.ap.org/

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Couturier Pierre Cardin returns home from hospital

2009-05-12T02:56:00.000-07:00

Star French couturier Pierre Cardin, 86, was on Thursday released from a hospital in the Mediterranean city of Marseille after a 48-hour stay caused by high blood pressure, his press service said.

"His state of health was judged to be perfectly satisifactory by his doctors and he will be able in a few days to resume his professional activities," it said in a statement.

Cardin was flown by helicopter to Marseille on Tuesday from the southern village of Lacoste, where he each year organises a music and theatre festival in a castle he is restoring that was once owned by the Marquis de Sade.

He was last week also briefly hospitalised for a fracture of his shoulder-blade after falling on stairs.

Source: http://www.afp.com

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Jayson Brunsdon: Class With a Hint of Parisian Panache

2009-05-07T04:01:00.000-07:00

It felt like Paris at Jayson Brunsdon's runway show at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week in Sydney Wednesday, April 29, when the simple and chic sophistication recalled the old days of haute couture when shows were mini social galas and not celebrity slugfests.

Full of understated poise, the collection was one of those stylish affairs where the pale colors, quietly graceful hair and makeup and classy carriage of the models all evoked one big word - ladylike. In an era when people turn up for shows in faded anthracite jeans, Brunsdon's collection was a bit nostalgic, but defiantly elegant.

There was a certain colonial comportment to this collection, where pleated georgette pool dresses, oyster-hued dresses, splendid boyish shantung shorts and leaf colored cocktails whispered grace, but never shouted glamour.

Brunsdon may not be the most innovative of designers, but he has plenty of class. He designed the collection and staged this show after undergoing many months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer last July. Brunsdon dedicated the collection to his mother Dorothy, and a drawing of his mother was on the cover of his invitation.

"It was a dark period in my life," said the designer, who embraced Dorothy on the catwalk, an elegant touch before a cheering audience that gave Brunsdon a loud and long applause.

Source: http://www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Romance Was Born: Australia Couture

2009-05-05T04:48:00.000-07:00

Often the best tests of a fashion house's influence and possible longevity is the strength of its underlying concept, and using this yardstick one can only predict the rosiest of future's for Romance Was Born, which staged a simply sensational show in Sydney Thursday, April 30.

Staged in the light-bathed end of a great old wharf, the show was practically a hit before the first look appeared, thanks to the great stage set a potpourri of cane trunks, garden statues bedecked with chains of pearls, fine bone china tea sets, budgies, ships steering wheels, gardener's paraphernalia and a substantial wacky garden of potted flowers.

The opening was also perfectly judged, a sixties-like mini skirted white suit. The opener captured many of the breath-taking details of this impressive aesthetic statement - eyebrows remade with mini fans of pearls, platform shoes constructed with doilies and seashells. If this sounds absurdist, that's because it was, yet the sheer audacity of the images also made every look a wonderful one.

Curvy, sexy shantung suits in cobalt blues, saucy society hostess cocktail dresses - subverted by the body hugging shape - and bird of paradise slatternly countesses in fiery red frocks all looked great.

This was the closest collection outside of Western Europe to reach the technical heights of a Paris haute couture show. But what made it even more special was the way Romance Was Born's designers Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales made this Australia couture, by using lots of references to their own country and culture, whether it be colonial doilies, wrought iron filigrees, crochet squares or grandmother's pearls. That was clear from the show title: "Doilies and Pearls, Oysters and Shells."

Plunkett and Sales teamed up with local artists Patrick Doherty and Esme Timbery to produce colorfully naïve cartoonist prints on a great silk material composed of oysters and pearls.

"Our next plan? Opening boutiques in Melbourne, Sydney and Tokyo," said Sales, in between interviews with local TV crews.

Created in pastel hues of pale pink or faded blue, mint and lavender the collection deservedly won the duo prolonged applause as they took their bow after a memorable display of adventurous style and chic. It was a rare and unique moment when the meeting of imagery, aesthetics, eccentricity and beauty was so special that one felt privileged to be right at the center of the creative universe. Romance Was Born elicited one of those charming epiphanies.

Source: http://www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Zimmermann, In Between Power Outages, Gets Steamy

2009-04-30T04:06:00.000-07:00

If any show made sense in this magnificently located city, where there seem more beaches and coves than traffic lights, it was Zimmermann on Tuesday, April 28, the hottest show so far in Rosemont Australian Fashion Week and a label whose true forte is great beachwear and bikinis.

Inadvertently, yet aptly, the show was staged after a bizarre power outage, when a switching station shut down power in most of central Sydney, leading to a muggy moment inside the runway show-space of the Overseas Passenger Terminal where most of the week's shows are staged.

The collection, entitled "Bittersweet Nightshade," kicked off before a capacity audience of 500, with an acid hued tank dress worn over a mean little body suit. Ballet dancing bodies, twisted fabric tops and cocktails, rope layered dresses and tapered lattice looks all had plenty of zing in a show that was all about cruising cool and having a great time at, or around, the beach.

However, whether it was the understated styling or somewhat prosaic choice of Impressionist blotch prints, the best images at this event were not on the runway but in a stylishly made catalogue placed on each seat that featured a brilliant range of bikinis. In a word, the house's carefully honed image did not project as much as it should on the catwalk.

Designer Nicole Zimmermann is a savvy creator, whose design studio clearly is a slick, hard working machine. If she could just inject the same level of creativity into her prints that she gets into her cuts, then this label could achieve great international success.

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Camilla and Marc Kick Off Sydney Fashion Week

2009-04-29T05:15:00.000-07:00

They love a double act in Australia, where the sister and brother combo of Camilla & Marc kicked off Sydney Fashion Week Monday, April 27, with a stylish romp that was a clever mix of commercial and cool.

These talented siblings were followed by two more twosomes - Bec & Bridge and Ginger & Smart - but of the three, Camilla & Marc were the most accomplished, and most in synch with contemporary global trends.

Staged before a great looking trompe l'oeil couture house backdrop on a hipster casting of young and veteran models, this collection had plenty of easy to understand clothes, whether artfully ripped white jeans, semi-abstract animal prints singlet tops and gold chain belts.

Camilla Freeman-Topper and Marc Freeman went for a layered look in this spring 2010 show, but since their fabrics were so floaty and craftily aged the effect was light and comprehensible. At least one member of the family is no slouch at tailoring; some deftly made glove leather mini bomber jackets were the very epitome of beautifully hung fashion.

They also showed natty knobby toed and spike-heeled platforms, and some great mesh tops, although their micro striped dresses and trousers suits were in a formulaic beach wind-breaker stripe, they were still flattering.

The collection was ultimately a bit too derivative, and looked familiar to anyone familiar with recent collections by the Paris house of Balmain, the single most influential label in high fashion this past season. Designs included 80's broad and peaked shoulders, glitzy use of sequins, angle zips and one shoulder dresses.

Moreover, while the clothes did seem ultimately finely adapted to an insouciant moment on a balmy summer's day, they did not seem terribly Australian. However, the bedraggled, bedroom hair, scant use of make-up and high dress length is something of a compliment, and will find an international audience for Camilla & Marc.

Source: http://www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Gap Launches 1969 Premium Denim

2009-04-22T04:03:00.000-07:00

The latest Gap product to get an upgrade from Patrick Robinson, executive vice president of design, is denim, with a new premium collection, “1969,” which will debut for Fall 2009.

Gap gave a sneak peek of the new additions to their denim roster at a press preview in New York on Monday, April 20, with a line-up of diverse styles and washes for both men and women, from skinny to straight and the new “boyfriend” jean for women, to re-designed boot cuts for both, from light to dark rinses and all shades in between.

“Gap’s about a lot of options,” said Robinson. “Every fit has a person behind it, from curvy to long and lean. You find out who you are and get the jean to fit it.”

Robinson spent a year and a half with the Gap denim design team to redo everything from the fit and the wash to come up with a collection of denim under $60 that rivals premium brands that retail for $150 to $500.

“I’m using our size as my advantage to get the price down,” said Robinson, who said that Gap developed proprietary fabrics and sewing techniques with their extensive worldwide network of mills and factories so that their product would be unique, and also cost less to produce.

Robinson said they brought in all the people who run the floors of the factories around the world - where the production happens - to meet with Gap’s technical team over the course of a week so that they could show them the exact construction specifications.

“There’s an internal meticulousness,” said Robinson. “Everything from how they sit, how they hug the back and lift up the behind to how to make a knee on a boot leg cut fall straight down and not twist.”

The key task for Robinson for the women’s collection was to make the fit “sexy” where it counts the most - namely, in the rear and the thigh - and for men, to make sure the jean “fits like a dream, with an aesthetic that’s cool.”

“It’s about dressing America,” said Robinson. “You may only like one style and your friend may only like another. There’s something for everyone.”

Source: http://www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Crispin and Basilio Fall 2009 at Revolve Clothing

2009-04-21T03:35:00.000-07:00

Fashion is an emotional purchase, and in this economy, designer Donny Barrios wants women to fall in love with his designs.

Barrios debuted his Fall 2009 collection for his Crispin & Basilio line April 8 at the Revolve Clothing boutique in Los Angeles—and love was certainly in the air. A dress layered in faux ostrich feathers, a silk mini-dress in an acid-wash print and a lightweight trench coat with biker jacket styling were crowd favorites. Zippers toughened up jackets and silky dresses.

“I wanted to create a sense of sexiness and confidence,” Barrios said. “My focus was to step a little out of my own comfort zone—with the acid-wash, for example, that isn’t necessarily my style, but it works for the collection in this context—and create pieces that make women feel sexy and powerful. I think that’s important right now.”

True to his background in menswear and tailoring, Barrios offered crisp staples, including shrunken jackets, floor-length maxi-dresses, fitted party dresses and his own take on the drop-crotch pant.

Source:http://www.apparelnews.net/fashion/

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Gorgeous Stars at the "Grey Gardens" Premiere

2009-04-20T03:59:00.001-07:00

If all you knew about Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore was what you see in their new HBO film "Grey Gardens," you would never believe the glamorous pair that hit the red carpet at Grauman's Chinese Theater on Thursday night, April 16. For the duo star as what HBO executive Len Amato called "the most amazing mother-daughter pairing you will ever see," as real-life weirdoes Edith and "Little" Edie Bouvier Beale, the aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy who gained fame in the 1970's in a documentary of the same name.

That poverty-stricken pair lived on a ramshackle beachfront estate in East Hampton, N.Y., surrounded by countless cats and piles of garbage, ate cat food to survive, and eventually became cult heroes because of that documentary. With the help of plenty of prosthetic makeup and some very shabby clothes, Barrymore and Lange are definitely transformed for the worse in the film.

"Our goal was to disappear into the characters, and not be seen as ourselves," Barrymore explained, and the thunderous applause that filled the theater as the credits rolled proved that they had succeeded.

The dynamic duo looked fabulous on the red carpet. Drew, with hair teased high in a Sixties-inspired style, wearing a full-length white gown with a jeweled breastplate and gigantic turquoise jewelry to match, and Jessica a bit more demure, and also in a white top and embellished skirt. They were joined by co-stars Daniel Baldwin and Ken Howard, writer-director Michael Sucsy, and friends Ali Larter, Lisa Kudrow, Jennie Garth, and Cameron Diaz, who avoided the red carpet but snuck into the after party to congratulate Drew.

"Grey Gardens" begins airing on HBO on Saturday, April 18.

Source: http://www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Daniel Swarovski Collection Celebrates 20 Years of Couture

2009-04-17T02:47:00.000-07:00

The Daniel Swarovski collection – the high-end couture collection of Swarovski accessories generally found adorning celebrities on the red carpet – celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and with that come 20 new bag designs and 20 new pieces of jewelry to commemorate the brand’s history.

Rather than reviving accessories from the archives, Swarovski artistic director Nathalie Colin chose to highlight how far their crystal technology has come with innovative applications of the famed crystals, from crystals applied to precious stones and pearls to exotic skins. The processes add up to spectacular-looking pieces with blinding luminosity. Bling is definitely not out – it’s just made out of crystals now, instead of diamonds.

This season, 1920’s art deco design inspired the look and feel of the pieces, from the vintage-looking styles of the delicate evening bags to the deco patterns used for the crystal settings. And in a nod to the changing demands of red carpet walking clients, the bags are now slightly larger to accommodate their number one purse accessory: the Blackberry.

Also new for Swarovski this year is an expanded watch collection, with high quality Swiss-made timepieces at the core of the new designs. For women, styles range from a crystal cuff, the “D:Light,” with a time display made up of crystals that light up only when a button is pressed ($1,500-$1,7000), to edgier styles like a wrap-around leather band ($575) or classic timepieces with a metal watchband and subtle crystal bezel ($650-$750).

Swarovski’s signature jewelry collection for autumn/winter 2009/10, “Nature Reloaded,” follows the nature-oriented theme started for spring with “Super Nature.” For this collection, Swarovski took a trip to an enchanted forest with wooden pendants embedded with crystals, to mushroom-shaped charms to smoky hues of plum, forest green and black crystal. Other key looks include serpent bangles and necklaces and Swarovski’s unofficial mascot characters, Erika and Elvis, re-imagined as a butterfly and a bumblebee, respectively.

Source: http://www.fashionwiredaily.com

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Easter's biggest treat by Marc Jacobs

2009-04-15T04:10:00.000-07:00

Easter's biggest treat this year didn't come in the shape of a chocolate egg courtesy of the Easter bunny. Oh no, thanks to Marc by Marc Jacobs it came in the altogether more thrilling guise of a brand new London store which, eagerly anticipated, opened on 56 South Audley Street in Mayfair on Saturday.

A stone's throw from the Marc Jacobs store on the ever popular Mount Street (where Lanvin, too, now resides alongside the likes of Jenny Packham and Christian Louboutin), shoppers can expect to be greeted by a Union Jack of blooms in the window and, besides signature cute dresses and blouses hanging on the rails inside, a host of affordable bags (we're talking from£19), belts, key chains, purses, T-shirts, umbrellas and other cult accessories.

Downstairs in the vault (the building was originally used as a bank), shoes and bags lie waiting while a corner upstairs is dedicated to sunglasses and the coolest of coffee table books can be found stacked high around the shop. And with menswear too, it's not just one for the girls.

Source : http://www.vogue.co.uk

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Recession-Proof Wedding at Vera Wang

2009-04-13T03:59:00.000-07:00

A bride-to-be might worry for months about making her wedding day perfect, and that includes finding the ultimate dress. But flash forward to the end of the night on her wedding day, to the champagne soaked floors, disheveled hair and a crinkled dress - yet she's still looking radiant - and you see that there's a real case to be made for imperfection.

A not-so-perfect, artfully mismatched look was the theme of Vera Wang's Spring 2010 bridal collection, which she presented in her New York showroom on Wednesday, April 8.

Wang's wedding gowns mixed and matched fabrics like silk with asymmetrically draped tulle, added mismatched bows tied in all different directions and tacked together sweeping mille-feuille layers, turning the back of one ball gown into a walking cross-section of the Grand Canyon. "Mixed-media" as Wang put it.

"It's as though they were tossed in a washing machine," said Wang, and then, one imagines, were tumble dried. "They're youthful and more organic than most gowns," she said.

Asymmetrical draping of effervescent clouds of tulle layered with hand-painted silk made these gowns both fragile and substantial - there's an intense level of design and couture-like finishing, yet a lightness and sense of dynamism. These dresses have movement and feel completely fresh. Part of this is due to the way they were constructed, using lighter bodices on the inside, and then building the dresses onto those "tubes."

Wang understands that not all her customers want a dramatic look for a wedding-as-fashion-shoot type of event. "There are gowns that satisfy the more informal wedding," said Wang, pointing to a slender, delicate silk charmeuse bias-draped gown with a more sparing use of mille-feuille as a ruffled accent near the bottom of a flared skirt. "You really have to wardrobe them for specific locations."

A fashionable bride getting married in a garden, for instance, might appreciate the spring green and lavender ball gown, as though she were sprouting from the earth as one the season's first crocuses.

"Especially with the recession, I wanted the dresses to stand for more," said Wang.

Next year would seem to be the ideal year to get married, if a Vera Wang wedding gown is what you have your eye on. She's lowered her median price point 30 to 40 percent, from $5,500 to $3,800. "There are 10 gowns at the $3,800 level," she said.

Wang calls it "demi-couture." While Wang has worked with her team to get the prices down, none of the quality has been sacrificed. Each gown has a highly artistic feel. "They're not easy to duplicate," she said, "but we'll get it down."

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Nicole Miller's Bridal Collection for Fall 2009

2009-04-08T02:34:00.000-07:00

Nicole Miller is known for graphic prints, curve-enhancing yet flaw-concealing tucks and experimentation with new fabrics, all of which she transfered over to her latest bridal collection for Fall 2009, which reflected themes from her recent runway collection for Fall.

Presented in New York on Monday, April 6, Miller's bridal offerings included origami-like pleats and an elaborately beaded rendering of an architectural blue print from the 1930s. At $2400, this dress is the most expensive in the collection, though in comparison to other similarly beaded wedding gowns on the market - a Badgley Mischka gown, for example, can cost anywhere from $4000 to $7000 - it's a reasonable price. Nicole Miller wedding dresses start at $595.

Miller also used stretch metal fabrics combined with her newest fabric manipulation, a rippled "tidal" pleat that gave one dress a look of undulating waves stacked on top of the other, mimicking the tide coming in.

Softer, more romantic looks included a silk georgette dress with a twisted sash that could be tucked in at the waist, or left flowing; a curve-hugging flamenco-inspired trumpet dress; a retro halter-style neckline and a preppy, classic strapless a-line dress in stiff Mecado silk with pleated grosgrain ribbon sash.

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Badgley Mischka Bride, Timeless and Timely

2009-04-07T03:36:00.000-07:00

The bridal gowns of Badgley Mischka, a celebrity and socialite wedding favorite - Kristen Davis in "Sex and the City" even wore a Badgley Mischka gown for her character Charlotte's second wedding - may be an investment, but they are the type of gowns that granddaughters may find themselves wearing one day.

The Badgley Mischka Bride collection for Fall 2009, presented in New York on Sunday, April 5, featured eight timeless, understated styles, from a vintage-feel Champagne-colored trumpet gown overlaid with lace to a minimally embellished strapless gown of frothy pearl-colored organza dress with diagonally placed ruffles along the trumpet skirt.

The ball gowns were also in keeping with the duo's downplay of elaborate embellishment this season that made Badgley Mischka's gowns famous in the past. Instead, a full silk taffeta gown limited beading to the neckline, waist and dropped waist. The effect was no less powerful, letting the romantic volume of the dress be the stand-out feature.

For a bride looking for something less traditional, a dress that featured a skirt of torn silk chiffon layers should be a gown in the running for the punk rock princess. Badgley Mischka also focused on sexy necklines, whether a V or scoop neck dress with spaghetti straps. In other words, timeless need not mean conservative or dull.

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Naomi Campbell hits out at racism in fashion world

2009-04-06T04:02:00.000-07:00

Supermodel Naomi Campbell lashed out Friday at what she sees as latent racism in the fashion industry, which she said gives preference to "blond, blue-eyed models" over black women.

"You know, the American president may be black, but as a black woman, I am still an exception in this business. I always have to work harder to be treated equally," she said in a Glamour interview appearing on Monday in Germany.

"In the past, there were more opportunities for black models but the trend towards blond women has again become extreme. In magazines, on the catwalk, I see blond, blue-eyed models everywhere," she added.

In 2007, the London-born Campbell, along with fellow models Liya Kebede and Tyson Beckford, launched a campaign against what they said was discrimination in the fashion world.

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Enrique and Anna's Love Match

2009-04-04T04:00:00.001-07:00

Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova attend the Williams sisters' semi-final tennis match at the Sony Ericsson Open in Florida.

The couple shares a smooch in the stands.

Despite their rumored on/off romance, Enrique told reporters last week that Anna "is the ideal girl. If you ask me right now, I'd say she's the woman in my life, but I don't know if eternal love exists."

Anna is swarmed by fans after the match (which Serena Williams won).

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Heidi Klum Stops Traffic

2009-04-03T04:08:00.000-07:00

Heidi Klum stopped traffic while posing in some rather bizarre outfits for a German Vogue photo shoot on Beverly Hills' famed Rodeo Drive yesterday. How can you not gawk at the supermodel when she's wearing a sky-high pair of Alexander McQueen thigh-high boots?

Heidi Klum strikes a pose on Rodeo Drive in a red scaly frock by Giles Deacon.

Unless you're a supermodel, I wouldn't attempt trying to pull off this look!

Heidi kicks back in a pair of thigh-high Alexander McQueen platform boots.

The Klum stops traffic in a black suit. But what's up with her red lips clutch?

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Topshop hits US market at difficult time

2009-04-02T04:25:00.000-07:00

For months, young fashionistas have been feverish over the opening of an outpost of successful British fast-fashion retailer Topshop in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood Thursday.

The newest participant in the invasion of affordable chains such as Zara, Mango and H&M, Topshop has won raves for its cheap-chic clothes. Like other fast-fashion retailers, most of which are based abroad, it thrives on bringing fashion to stores quicker and cheaper than mainstream retailers traditionally have.

The strategy seems to be muting the worst effects of the recession. The largest of the newcomers — Zara's Madrid-based owner, Inditex — is even threatening Gap Inc.'s status as the world's largest apparel retailer.

"Gap has been underwater for six or seven years," said New York retail industry consultant Howard Davidowitz. "Along comes fast fashion — H&M started it — and it's a revolution."

Fast-fashion shops fill a niche where Gap simply can't compete, he said — and that compounds the challenges it faces from other retailers and the economy.

Inditex reported last month that its annual sales rose 10 percent to $13.4 billion, while Gap's 2008 sales of $14.53 billion were nearly 8 percent below 2007.

Still, fast fashion is not a magic formula for avoiding the recession. H&M — founded in Sweden in 1947, it arrived in the U.S. in 2000 — reported its fourth-quarter earnings fell 12 percent, further than expected. And Inditex is scaling down plans to open more stores.

Originally scheduled to open last fall, Topshop's New York flagship store spans four floors. Its 25,000 square feet of selling space will include a collection headlined by model Kate Moss in its own boutique and be graced by a DJ booth hanging from the ceiling.

Topshop executives have said this store is the first of up to 15 they plan to open in the U.S. — there are about 300 stores in the U.K. — offering trend-savvy teens and twentysomethings everything from animal print leggings for $40 to a floral-print tea dress for $90.

"New York is one of those first three or four cities that every fashion brand wants to operate in," said Sir Philip Green, owner of Topshop's parent company, Arcadia Group.

Fast-fashion chains offer shoppers two key propositions: They make the trendiest styles affordable, and they bring fashion to market fast.

They design, manufacture and deliver their youth-oriented, up-to-the-minute stock to stores worldwide within weeks — in contrast with the months of lead time department stores and most traditional retailers require. For example, Topshop's interpretation of the high-heel lattice-caged sandals in style this spring cost $145. That's pricey, but it's nothing compared to similar Yves St. Laurent booties selling for more than $1,000.

Zara and Topshop offer some pricier items, such as a $250 fringed suede dress at Topshop, but most prices are low — particularly at H&M and Forever 21, where T-shirts can sell for a few dollars.

Fast-fashion chains also benefit from a wide and shallow selection that helps clothes move quickly. Retailers like Gap Inc., J. Crew Group Inc. and most specialty apparel chains stateside tend to have a narrower and deeper assortment, which can necessitate heavy markdowns if sales are slow.

Forever 21 Inc., founded in 1984 in California, is the biggest U.S.-based fast-fashion retailer, with annual revenue of $1.05 billion, according to Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's.

But other U.S. retailers are trying to deliver new products faster.

American Eagle Outfitters Inc. said it is shipping new items to its stores every two weeks ahead of the Easter holiday as a "key element" to driving sales. Abercrombie & Fitch said during a conference call about its latest earnings that it is operating on shorter lead times than in the past.

Teenage research firm TRU vice president Michael Wood says teens now take fast-fashion nearly for granted.

"The pressure is going to be on all retailers to change up product more often," he said. "The expectation is going to be there."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com

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Kate Spade Connects the Dots

2009-04-01T03:02:00.000-07:00

Kate Spade New York, a brand once solely dedicated to designing women’s handbags, showed their range and versatility in the world of fashion with a full line of women’s apparel and accessories at a presentation at their New York showroom on Wednesday, March 25.

"Why save your best?" said Deborah Lloyd, the creative director for Kate Spade New York. “Wear it everyday.”

The classic all-American brand aimed to make fall fun again, adding bright spurts of color to simple black and white looks, with red and fuchsia tights, bags and accessories. Day dresses in lavender and sunshine colors were intricately decorated with beads and pearls around sleeves and neck giving elegance to the monotonous sheaths.

Lloyd said the fall apparel collection is all about "things that make you smile - your favorite things." Polka dots were one of the happy design elements prominently used throughout the layout - on ruffle sleeved dresses, on the floor where mannequins and models posed, and subtly detailed a coated tweed raincoat.

Kate Spade New York outerwear for the fall season combined both utility and grace with wool overcoats in black as well as a vibrant burnt orange, in addition to fur shrugs and stoles that looked poised and chic. Charming jewelry with beads and baubles that hung down, some with acrylic circles and squares evocative of the symmetrical shapes that are a Kate Spade New York handbag signature, contributed to that simultaneously lighthearted and fashionable element of fun.

The debut of Kate Spade New York apparel completes the look. "Handbags, shoes, jewelry, apparel, tights - everything except for the nail polish is ours," said Lloyd.

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Calvin Klein Works Hard For Your Money

2009-03-31T03:23:00.000-07:00

New York – "Subtly sexy," was the theme of the Calvin Klein men's and women's apparel and accessories for Fall 2009, said creative director Kevin Carrigan at the collection's presentation on Thursday, March 26, in New York, which included everything from relaxed sportswear for the office to a new denim collection, Calvin Klein Jeans Body.

"There's a return to dressing up again," said Carrigan. "We're calling it 'refined eighties,' with good fabrics that are softly sculptured, rather than linear and hard." This is not the eighties of severe angles, touch chic and New Wave haircuts, in other words. Instead, it's the "Working Girl" eighties of loose blazers with pushed up sleeves, high-waisted leather skirts, and splashes of red, "the new pop color of the season," he said.

And get ready to shelve the opaque black tights to make room for a new version of legwear.

"It's all about the sheer hose with a sandal, something we haven't had it in a while," said Carrigan.

The sheer hose is just one of the new offerings from the Calvin Klein Underwear "Black" collections for women, a more sophisticated take on underpinnings for Calvin Klein with all-lace styles made with antique French lace machines. For men, "Black," includes classic underwear silhouettes in lightweight microfiber fabrics while the new "White" collection consists of luxe stretch cotton.

Calvin Klein Jeans, one of the company's signatures, introduced the Body collection, styles for men and women that focus on enhancing the body through a new fit, which Carrigan said they developed over eight or nine months.

"I wanted to launch a sexy jean for Calvin," said Carrigan, who explained that in recent seasons, denim factories have been more concerned with finishes, from embellishments to varying washes, rather than the technology of how the jeans are designed for the body. "It's a study in fit to make her look sexy," he said.

There are significant differences, explained Carrigan. For example, the yoke seam on the back of the jean is reversed. Instead of being sewn inward, the seam curves outward, following the curve of the body. And while the jeans are low-rise, the prevailing style for several years now, a new innovation here is a piece of elastic in the waistband to prevent unsightly gapping in the back, so that the jean hugs the body.

At $79, the designer jean with a high tech fit is a well-priced addition to one's denim closet. Eventually, added Carrigan, they plan to expand the Body jean collection to include a Body jacket, as well as t-shirts, all with a precision fit.

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The Williamson Wait

2009-03-26T05:23:00.000-07:00

It's just under a month now until Matthew Williamson unleashes his vibrant and exotic print designs onto the shelves and rails of high street favourite H&M. But you don't have to wait until then to see exactly what's going to be in store as the look to the left shows. "I wanted to create a strong urban collection fused with the brand's signature symbols and shapes. It's been fascinating to search back through my archives to isolate the most iconic pieces, then rework them for H&M," explains Williamson of the collection, which will hit around 200 H&M stores worldwide on April 23.

"Colour is one of the defining aspects of my signature style. I focussed on the iconic peacock motif seen across my collections to develop a palette of blues, chartreuse and emerald. The spirit of the collection is both covetable and precious," Williamson adds, picking out a bias-cut graphic butterfly print dress, which references an outfit from his first ever show in 1997, among his favourite pieces.

Margareta van den Bosch, creative advisor at H&M says: "I think people will really love this collection. I love the way Matthew mixed prints in the dresses, and the colour clocking of the tailoring. It's very elegant, but there are lots of things you can wear in a really relaxed way too."

And if you do miss out the first time round (this collection is bound to sell out fast), there's no need to worry - a second instalment of the collaboration will be available from May 14 and, for the first time in H&M's designer collaboration history, will be on sale in all of its stores.

Source: http://www.vogue.co.uk

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Clothing Line “Dialogue” (QVC)

2009-03-25T04:49:00.001-07:00

She’s the resident conservative chatterbox (or nitwit, depending on you ask) on The View, but Elisabeth Hasselbeck is creating a different kind of “dialogue” with the launch her new clothing line.

The controversial reality personality has teamed up with style brand Dialogue to create a collection of “pretty and polished separates.” Like many of the celebrity-designed lines that have become a fixture on the QVC, Elisabeth’s line is “affordable,” with each item ranging in price from about $40 to $80.

“I think it’s nice to feel like someone paid a little more attention,” Elisabeth says on her QVC commercial for the line.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck will unveil her line on QVC.

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Thread Social's Girls About Town

2009-03-20T03:24:00.000-07:00

New York – Thread Social founders Beth Blake and Melissa Akey are dedicated to dressing the young, flirty and confident New York woman, and with a presentation in the downtown New York apartment of designer Beth Blake, the duo stayed loyal to their name as models and guests sipped champagne and socialized at the buzzing after-work cocktail party on Wednesday, March 18.

Their variations on the dress - the brand's signature piece that Blake said you could "just throw on, zip up and go" - included color blocked or digital pixel print matte silk dresses and featherweight silk satin dresses. A color palette of navy, mustard, poppy, teal were meant to evoke a '70s French sophisticate, the kind of woman who would have hosted chic dinner parties in her home while wearing Yves Saint Laurent.

"It's as though you went into mom's closet and found great pieces and then put them together in your own way," said Blake.

The popular one-shouldered dress, one of which came in a basket-weave print mirroring the clear acrylic platform filled with bent wire hangers that the models were stationed upon, is a design first introduced in Thread Social's bridesmaid collection - they originally started the company making bridesmaid dresses - and "no one bought it," Blake said. But when they revived it for their recent holiday collection, it hit just at the moment that the dress style was gaining popularity.

"The reason it works is because of the high empire waist," Blake said, explaining the success of the style, with the minimal length top supporting the tasteful cut. "You can put playful stuff on the shoulder, like a flower or a brooch. It's sexy, but classic. And shoulders are an easy thing to highlight." she said.

Thread Social's Fall 2009 collection hit the mark with voluminous dresses, coats with folded ruffles, tiered skirts, and blouses embellished with oversized bows. It added up to a glamorous and flirtatious catch-me-if you-can attitude that the independent Thread Social customer embodies wherever the night may take her, whether a quaint candlelight dinner party with friends or a social night out on the town.

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Dries Van Noten: Francis Bacon On a Baltic Cruise

2009-03-19T05:11:00.000-07:00

Paris – Painter Francis Bacon sounds a tiny bit unlikely as a source of inspiration for a fashion collection, but filtered through the canny brain of Dries Van Noten, and staged Sunday, March 8, in Paris, the result was a chic and sophisticated fall 2009 collection, albeit one more suited for a Baltic cruise than a backstreet art gallery opening.

Bacon got ideas from the magazines, images, art books and postcards that littered his legendarily messy studio, flowing them into his disturbing figurative artwork.

In preparing this fall 2009 collection, Van Noten's staff crumpled, bent and twisted images and materials, then mixed the resulting fabrics through this show.

"Francis Bacon and the way he destroyed and connected things, creating something new and stronger," was Van Noten's explanation of his starting point for this collection.

But where Bacon's figures were generally grotesque, Van Noten's were generally beautiful. Van Noten established his reputation with a masterly use of prints and a sense of bohemian exoticness. But his last few shows have shown a designer maturing into a more sophisticated soul and one who keeps the prints in check.

Frequently the only florals in a look for fall were the Baconized trompe l'oeil flowers on cloth covered high heels. Yet his double-breasted pink mannish jackets, the pinched-at-the waist cardigan jackets and his mid-length "mixed-media" skirts had plenty of excitement in their very understated purity.

Bacon used materials such as gouache, pastel, oils and pen and ink on paper, board and canvas in his art. Van Noten played with satin crepes, silk velvet, alpaca and, according to his program notes, fake plasticized snake print, woven ‘Couture' croc and silk ruffles as fur.

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Miu Miu: Femme Fatale Fantasy

2009-03-18T03:21:00.000-07:00

Paris – The Fall 2009 fashion week term finally ended Thursday evening, March 12, in Paris with the last major show on the Paris calendar, Miu Miu, which turned out to be a lesson in fashion creativity and a ground-breaking affair. It confirmed the label's designer, Miuccia Prada, as the reigning heavyweight champion of style.

All season, from the opening shows in New York in February to this Miu Miu display in a private mansion on Avenue Foche, the most expensive real estate in Paris, designers have been grappling with the question of how one dresses women for the new economic and political realities.

Prada's solution is to become a femme fatale. According to Prada, what matters most is that you look great in the new era. Her models certainly did this evening, traipsing out in a plethora of variations on Himalayan carpet prints that were dyed, faded and cut into some remarkable dresses and skirts, the latter paired with semi-sheer tops. Moreover, she spray painted the models gold, then showed lots of their flesh and cut most looks with deep front gorges, right to the belly button and had skirts way above the knee.

"I wanted to send out the biggest sluts imaginable, but then everyone came in backstage and told me how chic the girls looked," Prada said, a bit mystified by the reaction.

A brainy collection like Miu Miu can evoke widely different reactions with the same outfit. A sleek, three-inch below the knee skirt with a high waist can telegraph school marm, but a sheer, deep gorge top in mesh says tart.

Prada also presented a slew of great new shoes, from thick heels with fur trim to zig-zag fur clutches in the most subtly colored show so far.

While perplexing in terms of social commentary, Prada's choice of femme fatale as role model did lead to an intriguing collection. Allied to her earlier stellar show in Milan with Prada, it maintained her status as fashion's most influential designer even if it put in doubt her reputation as a standard bearer for independent women.

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Andy Warhol's Wide World comes to Paris

2009-03-18T03:15:00.000-07:00

PARIS (Reuters) – Andy Warhol comes to Paris in a major exhibition of his trademark society portraits but a famous image of Yves Saint Laurent will be missing after a dispute over whether the late couturier was an artist or a mere designer.

"Warhol's Wide World," which opens this week, presents some 140 of the 1,000 or so portraits of actors, stars and assorted jet set personalities turned out by the "Pope of Pop" from the 1960s until his death in 1987.

Based on existing photographs or created with a specially designed Polaroid camera, Warhol's garishly tinted pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy or Saint Laurent became icons in the modern cult of celebrity.

Along with his Campbell's Soup can, they are some of the best-known images in modern art and the exhibition is expected to be one of the biggest of the year.

Warhol once remarked that he wanted all his portraits to fit together and make one big painting called "Portraits of Society" and exhibition curator Alain Cueff regretted that it had not been practical to do so.

"It would be wonderful to recreate the dream of Warhol, to have 1,000 portraits of people just like that but it was quite impossible, I'm afraid," he said.

Even so, the Grand Palais, a vast hall created for the Great Exhibition of 1900, has been lined with some of the most famous faces of the era, from stars like Monroe or Mick Jagger to artists like Man Ray or fashion designers like Giorgio Armani.

But it also includes many portraits commissioned for $25,000 each by rich individuals hoping, as the show's catalog puts it, "to glow with the aura of Warhol's genius."

The 1974 portrait series of Saint Laurent, planned to hang in a "Glamour" section near Armani and other designers like Sonia Rykiel, had been intended as one of the centerpieces of the exhibition.

But in a move that provided a strangely appropriate backdrop to a show as much about fame as art -- it was withdrawn at the last minute by his former partner Pierre Berge.

"To show the portraits of Yves Saint Laurent with personalities from the fashion world -- even if some of them have talent -- was unthinkable," he explained in a letter to the Le Monde daily last week.

"To put Saint Laurent in the 'glamour' section would be to show disrespect for his oeuvre and to mix him up with the 'beautiful people,'" he wrote.

The controversy has added an element of spice to the exhibition, which is expected to draw vast crowds to the same hall in which Saint Laurent's monumental art collection was auctioned last month.

But organizers are confident that the importance of the collection will outweigh any controversy.

The exhibition opens in the Grand Palais on March 18 and runs until July 13.

Source : http://www.reuters.com/

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Louis Vuitton: Muse Mode

2009-03-13T02:46:00.000-07:00

Paris – The Vuitton woman has an agenda: She doesn't need you and she wants to have fun. Her mother or grandmother was a famous muse with a French name, and the muses lived again Thursday afternoon, March 12 at the Louis Vuitton show in the courtyard of the Louvre in Paris.

Marc Jacobs sent out a fall 2009 collection inspired by the most famous European muses, even if at times, one sensed the audience was not terribly sure of who many of them were, or even the exact pronunciation of their names.

The concept of the muse is in the air, as the collection comes on the heels of Jacobs' announcement that he would be sponsoring the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's next fashion exhibit "The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion."

More relevant for the consumer, this collection was very inventive, quaintly racy, brilliantly colored and ultimately will be an influential collection as well as one that broke new ground.

What was most cool about this show was that Jacobs did not reference the obvious suspects - Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell or Twiggy - but instead looked back to the generation whose taste and art for living makes modern supermodels look like upstarts.

"It was Victoire (de Castellane), Marie Seznec and Ines (de la Fressange)," Jacobs shouted out backstage, referring to the muses at the houses of Chanel and Christian Lacroix.

Out on the runway, Jacobs offered a great dose of Euro-chic style, leavened with American wit as several models wore Playboy Bunny ears.

Overall, the look was vamp society hostess with lacy tops, jackets with bulb shaped shoulders and frilly, puckered dresses, the sort that a lady would only really wear when hosting a dinner at her home. There were lots of faintly androgynous tuxedo jackets, green chokers and taut transparent tops.

There was also a great series off ruched cocktail dresses and the sort of see-through black chiffon top that well-brought-up haute bourgeois Parisian ladies would feel they could wear among friends. Whether Vuitton will produce even half these designs is uncertain or whether in six months time no Vuitton store anywhere will have even a third of this ready-to-wear collection on its racks or shelves.

When it came to accessories, however, Jacobs hit a home run with naughty ankle boots and side zippered riding boots, both with pyramid heels. He really struck gold with possibly his best collection of bags for Vuitton, including marbleized clutches, silver stamped logo purses and turquoise rosette totes.

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Rue du Mail: Dancing and Cabaret Are Not Dead

2009-03-06T01:38:00.000-08:00

Paris – If anyone in Paris is a designer's designer it is surely Martine Sitbon, whose staged her fall 2009 collection of her brand Rue du Mail on Wednesday, March 4,the opening day of the eight-day French season.

This season life is a cabaret for Sitbon, as her vision of contemporary cutbacks does not stop her women from wearing arty chess pieces cocktails, and lots of dance clothes.

Sitbon has always held a slightly special place partly because, no matter how much she experiments, the end results are always feminine. Also, few designers are as assured as Sitbon when it comes to mixing urfaces. Whether she combines silver sequins, boiled wool, battered gold jacquards and ribbed mink, the combo is downtown yet classy. She can assemble the somber - navy blue, black and map gray.

Sitbon jumped back and forth between the pencil warrior look such as legging-pants over tight tops and handkerchief helm Spencers to layered and splayed cuts and mixed chess piece style disco groovers.

"It was about wandering around in the imagination, imagining new forms," was the explanation from Marc Ascoli, Sitbon's partner.

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Marko Jaric marries Victoria's Secret beauty Adriana Lima

2009-02-25T00:05:00.000-08:00

According to People.com, who I count on for absolutely everything, Ball Don't Lie power couple Markodrina™ have officially tied the knot.

Adriana Lima, the 27-year-old Brazilian supermodel — and 2008 BDL Bedlam Champion, natch — married Memphis Grizzlies guard Marko Jaric in a hush-hush ceremony on Valentine's Day in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Had to have been at The Wort Hotel, right?

"We are so excited about our future together," Lima told People, capitalized. "And we are really looking forward to a big romantic wedding this summer with all of our friends and family" ... and bloggers she may or may not mumbled underneath her breath.

The couple says that the next wedding celebration they'll throw will be in Brazil or Serbia, so you still have lots of time to track down that online gift registry. And before you ask, yes, I still plan on buying them the toaster oven and monogrammed men's jump shot. They've been good to me.

Source : http://sports.yahoo.com

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Economic gloom clouds London Fashion Week

2009-02-20T00:28:00.000-08:00

Designers at London Fashion Week, which starts Friday, have reacted to the credit crunch by toning down extravagant collections and opting for intimate showings rather than catwalk spectaculars.

Names like Antoni & Alison, Duro Olowu and Maria Grachvogel -- whose clients include Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson and Victoria Beckham -- have organised smaller scale "presentations" for journalists and buyers.

Less costly than a catwalk show, most of them will use plastic rather than human mannequins.

"Given the current economic climate, I feel it is more a time of focusing on genuine creativity rather than unnecessary extravagance," Olowu told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

"With a catwalk show, you are looking at spending 25,000-40,000 pounds (28,000-45,000 euros, 36,000-58,000 dollars), often more, and given what has happened in the last few months, many designers are having to reassess their business choices."

Designers like Christopher Kane and Nathan Jenden have chosen smaller venues, as did some at September's fashion week.

Others some have opted to embrace the credit crunch with a stylishly frugal aesthetic for publicity material -- Sinha-Stanic sent out invitations which looked like they were made on a home photocopier for their show.

The gloomy economic climate is not stopping London Fashion Week organisers the British Fashion Council (BFC) from marking the 25th anniversary of the event, a six-day, 58-show event unveiling collections for autumn-winter 2009.

London is traditionally seen as a launch pad for young talent and has helped designers like Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Stella McCartney, Hussein Chalayan, Gareth Pugh and Matthew Williamson gain international exposure.

And organisers are again looking to the future by staging a show featuring eco-friendly designers like Noir/Bllack noir under the Estethica initiative in the prestigious BFC Tent on the lawns of the Natural History Museum.

Long-established designers like Vivienne Westwood Red Label, Paul Costelloe, Caroline Charles, John Rocha, Betty Jackson and Nicole Farhi will, though, will be the backbone of the week.

After a compromise between organisers in London and New York, over a date clash which some commentators feared would threaten London's future, Friday coincides with the last day of shows at New York Fashion Week.

This agreement -- which prevented a situation where the two events would have been held at the same time -- resolved a high-stakes issue for Britain, which even saw Sarah Brown, wife of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, intervene.

The twice-yearly London Fashion Week injects some 20 million pounds into the British capital's economy, as well as 100 million pounds of orders.

In a bid to ensure its potential is harnessed, London Mayor Boris Johnson has spent 40,000 pounds bringing in around 30 buyers from wealthy markets like the Middle East for the event.

He was behind a similar scheme in September which led to buyers placing orders worth around 14 million pounds.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/

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NY designers get creative to battle recession

2009-02-13T01:31:00.000-08:00

With recession ripping a hole in the U.S. retail industry, designers are struggling to come up with clothes women feel they can't do without as they unveil their collections at New York's fashion shows this week.

Designers at the semi-annual Fashion Week face the dual challenges of trimming their own spending on the shows while enticing penny-pinching buyers and consumers to boost their spending.

"We're counting on the industry to step up with something new," said Pete Nordstrom, president of merchandising for the upscale Nordstrom Inc department stores.

Some 70 designers are showing their collections in giant tents in Manhattan for Fashion Week, which kicks off Friday. Other designers are showing collections throughout the city.

They face sinking U.S. retail sales and a devastating credit crunch, while U.S. job losses last month were the worst in 34 years. On the buying front, the International Council of Shopping Centers estimated 148,000 retail stores closed last year and another 73,000 would shut in the first half of 2009.

"Right now, it's like you're in the middle of a tsunami," said designer Diane von Furstenberg, who heads up the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

A solution, she said, is to make clothes highly appealing.

"You need to show clothes that are real friends to women, so that 'friend' will make you feel good when you open your closet," said von Furstenberg, whose flattering wrap dresses put her firmly on the fashion map in the 1970s.

Many designers are opting for lower-cost presentations -- installations where guests wander among models who are fixed in place -- rather than high-priced runway shows.

A runway show at Fashion Week's tents typically costs $100,000 to $250,000 or more, a show in a smaller venue such as a gallery could cut the cost in half and a still presentation in a designer's showroom could be most economical of all.

Some design houses opting for presentations over shows are Betsey Johnson, Nary Manivong, Reem Acra, Luca Luca, Joanna Mastroianni, Temperley and Generra.

Others are headed to smaller spaces. Carmen Marc Valvo, whose gowns are celebrity hits, estimates saving as much as $150,000 by showing in a nightclub, with mannequins, a video presentation and just two models.

Designer Marc Jacobs is turning his belt-tightening into a status plus -- by slashing his show to 500 guests from 2,000, his coveted invitations are all the more valuable among the thousands of fashionistas vying to get in.

DEPRESSION ECHOES

Others are using the hard times as inspiration. Catherine Malandrino is showing cocktail dresses in the Rainbow Room, an Art Deco-style nightspot that first opened in 1934.

"I chose the Rainbow Room because it was a room born in a certain time, in the depth of the Great Depression," Malandrino said, noting she will brighten up her event with "some Champagne, some romance, some glamour and some music."

Von Furstenberg is hosting her own runway show and a second show for American Express, which is charging its cardholders $150 apiece for tickets online, featuring not only looks for fall but for nearer-term spring and summer.

That strategy breaks from the traditional cycle of looking far ahead -- this week's shows are Fall 2009 collections -- and seeks to appeal more immediately to consumers.

The twice-a-year Fashion Week shows inject some $773 million into New York City's economy and support 175,000 fashion industry-related jobs, according to city officials.

But the affluence that backs much of the industry has taken a hit with the hammering of Wall Street that is the core of much New York City wealth.

Candace Corlett, president of WSL Strategic Retail consulting firm, said she is seeing a "values correction" among affluent consumers.

"We're hearing consumers tell us, 'I used to care about designer brands and now I don't,'" she said.

Fern Mallis of IMG Fashion, which runs Fashion Week, jokingly proposed a theme song: "We might have to play the Bee Gees' song all week. It's called 'Stayin' Alive.'

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/

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Obama mania hits the catwalks of Rome

2009-02-05T23:53:00.000-08:00

Mania over President Barack Obama has reached the catwalks of Rome, where a top haute couture designer showed off a kaftan emblazoned with his face and another dedicated a gown of "hope" to his wife Michelle.

"I was in Times Square when he was elected and it was like just such a beautiful emotion. I had the sensation of flying," Guillermo Mariotto, who designed the kaftan for Roman fashion house Gattinoni, told Reuters.

"He's definitely a fashion icon. He's brand new, he's a black president, and he's so handsome."

Mariotto sent an American model down the catwalk draped in the ankle-length, long-sleeved kaftan made of natural fiber. It featured a solemn-faced Obama in red and beige across its entire length and the word "Change" written across the bottom.

Neapolitan designer Fausto Sarli on Saturday dedicated the jewel of his collection -- a pinkish gown studded with crystals and lavish swirls -- to U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, saying it represented a light in the desert.

"We dedicated this as a message of hope -- that she can bring hope in the world during this period of crisis," said Sarli's spokesman Carlo Alberto Terranova. "It's a homage to the audacity of hope and youth."

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Angelina's Red Carpet Reversal

2009-01-30T00:23:00.000-08:00

Angelina Jolie turned heads at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last Sunday, and it wasn't just because she was her usual stunning self. It turns out Angie was wearing her Max Azria gown -- a cornflower blue creation -- backward!

Did a spurned stylist tell her to wear it the wrong way round? Or was the "Changeling" star too busy caring for her newborn twins that she didn't realize her mistake?

Neither, according to Jen Rade, who styles the starlet. Rade told Usmagazine.com that Jolie reversed the gown on purpose to make it "more blouson." For those of you who do not parle Francais, "blouson" is the French word for blouse. The end result was a bit too bland for my taste, and rather reminiscent of another Max Azria dress she wore to the Critic's Choice Awards just a few weeks earlier. Had she worn her gown the right way round, Angelina would have shown more skin but less of her distracting tattoos!

For some reason, the sexy actress has favored billowy blouson gowns with cinched waists this awards season. I just hope she takes a break from the trend come Oscars next month. She may be a mother of six, but she doesn't need to look matronly.

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90's Fashion

2009-01-19T01:08:00.000-08:00

90's Fashion

90's Fashion is the most influential era in fashion. This era gave way to many different genre of fashion and revive some fashion genre and giving it a new look.

The 1990s in popular culture is typically referred to as the decade of "anti-fashion.In reality, anti-fashion was only one of many trends in fashion in the 1990s. The fashion of the 1990s was characterized by minimalist styles, and many overlapping, often contradictory trends.
Early 1990s fashion

The most significant event was the rise of grunge fashion in 1992. In the late 1990s there was a move away from grunge. Retro clothing inspired by the 1960s and 1970s was popular for much of the 1990s.

Kurt Cobain
Lead singer of Nirvana, was an inspiration for the grunge look that made its entrance into mainstream fashion in the early 1990s.

Wearing bright colours, such as neon colours proved popular. Also clothing with abstract, multi-coloured designs were also popular.
Navel piercing became a trend in the early 1990s, this was followed by other types of body piercing.

In the early 1990s, the tight lycra or black leather mini skirt, also known as a tube skirt, which began as a trend in the mid-1980s, continued to be popular, especially in Europe. These were often paired with long, fitted blazers, which would continue to be worn throughout the decade. Mini dresses in Lycra were also worn, and these often featured built-in bra cups. Sequined and lace cocktail dresses were also briefly popular in 1990-1991.

Michelle Pfeiffer

As Catwoman in Batman Returns

Inspired by Michelle Pfeiffer's performance of Catwoman in the 1992 film Batman Returns, the catsuit, enjoyed popularity. British singer Victoria Beckham would later be seen wearing a black catsuit in several Spice Girls videos. These were usually made of latex, PVC, or Spandex and often worn with high-heeled boots. From the beginning of the decade, boots were to be popular winter footwear throughout the 1990s.

The black leather jacket for men and women was a popular trend. As in the previous decade, the American singer Madonna continued to be a fashion inspiration for girls and young women.

Mid 1990's

In the mid 1990s, platform shoes made a come-back for women and girls.Other types of heavy shoes and boots with thick heels were also worn. Along with the shoes, flared jeans and trousers appeared on the fashion scene. In Europe, slinky, floor-length dresses, often made of Lycra, were worn in the daytime as well as the evening. A major influence on British fashion was the all-girl pop group The Spice Girls. Diana, Princess of Wales was also a fashion icon. The 1990s was the decade of the supermodel when fashion models such as Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Linda Evangelista became international celebrities.

Late 1990's

In 1997, cords also became popular in colors such as black, tan, and gray. Corduroy continued as a trend through 2001. The rise of "seventies revival" can be traced back to the cult classic Dazed and Confused, which gained its cult status during this period. Hair for girls was long, straight and worn with the central parting which had been fashionable in the late 1960s and 1970s, and obsolete in the 1980s. Also, most teenagers during this period were born in, and had some personal knowledge of the seventies.

Punk/Goth

Punk and alternative styles, spiky hair, black t-shirts, black work pants, wraparound sunglasses, and skater shoes. Many punk and alternative boys dyed their hair colors like blue, green, and fuchsia. In 1997, the 1980s Goth trend resurged among teenagers due to the popularity of bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. Black clothing and make-up (both females and males), long or back-combed black hair, studded bracelets, and black boots all made comebacks. The Punk and goth styles survived into the 2000s in modified forms.

Dockers and Cargo pants

In 1998, khaki pants were popular among teenage boys, due to the popularity of golfer Tiger Woods. For the first time, cargo pants became mainstream. Camo pants enjoyed a brief resurgence. Among girls, baby t-shirts and spaghetti strap tank tops were popular, and the low rise jean phenomenon began in mens and women's fashion. In 1999, Aloha shirts (Hawaiian shirts), became a major fad. Capri pants, a tapered pant that ends mid calf, became popular with girls and women as well as boys and men. Pink became the dominant women's clothing colour.

Golden Globes Fashion: The Best And The Worst

2009-01-16T02:20:00.000-08:00

Golden Globes Fashion: The Best And The Worst

There were lots of one-shoulder gowns, shades of blush and nude, and a bouffant or two. The guys pretty much stuck to the standard black-tie garb with lots of tuxedos, which makes any guy look dapper and handsome.

There were also some stand-out choices that made us say, "Wow!" — in good and bad ways. So here's a look at the best- and worst-dressed at the 2009 Golden Globes.

Let's get the bad out of the way first: America Ferrera looked silly. She was trying to be avant-garde, but ended up looking like she was trying out for a live-action "Jetsons" movie. Amanda Seyfried at first appeared lovely in her one-shoulder dress, but it was ill-fitting on second glance. "Office" star Jenna Fischer's floral frock failed to impress. Miley Cyrus' dress was confusing and didn't do anything for her. She might be 16 now, but the dress was too old for her. Drew Barrymore wore a gray Galliano gown. He's known to do out-there stuff, but the only thing out-there about Drew was her hair.

Both Eva Longoria and Beyoncé looked like their dresses were too small. J.Lo looked tired in her flashy gown; it just feels like she's done it a million times before. One look that stood out (in a questionable way) was Marisa Tomei's pirate-inspired getup. The Golden Globes feel like a strange place to debut that sort of look.

Now, let's talk about who rocked the carpet. Maggie Gyllenhaal always makes an attempt to stand out, and sometimes it doesn't work. Then again, sometimes it does. Her blue leopard-print Lanvin dress this year worked. Anne Hathaway loves looking classic, and there's no better classic designer than Armani Privé. Her navy dress was stunning and worked well with her pale skin. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt looked relaxed and cool. She wore silver, which is different for her, and she deserves some props for it.

Eva Mendes' white gown had a huge bow at her hip, proving that she loves to look like a bombshell. Kate Winslet's whimsical neckline on her strapless gown took something ordinary and made it extraordinary. And our belle of the ball was Amy Adams, who literally made us stop breathing when she showed up on the carpet in her Oscar de la Renta ball gown. It was flawless.