LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Big films. Big stars. Big Fashion. When the red carpet rolls out for the Oscars Sunday night, it won’t only be the biggest night in Hollywood, it will be a major night for celebrity designers. The long parade of women in glamorous gowns and expensive jewelry that starts in January at [...]
LONDON (AP) — London Fashion Week is winding down — but not before some of Britain’s brightest young designers showcased the inventiveness, eclectic range and irreverence that the British capital’s fashion scene has to offer. On the final day of womenswear shows at the weeklong style extravaganza, two talented female designers, each with their own [...]
Brand-financed magazines — not glorified catalogs or vanity glossies but serious niche publications with top-notch editors and contributors — became something of a fad during the last decade. Now, in a tense business atmosphere where every cent is guarded, some fashion businesses say the publications (and their new online versions) have been excellent marketing investments. [...]
LONDON (AP) — So many beautiful clothes, so little time: London Fashion Week produced its busiest day Monday, with blockbuster shows including Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Kane and McQ by the Alexander McQueen house all jostling for editors’ attention. The fourth day of the weeklong fashion extravaganza saw a futuristic punk aesthetic marry beaded florals at [...]
LONDON – So many beautiful clothes, so little time: London Fashion Week produced its busiest day Monday, with blockbuster shows including Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Kane and McQ by Alexander McQueen all jostling for editors’ attention. Day 4 of the weeklong fashion extravaganza saw a futuristic punk esthetic marry beaded florals at Kane, the hottest young [...]
LONDON (AP) — Fashion wunderkind Christopher Kane has done it again, continuing a string of success that has made his show one of the hottest tickets at London Fashion Week for the past few years. The young designer wowed the crowds again Monday with his collection of sheer embroidered dresses, leather detailing and purple animal [...]
LONDON (AP) — Stella McCartney shook up the fashion world Saturday night by using a flash mob approach for a presentation of her evening wear. Instead of a traditional catwalk show, McCartney invited 100 or so of her closest friends for dinner — she was flanked by Vogue editor Anna Wintour and the singer Rihanna, [...]
All the energy of the city is being captured by designers whose irreverence and energy masks a well-organized fashion week. The 2012 winter season includes a “rock vault” for fine jewelry, a continuing focus on sustainability and a film to showcase the movies that span art and fashion. This year is also the celebration of [...]
LONDON (AP) — It must be fashion week: leather jeans, African body paint, androgynous clothes and much more were on display in London Saturday as big names like Vivienne Westwood, Mulberry and Paul Smith made their mark. Day Three of London Fashion Week saw a new strategy for leather pants: instead of the skintight Jim [...]
From Lincoln Center to Wollman Rink, backstage setups to elaborate stage sets, wind-whistling piers to spare Bowery galleries, the city shone hard, emanating a distinctive silvery glow, its stone-and-glass verticality a shimmering backdrop for a movie populated by a handful of stars and 3,000 extras — retailers, journalists, models, agents, bloggers and hangers-on (if that’s [...]
