Los Angeles Fashion Week Fall 2008: Samora, Maggie Barry, Elmer Avenue, Jenny Han March 17, 2008
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LOS ANGELES, Mar 15, 2008 / FW/ — It was during the Fall 2004 season when FashionWindows first covered Samora. It has been 4 years, a total of 8 collections that we have seen from the Los Angeles-based designer. Season after season, Samora has shown growth and become more decisive in her cuts and execution. Her Fall 2008 collection is not an exception. [more]
LOS ANGELES, Mar 15, 2008 / FW/ — Creative and as entertaining as ever, Maggie Barry designing for the label Xubaz was a little bit of punk, a little bit of rock & roll, and a little bit of sophisticated metro girl. [more]
LOS ANGELES, Mar 15, 2008 / FW/ — Is this as good as it gets? A week before the official kick of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios, the Los Angeles Times ran a feature story, ‘Rebel formalwear gets in line’ about Elmer Ave 5600, a skate and band label that would be introducing a broader collection during the Los Angeles season. [more]
LOS ANGELES, Mar 15, 2008 / FW/ — With Mena Suvari sitting front row wearing one of Jenny Han’s creations, the Los Angeles-based designer unveiled her Fall 2008 collection to a very enthusiastic hometown crowd. [more]
Paris Runway Report: christian Dior, chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Vivienne Westwood, Sonia Rykiel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Dries Van Noten, Veronique Branquinho, costume National, Junko shimada, ES March 2, 2008
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PARIS, Mar 2, 2008 / FW/ — Christian Dior, Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent are three names that define Paris, the fashion triumvirate that hold court at the City of Lights. Though some might disagree and add more names to this list, which will be for another time when we discuss Paris’ fashion oligarchy. Meanwhile, it is time to check what John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld and Stefano Pilati propose for Fall 2008. [more]
PARIS, Mar 2, 2008 / FW/ — When it comes to longevity in the business, no one can question Vivienne Westwood and Sonia Rykiel’s staying power. Both started approximately 40 years ago, and fashion had never been the same since then. [more]
PARIS, Mar 2, 2008 / FW/ — It was a red carpet triumph for both Jean Paul Gaultier and Dries Van Noten last week at the Academy awards. Best Actress winner Marion Cotillard donned Jean Paul Gaultier’s mermaid gown while expecting mom Cate Blanchett looked resplendent and named as one of the best dressed for the evening in her embroidered floor-length purple gown by Dries Von Noten. [more]
PARIS, Mar 1, 2008 / FW/ — Three designers from three different part of the world unveiled three different visions of fashion for Fall 2008 in Paris but they agree on one thing – Veronique Branquinho, Costume National and Junko Shimada are all looking to the future. [more]
PARIS, Mar 1, 2008 / FW/ — Futuristic but rooted to Mother Earth, Sadaharu Hoshino designing under his own label ES used plastics and jean enamel and paired them with the traditional luxe fabrics of cashmere, silk and wool. The classics become futuristic and vice versa. [more]
Paris Fashion Week: Anne Fontaine, Emanuel Ungaro, Yohji Yamamoto, Bruno Pieters, A.F. Vandevorst February 29, 2008
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Anne Fontaine & Guido Mocafico: Bringing Fashion & Art Together
PARIS, Feb 29, 2008 / FW/ — Known the world over for the white shirts she creates every season, Anne Fontaine collaborated with artist / photographer Guido Mocafico to introduce her Fall 2008 collection. [more]
Emanuel Ungaro Fall 2008: Esteban Cortazar Debuts in Paris
PARIS, Feb 28, 2008 / FW/ — New York’s fashion darling Esteban Cortazar debuted at Emanuel Ungaro today, making the 23-year old American designer the talk of the town during a day when he had to compete with fashion’s big names to the likes of Karl Lagerfedl, Akris, Ennio Capasa of Costume National, Dries Van Noten, Christian Lacroix, Givenchy and Hussein Chalayan. [more]
Yohji Yamamoto Hits A Trifecta for Fall 2008
PARIS, Feb 28, 2008 / FW/ — Yohji Yamamoto hits a trifecta and that’s after his very successful Y-3 catwalk show in New York. The Japanese designer who is a great at multi-tasking (1) will personally direct and present a fashion show in Beijing on April 24 of his Y’s collection; (2) is collaborating with Hermes to create a new signature sac for the French fashion house; and (3) just broke new grounds in fashion with his Fall 2008 collection presented Tuesday here in Paris. [more]
Bruno Pieters Fall 2008: The Manly Girl
PARIS, Feb 25, 2008 / FW/ — Bruno Pieters must be enjoying his job as a consulting designer at Hugo Boss. His Fall 2008 collection features only trousers; no skirts or dresses unless it is proposed as a top! Other womenswear designers have created collections without pants, only skirts and dresses; but Bruno Pieters decided to go the exact opposite, perhaps proving that a girl can wear only masculine clothes and still retain her femininity. Or did she? [more]
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A.F. Vandevorst Celebrates 10th Anniversary
PARIS, Feb 25, 2008 / FR/ — Sunday night, husband and wife design team An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx celebrated their 10th anniversary at the Maison des Métallos. It was a fashion show cum party with endless champagne and 14 video screens showing the progress backstage as models get ready. [more]
Milan Fashion Week Runway Report: Pollini, Normaluisa, Giorgio Armani, Blugirl, Emporio Armani, Missoni February 22, 2008
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MILAN, Feb 20, 2008 / FW/ — Rifat Ozbek went to the Far East and found Japanese sensuality so irresistible that for Fall 2008, he reinterpreted mystic allure of the geisha to 1970s glam thus creating the Japanese Roxy cover girl, an anthem to the constructions and architectural shapes of the clothes, played around well-defined lines. [more]
MILAN, Feb 20, 2008 / FW/ — Collaborating with Vitra, a Swiss manufacturer of designer furniture, Normaluisa aimed for fashion equilibrium as she sent a collection expressing essential and measured elegance that in so many ways was complimentary to the ultra modern furniture on the background. [more]
MILAN, Feb 20, 2008 / FW/ — Only in the fashion world that a healthy love-hate relationship can exist and all protagonists can kiss & make up within the next 3-6 months as if nothing happened. The latest incident, Cathy Horyn, Fashion Editor of the New York Times was ‘exiled’ from the Giorgio Armani show yesterday. [more]
MILAN, Feb 18, 2008 / FW/ — With Anna Molinari, there is always a spirit of generosity in her collections and Blugirl Fall 2008 is not an exception. One could go on and on how beautiful the collection is beginning with the varying shades of white from cream to coral rose provided warmth. Or, how the inventive combination of wool and fur with organza, chiffon and lace made luxury also ethereal. [more]
MILAN, Feb 18, 2008 / FW/ — Remember when Giorgio Armani did a treatise on ‘Theory of the Leisure Class’? For Fall 2008, the Italian design maestro might as well be doing a fashion treatise on the “Nash Equilibrium” a Nobel Prize winning economic theory made very popular by the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’ starring Russell Crowe. [more]
MILAN, Feb 18, 2008 / FW/ — There is a running joke among the fashion set, i.e., there are more fashion victims than fashion connoisseurs. And, though the fashionistas in general talk about it openly, very few will accept that they are slaves to fashion to the point that they have become fashion victims. And Missoni has found the cure for fashion victims! [more]
Milan Fashion Week Runway Report February 20, 2008
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MILAN, Feb 19, 2008 / FW/ — During fashion week, rumors always abound and one of the most repeated since Milano Moda Donna started was the ‘imminent arrival of a new Creative Director at Gianfranco Ferré.’ Yesterday, the company issued a very short press release quashing that rumor and saying, “the company has at present no negotiations underway regarding the hiring of any new in-house figure.” [more]
MILAN, Feb 19, 2008 / FW/ —It may seem strange to have a women’s collection by two Belgian designers and a French name that means “the men”, but in reality duo Tom Notte and Bart Vandebosch make it work. Les Hommes started off, through the collaboration of the design duo, as a men’s collection but with their success and growth they have branched out to the other sex. Les Homes, women’s collection, is exactly what you may think, a beautiful interpretation of men’s wear for the woman.[more]
NEW YORK, Feb 19, 2008 / FW/ — In New York’s 7th Avenue, nicknamed ‘Fashion Avenue’, from 41st Street to 35th Street is the New York Fashion Walk of Fame. Currently, there are 24 notable New York designers who have been given this honor, wherein decorative plaques honoring these designers are embedded in the sidewalks along the East Side of 7th Avenue. [more]
LOS ANGELES, Feb 19, 2008 / FW/ — A collection of personal scenes around Diane Von Furstenberg’s home and studio as she reveals how through fashion, she became the woman she wanted to be. No, this is not a documentary about the New York-based designer’s life. It’s the new TV spot for American Express ‘Are you a Cardmember?’ campaign. [more]
LOS ANGELES, Feb 19, 2008 / FW/ — Fidel Castro’s resignation as Cuba’s President might be headline news, but people are more interested with the 16th century British royals as two sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn vie for the affection of King Henry VIII. [more]
MILAN, Feb 19, 2008 /FR/ — Only three weeks after Valentino himself has retired Valentino Fashion Group has announced that the chairman of Valentino, Matteo Marzotto would leave company on March 19 2008, when financial results are published. [more]
Milan Menswear Runway Report January 13, 2008
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MILAN, Jan 13, 2008 / FW/ — The first day of the Milan Menswear season, the focus is the MAN himself. And though this was just the first day, the message that is being sent is strong – the MAN is back! Metrosexuals and metro males are out! [more]
MILAN, Jan 13, 2008 / FW/ — It’s only the second day of the Milan menswear season and one strong trend that is coming out is that masculinity is back. [more]
NEW YORK, Jan 13, 2008 / FW/ — Giancarlo Di Risio, CEO of Versace, has two things to smile about, a successful unveiling of the maison’s Fall 2008 menswear collection and a healthy sales growth, 288 million euros in 2006 to over 300 million euros in 2007. [more]
PARIS, Jan 13, 2008 / FW/ — In less than a year since Marc Audibet was named Artistic Advisor of the House of Vionnet, the French designer announced Friday that he is leaving the maison. [more]
