• Pollini’s Memoirs of a Geisha

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]

• Normaluisa’s ‘Home Sweet Home’ Equals Fashion Freedom

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]

• Giorgio Armani, The New York Times and Economic Theorems

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]

• Blugirl’s Snow Bunny Goes Luxe

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]

• A Serious Emporio Armani Reaches The Nash Equilibrium

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]

• Missoni’s Fashion Connoisseurs

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]