Fashion News

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Escada Escapes Tradition and Turns to a Younger Set
A brand once associated with an older, more refined set, Escada is using the opening of its revamped Beverly Hills store to appeal to a younger crowd. This was more than evident based on the number of Hollywood's pretty young things who toasted the new store Thursday night.
07-May-2007 - Details

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Secret world of glamour lures some Iranians to take big risks
First, a text message arrived, inviting recipients to call about the location of a secret meeting. A cryptic phone conversation followed. "Who referred you?" a woman asked. "Who do you know?"

Next, a man drove up in a Korean hatchback and dropped off a coded slip of paper. The directions led to a bland apartment building in the north of this capital.
14-May-2007 - Details

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Fashion: Join the ranks for colour party
Make a 'block' booking in time for one of summer's biggest trends and get ready to be conspicuous with bright and beautiful shades

'Colour block' is one of the fastest emerging trends set to be popular this summer.

A style that was not anticipated early on by trend forecasters, colour block fuses mass shades of cerise, cobalt blue, greens and yellows with a sporty edge.
14-May-2007 - Details

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Sarah Jessica Parkers Bitten range is revealed on Oprah
Quality and affordability, that's what Sarah Jessica Parker wants you to receive when buy her clothes. The former star of Sex And The City unveiled her new range for Steve & Barrys on the Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday.
21-May-2007 - Details

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Bollywood guides Indian Canadian womens fashion choice
An increasing number of Indian Canadian women these days are giving up their western outfits for the traditional Indian sari, thanks to an inner urge ignited by Bollywood, to go back to the roots.

'The sari is definitely making a comeback with young girls,' said Jitinder Wirk, who opened her store Mehar in Vancouver three years ago.
28-May-2007 - Details

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Check Out My Breasts - Breast Cancer Ads Get Racy
Launched by a Canadian breast cancer campaign called Fashion Targets Breast Cancer, CheckOutMyBreasts.com is an interactive site that features a video of a model SHOWING women how to check their breasts for cancer. The site is informative, and yes, includes nudity. I’m sure they’ll get a lot of viral traffic. As part of the campaign, Canadian women are encouraged to buy the Rethink shirt and wear it on May 26.
28-May-2007 - Details

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Proenza Schouler, Oscar de la Renta Tie for Womenswear Designer of the Year
Sorry, Marc – it was tie, and not with you. Much to the surprise of everyone Monday night, there were two winners of the CFDA's womenswear designer of the year award: Fashion veteran Oscar de la Renta and fashion darlings Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, beating out Marc Jacobs, the third nominee in the category.
06-Jun-2007 - Details

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Tod’s Taps Sienna Miller
Tod's is injecting its sophisticated style with a little bit of teen spirit. It was announced Tuesday that the luxury Italian fashion house will feature
Sienna Miller in its fall-winter 2007-2008 advertising campaign. This is the first time the accessories and ready-to-wear brand has used a celebrity to endorse its line of bags, shoes and clothing collection designed by recent CFDA Accessory Designer of the Year winner and Tod's creative director Derek Lam.
11-Jun-2007 - Details

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Sarah Jessica Parker launches Bitten
Sarah Jessica Parker's bubbly personality was evident as she strode through the Manhattan Mall's Steve & Barry's store Thursday at the launch of her clothing line, Bitten, greeting shoppers with a cheerful, "Hi guys!"

With Bitten, Parker joins Madonna, Kate Moss,
Jennifer Lopez, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and other stars who are seeking success with celebrity clothing collections
11-Jun-2007 - Details

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Valentino snubs Paris to mark 45 years
Valentino Garavani will snub Paris and unveil his latest haute couture collection in Rome, marking his 45th year as a designer to Hollywood stars and European royalty in the city where he got his start.
18-Jun-2007 - Details

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Paris to see Ukrainian couture
This summer, Ukrainian designer Veronika Jeanvie will present her collection alongside legendary designer names during the haute couture Paris Fashion Week. This is happening not without the help of her new business partner and patron, renowned fashion designer Paco Rabanne. A little while ago, Rabanne announced that he and Jeanvie were collaborating on a clothing line. According to the official story, the two met in Paris through mutual acquaintances, and later Rabanne came to Kyiv to see the presentation of Jeanvie’s new collection, “Ethnomania,” and was greatly impressed with her works
18-Jun-2007 - Details

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Fatwa against fashion magazine
The chief cleric at a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital Islamabad has issued a death decree against staff at a magazine for publishing a fashion-shoot advertisement entitled "Adam and Eve".
18-Jun-2007 - Details

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Diesel puts holograms into fashion perspective
Shoals of fish and tumbling sea urchins are not familiar accessories on a fashion runway. But by the time a snaking sea creature was made up of wrist watches, Diesel had made a statement with its dive into the deep.

It was all done with holograms, projected on an ultrafine scrim. They created an oceanic setting for the sand-beige sportswear, the hooded tops, taut trench coats, crunchy knits and skinny pants, as Diesel staged its extravaganza at the Pitti Immagine Uomo fair.
25-Jun-2007 - Details

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Fendi to hold fashion show on Great Wall of China
Italian luxury group Fendi will hold a fashion show on the Great Wall in China in October as parent company, LVMH Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton, seeks to double its sales by 2008.

''It's true,'' said a spokeswoman for LVMH, confirming a report in France's Les Echos newspaper.
25-Jun-2007 - Details

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Disney damsels jump into high-end fashion
Snow White, Ariel and Jasmine have for years adorned little girls’ T-shirts, bed linens and backpacks as part of the Walt Disney Co. merchandising bonanza.

Now, those characters have gone couture.

Designer and fashion maven Kidada Jones recently introduced a line of baby blue and pink women’s loungewear, costume jewelry and home accessories inspired by the animated heroines that have come to be known in marketing circles as the Disney Princesses.
25-Jun-2007 - Details

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Estee Lauder makeup event slated this week
Estee Lauder invites the public to spend a luxurious day being pampered with their makeup artist team. The event is slated from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 28, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, June 29, at Dillard’s in Washington Park Mall in Bartlesville. A team of seven ladies including regional makeup artist Amy Bates will be on hand to conduct the beauty treatments.
25-Jun-2007 - Details

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J.Lo, Fergie to perform at Fashion Rocks
Jennifer Lopez, Fergie, Fall Out Boy and Usher will perform at the fourth annual Fashion Rocks concert celebrating the relationship between music and fashion.

The show, hosted by "Entourage" star Jeremy Piven, will be held Sept. 6 at Radio City Music Hall. It will air the following night in a two-hour special on CBS.
02-Jul-2007 - Details

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Ethic 2007 winners announced
Three students from Cleveland College of Design and Communication have won Ethic 2007, a new design competition which staged its final at the Fashion and Textile Museum in SE1 on Thursday, June 28.

Madame Noir design team
Twelve teams of students featuring up to three members each, entered the competition via the UK Skills website. All entrants submitted a portfolio outlining their ideas for an ethical outfit. An expert panel then selected five finalists and each team was given £100 and just two weeks to manufacture their design. The biggest challenge several of them told us, was sourcing fair trade and organic fabric. Some went down the recycling route and the innovative Three Twix's (named after their favourite chocolate bar) used only recycled materials and spent just £4.50 on materials.
02-Jul-2007 - Details

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Galliano celebrates 60 years of Dior with Versailles extravaganza
One of the most extravagant couture shows in fashion history set Paris alight on Monday as John Galliano held his autumn/winter haute couture show for Christian Dior in the Orangery at the Palace of Versailles. The flamboyant British designer pulled out all the stops to ensure the 60th anniversary of one of France's most renowned couture houses was a moment to remember. And in an extraordinary coup, he persuaded some of the world's most beautiful women including Helena Christensen, Linda Evangelista, Karen Mulder and Stella Tennant back on the runway to model his extravagant creations.
09-Jul-2007 - Details

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In Paris, Fairy Tales With a Global Flair
GIORGIO ARMANI has never made a convincing stab at haute couture, the major leagues of fashion. His clothes always seem stiff and out of touch. But consider the power of a name: outside his show in the Place du Trocadéro the crowd waiting to see guests arrive stood three deep. The area is popular with tourists. Still, none of the other couture shows last week produced that degree of public awe.
09-Jul-2007 - Details