Fashion News

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Adidas takes gym route to woo women
As Indian women become more health conscious, multinational sportswear brands Adidas and Nike are working out with gymnasiums to make ladies loosen their purse strings more.

Besides taking up targeted advertising and investing more on campaigns through niche women-oriented magazines, Adidas has tied up with gyms to tap women customers.
16-Jul-2007 - Details

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What well be wearing this autumn
It's back to black for the autumn, according to Stopsley designer Lewis-Duncan Weedon.

The talented 23-year-old, whose hero is Tom Ford, says: "The look is all high shine silk fabric with big hair and smoky eyes."
30-Jul-2007 - Details

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Desktop television will bring Fashion Week to the world
The secrets of Fashion Week are set to be unveiled this year, as the event is opened up to a global audience.

The seventh annual event, which takes place this September, is heading to a computer near you, thanks to desktop television
30-Jul-2007 - Details

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Online fashion boutiques: new fashion trend
The range of items is quite wide. The choice of fashionable items seems to reflect the season and pubic interest (closely correlationg with what we call fashion). The hope page is featuring Rachel Mara's new Bird Print Dress for summer. It is really stylish, and sure to inspire compliments wherever you wear it. I would agree.

The other item exhibited is Cosmofact's famous Bunny Print T-Shirt, which is "so soft and stretchy that you'll find yourself wanting to wear it all of the time!" Well, I would disagree...
06-Aug-2007 - Details

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Avon Names Witherspoon New Face
Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon will be Avon's first-ever "Global Ambassador," announced the global beauty giant on Wednesday at a press conference in Beverly Hills.

Witherspoon, who won as Oscar for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in 2005's "Walk the Line," will serve as Honorary Chairman of the Avon Foundation and will also appear in the company's international ad campaigns as part of a multi-year agreement.
06-Aug-2007 - Details

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Paris Hiltons Best Foot Forward
The hotel heiress with the famously big feet who is often photographed wearing Jimmy Choo or Christian Louboutin shoes, is getting a footwear line of her own.

Paris Hilton, who wears a size 11 shoe, will launch Paris Hilton Footwear thanks to a licensing agreement she just signed with Antebi Footwear Group. It will hit stores early next year.
06-Aug-2007 - Details

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Hilary Duff Launches Design-It-Yourself Fashion Accessories
Hilary Duff is introducing "a line of stuff by hilary duff" "Design It Yourself" fashion crafts in over 900 Michaels North American stores. The "stuff by hilary duff" DIY fashion accessories and embellishments include more than 40 hip, funky fashion products inspiring customers to reinvent existing products or clothing.
13-Aug-2007 - Details

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Fashion goes floral
Fashion's going all romantic on us, just in time for sunny days!

Get into flower-powered fashion for summer, with fun, floaty or chic florals inspired by Liberty of London's classic prints.
13-Aug-2007 - Details

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Calvin Klein Wants To Work With Amy Winehouse
Calvin Klein wants her to design jeans and she might say yes, yes, yes.

Reports are circling that the American designer has his sights set on British singer Amy Winehouse to collaborate on a new range of denim.

The star, who has created her own unique rock style of shorts or skinny leg jeans paired with a tank top and big hair, is said to be considering the partnership.
13-Aug-2007 - Details

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Princess Dianas Dress to be Auctioned on E-Bay
A few months before Princess Diana's tragic death in a car crash in Paris, 80 gowns from her personal collection went up for auction at Christie's. Three of those gowns were purchased by the cable television network WE TV and have been preserved ever since, waiting for the right moment to bring them out as a celebration of her memory and style. Two will be touring the country this fall, the other will be auctioned for charity.
13-Aug-2007 - Details

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Sweat pants are in for this years school fashion
The love of fashion has no age boundaries or height requirements.

The new school year begins this week for many students, and Knox County students — from kindergarten through high school — are as excited about the hot back-to-school fashions as any designer in France. This year’s look for young people is casual, comfortable, fun, layered and a little funky.

At Fashion Bug, assistant manager Angela Wright noted that the “retro” 1980s are influencing today’s fashions.
20-Aug-2007 - Details

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Australian Fashion Show Promotes Islamic Culture
A fashion parade to promote understanding of Islamic dress for women has opened in Australia's biggest city, Sydney. Its aim is to challenge the hostile and ill-informed views many non-Muslims have about Islam. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports.

The clothes exhibition is called "My Dress, My Image, My Choice." The Muslim women who organized it hope to break down barriers and challenge pre-conceived ideas the wider community may have about Muslim women and Islam in general.
20-Aug-2007 - Details

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Police on hand when Paris unveils fashion line
Los Angeles police and city workers were on hand Thursday not to arrest Paris Hilton, but to control traffic and ensure pedestrian safety during the unveiling of her clothing line at a trendy boutique.

The heiress, singer and reality-TV star debuted the line at Kitson, a boutique known for its celebrity clientele. A traffic lane was closed for pedestrians’safety, a city spokesman said.
20-Aug-2007 - Details

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Anna Wintour misses out Paris Fashion Week
Paris' loss is our gain, as the reason Wintour is sitting out the Paris Fashion Week shows is so that she can attend London Fashion Week. She is attending the memorial service for Isabella Blow on 18th September as well delivering a presentation to the British Society of Magazine Editors. "Unfortunately, she is not able to attend London, Milan, and Paris as well," said a Vogue spokesman.
27-Aug-2007 - Details

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Ford brews colors to suit your fancy
About a hundred years ago, Henry Ford declared that his Model T customers could have the vehicle in any color "so long as it's black."

But today, Ford Motor Co. engineers and designers are mixing a paint revolution in the secret confines of the company's Dearborn product development labs.
10-Sep-2007 - Details

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Hilton hopes to build fashion empire
Nicky Hilton has launched her foray into the American fashion industry with her label's debut at New York Fashion Week.

The 23-year-old hotel heiress already has a handbag line that's been big in Japan, and a sportswear line that's received a lukewarm reception, she hopes her new line 'Nicholai' - which is her actual name - will change all that.
10-Sep-2007 - Details

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How the Luxury Industry Went the Way of McDonalds
Today's $157 billion luxury industry outsources production to Chinese factories, dresses celebrities for red-carpet events, fights massive counterfeiting operations and builds designer outlet malls across America. All this is a long way from the industry's history of family-owned businesses handcrafting the best products possible.
19-Sep-2007 - Details

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Put a smile into London fashion, says Emma Thompson
London Fashion Week has always been a showcase for the weird and wacky, but Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson suggested on Tuesday it should also learn to have a laugh.


"I'm all about bringing the smile back into fashion," Thompson told Reuters TV on the red carpet at the headline event of the fourth day of the fashion fest, the gala opening of an exhibition of haute couture.
19-Sep-2007 - Details

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Muslim fashion designers moving beyond the traditional
Punks or ravers they certainly are not. Discrete and devout, their kind of fashion statement could not be further from the razor-sharp mohawks or day-glo accessories of those counter-culture types. But young Muslim entrepreneurs around the world are making their own fashion statements, modestly, challenging the status quo in their communities as well as stereotypes outside.
19-Sep-2007 - Details

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Vogue India Launches
In a country whose millionaire list is rapidly expanding, there’s enough money to go around for big-name luxury brands seeking new customers. But the battle in India is to change mind-sets, to encourage guilt-free conspicuous consumption. And that’s what the international fashion glossy Vogue intends to do when it launches here later this month, the nearly 400-page issue packed with ads from the magazine’s favorite global advertisers, ranging from Gucci to Jimmy Choo to Louis Vuitton
19-Sep-2007 - Details