The London College of Fashion staged its MA collections fashion show at the Victoria & Albert’s Raphael Rooms, in London recently. The audience was just as outrageous as the clothes while Sven Hoppe, claimed the award for the Student Collection of the Year, whose futuristic-dandy, menswear designs were one of the highlights of the show. [...]
Katie Couric, has been distinguished as the first female solo evening-news anchor in the history of network news. Couric an American journalist, is currently the managing editor of the CBS Evening News. She was a co-host of NBC’s Today, a position she held from 1991-2006. She is also well-known as an interviewer. Couric participated in [...]
With fashion enthusiasts wearing evening looks around the clock, it seems there are no rules in fashion nowadays and that you can shine as well in the daytime. “There is a blur between day and evening clothes now,” says designer Jason Wu, who outfitted Michelle Obama in her first-lady ceremonial dress. Jason also has a [...]
Paloma Picasso the fashion designer who is best known for her jewelry designs and signature perfumes is the youngest daughter of famed 20th-century artist Pablo Picasso. In 1980 Picasso began designing jewelry for Tiffany & Co. of New York. in 1984 she began experimenting with fragrance, creating the very successful “Paloma” perfume for L’Oréal.This year [...]
The Accessories Council Excellence honored Lady Gaga with The Stylemaker Award at the 13th annual awards ceremony in the beginning of last November. Lady Gaga, one of world’s fashion trend inventors, received applause that evening and her great appearance was awarded with the official prize. Lady Gaga’s unusual outfits and her amazing ability to produce [...]
The spring/summer 2010 season opened in New York recently with the launching of lingerie line in the catwalk. It’s the underwear designed to be seen has been the focus of the wardrobe for next season. ie. a pair of silken tap-pants seen beneath a brief tunic, lace-trimmed French knickers under a flimsy slip-dress, or a [...]
The avant-garde couturier Josephus Thimister opens the French couture season for spring/summer 2010, with a dramatic “anti-war” collection entitled “Bloodshed and Opulence”. Thimister, 47 who is of Russian-Dutch extraction, has returned to the Paris haute couture scene, for the first time in more than a decade. According to Thimister, fashion has a voice and it [...]
For her spring/summer couture , Anne Valérie Hash, the designer, transformed garments belonging to her closest friends into Haute Couture creations. A striped sleeve from the wardrobe of Paul Gaultier’s sailor sweater was transformed into the neckline of a hologram-sequin gown. Hash also turned a ballet shoe into a glove and a dress into a [...]
Riccardo Tisci, the young Italian fashion designer featured in his collection for Spring/Summer 2010, a strong bright collection of 22 ensembles, all over in just seven minutes. It was one of the shortest fashion shows on record by Tisci, whom is now in his fifth year at the house of Givenchy. Tisci had been inspired [...]
