By Clari Farkash We’ve followed the runway shows. We’ve read vogue. We’ve sample sale-d. Yet somehow, it’s hard for most of us to find a healthy balance between incredibly chic and powerfully professional at the office. The black pencil skirt and suit jacket combo is tired, while slacks seem lackluster. Why not indulge in some office wear that makes you shine? If you want to look fabulous even in the office, rethink your current wardrobe and go business glam. Dresses are great for virtually any office environment, especially tailored, 50s-inspired cuts. Skinny, patent leather belts worn at your waist can accentuate the smallest part of your body. You can also find dresses with a pencil skirt and shirt dress combo, which would accentuate your hips without looking too sexy. Make sure the dress is long enough, preferably right at the Read More ...
Fur is one of the biggest trends in the fashion industry and while it was initially seen as popular for children, but has now spread into the adult fashion market. It is something that has taken the fashion world by storm and has become equally popular in Europe and in the United States. Many celebrities, including Fern Cotton and Ellie Goulding, have been seen wearing hats made out of fur. Many of the leading designers have created the items and one of the most popular comes from a Los Angeles brand called SpiritHoods. This company is particularly known for donating part of its profits to helping endangered species, and the fur it is using is artificial. SpiritHoods was founded in Oregon by Alexander Mendeluk and Marley Marotta, who are both in their late 20s. They started the company after realising Read More ...
The fabulous fashion world of Valentino was officially unveiled to the public this week with the opening of the spectacular Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum. The museum brings to life, in amazing 3-D, the history and work of the formidable fashion house that changed the way the world sees clothes. The innovative concept of the virtual online museum disposes of old world methods of presentation and bricks and mortar technology, instead imposing a stunning and immersive three-dimensional environment for visitors. The museum’s many archives span the 50 years of the Valentino fashion icon’s history and include more than 100 fashion shows, archived photographs, original designer sketches, a stunning collection of five thousand garments through the ages and a look back at the celebrities who helped bring the clothes range into the public domain. “We are being called pioneers which is ironic considering Read More ...
Although they are good at what they do and can certainly entertain a crowd, their fashion design ability has yet to be tested. Celebrity fashion collections are set to pack the stores this autumn with the most notably launch being the Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony designs for Kohl’s which are due to enter the sales floors all across America. Also trying their hands in the fashion design and home goods market are the three Kardashian sisters, Khloe, Kourtney and Kim who have unveiled their Kollection at Sears recently. Kmart stores in the US will begin selling Sofia Vergara designed clothing and home goods later in the month. Both these lines will join other celebrity designers like Beyonce, Jessica Simpson, Victoria Beckham and Ashley Olsen on the sales floors. All the celebrity designers are hoping to capture a portion of Read More ...
Peter Jensen first arrived on the fashion scene around a decade ago after graduating with a Masters degree from Central Saint Martins. He was a distinguished academic and after graduating in 1999 he went on to set up his own label in 2001. He has become known for the names that he gives to his collection of womenswear, as they are each named after an unlikely heroine. One of the collections that he has created has been named after Jodie Foster and references to her character can be seen in the collection quite literally. One of the items is a grey sweatshirt and this is in a very similar style to the one she wore in the beginning of The Silence of the Lambs when she was playing the role of Clarice Starling. There is no question that Jensen has Read More ...
A new way to celebrate designers of the fashion world has been created. This is through the exhibition of their clothing designs in curated exhibits at museums and galleries. This is a great way for the creative minds who work on clothes rather than traditional art can be honoured. One of the first exhibitions will be coming to the Museum of Dallas, in the United States this year. The exhibition will show off the work of Jean Paul Gaultier. The exhibition is being organised by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Dallas is just one of the stops that the exhibition will be making in the US. The exhibition is to celebrate the thirty fifth year since the designer launched his first collection back in 1976. The exhibition features a great deal of Gauliter’s works over his career and Read More ...
New York fashion week began on 8th September and there are more than 250 parties and runway fashion shows planned for this annual event. Because of the concentrated activity, many designers feel there are other ways of gaining the attention of genuine fashion conscious people. One way in which a few of these designers plan to do this is to present their shows in 3-D. Live models gliding along the catwalk runway naturally present themselves in a three dimensional form, but designer Norma Kamali feels far greater benefit would be derived if the new fashion collections were to be shown in a 3-D film layout. Ms. Kamali plans to do just this on the14th September when she will present her short film using 3-D technology. According to Ms. Kamali the details of the clothing can be seen more clearly and Read More ...
The BFC, British Fashion Council have announced the names of the 17 designers who have been designated as London’s brightest emerging fashion design talents, and will receive the BFC NEWGEN sponsorship, which is supported by Topshop, meaning they can show at the London Fashion Week in September. NEWGEN, which was established in 1993, is internationally recognised as an indication of emerging new talents in fashion. The recipients of the NEWGEN sponsorship for the spring/summer 2012, which is again sponsored by Topshop, are in several different categories. The catwalk sponsorship goes to Holly Fulton, David Koma, Michael van der Ham and David Koma. The Presentation sponshorship was awarded to Craig Lawrence, Christopher Raeburn, J.W. Anderson, Nasir Mazhar and Dominic Jones. The Installation Sponsorship was given to SISTER by SIBLING and Jordan Askill, while the exhibition sponsorship went to J.JS Lee, Palmer/Harding, Read More ...
The expectations on the red carpet were quite high at the biggest fashion date on the calendar – The Costume Institute gala ball of the Metropolitan Museum of Art whose theme was the late fashion icon Alexander McQueen. The A-listers were not disappointing as they wore the British designer’s wares wonderfully. Stars such as Selma Hayek and Sarah Jessica Parker were only two of the countless that attended and proved that the late designer was not considered a genius for nothing. Supermodels such as Gisele Bundchen look superb wearing a scarlet piece from the autumn of 2005 and Crystal Renn sported a beautiful geisha inspired hairdo and a ruffled gown. Parker wore a gold embellished piece that hugged her figure while Daphne Guinness was dressed in nothing but feathers which was the finale of the fashion show’s collection Read More ...
ASOS is innovating its online offerings. The ASOS Fashion Finder is a whole new approach to locating exactly what you want, regardless of the store who sells it. This will provide a healthy compliment to the existing ASOS website. Customers can shop all kinds of styles and levels of cost from one location. The Fashion Finder aggregates the high street retail brands together with luxury labels and mid-level brands. The new tool will host over 50 brand names, not the least of which are Reiss, Mango, French Connection, Ted Baker, and Urban Outfitters. Let us not leave out mention of the inclusion of Browns and Coggles, and Liberty. As for shoes and other footwear, you will find Office and Kurt Geiger. The online retailers are chiming in as well, with farfetch.com ad My-Wardrobe.com taking the lead. Both users and retailers Read More ...
The value fashion retailer giant, Primark, is expected to report a loss, showing that there may be a reduction in the demand for fast fashion, even though the retailer reported that trading in the first three months of the year were strong but there has been a very noticeable slowing down of consumer demand. Operating margin, reflecting an increase in VAT in the UK will be lower than last year, with their sales 11% ahead of last year and 3% increase in like-for-likes, the higher cotton prices will cause input cost to continue rising and margins in the second half will be pressured. By half year Primark will have 214 stores and has opened 10 new shops in the year to date including six in the UK, two in Canary Islands and once each in the Netherlands and Germany with Read More ...
