Archive for October, 2008

Police help kids stay warm

Friday, October 31st, 2008

In most storybooks, Santa Claus doesn’t wear a badge and carry a weapon. But about 50 Vermilion County youngsters may have had their image of Santa changed forever on Saturday.
Fifteen officers and investigators with the Danville Police Department spent quality time at Kmart with these children and their families in a program called Clothes for […]

Mall runway show puts the fashion in Fashion Valley

Friday, October 31st, 2008

When 35-year-old Dori Gilbert arrived at the Fashion Valley mall yesterday afternoon, her mission was to exchange a pair of children’s shoes at J.C. Penney – but she left with a pair of orange patent leather Tory Burch flats.
Gilbert, a mother of three who says she shops on a tight budget, had never been into […]

Mr. Blackwell spotlighted the worst in celebrity fashion

Friday, October 31st, 2008

It’s a terrible thing to wonder and yet one can’t help entertaining the question: What was Mr. Blackwell wearing in the last hours before his death last Sunday?
Was he swaddled in an elegant silk dressing gown as he said his goodbyes to this world? Or was he warm and cuddly in his favorite flannel PJ’s? […]

Palin wanted nicer clothes from SNL costume designer

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Of Palin, Broecker said, “In speaking with her, I had to get her to understand why she needed to wear the same thing as Tina [Fey]. We had gone off and created it for the first time a month ago, a look we identified as Sarah Palin. Read more
courtesy:www.progressive.org

Zaytoun’s fashion detour: Raleigh-bred designer now all about clothes for kids

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Fashion designer Myriah Zaytoun used to swear she’d never design children’s wear.
How could she, when her passion since childhood was ready-to-wear? So when Zaytoun, who grew up in Raleigh and graduated from St. Mary’s School in Raleigh in 2003, left design school last May, that’s exactly what she set out to do.
But on her way […]

Stella Maternity Clothes Boutique Offers Shop By Style Feature

Friday, October 31st, 2008

StellaMaternity.com announces a shop by style feature on their website. This new feature allows moms-to-be a way to quickly find maternity clothes and accessories that fit their unique sense of style.
Owner and founder, Trisha Jones says, “I believe that pregnancy is such a special time in a woman’s life and that women should dress in […]

Brit fashion designer says models too skinny for her size 10 clothes

Friday, October 31st, 2008

A debate on the size of the models has once again been reopened after one of Britain’’s leading fashion designers declared that she is unable to find models big enough to wear the clothes in her latest fashion show.
Maria Grachvogel, who was preparing her catwalk show at Claridge’’s, made a request for size 10 models, […]

Cooler colours, draping detail loom large in spring/summer 2009 collections

Friday, October 31st, 2008

The colour forecast for spring/summer 2009 fashions unveiled at Toronto’s L’Oreal Fashion Week remains bright when it comes to hot hues, but expect to see an abundance of cooler colours typically associated with fall and winter in creations for the warmer months.
While there was still a fair share of pastels like powder blue and baby […]

The Filipino connection

Friday, October 31st, 2008

For the second half, the runway makes space for 170 designers, and it goes without saying that enough clothes were made to dress an army of mannequins… apart from the models.
Joey Espino, executive producer and director, said that they’d hired practically every Filipino model in the metro, evidenced by the new faces seen on the […]

‘Fashion’ - a dark tale about the style industry

Friday, October 31st, 2008

“Corporate”, Madhur Bhandarkar now attempts to probe the dark side of the style industry in his “Fashion”, releasing Wednesday.Set against the glittering backdrop of the glamorous but ruthless world of haute couture, the film tells the story of a small town girl who dreams to make it big in the world of glitz and glamour. […]