Richard Simmons. Clowns. The pope. Not exactly Clooneys or Clive Owens. And yet, this summer, an only slightly tamer version of the footwear hue favored by Ronald McDonald can be an easy antidote to sartorial affective disorder. After trudging through winter in black wingtips and brown penny loafers, a splash of crimson below the ankles [...]
Dubai Culture on Thursday launched a fashion show for designers with special needs at the Ruffles Hotel. The event, aptly themed “Dubai makes dreams come true”, was held under the patronage and in the presence of Shaikh Majid Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture). The [...]
LOCAL fashion industry consultant, Rosemary Stone, is calling on citizens to support the industry and buy local instead of opting for an international name tag. Stone said it was necessary in order to keep the “once vibrant” industry alive not only for the students enrolled in fashion courses at the University of Trinidad and Tobago [...]
So tonight’s show had a few surprises both good and bad! There was the Harper’s Bazaar mini challenge where Olsen Haus, the Pure Vegan shoe brand, asked the contestants to design a shoe. It was so good to see Olsen Haus designs on The Fashion Show as it goes to prove not all vegan footwear [...]
Sometimes “the girls” need a little boosting. Bras bedazzled in Swarovski crystals, butterflies, flowers and feathers will be coming down the runway at the first Save “The Girls” Designer Bra Fashion Show, happening Sunday at Spitfire nightclub in Seattle’s Belltown. Modeling these bedazzled bras will be 19 breast-cancer survivors. “I decided that I wanted to [...]
French fashion house Christian Lacroix SNC has launched insolvency proceedings, it has announced. The 22-year-old brand – known for its colourful gowns – told the Paris commercial court that it could not pay its creditors. It blamed the global financial crisis which has hit the luxury goods market. Read more Courtesy : news.bbc.co.uk
It seemed rather odd that the country’s biggest retail chain hasn’t held a fashion show in over 10 years. But on Tuesday night, SM Department Store made up for its longtime runway absence when it served as curtain-raiser for the Philippine Fashion Week Holiday 2009 shows at SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex in [...]
AS the momentum heightens for the first ever world soccer event to be held in Africa, some Namibian fashion designers have vowed to cash-in on this experience of a lifetime slated for neighbouring South Africa next year. Two of the country’s vibrant fashion entrepreneurs, Beverly Capisao and Hem Matsi, say they will take fashion “to [...]
Under the patronage HH Sheikh Majid bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) and in the presence of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai Culture launched the first international fashion show for designers with special needs, the first of its kind in the [...]
African Fashion International (AFI), organisers of the Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban Fashion Weeks, is proud to announce ARISE Africa Fashion Week, a showcase of the continent’s leading fashion designers at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, from the 12 to 20 June 2009. Arise Africa Fashion Week is an eight day celebration of the [...]