The Regency Conference Center will be filled with squeals of delight March 12 when the American Girl Fashion Show comes to town. Parks and Recreation Department Director Mary Jeanne Hutchison said about 1,200 spectators and another 60 models and volunteers are expected to pack the conference center to check out the latest in little girl [...]
Long known as feminine and demure, Indonesia’s traditional kebaya is headed for a makeover at the hands of innovative designers. Growing demand for stylish yet still modest fashions in the world’s most populous Islamic nation is helping power efforts to bring Islamic fashion into the modern age, a movement symbolized by changes to the iconic [...]
Some of the Georgian designers who took part in Tbilisi Fashion Week have been invited to organize showrooms in Paris. This is as a result of TFW, which was the main attraction for Georgian elite last week. Tamuna Ingorokva, Datuna Sulikashvili, Atelie 10A and Atare were named among the favourite designers by invited fashion critics. [...]
Two talented sisters, Hilary and Louanna Murphy of Kensington, have combined their artistic flair to create a cutting-edge clothing and accessories line, Dreamboat Lucy. They have quit the day-job lifestyle with an ambitious goal in mind – to have their line accepted into Toronto’s Fall/Winter Fashion Week 2011-12. “Fashion and accessories have always been something [...]
From Italian “porno chic” to Japanese pleats, conceptual Belgians and French sophistication, the past two decades of fashion history go on display Thursday in a new show in Paris. After the festive excesses of the 1970s and the theatrical 1980s, “the 1990s saw the industry come of age, became more professional,” curator Olivier Saillard told [...]
The fabric lies as flat as a pancake on the table, its neat square folds reflected in the pretty geometric pattern on its surface. But with a gentle tug, it springs into a dynamic three-dimensional expanse of fabric, transformed as though by magic into part sculpture, part dress. This is the latest creation of Issey [...]
This is not a heart-warming holiday story. Actually, what Williams Cusipuma is going through will give anybody chills. After nearly 10 years of dedicated work meticulously cleaning fashion mogul Donna Karan’s personal office, Cusipuma, 56, a Peruvian immigrant, Flushing resident and father of four, finds himself with his salary cut in half and his health [...]
Since graduating from London College of Fashion in 2010 with a master’s degree in womenswear, Korea-based designer Jin Joo Ma has had her graduate collection picked up by many stylists and photographers and has been dubbed “an old meets new clash, culminating in a sophisticated and striking collection.” Read more Courtesy: www.fibre2fashion.com
Blazetrak is partnering with Nolcha, a leading platform for independent fashion designers, for a contest that will ultimately give one aspiring designer the opportunity of a lifetime to participate in Nolcha Fashion Week: New York in February 2011. Effective immediately, fashion designers from all over the world are invited to be considered for this online [...]
Designer Sonia Noel is pushing for people here to “go local” in their fashion choices saying that if one item is taken from a single designer, the industry would get the kind of jumpstart it badly needs. “Just buy one designer piece… it is all we are asking for,” Sonia said on Wednesday at a [...]