we’ve seen footwear design competitions before, but none with a purse this large: Alabama-based Power Force Apparel is offering $25,000, mass production of your design, and a trip to NYC for whomever wins their “Design the ‘You’ Shoe” design competition. With all of the sneaker sketches populating Coroflot, we couldn’t not post news of this [...]
Art is good for the soul, but it’s also good for the soles in the Columbia Art Center exhibit “A Walk in My Shoes.” Speaking of good, this show is co-sponsored by Howard County Promotion and Tourism’s Blossoms of Hope and Cherrybration. Proceeds benefit the Claudia Mayer Cancer Resource Center of Howard County General Hospital. [...]
Sylvia Giacci has just begun the biggest week of her life. As director of the inaugural Perth Fashion Week, the former model and stylist has spent the past 18 months organising the event, which started last night at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre with a VIP launch party. “When we first conceptualised it, we [...]
The Keystone Group announce that this season they will partner with IMG Fashion as catering partner for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia 2012. The partnership celebrates an unbeatable combination of Australia’s leading fashion event with one of Australia’s leading hospitality groups who are behind some of Sydney’s most exciting dining and entertainment venues. As part of [...]
London was bedazzled, to say the least, when top Filipino designers showcased the best of the Philippines in front of the royals and the movers and shakers of this cosmopolitan city. The Ayala Foundation together with the London-based organization Prospero World presented an ambitious philanthropic event dubbed “The London Philippine Fashion Show” to raise funds [...]
“My So Green line offers people encouraging images of how you can be more eco-friendly,” said Somy Ali, founder of SoMe Design and No More Tears. “Our ‘Plant a Tree’ tee for men and women has been a big seller as well as our baby collection, which offers onesies with designs such as ‘Love your [...]
Grefe says that Tumblr, Pinterest and Facebook aren’t the only ones who need to make changes. “We need changes everywhere, we need changes in the media in general, we need changes in our society,” she said. It’s worth noting that many of these so-called “thinspo” images originally appeared in the pages of mainstream fashion magazines. [...]
Baby boomers will remember record stores as a sexy fusion of hot music product and even hotter people watching. Their children, Generation Xers and Ys, regarded record stores with Empire Records-esque nostalgia, even as they shopped for CDs at music megastores. But despite the digital nativeness implied by the iGen tagging of today’s teens, some [...]
This is a great dress up shoe and every man needs a pair to look nice when it’s time to look sharp. Don’t think this brand is legit? This company was first started in the year 1758! So you can take my word for it when I say this brand knows a bit about shoes [...]
As the United States’ fixation with celebrity gossip seemingly grows each day, the number of fashion pieces boasting celebrity names almost equals the amount of stars mentioned on the covers of popular tabloid magazines. A new breed of designers has been born. From style mavens to reality stars, a bevy of celebrity fashion lines — [...]