Posts Tagged ‘ catwalk ’

Fashion Week: Zambesi hits the mark

Sep 17th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Business, Opinion

The Zambesi Winter 2009 collection was shown at the old council depot in Auckland’s CBD and the people spotting was prime.
The building was bathed in blue light as the fashion crowd waited expectantly outside in the rain.
The crowd was packed so tightly I couldn’t help but overhear the following conversation.
Fashionista to designer: “Daaaaarling” (air kissing) [...]



Naomi At Sao Paulo Fashion Week

Jun 22nd, 2008 | By admin | Category: Fashion

Supermodel Naomi Campbell failed to turn up as scheduled at a runway show in Brazil on Saturday, apparently after her plans were upset by a conviction the day before for assaulting police officers at Heathrow airport in April.
Campbell, 38, had been scheduled to appear on the catwalk at the Sao Paulo Fashion Show for the [...]



Pret e Rapporter: Lights, Camera, Fashion

Jun 11th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Fashion

Not nearly enough has been said about the massive subcultural phenomenon that has grown out of the photographic narcissism of girls.
Put it this way: the most fought-over toy in our house is my digital camera, which is put to heavy use practically every evening and weekend, taking hundreds of shots of my 15-year-old daughter and [...]



Home Cooking Served New York Well

May 8th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Foods

The NHL Closer is written by the five aspiring television writers from Melt Your Face Off. When not huffing toner, they can be found desperately trying to get a pilot episode green-lighted for their action adventure series, Puck Force Five - Hockey Bloggers By Day, Crime Fighters/Lady-Killers By Night.
Well, hello there. A fine Friday it [...]



Coro factor hits rag trade

Apr 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Information

Industry leaders say the television shows small underwear factory, in which the gossiping staff seem to have few skills and do little work, is giving people the wrong idea.
They say it is increasingly difficult to recruit young people into a job seen as unglamorous and repetitive.
Paul Adriaens, joint managing director of Christchurch-based Cotura Fashions, said [...]



Mobile fashion

Apr 7th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Culture

Screams erupted from 22,000 young women in flowery frills,
boots, really short shorts and glittery jewellery whenever a model
- dressed similarly - waltzed down the runway in a Tokyo
stadium.
“Kawaii,” cooed the women in Japanese. “Cute, adorable.”
As they gushed over the models and their outfits, many also
pulled out their mobile phones and placed orders for the clothes [...]



Fashion and flames: that’s hot

Mar 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Fashion

Doing her hair and nails? That too, she says, but mostly training for her teams involvement this weekend in the rural firefighters Wajax competitions at Te Anau.
It has been a great and exhilarating week out fighting fires, according to the trained volunteer who joined the Kingston brigade as soon as she arrived to settle in [...]



Old world luxury, Cossacks mix in Moscow

Mar 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Fashion

Old world luxury reminiscent of the tsars opened the citys first fashion week of the year, held in Gostiny Dvor, a revamped 19th century exhibit hall near the Kremlin.
Pale-faced models displayed flowing cream and black dresses from the turn of the century under high-collared fur coats to an audience of hundreds of people, which included [...]



Fashion and flames thats hot

Mar 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Entertainment

Doing her hair and nails? That too, she says, but mostly training for her teams involvement this weekend in the rural firefighters Wajax competitions at Te Anau.
It has been a great and exhilarating week out fighting fires, according to the trained volunteer who joined the Kingston brigade as soon as she arrived to settle in [...]



Animal activists see red and violet and tangerine

Mar 19th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Culture

SOMETHING had to give. The Melbourne Fashion Festival was going
swimmingly: packed houses, catwalk shows slicker than ever.
Everybody happy.
Then the budgie died. And the purple poodle hit the catwalk.
There was a pink poodle, too, and two fluffy cream ones %26#151; with
tangerine and red ribbons %26#151; at yesterday’s Beautiful Girls’
Fashion Lunch, staged for 700 by Myer and [...]