Melbourne designer Melma Hamersfeld made a staggering global success %26mdash; 600 stockists at last count %26mdash; out of her brand Metalicus, established in 1992 and based on thin, stretchy, stocking fabric fashions that can be worn alone or as foundation blocks under other garments.
Yesterdays stretched cherry frock was a fair metaphor for Metalicuss past and [...]

Australian-born Hollywood actress Miranda Otto turned heads in a stunning pillar-box red Nicola Finetti dress, while socialites and fashionistas sipped champagne in the sun on the lawn of Government House.
The opulent surrounds provided a fitting backdrop for the 400 guests, including top Australian models Megan Gale and Kirsty Hinze, to chat about the autumn-winter seasons [...]

Lagerfeld, presenting his own name collection ahead of showing his Chanel creations on Friday, unveiled a show of mannish tailoring and lots of black, two styles emerging as strong trends for next fall.
But he maintained the aloofness that has helped Lagerfelds career outlive his rivals and kept him at the top of his profession for [...]

Karl Lagerfeld, the maestro of French fashion and the designer behind Chanel, sent out models for his own name label in monochrome, mannish tailoring for fall 2008 with only a single flash of colour in the red lining of a coat.
Top model Irina Lazareanu, on-off muse of British Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty, led the line [...]

The Southern Trust iD Dunedin Fashion Week began on Tuesday night, and Dunedin is in full swing, with shows, fashion tours and shops all taking part.
While tickets to the main fashion show at the Railway Station on Saturday night have already sold out, there are still plenty of opportunities to take part in the programme, [...]

Their design was a far cry from the 1960s heyday of paper clothing, when A-line sleeveless frocks were plastered with geometric designs and Andy Warhol prints, but designer Dai Fujiwara said the aim was to capture fears about the planet.
Fujiwara presented a series of dresses and bodysuits with paper stretched and ruffled so that it [...]

John Galliano took a trip back to the 1960s at Dior on Monday updating the rich bored housewife look made famous by Bancroft in the film The Graduate for a generation of women looking to take that buttoned-up womanliness into the office.
To the pumping introduction of %26quot;Mrs Robinson%26quot;, the title track from the 1967 movie, [...]

Models with hair flowing straight and sleek hit the catwalks in dresses barely hitting their thighs in black whorled chiffon or cut away at the mid-riff to reveal flashes of black lace. Skirts were also mini, ruched in leather and slung low.
Christophe Decarnin, the designer behind the remaking of the established house of Balmain, had [...]

AS GIMMICKS go, the cherry-red 40-metre “frock” worn by eight
models at a Melbourne Fashion Festival show at Alto, in the city’s
elegant GPO shopping complex, yesterday was quite a cracker. But it
wasn’t far from reality either.
Melbourne designer Melma Hamersfeld made a staggering global
success %26#151; 600 stockists at last count %26#151; out of her brand
Metalicus, established in [...]

Plagiarism in the fashion industry is nothing new. It’s been
happening for years. But in the internet age, it is getting a lot
easier - and quicker - to blatantly knock off someone else’s
designs. In fact, these days copies often hit the market long
before the originals do.
Before the internet, it was not uncommon for local designers to
go [...]