By Harnessing the power of “word-of-mouth” advertising Patti Ainalis has driven her fashion label a long way from its humble beginnings in a spare room.
As a 21-year-old, Ms Ainalis decided that the three-by-two room opening onto a footpath, was perfect to display her women’s suits to the public.
“I thought, ‘Well, we’ll open the doors and [...]
She’s the woman behind New Zealand’s most iconic fashion label, but Elisabeth Findlay doesn’t let the hype go to her head.
With her red lipstick, jet black hair and trademark black outfit, she looks every bit the fashionista who, along with husband Neville, created Zambesi.
After 29 years designing clothes for Kiwi men and women, the Parnell [...]
As one of the worlds biggest luxury goods markets, Japan should be every emerging designers paradise. But its famously enthusiastic shoppers and fashion-crazy schoolgirls tend to either buy global brands or underground labels that revolve around the latest teenage fad, leaving little space for new, upmarket domestic designers.
%26quot;My brand doesnt completely fit the Japanese market, [...]
He was elated about living on Maui and being reunited with his black, super-size pickup truck, which just arrived from Colorado, but he wasn’t so thrilled about paying nearly $4 for a gallon of regular.While the price of oil climbs above $110 a barrel, most Americans dread the day they will have to pay $4. [...]
People are fussy about their coffee these days, very fussy, so the ability to make a good, consistent espresso or any variation thereof is a skill prized by a discerning coffee-drinking public.
It is not unknown now for people to follow a favourite barista to different establishments around town, says C4 Coffees chief executive, Guy [...]
And, perhaps wisely, the 35-year-old former Gucci designer did not stray far from the path that made Valentino the red-carpet favourite for generations of glamorous women from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Julia Roberts.
Ruffles, bows and flaming red dresses %26ndash; the signature touches Valentino made his own over decades %26ndash; all made their appearance, together with [...]
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 [...]
When I began blogging as Petite Anglaise in July 2004, I’d been calling Paris home for nine years and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. I set out to write a ‘Brit’s eye view’ of life in the City of Light and, even though [...]
