Posts Tagged ‘ fashion designer ’

Elle Macpherson has sixth sense for bra sizes

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

The supermodel - who has her own lingerie range Elle Macpherson Intimates - insists she has become an expert in guessing the bust measurements of ladies.
She said: %26quot;I can instantly tell a womans bra size just by looking at her.%26quot;
Elle, 45, says she regards herself as an entrepreneur.
The Australian beauty - who has two sons [...]



In mass-obsessed China, designer seeks luxury niche

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Fashion

Famous in China for his fluid designs in muted colors, Shanghai-based Qiu showed his casual spring-summer collection of lambskin jackets and cotton shirts at the Singapore Fashion Festival last Sunday.
Wearing gold shoes and beige pants, his shaved head adorned with earrings, Qiu told Reuters that Chinas fixation with manufacturing in large quantities and catering to [...]



Fashions new tomboy queen

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

The rise of fashion’s new It girl has broken all the rules.
She is a Time magazine covergirl and already has been
on the cover of pretty much everything else and last week she was
named as Tatler’s most stylish woman of the year.
She is the face of this, the body of that and the spirit of the
other. [...]



A fashion odyssey

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

It’s one thing for fashion designers to create costumes for
films, another to uproot their lives for six months to live in a
strange land.
Tina Kalivas based herself in Tokyo between June and December to
design costumes for Goemon, to be released in 2009.
An encounter with Perth-raised, Tokyo-based stylist Vaughan
Alexander led to the collaboration.
“I loved it. It changed [...]



Global dreams, local brands at Tokyo fashion week

Mar 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Culture

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - In Japan, they are known as “U-turners”: young Japanese designers who trained abroad and are now returning home to build their brands.
But it isn’t easy to lure customers in one of the world’s biggest luxury goods markets as Japanese consumers are famously brand-obsessed and big European labels such as Gucci, Prada [...]



Southern comfort

Mar 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Fashion

Are you an underwear woman or do you wear lingerie? Do you like a flattened backside line or perky pert buttocks? Do you want a waist (again)? Is your pot belly ruining the line of your skirts? How about cleavage? Obvious? Subtle? Hopeful? If you were run over by a bus would you want to [...]



All go down south

Mar 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Fashion

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, [...]