Sonam Dubals %26quot;Trailing the River Goddess%26quot; collection at the Lakme Fashion Week drew inspiration from three rivers - Mekong, Brahmaputra and Nile - and their role as cradles of civilization.
Tibets glaciers and snowy highlands feed the Brahmaputra and Mekong rivers. Since peaceful demonstrations turned into a citywide riot in Lhasa on March 14, anti-Chinese protests [...]
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 [...]
These two dresses are the key pieces of evidence in a landmark
Federal Court case that is sending a warning to copycat fashion
designers.
The case has ended with a victory - and an award of $17,500
damages - for Melbourne fashion label Review over the Sydney
company behind fashion labels Charlie Brown and Lili.
Justice Christopher Jessup found that the [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Since leaving Invercargill 14 years ago, Mr Kenneally has worked as a hairdresser, a male model and a makeup artist, more recently opening a makeup training academy in London.
Mr Kenneally said among his clients were Versace, Christian Dior and Emilio Pucci, and he has done makeup for celebrities such as Dita von Teese, Joanna Lumley [...]
There is the sense, however, that this time around wearable clothes are marching back into view. What started at New Zealand Fashion Week 07 is now mainstream.
Fashions backroom people are reluctant starters when it comes to declaring a colour, shape, or particular arrangement of garments as THE look.
After all, who wants to be copycat when [...]
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 [...]
But despite their best efforts, wrapping up in fur is a trend that has failed to go away.
%26quot;Without a doubt, there are more people wearing fur today than ever before,%26quot; said Timothy Everest, a member of the Hong Kong Fur Federation.
Still, while industry insiders gush about growing sales and new frontiers, public relations remains the [...]
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, [...]
