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Wake Held for Slain Fashion Designer

A wake for a fashion designer from northern Virginia who was killed in New York last week was held in Vienna, Va., Tuesday. Police found 33-year-old Sylvie Cachay's body in an upscale hotel room. Her boyfriend has been charged with h [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Fashion Diary: Lanvin for H&M, the latest designer collabora...

Fashion's designer-matchmaking game has reached a fevered pitch with the Lanvin for H&M collection hitting select stores Nov. 20. In this collaboration-happy era of Cynthia Rowley-designed Pampers and Christian Siriano-designed s [...]

Posted On : Nov, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

WWD picks 100 designers who shaped fashion

From Adolfo to Yohji Yamamoto, Women's Wear Daily has recorded the A to Z of fashion over the last 100 years. There are the suffragettes, flappers, career women in pantsuits and, later, miniskirts. Fashion is an industry that's a [...]

Posted On : Nov, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Young designers invade Brussels with fashion trail

Using unusual and even surreal spaces such as thrift shops, a bakery, a bicycle repair shop and a former electricity power plant to show their work, the young designers and design students are giving Brussels a fashion buzz. "I [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Designers put fashion forward

The best of the nation's fashion design will be on show, as New Zealand Fashion week gets underway in Auckland today. The Viaduct Harbour Marine Village will be abuzz with thousands of people including media, buyers, model [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Ivana Trump sues Finnish designer over name

In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, Ivana Trump said IVANAhelsinki Ky and designer Paola Ivana Suhonen are infringing her two U.S. trademarks for "Ivana."The trademarks were registered in 2002 and relate to jewelry, [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Samantha Harris - designers' runaway choice

The face of Aboriginal model Samantha Harris has created a major stir on the Australian Fashion Week runway. The stunning beauty, who transformed herself from a beauty pageant hopeful who wore op shop clothes into a Vogue Australia cover [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Emerging designers, high profiles

The 2010 fall/winter Seoul Fashion Week kicked off last Friday on the largest scale in its 20-year history. The Seoul Metropolitan Government, which is hosting the event, said the seven-day show will have events with 45 leading [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Designers shrug off militant violence for Pakistan's fashion...

Pakistan's fashion week started with an opulent opening ceremony, against a backdrop of militant violence and security fears that delayed the event and kept away foreign glitterati. Models will sashay down catwalks, flaunting the latest cre [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

X Factor's Cheryl Cole makes fashion faux pas in designer dr...

Cheryl Cole made a rare fashion faux pas last night sporting a bizarre fan-style dress. The Girls Aloud star who has become a fashion icon - made the slip in a £1,500 tube dress by Georgian-born designer David Koma. The skin-ti [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

LA Fashion Week focuses on emerging local designers and cele...

With Spring 2010 collections in New York, London, Milan, and Paris over, the new fashion scene of Los Angeles gears up for its Fashion Week-or weeks. Los Angeles-based designers Max Azria and Randolph Duke were joined by LA's Mayor Antonio [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

NY Fashion Week designers ask - Who wants a hug?

Since the economic downturn began, fashion designers have brought us plenty of hard-edged looks: rock-star leather, gladiator shoes, '80s-style shoulder pads. The message was clear enough - fashion was preparing us for battle. But for spri [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

100 designers at Fashion Week

EXPECT glamorous belts to be drawn tight when New York's Fashion Week kicks off this Thursday, with designers and consumers still hurting from the recession. The extravaganza in Manhattan is the first of the four major shows for pret [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Ferragamo menswear designer takes on womenswear

Italian fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo has said its menswear designer Massimiliano Giornetti will also take on women's ready-to-wear. He succeeds Cristina Ortiz, who has worked with the Florence-based fashion house designing the womenswe [...]