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The best of Italian wedding dress design at The Bride Show D...

Six wedding dress designers from Sarli Couture, Carnevali Spose, Franco Ciambella, Mariel, Curti Spose and Merinda Spose, as well as make-up artist, Massimo Toppi and hairstylist Roberto Carminato, all from Italy's Lazio region, will presen [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2009 | Comments : 2

Designers from around the world come together to create larg...

Kick-starting the fashion fiesta on Wednesday 8 April, the opening day of The Bride Show Dubai, is Ines Di Santo, one of Canada's most renowned designers and creator of original haute couture wedding dresses and evening gowns. Born in Ital [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Learn design in the city of fashion

CITY fashion students can win the trip of a lifetime to live, breathe and study fashion design in fashion mecca, Paris, by entering next month’s 28th NRA Australian Fashion Design Awards (AFDAs). Entries close March 9, with student ju [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Designers pull out of NY Fashion Week

Vera Wang and Betsey Johnson will not be showing their respective collections at New York Fashion Week's official tents next season, with both citing the economy as a factor. Wang, who is best known for her celebrated bridal designs, will [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2008 | Comments : 0

Fashion Week Sees Russian Designers Dominate

We caught up designer Nandita Thirani who is showing for the second time at the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai. She tips us off on how to drape the sari right, so that it accentuates your curves and covers up the flaws.Long-legged men and wom [...]

Posted On : Oct, 23 2008 | Comments : 0

Indian designers are more into creativity

In a chat with NT, the pretty designer talks about her appointment as a fashion envoy, the fashion trends across the border and what she would like to take home from India. Proud moment Honey is one envoy from Pakistan whose mission in In [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Young designer wows crowd with show

With a rotund drag-queen wearing garish blue eye make-up and black stockings, Auckland designer Lucie Boshier today launched a visual assault on Fashion Week, with her first official collection. While not in the main tent, Boshier's over [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2008 | Comments : 0

Designer plans chaos at Fashion Week

Prepare for chaos - that's what designer Lucie Boshier says she is planning for NZ Fashion Week this year.No stranger to controversy, the Auckland-based designer has in previous years distributed leaflets questioning the direction and moral [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2008 | Comments : 0

Designers hope Sydney Fashion Festival defies retail slump

FASHION designers are banking on the inaugural Sydney Fashion Festival to get their cash registers ringing in the current retail slump.“It's difficult for a lot of businesses, and for designer fashion in particular because it's seen a [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

Caymanian costume designer goes global

Local costume designer Reba Dilbert will take her exclusive creations to the international stage with her participation in this year’s International Design Awards (IDA), to be judged later this month. “I’m selling the cou [...]

Posted On : Jul, 31 2008 | Comments : 0

Queen Show contestants model for local designers and stores...

The show was organised by Nevis Culturama Committee under the motto, “Participate! Make It Great! Culturama! 2KS!” Miss Carib Brewery Tanisha Hendrickson, Miss S.L Horsfords Shamilla Wilkinson, Miss Cable and Wireless Shanira [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2008 | Comments : 0

Designers' choice: Best-dressed celebs

The spotlight is always on them. Like the Hollywood glitterati, the Mumbai film fraternity is forever trying to achieve that perfect look on the red carpet. Will hemlines rise? Will necklines plunge? Will empire waistlines rule? Is volume [...]

Posted On : Jun, 18 2008 | Comments : 0

Fashion Designers Honor Their Own

WHILE smoking a cigarette outside the New York Public Library on Monday night, at the end of a press line where a modest number of celebrities and large contingent of the American fashion industry were dutifully talking about dresses, Fra [...]

Posted On : Jun, 04 2008 | Comments : 0

Iconic fashion designer subject of major art show

At what point does a simple piece of fabric become a work of art? The short answer is when it lands in the right hands, but the curators of a groundbreaking new exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts are conducting a deeper explorat [...]