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A potpourri of business for designers at LFW

Some designers got a bagfull of orders, while others managed average business at the just concluded Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Winter/Festive 2011. Eighty-seven designers from various parts of India participated in the five-day bi-annual ev [...]

Posted On : Aug, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Celebrity stylists who become fashion designers

Rachel Zoe follows a long line of celebrity stylists who have parlayed their tastemaker status (and access to celebrities) into clothing and accessories brands. Here are some of the other celebrity stylists and their brands: Newbark: L [...]

Posted On : Jul, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Fashion designers offer their on-the-go wardrobe ideas and o...

It’s off to Hong Kong to meet with buyers, Italy to search for the finest craftsmen, then to St. Bart’s for a little R&R. Fashion designers often live the jet-set life they love to mimic on their runways. They travel for busin [...]

Posted On : May, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Fashion foundation supports up-and-coming designers

Everyone knows Dior, Chanel and Versace - top designers in the fashion world. But the names M. Patmos, Bibhu Mohapatra and The Lake & Stars? Not so much. Although these names may not sound familiar now, they are ones to look out for. [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2011 | 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

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

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

Power failure the new black before designers shine

A power failure in Sydney's CBD made the Zimmermann show run unfashionably late on the second day of Australian Fashion Week, a coincidental glitch considering Zimmermann's show was titled Bittersweet Nightshade. But when the lights finally [...]