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First-Ever Plus-Size Show Hits N.Y.C. Fashion Week!
Sep 16th
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People Magazine’s Thailan Pham reports: ‘It wasn’t all stick-thin models ruling the runways during New York Fashion Week, as curvy stars like Nikki Blonsky, Gabourey Sidibe and model Emme sat front row yesterday to take in the first-ever plus-size show during fashion’s most high-drama week. “This is a milestone in the plus-size community. We’ve never had anything like this,” Blonsky said at the OneStopPlus.com presentation on Wednesday. “To be in New York City Fashion Week, which I think is the biggest fashion week in the world, to be here is just a huge thing for us.” And plus-size model Emme, couldn’t have agreed more: “You have to join forces to make a statement and to be part of a revolution. It’s monumental in its reach,” Emme told PEOPLE, adding, “I think the big statement that’s going to be made with this fashion show is not only going to be made within the full-figured community but I think it’s going to talk to the bottom line of design houses, designers, and business people involved in fashion,” she said. “Why don’t we make clothes above a size 12? Why don’t we load heavier in sizes 14, 16, and 18 in stores? Just change More >
New York Fashion Week’s garden variety: Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan & Barbara Tfank
Sep 14th
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LA Time’s correspondent Booth Moore reports on the NYC Fashion Week experience:
Maybe it’s the grow-your-own food movement, the popularity of farmers markets, or simply the fact that these are spring collections, but botany is sprouting up as a theme all over the runways.
Carolina Herrera took colors, prints and floral appliques from 18th century botanical plates for her collection, which included a gown hand-painted with the image of a flower, along with its name and species.
For her Garden of Eden-themed collection, Monique Lhuillier worked with cherry blossom print taffeta, draping it into a pleated A-line cocktail dress and a ball gown. (Also spotted: “sage green,” “mint floral” and “poppy” organza.)
At Donna Karan, shoes were decorated with leather leaves and gauzy long slip dresses were “saffron-stained” and “tamarind-distressed.” A rough-textured, jute-colored nubuck jacket was reminiscent of a seed sack.
Jenny Packham, who is fast becoming a favorite of the red carpet set for her lovely gowns — many of which have sleeves, for those who care about that sort of thing — tapped wallpaper specialists de Gournay to design the moody, hand painted florals for her finale gowns, one in a silk crepe de chine with a beaded tulle shoulder.
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Demi Lovato’s ‘Sonny’ Gets A Clothing Line At Target
Jul 22nd
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According to Sandrine Milet of MTV.com, Well, now kids all over the country will be able to dress just like Sonny when the “D Signed” fashion line hits Target August 1st, just a few weeks before school starts.
The line, which is inspired by Demi’s character, will include t-shirts, shorts, skirts, jewelry and bags for girls ages 8 to 12. According to Reuters, what’s special about the line is that “rather than create traditional merchandise with the characters’ likeness, fashion items from D-Signed are those that would be found in Sonny’s own closet — if she were a real person.” Sounds like fun!
But, in real life, the actress has great fashion sense, too, and she loves to take risks in terms of color. In a video posted on Disney Living’s YouTube site, Demi said, “I like mixing and matching things … I really like mixing colors. They always say, ‘Don’t wear brown and black together,’ but I totally do that.”
So will Demi come out with her own fashion any time soon? After all, it is a longtime trend for Disney stars to make their way into the fashion world. Recently Selena Gomez announced her line “Dream Out Loud” would be launching this More >
Selena Gomez Debuts New Line ‘Dream Out Loud’ for Kmart
Jul 13th
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As reported by Stylelist.com, Selena Gomez’s new collection for Kmart, Dream Out Loud, has a definite American style, but her back-to-school photo shoot was strictly an international affair.
The promotional shoot were taken back in May on a hillside farm outside Budapest, where Gomez was filming “Ramona and Beezus,” which is set to be released July 23, and the models were flown in from London.
And just like a typical teenager, Gomez — who turns 18 later this month — arrived on set at 7am (accompanied by mom), wearing a track suit, her hair all over the place, carrying a bag of McDonald’s, and a huge Diet Coke, Kmart’s chief marketing officer Mark Snyder told StyleList exclusively.
Once settled, Gomez was all business. “Selena plugged her personal iPod into the speaker system and chose the music for every shot,” Snyder said.
“She started with Taylor Swift, and ended the day with Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.’”
He continued: “Selena was very engaged with the shots themselves and stepped into the tent where we were viewing actual shots on-screen with the photographer and myself to agree on what shots looked best.”
So, What Exactly Is Haute Couture?
Jul 8th
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Fall/Winter, Spring/Summer, Resort — these are all completely understandable categories for fashion shows. In other words, you know what you’re getting: some leather and fur at the F/W shows, the perfect maxi dress at the S/S shows, and a chic tunic at Resort.
This week, Styleite.com’s Ruthie Friedlander highlights all the happenings from from Paris Couture Week. “Karl Lagerfeld walked a model in a stuffed lion mask down the runway, Dita Von Teese strutted Gaultier’s in a dominatrix outfit to which only she could do justice, and the models that walked the Dior runway brought new meaning to botanics. It’s easy to look at these elaborate runway shows and ogle over their extraordinariness. But when you take away Karl’s eight-ton lion, what exactly are we looking at? What is Haute Couture? And why does it have its own week?
Our trusty reference book, The Fashion Book defines haute couture:
“An industry of established couturiers, or dressmakers, protected by the law and governed by the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne with rigid regulations and emphasis on craftsmanship. Haute Couture specifically refers to the manufacture of made-to-measure garments, an industry that employs a small group of highly skilled craftspeople. In terms of revenue, haute couture More >
‘Glamour’ Magazine Is Taking Your Questions About Fashion
Jul 2nd
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Picture this: You have just found out about an amazing summer party that’s taking place the next day. You open your closet and see tons of summer clothes but have no idea what’s appropriate for the event. “Glamour” magazine is giving you a chance to ask real experts your fashion questions at their new web site whattowear.com. Instead of calling your woefully fashion-misguided friends, why not talk to experts? Sound impossible? Hardly.
Glamour magazine is providing an opportunity to ask real experts your fashion questions at its new website whattowear.com. Inquiring minds can post their fashion questions online and get real-time answers from some of America’s leading stylists. These celebrity and magazine trendsetters give answers, with pictures accompanying their suggestions. Stylists who work with the site include Nicole Chavez, who composes the look for the likes of Scarlett Johansson and Miley Cyrus ; Andre Austin, stylist to such stars as Kanye West and Jessica Simpson; and Tammy Eckensweller, a stylist for Rihanna and Lindsay Lohan.
“This is an exciting partnership,” Cindi Leive, the editor-in-chief of Glamour, said in a statement announcing the launch of the site. “Nobody understands the intersection of fashion and technology better than Like.com, and when it More >
Britney Spears to Design New Juniors Clothing Line for “Candies”
Jul 1st
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Pop princess Britney Spears is soon to be joining the new celebrity morphing into desginer, launching her own fashion collection that targets the ‘schoolgirl’ crowd, reminiscent of her “Baby..One More Time” days.
Spears, 28, has designed her first collection of clothing and accessories for the Iconix Brand Group Inc’s Candie’s brand for which she has been the face for the past three seasons.
The juniors’ collection, called “Britney for Candie’s,” will be sold exclusively in Kohl’s Department stories from July 1 to kick off the back-to-school season.
“Designing was a really fun, new way for me to express my creativity and I really wanted to create something by me for my fans,” Spears said in a statement.
She said the collection, inspired by her favorite music and movies, as a mixture of day and evening looks, ranging from jeans to little black dresses.
A print and television advertising campaign to promote the line features the tagline: “Designed by me for you!”
We wish Ms. Spears good luck on her newest endeavor!
Wilhelmina Heats Up This Summer!
Jun 30th
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There’s no such thing as a summer vacation at Wilhelmina International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WHLM) as the agency’s talent continues to work with top clients and garner success worldwide. The Women’s, Artists and Sports divisions have been a hot bed of activity all across the board.
The Women’s division continues to be buzz with activity as its many beautiful faces work their way across the globe. Some hot spots on their international travels include picturesque locales like Australia, France, Germany, Russia, Turkey, and New York. Sisters Alexandra and Theodora Richards will be featured in a fashion spread and inside story for the July issue of Australia’s InStyle. Alexandra can also be seen in the current issue of French Playboy. The eye-catching images, photographed by fashion photographer Tony Kelly, are stunning, innovative and full of energy.
Wilhelmina has not one, but two gorgeous beauties gracing various international covers of Vogue this summer. Thomas Schenk’s striking images of top model Marike Laroux, will run on the cover of Turkish Vogue while the beautiful Keke Lindgard, graces the July cover of German Vogue shot by Claudia Knoepfel & Stefan Indlekofer. Keke will also be seen in an upcoming Victoria’s Secret Pink catalogue and More >
Lanvin Knocks them Dead on the Runways of Paris
Jun 28th
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According to FWD, ‘Judging from the applause at the end of Lanvin’s latest menswear runway show, the best received collection in Europe these past 10 days in either Milan or Paris was that of this storied French brand.
A cunning distillation of several ideas – the revival of the dandy, bohemian tailoring and sensitive chic – the collection won a standing ovation at its finale on the morning of Sunday, June 27, in Paris.
Staged in the Mineralogy Gallery of Paris’ elegant Botanical Gardens – the cast got dressed before man-sized crystals in the backstage – the collection was a great statement of libertine French gentleman’s style. They were clothes that most every guy in the audience wanted to wear, and which women would love to see their husbands or boyfriends buy.
“We wanted to get away from the whole macho thing, from the stigma of being sensitive,” added the designer, as models knocked back champagne on the sun-filled gallery steps.’
Forever 21 Times Square Braces for Crowds
Jun 25th
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New Yorkers who find themselves in need of a fresh party dress after midnight on a Tuesday have a new savior in Forever 21. The fast-fashion retailer’s new Times Square megastore is open every night (or is it morning?) until 2 a.m. By that time, most of the tourists should be in bed and residents of the City That Never Sleeps can have their chance to roam the four-floor 90,000 sq ft mansion of dresses and earrings.
The new Times Square store will get between 200 and 600 boxes of new merchandise every night. Handling those shipments will be an army of 600 employees, an advantage Mayor Mike Bloomberg himself celebrated Thursday.
As reported in today’s Journal, the Times Square opening is the latest step of the privately held company’s strategy to create a fast-fashion department store. One of the biggest challenges facing the company: figuring out what to fill it with. Forever 21 showed off its range with a fashion show Thursday evening. Dozens of models were divided into five distinct aesthetics: rocker glam (black cigarette pants, shredded tops); boho garden party (silk tanks, lace tights); nerd chic (houndstooth skirts, sequined oxfords; hippie love (beaded smocks, forehead headbands) and punk grunge More >
