Reuters - British Fashion Council (BFC) chief
executive Hilary Riva will hold crisis talks with rivals in
Paris, New York and Milan on the third day of London Fashion
Week over a timing squeeze that threatens London next season. -- read full article
Reuters - Fashion designer and ex-model
Daria Zhukova opened a new art gallery in an avant garde Moscow
bus shelter on Tuesday, attended by her Russian billionaire
boyfriend Roman Abramovich.
Reuters - British fashion favourite Luella Bartley
dazzled audiences with jarring, psychedelic colors, while
London's Jaeger presented a collection that mixed fitted with
floaty pieces on Monday at London Fashion Week. -- read full article
Reuters - British fashion designer Paul Smith
brought a taste of the Orient to London Fashion Week on Monday
as wet-haired models draped in white silks and dressed in
turbans conjured a post-hammam look on the catwalk. -- read full article
Reuters - British fashion retailer Jaeger
followed the success of its first show in February with an airy
display of color and a hint of vintage in its Spring/Summer
2009 collection at London Fashion Week on Monday. -- read full article
Reuters - British Fashion Council (BFC) chief
executive Hilary Riva will hold crisis talks with rivals in
Paris, New York and Milan on the third day of London Fashion
Week over a timing squeeze that threatens London next season. -- read full article
Reuters - British fashion favorite Luella Bartley
dazzled audiences with a jarring, psychedelic clash of
conflicting themes and styles at London Fashion Week on Monday,
in a mash-up of aristocratic style and sickly sweet colors. -- read full article
Reuters - London Fashion Week began
on Sunday with a feminine flurry from some established British
labels and a tongue-in-cheek take on the spring/summer 2009
season from some of the newer names.
Fashion Wire Daily - Kimora Lee Simmons celebrated 10 years of Baby Phat at her show on Friday night, Sept. 12, with a seventies-inspired Spring 2009 collection of jersey dresses and flared jumpsuits that showed a more restrained side of Simmons.
AP - Despite all the harem pants and corset tops — or maybe because of them — the spring styles previewed at New York Fashion Week received a mostly warm reception given the elephant on the runway: the down economy.
Fashion Wire Daily - Mark Badgley and James Mischka said that "the golden age of ocean travel" inspired their Spring 2009 collection, which they showed on Friday, Sept. 12, the final day of New York fashion week.
Fashion Wire Daily - Zac Posen took his inspiration from Spain this season, with a Spring 2009 collection that aped Alhambra designs and echoed Gaudi's opulence.
AP - The women ruled the "Project Runway" finale Friday, leaving the reality competition's remaining male designers in the dust of jewel toned silks, vintage inspirations and dramatic showpieces.
