Topic: Fashion Shows And Reviews

Crafted from old newspapers, plastic bags, discarded CDs and soda bottle caps, Bolivian designer Marion Macedo's quirky fashion creations have added an eclectic dimension to the catwalks of Europe, South America and Asia.Each dress is a unique, eco-friendly work that takes about ...

Russian designers play it simple in uncertain economy

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Simplicity will be the watchword for Russia's fashionistas next season, driven by designers' narrowing budgets and a lack of good fabric in the country.At the launch of Russia's Fashion Week, which gathered together Moscow's wealthy elite, designers complained about ...

South Africa fashion stitch in time for troubled textile

(Reuters) - South Africa's slowly dying textile industry could receive a shot in the arm from a burgeoning fashion market in Africa's largest economy that is looking for home-grown fabric and stitching for its internationally known designers.The 8th Africa Fashion week in ...

New York kids bring Kenzo new look

Kenzo's new design team, the founders of the New York fashion complex Opening Ceremony, unveiled a sporty spring-summer look built on bold primary colours and fisherman's net prints in Paris on Sunday.After launching fashion store-cum-art-gallery spaces in New York, Los Angeles and ...

Tattooed skin at Jean Paul Gaultier

Jean Paul Gaultier showed tattooed leather and classic pinstripe Saturday for a signature look that was all Parisian elegance with a subversive touch, midway through the Paris runway shows for spring 2012.Pinstriped suit jackets left the back nude, one simply wrapping around ...

Kanye West makes fashion debut in Paris

Rap star Kanye West -- a regular fashion show attendee -- staged his runway debut on Saturday night at an off-calendar event on the sidelines of Paris Fashion Week attended by Vogue editor Anna Wintour.Black and white dominated as West sent models ...

Mother of pearl shimmers at Armani show in Milan

Giorgio Armani unveiled a new collection inspired by mother of pearl colours and the undulation of waves at Milan Fashion Week on Monday, reprising Versace's modern mermaids outfits.The spring/summer 2012 designs had a shimmering quality that turned the fashion show into a ...

Mandela charity's fashion line makes runway debut

A fashion line launched to raise money for Nelson Mandela's AIDS charity made its runway debut Sunday, with high-fashion incarnations of the vivid shirts that he often wore as president.The clothing created for 46664, the anti-apartheid hero's prison number which is now ...

Milan catwalks offer dream of exotic escapes

From visions of far-flung rainforests to travel back in time to the Roaring Twenties, Milan Fashion Week has been all about escapism -- offering a welcome respite from a mood of economic gloom in Italy.Gucci's Art Deco style, Alberta Ferretti's jungle themes, ...

Designer-hungry China in sight at London fashion

LONDON (Reuters) - Presenting luxurious cocktail dresses, white tuxedo jackets and Asian prints at his fashion show, British designer Julien Macdonald says he has a certain market in sight -- China."We're all in a recession but China isn't, China is booming," Macdonald ...
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