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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...