A real women’s woman. When we meet she has just announced that Mercedes-Benz South Africa is the new title sponsor of what were formerly known as Joburg Fashion Week, Cape Town Fashion Week and Africa Fashion Week. She said in her speech that this collaboration would have an important bearing on our economy and further [...]
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Princess Charlene
March 12th, 2012 
admin A EUROPEAN Princess and Australian fashion royalty converged on Bendigo last night for the opening of Grace Kelly: Style Icon, a showcase of the fashions of the woman who swapped Hollywood glamour for Royalty. Princess Charlene, wife of Prince Albert of Monaco addressed the crowd, stating that Kellys unique style endures to this day. “Her [...]
Spring Fashion Show
March 11th, 2012 admin Jean boutique previews new trends at spring fashion show. With spring just around the corner, it’s time to put away the heavy coats, gloves and hats and think about a new outfit or two. On Saturday afternoon, J Jeans & Things boutique displayed what’s new this season as several local models aged 2 to 30-something [...]
Archana’s designs
March 11th, 2012 admin Archana’s designs for summer brides. Are you set to walk down the aisle this summer but confused about what to wear? Archana Kochhar offers a solution with her new bridal collection – Summer Bride 2012. “Looking different and glamorous at wedding is the dream of every young girl and my collection will satisfy the needs [...]
Kelly Cutrone
March 11th, 2012 admin Kelly Cutrone played herself in MTV’s reality show “The Hills” and its spinoff “The City,” employing wannabe fashionistas Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port at her fashion publicity and branding company, People’s Revolution. Cutrone parlayed that into her own Bravo reality show, “Kell on Earth,” and two nonfiction books, the 2010 memoir “If You Have to [...]
Brad Goreski
March 11th, 2012 admin Brad Goreski was only a few months past graduation at USC and had worked for three months as an assistant to Vogue’s West Coast editor when he was cast on the initial season of “The Rachel Zoe Project” as one of the star’s assistants. Three years later, he and Zoe are no longer speaking for [...]
Tim Gunn
March 11th, 2012 admin Tim Gunn spent many years laboring in relative obscurity on the faculty of the Parsons School of Design before becoming the on-air mentor to the competitors on “Project Runway,” starting with its initial season in 2004. Gunn, 58, subsequently landed a gig as creative director at Liz Claiborne; starred in a Bravo spinoff, “Tim Gunn’s [...]
Fashion reality shows
March 11th, 2012 admin Fashion reality shows have made them all the rage. Fashion reality shows have had a big payoff for some participants, catapulting them to full-fledged stardom in the world of style. Christian Siriano was a design student who had apprenticed with industry bigs Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood before he won “Project Runway’s” Season 4. Since [...]
Sarah Jessica Parker
March 11th, 2012 admin Racy Sarah Jessica gives Paris an eyeful. Most women would consider it a fashion faux pas of the highest order. But Sarah Jessica Parker has never been afraid to stand out from the crowd. The actress made a bold statement with a black bra under a white lace top at Paris Fashion Week. Rounded off [...]
Bridal Fashion
March 11th, 2012 admin Dubai-based bridal fashion designer hits her stride. The Dubai-based designer Aiisha Ramadan is shaping up to leave the fashion pack wondering “how does she do it?” in the coming weeks when she launches her much-anticipated bridal collection for FROST boutique at Galleries Lafayette. For not only has the 29-year-old just released a short film showcasing [...]
Talbot Runhof
March 11th, 2012 admin Talbot Runhof German design house Talbot Runhof visited the world of Charles Dickens’ Miss Havisham Wednesday in a Paris ready-to-wear show that channeled green foliage — a nice touch for fall. A top in silk mousseline embellished with leaves opened the show, depicting the overgrown garden of the character from the 19th century Dickens novel [...]
Allude
March 11th, 2012 admin Allude There’s only so much you can do with wool, even if it’s cashmere. But Allude nevertheless managed to produce a tasteful, if repetitive, fall-winter collection Friday with some highly wearable clothes. Now a signature, the German company’s heavy cashmeres gave cardigans and sweaters in burgundy, russet and blue a weighty sweep in the first [...]
Elie Saab
March 11th, 2012 admin Elie Saab Among other shows Wednesday, glamor also filled the catwalk at Elie Saab’s show of a collection brimming with both traffic-stopping, sequined dresses and clients to buy them. A glitzy array of va-va-voom silhouette ended with statement evening dresses that are sure to turn up at the next big Hollywood party, but that’s a [...]
Louis Vuitton
March 11th, 2012 admin Big-budget ‘au revoir’ ends fashion week. Louis Vuitton capped a Paris fashion week dripping with jewels, sequins and glamorous jet-setters by going back in time to one of the most fashionable ages of travel: The era of the Orient Express. In a big-budget production, the house that made its name and built its early fortune [...]
Models
March 11th, 2012 admin Heart Truth Fashion Show: Models brought down the house for Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Put a women in a red dress and she might turn a few heads in the room. Put 17 vivacious women in red outfits — from ball gowns to sexy cocktail dresses — and have them strut on a [...]
Women’s fashion
March 11th, 2012 admin Women’s fashion through the decades. International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate the social economic and political achievements of women. In connection to fashion, this day is all about women’s progress, legislation, trends and major world events that accompany each decade of fashion. In the last century, women have come really far and one [...]
Fashion Star
March 11th, 2012 admin ‘Fashion Star’ contestants insist there is fashion in Seattle An interview with Mercer Island’s Lisa Vian Hunter and Sammamish’s Lizzie Parker, clothing designers who are contestants on the new NBC reality show “Fashion Star,” which debuts March 13, 2012. Plenty of television’s fashion reality shows depict the work that goes into designing clothes and the [...]
Fashion Therapy
March 11th, 2012 admin Forget all the big names in fashion – Galliano, McQueen, Lagerfeld – there is one women who has shaped the way women look and feel more than any other. She is Sara Blakely, the creator of Spanx, who last week made it on to the cover of Forbes magazine’s annual billionaires issue, at the age [...]