We've all heard about the huge Golden lion of Venice that took centre stage at the Grand Palais for the Autumn-Winter 10/11 Chanel Haute Couture show. As our attention was drawn to the models prowled around the oversized pearl beneath one paw of the Lion, and the high calibre guest sitting front row, perhaps the only other thing that has yet to
It's not only the World Cup that South Africa are hosting; just days before the quarter finals Africa Fashion Week 2010 graced Johannesburg. From 30th June to 3rd July 2010, the world’s largest continent was a fashion extravaganza,here is my round up of the best collections from Africa Fashion Week. Nigerian designer Ituen Basi’s
The fantastic thing about Phoebe Philo, who has been at the helm of the French house of Celine for five seasons now, is her minimalistic approach to stand-out wardrobe staples. When the press fell in awe of her debut collection for the house, she said she simply does what feels right, which she has done again for the Celine Resort 2011
"I love early spring; everything's alive and growing. I think the clothes reflect that," Stella McCartney said of her Resort 2011 collection presented last week in New York. The show attended by her friends Gwyneth Paltrow,Naomi Watts and Kate Hudson,was a botanical print dream come true. Precision cut (her signature) suits in shades of
In just four days,designers from all over the Balkans presented their AW10 collections at the fifth Lviv Fashion Week in Ukraine. With a list of designers whose names we cannot pronounce, Lviv kicked off with an impressive start. The Style Show opened Fashion Week with one dress from each designer past and present. The Queen of Hearts dress from
by Vicky Thoma Laser LED dresses, this was not but Hussein Chalayan's Autumn Winter 10 collection is on a road trip through America. Stepping away from previous avant-garde architectural garments which his name has become synonymous with, and taking on the minimalistic trend of the season,Chalayan shows us how to travel in style. Kicking off
by Katie Wright You may or may not have heard but following last season's catwalk crash at Emanuel Ungaro,with bated breaths we all waited to see what monstrosities Lindsay Lohan might create a second time around. But just 24 hours before the show, a statement was released from the Ungaro camp revealing that Lohan had no input whatsoever in
by Katie Wright While it was touch and go over at Emanuel Ungaro, what was never in doubt this Paris Fashion Week was that Karl Lagerfeld would deliver a sleek and consummate eponymous collection entirely in keeping with his rigorous aesthetic. Continuing a run of great fashion fortune (as if he ever puts a foot wrong!), earlier in the week
by Vicky Thoma Before the Jean Paul Gaultier show started Twitter users inside the show had alerted eager fashionistas that PETA activists were outside of the venue, protesting against Gaultier’s use of fur. This did nothing to douse the global melting pot at Gaultier’s AW10 show. It seemed the catwalk had been invaded by a diverse
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