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Alexa Chung Lands Another Reality TV Gig

Alexa Chung, the British-born designer and style icon who many credit with helping Mulberry become the world’s most commercially successful luxury fashion label, is giving the world of reality TV another go. It was announced recently that Chung would be the host of a new fashion centric reality TV show tentatively titled 24-Hour Catwalk which […]

Japanese Fashion Rises from the Ashes

Long seen as the most diverse fashion culture on the pacific rim and the trailblazers of cool throughout Asia, the Japanese fashion industry was left in ruins earlier this year after a massive 9.0 earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of the island nation unleashing tsunamis that wiped away whole towns and took thousands of […]

Nicole Richie and John Varvatos Join NBC’s Fashion Star

Coming this fall world renown top model and fashion icon Elle Macpherson will host NBC’s newest reality show Fashion Star, and it has just been announced that Nicole Richie and John Varvatos will be joining Jessica Simpson as the show’s three celebrity mentors. The series is designed to find America’s next popular brand by pitting […]

Azzedine Alaïa’s Return to the Runway

It has been nearly a week since Azzedine Alaïa’s collection closed out the Paris Couture shows and the fashion world is still buzzing about Mr. Alaïa’s breathtaking designs. During a show week that saw Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld delve into the depths of Coco’s mystic, Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci put on a couture clinic and Valentino’s Chiuri […]

Chiuri and Piccioli Weave a Fairtale for Valentino

Valentino creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Picci0li, who took over after the 2008 dismissal of Alessandra Facchinette, have been celebrated these past few years for bringing a younger and hipper feel to the designer. Which is why many were surprised when their arrival at Valentino’s Haute Couture show was greeted by a […]

Givenchy Haute Couture Proves Lighter Than Air

How’s this for an interesting juxtaposition? While Karl Lagerfeld took eager viewers on a tour of Chanel’s dark side with Les Allures de Chanel, a romantically noir homage to Coco inspired by shadows and moonlight; across town Riccardo Tisci unveiled Givenchy’s ten piece offering for Couture Week, an extremely advanced exploration of haute couture techniques […]

Karl Lagerfeld Explores the Dark Side of Chanel

With Couture Week in full swing and the darker days of fall and winter right around the corner Karl Lagerfeld unveiled Les Allures de Chanel yesterday a line of haute couture that was an inspired celebration of nightfall featuring many of Coco’s signature styles. The set for the show was a shadowy mock-up of the […]

Dior in Disarray

Yesterday marked the opening of the couture season with a Christian Dior Fall/Winter 2011-2012 Haute Couture show held at the Musee Rodin in Paris. The event was the first big show by Dior since the ugly departure of creative director John Galliano and was billed as a “team effort” between a number of designers, including […]

Fashion Has Gone to the Dogs (and Monkeys)

This season is shaping up to be a wild one in the fashion world. The animal motif trend which went mainstream last winter with Miuccia’s monkeys debuting for Prada’s Spring 2011 women’s wear collection has shown that it has legs, four of them to be exact. Because the first images of Givenchy’s Fall 2011 collections […]

Dior Homme Brings Youth to Formal Menswear

Very few girls would ever dream of wearing their mother’s prom dress to their prom, simply because the odds that mom’s dress are still in style would be pretty slim. Yet when their date arrives to pick them up he is often wearing a suit, that while tailored recently, has almost everything in common with […]