2011 July | Promgirl News

What Will Become of Amy Winehouse’s Clothing Line?

Before her untimely and tragic death last week Amy Winehouse had already released several completed collections from her collaboration with fashion label Fred Perry. The collections, which were heavily influenced by Winehouse’s personal style including her love of retro clothing, big hair and pencil skirts, have been successful sellers for the brand since they were […]

Lara Stone Talks Body Image With Vogue UK

It seems with each passing year that the fashion industry takes more and more heat from concerned parents groups, standards organizations and the media as a whole for contributing to an ever growing number of young women with body image problems. Which is why it may sound so surprising that in a recent interview with […]

Kim Kardashian’s Suit Against Old Navy Could Be A Turning Point

By now if you have read any fashion news at all in the last month you’re well aware of the fact that reality TV’s most recent darling, Kim Kardashian is suing clothing retailer Old Navy for what she claims was an intentional attempt to deceive consumers into believing she endorsed the retailer. At the heart […]

PPR Moves to Buy Brioni

Rumors have begun to spread that PPR is in talks with Brioni about buying the Italian menswear brand with an eye for expansion into China. According to Reuters and Financial Times the French luxury conglomerate is interested in Brioni because the expanding Chinese luxury market, which is now the second largest in the world, is […]

American Apparel to Partner with eBay

According to press releases from both companies, financially struggling retailer American Apparel will be partnering with online auction giant eBay to offer what is being described as the site’s “first full online designer lifestyle shop.” American Apparel, which was saved from having to file bankruptcy to avoid defaulting on its loans earlier in the year […]

Two L’Oreal Ads Banned in U.K.

Two advertisements for L’Oreal cosmetics, one featuring Julia Roberts and the other with Christy Turlington, have been banned by Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) because they have been overly-airbrushed, according to a report from the English paper The Guardian. The first ad featuring Ms. Roberts is a two page spread shot by Mario Testino for […]

Elle Fanning Gets LOVE Magazine Cover

The tween star of this summer’s J.J. Abrams sci-fi thriller Super-8 will be one of five faces to grace the cover of the supernatural issue of LOVE magazine scheduled to hit shelves next month. The only other cover girl who has been revealed thus far is Nyasha Matonhodze. Fanning’s photo shoot for the cover, done […]

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 […]

Fendi Issues a Fond Fairwell to Amy Winehouse

It has been just over 48 hours since British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London apartment at the age of 27, and with a couple notable exceptions the fashion world has had very little to say about a woman who Karl Lagerfeld once described as a “style icon”. Much like her music […]

Forever 21 Brings Their Unique Brand of Fashion (and Controversy) to London

After opening operations in western Europe with retail locations in Dublin and Brimingham, fast-fashion empire Forever 21 has finally taken the plunge and opened their first London store. The location on Oxford street is gigantic and a fitting flagship for announcing the $3 billion dollar company’s arrival in the UK. For the opening last week […]

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