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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the annual summer opening at Buckingham Palace where visitors can tour the palace gardens, view a portion of the Royal family’s extensive art collection and get a personal look inside 19 different state rooms used to entertain heads of state and world famous celebrities. However this year there is a […]
When it comes to the pursuit of the hottest looks in haute couture, fashion empire Versace has signaled that there is one cost they are not willing to pay: the health and safety of international garment workers. In a corporate statement released yesterday Versace confirmed that they would be joining other brands such as Levi […]
Last week Promgirl News ran an article detailing the steady and better then expected growth of British luxury label Burberry and cited an ever increasing demand for their traditional brand of luxury in new Asian markets. Today Catwalk Queen noted that Mulberry, one of Burberry’s oldest and most similar competitors, has been selected by Bloomburg […]
Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld is collaborating with Macy’s for a one time only capsule collection which will be available in over 200 Macy’s flagship stores and online at Macys.com beginning at the end of August. This will be Lagerfeld’s second low price line and, if his first collaboration with H&M is any indicator, the […]
He is the most powerful man in fashion, through buyouts, mergers and brutal takeovers he has grown his multi-billion dollar empire to include Louis Vuitton, Donna Karan and Christian Dior to name just a few; he is the one who brought Marc Jacobs to Louis Vuitton and Alexander McQueen to Givenchy so it is no […]
If you consider yourself a fashionista and have never heard of Kelly Wearstler you can be forgiven for now. For the last 20 years the 44-year old mother of two has made a name for herself with one of fashion’s closest relatives, interior design and in the decorating world everyone knows her name. Wesrstler’s impressive […]
Between May 2010 and May 2011 rates for domestic leather surged 13.9 percent. Meanwhile in Italy, home of the world’s most sought after tanneries used by most major brands the price of raw hides increased a whopping 40% over the same period. While this increase in price, and for most brands thereby cost, has not […]
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