PARIS F/W: Talented Polish Designer, Gosia Baczynska S/S 2015 collection

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Gosia Baczynska, the biggest polish fashion designer. The “fashion tsarina”, as called by some of her friends in fashion magazines, belongs to the generation that arrived at this key moment of the history of Poland in the beginning of the 90’s. Twenty years later, it’s Gosia Baczynska who creates history. Beautiful, emotional, deep: the History of fashion. Gosia was born in a small town near Wroclaw, west of Poland. At the age of 12, she tried to sew her first jacket using an old machine, following the instructions given in a Russian couture book. Surprisingly for her, it was a success. – - please Read more about Gosia on Her website

Paris Spring/Summer show

NEW YORK – Spring-Summer 2014

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Inspirational Looks from the Streets of NYC

Hot Canadian Fashion showdown

The top 10 looks from the TFI new designer showdown

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The Toronto Fashion Incubator swept four of its most promising young designers onto the runway this week as part of the group’s annual New Labels competition. Toronto-based Christopher Paunil, Laura Siegel (a Fashion Week veteran), Nomad of the Sun and AliceAzur each showed their best, most carefully-honed pieces before a panel of judges and a room of fashion insiders. The prize: $25,000 in cash, an editorial in FLARE Magazine, and a professionally-produced lookbook.
Who came out on top? That would be AliceAzur’s Miriam Baker, a recent Ryerson grad, who was met with a huge hug from her visibly-moved folks at the end of the runway after accepting her prize. (Aww.) But the competition was stiff; prize or no, you’ll be seeing more of the runners-up yet.
Here are my picks for the top 10 looks from TFI New Labels 2014.
ABOVE: Nomad Of The Sun’s Ashley Boutcher focuses on swimwear tailor-made for lounging glamorously by the poolside. Her geometric suits were often layered under flowing chiffon – in this case, black sheer trousers and a plunging-front swimsuit made for ’70s-style glamour.

PARIS F/W Spring 2014 starts today

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PARIS FASHION WEEK starts today – an epic nine-day-long marathon that ends next Wednesday. It’s the mother of all fashion capitals, the home of fashion’s biggest and oldest names, from Chanel and Dior to Balenciaga and Givenchy. If energy levels are beginning to wane among the fashion press, who have now been on the move for three weeks, Paris is always certain to inject a new verve. –> Instagrams of #PFW 

The action gets underway today with Anthony Vaccarello – who is rumoured to be Versus’s next collaborator. His sexy, skin-tight dresses are a given though, and we look forward to seeing them worn by his model muse, Karlie Kloss, who is a regular on his catwalk. Wednesday’s big show is Rochas and all eyes will be on creative director Marco Zanini, who is rumoured to be leaving for recently-revived fashion house Schiaparelli. 

(Full list of live streams at CatwalkLive.TV) 

 

MFW 2014: Dolce & Gabbana strikes GOLD!

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Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have had money matters on the mind of late. Those much documented tax woes manifested this afternoon in a collection that was quite literally all about the money – ancient gold coins to be precise that looked like they had been dug up on an archaeological excursion – before being polished, naturally. That excursion too, might have extended to a tour of the roman ruins, those as well were a recurring motif this afternoon. It was an imaginary journey, they said, to rediscover ancient Sicily. Coins were blown up to the size of tea plates and joined together to make impressive waist cinchers, or else chain-mailed into a jingling mini dress, while others were suspended in hoop earrings or stuck to barrettes positioned into messy up-dos.

 

Lithographs of sepia-hued, postcard-pretty crumbling columns, Greek temples and theatres were printed over silk dresses; strict and midi length and buttoned all the way up the back, or else, mini and flared with wide sleeves – two silhouettes that Dolce and Gabbana have been preoccupied with for several seasons now. Variations on those would have been welcoming to witness, in fact, there were several parallels between this collection and the duo’s autumn/winter 2013 outing where they mined the golden mosaics of Sicily’s Cathedral of Monreale (all that gold must be a winner at retail, these designers hold big appeal for the moneyed set). Those clients then, will be delighted with the gold rush finale today; golden dresses every which way – from lace to others encrusted in faceted crystals, or crafted in laser-cut leather.

Splashing color Bridal ensembles

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Manish Arora delivered an avant garde Indian wedding collection 

for the bride with an attitude

Two back-to-back fashion weeks that were held recently in the capital – PCJ Delhi Couture Week and India Bridal Week – stand testimony to the fact that couture in India caters largely to the big fat Indian wedding. With the exception of a few designers who showcased some body-hugging gowns or light evening saris both events were high on trousseau and glamour. So couture creations that are meant to be bespoke, customised and hand-crafted “one-of- a-kind” creations were basically runways replete and overflowing with seriously

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China-Born, Paris-Based Designers Spotlight Heritage At Paris Couture Fashion Week

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This year’s Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week for Fall/Winter 2013-2014 saw a range of designers from a diverse range of backgrounds presenting their creations on the runway. Among them were China-born emerging designers Laurence Xu and Yiqing Yin, both of whom utilize traditional Chinese elements in their couture lines to create their own distinct aesthetics. Making his mark on the French fashion world, Xu held his first ever haute couture fashion show at Pavillon Cambon. Themed Xiuqiu, which literally means “embroidered ball” in Chinese, the show seamlessly integrated Chinese style and Western elements. As Women’s Wear Daily reported, Xu paraded highly embellished,

   

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Gaultier claws back on top at Fashion Week. Valentino is dazzled. Bravo….!

 

A model wears the wedding gown for Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2013-2014 collection presented Wednesday, July 3, 2013 in Paris. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

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“It’s all cinema, it’s all from film,” said Jean Paul Gaultier, summing up haute couture. Paris’ enfant terrible seemed to have a point, speaking on the last day of fall-winter shows that have seen spectators transported from apocalyptic opera houses to the circus and flung across the four corners of the globe. Gaultier’s feline-infused couture collection – Wednesday’s highlight – took for inspiration Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini and “The Pink Panther.” The references merged with theatrical panache to produce once of his best shows in seasons. But the cinema continued throughout Wednesday. In Valentino’s encyclopedic show, continents and eras were merged and had Baz Luhrmann in delight.” Haute couture, like cinema, is unreal. It’s theatre – a romantic aspiration that’s more beautiful, more extraordinary than reality,” said the burlesque “Moulin Rouge” director who sat on the coveted front row.

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER
 
With a delicious purr, Gaultier pounced back into top form with a feisty couture collection, proving that despite a couple of off seasons, he still has a lot of tricks up his embroidered sleeve. This fall-winter’s muse was the female panther, which inspired a slew of fresh ideas, including plenty of new ways to wear leopard and how to dress in feathers to look like a cat. If it sounds eccentric, it was. Leopard print featured cheekily on tights below one stylish all-black crepe dress, and there were several incredible couture coats. At first glance they looked like fur but were made entirely of feathers, speckled like a big cat pelt and with white feathers at the edges to resemble skin. Gaultier, ever the showman, ensured the wackiness infused the show’s presentation as well. Forty-three looks filed by to the infectious theme of “The Pink Panther,” showcased on models who clawed as they walked. Guests looked on from stalls divided into lionesses, panthers, lynx and leopards. Sometimes they applauded, sometimes they simply laughed. But aside from all the fun, there was some serious couture at work here. –

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Street Style Paris F/W 2013 Looks

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Paris Fashion Week 2013 brought many unique, interesting, and inspiring looks to the runway. This is how they brought it to the streets!!!  How do you feel about the Fashion Capital of the World sense of street style?

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Coco CHANEL Best Quotes

Endlessly Quotable Chanel

Coco Chanel once said, “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself,” adding, after a beat, “Aloud.” The legendary fashion designer did exactly that for most of her life, which meant that she became not only one of the world’s strongest forces in fashion, but also one of its most quoted citizens. In honor of CHANEL Aug. 19 birthday, here’s a look back at our favorite of Coco’s many declarations.

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History About designer CHANEL from Wikipedia: Gabrielle “Coco” Bonheur Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a French fashion designer and founder of the Chanel brand. She was the only fashion designer to be named on Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century. Along with Paul Poiret, Chanel is credited with liberating women from the constraints of the corseted silhouette and popularizing the acceptance of a sportive, casual chic as the feminine standard in the post-World War I era. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel’s influence Continue reading →

Style at Fashion Week L.A. Glam

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Ina Soltani brings the Gleam and Glamour

 

 L.A. Style Fashion Week has returned to the former St. Vibiana’s Cathedral downtown March 12-16 with a schedule that to date includes runway shows by Stop Staring!, Ina Soltani, XCVI, Skingraft and L’une Collection by Anh Volcek. (Open to industry buyers, media and invitees only.) For the third season in a row, Style Fashion Week dazzles in the Vibiana cathedral at 214 S. Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. The six day elite production kicked off Sunday at a private party in Bel Air. Soltani couture Style Fashion week the L.A. based vintage dress line Stop Staring! rolled out a new collection inspired by The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (Epoca de Oro). Sarajevo native Ina Soltani revealed her glamorous, passionate collections full of high drama and mystique, all enhanced by the makeup design by Emmy Award-winning L.A. makeup artist Melanie Mills, the creator of Gleam by Melanie Mills, a show sponsor. - - Read more…

Elie Saab in Paris: all winners

The Oscars are about to provide yet another dazzling showcase for the Lebanese designer Elie Saab, Julia Robson meets the couturier with Hollywood at his door.

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 Dressed by Saab: Halle Berry (Oscars, 2002); Kate Winslet (Emmys, 2011); Gwyneth Paltrow (Bambi awards, 2011); Bérénice Bejo, star of The Artist (Baftas, 2012). PHOTOS: REX/CORBIS

Two words are synonymous with red-carpet fashion these days: Elie Saab. Rarely a week goes by without a beautiful celebrity wearing an exquisite, twinkling creation by the 47-year-old Lebanese designer at an awards ceremony or starry premiere. Remember the curvaceous, crimson-hued, cap-sleeved gown Kate Winslet wore to collect her Emmy last September? It was an Elie Saab (a copy now graces the waxwork Winslet at Madame Tussauds). And the emerald-sequined ‘mermaid’ gowns Gwyneth Paltrow and Zoe Saldana wore on the same night in November to functions on either side of the Atlantic? Elie Saab.In the past year the roll-call of leading ladies who have chosen Saab’s fluttering chiffon or billowing satin to wear on the red carpet has trebled.

 

Lebanese designer Elie Saab waves after the presentation of his Women’s spring/summer 2012 Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris. PHOTO: AP Read more…

Paris Fashion Week: CELINE show impresses Anna Wintour

Pheobe Philo presents a Haute Couture collection of ingenious yet simple clothes.

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Model walking the runway in Paris at Celine Fall 2012*. Photo: Celine

Paris Fashion Week for Fall 2012: Anna Wintour was overheard saying at the Celine presentation. “Can you please ensure all fashion shows are like this?”  “This” being a tiny gathering of 30 editors; Paris Haute Couture fashion designer, Phoebe Philo at the door personally greeting everyone and looking much more at ease than she has in the past, when she has been coralled in the middle of a crush of admirers backstage at Celine’s bigger shows. The designer is due to give birth to her third child next month – a boy – and perhaps it was an extra need for calm that prompted this new approach. Whatever, the white cube of a room, with its polished concrete floors suited Philo’s almost-cube shapes. It would be fascinating to see her drawings: do they resemble a child’s first blocky scribbles? The concept for this fashion week collection – rectangular tops and masculine trousers with low crotches – was certainly boxy. Add leather – the fabric of the season – to the equation and you have the components for a entire warehouse of cardboard packing cases. [Paris Fashion Week: Celine autumn/winter 2012 in pictures] Read more…

New York Fashion Week Fall 2012: Nicole Miller

New York Fashion Week fall 2012: Nicole Miller, Katya Leonovich, Brandon Sun, Rebecca Minkoff, Candela

Nicole Miller

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PRABAL GURUNG @ NYC F/W

NYC Fashion Week on Saturday 2-11-2012

 
Prabal Gurung’s Fall/Winter 2012 collection is modeled during Fashion Week, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 in New York. Other Fashion Designers were featured as well. Follow link below for Slideshow. (AP Photo by Stephen Chernin) Fashion week blogs offer the fashion blogger, schedules, highlights and photos of events. There’s even websites dedicated to all of New York Fashion Week runway fashion shows for free online. You can blog fashion Haute couture runway shows from fashion designers like Elie Saab, Marc Jacobs, Prabal Gurung, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Oscar de La Renta by Independent fashion eMagazines. Fashion journalism of these fashion events are well documented now because of the Online Live shows, Fashion Magazines, TV coverage and lots and lots of Independent fashion blogs and their writers are willing to share their personal

experiences. So stay tuned in February 2012 to not only New York Fashion Week but also Paris Fashion Week, London Fashion Week as well as Milan Fashion - - Read more…

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MB F/W "BCBG" Fall 2012

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For ALL You Stylish Girls

House Music de Dimitri From Paris – Une Very Stylish Fille

Dimitri From Paris “Une Very Stylish Fille” from Fashion week soulful grooves. Dance music from Ibiza Lounge deep house, soulfull grooves music. Popular catwalk theme originated dj by Dimitri, born Dimitri Yerasimos, dj sneak does this one just for you very Stylish Girls. Hail to Paris stylish girls SACREBLU..!

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Let the Shows begin..Fall 2012

Schedule & View your Favorite Fashion Designer Collection right here. NYC Mercedes-Benz Fall 2012 shows ….Right Here !!!

 

Catwalk shows begin this Thursday, February 9, 2012 in New York City. You can view online free of cost, Or? Join your favorite Models, Fashion Designer, attend Fabulous parties and sip Champagne. Why wouldn’t you want to attend Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week? The Fall 2012 collections are ready to hit the runways and the glitterati are ready to come out in full force.Do you have your tickets to New York Fashion Week 2012 yet? If not, here is how you can get yourself to Mercedes Benz Fashion seats.Do you have your tickets yet? If not, here is how you can get some. Manhattan fashion magazine, one of New York City’s leading luxury lifestyle publications, and Moda Operandi Haute Couture, fashion designer most exclusive haute couture Web site to buy designer clothing hot off the runway, have teamed up to bring you to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 2012. Starting Thursday, fans of Manhattan and Moda Operandi can sign up for a chance to win two tickets to an exclusive fashion show during Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week 2012. The winner will also receive a $5,000 fashion merchandising shopping credit to use at Moda Operandi. Click HERE to sign up to

WinTickets Mercedes Benz Fall Shows

Models. Fashion Designer clothing. Fabulous parties. Champagne. Why wouldn’t you want to attend Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week? The Fall 2012 collections are ready to hit the runways and the glitterati are ready to come out in full force.Do you have your tickets to New York Fashion Week 2012 yet? If not, here is how you can get yourself to Mercedes Benz Fashion seats.Do you have your tickets yet? If not, here is how you can get some. Manhattan fashion magazine, one of New York City’s leading luxury lifestyle publications, and Moda Operandi Haute Couture, fashion designer most exclusive haute couture Web site to buy designer clothing hot off the runway, have teamed up to bring you to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 2012. Starting Thursday, fans of Manhattan and Moda Operandi can sign up for a chance to win two tickets to an exclusive fashion show during Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week 2012. The winner will also receive a $5,000 fashion merchandising shopping credit to use at Moda Operandi. Click HERE to sign up to chance be part of the  fashion events. All you have to do is sign up for Modern Luxury’s digital editions (for free!) by giving your e-mail address. You will be automatically entered into the contest. If you are already receiving Modern Luxury’s digital editions, you can still sign up with your email address. Mark your fashion calendar for New York Fashion Week 2012 which begins on Feb. 9 and runs through Feb. 16. Some of the world’s most fabulous designers will be showing their Fall 2012 collections including Michael Kors, Badgley Mischka, Rebecca Taylor, Jenny Packham, Vera Wang, Prabal Gurung, Betsey Johnson,  and Tommy Hilfiger. So what are you waiting for? Fashion is calling! The women’s New York Fashion Weeks shows will be followed by Haute Couture shows in Paris, Milan and London. Fashion designers are ALL Ready for Fall 2012.
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Jean Paul Gaultier’s tribute to Amy Winehouse hits wrong notes

Is it strictly appropriate for a French couturier to send out a catwalk homage to Amy Winehouse complete with models wearing exposed bra straps, Fred Perry collars, baseball jackets and shirts tucked into pencil skirts? Probably not. But yesterday in Paris Jean Paul Gaultier chose to do just that. A live barbershop quartet crooned an elliptical rendition of the late singer’s most famous recording, “Rehab”, and Gaultier went so far as to attach black veils to towering beehives for his … story ®Courtesy of inspirationsinmylife, wanna Read more!  NOTE: Paris fashion shows will begin very soon hosting Paris Fashion Week with the Fall fashion celebration of Haute Couture fashion. It will feature fashion designers design from the likes of Elie Saab, Yohji Yamamoto, House of Christian Dior, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel and many other fashion icons and Red carpet fashion Gurus. So if you have the fashion bug, get ready for Paris Fashion Week in February. It is always filled with standing room only events, fashion accessories, fashion jewelry, magazine fashion and maybe a little fashion show oops  surprises. All the business people in fashion, will attend hoping to see Models like Karlie Kloss and Lindsey Wixson strut their stuff. For those of you with a lot of fashion sense, you’re promised to enjoy the Spectacle that Paris Fashion makes to the Press, Celebrities and The Rest of fashionista royalty.

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