Jeans need celebrities and celebrities need jeans.
So says James Sullivan, author of Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon, which examines how the relationship between celebs and “premium” jeans ($150 and up) has come to dominate the fashion culture, if not the sales, since about 2000.
Obviously, celebs help sell jeans, but “it’s also […]
As she strode down the catwalk at London Fashion Week last week, Lily Cole showed little sign of being bothered by the controversy raging around her.
At 1.78 metres (5ft 10in) tall and weighing just over 50 kilograms (eight stone), the elfin redhead Cole is one of the “size zero” models who some say should […]
Retro chic ruled at Milan fashion week on Monday as Giorgio Armani conjured up the serene elegance of a bygone era and Dolce e Gabbana’s D&G label picked up screaming colors and clinging hotpants from the 1980s.
At Burberry, designer Christopher Bailey revived the clean lines of the 1960s in neutral shades and washed pastels, […]
The growing pains of founding a fashion house meant that Hamish Morrow sat out the past four seasons, and the excellence of much of the collection he presented Friday was a powerful reminder of how much he was missed.
Morrow has a reputation for being considerably talented but self-indulgent ly {del over} eccentric, but this spring-summer […]
Gucci delved into the vintage trunk and came out with 1960s silver and white A-line shifts and black, purple and orange mini-dresses cinched with broad belts for its spring/summer 2007 collection.
Designer Frida Giannini has not been afraid to break with the black-and-sleek legacy of former Gucci man Tom Ford, hopping from floral patterns at […]
Five anti-fur protesters stormed Roberto Cavalli’s flamboyant fashion show on Wednesday, unrolling posters saying “Cavalli = cruelty” on the catwalk before they were dragged away by security staff.
Cavalli’s sports-themed show for his Just Cavalli label had opened with a live brass band dancing on a mock football pitch, followed by models in broad-shouldered cropped jackets […]
As a critic, one had to love the latest Marni collection presented on Tuesday, September 26th in Milan. It was a crafty take on the twin obsessions of volume and leggings,and a highly original vision of what women should be wearing next summer.
Arriving early at this show, there were several dozen editors, stylists, publicists and […]
Talk about suddenly turning a page. Miuccia Prada, who led the whole Mittel European, modernist Baroque moment, ripped up the game plan in Milan on Tuesday, September 26th.
Instead of richly decorated embroidered fabrics and yes-I-am-rich embellishments, editors got a practically print-less collection where form and exaggeration were the key elements.
Prada, which set the template […]
Under Rifat Ozbek, Pollini has become a surprising coalition of the cool, producing romantic, never naïve, and rather eye catching clothes that every gal should get a little piece of soon.
Ozbek, a Turk who cut a flamboyant sway through fashion in the nineties, has morphed into a self-assured hired-gun whose collections for Pollini have […]
Some designers chop, change and rearrange each season. Others are like film directors, whose careers are in a sense one extended movie covering all sorts of subjects. Tomas Maier, creative director of Bottega Veneta, is possibly fashion’s best example of the latter.
Every collection he creates for the label contains some elements or references to […]
Just when everyone on the fashion planet was referencing the Eighties, along came Gucci’s Frida Giannini with a divine take on the Sixties in the slickest collection to hit the runway since the season’s caravanserai began 18 days ago.
Think Twiggy gets down with Yves and Mick for a great Ibiza weekend, or Andy hangs with […]
Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB said Wednesday that net profit for the third quarter rose 18 percent thanks largely to higher sales and lower purchasing prices.
H&M, one of Europe’s largest clothing chains, also said it will extend its online sales to Germany and Austria in 2007, after the introduction of an online store […]