Dressed is a new occasional style column by Bay Area Living fashion blogger Dino-Ray Ramos.
IT LOOKS LIKE New York — America’s fashion capital — has loosened its grip on its covenant Fashion Week and is unleashing it in cities nationwide.
Well, it’s coming to four cities — and that’s a start.
Supermodel icon Naomi Campbell, with her […]
Mochudi born and bred Abueng Gouwe, 31, might not be a household name in the fashion industry right now but everything starts with a dream and you don’t despise small beginnings, she says.
Gouwe who runs Bui Fashion and Design house in Mochudi dreams of the day she will not only provide employment to a number […]
Fashion designer Stefano Gabbana has accused the Roman Catholic Church of causing an “enormous delay” in the recognition of civil unions in Italy.
The business (and former love) partner of Domenico Dolce accused the Church of “hobbling politicians who were afraid of losing Catholics’ votes.”
The Vatican hierarchy “fights every day against those who in its opinion […]
Leading fashion houses Yves Saint Laurent and Lanvin offered men a lesson in juggling comfort and elegance, while Paul Smith made geeky chic the coolest look around for next autumn.
Stefano Pilati is mindful to keep the cold chill off fans of his timeless clothes for Saint Laurent, wrapping them up with hoods regardless of what […]
Fenton Area Right To Life will present its 2007 Spring Fashion Show on Saturday, Feb. 10 at Tyrone Covenant Presbyterian Church, 10235 White Lake Road, Fenton.
The event will begin with a Victorian Tea Brunch at 11 a.m., followed by a keynote presentation by Dr. Coleen Kelly Mast.
Her topic will be “What A Girl Wants: […]
The crumbling factory walls and idle smokestacks that dominate this town are replicated across Eastern Europe: symbols of once proud industrial centers that fell into decline almost as soon as the Berlin Wall came down.
But as vast parts of Eastern Europe laboriously rebuilt their economies in the 1990s, and joined in European life, Serbia did […]
Almost half of the 300 Chinese workers from the textile plant in Bacau, who have protested for one week against the low salaries, have finally signed the new work contracts. 130 of the Chinese women decided to keep working at the plant for a salary of RON 1,270, Mediafax reports.
One week ago, the 300 […]
RAMATEX workers and the Namibian Food and Allied Workers’ Union (Nafau) on Friday delivered a second petition in just more than a month to the company.
The union claims that management is treating a shop steward unfairly.
Tomas ‘Roger’ Rogelio, a permanent resident since 1989, had worked for the Malaysian-run textile company for the past five years […]
The Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz is likely to announce a relief package for the textile sector this week. The long-awaited textile package is likely to overcome the present difficulties being faced by the sector, owing to tough competition from China, India and Bangladesh and high cost of doing business in Pakistan.
The sources said that there […]
Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, today announced that a new supplier has been added to the reusable textiles and textile services. Encompass Group, LLC, of McDonough, Ga., joins Medline Industries, Inc., of Mundelein Ill.; Phoenix Textile Company, a woman-owned enterprise of St. Louis; and Standard Textile Co., Inc. of Cincinnati that were previously announced.
These 36-month agreements, […]
K-Swiss Inc. announced the renewal of its worldwide license agreement with U Turn Sports, Co. LLC for U.S. and foreign patents and patents pending relating to the successful Tongue Twister® technology. A simple flipping of the reversible tongue allows the wearer to reveal the other side of the two-colored tongue. This unique feature is a […]
Skins Inc. , a developer of a revolutionary, patented, two-part interchangeable footwear structure announced today that it will attend and exhibit at the WSA-Las Vegas Shoe Show from February 1-4, 2007. WSA is the world’s largest bi-annual footwear event serving the $47 billion footwear market. Skins will display their innovative footwear at the Collections segment […]