Archive for February, 2007

Exclusively Home Announces Addition of Stylish and Versatile Home Goods from Chicago Textile Corporation

Shoppers in search of more stylish choices in modular furniture will be pleased with the addition of merchandise from the Chicago Textile Corporation to Exclusively Home’s line of products. Exclusively Home offers a strong line of versatile home decor products that bring modern trends into the homes of shoppers in the Midwest and other areas […]

February 25th, 2007 - Posted in Fashion, Textiles

Recycled fashion show set at OSU

Clothes made out of items such as soda cans and garbage bags will be on display Wednesday when Oregon State University’s annual recycled fashion show returns to campus.
Titled “Garbage Montage,” the show will start at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union ballroom. It is free and open to the public.
The annual event is funded, planned […]

February 25th, 2007 - Posted in Fashion, Textiles

Ebony Fashion Fair coming to Biloxi

Tickets are on sale now for the 49th annual Ebony Fashion Fair traveling show to be presented in Biloxi at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino Grand Ballroom at 8 p.m. March 7.
Keying on the theme that “it’s back in style to have style,” the program is titled “Stylishly Hot” and features elaborate and dramatic […]

February 25th, 2007 - Posted in Fashion, Textiles

Milan fashion sees fur-clad winter

Italian fashion houses shrugged off predictions of global warming, offering fur galore in their women’s winter collections.
Mink, silver fox and astrakhan dominated the eight-day run of Milan catwalk shows which ended Saturday, as designers were almost unanimous in featuring fur in their ready-to-wear for next winter.
And out it came in all shapes, forms, sizes, […]

February 25th, 2007 - Posted in Fashion, Textiles

Versace dazzles with silver and metallics

Donatella Versace, known for her sexy, glitzy designs for womenswear, kept up the pace on Friday in a winter 2007-08 show full of razzle, dazzle and silver.
Models walked out on a white glass catwalk to a thumping version of The Doors classic “Hello, I Love You” sporting chic gray or black wool suits.
Skirts were […]

February 25th, 2007 - Posted in Fashion, Textiles

Giorgio Armani prepared to sell fashion empire

Giorgio Armani, the Italian fashion designer, has said in a newspaper interview that he was prepared to sell his fashion empire.
“I’m prepared to sell to the highest bidder,” Armani told the business daily Handelsblatt at the opening of an Armani exhibition in Milan on Tuesday.
French group L’Oreal, which already cooperates with Armani in perfumes […]

February 25th, 2007 - Posted in Fashion, Textiles

Jonathan Saunders’ Haywood Gallery Hit

“This is the Haywood Gallery young man,” admonished an elderly art-loving gent squeezing out of the London art space, as he passed a platoon or two of hipsters anxiously seeking entrance to what proved to be the smart and savvy catwalk show of Jonathan Saunders’ architectural yet sexy fall 2007 collection.
To the exiting gent it […]

February 25th, 2007 - Posted in Fashion, Textiles

Smile and think of shopping at Gigli Milan show

Smiling models skipped down the catwalk in Milan on Tuesday under instruction from designer Gentucca Bini to think of day out shopping.
Bini took inspiration for her winter 2007/08 collection for the Romeo Gigli fashion house from the 1940s when women cannibalized men’s clothes for a feminine take on a masculine look which combined a mix […]

February 25th, 2007 - Posted in Fashion, Textiles

Dolce & Gabbana whip it up with crops and corsets

Dolce & Gabbana spiced up the sixth day of winter womenswear shows in Milan on Thursday with metal masks, crops and corsets that eschewed cozy warmth for sizzling fetish sex appeal.
The audience of buyers and journalists waited nearly an hour for the show, but impatience was quickly forgotten when the models hit the black […]

February 25th, 2007 - Posted in Fashion, Textiles

Prada gives devilish style to man-made fabrics

Miuccia Prada raided the kitchen cleaning cupboard for innovative fabrics for womenswear next winter, dressing her models on Tuesday in materials that looked like sponge cloths, black plastic and insulation foam.
Prada, famous for dressing “The Devil” on the cinema screen, packaged her models like fragile consumer goods in calf-length sheath dresses of foam-like fabric.
She put […]

February 25th, 2007 - Posted in Garment, Textiles

Armani hitches hems, Gucci floors them in Milan

Giorgio Armani took hemlines higher for his less formal Emporio Armani collection on Wednesday, while Gucci swept evening dresses right to the floor in jeweled black and Grecian column white.
Armani, who kept dresses just above the knee for his main Giorgio Armani line on Monday, made them shorter and cheekier for Emporio Armani, but kept […]

February 25th, 2007 - Posted in Fashion, Textiles

Thai model set to star in Bollywood

Thai fashion model and actress Lena Christensen is set to play the leading role in a new Bollywood romantic comedy, making her the first Southeast Asian heroine in India’s mega-film industry.
In recent years Bollywood blockbusters have increasingly featured western actors, with one, Alice Patten, playing the lead female role in the 2006 release “Rang […]

February 25th, 2007 - Posted in Fashion, Textiles