Walking for the Environment
My neighborhood DALLAS, Jul 31, 2007 / FW/ — Global warming, concerns about the environment, carbon monoxide emissions are new buzzwords that makes someone fashionably ‘in’ if he or she can talk sensibly about it. Thanks to Al Gore and the documentary movie, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, environmental issues are now forefront in the minds of the majority of the...
Stuart Vevers Replaces Jose Enrique Ona Selfa at Loewe as Creative Director
Jose Enrique Ona Selfa with Eva Herzigova backstage Loewe Fall 2002 show, file photo PARIS, Jul 26, 2007 / FW/ — After six years at the helm of Spanish fashion house Loewe, José Enrique Oña Selfa (photo at left) is taking his final bow on the runway this October as the brand’s Creative Director. On a statement released today, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton,...
Harry Potter Brandishes Two Wands At the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows book cover DALLAS, Jul 23, 2007 / FW/ — Since you are going to ask why a review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) is in a fashion website, I’ll preempt it and say, that some fashionistas are Harry Potter fans too! That said, let it also be known that according to an announcement by Borders Group, Inc, the company...
Final Fantasy XII: A Fashionable Final Fantasy, Kupo!
Final Fantasy XII DALLAS, July 22, 2007 / FW/ — With a very eclectic Menswear Spring 2008 collections unveiled in Milan and Paris last month, the fascination of designers on the electronic media has been very pronounced. With the silhouettes bordering on futuristic, even sci-fi, including some references to video games, it looks as if the MTV generation has been replaced...
Georges Chakra Couture Fall 2007: Techno Extravaganza
Georges Chakra Haute Couture Fall 2007 PARIS, Jul 3, 2007/ FW/ — There are various inconsistencies in the Paris calendar of haute couture. At a moment when haute couture appears to be lesser every season, especially when the catwalks are opening up on the fall season which has, for decades now, sold less pieces than the summer collections for this higher end of the...
Walter van Beirendonck
PARIS, Jul 1, 2007/Updated Jan 26, 2010/ FW/ — It was in 1957 in Brecht (a small county in Antwerp) that this thread and needle avantgardist was born. Walter van Beirendonck started by taking drawing lessons in high school before entering the Royal Academy of Antwerp’s fashion department in 1977. He completed 4 years, enough time for him to put into action...
Walter van Beirendonck Menswear Spring 2008: Well-Endowed Fetish Avatars
Walter van Beirendonck Menswear Spring 2008 PARIS, Jul 1, 2007/ FW/ — Dick_head, F***_face, Sex_angel, Butt_boy and 12 of their friends have escaped from their virtual world to visit a Paris night club called Le Bataclan on the last day of Paris Menswear. They have been invited there by Sex-clown, the personal self-projection of designer Walter Van Beirendonck, who...
