Twitter & Blogs: No Longer Just High-Tech Fashion Accessories
www.twitter.com DALLAS, Nov 18, 2008 / FW/ — For kids, young adults and the in crowd, Twitter and blogs are must-have accessories in their arsenal for our high tech life. Not anymore! Both have become a forum for public opinion wherein David can actually topple down Goliath. Case in point, Motrin Mom ad campaign had been taken off the airwaves due to bloggers and...
Back to Noise Spring 2009: Street Glam
Back to Noise Spring 2009 PARIS, Nov 15, 2008 / FW/ — Combining glamour and street sensibilities, Back to Noise is carving its own place in the very competitive Paris fashion scene with its unique vision of dressing. A little bit of the Rive Gauche artistry, a dash of the glam from Rue St. Honoré and Euro streetwear, Back to Noise has the makings of a cult following...
Hayden-Harnett Limited Edition Handbag Collection for Target
Hayden-Harnett for Target DALLAS, Nov 13, 2008 / FW/ — Known for their inventiveness and style, Toni Hacker and Ben Harnett, the design duo behind the accessories label Hayden-Harnett brings their modern fabrication with classic sensibility to Target under the trendy retailer’s Limited-time-only accessories program. Usually selling for the as much as $700 for its...
Jenny Lee Spring 2009: The Bride Goes Organic
Jenny Lee Bridal Spring 2009 NEW YORK, Nov 10, 2008 / FW/ — Bridal gown designer Jenny Lee pays homage to Mother Earth with her elegant, sculpted and ultra femme bridal gowns with her use of organic fabrics and hand-sewn embellishments for her Spring 2009 Bridal collection. “This season I have designed my collection with floral accents creating a ‘sweet scent’...
Thrift Store Chic
Hipster Girl NEW YORK, Oct 15, 2008 / FW/ — Secondhand clothing generally has a bad rap. All too often when we think of clothes bought at a thrift store we think of poorly-made, tattered, mismatched garments that do not completely work. The truth is, for the last few years, the people who shop at thrift stores are the ones who are considered the most stylish at the...
Sergio Rossi Proposes Functional Accessories
Sergio Rossi Document Bag MILAN, Sep 29, 2008 / FW/ —- Beauty and function go hand in hand in Sergio Rossi’s Spring 2009 offering to men and women. The Document Bag For men, the shopping bag had been re-imagined to be a contemporary document bag for a man with a refined taste. Simple yet functional, the bag is available in white, blue, leather or clay. A multipurpose...
The Mane Event for Fall
Verrier Fall 2008 NEW YORK, Sep 23, 2008 / FW/ — The clothes have arrived, the accessories are on their way. You’re ready for fall except for one thing – a trip to the hairdresser so that you can complete your look literally from head to toe. With romantic florals and feminine embellishments as the major trend this fall, hair is all about adding beautiful, dynamic,...
Diary of London Fashion Week: Day 3 - adidas by Stella McCartney, Nicole Farhi, Antoni & Alison
Antoni & Alison LONDON, Sep 19, 2008 / FW/ — After yesterday’s hectic schedule, there are only three must-see names on my list today – adidas by Stella McCartney, Nicole Farhi and Antoni & Alison adidas by Stella McCartney It’s London 2012 for the adidas by Stella McCartney show where Olympic gold medalists - U.S. track star Allyson Felix and British...
Diary of London Fashion Week: Day 2 - John Rocha, Luella, Jasper Conran, Julien Macdonald, Paul Smith
Temperley London LONDON, Sep 19, 2008 / FW/ — Monday, Sep 15 was packed with must-see names: John Rocha, Luella, Jasper Conran, Julien Macdonald, Paul Smith. John Rocha The ballerina found her way to John Rocha only to meet up with the ladies in the court of Queen Victoria circa 2000s. Bright spring colors interspersed with black and white. Rocha showed menswear...
Diary of London Fashion Week Spring 2009: Day 1 - Charles Anastase, Graeme Black
Charles Anastase Spring 2009 LONDON, Sep 18, 2008 / FW/ — Sunday, Sep 14, it was great seeing my fashionista friends whom I had not seen since the menswear season. Seeing them already bleary eyed and suffering from jet lag, but had to go to work immediately, I was thinking that it is good I did not cover New York or I would be as tired as they are on the first day...
Coco Chanel as a Tragic Figure in Lifetime TV-movie
Coco Chanel by Lifetime TV NEW YORK, Sep 14, 2008 / FW/ — One of the most important figures in the history of fashion, Coco Chanel was the subject of Lifetime’s made-for-TV-movie that look into the design’s great early life and how she became a fashion designer. The movie began in 1954, the year that Coco Chanel came out of her ‘self-imposed retirement.’...
