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Jumpsuit of the Day: Viktor & Rolf at Paris Fashion Week
Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf showed the world their Fall/Winter 2011 Ready-to-Wear collection during the first week of March at Paris Fashion Week. As they walked down the runway, models looked as if they were marching to battle at first, with their rigid, heavy-duty black garments and red painted faces. As touches of femininity were shown in pleating,…
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Cosmopolitan Middle East launches with Khloe Kardashian as Cover Girl
Set to release in stores this Friday, the first issue of Cosmopolitan Middle East features Khloe Kardashian on its pink and gold glossy cover: Cosmopolitan is the highest-selling women’s magazine in the world, and its readership is only growing, not to mention diversifying, with the launch of a Middle East edition. When ITP Publishing Group announced…
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Currently Craving: Karl Lagerfeld’s New Diet Coke Bottles
Noted designer, fashion icon and creative director for Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld has introduced his second line of bottles for Diet Coke- a drink that is rumoured to be one of his personal favourites. In 2001, he reportedly lost 40 kg (90lbs) on a diet consisting of steamed vegetables and Diet Coke. Last April, he launched his…
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Jumpsuit of the Day: Temperley London at London Fashion Week
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Temperley London brand, and to celebrate, designer Alice Temperley staged her Fall/Winter 2011 Ready-to-Wear runway show at the British Museum in London– a fashion week first! Models strutted their glamorous garments down the runway, and then struck statue-like poses at one side of the grand staircase. For her colour palette,…
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Jumpsuit of the Day: Akris at Paris Fashion Week
Designer Albert Kriemler showcased the brand’s Fall/Winter 2011 Ready-to-Wear collection on March 6th at Paris Fashion Week. The Akris clothing company was founded in 1922, and started out making only simple kitchen aprons. It is now the largest Swiss clothing producer in the world. Kriemler used a variety of both rich and subdued shades in his fall colour palette. Golds,…
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Currently Craving: StyleScrapbook for Kipling Camera Bag
Journalists, photographers and bloggers have put up with years of carrying arround their digital SLR cameras in standardized black, bulky and blah camera bags. For those who have put fashion above practicality, the bag has been ditched altogether, and the camera tossed into a tote or handbag, along with phones, keys, pens and other objects that…
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Jumpsuit of the Day: Priyanka Chopra at Nikon launch in Mumbai
Last Tuesday, Bollywood actress and former Miss World, Priyanka Chopra, was announced as the new brand ambassador for Nikon at Hotel ITC Grand Maratha in Mumbai, India. Dressed in a baggy beige-coloured jumpsuit fitted at the waist and embellished with a halter neck formed from flower appliques, Chopra embodied casual elegance. The film star portrayed…
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Jumpsuit of the Day: Jean-Pierre Braganza at London Fashion Week
Oversized collars, eye-catching colours, bold prints and metallic fabrics gave a futuristic feel to Jean Pierre Braganza’s Fall/Winter 2011 Ready-to-Wear runway show that took place on February 18th at London Fashion Week. Jean-Pierre Braganza was born in London to an Irish father and Asian mother. He moved to Canada at a young age where he completed a fine arts degree,…
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Fall/Winter 2011 Fashion Trend: Skirts with Fringes & Feathers
With the close of fashion weeks for the Fall/Winter 2011 season, the time for trend forecasting is complete, and runway analysis is well underway. While leather, velvet and colour-fading fabrics have been declared as trendy materials this coming fall season, it looks like fringes and feathers will be the “it” embellishments. Designers in New York, London, Milan and Paris created gorgeous gowns…
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