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SHOCK: Alexander McQueen commits suicide
*Scroll down for photos of McQueen and his designs. Story being updated as new information becomes available.* Fashion designer Alexander McQueen has taken his own life at age 40. His office confirmed his death, saying: ‘It is a tragic loss. We are not making a comment at this time out of respect for the [...]
Style.com’s 2010 Trend Report: Clean Energy
How best to head into the new decade? With a clean slate. Led by a resurgent Phoebe Philo at Celine, designers have rediscovered that less is more all over again for Spring, but this isn’t the mannish minimalism of the 1990′s. Dresses at Calvin Klein Collection and Donna Karan billowed and frilled; there were feminine [...]
Identical twins model new haute couture fashions
Stunning identical twin sisters in new couture. Credits: Fashion:Lucy Ewing. Models: Aida and Ieva at Strom. Hair: Tyler at CLM, using Kiehl’s. Make-up: Kelly Cornwell at Premier, using Chanel AW09. Photographer’s assistant: Simon Crane. Fashion assistant: Olly Paton. Hair assistant: Paul Donovan. Make-up assistant: Ruby Brophy. Casting: Thomas Jibogun
Taming of the Runway
IF success is measured by distance traveled, then this has been the Paris season that ran the gamut — as Dorothy Parker once famously sniped about Katharine Hepburn’s acting range — from A to B. Chic happens, and it happened and happened again and happened some more, a relentless exercise in disciplined good taste that [...]
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Spring 2010 Fashion Trend: Florals
Can you say floral mania? What is it with the flowers for the 2010 season? From ELLE Magazine….. The spring catwalks were bursting with pretty petals—from prim jackets at Dolce & Gabbana to sexy minis at Dior.
Paris Spring 2010 Fashion Week *video*
All the latest trends and insider perspectives from Paris’ Spring 2010 fashion week. Sometimes I wonder, if we should always leave it up to the french to be the decison makers of fashion the way we do? It’s kind of weird how we always just assume because it’s French, it must be stylish. I have [...]
Alexander McQueen’s 10-Inch Stilettos On The Paris Runway
Alexander McQueen apparently didn’t get any of this season’s memos about the dangers of high heels. At his other-worldly fashion show in Paris yesterday, the designer sent ten-inch-tall pairs down the runway. Some were sequined, some animal skinned, some were painted and others look made from plastic. Which of these killer heels are to die [...]
Dolce & Gabbana Draw the Season’s Most Star-Studded Crowd
Milan is full of historic palaces waiting to be transformed into spectacular contemporary venues. Tonight, it was the turn of the Palazzo della Ragione, a frescoed masterpiece of thirteenth-century architecture that had been made over into the launching pad for the exhibition Extreme Beauty in Vogue. A selection of images drawn from 75 years of [...]
Madonna in hot New Vuitton Ads *PHOTOS*
RAY OF LIGHT: Marc Jacobs was so pleased with this spring’s Louis Vuitton campaign featuring Madonna that he was eager to do an encore. “But very quickly Marc said, ‘I want something completely different,’” related Antoine Arnault, Vuitton’s communication director. The new ingredients included a dash of Tamara de Lempicka and a soupçon of Man [...]
