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NEW YORK (AP) — The morning after Michelle Obama's big speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2012, in which she argued passionately for a second term for her husband, designer Tracy Reese's phone was ringing. And ringing.
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Michelle Obama loved fashion and the fashion world loved her
Straight after New York (September 8 to 15), the fashion world will be heading to the British capital where London Fashion Week sees the next round of spring/summer 2017 collection previews, with shows from the likes of Paul Smith, Charlotte Olympia, J.W. Anderson, Topshop Unique, Mulberry and Christopher Kane.
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London Fashion Week: spring/summer 2017 show schedule
Held the first Monday in May in New York, USA, the Met Gala is a high-glam event that draws a multitude of celebrities to its red carpet. The 2016 edition — held May 2 and chaired by fashion's queen bee, Anna Wintour — was themed “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology,” which guests channeled with elegance, audacity and extravagance. The cream of the American fashion and movie industries took to the red carpet at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art alongside other prestigious guests, such as Charlotte Casiraghi, Princess of Monaco, who stood out in a Gucci silk chiffon dress with multicolored layers.
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Fashion’s finest bring glamour, audacity and futuristic vibes to the Met Gala red carpet
Shoe designer Charlotte Olympia is teaming up with Agent Provocateur on a racy new lingerie collection. The design brains behind the luxury footwear brand, Charlotte Dellal, will work on three lingerie sets and accompanying shoe designs for the lingerie house, Vogue UK reports. The two fashion powers previously joined forces in 2012, when Dellal designed two pairs of shoes for Agent Provocateur.
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Charlotte Olympia and Agent Provocateur announce new collaboration
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow in a pair of eye-catching blue bootsies and pop star Katy Perry headlined the A-listers who turned out for the presentation of Stella McCartney's Fall 2016 collection Tuesday in the heart of Hollywood. The fashion designer turned the record store Amoeba Music into a gigantic nightclub, where the sounds of David Bowie rang out in tribute to the late great and some of the biggest names in Tinseltown rubbed shoulders among aisles of CDs. Actresses Kate Hudson and Melanie Griffith, and British singer-songwriter Kelly Osbourne, were also in attendance, as was Kiernan Shipka, of “Mad Men” fame.
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Hollywood’s finest turn out for Stella McCartney extravaganza
Hedi Slimane could be set to part ways with fashion house Saint Laurent, if rumors are to be believed. Sources predict that Belgian designer Anthony Vaccarello, currently creative director of Versace's Versus line, could be poised to fill Slimane's shoes. Slimane has been at the helm of Saint Laurent since 2012, following a five-year hiatus from the fashion industry to pursue photography.
