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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
Ahead of Paris Fashion Week (September 27 to October 5), Relaxnews caught up with designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae, creative director of Issey Miyake, whose spring/summer 2017 collection previewed September 30 at 10:30am. The cut of the pattern itself is straight-lined and simple, but using techniques such as 3D Steam Stretch and Baked Stretch gives the clothes a unique texture and three-dimensional form. What or who inspired this collection?
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Yoshiyuki Miyamae for Issey Miyake: ‘The theme this season is microcosm’
Marc Jacobs, the creme de la creme of American designers, brought New York Fashion Week to a glittering finale Thursday, delivering a must-see show starring multi-colored dreadlocks and towering platform boots. In keeping with the artistic, theatrical look of his clothes, Jacobs took over the Hammerstein Ballroom, a former opera house, that gave A-list guests Whoopi Goldberg and Courtney Love, as well as the assembled press, a stunning view. The stage was bathed in white, then soft pink from hundreds of naked light bulbs suspended from the ceiling, as some of the world's most famous models — including Karlie Kloss, Gigi and Bella Hadid, and Kendall Jenner — sashayed past.
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Marc Jacobs sparkles as NY Fashion Week wraps up
Ralph Lauren has become the latest designer to get on board the see-now-buy-now trend, which allows consumers to purchase outfits hot off the runway instead of waiting six months for the clothes to hit store shelves. On Wednesday night, the designer will be holding two separate runway shows at NYFW, featuring 45 new fall 2016 looks from their see-now-buy-now collection, reports WWD. The entire collection is manufactured in Italy.
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Ralph Lauren to showcase see-now-buy-now fall collection at NYFW
The 5,300-year-old Alpine mummy known as the Tyrolean Iceman died wearing leather clothes and accessories harvested from no less than five wild or domesticated species, a DNA analysis published Thursday revealed. Frozen solid after being fatally wounded by an arrow in the back, the brown-eyed, Copper Age nomad, nicknamed “Otzi”, was discovered in 1991 in the Otztal Alps between Italy and Austria. A team led by Niall O'Sullivan, a researcher at the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Italy (and University College Dublin), put nine samples from Otzi's leather accoutrements under the microscope to determine their origin.
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Was ‘Iceman Otzi’ a Copper Age fashionista?
PARIS (AP) — The British vote to leave the European Union and not the clothes were the talk of the front row crowd at menswear shows in Paris on Friday.
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Brexit, not the clothes, are the talk of Paris Fashion Week
Sun's out, tongues out. Mabel is an itty bitty pug residing in New York City. She is also the queen of Instagram with her many fashionable outfits. The pretty lady also always has her best accessory prominently displayed: her tongue. SEE ALSO: A NYFW interview with Luella, the 'Fashion Frenchie' “We love clothes so it became natural that our little pug would join the club,” owner Lauren Rothberg told Mashable. Most of Mabel's clothes come from Dog & Co and all of them look perfect on her. Since she was a puppy, Mabel has been donning fashionable outfits. At this point, she is completely used to them.
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Mabel the pug is New York City’s greatest fashionista
Fashion designer Victoria Beckham launched her first shop outside Britain in Hong Kong Friday as she seeks to tap the Asia market despite a downturn in luxury spending. Hong Kong is Beckham's first bricks and mortar store outside the UK, designed by London-based architect Farshid Moussavi. “I know Asian women really understand luxury, good quality and appreciate when garments are made well — and my clothes are,” Beckham added.
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Victoria Beckham launches Hong Kong store
By Elizabeth Barber NEW YORK (Reuters) – With the future of fashion shows in limbo, top name designers used New York Fashion Week to erase any doubts about their own brands, making definitive statements about the clothes and lifestyle that critics and shoppers alike can expect from them. Diane von Furstenberg, Tommy Hilfiger, Nicole Miller and other designers strove to make their mark during the week-long event that ends on Thursday, targeting both buyers and editors sitting runway-side and the consumers who increasingly dictate want they want and when they want it. Von Furstenberg told Reuters her Fall 2016 collection, shown at her downtown Manhattan headquarters, was key to “reminding everyone what this brand is about.” Karlie Kloss, joined by fellow models Kendall Jenner and Jourdan Dunn, described “the DvF woman” as someone who knows who she is and who she wants to be.
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Designers parade brands as New York Fashion Week ends in limbo
