Yoshiyuki Miyamae for Issey Miyake: ‘The theme this season is microcosm’

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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Tuomas Merikoski for Aalto: ‘Aalto is for strong, sophisticated women’

October 5), we caught up with Tuomas Merikoski, who will reveal the spring-summer 2017 collection of Aalto on Tuesday, September 27 at 2:00 PM local time. What or who inspired this collection? The new “Uusi Fantasia” collection is an expedition to embrace diversity, have a free mind space inspired by grunge.

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Samuel Drira for Nehera: ‘Instant availability has shattered the dream of the unattainable object’

Ahead of Paris Fashion Week (September 27 to October 5), Relaxnews caught up with designer Samuel Drira, creative director of Nehera, whose spring/summer 2017 collection previews September 27 at 3pm. What or who inspired this collection? Who is the collection aimed at?

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Versace’s Versus brings swagger to London Fashion Week

Under low lights and with a pumping soundtrack, bright young things wearing black leather and slouchy ripped denim put some swagger into London Fashion Week, courtesy of Donatella Versace. There were cutaway dresses exposing the shoulder and stomach, with a silver zip running down the back, and pleated and leather mini-skirts — one with the belt left provocatively open — matched with leather jackets. Bonded mesh dresses and crop tops brought a sporty edge to the collection, which also featured cropped, zip-up bomber jackets, military-style knits and washed out ripped denim with metal and crystals sparkling underneath.

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Designers Carolina Herrera and Jeremy Scott reveal new collections

(Reuters) – Fashion designer Carolina Herrera celebrated 35 years in the business by taking over The Frick Collection, a museum on Manhattan’s upper eastside, to debut her collection at New York Fashion week on Monday. “This show is very special to me,” Herrera told Reuters, noting she'd like to take some of the looks of her first collection and design “for the woman of today.” The 39 “looks” were tailored but combined with soft edges to maintain the feminine attitude of the brand. The 77-year-old Venezuela native started designing in 1980 in New York and counted her first show among her proudest career moments.

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Jeremy Scott sends up NY with erotic ‘Slime City’

Jeremy Scott, the pop art bad boy of American fashion, on Monday unveiled an erotic collection for spring, featuring bondage gear and flying saucer skirts on the New York catwalk. The Los Angeles-based designer, who is also creative director of Italy's Moschino, found inspiration in the Big Apple, sending out the first model with “New York” written in hot pink on a black sweater and dubbing the collection “Slime City” — the 1988 comedy-horror flick. Beloved by his Moschino-wearing followers for his bold, colorful and witty designs, it was a packed house on day five of fashion week with Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Ali Raisman and actress Teyonah Parris in the front row.

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First look: Alexander Wang’s new collection for adidas Originals revealed

Sportswear fans can relax — adidas Originals and Alexander Wang finally unveiled their highly-anticipated collaboration in New York this weekend. The New York-based designer debuted the 84-piece unisex collection as the surprise finale at his Spring/Summer 2017 runway show as part of New York Fashion Week on Saturday. Comprising apparel and footwear, the collection plays with the idea of subverting the rules, inversing the sportswear brand's famous trefoil logo so that it appears upside down on the pieces to create a new symbol.

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Gigi makes her design debut and Alexander Wang reveals Adidas Originals collaboration: weekend highlights from NYFW

New York Fashion Week dominated the headlines over the weekend, with high-profile shows from Alexander Wang and Tommy Hilfiger leading the way. Tommy Hilfiger and Gigi Hadid made an unstoppable duo on Friday night, when the pair unveiled their Tommy x Gigi collection to a full house, including a front row that featured Taylor Swift. The festivities lasted a whole two days, in the form of a public fun fair, and the collection was immediately available for purchase following the show.

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Inès de la Fressange and Petit Bateau join forces to mix fashion with charity

French style icon Inès de la Fressange is releasing a fashion collection with a charitable twist in collaboration with Petit Bateau. The Parisian model, designer, author and perfumer has teamed up with the quintessentially French label on a capsule collection for women and children, Women's Wear Daily reports. A color palette of patriotic red, white and blue forms the basis of the collection, which references Petit Bateau's nautical themes.

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Casual chic heralds the start of the Berlin Fashion Week

Dutch designer Erik Frenken kicked off Berlin Fashion Week on Tuesday with a collection inspired by Victorian fashion for label Avelon. Frenken told Reuters that his collection of striped shirt-dresses and skirts, breezy wrap-around blouses and platform sneakers harkened to a bygone era but also harnessed a contemporary vibe with effortless, clean, relaxed looks. “I started playing with these concepts, stripes and ruffles, giving the antique approach to pleating and ruffling and shapes, A-line shapes,” Frenken said.

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Casual chic heralds the start of the Berlin Fashion Week