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Big changes at Paris Fashion Week. Paris Fashion Week kicked off with the in-crowd abuzz at the prospect of some big changes behind the scenes. The prospect of style icon Hedi Slimane designing for Yves Saint Laurent, and rumours of a newly-free Raf Simons in the wings at Dior kept fashionistas guessing. Opening with a [...]

VERSUS Versace often bad-girl label, Versus, punctuated fashion week’s opulence with punk. Designed by Christopher Kane, the collection exuded vibrancy in both colour — fuchsia, acid green and peacock blue — and repeating geometric prints. In an overall street-wise collection, Kane included romantic looks: empire-waisted mini-dresses or off-the-shoulder Versace-necks in tie-dye fabrics. But the Versus [...]

CAVALLI Naomi Campbell sashayed down the Cavalli runway in a barebacked sequinned maxi-dress that summed up the designer’s new look. Roberto Cavalli’s womenswear collection for next winter struck a balance between the soft silhouette of full maxi skirts and dresses in flowing fabrics and the more structured look of a brocade mini-dress. As usual, animal [...]

ARMANI All it takes to be Armani stylish next winter is a pair of Bermudas. Chic iron-creased shorts were the centrepiece of the latest collection of the man who put “moda Milanese” on the fashion map more than 30 years ago. Worn on their own under a super-feminine blouse in a brightly coloured print, paired [...]

What crisis at Milan Fashion Week ? Even as the fashion world showed signs of upheaval, designers in Milan presented some of the most composed winter collections in many a season. The looks in six days of Milan Fashion Week were opulent — lavish velvet and brocade fabrics made even richer by beading, sequins, brooches [...]

JULIEN DAVID Designer Julien David presented a zany and boyish Paris fall-winter collection inspired by the Yeti monster, which should help consolidate his up-and-coming star status. There was a trendy insouciance to many of the looks (you can see he’s lived in Tokyo): a double face knitted skirt suit in light gray wool was complemented [...]

FATIMA LOPES Fatima Lopes fall-winter show Tuesday put blood reds, provocative leathers and fox fur on the catwalk at the Hotel des Invalides war museum. The Portuguese designer channeled human morphology with bloody dress inserts, shredded leather sleeves and prints of the venous system in the iconic monument that was built for generals wounded in [...]

CORRADO DE BIASE “The tomboy is back,” read the program notes at Corrado de Biase‘s Paris fall-winter show that served up floaty silhouettes with a twist of men’s wear. It was an accomplished affair considering it’s only the third ready-to-wear offering from the designer, with Barbour raincoats successfully fused on top of sheer 1920′s underskirts. [...]

Paris fashion week is rarely known for understatement, as confirmed by Portuguese designer Fatima Lopes who opened the fall-winter 2012 season with a proverbial bang at the iconic war museum Invalides that houses canons and artillery. When the fashionistas finally managed to unstick themselves from wandering tourists, the message of the Lopes show rang out [...]

Fatima Lopes kicks off Paris fashion shows. Fatima Lopes kicked off Paris 2012 fall-winter ready-to-wear season Tuesday with blood reds, provocative leathers and fox fur at the Hotel des Invalides war museum. The Portuguese designer channeled human morphology with blood-red dress inserts, shredded leather sleeves and prints of the venous system in the iconic monument [...]

Duchess’ Fashion Hunt. The Duchess of Cambridge will choose footwear’s new shoe designer of the future next week, when she picks her favourite style from designs created by six De Montfort University footwear design students. The chosen student will then be asked to create a pair for the royal to wear. “We are thrilled,” said [...]

Diary of a Fashion Insider: The Oscars. February is arguably the most prolific fashion month of the year and one that the much of the fashion industry pretend to hate… For me, I surfed through London Fashion on a wave of delirious jet lag. Skidding into land at Heathrow, I quickly unpacked / repacked, moved [...]

Fashion Festival Day 1. The Collections Show #1 on Monday at NZ Fashion Festival featured Moochi, We’Ar, Blak Luxe, Neverblack, Starfish, Esprit, Storm, Salasai, Coop, and a debut from streetwear label, Skull and Bones. Observations: The short straw in the model kingdom seems to be the girl who has to wear the vinyl bike shorts. [...]

Rooney Mara, Stone and Chastain catch fashion’s eye. There were many new fashion faces on the red carpet at the 84th annual Academy Awards Sunday night, but they brought with them a lot of old Hollywood glamour. Rooney Mara in Givenchy, Emma Stone in red Giambattista Valli and Jessica Chastain in Alexander McQueen were among [...]

Academy Awards 2012 Fashion: The best and worst dressed of the Red Carpet. Now that we all know who won Oscar awards, we can turn our attention to last night’s big fashion winners and losers of the Academy Awards 2012? Everyone is buzzing about the “best and worst” dressed on the world’s biggest fashion night. [...]

Fabulous fashion at the Oscars Unexpected choices stood out on the red carpet. On a night in which the stars came out on the Oscar red carpet to shine – in living colour, sequins, crystals and diamonds – it was the unexpected that stood out. Fashion heroine Rooney Mara defied all bets Sunday night, showing [...]

Foreign buyers offer lifeline at Milan Fashion Week. International buyers have packed out the shows at Milan Fashion Week, offering a lifeline for an industry that is headed for another slump this year as Italy grinds through a painful recession. “It’s a more commercial market than New York or London,” Ekaterina Moiseeva, commercial director for [...]

Designer merry-go-round rings in Paris Fashion Week. Paris Fashion Week kicked off Tuesday with the in-crowd abuzz at the prospect of style icon Hedi Slimane designing for Yves Saint Laurent, and rumours putting a newly-free Raf Simons in the wings at Dior. Opening with a day devoted to young designers, the Paris autumn-winter collections round [...]

My first London Fashion Week – Amy’s CQ adventure… When Catwalk Queen invited me to cover London Fashion Week with them, I think anyone within a 10 mile radius heard me squeal with excitement. A chance to work alongside professional writers and photographers, to interview designers backstage, and watch next season’s collections come to life [...]