Fecham o primeiro dia do Portugal Fashion
Ritmos tropicais davam o mote para o início de uma colecção fresca, onde o espírito jeans é uma constante. O ambiente sportswear entra em sintonia com um look mais cosmopolita. Na paleta de cores assistimos a uma mudança. Já nem todas as peças se pintam dos tradicionais vermelho […]

The year was 1999. “Fierce” described wild animals, not wannabe models. “Wife swapping” wasn’t mentioned on network TV. And celebrity magazines couldn’t stop talking about Calista Flockhart, aka Ally McBeal, and whether her protruding bones were caused by an eating disorder or just an exceptionally small appetite.
Flockhart is back on TV with a new show, […]

Teenage girls shrug off the health dangers to aspire to the super-thin images of female beauty portrayed in western society, specialists warn, amid a heated debate on skinny models.
As a catwalk ban in Spain on fashion models deemed too thin stokes controversy in the world’s fashion capitals, a French endocrinologist warned that 15 to 20-year-olds […]

Friends and family tell you you’re glowing, and you know how important it is for the miracle of life inside your tummy to grow and develop, but suddenly you are faced with a dilemma of budging proportion. It’s Saturday night and a group of friends are meeting for a casual dinner at a favorite hangout. […]

“That’s a great retro belt you’re wearing,” a much younger colleague said the other day. If she only knew the truth; the belt is older than she is.
Come to think of it, a lot of my wardrobe has logged more years in the work force than a number of the young folks working down the […]

As London Fashion Week kicked off this week, so did the row over size 00 stick-thin models. And as the shows draw to a close, it showed no sign of cooling down.
Madrid set the trend by banning girls with a body mass index of less than 18.5 from the catwalk - but London fashionistas refused […]

Many of you will remember the small notice placed last year offering the opportunity to partner with Gavin Rajah, the first South African ever to be invited to show at the Paris couture collections in July. Visa cannily picked up on that and are now developing other innovative initiatives with Rajah.
The publicity surrounding Rajah’s […]

We fashion watchers like to attach larger meaning to emerging trends, putting their popularity into some socio-cultural context. When it comes to camouflage, as well as this season’s super-strong military influence in womenswear, are real-life events such as the war in Iraq and other world conflicts driving designers to push these looks out onto the […]

Time for the men to put away the shorts and overalls, and dress up for the occasion, writes RUBIN KHOO.
PREPARE to take a step back in time as old-fashioned romanticism dominates the catwalk this autumn/winter. It’s time to swap your three-quarter pants and flip-flops for a smarter look. But we’re not talking about […]

Retail firm PT Mitra Adiperkasa said it has opened local outlets of UK-based Arcadia Group’s fashion brands TopShop, TopMan and Miss Selfridge at Senayan City, a new shopping center in South Jakarta.
Mitra said in a statement that the three outlets have a combined selling space of 629 square meters (sqm), with TopShop making up nearly […]