Archive for the 'Fashion' Category

Wedding Dress Fabric Guide

ust what is charmuese, and what does it have to do with your wedding dress? In addition to silhouette and neckline, fabric plays a key role in selecting the right gown, since the same style of dress looks and feels very different in a variety of fabrics. And while most of us can discern between […]

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Dress: Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham

Here was Kate Moss in Berlin last night - hosting a party to celebrate the launch of her new perfume, Velvet Hour. And very cool she looked too, with her smoky eyes and tousled hair and Marc Jacobs, diamond-studded dress.
Which was exatcly the same Marc Jacobs, diamond-studded dress that Victoria Beckham stepped out in in […]

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Wedding dress

Jerry Hall’s wedding dress in which she married Mick Jagger 18 years ago has sold for almost five times its top estimated price.
The model sold scores of items from her vast wardrobe to raise money for a homeless charity and has said of the tight white lace creation: “I hope someone else has more luck […]

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Dress For A Summer Wedding

The U.S. economy may be stumbling, but it won’t keep millions from walking down the aisle this summer.
Wedding spending is largely immune to economic downturns, and the $66 billion industry keeps growing. Wedding spending is expected to rise 11% next year, according to the Bridal Association of America.
Dress codes are also evolving, with summer trends […]

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Actress Lindsay Lohan is to front a charity fashion campaign

Lohan, star of Hollywood films such as Mean Girls, Herbie Fully Loaded, Just My Luck and The Parent Trap, has already taken part in an LA photoshoot for the campaign, which is in association with the clothing charity TRAID.
She will encourage UK shoppers to swap their unwanted clothes at the Visa Swap Shop store in […]

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Lingerie may be simpler than you think

Even with eternal model Kate Moss vamping it up for Agent Provocateur’s new bridal lingerie line, spanning virginal white lacy demi-bras to thongs, the prevailing mood among brides is to still keep their wedding-day undergarments simple and frills-free.
Many choose magnificent gowns that can be semi-sheer or form-fitting or even bare at the neckline, leaving little […]

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Lingerie model, Kate Moss

Kate Moss has been dropped by Agent Provocateur for the second time.
The 34-year-old model has reportedly lost her £500,000 deal with the sexy underwear brand to Alice Dellal, an unknown blonde socialite 14 years her junior.
A source said: “Everyone is stunned. Kate’s shots were really well received, but bosses thought it was time to move […]

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Jessica Simpson: Sexy Lingerie Designer

Jessica Simpson just doesn’t know when to stop. The failed singer, actress, handbag designer, fashion designer and reality TV star has announced that she will be coming out with a lingerie line next year.
Simpson’s line, Jessica Simpson’s Intimates, will reportedly feature bras, panties, sleepwear and daywear and will hit major department stores and online shopping […]

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

1980s style >> crimes of fashion

For those who always imagined the 1970s to be the nadir of fashion and who cringe to recall the tank-tops and loons or wince with embarrassment at old photographs of mullets and sideburns (the men that is) comes good news. The 1980s were worse.
More than that, they were a “scientific abomination”, according to Marcus du […]

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Fashion Designers Honor Their Own

WHILE smoking a cigarette outside the New York Public Library on Monday night, at the end of a press line where a modest number of celebrities and large contingent of the American fashion industry were dutifully talking about dresses, Fran Lebowitz, the satirist, was asked what she was wearing.
That was pretty obvious, suggested Ms. Lebowitz, […]

Friday, June 6th, 2008