An aside; the Oscars have become as much about who dresses the winning ladies as it is about who takes home the golden statue. Usually, that honor goes to well-established designers, or European design houses with beaucoup bucks (think: Oscar de la Renta, Valentino). But, occasionally, a hot-shot newcomer can cut through the red carpet tape and get their design on a big name actress.
Jillian Lewis took a measured approach, both appreciating the challenge, while still understanding why designers use fashion models for their runway shows and ad campaigns.
There has always been this misconception that a suit is the only outfit that one can wear to portray a serious and a decent look, says Ms Lucy Rao, the managing director of Rialto Fashions and one of the designers who worked on the party uniforms. There was a bevy of colours to pick from: screaming orange, royal blue, blood shot red, snow white, and jungle green. Ms Rao says the idea of the screaming colours is to uniquely brand the party that each politician represents.
View Kareena Kapoor Picture Gallery Whilst Kareena Kapoor’s career accelerates into top drive, with her being touted as one of the highest paid actress in Bollywood, Kareena is also indisputably the most glamorous fashion icon in the country today. Her roles in various movies have set fashion trends and she is the discerning style diva of Bollywood. The actress is synonymous with style and beauty for her fans.
A major highlight of the fair will be a fashion show on December 22. The show, dubbed ‘Technicolour Explosion,’ will feature the work of nine of Jamaica’s youngest and newest fashion designers who are selected to design a five-piece clothing line, using colours and trends for spring and summer of 2008. Miss Jones said the designers have benefited from a series of workshops on fashion trends and marketing, and would be showcasing sports, casual, cocktail, formal and swim wear.
David Beckham has bought wife Victoria a 750 pound (NZ$1,981) book for Christmas. The Los Angeles Galaxy soccer star has secretly splashed out on a limited edition tome, signed by one of Victoria’s favourite fashion designers Valentino. A source said: “It will make for some good toilet reading for Victoria. Most people might get a gardening book in their stocking - but Posh gets this.” Just 2,000 copies of the book, Valentino Garavani: First Name in Fashion , were published.
FERRE FACELIFT FOR YOUTH: IT Holding SpA, parent company of Gianfranco Ferrй, is working on the relaunch and restyling of the brand’s younger line, GF Ferrй, and has tapped Stefano Citron and Federico Piaggi to help on the new design, WWD has learned. The two young designers report to Ferrй’s creative director, Lars Nilsson, who joined the company in September. Citron and Piaggi previously worked together at Mila Schцn and Byblos.
An upscale women’s clothing boutique with locally designed items became the latest addition to downtown Belmont last week. Veronica Pearson, a fashion designer who studied at the Art Institute of Charlotte, opened Dammi (pronounced “dah-mee”) at 1 Woodrow Ave., just off Main Street. The boutique is in the renovated front portion of a building occupied by Belmont Electrical Co.
Over at Bergdorf Goodman, staff members held secretive deliberations that stretched late into the night for nine months. The focus of all this scurrying was not this fall s couture line or next spring s resort collection. It was shopping bags. Once a flimsy afterthought in American retailing used to lug a purchase home from the store, then tossed into the trash the lowly, free store bag is undergoing a luxurious makeover.
According to Jo Paoletti, a professor of American studies at the University of Maryland and an expert in apparel design and the history of textile and clothing, climate change can lead to a surge in fashion innovations. “Remember Jimmy Carter’s sweaters from the 1970s energy crisis? With Seventh Avenue proclaiming that ‘green is the new black,’ we can expect a surge in fashion innovations in response to climate change,” said Paoletti.