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Kate Moss - www.thelingeriegals.com
The week is shaping up to be a bad one for Kate Moss. On top of the news that boyfriend Pete Doherty cheated on her, the British supermodel is also being dropped as the face of lingerie giant Agent Provocateur in a favor a much younger model.
Liz Claiborne - www.nndb.com
Fashion designer Liz Claiborne has died Tuesday in New York at the age of 78.
The Belgium-born designer, best remembered for creating stylish but affordable clothes for career women, has been suffering from cancer for years, according to her personal assistant Gwen Satterfield. She succumbed to the disease at the New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Her creations, which effectively revolutionized working women's wardrobes in the 1970s and 1980s, are regarded as having made it easier for women to climb the corporate ladder.
Kate Moss and Pete Doherty - www.hollywoodrag.com
Fashion designer Robert Cavalli has recently enlisted the services of supermodel Kate Moss and her rocker-boyfriend Pete Doherty to appear in two campaigns for the Italian fashion designer.
Moss and Doherty, UK's premiere rock and roll couple, posed for pictures that recreated a series of iconic photographs, with Moss appearing in a gold dress as Cleopatra while the Babyshambles lead singer channeled a young Marlon Brando, and was made to appear like the film icon. For the two Cavalli campaigns, the couple is reportedly receiving a six-figure sum.
Continue reading 'Moss and Doherty Tapped For Cavalli Campaign'
Valentino’s show Monday at the ongoing Milan menswear shows proved to be a truly unique one, as the Italian designer not only staged some sort of a reversal of roles between the audience and his models on the catwalk, but also featured topless women in his presentation.
In presenting his spring and summer 2008 collections, the designer had his models posed and chatting while the audience moved past them, the exact opposite of a usual fashion show where models sashay down the runway past members of the audience. Then there are the topless dancers, who he placed behind a mock-up cocktail bar while male models decked out in creams, beiges and petrol blues that give off a classic, colonial look posed in the foreground.
Now here’s something unique.
No, this isn’t about Paris Hilton. This about how cans, milk cartons, bottles and plastic bags—your basic garbage—can actually be used to create fashionable outfits and accessories.
In an attempt to raise awareness about recycling and environmentally harmful waste in Cambodia, a country which is still recovering from a destructive civil war, environmentalists have staged a catwalk show featuring dozens of unique outfits and musical instruments made from garbage collected from the country's biggest waste dump. According to environmentalist Fleur Smith, who organized the show:
"We just really hope to inspire people across Cambodia to think about what happens with plastic. We have so much plastic in the world. Not only is it unsightly but for a country that relies on tourism like Cambodia, often people are surprised there is so much around."
Michael Vollbracht - www.blog.zoozoom.com
Late last week, legendary American designer Michael Vollbracht announced his resignation from the venerable American fashion house of Bill Blass. Little did the world know that he wasn’t just quitting one fashion house, but is actually quitting the fashion industry altogether.
Vivienne Westwood - www.prosieben.de
The film industry seems to have a thing for iconic fashion designers these days.
Vivienne Westwood, the provocative designer credited with bringing modern punk and new wave fashions to the forefront, has sort of announced during a rambling speech at the Hay Festival this week that a film based on her life story is in the pipeline. This was confirmed by a rep for the designer, but said that details about the project are not yet available.
John Galliano - www.fashionweeknews.com
Fashion house Christian Dior is turning 60 real soon, and chief designer John Galliano is planning to celebrate the milestone with a bang.
The Gibraltar-born Galliano will reportedly stage on July 2 a one-off couture show inside Versailles Orangerie, a venue which has been off-limits to fashion shoots for 25 years until it finally allowed American Vogue to use the area for a cover shoot featuring Kirsten Dunst inspired by Sophia Coppola's “Marie Antoinette” last year. WWD also reports that models for the show have already been booked, and have received instructions to be at the historic venue eight hours before the show.
Continue reading 'Galliano To Celebrate Dior 60th Year With A Splash'
Manolo Blahnik - www.positivenation.co.uk
Manolo Blahnik fans rejoice! The Spanish shoe designer, whose name is forever associated with the landmark HBO series “Sex and the City”, has finally gone online with the launch of his own website, www.manoloblahnik.com.
Iman - www.handbag.com
Iman, one of the world’s first supermodels, has announced that she will be hosting the Canadian edition of the Emmy-nominated U.S. series Project Runway.
The 51-year-old Somali-born supermodel apparently had the gig in the bag after she appeared as a judge on the American version of the show, saying it was one of the show’s highest-rated episodes.
