Tag: fashion
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Galliano teams sport with eclectica for Maison Margiela in Paris
PARIS (Reuters) – French fashion house Maison Margiela unveiled colorful and eclectic looks for women next summer in Paris on Wednesday, sending models down the catwalk in quirky, sporty outfits. Creative director John Galliano presented trench coat dresses worn with scuba diving-style boots, swimsuit-like outfits as well as men's workwear jackets belted at the waist.…
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Jarrar lifts pall over Lanvin with classy Paris show
Bouchra Jarrar pulled off an impeccable debut Lanvin show on Wednesday at Paris fashion week despite the storm clouds still swirling around the troubled French label. The 45-year-old French designer took the helm of the fashion capital's oldest couture house in March, five months after the shock sacking of its charismatic guiding light Alber Elbaz.…
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Paule Ka brings Japanese influences to Paris Fashion Week
Paris Fashion Week opened Tuesday, September 27, with several shows on the agenda. Day one's line-up included a spring/summer 2017 collection from Paule Ka, drawing inspiration from Japanese culture and paying homage to the uncluttered and structured style of the label's founder, Serge Cajfinger. Creative director Alithia Spuri-Zampetti chose the greenhouses of the French capital's…
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The other side of the pay gap: male models paid significantly less than female counterparts
The gender pay gap continues to fuel widespread political debate, but this week the attention is focused on the fashion modeling industry, after a key industry figure shed light on the fact that when it comes to the catwalk it is men, rather than women, who are struggling to shatter the glass ceiling. In an…
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These are the top beauty trends to come out of Milan Fashion Week
Milan Fashion Week brought a lightning bolt of color and fun to the Spring/Summer 2017 shows — a refreshing change after the conservative and low-key approach to the season that we saw in New York. Karl Lagerfeld fed the trend for fun and games at Fendi, where Gigi Hadid and the rest of the models…
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Dsquared2 to present co-ed fashion shows from 2017
The founders behind designer brand “Dsquared2” have announced they will be merging their men's and women's collection presentations together from now on, with both lines to be unveiled at a co-ed fashion show during Milan Men's Fashion Week.
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Milan Fashion Week draws to close with Missoni’s metallic layered looks
Angela Missoni designed mid-length ribbed dresses over trousers, bikinis and multicolored bandeaus layered with scarves and cardigans to fill women's wardrobes with color next year. Missoni's palettes were bolder than usual, with splashes of vibrant shades, enhanced with metallic shimmers of gold lame. Essential to the Missoni Summer 2017 Collection, characterized by an informal and…
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Out with hunks: fashion breaks codes for male models
Muscular, classically chiseled male models are a dying breed as men are ever more chosen for thinness, even androgyny, in a fashion world playing with the notion of gender. It only takes looking back a decade to male fashion shows — at Versace, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton or Gucci — to see the change on the…
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Supermodel Kate Moss launches own agency
Kate Moss is launching her own talent agency after leaving the one that recruited her aged 14 earlier this year, the Business of Fashion website reported as London Fashion Week draws to a close on Tuesday. “I want to focus more on managing people's careers than just a modelling agency,” said Moss, whose agency has…