Tag: winter
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Armani, DSquared2 and Arbesser close out Milan Fashion Week
MILAN (AP) — Not just individual styles but the entire fashion process was under discussion at Milan Fashion Week this year. Counter to trends in New York and London, Italian industry executives underlined that, beyond a few capsule collections and a handful of runway teasers, there would be no rushing Milan's designs from the runway…
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Armani applies a velvet touch to suit revival
Giorgio Armani showed his velvet touch on Monday as he brought down the curtain on a Milan fashion week heralded as marking a revival of the suit-based womenswear he pioneered in the 1980s. Velvet has always been one of the Milanese maestro's favourite materials and it is ubiquitous in his autumn-winter collection: black as the…
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Prada goes handbag heavy in bid to revive flagging fortunes
Prada's answer to stagnating sales was unveiled on Thursday with a handbag-heavy Fall-Winter collection that the company's executives hopes will mark a revival in the fortunes of the fashion heavyweight's flagging fortunes. Miuccia Prada's latest offering had a post-World War II feel about it with sailor and nurse-style caps abounding alongside cape-shaped coats and pencil…
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Michele adds street and grunge spicing to Gucci mix
Gucci's reinvention of womenswear's hottest megabrand continued Wednesday as designer Alessandro Michele tweaked his hugely successful androgynous, anti-fashion recipe with dashes of street art and grunge. For his third womenswear collection for the venerable Florentine house, Michele worked with the Brooklyn artist called GucciGhost, best known for his graffiti involving versions of the brand's famous…
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Gucci, Roberto Cavalli headline Day 1 of Milan Fashion Week
MILAN (AP) — Premier Matteo Renzi on Wednesday opened Milan Fashion Week for the first time, signaling a fresh government focus on the strategic center of Italian fashion.
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Luxury fashion world upending tradition to join digital age
Buying luxury clothes online right off the runway. Trying them on virtually. Not having to wait months for the new collection to ship. As the fashion world comes to London for its semi-annual round of …
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Roksanda introduces debut handbag range
Fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic is introducing handbags as a whole new category to her “Roksanda” label.
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New York Fashion Week gets nostalgic
There was a distinct whiff of Americana on the catwalks of New York at the start of the week, as the Autumn / Winter 2016 ready-to-wear collections offered throwbacks to a simpler time. Tommy Hilfiger led the way with an ocean liner-themed collection that riffed on the traditional glamour of transatlantic travel. Also channelling a…
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Topshop to post photos of fashion show live on Instagram
British retailer Topshop will be broadcasting a fashion show live on their Instagram account.
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NYFW: Street style, feathers and bustiers ruled over the weekend
New York Fashion Week continued to surprise and delight over the past weekend, with labels including Victoria Beckham and Alexander Wang showcasing their Autumn / Winter 2016 ready-to-wear collections. Beckham made a slight departure from the loose forms seen in her recent collections and instead returned to her signature hourglass silhouette with a series of…