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A journey through Milan fashion week with Gucci, Armani and Westwood
It’s a nerdy and wacky world at Gucci’s men’s fashion show, which brought together mismatched laces, military details, nautical accents, floral suits and silk kimonos. Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele unveiled a “collection...
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Berlin Fashion Week: Erik Frenken takes a walk on the casual side
Dutch designer Erik Frenken took a step back in time when he opened the Berlin Fashion Week He says he took inspiration from the Victorian period and its approach to form and structure when was designing his outfits “So I started playing...
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Berlin fashion week seeks technology-fashion fusion
Berlin fashion week has been showcasing its “Fashion Fusion” and “Smart Fashion” exhibits designers hope set the pointers for the future of what we will all be wearing. Local designer Anja Gockel also celebrates 20 years of her label...
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Canadian fashion designer nets international prize
Vejas Kruszewski, 19, a winner at 2016 LVMH awards in Paris
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Bjork’s unique stage attire up for auction
Bjork’s unique stage outfits are going under the hammer in London in the coming weeks. The Icelander is auctioning off the outfits, some of which have been previously exhibited at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, in a bid to raise...
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Couture in Orbit: from spacewalk to catwalk
Fashion inspired by space was the subject of an event to mark the European Space Agency’s five missions to the International Space Station over the past five years. Couture in Orbit was kicked off by Austronaut Tim Peake and hosted by...
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Beauty obsessed, cruel and dark ‘The Neon Demon’ chills
‘The Neon Demon’ made a noise at this years Cannes Film Festival and is soon to go on worldwide release. The film directed by Dane Nicolas Winding Refn is a psychological thriller and follows an aspiring model in Los Angeles whose beauty...
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Fashion retailers decide weather or not
Being on the cutting edge of fashion and staying in profit is a delicate balance for the world’s big clothing retailers, and the weather is one huge factor that’s completely out of their control. Understanding how customers react to...
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H&M’s April sales chilled out by unseasonably cold weather
H&M said unusually cold weather in several key markets – including snow in Germany – led to a smaller than expected sales rise in April. The world’s second-biggest fashion retailer after Spain’s Inditex saw a five percent increase from a...
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Sao Paulo Fashion Week goes sober amid Brazil crisis
It is a more sober Sao Paulo Fashion Week that is taking place in Brazil’s largest city this year, as the country faces its worst economic crisis in decades. Latin America’s largest fashion week, it brings together some forty Brazilian...
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All you ever wanted to know about underwear at the V&A
From the functional to the fetishistic – it’s all there at London’s Victoria and Albert museum’s new exhibition entitled ‘Undressed’. Whether it’s about covering up or showing off, from Kate Moss’s slip to vintage corsets made from...
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Bikinis dominate Sao Paulo Fashion Week
Featuring high on the list at Sao Paulo Fashion Week were the bikini collections. Legendary Brazilian bikini designer Jaqueline de Biase delivered for this 41st edition, with a collection she said was inspired by Miami, its beach culture...
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Celebrities show off futuristic fashion at Met Gala
Theme of "“Manus x Machina" embraces fashion in an age of technology
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Chanel stages fashion extravaganza in Cuba
The celebrity spotlight was on Havana this week as an elite crowd of supermodels and Hollywood actors including Gisele Bundchen and Tilda Swinton arrived in the Cuban capital for the fashion event of the year. Chanel has become the first...
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Fashion merges with cutting-edge technology
Calgary's MakeFashion event showcases wearable tech garments, includes a dress that changes colour depending on the wearer's mood
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Putting sexy back in sealskin: Nunavut seamstresses aim for high-end fashion market
Earning income from sealskin craft work is nothing new in Nunavut. But a growing number of contemporary seamstresses are taking traditional Inuit design to a new level.
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Catwalk copycats
Some fashion designers are fed up with having their work pirated, CBC's Deana Sumanac-Johnson reports
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Rochas in bloom at Paris Fashion Week
Rochas brought sunshine to Paris Fashion Week in a ready-to-wear collection blooming with garden florals and femininity. Creative Director Alessandro Dell’Acqua elaborates on the cheerful autumn/winter line. Alessandro Dell’Acqua: “The...
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Manish Arora shows his sweet surrealist side at Paris Fashion week
Paris Fashion week took a turn down the road of weird and wonderful with the Hells Bells collection by Indian fashion designer Manish Arora. The New Delhi-based designer made his name as creative director at the French fashion house Paco...
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Vivienne Westwood pays homage to designer husband in Paris
Swans and urban puffa jackets dominated the catwalk at Stella McCartney’s ready-to-wear show at the Opera Garnier in Paris. The collection was effortlessly feminine, with a touch of humor and a tomboy feel. The designer also showed off...
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Dior offers Paris elegance with a twist at fashion week show
Issey Miyake designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae was on a mission to travel to the beyond with his latest collection in Paris. His goal, he said, was “to pursue as yet unseen and unknown beauty created from A Piece of Cloth”, using computer...
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Obama, Trudeau optimistic on softwood lumber
'It will be fine, U.S. president says of perennial trade irritant with Canada
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Alexander McQueen returns to London catwalk
Alexander McQueen has made its highly-anticipated return to London for the first time in over a decade. The iconic British label, which usually presents its collection during Paris Fashion Week, unveiled its upcoming womenswear on a...
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Milan Fashion Week opens in burst of colour and femininity
The creme de la creme of fashion turned out in force for the opening of Milan Fashion Week at the Palazzo Reale. Even prime minister Matteo Renzi was there, a first for such an event. Among the first labels on show was Roberto Cavalli....