PARIS — Ready-to-wear may take center stage this week, but an intriguing range of accessories awaits visitors to Paris Fashion Week. Here’s a look at some of the newest in the arena.
All Fired Up
Not many Kalashnikov bullets carry 7,000 euro, or $10,200, price tags. But then, not many come constructed from white gold, their [...]
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PARIS — Good luck opening a fashion magazine this fall and not seeing one of Nicolas Ghesquire’s impeccably sculpted black dresses for Balenciaga splashed all over the editorial pages.
And better luck getting your hands on one as they arrive in stores this month: There are waiting lists at Balenciaga’s growing network of retail stores, [...]
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Iekeliene Stange isn’t just a pretty face.
Honing her artistic eye, the 24-year-old Dutch model spent as much time behind the camera during New York Fashion Week as she did in front of it, snapping her peers backstage as well as shooting a handful of poetic self-portraits taken seconds before she was headed down the runway [...]
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It was the snip heard round the world.
Moments after the last of Victoria Beckham’s newly shorn locks floated toward the floor, her sharply angled bob inspired a rash of copycats—Katie Holmes, Nicole Richie and Rihanna among them.
But now that much of America has caught on to the naked neck, Hollywood and fashion world elites [...]
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Amid the whirl of New York Fashion Week, where the rising chorus was: Gimme an “A”.
Fashion week. The shows, the Champagne, the parties, the waiting, the paparazzi crushing to get a shot of some B-, C- or even Z-list actress few people will remember come next season….Why can’t it be more like Funny Face?
Hold on. [...]
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Hats are Stephen Jones’ top priority.
Covent Garden is the heart of London’s theater district, home to the Royal Opera House and street performers, and where King Charles II met Nell Gwyn. A veritable circus of activity and creativity, it’s the ideal setting for iconic milliner Stephen Jones’ atelier and boutique.
Head-to-toe designer dressing may no [...]
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Beauty is treading a slippery slope.
With a financial maelstrom raging on Wall Street, the fourth-quarter outlook for the $8.9 billion U.S. prestige beauty industry is wary at best, with reports of overall department store sales down 1.6 percent for August and behind by ОФИС-МЕНЕДЖЕР percent for year-to-date.
Cosmetics manufacturers and retailers don’t expect an easy road [...]
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PARIS — Garbage bag coats, safety-pin dresses and a stole crafted from red-eyed white mink mice are just some of the outr handiwork dished up by underground British designer Gareth Pugh during his past five seasons spent storming the runways at London Fashion Week. Shifting gears, Saturday will mark the avant-garde 27-year-old’s grand Paris debut, [...]
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Known for his attention to detail and dedication to luxury, Andrew Gn knew it was just a matter of time before he elevated his designs to the next level and introduced a full-scale made-to-measure line.
“I’ve always worked with couture-level details,” explains the Singapore-born, Paris-based designer. “Customers were asking me for it. And not just one [...]
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IRVINE, Calif. — St. John is breaking the mold, launching a better contemporary line for resort called SoCa that is aimed at a younger customer and will operate separately from the brand’s signature label.
SoCa, a complete casual lifestyle collection targeting 35- to 55-year-olds, will be sold starting in November in freestanding company-owned stores dedicated [...]
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