Jewellery (jewelry)

NEW DELHI — Buyers, journalists and fashion-mad consumers crisscrossed India’s heavily congested capital, sometimes several times in a day, to attend two rival and clashing spring-summer fashion weeks.
India Fashion Week, organized by the Fashion Design Council of India, which has been held here since 2001, took place between Oct. 15 and 19. A day [...]

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Springtime at J. Crew was all about contrasts and closet-raiding. Blazers were slouchy and tailored in the men’s wear tradition, while vintage-inspired jacquards and diaphanous details came out of grandmother’s wardrobe. Likewise for the muted palette of mint greens and nudes — “old-school makeup colors,” as creative director Jenna Lyons called them — that was [...]

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Just in time for the holidays, The Book — yes, that one — is getting a fashion-friendly makeover.
After retiring as chief executive officer of Euro RSCG Scandinavia, where he masterminded campaigns for Bjrn Borg’s clothing line and the Stockholm Fashion Fair, Dag Sderberg took on perhaps the ultimate marketing challenge: making religion chic. He [...]

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LOS ANGELES — Producers envisioned a classic Hollywood script for Los Angeles Fashion Week — financial and critical success and anointing the upstart as a major industry player.
It didn’t happen that way. Even in the movie capital, reality can get messy.
The end of the five-year partnership between event producer IMG and Smashbox Studios, the [...]

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As their husbands paced the stage at Nashville’s Belmont University Tuesday evening, Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama took the opportunity to show their true — or rather, patriotic — colors. McCain wore a royal blue suit, and Obama, a paneled cranberry red Narciso Rodriguez dress (curiously, the sparkly green ribbon pins at the neck said [...]

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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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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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MADRID — Bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better.
Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week (formerly Pasarela Cibeles) has a new name and a new home in the fairgrounds’ Hall 14 but the runway shows, held Sept. 15 to 19, continue to attract few foreign buyers.
“More than just a name change, it’s an ambitious makeover plan and Madrid’s [...]

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LOS ANGELES — As awards season kicks off with Sunday’s Emmys, homegrown brands with lower profiles or shorter red-carpet track records are angling for the spotlight.
From a stylist’s perspective, the Emmys are a less high-pressure show than the Oscars and the Golden Globes, with fewer paid/prearranged deals.
“I love designers like Sari Gueron and Pamela Rolland,” [...]

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It’d be easy to think that the fashion industry has had just one controversy — fur. Witness the protests at DKNY, Carolina Herrera and Dennis Basso this week, not to mention at fashion shows throughout the decades. But civil disobedience and fashion have intersected more than once over the years, and WWD has been there [...]

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