Yves Saint Laurent Denver Show

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Yves St. Laurent Global Retrospective to be held at Denver Art Museum

LouLou de LaFalaise, Yves St. Laurent & Marina Schiano

Denver Art Museum is the only museum in the United States to host the global retrospective of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent’s life and work. The exhibit of more than 200 outfits, plus drawings, video and more of the fashion designer works. It opens March 25, 2012. View more photos and styles Here

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Versailles ’73 Black Supermodels

Introduced ©By Audrey J. Bernard

Bold, Beautiful and Black models are reunited at the special luncheon at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Amina Warsuma, Norma Jean Darden, Pat Cleveland, fashion designer Stephen Burrows, Charlene Dash, Alva Chinn, China Machado, Billie Blair, and Bethann Hardison. (Not pictured: Barbara Jackson, Jennifer Brice, Ramona Saunders ((deceased)) (Photo by Mike Coppola / Wireimage)

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Back in 1973, The Palace of Versailles played host to a fundraiser orchestrated by American fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert and Palace of Versailles curator Gerald Van der Kemp to raise money to restore the aging structure to provide exposure for American fashion.The time was right to introduce and celebrate some of the hottest Black Models of the Day like the ones so featured. French Fashion Designers as well as Italian Designers have long featured minority models for their shows. Myself and several other Models, walked the Runways of Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy 1969 for Valentino’s ‘Black on Black’ Fashion Show, with creations by Silvano Malta. It was an ALL Black cast of Models with Everyone wearing Designs that were in the Color Black. It was Wonderful. These Shows showcased the Beauty of All People to the Industry as well as The Public. It paved the way for today’s successful Black Models and other Minorities as well who work constantly without having to worry about being typecast. People like Naomi Campbell, Iman, Tyra Banks, Alek Wek and so many more, have these Women, like the Versailles bunch, to thank for helping to make the job of Modeling a little easier and friendly. It’s the same way Josephine Baker made show business more receptive for many other minorities of the times. Even before the models mentioned above walked the Runways, French Designers like Christian Dior, Jean Patou, Ungaro, Pierre Cardin and a few more, hired Women of Color to walk in their Catwalk shows. Now, it is very much mainstream for fashion shows to be filled with  Models of different cultures. In the 70s, particularly, Henri Bendel featured Stephen Burrows clothes, exclusively. He remains innovative to Fashion as Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, Carolina Herrera, Ann Klein, Tracy Reese, Nicole Miller, Donna Karan, Bill Blass, Prabal Gurung are today. All of these fashion designers represent American Fashion, worldwide. French fashion designers somewhat rely of America for setting the trends. France Fashion Catwalk shows in Paris, many times, reflect many American Signature styles. New York Fashion Week is an example of Haute Couture and American Sportswear for the masses. Like Europe’s Pret-a-porter, American clothes is marketed with the intention of clothes being affordable. Fashion events like Fashion Week New York City, FW London, FW Paris, FW Milan and others is a prime example of the American Fashion industry‘s impact on the rest of the World. – - Find out more

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Christian Dior Spring 2012 Couture Collection

Couturiers have transposed their most glamorous ideas into superb fashion collections for the spring season, collections unveiled at Paris Fashion Week. Oone of the labels that managed to impress the crowd was non other than Christian Dior. With a vintage essence at base the collection dazzled from start to finish, so check out the incredibly stylish glam designs and let your eyes feast on perfection! – - see more of this Collection

February 2012 begins Fall collections at Paris Fashion Week. If the Spring 2012 Couture Show is an example of whats to come, I can’t wait to see Fall’s. Fashion designers like Karl Lagerfeld, Elle Saab, Hermes and many others are ALL geared up for Fashion Week. The magazines, of course are as well. Haute Couture remains the fashion world of French fashion. No prom dresses here. Just pure creative direction Paris fashion. The Dior Logo has become synonimous to the fashion industry’s signature, High Fashion. Others like Chanel Haute Couture, House of Balmain, Hermes and Vuitton remain symbols Paris Couture. Famous French designers eco fashion all over the planet. Fashion Designer, Christian Dior has a long history of Haute Couture in Paris. No different next month at Paris Fashion Week where the newest French fashion designs will be shown for Autumn 2012. Paris fashion, bar none, has long time made the french famous for Haute Couture. Long time rival, the House of CHANEL Haute Couture, heralded by Karl Lagerfeld
always promises to be a spectacle for ALL to see. Taken place next month as well is New
York Fashion Week, this country’s Couture Collection by celebrated Fashion Designers like Marc Jacobs, Zac Posen and Creative Director Tom Ford, now an International Icon. Fashion Journalism from All over the Globe awaits the fashion industry’s fashion shows, every Season. Fashion TV a media follower amongst many gears up every season for these events. Get ready folks for the fashion world’s idea of Hollywood. See ya’ there!

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Rick Owens Paris FW

Menswear Autumn 2012 Runway Show

Models presents a creation by US designer Rick Owens during the Autumn-Winter 2012/2013 ready-to-wear men’s fashion collection show on January 19, 2012 in Paris. Color palette made up of black, white and a hint of turquoise is the only evidence of simplicity at Rick Owens’ show at Paris Fashion Week Menswear. French fashion at the menswear runway shows at Paris Fashion Week, featured American Designer Rick Owens. Other Americans that work in Paris like Marc Jacobs have long been a staple of Haute Couture. Companies like Louis Vuitton and Dior Homme have long featured American fashion designers. Winter 2012 Menswear Collections is no different. The major fashion houses are style hunters and indeed welcome America’s urban fashion sense. French fashion, Japanese Fashion, Milan Fashion has brought to the fashion industry, American Vogue at full tilt. [Photograph by: Alexander Klein, AFP/Getty Images] – - see More highlights

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Menswear Autumn 2012

Photos: Yohji Yamamoto — Paris Fashion Week

Plaid suits, oversized capes and sewn-on patches for a seaworthy show at Yohji Yamamoto on January 19, 2012.  – - see More Photos

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Philippines Theater Festival in Prague

The Philippines has joined the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011, an international theater festival considered the largest scenography event in the world. The quadrennial exhibits a variety of performance design disciplines such as costume, stage, lighting and sound design, including theater architecture for dance, opera, drama, site-specific, multimedia performances and performance art. It’s been held every four years since 1967. This year, it started last week and will end on the 26th, with more than 60 countries participating. At the last quadrennial held in 2007, Rolando “Rollie” de Leon had been a guest artist doing foam-art demonstration for the Costume Design Working Group of Organisation Internationale des Scénographes, Techniciens et Architectes de Théâtre. – Read more

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All About Costume Designer: Jeffrey Kurland

The actors are in the foreground, so the costumes are in the foreground,” comments costume designer, Jeffrey Kurland, Oscar-nominated for Bullets Over Broadway. Yet whereas a period or fantasy costume might pop off the screen due to the nature of the clothing and the spectacle of the films, the average viewer may not even notice contemporary costumes because they are so integrated into the experience of a film as a whole. If that is the case, how does one not only vote for costume design, but first recognize costume design that is award winning?

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