Fashion Week AU

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Fashion Week is a seasonal industry. But unlike in the natural world, fashion’s seasons move with the times. Fashion Designers used to put clothes from our spring and summer collections into the stores when the weather got warm, but now we put them into stores in the middle of winter. And we put winter clothes into stores in the middle of summer. This, I believe, is just symptomatic of society at large. Everything has sped up. People have shorter concentration spans and want to see something new on a regular basis. The stores have to give their

Rad Hourani collection: Toronto

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Rad Hourani says, “is someone who does not follow a trend.”

Fashion Week Toronto: After leaving Montreal for Paris six years years ago to launch his eponymous couture collection label, designer Rad Hourani is heading back to Canada on Friday to make his Canadian fashion week runway debut with his fifth collection of ready-to-wear line RAD at Toronto’s World MasterCard Fashion Week. As part of the runway presentation, Hourani will also debut his new short film Five Years of Rad Hourani as the show’s opener, documenting designer Rad Hourani inspirations as he celebrates his fifth year in the cutthroat industry. “I’m inspired by the idea of creating something that can’t be defined by a limited category and things that have no reference from the past,” says the Jordan-born Rad Hourani, who moved to Montreal at 16 before leaving for Paris in

Christian Louboutin Designed Shoes for 6 London F/W Shows

When Christian Louboutin has a birthday, he generally over-consume cake, champagne, and well just about everything. Especially cake though. Luckily for us, the man behind the red-soled wonders, Christian Louboutin, has created a glorious capsule collection to celebrate the shoe fashion label’s 20th Anniversary. We eat, and he designs. What a team we make. Made up of twenty pairs of shoes and six bags, the collection will be available exclusively at a pop up store in Selfridges from 27th February, and then at the Christian Louboutin boutiques from March. Who’s betting Loub-lover Blake Lively will have first dibs? Have a scroll through the Gallery to see what treats lay in wait.

Best Looks from London F/W

See our favorite looks from the top shows in London. Plus, check out our complete Fall 2012 Fashion Week coverage.

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Peter Pilotto Fall 2012

Peter Pilotto’s Christopher De Vos and Peter Pilotto continue to be one of the bright spots on the London calendar and a runaway shows favorite of the British press. With more collections like fall, it’s well deserved praise. Their inspiration was Asian art and architecture. Their lineup was sexy and bold. Even their cropped, sculpted puffer jackets with zany prints looked body-con, which is a feat. They channeled the bright neon lights of Japan into stripes and abstracts printed on skin-tight t-shirts and paneled skirts. There were shades of Nicolas in the strong attitude of the girls. The duo took the turtleneck and turned it into a sultry velvet look for evening, its bodice a structured lattice of straps and and cut-outs. Skinny cropped pants, t-shirts and dresses were worked in big florals. When sleeves didn’t hug shoulders and arms, they were pumped up. The same lean lines applied to evening, a gray floor-grazing look paneled with what looked like skewed neon lighting. It was smart and provocative and right on trend with the notion of not wearing the obvious for evening. To the left we see Matthew Williamson, the prince of prints and pattern, harnessed all those years of understanding how to mix them into a lady-fied, grown up collection. While it was still Williamson-fun — there was a lot of colored fur — the collection will surely appeal to a new set of customers, while giving his core something new to think about. He strongly messaged

Mercedes-Benz F/W Madrid 2012

Spain’s Emerging Fashion Designer: ‘IXONE ELZO’

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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week 2012 fashion show in Madrid introduces Basque young designer Ixone Elzo, inspired by the wardrobes of the aristocracy.

At Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid Spain, the talented Spanish Designer IXONE ELZO, presented a marvelous and excellently well structured collection, therefore making his mark in the fashion industry. Predominantly green, white and red, she created male clothes that looked like as if they were inspired from another era, but perfectly wearable and contemporary suitable. Formulated for modern and elegant men with high sense of aesthetics with small details that somehow reminded me of a re-interpretation of Harlequin’s clothes at fashion week. The fashion designers … Read more:

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‘Complex Mag’ Announces The 25 Most Stylish Celebs of 2011

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Complex Mag has officially announced their 25 Most Stylish Celebs of the year, surprisingly one of my fave rappers Kid Cudi has made the list. Woot woot! But along with Cudder himself, many other artist and actors have made the list as well, such as Kanye, Ryan Gosling, Childish Gambino, and many others. Check it out! – - Read more

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Paris F/W: Valentino 2012

Designers Valentino Maria Grazia Kiuru and Pier Paolo Pikkioli proposed for the spring 2012 collection of romantic, consisting of lacy dresses from pink to black. Sandals are requested to wear flat shoes, and hair braided in girls lax braids around her head.

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Exhibit: ‘Paul Poiret, King of Fashion’

Exhibition is on show at the Moscow Kremlin Museum. He was one of the most influential designers of haute couture at the dawn of its existence and the man who took fashion from the 19th century to the modern era. To mark 100 years since Paul Poiret’s visit to Russia, the Moscow Kremlin Museums is to open a vast retrospective display of the French couturier’s works. The future revolutionary of fashion, Paul Poiret, the son of a humble shop-keeper, started his career as a modeler in the fashion houses of haute couture gurus of the time – Jacques Doucet and Worth. But his models proved to be too radical for the clientele of the established designers. He opened his own Fashion House in Paris in 1903 and gained immense popularity almost overnight. Women were happy to adopt a more relaxed and creative attitude towards their clothing  – something that had been unthinkable just a few decades earlier. He liberated women from the rigid corseting and petticoats which had imprisoned them for decades and this new freedom of attire came to reflect the social processes which saw women becoming more independent and liberated.   — read more on this story by Elena Monakhova, RT

Exhibit: ‘Paul Poiret, King of Fashion’

Exhibition is on show at the Moscow Kremlin Museum. He was one of the most influential designers of haute couture at the dawn of its existence and the man who took fashion from the 19th century to the modern era. To mark 100 years since Paul Poiret’s visit to Russia, the Moscow Kremlin Museums is to open a vast retrospective display of the French couturier’s works. The future revolutionary of fashion, Paul Poiret, the son of a humble shop-keeper, started his career as a modeler in the fashion houses of haute couture gurus of the time – Jacques Doucet and Worth. But his models proved to be too radical for the clientele of the established designers. He opened his own Fashion House in Paris in 1903 and gained immense popularity almost overnight. Women were happy to adopt a more relaxed and creative attitude towards their clothing  – something that had been unthinkable just a few decades earlier. He liberated women from the rigid corseting and petticoats which had imprisoned them for decades and this new freedom of attire came to reflect the social processes which saw women becoming more independent and liberated.   — read more on this story by Elena Monakhova, RT