This year men’s collections have seen more creativity than usual. At the ‘Festival International’ of fashion and photography at Hyères, it was Marite Mastina and Rolands Peterkops from Latvia who walked off with three awards, including the coveted Grand Prix Mode.
Strong demand for jumpsuits, playsuits, peg leg trousers and eighties style shoulder-padded tee shirts helped Internet fashion retailer ASOS post buoyant recent trading on Monday 27 April.
Martin Margiela has taken advantage of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, from 22-27 April, to present his interior design ideas. Maison Martin Margiela has also confirmed its desire to become a lifestyle brand.
Asleep since 1954. But since Prince Charming (Diego Della Valle) bought the rights in 2007, rumours about a grand return for the fashion house Elsa Schiaparellia have pulsed through the fashion world. Sleeping Beauty could be ready to wake up.
After innovative collaborations with Damien Hirst and Shepard Fairy, Levi’s has announced a new creative partnership; a new project conceptualized by the New York based graphic design company “Sagmeister”.
Italian fashion house Prada closed 2008 in line with the previous year and plans further retail investments, Chief Executive Patrizio Bertelli said in a newspaper interview published on Friday 24 April.
The Prada Transformer - billed as the world's first shape-shifting building - which can be lifted and rotated into different configurations to house art, film, fashion and other events has been installed in the yard of one of Seoul's ancient royal palaces.
For his latest choreographic creation “Nearly Ninety”, Merce Cunningham has called in Romeo Gigli to design the costumes, fresh from a new line for the brand Io Ipse Idem.
While Russia's two-legged population feels the financial pinch, designer lines from sportswear to mink coats, evening gowns to bootees are being snapped up... for the nation's dogs.
A first; the pair of Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf have created costumes for a romantic opera from Carl Maria von Weber which will be staged in Germany.
French luxury goods group Hermes on Friday 10 April hailed a Taiwan court's ruling to impose a record fine of 7.77 million US dollars on a former employee for selling counterfeit bags.
Alessandro Dell'Acqua has quit as designer at Italian fashion house Malo less than a year after taking the role at the firm, which is in special administration trying to avoid bankruptcy.
In Paris, after the Petit Moulin (3rd) and the Hôtel Bellechasse (7th), the designer Christian Lacroix is starting work on his third hotel. This one will be near Notre-Dame, more precisely on the Quai Saint-Michel.
Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has agreed to renew a licence for IT Holding to make and distribute clothes for his Just Cavalli brand, IT Holding said on Monday 6 April.
Good news for people who love the flora and fauna inspired prints of Roberto Cavalli if they have a four-legged friend; the brand is releasing a selection for dogs.
