videos of Viktor & Rolf’s spring 2010 in Paris with live performance by Róisín Murphy below
more pictures at New York Mag women collection/ men collection
the “Queen of Knits” and France icon: Sonia Rykiel will be guess designer for H&M, a winter lingerie collection, will go on sale in 1,500 H&M stores worldwide/ December 5th, 2009
designer Sonia Rykiel
spring 2010, the second ‘knitwear collection for women, and girls, aged 18 months to 8 years, with co-ordinated, playful accessories.’ will go on sale feb/20/2010 at H&M and Sonia Rykiel store around the world
Rykiel, the flame-haired doyenne of Paris fashion, launched her name on the Left Bank, in the rue de Grenelle, in May 1968, the spring of the student riots and a general strike.
She has a playful, irreverent, bohemian attitude, and has often eferred to her designs as ‘démodé’, or ‘unfashion’. Her signatures are her weaters, bold stripes on black, witty slogans, lace, seams on the outside, brightly-coloured fun furs, vintage-look dresses, and, fourse, that most Parisian of accessories, the beret.
- designer Sonia Rykiel
- Sonia Rykiel autumn/winter 09/10 collection
A national icon in France, she has won countless awards and is the author of nine books. Since her daughter, Nathalie Rykiel, joined the company in 1975, the house has expanded to include Sonia by Sonia Rykiel, Rykiel Woman and Rykiel Enfant, as well as shoes and accessories.
Sonia Rykiel is the only French group in the fashion industry to remain family-owned and 100% independent. Last year, at the Paris prêt-à-porter season, the company celebrated her 40th anniversary in fashion with a mammoth fête, show and retrospective in an enchanted forest outside Paris.
here are some of the pass colaperator for H&M
H&M – Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel)
H&M-Madona
designer Mark Fast / London Fashion Week 09/2009
Size 10-12 is consider full size figure(FAT) in the fashion industry. Because he used models at this size for London England fashion week. The Winnipeg (Canada) native got the international press buzzing up!
Plus Size model @ Mark Fast / London Fashion Week 09/2009
The move infuriated some members of his management team, with his stylist and creative designer even walking out three days before the event. [hellomagazine.ca]
“It’s time for a rebellion against safeness. It’s exciting to be a designer now,” the Winnipeg-born designer said recently.
‘The decision to use fuller girls is something we have been talking about. There’s an idea that only thin and slender women are able to wear Mark’s dresses and he wanted to combat that. We wanted women to know they didn’t have to be a size zero to wear a Mark Fast dress – curvier women can look even better in them.’ Amanda May, Fast’s creative director
full article click on links below:
Plus Size model @ Mark Fast / London Fashion Week 09/2009
The Fast and the furious: Stylist at London Fashion Week resigns over designer Mark Fast’s decision to use size 14 models [ dailymail.co.uk]
Knitwear maestro Mark Fast weighs in to size zero debate with curvy models [hellomagazine.ca]
Larger models ‘spark fashion row’ [bbc.co.uk]
here is the fashion show that created all the buzzzzz
click here for Mark Fast web site
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel
new movie about CoCo Chanel
the original film in french was released on april 22, 2009. the upcoming september 25, 2009 release will be the north american release with official english subtitles.
On 09.11.09, In fashion house, news, by Adam
new sub lable “Black” from a designer Rei Kawakubo, whom also use black color to launch the rebellion birth of Comme des Garcons in the early 80s in Japan. the privately owned company celebrates its 40th anniversary this 2009.
more from: dazed group and nzherald
To bring back the much needed attention to an old school fashion house, in an attempted to youthlified the Emanuel Ungaro house. Mr. Mounir Moufarrige CEO and president of Ungar, hire Linsay Lohan to be the artistic adviser.The new Lohan-Archs collection will launch during Paris Fashion Week on Oct. 4. Lohan will be working with the house chief designer Estrella Archs,
Hopefully “The brand is getting an electro-shock treatment.” to the house that had aged along with it 80 year old grandma. Moufarrige pointed out he took cute from top Magazines and Fashion editors, whom continue to place Lohan on their covers “She has
ideas – what she would wear, what her friends would wear.”
on the suject of the young starlet reputation Moufarrige said he was not worried “With the pressure they live under, especially those of a younger age – I don’t know any celebrities with no controversy.” 2007, Logan @ 23 yr old was convicted of drink
driving and cocaine possession.
“It is not the first time Moufarrige has grabbed headlines with a hiring decision; as president of Chloe, he replaced Karl Lagerfeld with Stella McCartney, who was 25 years old at the time.”
“I expect much more interest and in the end I’m in the business of making money, I’m not interested in just making a fashion statement.” yahoo news