BMW prepares to launch Megacity car under new sub-brand
Tonight, BMW will launch a new sub-brand to market the ‘Mega City Vehicle’, an urban electric car, in 2013. While BMW has fairly successfully pushed its Efficient Dynamics programme alongside its more performance-oriented claims, it is presumed that small and electric cars don’t fit with its slogans ‘Freude am Fahren’ and ‘The Ultimate Driving […]
Gwen Stefani shows LAMB fall 2011–12 at New York Fashion Week
Gwen Stefani showed her autumn–winter 2011–12 LAMB collection at Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week. As mentioned below by our colleagues at ITN, Stefani is one of the few singers to mix a career in music with one in fashion. LAMB stands for Love, Angel, Music, Baby, the name of an earlier Stefani solo […]
London Fashion Week: Paul Costelloe, and the day two highlight reel
Although it was the show that kicked off London Fashion Week for autumn–winter 2011–12, Paul Costelloe’s video has only just become available. As with the Berlin trends, there’s a retro feel to Costelloe’s collection, this time heading back to the 1960s. The collection has been inspired by colours, Irish tweed and Boulevard Saint-Honoré […]
For those surfing in through our home page, you’ll have noticed a distinct Germanic flavour. A selection of Maurice Luckett and his team’s photographs from Mercedes-Benz Berlin Fashion Week are online, with Vicki Matias—who has herself trained in fashion design—giving the expert’s view of the collections we’ve covered. Meanwhile, publisher Jack Yan has tested three […]
London Fashion Week autumn–winter 2011–12: J. JS Lee and the designer exhibition
Maurice Luckett is shooting the main catwalk shows at London Fashion Week, while our long-time photographer Doug Rimington has headed to the exhibition. Doug’s shots from the exhibition are below, and with the forthcoming catwalk images, give us a fuller picture of what’s happening at London Fashion Week for autumn–winter 2011–12. We’ve also some […]
We’ve more from London Fashion Week, with videos straight from the catwalk. Below are catwalk videos from the autumn–winter 2011–12 collections of: Charles Anastase; Issa—one of Kate Middleton’s favourites; John Rocha; Kinder Aggugini; House of Holland; and Jonathan Saunders. The best of the students’ work at Central St Martin’s also appears in a […]
London Fashion Week begins: celebs come out to the Look show
While Maurice Luckett, Doug Rimington and Summer Rayne Oakes are in the thick of it at London Fashion Week, for now, here’s a clip from the Look catwalk show where the high street styles hit the runway. Olivia Palermo and Alexis Jordan give their thoughts on the Look show and London style in ‘Fashion […]
A glimpse at our New York Fashion Week fall 2011 coverage
Here are some of Stephen Ciuccoli’s early shots from New York Fashion Week’s fall 2011 shows, pending our more in-depth article. First up is Gary Graham’s collection: From Victor de Souza’s fall 2011 catwalk show, the following day: And from one of our favourites, Vivienne Tam: You may also like New York Fashion […]
Jaguar to celebrate 50 years of the E-type at Salon de Genève
Jaguar will commemorate 50 years of its E-type sports car at the 2011 Salon de Genève, the company has announced. The E-type stunned audiences when it was first shown at the Restaurant du Parc des Eaux Vives in Genève on March 15, 1961. It was targeted at export markets, though sales on the home […]
E! gets viewers on the red carpet; Jane Oh has style; and Urbis launches next Designday
Our friends at E! Entertainment Television—with whom we’ve had a long connection through some of its hosts—are running a promotion called E! Live from the Red Carpet. E! is promoting its Life from the Red Carpet brand, and has created Iphone, Ipod and Ipad apps for getting news from the Emmys, Grammys and Oscars […]
