Adrienne Whitewood wins supreme award at Miromoda
Hayley Smith and Ish Dooney Last Saturday’s judging at Miromoda showed just how much better this competition is getting. It was the first to attract an international entrant, and our winner, Adrienne Whitewood, has one of the strongest futures of any entrant who has entered the competition, in my opinion. Adrienne’s Te Aho Tapu […]
IMG, Mercedes-Benz announce programme to help emerging Canadian talent
Michael Buckner/Getty Images Above Mercedes-Benz has a long history of supporting fashion, such as New York Fashion Week. IMG and Mercedes-Benz Canada have launched Mercedes-Benz Start-up, an initiative to promote emerging designers, in association with LG Fashion Week Beauty by L’Oréal Paris. Canadian designers who have been in business for less than five years […]
Global round-up: international fashion; Japanese inspiration; Jessica Alba talks motherhood
The main part of the Lucire website has had some international fashion round-ups. Not only have fashion editor Sopheak Seng and Paris editor Lola Saab made their picks from the New York fall collections (with more to come), but Joanna Mroczkowska has filed her report from Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week in Poland, and, importantly, Yuka […]
Kiwi round-up: Reign turns two; Deadly Ponies e-tails; Who’s Henri? is summery
Above Reign’s Miggs McTaylor and Ara A’Court. Petone, New Zealand-based Reign celebrates its second birthday this month, after growing over 100 per cent despite the recession. Reign’s co-founders Ara A’Court and Miggs McTaylor have focused on creating well designed garments, without being fixed to any one age group, and have kept production based in […]
Cannes updates: Tree of Life, Fashion for Relief, and exclusive interviews
We now have footage from the catwalk at Naomi Campbell’s Fashion for Relief show, benefiting the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Supermodel Campbell herself led the catwalk, while Jane Fonda and Wilnelia Merced-Forsyth—with a comic turn from her husband Bruce Forsyth (below right)—considerably outshone many of the younger models at 73 and […]
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt walk the red carpet, while Naomi Campbell puts on a charity show for Japan
Stéphane Kossmann/Renault/Getty Images Tree of Life’s première at the Festival de Cannes brought out star Brad Pitt and his wife, Angelina Jolie (in a strapless mocha-coloured Atelier Versace gown in silk mikado), probably the most recognized actress in the western world at the moment. Joining them on the red carpet were fellow stars Sean Penn […]
Friday round-up: Rodarte at Harvey Nichols; Paris Hilton sued; Fergie for X Factor?
Rodarte currently has its States of Matter exhibition at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), but Harvey Nichols says that UK shop-goers need not feel as though they’ve missed out. It has an installation on the first floor, created by set designer Fiona Leahy, with an abundance of northern Californian redwood and a […]
The seven autumn–winter ’11 trends at Melbourne Fashion Festival
For the duration of L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival, we have kept a close eye on common threads running through the collections. You may have noticed them, too. So take stock, assess your wardrobe needs and get in-store to fill the gaps if you want to be on-trend this season. Geneviève Hole Trench coat: as […]
Melbourne Fashion Festival coolly closes among the icebergs
The final L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival showing, hosted by Yen magazine, was held off-site at Shed 4, a short walk around the dock from where the main shows went down. In the grungier setting, spectators sat on plastic stools that resembled upturned trash cans arranged in a large swooping S. White cardboard “icebergs” jutted out […]
Karen Walker and Kate Sylvester glitter and pop at L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival
Tonight’s L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival runway, sponsored by Frankie, featured Kiwi darlings Karen Walker and Kate Sylvester and stirred up a little home sickness before I had even arrived at the event. Luckily, as is always the case, the ‘rah rah’ quickly distracted me from it. My accomplice and I had arranged a PR […]
