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Mercedes-Benz launches C-Klasse coupé in Japan with Fashion Week designers

October 21, 2011/10.54

Mercedes-Benz Japan Above Mercedes-Benz Japan President and CEO, Nicholas Speeks, and Vice President, Kintaro Ueno, at the C-Klasse Coupé launch at Fashion Week. Mercedes-Benz presented its new C-class coupé for the Japanese market on the 17th, at a press event held right after Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week of Tokyo kicked off.    CEO and President of […]

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Kanye West débuts collection at Paris Fashion Week

October 3, 2011/23.13

Kanye West has shown at Paris Fashion Week, with a hot-ticket spring–summer 2012 show at the library of the Lycée Henri IV. As expected with a celebrity designer, other celebrities were invited: Lindsay Lohan, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and Jared Leto, among others. Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld also […]

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Jewellery designer Nga Waiata receives greater acclaim as range expands

September 30, 2011/23.51

Top Smoky quartz with black maire wood pendant and hand-stitched antique brass chain. Above Fluorite and silver earrings, part of the Atanga (join, adorn and beautify) range from Nga Waiata. From the department stores of Barney’s in New York to the boutiques of Paul Smith in London, to the hands and necks of New Zealand’s […]

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Portland Fashion Week set to wow with Project Runway alumni, eco-fashion

September 28, 2011/13.04

Ed Kavishe Portland, Oregon—the city of fashion-forward, independent designers and sustainability—will be demonstrating its own brand of runway show for the spring–summer 2012 season, with some of the most publicized designers from TV.    Last year’s Portland Fashion Week had already heated up as a winner and finalists from Project Runway season 7 joined on […]

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London Fashion Week, spring–summer 2012, day five videos

September 23, 2011/15.40

Pippa Middleton was the celebrity that colleagues wrote about on day five of London Fashion Week, with her appearance at the front row of Temperley London. The Temperley spring–summer 2012 collection itself was feminine, flowing, and had a tasteful use of silks and extensive vintage detailing.    Mary Katrantzou’s collection made us notice. We had […]

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World brings it all together as New Zealand Fashion Week concludes

September 5, 2011/11.02

After a jam-packed week and with New Zealand Fashion Week 2011 nearing to a close, World put on a highly anticipated extravaganza to top it all off. As expected of World, it was not your usual run-of-the-mill catwalk show, which opened with three fabulous gold sequin-wearing drag queens lip-synching to Fergie’s ‘Glamorous’. TV3 audiences awaited […]

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Jewellery designer for US First Lady set to appear on Boston Fashion Week’s runway

August 31, 2011/23.57

Ileana Maria Rojas-Bennett, designer and CEO of Maleku Jewelry, is probably best known for her connection to Michelle Obama. Rojas-Bennett, whose childhood greatly influenced her work today, states, ‘I was fortunate enough to grow up in the home of an outstanding artist. In fact my most basic childhood memory is one of my mother’s portraits […]

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Boston Fashion Week showcases emerging talent on September 24

August 2, 2011/4.05

On September 24, 2011 from 8 p.m. until midnight, the Emerging Trends 2011 Runway Show will take place at the Cyclorama, Boston as part of the Boston Fashion Week. This event, with Lucire as media partner, will focus on up-and-coming international designers, allowing them to showcase their latest designs, in some cases introducing their lines […]

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Kathryn Wilson opens doors to 3,000 guests for her Fashion Week show

August 1, 2011/1.15

On Friday, September 2, Kathryn Wilson will be showing for the second time at the 2011 New Zealand Fashion Week. Unlike last year’s début where 1,000 guests from the fashion industry were invited as a thank-you for their support, this time around the doors are open to 3,000 shoe-obsessed members of the public to view […]

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