New York Fashion Week spring–summer 2014, day 1: keeping it soft
BCBG Max Azria, via Instagram For those who caught our live stream during day one of New York Fashion Week’s spring–summer 2014 collections, congratulations! We’ll keep the stream up, but, for those of you who missed the shows, we feature them below. Nicholas K, BCBG Max Azria, Supima, Tadashi Shoji, Marissa Webb, Candela, the […]
Tokyo Fashion Week: designers shift gears toward Asia
Japan Fashion Week Organization Above left Christian Dada. Above right Vivienne Tam. Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo wrapped up Sunday as cherry blossoms bloom in Japan’s capital. Over the last couple of seasons, Tokyo Fashion Week kept its target on European and Japanese buyers and audiences, but this season, it has eyed the growing Asian market, […]
Online poll puts Mercedes-Benz A-Klasse as 2012’s most beautiful car
The online poll for the Most Beautiful Car of 2012, run by Eurosport, Festival Automobile International, J. C. Decaux, Bell & Ross, Le Point and Automobiles Classiques, has been won by the new, W176-series Mercedes-Benz A-Klasse. In second place was the third-generation Mazda Atenza, followed by the Renault Clio IV and the BMW 3er-Reihe […]
Adriana Lima, Karolína Kurková, Kevin Spacey, Jay Kay celebrate with IWC Schaffhausen at SIHH
David M. Benett/Getty Images With the SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie) in Genève presently, each of the luxury watch brands is going all out to catch VIPs and media. IWC Schaffhausen is no exception, with its Race Night event on Tuesday night, MCed by Kevin Spacey, hosting other celebrities and guests including Karolína […]
Mercedes-Benz previews CLA with Concept Style Coupé at Beijing Auto Show
We’re becoming accustomed to automotive world premières taking place in China, and this is no exception: Mercedes-Benz will take the wraps off its Concept Style Coupé (CSC) at Auto China—the Beijing Auto Show—recognizing the importance of the Chinese market to the Swabian firm’s fortunes. The CSC previews the styling the firm will use in […]
Photos courtesy of Japan Fashion Week Organization The first three days of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo’s autumn–winter 2012–13 featured Somarta, Kamishima Chinami, Yasutoshi Ezumi, and A Degree Fahrenheit among others. Somarta Somarta’s Tamae Hirokawa was previously in charge of Issey Miyake Men and Women, and is also known for the heel-less footwear collaboration with Noritaka […]
Yuima Nakazato’s collection at Japan Fashion Week expresses a Future/Classic theme
Japan Fashion Week Organization Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo opened its door on Sunday. This is the second season since Mercedes-Benz came to Tokyo to sponsor Japan Fashion Week. Since then, the designer line-up and runway shows have become more solid. The key visual for this season’s collections is Future/Classic. Art Director, Kaie Murakami, expresses […]
Stine Riis wins H&M Design Award 2012, showing at Stockholm Fashion Week
Above Stine Riis, winner of the H&M Design Award. København native Stine Riis, a 28-year-old graduate of the London College of Fashion, has been announced as the winner of the first Hennes & Mauritz Design Award. Her winning collection, called Decadence & Decay, was shown on the catwalk at Stockholm Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week earlier today. […]
Japanese designers continue to make splashes globally
Lucire’s coverage of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo is online today in the main part of the website. Not content with bringing back the event after a cancellation earlier in 2011 due to the earthquake and tsunami, peripheral events, including an international edition of Fashion’s Night Out with all 17 Vogue editors, made sure that the […]
Mercedes-Benz launches C-Klasse coupé in Japan with Fashion Week designers
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 […]
