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AIDS care program. Hosted by the legendary Lypsinka, the event was more botanical garden than wild concrete jungle, but still drenched in fabulousness.
Entitled "Tulips & Pansies - The Headdress Affair," this was the fourth of VCNY's such pageants, in which fashion folks such as Alice Roi and Austin Scarlett (of Project runway fame) worked with a living weave of blossoms and garlands to produce floral head-ware of the most outrageous sort.
In preparation, a small army of men, women and those in-between worked furiously backstage amidst gowns, makeup and pruning shears. "I've been here since 5:30," designer Nico de Swert confided gesturing to the half-naked model for David Beahm's tribal headdress, "but there are plenty of distractions."
Nico, who collaborated with Simon Doonan for his sun hat of bleached willow and santini chrysanthemums, walked away with the award for Most Beautiful - not surprising as Nico's book, Living with Flowers (Harry Abrams) was also released this week.
The event could have been called Flowers & Feathers, for it seems that the two have some sort of affinity. Two fowl-inspired bonnets represented, a twin-headed swan by Studio Artiflora and an Asian-tinged rose bird by Chinyere Unagi. (The latter walked away with an award for Most Original.)
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The biggest ever and most important Caribbean Fashionweek will be held this June 8-12 in Kingston, Jamaica.
The main show venue and exhibition hall will be the new National Indoor Sports Center at Independence Park.
There, Pulse will create a 120ft dual runway to showcase the best of the Caribbean's designers as well as others visiting from various parts of the world.
Approximately 50 designers will show from 20 countries.
Several of the region's best designers including Meiling, Moncrieffe, Heather Jones, Claudia Pegus, Simon Foster, Pauline Bellamy, Mutamba, Biggy, The Cloth and Nefertari are among the 50 plus designers who will show this year.
Special international guest designer is the London-based and internationally regarded Jessica Ogden.
The leading fashion media houses in the world have carried rave notices of CFW and the usual cadre of key press entities will attend this year.
Reviews have been published and shows and information disseminated in over 150 countries around the world by more than 100 media outlets including such industry leaders as Vogue, Fashion Television, The Independent (London) and The New York Daily News.
Caribbean Fashionweek is produced by the Pulse Entertainment Group, a 25 year old fashion and entertainment company that pioneered the development of the fashion and modell
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You hear "textiles," you think T-shirts. Or maybe you think Hanes, because that is Winston-Salem's home-grown brand name. If you're a fashionista, textiles might bring to mind a luxe embroidered fabric used by Oscar de la Renta or a sassy print from Betsey Johnson.
Even then, you're limiting yourself: There's actually an exciting world of textiles beyond apparel that you probably don't know about. And the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is prepared to make the introduction.
The museum's "Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance" exhibit includes 150 textile applications from the worlds of architecture, medicine, transportation, aerospace and the environment, ranging from the air bags used to protect Mars Exploration Rovers to knitted bags that help people suffering from enlarged hearts.
These aren't textiles that are decorative, though some are visually interesting. Instead, they're fabrics that are high-performance, precisely engineered and functional to their core. Most are unfamiliar to the average person - for now - but they are already affecting daily life.
Consider the simple woven fabric that reinforces auto and bike tires, which has been in use for over 115 years.
On a recent tour of the exhibit, curator Matilda McQuaid highlights a racing boat that fills a solarium at the mansi
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Legendary rocker Eric Clapton is launching his own clothing brand with a signature label cowboy shirt.
The "Layla" superstar recently ordered 12 of his favourite cowboy shirts to be flown from Denver, US, to Britain so he could select four to wear for the four-night Cream reunion at London's Royal Albert Hall earlier this month.
Clapton so likes the Saw Tooth 640 shirt, made by Rockmout Ranch Wear, he is now in talks with the company to issue his own shirt.
It will be similar to current Rockmount designs, but will have some Clapton lyrics sewn into the back.
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Forget about Paris and New York. Chinese dying for haute couture gowns or the latest luxury bags can now shop right at home.
Makers of luxury apparel, liquors and other goods increasingly are looking to China, India and other developing countries for the growth they won't find in older, established markets in Europe.
To meet soaring demand for Asia's newly affluent, venerable names such as Prada and Giorgio Armani are setting up stores as quickly as they can - and even considering making some of their products here.
"China is certainly the most prominent and most important market we have in front of us," Paolo Fontanelli, chief financial officer for Giorgio Armani SpA, told a conference on luxury brands in Shanghai on Thursday.
Although China, Taiwan and Hong Kong together account for only a tiny fraction of Armani's sales, the fashion group is quickly adding stores in the country, both in major cities like Shanghai and in lesser known ones, such as Shenyang in the northeast and Chengdu in the southwest.
And while the company leads the way in setting up a flagship store on Shanghai's riverfront Bund, just about all the big names now have boutiques in the trendy districts of Shanghai and Beijing.
China is the latest, biggest frontier in the luxury goods market, with India and Russia close behind, sa
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