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We all know the talent of Gianfranco Ferré for dressing women elegantly in superbly cut clothing. This season, the renowned Italian designer has been invited by Première Vision to create an outfit that testifies to his talents.
For the 170 hostesses who welcome and orient visitors during the Salon, the couturier has dreamed up a very feminine silhouette, an example of the designer's matchless mastery of fabric and manufacturing.
In a flamboyant red knit crepe, Gianfranco Ferré has conceived four pieces (short jacket, knee-length skirt, trousers and T-shirt) all highly structured. As a virtuoso of construction, he teams the drape and comfort of knit to the architecture and sophistication of details and finishing.
This elegance extols a flamboyantly monochrome look, giving free rein to the liberty of contrast, for an outfit with multiple facets, from the most structured to a relaxed chic, with a choice of removable white or red collars, either silky or cottony, on the T-shirts.
These designs show once again the force of the alliance between the know-how of clothing designers and that of fabric creators. Gianfranco Ferré made skilful use of this alliance, magnifying all its qualities, both technological and aesthetic, of the textiles fabricated by the Italian weavers, who, with a tireless passion, constant
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Italian fashion house Gucci has shaken up its design team again, just two seasons after star designer Tom Ford left, handing the brand-building womenswear pen to its accessories stylist Frida Giannini.
Gucci said on Tuesday its women's ready-to-wear director Alessandra Facchinetti, one of three designers who took over from Ford last year, was leaving "after a disagreement with management."
Ford and former chief executive Domenico De Sole, who built Gucci into the world's third-largest luxury group, left after their own disagreement with managers at Pinault Printemps Redoute when it bought out Gucci last year.
Facchinetti, Giannini and men's designer John Ray all worked under Ford in the style teams which piece together the ready-to-wear collections that show twice a year in Milan and set trends from the top of the fashion set to the shopping mall.
In a statement, Gucci said Giannini would continue to design accessories for both men and women, which make up a huge chunk of the company's sales and profits.
Giannini's designs have been hailed by management, fashion editors and, most importantly, customers buying everything from entry-price twill hats to five-figure croc-skin tote bags.
Her pieces have featured prominently in Gucci's new advertisements, a solitary GG logo shoe or shimmering leather purse replacing
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More than ever before, lingerie is flirting with the fashion world. And vice-versa. With interplays of over- and underwear and illusion effects, lingerie reveals itself, becomes suggestive and transforms into a "fashion accessory".
As an exercise in style, clothing designers offer a total look from top to "bottom". And in mini ready-to-wear lines, lingerie designers offer a total look from "bottom" to top.
nveiling trends, ATMOSPHERE, the indispensable event for fashion and accessories designers, enlarges its circle to include lingerie designers. It now invites international buyers to discover this new and exciting feature during the Fashion Designers week in Paris.
Today, fashion groups together all worlds: accessories, design, decoration... Fashion and lingerie make perfect bedfellows. The fashion
designer within me is rejoicing.
The Fashion And Accessory Designers Event will be at the Terrasse Des Feuillants
and Hotel Saint-James & Albany through March 4-7, 2005 in Paris.
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The mini skirt has been named the most iconic fashion item of all time.
The classic garment beat more recent styles like combats, trainers and ponchos to the number one spot.
Created by designer Andre Courreges and popularised by Mary Quant, the mini skirt became the ultimate symbol of the swinging Sixties.
But it has stood the test of time and today remains an essential part of any woman's wardrobe.
Jeans were the nation's second favourite garment in the poll for posh store Harvey Nichols.
For many years, jeans were only used as work clothes but they gained youth appeal and became cool in the 1950s thanks to stars like James Dean and Marlon Brando.
Third in the list was the timeless little black dress.
Created by Coco Chanel in 1926, the LBD has evolved with each decade to remain as fashionable as ever.
Cowboy boots, recently brought back to prominence by the likes of Kate Moss and Sienna Miller, took fifth place in the chart.
Flares completed the top five, remaining popular despite the brash varieties worn in the 1970s.
But the trousers were one of a number of pieces of clothing to appear in both the most popular and most detested lists.
The bell-bottomed pants also finished fifth in the worst fashion chart.
Platform shoes and ponchos also appeared to provoke mixed emotions in the 3500 shop
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Pop diva, actress and budding fashion designer Jennifer Lopez has made her New York runway debut with an eclectic collection that showed she may be able to bring her star power to the world of haute couture.
The show, which was nothing short of theatrical, featured models in denim shorts and pants, cashmere sweaters, flowered babydoll tops, satin, crystals and lots and lots of fur.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell strutted down the catwalk in halter-topped jumpsuit with tiered ruffles running down the legs and an enormously wide-brimmed mushroom-like white hat.
"I was very pleasantly surprised," Jane Larkworthy, an editor at W magazine, said of Lopez's new "Sweetface" line. "I love satin pants and I love fur."
The show was divided into three parts meant to correspond to phases of Lopez's life: her start in the Bronx, her music career and her current red-carpet lifestyle.
In the background, yellow neon lights spelled out "JLo Story" during the first phase, then turned into two red turntables for the second, and then into a stretch limo and a velvet rope for the third.
During the finale, music from her upcoming album, Rebirth, boomed in the background.
The hotly anticipated and celebrity-studded event capped off New York's twice-yearly Fashion Week extravaganza, which featured the work of more than 60 designers incl
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