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British Columbia Fashion Week today released the list of designers selected to participate in the inaugural fashion week being delivered in Vancouver April 10th to 15th, 2005.
Showcasing 17 Canadian designers to international and national media and buyers, Western Canada has in British Columbia Fashion Week a serious vehicle for promoting Canadian fashion on a global level.
"The talent, excitement and energy of the Canadian fashion industry continues to grow and we are committed to bringing worldwide attention to these designers," said Debra Walker, Executive Director of BC Fashion Week.
" The applications we received were outstanding. The calibre and number of applications indicates that the time is indeed right for British Columbia to host this inaugural international fashion week. For the first time in Vancouver we have some of Canada's top designers showing their collections on the west coast."
Designers for British Columbia Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2005 will include Afshin Feiz (trained in Vancouver and currently based out of Paris), Eve Gravel, CinCyn, Laurie Campbell of Anaura, Karen L Haute Couture, Tiger of Sweden, Dace Moore, Jason Matlo, AM-Collections, Annie Langlois of On and On Ecolo Chic, Azadeh Gorbani, Oceandrive Leather, Mala Kuja, Wanny Tang, Gabrielle Semeniuk of Flyt, Tavio Desig,Thomas Lynch and Pierre Jale.
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"The necklace that Britney is wearing in the Allure photo is one of my silver archive pieces that I resurrected for Donna Karan's Spring 2005 runway show.
It was originally made in 1973, sold and I made a reproduction for this DK show after Donna saw my book and loved the look of all the archival jewelry I did from that era.
There is a very constructivist, hand wrought feeling that worked with her theme of Spring 05, with lots of detailed couture-like sewing and stitching and wrapping.
This necklace was not sold to Britney's husband, but instead is in the Donna Karan shop right now on sale for $6,500.
I called the piece the "Art Nouveau Pectoral" necklace as it is very inspired by the whiplash designs in that art movement."
Robert Lee Morris March 2005
Robert Lee Morris Design Studio
NYC, NY
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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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