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Englishman Christopher Brooke, 29, an illustrator, and 25-year-old Bruno Basso, a Brazilian designer, are the inaugural winners of last years Fashion Fringe.
They won £100,000 worth of support, a manufacturing deal with AEFFE, free marketing, PR, a studio space, show sponsorship and a guaranteed selling space in Harvey Nichols to start them off on in their business. In return they must show in London for five years.
Why did they win? Their clothes are bold, inventive, sexy and totally unique. These guys make sexy clothes covered with intricately detailed engineered prints. Each pattern they produce is designed with a print in mind, making the finished product a bespoke piece, and in a way, a fashion work of art.
According to Harvey Nichols Buying Director Averyl Oates the collection that won them Fashion Fringe is already selling well at about $1000 for a blouse or dress.
Their debut show as proper designers had it all going on. A soundtrack that rattled the ribcage, models with dominatrix hair and glossy red lips loving every minute, and an expectant crowd waiting to see what London's newly anointed talent would present.
The seventy pieces, consisting of expertly tailored curvy jackets, slim trousers, puff shouldered tunics, blouses, dramatic dresses and capes, owed their drama to Gaultier, Versace and Zandra
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Fashion went to the dogs on Friday, and the crowd went wild.
Canine models loped and pranced in Target's "Doggie Show," capping off the week of high fashion shows with a production so much fun that even the haughtiest fashionista had to smile.
Labrador retrievers, French bulldogs and Jack Russell terriers filled what would normally be the catwalk in Target doggie goggles, vests, leashes and foul-weather boots, to the sounds of Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" and other aptly chosen music.
The models stopped to greet the many socialite lapdogs in the audience, exchanging sniffs instead of the typical fashion-kisses. The collection was greeted not with the standard wolf whistles but with barks of appreciation.
Tiny Yorkshire terriers opted not to walk but to travel down the runway in fancy carriers, held by normally stone-faced models who couldn't keep a straight face.
The dogs were all professionals who appear in commercials and advertisements, and one dog could not resist showing off by rolling over and playing dead on the runway -- a no-no in any other fashion show.
Others stopped to scratch, another fashion show no-no.
A fluffy gray poodle strutted like a contender in next week's Westminster Kennel Club dog show.
"I love this," said Willie Ninja, creative director for EON Model Management, sitting in
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Empty soda cans and discarded lecture notes become haute couture as Oregon State University prepares for its annual Repeat Performance, a fashion show featuring garments made from recycled materials.
The show takes place Friday at 7 p.m. in the ballroom at OSU's Memorial Union, 2501 S.W. Jefferson Way. The OSU chapter of Fashion Group International organizes the event, which is free and open to the public.
This year's theme is "Rubbish From Around the World." The international motif may not present itself in the fashion (organizers say not to expect bubble wrap kimonos or wrapping paper saris), but the music, stage decorations and dance entertainment will emphasize cultural diversity.
About 70 design and merchandising students are participating in the fashion show. A jury panel will judge the garments Friday evening and bestow various awards to winning designs.
Leslie Burns, who chairs the OSU design and human environment department, said students appreciate Repeat Performance's dual emphasis on creativity and environmental sustainability. Also, she added, students like that the project is as friendly to their pocketbooks as it is to the planet.
Designers can only spend $7 on materials for each garment, which necessitates some serious thrift. Burns recalled dresses from previous years made with bookstore bags
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The latest fashions from the biggest names in couture hit the runway today at the 77th Annual Academy Awards Fashion Preview.
Oscar fashion coordinator Patty Fox and 20 models previewed the glamour and sophistication fans can expect to see in the fashions worn by the nominees, presenters and guests attending this year's Oscar ceremony.
"The Oscar red carpet has become the largest fashion show in the world with each couture gown an individual work of art," Fox said. "Inside the theater the evening is all about film. But on the red carpet it's the look that counts."
Fox, author of the fashion books "Star Style" and "Star Style at the Academy Awards," recently visited the top New York design showrooms and selected gowns from some of the biggest names in fashion to feature in the preview.
This year, Fox also endeavored to identify and bring to light some of the hottest and most promising designers currently hitting the fashion scene. Designers included in the preview were Bill Blass, Kevan Hall, Halston, Douglas Hannant, Morgane Le Fay, Monique Lhuillier, Luca Luca, Isaac Mizrahi and Valentino.
A team of expert hair stylists and make-up artists from Roy Teeluck Salon prepared the models for their high-fashion stroll down the runway constructed for this occasion.
Diamonds courtesy of Chopard, Martin Katz and
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The first British retrospective of the work of textile and fashion designer Zandra Rhodes, on at the Fashion and Textile Museum until June 25 2005.
As you enter the exhibition, a giant photo of Zandra Rhodes gives you a taste of what's to come. She has fuchsia pink hair adorned with glittery yellow and blue feathers, turquoise eye shadow and pink lipstick.
The show takes you through Zandra Rhodes' work from the past 40 years, and demonstrates every part of her design process - from initial sketches to printing, pattern cutting and the finished item.
Garments are displayed on elaborately made-up mannequins, accessorised with Andrew Logan's sparkling, oversized jewellery in coloured mirrored glass.
A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Rhodes never intended to make clothes herself. She describes taking her textile prints to designers and being told they were either 'too big or too extreme'. So she did things her own way.
Print layouts drawn onto huge pieces of card show how the final dress pattern conforms to the shapes within the original print - the complete opposite of how pattern cutting usually happens.
A stunning example of this is a 1971 quilted jacket made from a cream and pink shell print satin.
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