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 Stella Shines in British Fashion AwardsStella McCartney was last night named designer of the year at the British fashion awards.The award, which comes weeks after McCartney's seven-year-old label announced it had turned a small profit for the first time, is indicative of how McCartney has established herself as a respected designer. The Stella perfume and diversification into sunglasses and a range of sportswear for Adidas have helped to balance the books, while McCartney's aesthetic, which mixes sportswear influences with tailoring and vintage-feel feminine fabrics, has become part of the fashion vernacular - a fact proved by the Marks & Spencer collections for next summer, which feature pale, silky parkas, a McCartney signature piece. more lifeand... (335) added by Senay GOKCEN |
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 Twenty Three Year Old Briton to Make Chicks Tick for UngaroFrance's prestigious luxury fashion house Emanuel Ungaro is bringing in a 23-year-old Colombian-born Briton who works in the US to freshen up its women's collections, the company's chief executive said Friday.Esteban Cortazar "knows what makes a chick tick and that's important in our business," the head of the Paris house, Mounir Moufarrige, told AFP. The new designer is a Bogota-born British national who moved to the US at the age of 11 and trotted out his first collection under his name in New York in 2003. Since founder-couturier Ungaro departed in 2005, the company has seen three successive designers, the last being Norwegian Peter Dundas, who was waved off last July with Moufarrige saying at the time the venerable house "needs shock therapy." Asked whether Cortazar had the age and experience needed to give the venerable 40-year label a shot in the arm, Moufarrige cited Facebook founder Mark Zucherberg's 22 years and billion-dollar success story. more afp.goo... (127) added by Senay GOKCEN |
 Viktor & Rolf to Design Bags for SamsoniteExpect Samsonite bags in the shape of violins, cow bells or Russian dolls, to name just a few of the surreal creations of Viktor & Rolf.The Dutch design duo of Rolf Snoeren and Viktor Horsting has been tapped by the iconic travel brand to create a Black Label collection for 2009 - following the example of Alexander McQueen, whose skeletal sculptures created the coolest of wheely bags for the company. "It's the same logic - to be provocative and unexpected to create excitement around the brand," said Marcello Bottoli, Samsonite's president and CEO. "We are working on the idea of 'happy travel' - trying to do something more naïve and personal," said Snoeren on Monday. "A lot of luggage is very technical and impersonal - it's a challenge." more www.iht... (324) added by Levent OZLER |
 Waldemeyer Refashions World of Rock Costume DesignRising star of modern design, Moritz Waldemeyer, is collaborating with the quirky kings of Geek Rock, OK Go, to fashion a new kind of stage performance.The band recently approached Waldemeyer to design the costumes for their latest performance, and his solution quite literally lights up the stage - thousands of LED lights, stitched into the jackets of the four performers, will turn each of them into a moving light show. Waldemeyer's inspiration was the flickering lights of the slot machines in the casinos of Las Vegas. The result is a dazzling innovation in stage costume design, a knowing fusion of glitz and capitalist kitsch that perfectly reflects OK Go's own synthesis of Power Pop and tongue-in-cheek wit. When the band appears on stage, LED lights embedded in their jackets run through a sequence that makes up the letters O,K,G,O - like a Vegas slot-machine scrolling through its symbols to spell the band's name. more www.dez... (769) added by Levent OZLER |
 Julia Roberts Designs a First in Armani BraceletJulia Roberts has designed a bracelet for Giorgio Armani to sell for World AIDS Day, the fashion house said on Tuesday.It is the first time the Italian designer has worked with another name on a product. The leather bracelet in red or brown has a "Tree of Life" design and inside carries the initials J.R, Armani said. more www.reu... (453) added by Levent OZLER |
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