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The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) announced yesterday that Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein, Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough for Proenza Schouler, and Marc Jacobs for Marc Jacobs have been nominated for the Womenswear Designer of the Year award.
The 2006 CFDA Fashion Awards winners will be announced at the annual gala, underwritten by Swarovski, on June 5th at The New York Public Library.
This year's gala will be hosted by Entourage star Jeremy Piven. The official announcement was made last night at an exclusive event at the Rooftop Gardens on top of Rockefeller Center, which was hosted by the CFDA Board of Directors and Nadja Swarovski.
In addition, Thom Browne, Ralph Lauren, and Alexandre Plokhov for Cloak have been nominated for the Menswear Designer of the Year award, while Tom Binns, Marc Jacobs for Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors have been nominated for the Accessory Designer of the Year award.
Doo-Ri Chung, Kate and Laura Mulleavy for Rodarte, and Thakoon Panichgul have been nominated for Swarovski's Perry Ellis Award for Womenswear.
The nominees for Swarovski's Perry Ellis Award for Menswear are Steven Cox & Daniel Silver for Duckie Brown, Nathan Bogle, David Neville & Marcus Wainwright for Rag & Bone, and Jeff Halmos, Josia Lamberto-Egan, Sam Shipley and John Whitledge for Trovata.
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The Arts of Fashion Competition is to promote & reward creativity & inventiveness, discover young talents & encourage careers, establish enriching contacts & exchanges between different countries, different Schools & Universities, different industries & fields to know each other better.
The first 3 laureates will receive Awards and a Certification for their creative and original work based on themes chosen each year by the Paris organization.
The first 10 laureates in the Fashion category and first 5 in the Accessory category will represent the United States for the Final of the 24th International Competition for Young Fashion Designers (Concours International des Jeunes Createurs de Mode - Paris) at the Carrousel du Louvre, in Paris on December 14, 2006.
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Arts of Fashion Competition 2006
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How many times have you tried on a pair of gorgeous jeans only to discover that they hug your body in all of the wrong places?
AlvaProducts, a leading fit model manufacturer, is helping to resolve some of the dressing room drama by offering the fashion industry a line of customized "true body shape" forms.
"We are a global fit and size expert," explained Janice Wang, CEO of AlvaProducts, to Fashion Wire Daily.
"We partnered with North Carolina State University to help major retailers and apparel manufacturers create a model of their ideal customer by using 3D body scanners."
To translate, the process begins by scanning a (live) fit model to obtain a 3D digital form.
AlvaProducts specialists than tweak this raw data to perfect body altitude, posture and symmetry.
Once the digital form gets approved by a brand or company, it is materialized into a full size polyfoam form using a CNC Rapid Prototyping Milling machine.
Last minute adjustments are made to the polyfoam version before the form goes through its final transformation using fiberglass.
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The Armani Group announced that Giorgio Armani will visit Hong Kong and Shanghai at the end of March for a series of events coinciding with the opening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim's Giorgio Armani Retrospective at the Shanghai Art Museum on April 1.
Giorgio Armani said, "It is a great honour to have the Guggenheim's exhibition of my work presented by the Shanghai Art Museum.
China, its culture and spirit, have been a constant personal inspiration, which makes this opening even more meaningful."
On March 30, on his way to Shanghai, Giorgio Armani will stop in Hong Kong to present his Armani/Privé Spring/Summer 2006 haute couture collection in an exclusive fashion show for 1,500 invited guests.
Giorgio Armani will then travel to Shanghai where, on April 1, the Shanghai Art Museum will celebrate the opening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim's Giorgio Armani Retrospective with a VIP cocktail party for 1,000 people followed by an exclusive fashion show at the Shanghai Grand Theatre.
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When you think about Spanish fashion, who tends to come to mind?
In all likelihood, it's Custo or ZARA.
Custo Barcelona, formed by the brothers Custodio and David Dalmau, started out designing t-shirts in the early 80s and gained celebrity status in recent years much like the Catalan culinary star Ferran Adriá.
And in the High Street, ZARA, is one of the largest chains in Spain, with close to 900 stores in 60 countries, making millions of sales each year.
But Spanish fashion today is so much more.
Needless to say, status and money does not always equal style and merit. It often seems as if the designers with the best marketing strategy and biggest bucks get the most attention.
They continue to be Spain's well-kept secrets.
Throughout the country, with over 50 fashion schools from Galicia to Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Madrid, Spanish designers are creating and selling their collections each year, in and outside of their country.
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