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Just as day turns to twilight, Fall 2006 colors are a subtle deepening of the world around, lit with the final glow of the turning horizon.
New York designers have found themselves in a sanctuary of color, filled with the constancy of nightfall.
Neutrals take center stage as a soothing reminder of life's many reassurances: from frost gray, evocative of a quiet winter morning, to apple cinnamon, the essence of freshly brewed tea.
The neutrals, while simple, provide a landscape for complexity.
The touches of rich tones in the palette add an exotic dimension to the neutrals, especially relevant as accessories continue to prevail.
The combination of pale khaki and red mahogany tells the story of a classic book, bound with a velvet ribbon.
Vetiver paired with purple magic is a plush couch decorated with a silk pillow.
Warmth and vibrancy have found a way to harmonize.
This season's orange, golden ochre, goes to the warm side with an umber undertone and a touch of elegance.
Mineral red adds an inviting sense of intrigue when used against a background of simply taupe, a basic yet
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London Fashion Week kicked off on Tuesday with a star-studded line-up amid hopes that the show can give Paris, Milan and New York a run for their money.
A total of 170 designers will show off their creations for autumn and winter in almost 50 shows over the festival's five days at London's Natural History Museum.
Top designers Julien MacDonald, Paul Smith, Jasper Conran, Betty Jackson and Nicole Farhi are joined by hotly-tipped newcomers such Gareth Pugh during the week, which attracts more than 5,000 buyers and journalists.
On Tuesday, Dublin-born Paul Costelloe was the first of a string of designers to launch their collections.
Dublin-born Costelloe took post-war London as his starting point to add a Forties feel to tweed suits, military coats, cosy knits and high waist trousers.
MacDonald, who honed his skills at Chanel and Givenchy before creating his own line, will show his collection on Tuesday night.
Organiser the British Fashion Council has changed the event's dates so that it competes almost head-to-head with the big-budget Milan fashion week, which begins next week.
"London is one of the world's great creative capitals and this season's designer line-up reflects this more than ever," said Hilary Riva, the council's chief executive.
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In a giant leap to merge fashion with appliances, Electrolux launched its fashion award at the 100th edition of the Salon Prêt-à-Porter Paris. And experimented with dressing up appliances.
You are what you wear, or so the saying goes. Fashion is perhaps the best way individuals have of expressing themselves, their personalities and their values.
Electrolux, in an attempt to break out of the "white box" business, was at the renowned fashion event Salon Prêt-à-Porter Paris this year to award the fashion designer collection that best represented the values of the company.
The Electrolux design values have been defined through extensive and ongoing consumer insight research, which has involved thousands of households throughout the world.
They are: Intuitive, Simplicity, Purity, Reassuring, Humanizing and Freedom.
All standholders at the Salon were eligible for the Electrolux award.
A committee of fashion consultants chose nominees.
Eventually, after many voting processes, the nominees were narrowed down to eight, at which time the Electrolux jury voted on the winner: Pauw, a Dutch fashion house.
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The London-based lifestyle brand Lounge Lover combines softness and femininity, luxury and fashion for its Autumn-Winter 2006 Collections, presented at Salon International de la Lingerie, in Paris.
Exhibiting in Paris, Salon International de la Lingerie for the first time, Lounge Lover, the London-based designer of luxury loungewear or "easy-living wear", is launching its new collections for Autumn-Winter 2006.
The Lounge Lover collections are small capsules of 6 to 8 styles, available in 2 or 3 colours, to be mixed and matched depending on your mood, taste or activity.
On the menu: a cocktail of softness, femininity and luxury for the ultimate lounging experience.
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BC Fashion Week is pleased to announce the ongoing production and upcoming release of two projects aimed at promoting the innovations and trends in sport and outerwear in Western Canada.
"Project SNO" and "Project SUN" are multi-media windows into the new dimension of lifestyle fashion originating from the most innovative street, snow, yoga and surf brands.
The hottest brands are showing up in both the sports as well as on the street, or slopes, making their own style statement.
"One of the biggest characteristics of the West Coast is lifestyle. Some of the very important and well-known designers in Western Canada are on the lips of consumers all over the world," said Vladimir Markovich, Executive Creative Director BC Fashion Week.
"The west coast is the mother land for some of the most established and world renowned designers in sport and recreation wear.
Vancouver has a number of designers and firms that bring the international spotlight on innovations in active wear fashions.
Local designers are producing lines for the fashion conscious consumer - those who follow runway trends and incorporates them in active outdoor wear,"
"The last number of years have seen a lot of changes in design of outdoor wear.
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