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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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Forget satin, silk and cashmere. Denim took center stage at this year's Los Angeles Fashion Week in a reminder to fashion watchers that premium jeans mean big business.
"Why is it we should have runway shows for denim?" asked 30-year jeans veteran Paul Guez rhetorically.
"They do more business than most other brands, than most (apparel) companies in Europe... This is the new generation of runway businesses that are alive and well, profitable -- and very cute."
Guez is chief executive of Blue Holdings Inc., whose brands Antik Denim, Taverniti and Yanuk all took center stage at the shows.
Black denim was prevalent on the runway, with accents including military styling and distressed fabrics.
Guez described his portfolio and other rival premium jeans brands such as 7 For All Mankind and Citizens of Humanity as "high fashion, high-end denim that are not just denim."
Fern Mallis, vice president of IMG Fashion, which produces the week of fashion shows, said denim's spot on the runway is deserved.
"People come to L.A. and want to see the denim lines," said Mallis, "We could turn this into denim week."
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Comprising some three hundred objects, the collection of Asian textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has remained a hidden treasure since its inception nearly a century ago.
This small but important collection, which includes textiles from East, South, and Central Asia dating from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, displays remarkable geographical breadth, great diversity of technique, and a broad range of functions.
With highlights including late Persian textiles, Indian embroideries, Kashmir shawls, Chinese court costume, and Japanese folk garments, the Spencer's Asian textiles are rich in history and design, offering a wealth of information and beauty.
The Spencer's South Asian textiles represent both the consummate skill of professional craftsmen and the vivacity of folk designs.
The latter may be seen in profusion on the embroideries of Northwest India and Pakistan, while the former is embodied in the Kashmir shawl, the fine garment of meticulous workmanship that swept Europe by storm in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Chinese textiles, with nearly 140 pieces, form the single largest group of Asian textiles in the collection.
The court robes and rank badges, women's garments, sleeve bands and other objects also share a profound visual language
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Cranbrook Art Museum will present an exhibition of the extraordinary hats that the Irish designer Philip Treacy made for his friend and muse, Isabella Blow.
The exhibition, When Philip Met Isabella -- Philip Treacy's Hats for Isabella Blow, draws on work from the private collections of both Treacy and Blow, and opens on June 4, 2006.
Since their first meeting on a fashion shoot in 1989 when Treacy was a student at the Royal College of Art, Blow has been his staunchest supporter and a constant source of inspiration.
After leaving the RCA, he lived and worked from the basement of her London house for three years.
Many of his most surreal and sculptural hats have been made for her.
"Issy never says: 'You've gone too far," says Treacy.
"She always says: 'You haven't gone far enough."
When Philip Met Isabella will explore their collaboration through twenty of the hats he has made for her.
Exhibits will include the Ship, an astonishingly realistic replica of an 18th century French ship with full rigging made from miniature buttons, and the rose pink damask Pope modelled on the papal hat.
Also featured will be the Castle inspired by Blow's ancestral home at Doddington, Cheshire and Ludwig of Bavaria's magnificent palace.
Gilbert and George is a fantastical concoction of pink and green lacquered
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