Archive for the 'designer fashion' Category



Luxury Lingerie Store Journelle Opens its 3rd location in NYC

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Journelle, a Luxury lingerie seller which makes available products to the contemporary woman, brought their know-how and extensive selection of lingerie to New York’s well-heeled Upper East Side when it opened its fourth store last November 26, 2011. It is located at 1266 Third Avenue. The 1,200-square-foot store is the third Journelle outlet in the [...]



High End Fashion

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Sir Paul McCartney’s daughter, Stella, has made a name for herself in the fashion industry. Stella is to show her latest collection in 2012 at the London Fashion Week. There is one notable dress designed by her, named the ‘Octavia’ dress. It costs £885.00 and is therefore within the reaches of actresses such as Kate [...]



Party Time Fashions

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Fishtail dresses are fun to wear as the party season gets underway. Sergio revived this type of dress in the 1990’s. They are notable for their extremely low-cut back, so low that they can reveal the cleavage!
Alternatively, the Prada little black dress is always a stunner especially as Nicole Kidman and Uma Thurman have endorsed [...]



Lanvin designer to show new winter fashion collection this month

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Designer Alber Elbaz of fashion giant Lanvin is set to unveil his 30-piece winter fashion collection for H&M later this month and said that the collection is priced at budget-friendly rates thus making it more accessible to more people.
The collection will go on sale November 23.
Elbaz landed a lucrative collaboration deal with Hennes & Mauritz  [...]



Cycling city to become forefront in fashion trends

Monday, November 1st, 2010

The City of York is known as a cycling city, if not the science city. However, a group of local fashion designers and retailers are exerting efforts to make this thriving city a fashion capital as well.
The Fashion City York is a brainchild of a group of fashion retailers, beauty salons and the City of [...]



Singer Kerry Katona launches Liverpool Fashion Week

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Despite having had a number of fashion mishaps in the past when she was still a part of the all-girl group Atomic Kitten, Kerry Katona still manages to stay in the spotlight and this week, she made it in the catwalk to officially launched the Liverpool Fashion Week.
The 30-year old artist wore a number of [...]



Burberry reports positive first half revenues

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Fashion retail giant Burberry reported that its first half revenues rose 17 percent over the six month period ending September 30, 2010. According to the company’s press statement, sales of leather goods and outerwear – including the popular shearling jackets and boots – contributed in the positive sales revenues of the company.
Burberry stated that there’s [...]



Victoria Beckham tops Max Factor’s list of celebrity fashion icons

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Former Spice Girl Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham topped the list of celebrity fashion icons by giant cosmetics company Max Factor. She been tagged as the “World’s Most Glamorous Celebrity.”
The wife of football superstar David Beckham overcame tough competition from highly recognized celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Dannii Minogue among others.
Coming in at second place was [...]



Hermès CEO dies at 72

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Jean-Louis Dumas, the chief executive officer of Hermès, has died at his home in Paris, France. He was 72 years of age.
Dumas has been the top executive of the company, known for providing luxurious fashion handbags and accessories to high-end customers, for the past three decades.
A spokesperson for the company confirmed Dumas’ death but did [...]



Pop queen Madonna to debut new fashion line

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

It can now be confirmed. Multiple Grammy-winning artist Madonna will be debuting her fashion line for Macy’s. The line is called Material Girl and it will hit the stores this August.
Iconix Group, the company that Madonna had formed a partnership in this undertaking, stated that Material Girl will have fast-fashion junior collection that will become [...]