Tag Archives: video

Review: Firth dazzles in radiant `A Single Man’ (AP)

AP – “A Single Man” easily could have been one of those style-over-substance visual dazzlers, coming as it does from Tom Ford, the fashion designer who revived the house of Gucci.

Layering is big trend at NY Fashion Week (AP)

AP – Can’t decide what to wear? Pile it all on.

SI swimsuit edition puts Roddick’s wife on cover (AP)

AP – Model Brooklyn Decker landed the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover this year.

Forever Yours: Elyse Allen Brings Tradition Back to Textiles (Fashion Wire Daily)

Fashion Wire Daily – Elyse Allen makes things that you cannot, and should not, ever throw out. A textile designer based in New York, Allen creates gorgeous, whimsical knits – hats, scarves, headbands, fingerless gloves – using the most luxurious Scottish cashmere yarns and embellished with Swarovski crystals. Functional accessories intended for Mother Nature’s cruelest, most frigid days and nights are rendered into something akin to a fuzzy, glittery jewel.

London opens fashion week with silence for McQueen (AFP)

AFP – London Fashion Week opened Friday with a minute’s silence for Alexander McQueen, as it mourned one of Britain’s most daring and innovative designers who hanged himself earlier this month.

Valentino’s Eco Modernism (Fashion Wire Daily)

Fashion Wire Daily – Valentino offered a large dollop of eco modernist fashion in the house’s Spring 2010 haute couture collection, presented before huge images of swaying digital trees projected on the walls of the medieval convent hospital in Paris where the show was staged Wednesday, Jan. 27.

Fashion boss who hired Lindsay Lohan leaves Ungaro (Reuters)

Reuters – Mounir Moufarrige, president and chief executive of French fashion house Emanuel Ungaro, has resigned just over two months after a widely panned collection by American actress Lindsay Lohan.

British fashion designer McQueen found dead at 40 (AP)

AP – His runway shows were often like performance pieces: One featured models with headwear made of trash. Another showed off 10-inch heels shaped like lobster claws.

Anna Wintour heading to magazine hall of fame (AP)

AP – Already considered one of the most powerful people in fashion, Vogue’s Anna Wintour is headed to the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame.

Designers embrace power of fashion’s blogging crowd (Reuters)

Reuters – Designers are embracing a growing crowd of internet-savvy fashion followers taking catwalk glamour beyond the coveted front row, with many young creators welcoming a trend they say brings them closer to consumers.