Category Archives: Women’s

Berlin designers hit catwalk — and twitter (AP)

AP – Two unique German designers with a hip take on youth culture in the nation’s capital splashed the catwalk with wool caps, fire-engine red dresses and navy blues for men Friday evening at Berlin’s fashion week.

Reflective mood as London Fashion Week opens (AP)

AP – Fashionistas erected a wall of condolences for Alexander McQueen on Friday, marking the death of the innovative British designer at the start of London’s Fashion Week.

Tahari caters to traveler who doesn’t dress down (AP)

AP – Enough with dressing down, declared Elie Tahari on Tuesday at New York Fashion Week.

Menswear comes into its own at NY Fashion Week (Reuters)

Reuters – Menswear at New York Fashion Week typically takes a backseat to the more showy and better-known women’s lines, but the collections unveiled this week show U.S. menswear designers coming into their own with strong performances, buyers and trend analysts said.

At NY Fashion Week, sea of fashionable black (AP)

AP – Don’t let anyone tell you there’s a new black.

NY Fashion Week kicks off with somber McQueen news (AP)

AP – The models were rounding the runway for the finale of the first show at New York Fashion Week Thursday when the crowd began to buzz with sobering news: Bad-boy designer Alexander McQueen had died.

France backs fashion bank for crisis-hit designers (Reuters)

Reuters – France said it would help struggling designers and artisans by creating a fashion bank and handing out state guarantees for loans, Industry Minister Christian Estrosi said Monday.

Lanvin concludes Paris’ menswear shows in style (AP)

AP – Lanvin’s pitch-perfect menswear collection of romantic-yet-rugged suits and billowing trenches wrapped up Paris’ fall-winter 2010-2011 displays on a high note Sunday.

Paris couturier Thimister returns in style (AP)

AP – Josephus Thimister returned from a years-long hiatus with a spring-summer 2010 haute couture collection that searched for beauty in horror.

Sarah Jessica Parker said to partner with Halston (AP)

AP – Sarah Jessica Parker and Halston may be banking on fashion sequels: The storied designer label reportedly has hired the “Sex and the City” star in a creative role.