The third annual Fashion’s Night Out will kickoff Fashion Week on Thursday night with an evening of runway shows, designer sales and celebrity appearances.
Over 1,000 stores and designers will host events throughout the city, celebrating fashion and shopping. Many of them, like Stuart Weitzman, will be using these events to raise money for charity.
Mr. Weitzman will showcase at his 625 Madison Ave. flagship boutique his Young Hollywood Cares Shoe Collection, which celebrities Scarlett Johansson, Olivia Palermo, Michelle Trachtenberg and Hayden Panettiere helped design. The proceeds from these sales will benefit ovarian cancer research by the Folkman Institute in Boston.
“I do a lot of work with celebrities, and we have always tried to bring them into our fundraising efforts,” Mr. Weitzman said. “They really like to help out and give back.”
These four new shoe designs have been in store for two weeks already, and Mr. Weitzman has sold between 70 and 80 pairs so far at $375 to $475 a piece.
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Vogue magazine’s Fashion Night Out will come to Mexico to show that, despite the international image of the country as an unsafe place, “you can go out on the street and have a good time,” the magazine’s editor-in-chief for the country, Eva Hughes, told Efe on Monday.
For the third year in a row – albeit the first time in Mexico – on Sept. 8 a number of stores, especially luxury shops, in the Mexican capital and cities in 16 other countries will open their doors until late in the evening to allow the public to see the latest fashions and other products.
“It’s a chance to show the world that Mexico is able to have a fashion night rivaling the best that other cities in the world can muster,” said Hughes, who added that despite the fact that “there are situations that cannot be controlled” organizers expect “everything to go well and people to come out and enjoy themselves.”
Hughes said that the Fashion Night Out began in the United States in 2009, when many people stopped going out to shop due to the economic crisis. “There was a need to involve people again in the luxury world, in shopping … The success was such that new countries began to join in.”
With New York fashion week and her seventh collection just around the corner, the uber-mum who said: “Maternity leave – what’s that?” is already back in circulation.
Victoria Beckham took a trip to an LA shopping centre with baby Harper Seven – allowing the family’s fans to get another look at the cutie.
Now eight weeks old, Harper is thriving. She has a thick head of hair, chubby cheeks and her mother’s nose.
Because of a painful back condition, the stylish designer has been advised to ditch her customary sky high Louboutins.
She is said to have suffered a slipped disc when expecting.
A couple of days earlier, the former Spice Girl was seen in six-inch heels, but by the weekend she’d wisely traded them in for some ballet pumps.
Victoria, 37, teamed them with a sassy black mini-dress that showed off her already enviable post-pregnancy figure.
Victoria Beckham and her baby.
Fashion came alive in a cosmopolitan spirit on the evening of Day 2 of Van Heusen India Men’s Week 2011. With four designers slated to showcase their respective collections within a brief window of time, there were quite a few doubts that unsettled the minds of the people.
Would individual collections provide diversity in their range of ensembles or would the audience be exposed to an excessively ‘tailored’ line of creations? Worries of all kinds were put to rest once the show commenced.
A fast paced show of sorts, every package of designs streamed into the other with sheer neatness distinguishing one collection from the other. While Abraham and Thakore’s traditional Indian silhouettes mixed the ethnic with the modern, Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna’s Joie De Vivre defined the menswear in celebratory shades of joy and style. Where handloom weaves and techniques of shibori and iktat credited an intensive cut to Rajesh Pratap Singh’s sartorial excellence, Abhishek Gupta’s garments experimented with modern patterns and traditional techniques infusing freshness to the creation.
Most artists make one big splashy video for their latest single and then move on to the next one. As she’s proven over and over again, though — most recently at the VMAs, where she stayed in her Jo Calderone character all night long — Lady Gaga is not most people.
After announcing on Twitter on Thursday that she shot five “fashion films” set to “You and I” with Dutch fashion photography duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, she unleashed the first clip later that day, “Haus of U Featuring Nymph.”
In typical Gaga fashion, it is perplexing, mesmerizing and just a bit odd, and nothing like the way-more elaborate, official music video for the rocking ballad. The barely two-minute black-and-white clip has Gaga pulling off a series of balletic twists and turns while wearing a simple slip dress and ballet slippers, her blonde hair loose and waving in the wind or up in a bun. At various points, there appear to be moths or some other kind of insect flying around in the background and lying dead on the ground.
Lady Gaga.
The third edition of Van Heusen India Mens Week (VHIMW) 2011 kickstarts today. Designers are ready to showcase their menswear collection for the modern Indian men who don’t hesitate to shell out a handsome amount for bespoke attire.
Perhaps it’s the lure of the emerging menswear market in our country that is now attracting many designers to venture into this segment. This year, designers like Tarun Tahiliani, Ankita and Anjana Bhargav, Abraham & Thakore, Rajesh Pratap Singh who are famous for their fine womenswear, are associating themselves with the menswear and experimenting in this sector.
Talking about the transition from womenswear to menswear section, designer David Abraham say, “Though this is our first show, we have always had a shirt and kurta collection for men in our stores. This is a small but steadily growing segment of our business. We have been selling men’s shirts overseas and in a few selected stores. For menswear, it is a large market here which is slowly expanding.”
Sarah Jessica Parker commenced the fashion parade for her I Don’t Know How She Does It press tour today in Moscow. She was up for an early morning photo call on the roof of the city’s Ritz Carlton in a Prabal Gurung dress and later attended a premiere in a red gown and cape combo from Giambattista Valli. SJP should continue to rock amazing looks as she travels on behalf of the film in the run-up to its release here in the US on Sept. 16. Fans may be excited to see her tackling the working-mom role of Kate Reddy, while others still have fingers crossed for a return of clothes horse Carrie Bradshaw. Sarah Jessica’s latest comments on a third Sex and the City film make Carrie’s comeback seem more uncertain than ever. After saying she knows the story of the next movie, SJP recently revealed that there are no concrete plans to get the SATC girls back together any time soon.
Sarah Jessica Parker.
Kylie Minogue made her way to the gym wearing a stylish trenchcoat in London yesterday and we really wouldn’t have noticed except, Pippa Middleton wore it exactly four days before!
No, Kylie Minogue and Pippa Middleton haven’t attended the same clothes swapping party recently, in fact we don’t even think they know each other, but they certainly have the similar tastes in fashion!
On Friday, Pippa donned the black mac with white trim out on a coffee run in west London. The Duchess of Cambridge’s sister accessorised with a light bag and shoes.
Kylie, went the opposite way however, and opted for black skinny jeans, patent heels and handbag.
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The future of Fashion Week is under threat as sponsorship is hit by the Rugby World Cup.
At opening night last evening director Pieter Stewart called on the Government to back the event, saying a 12th year couldn’t be guaranteed.
Fashion Industry executive officer Mapihi Opai says Government funding for fashion has been pretty slim in recent years.
She says help is needed for Fashion Week to continue on the same track.
“It is a family business, the resources are limited, they do a fantastic job in getting the millions together it takes to stage this event every year,” she told Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking. “But just imagine how much better it could be if that support was there.”
Victoria Beckham has been ordered to wear flat shoes during New York Fashion Week. Dear Posh, we’re heartbroken as well. We love your gargantuan high-heeled and other shoe-related appearances. Remember the thigh-high PVC heelless boots you wore at your New York perfume launch? The ones that inspired visions of a terrible wheat-thresher-related accident where you’d been walking peacefully in a country field one afternoon, only to trip and have the back of your feet sliced off? All in the name of fashion, Posh. You soldiered on defiantly.
Now you’ve slipped a disc, because you were pregnant, and doctors have banned you from wearing stilettos.
“Victoria has been frantically surfing the web for an acceptable pair of flats,” says a source in British newspaper the Mirror. “Ones which don’t make her look like a golf club.”
Victoria Beckham.