Best shows about fashion on TV

Project Runway --This competitive reality TV show has already been nominated for an Emmy.  This fashion themed show tests designer's skills to the limit as they are judged each week by-supermodel host Heidi Klum, esteemed designer Michael Kors, and Elle magazine-director Nina Garcia.  Out of 15 hopeful contestants, one designer will achieve the title of winner of "Project Runway.

Luxury Brand Fendi launches New fashion line on Seoul floating island

Brushing off controversy over its use of fur, luxury brand Fendi launched its fall and winter fashion line-on a large man made island in Seoul to highlight its--creativity.
Models showing Fendi's new collection, including-the Italian fashion house's signature fur items, strutted down the catwalk as hundreds of celebrities, guests and journalists watched what was only Fendi's second ever show in Asia.
"We don't do shows just-to do shows. We don't do shows to repeat what we showed in Milan," said Fendi CEO Michael Burke of the Thursday event.
"If we're going to do a fashion show, it has to be something noble, innovative, creative and sometimes risky. We like-that. There's no creativity without risk."


But Fendi's journey to-the launch on the world's largest artificial "floating island," itself unveiled less than a month ago, was far from easy.

Pakistani women bust stereotypes - with business

Chandigarh, May 5 (IANS) Silently suffering behind a burqa, reduced to an inferior gender in a conservative society and confined to an anonymous existence..women from Pakistan are breaking many such stereotypes and, at a trade show in

India, a clutch of them showed how.

"I started my textile business many years back in Multan. Initially, it was only aimed to provide employment to poor people of our locality, but gradually it became a full-time profession for me," Naseem Akhtar, owner of Naseem Akhtar
Enterprises, told IANS.

"Today we have provided jobs to scores of people and our unique Multani designs and embroidery are made by hand by my
workers. We are into both manufacturing and exporting fashion products. I have participated in trade shows in different
parts of India and also in the US, Canada and Dubai," said Akhtar, who is in her early 60s.