Top Model-final will be Live from Fashion Week

NZNTM judges Chris Sisarich, Sara Tetro and Colin Mathura-Jeffree

The season finale of New Zealand’s Next-Top-Model will be broadcast live from the New Zealand Fashion Week, with the finalists walking in one of the event’s biggest runway shows.

The final three competitors will take to the catwalk to determine who will-win the third season of the reality programme, which sees one aspiring model win prizes which include a modelling contract and introductions to overseas agencies.

Giambattista Valli show couture in Paris

Giambattista Valli has just been elected as guest of the French Chambre Syndicale, the organization in charge of the haute couture shows.
In what is an unusual move for the notoriously exclusive committee consisting of design houses such as Armani, Valentino and Elie Saab, a young and independent designer has been granted a spot on the official schedule for the July shows.
According to the calendar, his show will take place at the Galerie de la Madeleine where his new store and atelier are based.

The rules of the Chambre Syndicale dictate that Valli  who is famous for his sophisticated ball gowns sure to appear on this year’s red carpets at the Cannes film festival  be elected at least five times in order to gain permanent membership.

Who is Made in Pakistan for anyway?

By Kiran Haroon
Karachi

As the year 2011 started one found hope in looking for something new and moving into a better phase with bigger promises. But if you are in any way connected to the fashion industry your thoughts immediately went to the imminent fashion weeks. Now with the year reaching its half point we’ve already had a fashion and bridal weeks.

A fashion designer is a person that takes a theme and weaves it into clothes for a person that identifies themselves with that designer. The fashion week has brought about a newer understanding of the business of fashion but at the cost of creativity in fashion.

When a milieu of clothes bombards the ramp in an assembly line, the spark that draws one to seek creativity in fashion is extinguished. Yet again we as a nation have taken it upon ourselves to appease the foreigners that can further our business with their dollar and pound investments. Yet again we fail to realize that the consumer that will wear the shalwar and the kameez will always be in Pakistan. A designer may be technically sound to design a ball gown, dress or trousers for women but does it mean that they can understand its functions in a woman’s life?

Mad Men Brings 60's Style In Fashion Week

Proenza Schouler - Fashion Week (imaxtree)

The women of "Mad Men" aren’t just taking over television. They’re on red carpets; the front rows of New York Fashion Week; walking the dog and sipping coffee on a veranda. Don a boxy blazer with oversized buttons, or a tweed pencil skirt à la Peggy Olson and you too can be one of the 60s vixens.

"Mad Men"’s iconic style is taking fashion in a direction far from its current counterparts. As queens of pop such as Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga up their shock factor in latex and unitards, American fashion is becoming of two minds: the sexy, 80s-inspired cut-outs and sheer clothing influenced by the pop music scene, and the more demure, lady-like style epitomized by "Mad Men."

Christina Hendricks’s character, Joan, has played a large part in this fashion movement as the sultry secretary who shows off her hourglass frame with low décolletage and solid pencil-skirted dresses in bright turquoise, pink, and cherry red. Other ladies from the show are emulating this classic style in their everyday wardrobes.

Alison Brie, who plays Trudy, was seen in the front rows of BCBG, Nicole Miller and Charlotte Ronson at New York Fashion Week wearing quintessentially Joan silhouettes: a retro lilac dress with pleating and floral detail and a draped nude long-sleeved mini-dress.

Milan Fashion Week: Etro Spring/Summer 2011 Fashion Show

Designer Veronica Etro follows the global cultural trail in the Etro spring/summer 2011 collection at Milan Fashion Week.

BY Hilary Alexander

 

A model wears a creation from the Etro spring/summer 2011 collection at Milan Fashion Week

Etro, the family brand renowned for its multi-coloured prints, showcased ancient global cultures in an exotic presentation at Milan Fashion Week today (Friday).

London Fashion Week: Our most worst dressed celebrities!

We've shown you the best, now let's look at the horrors...

You know, whenever there is an incredibly stylish event going on, we're always shocked by just how many badly dressed people tend to turn up. We can imagine that they perhaps crumble under the pressure a bit, and in an attempt to be as fashion forward as possible, they go one step too far, but that's no excuse for some of the travesties we've seen at London Fashion Week in these recent days.

You'll see all the usual suspects there, as well as some real shockers we didn't expect to pop up. So check out the worst dressed of London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011...

We know Paloma Faith always dresses a bit weird. We accept that. But we just don't like it... soz.