Monday, October 26, 2009

Lindsay Lohan Issue On Paris Fashion Week

Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan has revealed that she used supermodel Kate Moss as a human shield at the French fashion collections.

Lohan was swarmed by reporters and paparazzi during her debut as artistic advisor for Emanuel Ungaro.

One journalist even crawled under a photographer's legs to try and snatch a quick quote from Lindsay.

But Lindsay - who is well-known for visiting her favorite LA restaurant in disguise - turned the tables one night in Paris.

She told a British reporter that she just used Moss as a human shield to get away from the crush of press.

“At the Testino party, Kate Moss was walking out," she said.

"I saw her leaving and was, like, ‘Go now!’ I was walking behind her. She went one way and took the photographers with her. I went straight to my car.”

Source: Irish Central

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Friday, October 23, 2009

Victoria's Secret Unveils $3 Million Diamond bra


New York--Victoria's Secret has been selling its convertible bras for years, but when shoppers receive the lingerie retailer's newest catalog in the mail this week, they'll find one version with a $3 million price tag.



The latest of the diamond-studded stunners that Victoria's Secret reveals each year is a Victoria's Secret Very Sexy Convertible bra crafted with an 18-karat gold harlequin-patterned net and embellished with 2,355 colorless and cognac diamonds. Topping it all off is a rare, 16-carat heart-shaped diamond in a champagne hue.

The "Harlequin Fantasy Bra," as it has been named, was designed by Italian jewelry house Damiani and manufactured at the brand's workshop in Valenza, Italy.

Full News at National Jeweler

Monday, October 19, 2009

Seasons' Top Fashion Designers

Top Fashion Designers

Celine: Thanks to the Celine show, we're all coveting earthy shades of camel, nude and safari – not to mention butter-soft leather.

Salvatore Ferragamo: Hello, sunshine – bursts of bright yellow were warmly received at Ferragamo, who in Milan also channelled chic wearability.

Stella McCartney: Don't be afraid of soft and simple was the message at Stella McCartney and for that, her show was a standout.

Finest Floral Designers

Stella McCartney: In addition to her sharp tailoring and lots of wearable basics (welcome back, denim skirt), McCartney's show was big on beautiful rose-print dresses and blouses.

Valentino: The emperor might have retired but his successors are ensuring the glamour lives on with short, sheer party dresses (no, there was not a hint of red) and a stunning floor-length chiffon gown with black-orchid print.

Collette Dinnigan: Dinnigan injected a little bit of Australiana into her collection with long and short-tiered florals in a kaleidoscope of colours and a stunning silk strapless maxi with beaded and embroidered sunflower motif.

Top Luxury Designers

Prada: Gorgeous island prints, crystal chandelier pieces and crystal-encrusted shoes – what's not to love?

Givenchy: The sharp, almost futuristic geometric vibe was offset at Givenchy with draped goddess dresses complete with shimmering shoulders.

Lanvin: Consider Lanvin the go-to label for after-hours glamour. Glittering jumpsuits, short, block-colour cocktail frocks and plenty of luxe neck, arm, wrist and bag candy.

Source: Stuff.co.nz

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Monday, October 12, 2009

Paris Fashion Week: Pixie Lott

Pixie Lott has left the UK music scene for now to rock the fashionistas in the French capital.

At a private gig at Karl Lagerfeld's pop-up club Fendi O on Tuesday she was introduced to the celebrity crowd during Paris Fashion Week.

But down-to-earth Essex-born Pixie said she wouldn't let all the glamour and the popularity go to her head.

"I don't really get phased by too much, and I really hate big-headed people, so I don't really think that that is ever going to be a problem. I think that I have just got such great friends and family and it just feels exactly the same as before, everyone treats me the same, I am still exactly the same,"

In previous years Lagerfeld choose The Gossip and Amy Winehouse to play for the bi-annual Fendi party.

The exclusive event opened the stage to Pixie to present her new album to the Europeans.

Turn It Up was released in the UK in September.

Source: ITN

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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Louis Vuitton Puts a Luxe Spin on the 1980s Trend


LOUIS VUITTON made headlines recently thanks to their celebrity endorser Madonna and her Met Gala bunny girl outfit (and those now infamous bunny ears), which was described by the L.A. Times as "the love child of Tinkerbell and Captain Hook," by TV tabloid Insider as an "Alice in Wonderland Louis Vuitton mess," and apart from a few die-hard fans of her Madgesty, deemed across the board as a "fashion disaster."


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Monday, October 5, 2009

Paris Fashion Week: Emanuel Ungaro Collection With Lindsay Lohan

It was a deadly collision of celebrity culture and fashion culture on Sunday at the debut of the new Emanuel Ungaro collection with Lindsay Lohan as artistic advisor and Estrella Archs as designer. When Lohan came out for a runway bow, her eyes were full of tears. And it's easy to see why. After all the hullabaloo over her appointment a month ago, with some fashion insiders suggesting it was an insult to anyone who had ever really worked in design, it had to have been the walk of shame to end all. 

The fashion crowd is a tough one, and the fangs were out for this collection from the beginning. Unfortunately, the clothes--reportedly whipped together in a mere three weeks -- didn't do anything to defy low expectations. 

It's difficult to know whom to blame -- Lohan for taking the job or Ungaro President Mounir Moufarrige for thinking he could install a troubled Hollywood starlet with no fashion training at a venerable French house (even one that cycles through designers faster than Lohan cycles through rehab stints). Or maybe it's the fault of the industry in general, which has put a premium on fast, flashy and addictive fashion, over forward-thinking and creative fashion. 
The impulse to focus on the house's signature shade of hot pink was a good one, and that's how the collection began, with a tight minidress draped over one shoulder. There were a lot of minidresses in this show, many of them so short, they seemed to be inviting a TMZ crotch shot. 

The second design element was the heart, in a repeating sequin pattern on one jacket and repeating cutouts with sequins peeking out from underneath on another. These were partytime clothes -- ruched leggings in bright blue and purple (Lohan has her own line of leggings too -- 6126), pink harem pants and bandeau bikini tops with heart-shaped charms nestled between the breasts. 

But by far the worst offense were the glittery heart-shaped pasties worn under suit jackets. In a word, why? They were just begging to be laughed at. A larger version of the heart pasties also turned up on some of the models' heads. 

Nothing in the collection evidenced any real skill or discernible design work. In fact, you could probably find a lot of it already on the shelves at Kitson. I did hear someone remark that they liked the shoes, which had narrow, stair-step heels. 

Still, there's really no defending this misguided collection, other than as a desperate bid for attention from a house that hasn't mattered since its founder retired in 2004. I just don't think it's the kind of attention they had in mind.

Source: Los Angeles Times

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Monday, September 28, 2009

John Galliano: "Seducing All The Senses"

The designer - who works for Christian Dior, as well as his own self-titled label - loves catwalk shows because they bring his creations to life. 

He explained: "If a picture paints a thousand words, a show has 20 minutes to bring the muse, the mood and the feel of a whole season to life. I want to seduce all your senses. 

"If the clothes are the script, the models are the silent sirens that have to bring the story alive. I love using theatre and magic to tell the tale." 

Unlike other designers, John denies having celebrity muses, preferring to make up his ideal women in his head. 

He told Britain's Elle magazine: "I have two mistresses. For John Galliano, she is very English in her soul. For Dior, she is very French. Dior is a beguiling, feminine, yet feisty lady. 

"She is elegant, unpredictable and utterly mesmerising. That is the essence of Dior."

Source: Bulgarian Fashion

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Monday, September 21, 2009

Betty Jackson's Spring/Summer 2010 Collection


Soft, sweet and saucy was the message from Betty Jackson’s spring/summer 2010 collection.

Her inspiration was the idea of a French demoiselle being filmed by Jean-Luc Goddard in Shanghai, leading to a lot of ooh-la-la and some extremely wearable clothes.

Ruffles, frills and flounces were a key detail whether worn as a ruff, sparkling with crystals at the neck, decorating a peplum jacket or trimming the hem of a jacket or skirt. The bra-bodice, little bloomers and French knickers were equally important to the look - a trend increasingly apparent at London Fashion Week.

Here, at Jackson, they came in contrasting pastel, floral prints, in shades of ice-pink and mint, and designed to be seen - beneath rough linen jackets, trimmed with broderie anglaise, worn with floppy, floral trousers, or worn over button-to-the neck blouses.

The boudoir theme was also echoed in little floral sundresses with draped hips, which showed a frill of purple lace at the décolletage. In more minimal, contemporary mode were short-sleeved, navy dresses with a pleated detail on the bodice and a to-the-knee skirt; easy coats, tunics and crop-trousers in beige.

A-line coats, smocks and waisted dresses came in silver lame and a rose-pink brocade, often accessorised with a sparkly ruff for a funky, but flattering look for after-dark.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Lindsay Lohan: Got Some Nerves

Lindsay Lohan is "nervous" about the upcoming House of Emanuel Ungaro fashion show. 

The 23-year-old star, who was unveiled as the French fashion house's artistic advisor earlier this week, can't wait for the Paris Fashion Week show, but is anxious about how the clothes will be received.

She explained: "I'm nervous about the show the way I get nervous about a film. Maybe a little bit more about this because it's a little more personal."

The 'Mean Girls' actress added any criticism will feel particularly harsh as she feels so closely linked to the brand.

She said: "In a film I'm playing someone else and people can relate to that character. This is very much me and I'm putting all of my efforts into it."

Lindsay - who already has her own range of leggings and fake tan - will work with Spanish designer Estrella Archs, giving her own ideas and input into upcoming collections.

She said earlier this week: "I kind of oversee everything Archs does, while working with her. Different generations have different ideas."

Designer Amy Molyneux - who already works for the French label - said of Lindsay's appointment: "She does have an eye for fashion. I like the way she dresses. Her house is a mini-department store. She changes outfits five times a day."

Source: Stuff.co.nz

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Monday, September 7, 2009

Sundance Channel Airing 4 Big Fashion Designer History

Los Angeles - Sundance Channel is set to give viewers a rare look behind the velvet rope of runway shows. The four-part original fashion series "The Day Before" will cover the global fashion scenes and calendar.

Directed by Loic Prigent, the series will give viewers an inside look at the creative process and drama leading to some of the most prestigious fashion shows in top fashion cities.

Starting on Wednesday, September 9 at 10 p.m., "The Day Before Sonia Rykiel" will feature the French fashion designer known for her chic and playful knitwear. The Parisian runway show in October marks her house's 40th anniversary.

On September 9, "The Day Before Proenza Schouler" will feature designer duo Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez send out their Fall 2009 collection in New York in February.

Friday will feature "The Day Before Fendi by Karl Lagerfeld" will center on the highly revered Karl Lagerfeld as he presents his Fendi Fall 2009 collection in Milan in March.

The last day will be "The Day Before Jean Paul Gaultier," an episode which showcases Jean Paul Gaultier's haute couture collection in a Paris show.

The series will capture the designers at their key moment when creativity and business come together.

"The Day Before" will air on the Sundance Channel from September 9.

Source: AHN

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Monday, August 31, 2009

Crystal Renn, A Plus Size Model On The Roll

New York - Crystal Renn was miserable as a super-thin model who had heart palpitations when she'd worry that there might be calories in Diet Coke. 

Her moment of epiphany came when "I couldn't walk another step without being exhausted, or having hair clumps falling out." She knew she needed to live in the body she was supposed to have — specifically a curvy size 12.

In a new memoir "Hungry," Renn, now a plus-size model, exposes her struggles with weight, health and self-esteem, fueled by the industry she says she still loves.

That is, she loves it now that she has been accepted — even embraced — by the fashion world.

"I got to my lowest point, when I couldn't go lower, and it was either, 'I'm going to die and not accomplish the dream,' or, 'I can become a plus-size model and keep the dream,'" she said in an interview. "I am healthy now, the healthiest I've ever been in my life — both physically and mentally."

Writing "Hungry" with Marjorie Ingall for Simon & Schuster was an important part of the healing process, said Renn, 23.

She had told her story before, but always in a quick hit for some magazine celebrating the novelty of an hourglass shape on its pages. The book is her attempt to move the needle on how people — everyone from wide-eyed young girls to jaded fashion insiders — perceive beauty.

"I'd like to see everyone take on the attitude that there are women of all different shapes and sizes as 'the beauty ideal,' and that it's not one type or another. There are women who are naturally a size 2 — you can't forget them, and that's discrimination the other way," Renn said. "All women bring something different to the table and we have to appreciate them all."

Some in the fashion, modeling and magazine industries have been receptive to the idea, she said, noting that she's still working with her fuller figure in Vogue, Glamour, on the runway with Jean Paul Gaultier and in ads for Dolce & Gabbana.

Source: Newsday

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Monday, August 24, 2009

Anna Wintour, Rebooting an Ailing Fashion Industry?

For one star-studded evening, it seemed like the good old days of 2007 for the beleaguered New York fashion world. Designers, models and actresses strutted along the red carpet to honour the most powerful figure in their industry – Anna Wintour, the legendary British editor-in-chief of US Vogue. 

They were attending last week’s glitzy premiere of The September Issue, a fly-on-the-wall documentary by film-makers given unprecedented access to the hallowed portals of the fashion bible and the famously formidable force that leads it.

Designers such as Vera Wang, Oscar de la Renta, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan and Sean “Diddy” Combs and actresses Sienna Miller and Renee Zellweger joined a clutch of statuesque models, assorted fashionistas and Manhattan power players for the splashy event. 

Peering out from beneath her distinctive pageboy haircut and occasionally donning her trademark dark sunglasses, Miss Wintour, 59, was also there, of course.

The behind-the-scenes footage follows Miss Wintour and her team for eight months during 2007 as they put together the September issue – traditionally, the most important of the year as the magazine is packed with adverts aimed at autumn shoppers. 

The edition turned out to be the biggest in industry history, weighing in at a whopping five pounds and 840 pages, included 725 of glossy premium-cost ads. It confirmed the magazine’s behemoth status.

And the cover boasts the sort of mass appeal articles – “Stylish Steals and Smart Splurges” and “Fall Fashion Fun” – that have previously been anathema to the unapologetically elitist Miss Wintour during her two-decade reign.

There is little doubt that McKinsey will recommend much deeper cuts and job losses, although the New York Post reported on Friday that for the French fashion shows, Miss Wintour will be staying at the Ritz in Paris as usual, with little expense spared for her entourage. 

With less than three weeks before the start of New York Fashion Week, the mood in the world fashion industry capital is grim. The event was once synonymous with extravagance, excess and self-congratulation, but now insiders are focused on simple commercial survival. 

So the release of The September Issue, with its reminder of a now apparently halcyon epoch, so recent yet so remote, is providing some much-needed relief for the industry. It might also offer some valuable ammunition for the bean-counters of McKinsey.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

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Monday, August 17, 2009

'80s-Inspired Fall Fashion Clothing

Everything from ‘80s-inspired clothing, western wear and bohemian chic is in fashion for fall, according to local retailers.

High school and college-age girls have plenty of options when shopping for back to school.“Plaid is huge,” said Mary Lucy Yowell, manager of Belk department store, adding that the tartan-style plaid is widely popular. Denim is another must have for fall from skinny jeans, barely boot-cut jeans (a cross between a skinny jean and boot cut), baggy boyfriend jeans and distressed jeans, even though most of those can’t be worn to high school.

“Borrow your boyfriend’s jeans or buy a pair for yourself,” said Judy Goldie, owner of Trendy Pieces on the Public Square.Mallory Rickman, assistant manager of Delia’s at The Avenue, said everything from plaid dresses, shirts and scarves are hot for fall. “We can’t seem to keep the plaid in stock,” she said.Taking plaid even further, A’GACI Co-Manager Jamie Johnson said the country western look is the latest look in fashion. "It is really cute,” she said. The look is complete with long button-up shirts and ankle boots, sometimes called booties, Johnson said.

Yowell said boots are in fashion in a big way this fall from booties to western-style boots. Goldie said the slouchy jacket also is back for this fall and winter. “Throw it on with a pair of fitted dress slacks or jeans or over a mini-dress,” she said. Vests are another must have this fall, according to local retailers. They range from the hippie chic to motorcycle chick. “All kinds of different vests, you name it,” Yowell said are in fashion, adding that more structured vests are widely seen but vests also are being seen in sweaters.

Longer vests worn over shirts and pants are being cinched with a belt, Johnson said, adding that it is a really cute look for teens. Express at The Avenue is even carrying leather, motorcycle vests. “Those also go great with graphic tees,” said Erica Phemister, from Express.

V-neck graphic tees are a big seller at Express, she said. Graphic tees could have anything on it from peace signs to flowers and embroidery. But fall fashion is dominated by looks from the ‘80s, Phemister said, which means lose shirts, leggings and bright colors. “Cowneck sweaters are coming back in and off the shoulder tops,” she said. “Leggings with tunics are really in right now.”Goldie said printed leggings and tights will “throw some fun into your outfits.”Along with that this fall is going to be filled with “plenty of color,” she said. “Neon will be big and also gorgeous jewel tones, purples, teals and deeper blues.”

Bright colors are showing up in corduroy and other types of pants. “The girls go crazy over them,” Rickman said. But don’t forget about your hair, which completes any outfit. Stylist Kenneth Darrell of Studio 627 said one of the latest looks is a side ponytail. “They are fashionable, in style and easy to achieve,” he said. 

Other looks include side swept bangs, which are sometimes braided or French braided and wavy hair. Sue Millsap, owner of Salon 536, said the graduated bob with a disconnect at the sides for above the shoulders and chin length hair is one of the latest trends in hair. Also, full bangs with an edge with catch some attention this fall.

Source: The Murfreesboro Post

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Monday, August 10, 2009

What is Redux?


The French fashion label notorious for its sky-high prices will release its less expensive clothes range called Redux in October.

Items, designed by the fashion house’s head designer Ricardo Tisci, will comprise a selection of the label’s “greatest hits” (including shoes) starting at US$350 (RM1,225) which is less than Givenchy’s normal runway prices.

Redux was first shown in June and will hit stores twice a year. The debut collection focuses on studs and white blouses, ruffles, and pintucking.

The move makes sense in a strained economy, even though Tisci’s last ready-to-wear collection sold out at many department stores.

Source: Sun 2 Surf
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Monday, August 3, 2009

DKNY Jeans Femme Feat. Hilary Duff

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We first got a sneak peek of Hilary Duff’s Femme for DKNY Jeans line when Gossip Girl co-star Jessica Szohr turned up at a Louis Vuitton party sporting a $59 floral cardigan from the collection, and now, the ads are out. Hilary stars alongside models Sophie Srej and Gracie Carvalho in a New York City street-inspired ad campaign. Combining Hilary’s personal style and the individuality of New Yorkers — the inspiration behind her designs — the Femme for DKNY Jeans fall ‘09 ads were shot on the Manhattan streets by Scott Schuman, best known for his street style blog The Sartorialist. With Hilary joining the cast of Gossip Girl this fall, we couldn’t think of a better theme than the gritty and glam streets of New York for her latest design venture.

Source: People Stylewatch
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Know About The Style of Audrey Tautou

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The first thing Audrey Tautou does is leap out of her seat and declare: "I love your glasses! I want some. Where did you get them?" At five feet three inches she is petite rather than small, slight as opposed to thin. Excruciatingly gamine, she would make the perfect Peter Pan. Her jet-black hair is cut characteristically short, brushed forward like Audrey Hepburn's in Funny Face, her lips are femme-fatale scarlet, and a white lace blouse perfectly complements old-school Levi's that hang impeccably over a pair of black 1940s-style high heels. Tautou looks immaculately stylish, which must've come in handy for her latest role as the legendary French fashion icon, Coco Chanel, in the hugely successful Gallic period piece, Coco Before Chanel, directed by Anne Fontaine.

"Once Audrey agreed to play Coco I knew I could do the film as I envisioned," said the director just a few minutes before I met Tautou. "I was struck by her will, her audacity, and the density of her gaze that goes straight through you. She has the same impertinent look, the same androgynous appeal, the same toughness and innate sense of style. She is the only person to play Coco."

Undoubtedly, Tautou pulls of the role with uncommon aplomb, delivering a subtle yet multi-layered performance that, with just the arch of a manicured eyebrow, quietly provokes all manner of questions about the icon that some might rather avoid. Did she hate men? Did she use men? Did she sleep her way to success? Did she step on any and all to rise to the top? Or was she purely a product of her environment who had to use all at her disposal to succeed?

And yet the film avoids the most controversial aspects of the pioneering designer's life. Absent is her notorious affair during the war with Hans Gunther von Dincklage, a German officer and Nazi spy, as is her subsequent arrest for war crimes and her acquittal, before trial, via the intervention of the British royal family.

Instead, the film plumps for what is arguably a better story, and deals with Chanel's origins. It begins, like a 19th-century romantic novel, as, Gabrielle "Coco" Bonheur Chanel, born in a poor house on August 19th 1883, is abandoned in the orphanage of the Roman Catholic monastery of Aubazine.

The narrative moves swiftly on to her short career as a bar singer (she took her name from a song she sang in cabaret) and covers her life as kooky concubine to the immensely rich playboy, Etienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde). The film concludes in 1920 after Coco's romance with her financial backer, British millionaire Arthur "Boy" Capel (Alessandro Nivola), ends when he dies in a car crash, leaving her financially free to revolutionise the way women dressed, thought and behaved.

"Premises of projects about Coco Chanel had been submitted to me for several years," explains the bubbly Tautou, now perched on the arm of her chair. "But I did not want to do a biopic, you know – participating in some sort of saga recounting her life from birth to death. Chanel lived for 87 years! We would have fallen into the clichés that have punctuated her path. No, no, no. I was secretly hoping to get an offer to play Coco but with a particular point of view. Because it's her modernity that fascinates me, her spirit, her ambition and the position she gave women."

"Chanel had to fight against conventions then that were so very paralysing for women." continues Tautou, now standing. "So, when Anne Fontaine explained how she intended to treat the subject, I immediately agreed. She wanted to avoid the obvious truisms and some sort of mimetic interpretation of Chanel, and was determined to concern herself solely with her beginning – the period when Coco was building herself and asserting her personality – which for me is the most interesting period in her life."

Source: The Independent

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

French Fashion Hermes Increased Sales

hermes bagsSecond-quarter sales at the firm's ready-to-wear clothing and fashion accessories division were up 13%, while they rose 11% at its silk and textiles unit.

However, sales of its watches, perfumes, and tableware goods were all down.

Analyst Dennis Weber of Evolution Securities said Hermes was helped by the strength of its brand name.

"Hermes' established brand reputation works in the company's favour in the current environment, and we believe in the relatively defensive nature of the Hermes brand," he said.

The 11% fall in the sale of Hermes' watches between April and June has been echoed by watchmakers in Switzerland, industry figures have shown.

The Swiss Watch Federation said sales at the country's watch-makers, including Rolex and Tag Heuer, were down 26% in the first half of 2009.

It added that the Swiss watch industry was facing its steepest drop in global demand in about 20 years.

Source: BBC News


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Monday, July 20, 2009

High Fashion Eyebrows

When it comes to eyebrows, high fashion has decided there is only one way to go – and go they must. Emma Watson and Cheryl Cole may adhere to the power of the brow to frame a face, but more and more models are bleaching them to the point of invisibility. The eyebrow, it seems, has become "excess" hair. Agyness Deyn, Lily Donaldson and Linda Evangelista have all gone eyebrowless recently. In Givenchy's latest advertising campaign, eight male and female models recline in a French chateau looking curiously androgenous. Each is eyebrowless.

Perhaps the trend has been a long time coming. Three years ago, the model Lara Stone bleached her brows on the advice of Carine Roitfeld, the esteemed editor of French Vogue. This year she starred at the autumn/ winter and couture shows, appearing on catwalks for Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier and Prada among others. And this month the popular 90s model Kristen McMenamy, now 42, appears on the cover of Italian Vogue without brows, 17 years after she and Karen Elson popularised the look during the grunge years.

Makeup artist Pat McGrath worked on the Balenciaga and Prada shows, both of which featured bleached-out brows. "The current economic troubles open people up to be more daring and willing to don cutting-edge looks," she says.

At a time when advertising is suffering, is eyebrowlessness just a more extreme way for a brand to sell its products? Or perhaps the prevalence of Botox (no frowning or eyebrow raising) means we simply have no need for them?

Aidan Jean-Marie, creative director of Premier Model Management, says he has "had a couple of girls who had their brows bleached for beauty stories in the last few weeks. I think clients like the look because it's clean, like a blank canvas, and 90s-inspired, which is a big trend. It's alien-like and quite creepy."

But before you reach for the Jolene, consider a more subtle take on the look. Lisa Oxenham, beauty and style editor at Marie Claire, advises "gently tweaking eyebrows with bleach". She says it gives the same effect as freckles on blondes. But she warns against eyebrow removal. "Brows give a face expression – when they are not there the look hardens." And "it is not advised if your face is round, long or if you're hungover".

Source: Guardian.co.uk

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Jean Paul Gaultier: Hollywood Vintage Style

jean paul gaultierSpotlights lit up the catwalk Wednesday at Jean Paul Gaultier’s haute couture show, steeped in old-fashioned Hollywood glamour and paying tribute to screen sirens like Jane Russell and Ava Gardner.

Gaultier sent out glamazon variations on his signature pieces — trench coats, second-skin dresses with sheer paneling and menswear suits.

A model in a sharp-shouldered pantsuit in black wool was channeling Katherine Hepburn between takes. A gold sequin-covered hourglass halterdress was screaming Jane Russell’s name.

Actor Mickey Rourke said it was a treat to see the kind of Hollywood glamour that “went out the door 30 years ago.”

“They’re making a different kind of movie now, unfortunately,” said Rourke, an ’80s superstar who made his comeback with “The Wrestler.”

Gaultier, the one-time enfant terrible of French fashion, gave some of the looks his signature humorous twist.

Reams of film were wrapped around one model’s shoulders like a shawl. A bodysuit looked like the offspring of a trenchcoat and a swimsuit.

And the bride — the look that traditionally closes the wildly expensive made-to-measure couture shows — was just plain bizarre. In a mini dress made from what looked like plastic bags filled with gold sequins, she wore a veil draped over a cone on top of her head. Black and white close-ups of ’50s-era movie stars were projected onto the veil.

Source: The Sentinel

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Monday, July 13, 2009

French Designer Eric Tibusch: Shoes Into Hair Accessories

Eric TibuschThey say a picture is worth a thousand words, but these will surely leave you speechless.

French fashion designer Eric Tibusch turns shoes into hair accessories for his Haute Couture 2009-2010 fashion collection in Paris this week. The clothing is beautiful, the makeup is beautiful, and the shoes, though oddly placed, are beautiful as well.

Are women in Paris going to take to this unusual look? Makes you wonder if we will be seeing this look in the states anytime soon. Will they stop selling shoes by the pair? Will you buy them to fit your head instead of your foot? Will stylists be learning how to incorporate a shoe into an updo in beauty school? Only time will tell.

A primary example of why fashion is fun, endless possibilities.

Source: Examiner.com

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Friday, July 10, 2009

ParisFashion Week: Great Ending

Gaultier,Valentino and Font Collection
The winter 2010 haute couture shows are over! So here's a final look -- at John Paul Gaultier, Valentino and Josep Font. Jenny Barchfield of the Associated Press reports:

"Jean Paul Gaultier looked to vintage Hollywood for a solid collection that was equal parts Ava Gardner and Gaultier — the one-time enfant terrible of French fashion — himself.

"Things were looking up at Valentino. Its new design duo finally found their way out of the archive and forged a sexy new look for the mythic Italian label. Out went the ladylike day coats and tasteful A-line cocktail dresses in jewel-toned duchess silk; in came the second-skin bodice dresses in flesh-colored tulle and black lace; and up, way up, went the hemlines.

"For his fourth couture display, Spanish designer Josep Font continued to shore up his avant-garde credentials with a ravishing collection of think pieces."

At Valentino, Barchfield, writes, "the new design team aimed to seduce a younger, hipper clientele with a racy tulle and lace collection [check out the model at right] that projected the Valentino woman out of the past and into fashion’s future." She continues:

Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli — who last year replaced Valentino’s successor just two seasons after the maestro retired — had been stuck in the label’s archives. For their first two collections at the helm of the house, they delivered up couture and pret-a-porter collections that were "more Valentino than Valentino," full of gorgeous-but-dated coats and dresses embellished with oversized bows and roses.

This time around, however, they swapped stateliness for sexiness, delivering bustiers in nude tulle with panels of black peek-a-boo lace and thigh-skimming skirts.

As for Josep Font, Barchfield proclaimed the Spanish designer "crazy" and, possibly, "brilliant."

"Font pushes haute couture — that anything-goes laboratory of fashion — to its avant-garde extreme.

Models in his show Wednesday could barely walk — and it wasn’t on account of the vertiginous heels, as it is on many catwalks. Enveloped in a small mountain of mohair shag — a funnel-shaped coat — or swathed in endless in yards (meters) of featherlight chiffon — an embroidered tunic dress — and with pointy plastic collages balanced on their heads, the models did a strange geriatric shuffle around the catwalk."

Indeed, some of Font's creations [that's one of his at left] look like illustrations from a modern version of "Through the Looking-Glass." We could envision a slimmer version of the Red Queen mincing "about in a white cocktail dress with a single red sleeve with an enormous puff that in profile resembled an oversized Sacred Heart" (to quote Barchfield).

Source: Los Angeles Times

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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Paris Fashion Week: Megan Fox

Megan FoxMegan Fox - Armani ShowMegan Fox was the star attraction at Giorgio Armani's Paris fashion show

The 'Transformers' beauty looked stunning in an Armani asymmetrical knee-length dress, with her long dark locks tumbling over her shoulders, as she joined Cate Blancett in the front row of the designer's catwalk show at the French city's Couture Fashion Week.

While Megan wore a simple dress, the show's models showcased new designs which wore covered in dazzling beadwork and sequins.

Admitting the collection could be hard to wear, Megan said: "I don't know if I could pull it off, but I could try."

Cate Blanchett, who was dressed on an Armani pagoda-shouldered sheath dress, was also impressed by the collection.

The Oscar-winning beauty said: "It's blinding, it's beautiful, really beautiful."

Armani's winter 2010 display featured his signature look of pantsuits, complete with rhinestone-hemmed cuffs and buttons, and a series of bustier dresses, covered in crystals and sequins.

Following the show, held at the Palais de Chaillot, Armani hosted a champagne reception in the Musee de l'Homme, next door, to launch his newest fragrance, l'Idole.

Other designers to showcase their new range at Paris Fashion Week included Christian Lacroix and Givenchy.

Source: M&C

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Stephane Rolland - Futuristic Retro Collection

stephanie rollandstephanie rollandNot every designer can draw inspiration for a lush haute couture collection from wallpaper, but that's just where Stephane Rolland looked for his winter 2010 display.

"There was this amazing wall-covering at this apartment in New York, really elaborate and full of tubing," said the French designer in a pre-show interview with The Associated Press. "I wanted to recreate those walls."

Upon that unusual foundation, Rolland built a graphic, geometric collection that evoked Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, drained of his signature bright primary colors.

Elaborate mosaics made of fabric-wrapped plastic tubes, like bits of a plastic straws, hung from the hems of abbreviated cocktail dresses in gray and camel cashmere. Gowns of sheer silk were covered in leather lozenge-shaped appliques, like the scales of a giant lizard.

The dresses, with their powerful shoulders, dipping backs and irregular, rounded cutouts, had a retro-futuristic feel about them -- as if Rolland was channeling the Space Age as imagined in 1973.

"There's something architectural, something sculptural, something geometric and beautiful" about the collection, said French actress Emmanuelle Beart, from her front-row perch. "(He) is someone who's got a real vision, something that's unique and out-of-the-ordinary."

Rolland, a favorite of Middle Eastern royals, banked on the presence of some of his ultra-weathy couture clients to launch a wildly expensive line of custom handbags with 22-karat gold metalwork and diamond-encrusted closures.

The bags, a day purse and an evening clutch made by an exclusive French leatherwear atelier, start at euro10,000 ($NZ22,675) and go way up from there, depending on the client's specifications.

When asked how much a clutch that scintillated with 2,500 diamonds would fetch, Rolland stayed mum, raising his eyebrows enigmatically.

Source: Stuff.co.nz

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Friday, July 3, 2009

Coco Chanel New Film

audrey tautouCoco Chanel changed the face of fashion. Bravely modern in the early 1920s - a time when corsets were compulsory - she got women out of their fussy dresses and into trousers, short skirts and stylish fitted jackets.

She gave us the little black dress, created Jackie O's famous wardrobe and that famous Chanel fragrance. She was still working when she died in 1971 aged 87.

Coco avant Chanel is the story of the young Coco and the path that led her to become a designer. She's played by French actress Audrey Tautou who described the designer saying” “she had a lot of look and talent taste and this look and observation. That was her genius.

“She was such a brilliant woman she was a genius. Everything she did, everything she built is still actual and modern because she was a unique woman.”

Coco never married but was rumoured to have had many affairs.

The film centres around significant relationships Coco had with two men. Rich playboy lover Benoît Poelvoorde - who introduced her to her future clientele. And her great love, Boy Capel who also financed Coco’s first boutique.

It was a tough role for American actor Allesandro Nivola - who plays an Englisman that speaks in French throughout the film - he only had a basic grasp of the language when he got the role.

Nivola said “it was completely exhausting and nerve wracking not to mention that I needed to learn to play polo, and play piano and waltz and…”

Audrey Tautou has had the seal of approval from current Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld for her portrayal of Coco. While director Anne Fontaine says the film couldn’t have gone ahead without her in the starring role.

“Physically she is incredibly close to Gabrielle Chanel. It’s incredible when I met Audrey, in 4 or 5 minutes I thought it’s incredible she's there in front of me.”

Tautou said “to play her how we know her like at the end of the movie is not that difficult because you have all the books videos and pictures, witnesses to play her before that it's more unknown world so it's more difficult to propose a character who has the potential to become the person that everyone knows.”

Like Chanel, Audrey Tautou is famed for her elegance and delicate beauty and while it was masculine tailoring that impressed Chanel, it’s masculine pastimes that Tautou loves, especially rugby and the All Blacks.

“Yes of course they are very impressive and I like when they lose to France! No one will come to my movie after this sentence!”

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Source: 3 News

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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Paris Men Fashion Week: Issey Miyake

issey miyake menswearissey miyake menswearColor took center-stage at the Paris-based Japanese label Issey Miyake, as designer Dai Fujiwara sent out Turkish-inspired harem pants and short suits in turquoise, Ceylon and Persian blues embellished with geometric mosaic designs and eye-popping tulip print.

A crocheted hat resembled a turban, while tapered mules conjured up a sultan's slippers. The blue, red and purple squares, triangles and hexagons woven into a cotton fabric turned a generously cut summer jacket into a delicate mosaic.

"Turkey used to be a meeting place between East and West which is the same concept behind Miyake," Fujiwara told The AP in a pre-show interview. "I took a very historical Turkish look and mixed it with the kind of clothes young people around the world are wearing."

Other highlights included a cardigan in canary yellow and bubblegum pink made entirely from crocheted Japanese paper. A spokesman for the label acknowledged the show-stopping piece had one drawback: being "not that easy to wash."

Source: Sify News

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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Paris Men Fashion Week: Hugo Boss

The German suitmaker also sent out a collection fit for the beaches of the chic French beach resort of Deauville. Belgian-born designer Bruno Pieters stuck to a navy white-and-red palette and lots of horizontal sailors' shirt stripes, pairing tunic-length shirts in sheer cotton with short shorts and cropped jackets cut even shorter in the back.

One model carrying a leather tote and decked out in red shorts and an abbreviated double-breasted jacket embellished with buttons looked like a bell boy straight out of a a five-star Deauville hotel.

Other models looked more like the fish one might catch on Deauville's beaches. Heavy metal sequins covering several well-cut jackets sparkled like scales.

The looks were eye-catching, but gave even style maverick Adrian Brody pause.

Asked whether he would dare don such a sparkly garment, the American actor demurred. "I could maybe wear them for something specific, but casually? I think I don't know."

Source: Sify News

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Paris Men Fashion Week: Louis Vuitton

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Menswear designer Paul Helvers paid homage to the bike messenger, sending out models in generously cut single-button jackets and cuffed shorts toting across-the-chest messenger bags in nubby leather.

Models in dress shoes with heels capped in fluorescent rubber trod across a catwalk covered in black gravel that sparkled like asphalt.

"This season I was really into pushing the boundaries of what is sportswear and what is elegance, what is chic," Helvers told The Associated Press in a backstage interview.

The impeccably cut suits had sportswear touches like zippered hoodies and ventilation flaps. Often the suits, in eye-popping oranges and yellows or muted moss and mauve tones, were topped with flowing microfiber windbreakers or light trenches.

Models wore plastic sunglasses with yellow-glazed lenses and jewelry meant to resemble bicycle chains.

Source: Sify News

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Monday, June 29, 2009

Jessica Alba in a cute dress

Britney And Jason Going Strong

Britney Spears goes back to the dark side. Atleast she looks happy with new boyfriend Jason Trawick as they go shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond.

Paris Fashion Week: Men Wearing Pink


Paris - French label Thierry Mugler was channelling Miami Vice with a vibrant, '80's-inspired show on Friday aimed at men with attitude enough to wear pink.

Designer Rosemary Rodriguez delivered what she called a "bad boy in pastel colours", serving up slim, lightweight pantsuits in citron, lime and bubblegum shades for the label's spring-summer 2010 collection.

"It's about classics with a twist, preppy basics with pimpy touch, Miami Vice with an edge," she said in a pre-show interview.

Rodriguez, who was presenting her third menswear show for Mugler, paired sheer dress shirts in pastel polka dots with mix-matched linen and cotton separates. All looked crisp and eminently wearable.

Rodriguez's Mugler man was also sporty, clomping down the catwalk in oversized white basketball shoes with extra-tall tongues embellished with the brand's star logo.

Mugler, a mythic name in the 1980s, has struggled to find its footing since the departure of its founder and the subsequent closure and re-launch of the label.

The brand's managing director, Juan Penuela Vallejos, said he was confident in Mugler's ability to rise from the ashes - even given the current dismal outlook for retail fashion.

"The brand is coming back, slowly but surely," he said in a pre-show interview.

Source: News 24

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Friday, June 26, 2009

YSL Short Film for Paris Men Show

yves saint laurentStefano Pilati, the Yves Saint Laurent designer, usually eases us into Paris men’s fashion week with a quiet presentation and a short film. This time around, the latter was courtesy of the filmmaker Samuel Benchetrit, who directed his 11-year-old son, Jules, in an idiosyncratic, eight-minute black and white film. The on-screen style pointers were subtle: always stay young at heart, and push up your sleeves if you’re wearing a blazer. But even without the fashion component, the film — about an inquisitive young boy who finds himself in a suite at the Bristol Hotel after finding the keys on the sidewalk — stands on its own; and, we’re definitely predicting a bright acting future for young Jules.

Click here to watch YSL Short Film

Source: The Moment


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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Emma Watson Fashion Line Rumors Not True

Emma Watson - SexyEmma Waston has rubbished reports she's designing her own clothing range.

The Harry Potter actress and style icon was reportedly in talks to launch her own fashion line for teenagers, with proceeds going to children's charity UNICEF, according to Britain's News of the World tabloid.

But the 19 year old - who was unveiled as the new face of British fashion house Burberry earlier this month (Jun09) and has modelled for French couture brand Chanel - insists rumours Chanel's director Karl Lagerfeld has advised her to create her on line are completely fabricated.

A spokesperson tells People.com the reports are "not true"

Source: Female First

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Milan Fashion On The Roll!

milan fashion week - gucciMilan Fashion Week has kicked off with the boys leading the way. The men’s pret-a-porter shows included Gucci designer Frida Gianni who used white to express a feeling of optimism. Casual clothes were apparently inspired by the idea of a yacht club. Her evening suits featured fine knitted tops instead of shirts and ties.

Gianfranco Ferre’s designers described their show as being clothes for a “French James Bond”. The collection received mixed reactions from fashion writers. The company is shortly launching a jewellery line in an effort to shake off the doldrums.

At Georgio Armani however, his famed elegance,classic styling and sheer good tailoring were to the fore. The designer received an extra warm welcome having missed several recent personal appearances due to ill health.

Source: Euronews

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Monday, June 22, 2009

Christian Lacroix Speaks Up

christian lacroix"What really hurts," says Christian Lacroix slowly, "is that my name, which I have now lost, is the name of my family. Whoever does take over the business can use it and abuse it as they like, but it's my father's name, and my grandfather's name – men who brought me up to have a very rigid moral backbone; men who taught me never to have any debts."

Were his father alive today, the 58-year-old designer admits, he would be agonised to learn that his son's celebrated couture house – currently owned by the US-based Falic Group – went into voluntary receivership last week as a consequence of 10 million euro losses. And with 125 jobs at stake (including Lacroix's) unless a new investor is found in the next fortnight, the future looks bleak for the many workers who have stayed loyal to Lacroix since the company started trading 22 years ago.

"I'm fighting," he smiles, setting off those Machiavellian eyebrows. "Don't tell anyone, because I'm not allowed to do this, but we absolutely are going to have a show in mid-July, during Fashion Week – and it won't be a funeral: it'll be a fightback." That there is not enough money to pay the seamstresses, fabric suppliers, models or even the stationers printing the invitations is something Lacroix is striving to overcome. "It can't cost us a single euro to put this show on, because I'm not having my workers lose a penny from their pockets, but so far, it looks like thanks to other people's kindness – friends and suppliers working for free – it might happen.

"I can't stand the idea that people think I am to blame," he adds, despondent for a moment. "But to a certain extent I am paying for not having done what everyone else did, with their logos and It-bags. I never went down that route."

Sitting in his fuchsia-painted couture studio above a quiet courtyard off the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in jeans and one of his own tricolour jackets worn over a pig-motif Comme des Garçons jumper, Lacroix looks anything but defeated. There is, however, an element of tempered hysteria to his defiance, a yearning for levity in his frequent, gurgling fits of laughter.

"The recession was a gift to the management, really, because they could blame everything on that, but it was only partly responsible. Do you know that I haven't been paid for a year and a half?"

This sets him off again. "I'm owed one million two hundred thousand euros." Has he shed a tear, I ask? He rattles off a quick succession of Gallic tuts. "No, no, no: I am too angry to cry."

These statements – as theatrical as the taffeta, lace and embroidered creations hanging behind him – are part of the reason why Lacroix quickly became a part of modern fashion folklore. Who else would, in laughable fashionese during one Nineties catwalk show, describe a garment as "a 'cold-dawn' shot razimir spiral sheath dress with 'apricot' and 'melon' kick pleat"?

To many, I tell him, haute couture is so baffling that they consider it natural it should lose its place in today's world. "But fashion isn't something dead," he says. "Fashion needs to be worn. People are wrong when they see it as being disconnected from reality: every morning, before I sit down to draw, I read all the papers, listen to the radio and find out what is going on in Iran – all that influences me. Besides, in periods of crisis, people need to see beautiful things around them."

As a child growing up in Arles to an engineer father and a fashion-loving mother ("Even as the sirens went off during the blitz, she would put on her best shoes"), Lacroix remembers being intoxicated by the coquetries of women. "My mother and her friends would wear these wonderful big 1950s puffball skirts and I would crawl around underneath them, breathing in their strong perfumes."

After a history of art degree taken largely "to reassure his parents", Lacroix moved to Paris where he dreamt of working as a curator in the Louvre. It wasn't until a few years later, after a spell at Hermès, that – influenced by the gipsy and Provencal traditions he grew up with – Lacroix started designing the opulent corseted and crinolined dresses that were to make him famous.

"My extended family were very embarrassed," he giggles. " 'Why don't you make things like Yves Saint Laurent?' they'd ask. 'Because my name is Christian Lacroix,' I told them."

These baroque tendencies meant that Lacroix was soon designing costumes for the theatre, ballet and opera, and accruing a celebrity clientele. Madonna, Nicole Kidman and the Princess of Wales, with whom he became close, were dedicated admirers of his.

"I still have all Diana's letters," he smiles. "And they tell me what I could see for myself during all the years that I knew her: that she was morphing from a blushing, shy girl into a woman."

At that time, a running joke in the TV series, Absolutely Fabulous, was helping to make him a household name in Britain. "It was the best introduction I could have had in England," he says, "where you guys all think French designers are brainless frogs."

It's a stereotype that Lacroix is far from realising. Throughout the interview his opinionated outbursts are peppered with cultural references and lightened by a rare, very un-French ability to send himself up. He is surprisingly optimistic about the effects the recession will have on his industry ("If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes – the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War – they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play") and loves the British for being "stylistically free; not bound up like we are", but is saddened by the new puritanism he sees in young people "which makes me feel like an old pervert".

Today's size zero culture, which recently provoked Alexandra Shulman, the editor of British Vogue, to send a letter to all major designers asking them to make larger sizes, is another cause for concern. "She was right to do that. Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes. What I cannot stomach, because it evokes the war to me, is when you can see a woman's kneecap protruding in its entirety, skinny elbows, or a woman's chest bones. I won't tell you who they are because it would be hurtful, but there are certain models I cancelled jobs with because they were too thin. It's a terribly sad cloning of young women today which actually means that there is no room for anything to stand out – except bones."

As a "Mediterranean lover of women", Lacroix feels that the primary female attraction is their capacity to seduce. "That said, I've always been bisexual," he volunteers. "But I could never live with a man – too similar." Off goes that great runaway laugh again, the kind of laugh that would have been cut short by a parent as a child. "And my wife, whom I married in 1974, still fascinates me, still touches me, still makes me want to weep with joy in the mornings. She makes me laugh, I think she's beautiful, she's like my child and my lover – all at once."

As he walks me out, confiding a propos of nothing that he has given up chocolate and Bordeaux, he has an epiphany. "Actually losing a few pounds and having this battle to fight makes me feel that I am undergoing a renaissance," he declares.

I quote a line from a – perhaps premature – fashion obituary in a British paper last week, intrigued to know what he makes of it. The worry is that "there just aren't enough Beluga-eating, stunningly beautiful, moneyed women in this world to keep Christian Lacroix's fantasy alive."

"Probably true," he deadpans. Then bursts out laughing.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

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