Fashion Week is not only the appreciation of creativity, craft and culture of its respective city, but a time of high importance to the canvases this art form is manifested on. With designer demands bursting at the seams, model's health is often brushed under the catwalk.
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It's so refreshing to learn about new concepts and innovators. To kick of London Fashion Week, It's Rude To Stare joined Polosophia to embark on a new horizon, the launch of world’s first story-based brand. The idea behind the brand is novel yet delightfully simple: the garments are based on an original story, each collection corresponding to a chapter of Polosophia Chronicles. The first chapter, entitled The Original Protagonist, draws us into the magical world of the character, who sets out on an adventurous quest of finding her true self. As the protagonist evolves she gathers perfect item...
Read more →Erdem Moralioglu's A/W set was modeled after a post-war Parisian bolthole. In fact, it took seven days to resurrect his retrofied apartment within central London's Old Selfridges Hotel. 'The initial idea for the set came from when I visited Frieze Masters and saw Robin Brown's installation The Collector,' explains Moralioglu. 'Robin created the apartment of a fictional art collector, living in 1960s Paris. I loved the idea of creating an environment that really explained the story of the character this season; who she is, where she is in life, how she's feeling.' Produced by Family, the ...
Read more →eBay and the British Fashion Council have announced the opening of the BFC Contemporary Shop, a pop-up shopping space on eBay which celebrates the launch of London Fashion Week SS15.
Read more →Antonio Marquez is a London based fashion designer best known for his perfectly designed quilted handbags. After Sourcing the ideal manufacturer and suppliers throughout Italy and France-Paris, Antonio Marquez made his debut handbag collection in 2012, called THE ULTIMATE QUILTING. Antonio Marquez bags are founded on intelligent design for the discerning 21st century men & woman. Who seek elegance and quality and who's time is one of the most valuable assets. The brand focuses on designing iconic items, with a philosophy based on the idea that: “Time is the most valuable assets one can ...
Read more →Driving in London is rarely enjoyable, in traffic depressing, and depending on how many buses are trying to crush you, it can be downright harrowing. For just a few days during London Fashion Week, however, ‘Architectural Foodsmiths’ Bompas & Parr have teamed up with Mercedes to provide central London with an epicurean pit-stop offering ‘emotionally compelling’ fast food with meals guaranteed within 180 seconds of giving your order at the Mercedes motif speaker. On Thursday, I attended the launch party of the new drive-through dining experience though I did so on foot. This turned out t...
Read more →When I interviewed Amy Molyneaux (one half of famed design duo PPQ) a couple of months back, she gave me a few hints as to what I could expect from her and Percy Parker's latest collection for Spring/Summer 2013. Cryptically entitled 'Fiasco Tech', she confided the collection would be 'bringing back five key silhouettes. In a way we're clearing the decks to remind everyone what we do. And it's very print oriented'. And so, it was with great anticipation that I arrived at the PPQ show on the evening of Day One of London Fashion Week. With hoardes of young fashionistas crowding around the entra...
Read more →http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hp3IKhwyEM Last season, Osman Yousefzada took on a risky road to an unknown territory. Unknown to him, that is. He loosened up his shapes and brought a more feminine aesthetic to the table. For Autumn/Winter 2012, he took even more risks and introduced lustrous prints and luxurious fabrics. But on this road, he has not once forgotten who he is as a designer. He is almost like Dante wandering through the Inferno - he must only ever look forward and never back, so all that he has from what he left behind is memory. And now he must fuse that memory with what ...
Read more →http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPDTL71UbLA&feature=plcp&context=C365cdc5UDOEgsToPDskLOCuyNiNNRI6TL5FVluEO6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jHB7mdgI08&feature=context&context=C365cdc5UDOEgsToPDskLOCuyNiNNRI6TL5FVluEO6 This year, the British Fashion Council introduced a brand new initiative to the biannual fashion week schedule, The Rock Vault, sponsored by the International Palladium Board and curated by Stephen Webster to support, showcase and promote Britain’s most innovative, fine jewellery talent. For those of you who don't know, Palladium, discovered by the British c...
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