FashionReporters

Dates: Sep 14 – 19, 2008
DALLAS, Aug 4, 2008 / FR/ — Watching the season’s finale of Doctor Who where David Tennant play the lead role, then reading at the London Telegraph later that the British actor is going to play Hamlet, the most famous role in Shakespeare made me think of where London Fashion [...]

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2009
Dates: Sep 5 – 12, 2008
DALLAS, Aug 3, 2008 / FW/ — In one month’s time, the iconic tents at Bryant Park will go up once again marking the start of the New York fashion season. Officially called Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, the Spring 2009 New York season faces a challenge that [...]

DALLAS, Aug 2, 2008 / FW/ — If Paris Hilton started the term celebutante, i.e., short for celebrity / debutante for the uninitiated in entertainment lingo, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France actually invented a new genre of world leaders – the celebtician, which is as you guess, short for CELEBRITY and POLITICIAN. And guess what, [...]

DALLAS, Jul 31, 2008 / FW/ — A French company that has been designing and distributing trench coats since 1905, the Ramosport Spring / Summer 2009 collection designed by Julien Fournié is thought provoking. As a fashion observer, one asks, is Ramosport reinventing itself with its new Creative Director. Is it time for Ramosport to [...]

PARIS, June 5, 2008 — /FR/— The ceremony had been expected by all aesthetes in France and around the world since the announcement of Yves Saint Laurent’s death, last sunday night at 11:10 pm .
No wonder everybody in Paris wanted to attend for a last tribute. Pierre Bergé, the mythic couturier’s lifelong partner in [...]

Paris, Feb 12, 2008 /FR/ — Wouldn’t it be inconvenient, unnatural, and even pernicious, to create a charity to fund Haute Couture? The outrageously most expensive clothes and their very few super rich customers would need financial support? You must be joking!  However, that’s only fun at first sight when you come to think of [...]