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PARIS, Sep 28, 2009 / FW/ — On the eve of Paris Fashion Week Spring 2010 season, one of the biggest news is that Sonia Rykiel is going to be the next guest designer for H&M and Nathalie Rykiel, President and Artistic Director of the label will create two collections for the trendy retailer. Slated to reach 1,500 H&M stores worldwide on December 5, 2009, the lingerie collection and related accessories for women to be designed by Nathalie Rykiel will mark H&M’s first foray in t Read more

Strange how some markets can influence designers. With his ready-to-wear line shown on the runway in New York City, Georges Chakra is bringing the best opf his design abilities to the fashion customer witha contemporary twist. This is, personnally, the line I prefer among his last collections. Here, he is introducing geometric patterns, light drapings, trompe-l’oeil sith metalmlic bars seeming to hold cocktail dresses and heis, at his best also in the colour palette. It is bright but not e Read more

As part of London Fashion Week’s 25th anniversary, British luxury brand Burberry Has proudly celebrated  by closing the event on Tuesday 22nd September, moving its Spring Summer 2010 Burberry Prorsum womenswear show from Milan. British actress Emma Watson, model Agyness Dean and TV presenter Alexa Chung were  the stars attending the only red carpet event of London Fashion Week. A-listers Liv Tyler, Mary Kate Olsen and Orlando Bloom, as well as Maggie Cheung, Freida Pinto and Dev Patel ha Read more

NEW YORK, Sep 9, 2009 / FW/ — Designer Estrella Archs has been named Chief Designer of the House of Ungaro while Lindsay Lohan will also be joining the French maison in a newly created position of Artistic Advisor. Explaining the decision as to why there will be two creative heads at the helm, which is also a first for the brand, Mounir Moufarrige, President of Emanuel Ungaro worldwide said, “21st century muses are extroverts whose personal style and experience gives them a strong creat Read more

The designer, who has been in the profession for almost 15 years, was born in Barcelona, where she grew up, surrounded by  fabrics in her mother’s seamstress atelier. This probably gave her a taste for refined details as well as the quest for perfetcion in their worksmanship. Teresa entered the world of fashion by doing a number of jobs, such as visual merchandiser. In fact, Teresa Helbig’s first creations were made through this job, directly on mannequins. Now in her current design stu Read more

Istanbul, August 27, 2009 /FR/ -  Istanbul Fashion Days has opened last night with Koza, a youg fashion designers’ contest, which has existed for some years now and has changed its name to a new one on the occasion of Istanbul Fashion Days, happening for the first time in Turkey’s major city. The event is now the first in the chronology of the fashion calendar worldwide as it is presenting -until august 30- the Spring 2010 collections on the runway, before Barcelona, New York, London, Milan Read more

The winner of several prizes, Juan Antonio Avalos, is participating in  theCatalan government’s Bressol project and has already won several awards such as the first prize at the “Your Style, Your Studio” contest organized by  L’Oréal Paris last year, as well as one of the prizes for the Best Graduation Collection at the Felicidad Duce school in 2007. He has worked as an assistant to Antonio Miró in 2007 and at the sides of several creative designers such as  Bernhard Wilhelmand Tho Read more

This Japanese designer born in 1976, graduated from the Hogeschool Academy of Antwerp (Belgium) in 2006 in. He won the Vlaamse Gemeenschap prize awarded by the Flemmish government, and the special fashion prize at the 5th edition of ITS in Trieste (Italy). His professional experience includes the Noovo Festival in Santiago de Compostela, and he was part of the official selection at the Tokyo Fashion Week, in the Lancome Fashion Show in Milan in 2007,and in the Weekend Knack Fashion Show in 2006 Read more

080 Barcelona Fashion is having its fourth season in the capital of Catalonia (Spain). The event is to take place from September 2 to September 4 at Pavilion 8 of the Fira Barcelona estate. 20 designers’ brands will participate in the runway shows this season, headed by Matthew Ames, Romain Kremer and Estrella Archs. Other participating designers showing their collections on the catwalk will include national “veterans” of  fashion ( Teresa Helbig, Gori de Palma showing in an “off” ve Read more

Istanbul is getting ready for a fashion celebration to be enjoyed by the whole city with Istanbul Fashion  Days, where Turkish fashion designers and ready-to-wear brands will be gathered under one roof for the first time.  The event will take place form Augut 26 to August 30. Istanbul Fashion Days, a first in Turkey, with the cooperation of ITKIB and Fashion Designers Association (MTD) has been introduced to the press in a press conference. In his opening speech, Hikmet Tanrıverd, Chairman o Read more