In just one year, the darling of the avant-garde has become the Midas of menswear. For the people at Alexander McQueen, this is easy. Fifty minutes before the start of his first menswear catwalk show, and the dressing area is deserted. Lee McQueen (the real name of GQ‘s Designer Of The Year) has adjusted one or two … Read More →
To cap off NZ Fashion Week, we catch up with Miromoda’s most recent supreme winner of indigenous Māori design, Misty Ratima. This year, her collection highlighted her female influences and the designer hopes to feature in her own show one day. Misty Ratima hails from Rongomaiwahine and her collection was personally inspired by her family. “My collection … Read More →
It was Zimbabwean roots and crafts of tribe women which made Nyasha Mabhunu’s fashion collection the colourful fusion that featured at African Fashion Week London. The 23-year-old, who will graduate from Bucks New University in September, was one of more than 100 designers with connections to Africa to show their collections at Freemasons’ Hall. Nyasha said: “My … Read More →
Ace designer Wendell Rodricks presented the ‘aLL PRIMERO’ collection at the plus-size show at Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Winter/Festive 2017. The presentation broke myths about plus size fashion where colour, style and fabrics were concerned with designs made to flatter men and women with great curves and ample muscles like the Apple, Pear, Hourglass, Rectangle … Read More →
Are you one of those people who, every time you go to a duty-free store or a perfume shop, allows the sales assistant to take you hostage? “Sir, you must try this!” “Ma’am, what are you looking for?” “This is the very latest fragrance”. And so on. If so, then you are among the vast … Read More →
Her name is synonymous with ikat — textile processed with resist dyeing — and now, Delhi-based design veteran and textile conservationist, Madhu Jain is doing her bit for the growing need for sustainability in fashion. Jain, who has been in the fashion industry for three decades, has come up with bamboo-silk ikat — an innovating … Read More →
Kenneth Jay Lane, the designer and bon vivant who built a global business from glittering acts of unabashed deception, producing fake and junk jewelry — or, as he liked to say, tongue in cheek, “faque” and “junque” — has died at his home in Manhattan. He was 85. Chris Sheppard, the executive vice president of … Read More →