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Diesel meets Fiat

It was only a matter of time for this to happen. Diesel's creative minds met their fellow Italian friends from Fiat. The result? The new Fiat 500 by Diesel.

"The Fiat 500 symbolises Italy the way I would like it always to be - creative, passionate, cheerful - which is why the first car by Diesel could have only been a Fiat 500," comments Diesel founder Renzo Rosso. "We put all the values that we and Fiat strongly believe in, into this project; the same ones that allowed the brand Diesel to become what we are and what we stand for in t...

Pretty Woman - Jerica

GUCCI LAUNCHES WHITE TATTOO HEART COLLECTION TO BENEFIT UNICEF

Make a permanent mark: Help save children’s lives

Gucci is pleased to announce the launch of the white TATTOO HEART COLLECTION, together with a landmark advertising
campaign – both devoted to the company’s unique global partnership with UNICEF. Award-winning musical artist Rihanna
will appear in a unique international advertising campaign to highlight the 4th annual Gucci Campaign to Benefit UNICEF.
The ad campaign will run worldwide in December 2008 and January 2009 publications and will feature key pieces from
the TATTOO...

The new face at B1

Welcome Maddison, the new face at B1 Model Management. More images will come soon.

A master class with Stefano Pilati

Want to meet Yves Saint Laurent's creative director Stefano Pilati? Don’t miss your chance when he makes a rare appearance on the London fashion scene next week.

The highly praised designer will be in the UK on Wednesday, October 29, as the next guest star to take to the stage in conversation with Colin McDowell at the London College of Fashion as part of the Sunday Times Style lecture series. Hurry - there are still a limited number of tickets available for the event, which will see Pilati open up about rising through the fashio...

Toni Garrn - Chinese Vogue November 2008 - photo: Corinne Day

The Chinese Vogue gets into a British mood. The November Issue will feature the British Country Style presented by Toni Garrn and photographed by Corinne Day.

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Distinctively Beautiful

November will be the time to act for all those Kate, Angelina, Gisele and Christy worshippers. Following its extremely successful Distinctively Japanese sale in May, on November 19 Christie's is continuing its high-end photographic auction series with Distinctively Dutch, Distinctively Nordic and a breathtaking collection entitled Famous Faces of the Glamorous and Beautiful.

The selection is exceptional: rare or sold out shots of the likes of Kate Moss, Angelina Jolie, Gisele Bundchen, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford. The sa...

Hyères 2009

The 24th Hyères International Fashion and Photography Festival is now accepting admissions for its 2009 competition. Held at the Villa Noailles in South of France every spring, Hyères proposes diverse exhibitions, professional panel discussions and two competitions showcasing the best new talents from the fields of fashion and photography. Previous winners include Viktor & Rolf, Christian Wijnants, Charles Anastase and more recently, virtuoso knitwear designer and Future Tense contributor Sandra Backlund.

Full details about th...

The Stephen Sprouse Book

Inventive, enigmatic, and supremely creative, Stephen Sprouse made art and clothing that captured the mood of the 80’s. One of the first American designers to mix graffiti and a punk aesthetic with fashion, Sprouse manipulated conventional notions of style, and his unique sensibility has inspired designers from John Galliano to Raf Simmons to Marc Jacobs.

The Padilha brothers possess the largest private collection of Sprouse’s work, and were given exclusive access to his archives by his family for this project. They also obtained nev...

Ferragamo and Art

Next week the label Salvatore Ferragamo is going to strengthen its ties with the art world when it commemorates this year's Frieze Contemporary Art Fair by transforming its Bond Street boutique into a temporary gallery space.

On Thursday, October 16, at an exclusive event co-hosts Sally Albemarle, Manfredi Della Gherardesca and Gerry Fox will unveil a specially-commissioned installation by emerging video artist Cecile Paris in the store, which will culminate in a performance by French singer Barbara Carlotti.

Ferragamo himself ...

London in wedding fever

The bells are ringing- its wedding time in London. This year’s Designer Wedding Show is about to kick off tomorrow in London’s Battersea Park. Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Lacroix, Elie Saab, Jasper Conran, Temperley London and Bruce Oldfield are only a few of the high profile names to show their amazing creations for every woman’s big day.


Around 130 labels will take part in this year's event, which annually showcases everything a bride- to- be needs to have: dresses to die for, the best-of-the-best wedding planners, millinery, tiar...

The Old and the New

Despite AnOtherMan launching merely three years ago, the publication has quickly established itself as one of the most acclaimed men’s magazines in the world. Now, with its latest issue, Dazed Group offers yet another season of rich insights into fashion, the arts, and cinema. The content within follows a theme of convergence, in which history and prospect combine to mold the present state of culture.

Topping off the issue’s arts section is Glenn O’Brien’s clairvoyant analysis of how Christopher Wool anointed a new age of expressionis...

Paris Fashion Week: Designers played it safe as economy sours

Paris Fashion Week ended on Sunday, capping a season which saw designers play it safe to coax customers into stores despite the global financial crisis.

"I don't think it's been as exciting as other seasons," said Alexandra Shulman, editor-in-chief of British Vogue. "On the whole, most of the designers here have kind of stuck to what they know they can do, and not really tried anything that's going to scare the horses."

Major trends included lashings of color and print, sheer fabrics, sequins for day and sky-high hemlines.
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Valentino names new designers

The house of Valentino has dropped Alessandra Facchinetti as its designer and replaced her with two accessories specialists of the label, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. The “Ex designer” said she learned about her dismissal from press reports.

In a statement released by her Milan representative, Facchinetti said she was bitterly disappointed with the company's handling of the dismissal. Facchinetti was hired last year to replace the house's founder, Valentino Garavani, who retired in January after 45 years of dressin...

Color Rules At Paris Fashion Week

Designers in Paris whipped up a rainbow burst of colors yesterday as an antidote to the economic blues plaguing the luxury industry.

French designer Sonia Rykiel celebrated her 40 years in business by sending dozens of models twirling down the catwalk in brightly colored silks.

Christian Lacroix let loose with a riot of clashing patterns, while Esteban Cortazar went tropical at Emanuel Ungaro.

Italian designer Riccardo Tisci hit the only sombre note with a Givenchy collection that stuck to his trademark palette of bla...

YSL's Art Collection Goes Under Hammer

The fashion and art world is abuzz with the news that early next year, Pierre Berge plans to auction off the the art collection that he and his recently deceased partner, Yves Saint Laurent have collected over their 30 years together. An art dealer told the media that the legendary fashion designer needed art “like water to survive”.

Including stunning art works by Picasso, Matisse and Goya, the sale will be second to none.  According to the report, one of Picasso’s paintings Instruments de Musique sur un Gueridon should reach t...

Spring Summer 2009

For his Paris debut,
Gareth Pugh
sent his army of 22nd-century gladiators down the runway
at Palais de Tokyo.
The show, composed solely in black and white,
pushed the outer limits of fashion with a look
that can only be described as urban Samurai chic.