January 2009
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Dress Registry for Presidential Inauguration Balls
The upcoming presidential inauguration will be an historic one for a variety of different reasons. A very high number of attendees is expected both at the inauguration itself, but also at the numerous inaugural balls to follow. This year, hundreds of women are taking to the web to register their dresses in the hopes of [...]
Updated London Fashion Week Schedule for Fall/Winter 2009
Here is the latest version of the catwalk schedule for the upcoming London Fashion Week (version as of January 9, 2009): Friday 20th February 10:00 Paul Costelloe BFC Tent 11:30 Caroline Charles BFC Tent 13:30 Jenny Packham BFC Tent 15:00 Eun Jeong BFC Tent Fashion Fringe 17:00 Ashish TBC 19:30 Central Saint Martins BFC Tent
Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week Fall 2009
New York Fashion Week for the Fall 2009 Collection will be held in New York City from February 13 – February 20, 2009. Runway shows are by invitation only and not open to the public. The runway show schedule has not yet been made available, but I’ll post it as soon as it is. If [...]
Anna Wintour, Ambassador to France?
Today’s Page Six has the following tidbit: “IS Anna Wintour going to give up Vogue magazine to become Barack Obama’s ambassador to France? Page Six Magazine – which assesses the state of Wintour’s two-decade reign in this Sunday’s issue – asked a transition team spokesman and got a ‘no comment.’ The mag says the fashion [...]
Karl Lagerfeld Defends Fur Industry
“The Chanel supremo said it was ‘childish’ to even discuss the issue of wearing fur in a world where eating meat was normal. “German-born Karl Lagerfeld, 75, a contemporary of the late Yves Saint Laurent, said that he did not himself wear fur. But he defended the practice, saying there was ‘an industry who lives [...]