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London Fashion Week: Basso & Brooke Fall 2010

coutorture — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:41:02 PST

London 02/23/10 Getty, WireImage

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London Fashion Week: Basso & Brooke Spring 2010

coutorture — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:53:26 PDT

London 09/22/09. WireImage

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Fashion Fund 2009 Kicks Off with "Donatella Delight"

fashionologie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:33:27 PDT

>> One of Valentino Garavani's favorite models, Natalia Vodianova, missed the big premiere of his documentary; she was in London for the launch of the 2009 Fashion Fringe search for emerging British design talent - the UK's version of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award - instead. In celebration of this year's honorary chairperson, Donatella Versace, who flew in from Milan for the event, guests like Claudia Schiffer, Roland Mouret, Jonathan Saunders, and Jacquetta Wheeler were served "Donatella Delight" cocktails. Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet is also on the judging panel this year, as is Jimmy Choo founder Tamara Mellon, who is overseeing the introduction of Fashion Fringe's first accessories prize. The four as yet unnamed finalists will show capsule collections during Spring 2010 London Fashion Week, and the winner - who in the past has been Basso & Brooke and Erdem - receive upwards of £100,000 for a follow-up show.
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coutorture — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:02:44 PST

Short Fashion Films Poised For The Birds Eye View Film Festival

Birds Eye View Film Fesitval, a London-based festival that promotes female filmmakers, will be showing a series of short fashion films on a special night during the festival. Fashion Loves Film will feature creative shorts on Yves Saint Laurent (still from film to left), Basso & Brooke and Givenchy directed by some of fashion's heavy hitters, so if you're in London and The September Issue, Stylista, and Running With Heels has you feeling a bit like the fashion industry has officially sold out, this might be worth a stop. Each film is less than fifteen minutes long and promises abstract content. Case in point, a description for the Givenchy film reads "the subject is passive and reality is suspended". So there you go. Click on the link above for more information.

London Fashion Week: Basso & Brooke Fall 2009

coutorture — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:15:11 PST

London 02/22/09. Photos by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images.

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Purple & Orange: The Colors For Spring 09

coutorture — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:59:24 PDT

Clockwise from top left:

Basso & Brooke Spring 2009,

Luella Spring 2009,

Christopher Kane Spring 2009,

Modernist Spring 2009,

United Bamboo Spring 2009,

Modernist Spring 2009

Purple and orange were two colors hard to ignore on the Spring 09 catwalks--purple, we've seen for some time and orange appeared, no doubt because of Prada and a few brave designers who used it last season. Some designers, in fact, used both at the same time. In the spread above Basso & Brooke, Luella, and United Bamboo all employed this technique while designers like Christopher Kane and Modernist kept with one of the two colors, making them more interesting with texture and technique.

2011 Spring London Fashion Week: Basso and Brooke

fashionologie — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:00:42 PDT

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