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Fashion in 50 Seconds 10/6 Beretta, Boucheron, and Helmut Lang

coutorture — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:18:58 PDT

All we are saying is give peace, erm, fashion a chance says bridal fashion show Bridal Asia in New Delhi India which featured Pakistani models in an effort to promote cross cultural understanding through every little girl's dream. Literally we are imagning, arranged marriages are still huge.

The country lifestyle has gone far beyond Barbour jackets and duck boots when it comes to strange inspirations for fashion. It turns out shooting is the next big fashion inspiration. Beretta, the firearms manufacturer, has a clothing line called 1526. The line focuses on the shooting lifestyle that countryside sports represents. Made in Italy from luxury materials we are willing to bet this is going to show up at Freeman's in a month or so. Other gun manufacturers seeing a boom in clothing demand include James Purdey & Sons and Holland and Holland. Who knew?

Fashion critic and illustrator Michael Roberts has a new book called "Fashion Victims" features 26 poems with accompanying illustrations based on the letters of the alphabet, ranging from Auctions to Zips.

The solution the Wall Street collapse? Brazil, Russia, India and China - the BRIC economies, have a growing middle class that is developing an appetite for luxury.

Boucheron has launched an ecommerce site proving once again that Gucci Group is consistently the most innovative of the luxury conglomerates when it comes to online retailing and luxury technology use.

"Fashion shouldn't be about absoluteness, otherwise it would be a church," says Lang, whose first art exhibition, Alles Gleich Schwer, at the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, Germany, is currently attracting him plenty of renewed attention.

L'Oreal is sponsoring Dubai Fashion Week which runs October 5th through the 9th. Way to hop on that trend guys!

Working for Rachel Comey Means Lobster Dinners and Carnival Rides

fashionologie — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:08:49 PDT

»Rachel Comey schleps her team out to Long Island house to work on her Spring 2009 collection (peeks involved!) [Refinery29]

»Vanessa Traina and Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld are co-hosting a Boucheron gala during New York Fashion Week [FWD]

»Kate Moss's Fall 2008 Topshop collection is dropping September 9 [Topshop]

»Hana Soukupova is hosting a Victoria's Secret preview at her Sag Harbor home this weekend [FWD]

»Net-a-Porter has started stocking Halston [Fashionista]

»Alessandro Nivola has been cast to play Boy Capel opposite Audrey Tautou in Coco avant Chanel [Vogue UK]

»Sean Avery's fledgling styling business is kaput now that he's moving to Dallas [Style File]

»Which Olympian should replace Roger Federer on Anna Wintour's arm? [The Cut]

»Alice Burdeu got banged [TFS]

Marc Jacobs Sets a Wedding Date, Reveals More Costume Institute Gala Guests

fashionologie — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:40:12 PDT

>> As Marc Jacobs gears up for sponsor duties on Monday's Costume Institute Gala, he's got another big event on his mind: his wedding. He got engaged to fiance Lorenzo Martone last month, and the two are already planning what is sure to be a big bash in Provincetown, Massachusetts, according to Martone - one of their favorite vacation spots. "Yes, [the wedding is happening] in the summer - in June, even before summer! And then [we'll have] a party in December in St. Barths."

Just last week, Lorenzo revealed that he was the one who proposed, and he bought their pink-gold triple band rings at Boucheron, Marc's favorite jeweler, in Paris during Fashion Week. “I was in Paris for Fashion Week for the Vuitton show, so I had a little planning beforehand to do that." He brought them back to New York, where he surprised Marc with them during dinner at the Mercer Hotel.

But it's not all about the wedding just yet; Jacobs fleshed out his Costume Insitute Gala guest list further - we've already heard co-host Kate Moss and Kerry Washington, and last night he added: "Madonna . . . Victoria Beckham . . . I'm trying to think, now I can't remember! Anne Hathaway . . . Winona [Ryder] . . . Rachel Feinstein, John Currin . . . and Rihanna!"
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