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NY Fashion Week: tough, tailored, lots of black

Thursday, 28 February 2013, 16:09 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Influencers finish up New York Fashion Week on Thursday with a taste of what's to come next fall, their appetite whet by some tough, some tailored and many black looks. But there were flashes of...

Mugler, Van Noten, Pugh create tensions in fashion

Thursday, 28 February 2013, 13:15 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Opposites and contradictions fuel contemporary fashion, as seen in the second day of Paris ready-to-wear shows.   Wednesday saw an abundance of such contrasts in style, fabric, tailoring and...

Jacobs' sepia-filtered show wraps Fashion Week

Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 16:07 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Marc Jacobs does the "show" part of a fashion show as well as he does the "fashion."   He closed New York Fashion Week on Thursday night with an elaborate production...

Le Moine Tricote opens Paris fashion week

Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 20:14 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Fall-winter 2013-14 sees bright-eyed designer Alice Lemoine brimming with ideas.   First of all, in the unique presentation of her Le Moine Tricote collection via three different mediums in...

Galliano's outfit: anti-Semitic or just eccentric?

Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 14:13 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

    Fashion designer John Galliano didn't appear at New York Fashion Week, but he made headlines there anyway.   Galliano landed on the front of the New York Post on...

Armani, Dior rack up fashion wins at Oscars

Monday, 25 February 2013, 16:09 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Forget glamour girls Jessica Chastain versus Jennifer Lawrence. By the end of a long Oscars telecast, the only person who could have stolen the fashion conversation was first lady Michelle Obama...

Versace nails a new punk look for next winter

Saturday, 23 February 2013, 09:38 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Donatella Versace doesn't seek to revisit punk so much as to interpret what it would be if it were born today.   She may have nailed it in the women's collection for winter 2013-14...

For Joan & Melissa Rivers, Oscars equal fashion

Saturday, 23 February 2013, 09:27 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

In 1996, the mother-daughter duo pioneered award-show red carpet coverage, hosting "Live From the Red Carpet" for E! Entertainment Television.   After leaving E! in 2004, they...

Shoes are the new jewelry on Milan runways

Saturday, 23 February 2013, 09:11 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Donatella Versace once famously said that shoes are the new jewelry.   This season, her decree is being fulfilled to the hilt — which at times means all the way up the thigh. Midway...

Just Cavalli thinks ethnic for women next winter

Friday, 22 February 2013, 11:33 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Designer Roberto Cavalli drew inspiration for his second line "Just Cavalli" collection, from a recent trip to Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, at the foot of the...

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