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From November, Gucci luxury fashion home will offer made-to-measure services for men. Bespoke tailoring will be available in 11 Gucci boutiques. Customers will be able to customize their suits and the service will be also available for shirts and shoes. The ad campaign that promotes the new exclusive service has James Franco as the central … Read more
Swarovski, Christian Lacroix Team Up for Ballet Swarovski has armed Christian Lacroix with more than 2 million crystals to create costumes for “La Source,” a ballet choreographed by Jean-Guillaume Bart and running for 18 performances at the Opéra Nationale de Paris through Nov. 22. The libretto is described as a typical 19th-century ballet, set in … Read more
Tom Ford is the designer of the outfits for the next James Bond movie, directed by Sam Mendes. The movie will be released officially in November 2012. Tom Ford has already had a mini-experience of this kind in “Quantum of Solace”, when he had already done some of the styling for the secret agent. In … Read more
Givenchy , one of the most hotly anticipated shows of the fall fashion week also, predicatbly, had one of the most star filled front rows. Liv Tyler, Naomi Campbell, Jared Leto, the Roitfelds & Rachel Zoe were just a few of the stars who watched Gisele take to the catwalk in skin tight tailoring, peplums … Read more
French Designer Jean Paul Gaultier is now the subject of his own documentary, called “Jean Paul Gaultier Ou Les Codes Bouleversés” (Jean Paul Gaultier Or the Shattered Codes). It was made by model and his former muse Farida Khelfa, and he is delighted with the finished project. “She knows me. She can show things even … Read more
Vivienne Westwood put art in the service of sustainable development. At the launch of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)’s new ‘GreenUp’ initiative, conceived to bring the Green Economy closer to Europeans, British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood unveiled a ‘Tree-shirt’ to raise funds for re-connecting Europe’s forests. Forests across the globe will be central to combating … Read more