In 2011, BBC Children in Need launched the Designer Pudsey Collection. This saw 14 designers restyle the charity’s Britain’s best-loved bear. Raising over £50,000, the inaugural Collection caught the attention of the press, fashion world and public alike: going on to be voted one of The Independent’s “Top 15 fashion moments of the year.” The … Read more
2012 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists revealed Alexander Wang, Proenza Schouler, Prabal Gurung, Derek Lam, Thakoon or French fashion designer Joseph Altuzarra, all are previous recipients of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund – an initiative that aims to promote and nurture emerging design talent in the U.S. The programme helped rising fashion talents with the combination … Read more
Vogue‘s inaugural fashion festival this month will be the largest gathering of fashion talent ever seen in London. The dazzling line-up of speakers includes Christopher Bailey, David Bailey, Dolce & Gabbana, Tom Ford, Stella McCartney, Diane von Furstenberg and Tim Walker. The fashion festival takes place April 20 & 21 at London’s Royal Geographical … Read more
Helmut Newton at Grand Palais, Southeast gallery The newly restored South-East gallery of the Grand Palais in Paris hosts the first retrospective of the work of one of the world’s most famous photographers – Helmut Newton.Conceived by June Newton, alias Alice Springs, Newton’s wife and a photographer herself, the exhibition (24 March 2012 – … Read more
Vogue launches Vogue Archive (voguearchive.com), powered globally by WGSN and featuring 400,000 full-color, digitized images of Vogue’s covers, advertiments, features, fashion portfolios, and illustrations, in their original context. The archive, digitized in full color, includes all pages of every issue of American Vogue from 1892 to the present, including covers and advertisements. The ultimate style … Read more
The Lexus Fashion Workshop with Four Original Designs Made of Recyclable Lexus CT Hybrid Parts Lexus challenged four designers to turn one of the most progressive Lexus hybrid vehicles into fashion pieces, inspiring artists and people to recycle and to see things differently. 2,000 individual parts of a completely dismantled Lexus CT hybrid (a vehicle … Read more