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Designers– looking for new materials for your next collection that are fashion forward and eco-friendly? Well, we’d like to introduce you to AirDye, a revolutionary textile process that dyes fabrics without water. We first heard about this sustainable technology during our excursion
to FIT’s “Going Green” exhibit. We wanted to find out more the AirDye process and fabrics so we took a trip AirDye offices on Fashion Avenue. To see what we captured, click play. (more…)

Talk about your self-made men—though Alexis Bittar’s parents were professors, the now well-respected, highly successful jewelry maker never even graduated high school. Makes your Parsons
degree seem a little pointless, hunh? Just kidding. In any case, Bittar tells the videographers over at Vogue Italia that his real education in fashion came from his folks, who…

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Seems we’re fixed on the childhood experience of designers these days. Yesterday, we marveled when Alexis Bittar told Vogue Italia how he started selling vintage on the street at 13. Today, thanks to PSFK, we learned about the early training of Austrian knitwear sorceress, Michaela Buerger who parlayed her experiences crafting with her mother and grandmother and a little DIY couture designing in her teens into a collection that’s carried at Colette and Opening Ceremony. Said Buerger, “My childho

Hip, sexy, talented, and, apparently, quite the comic interlocutor, Brooklyn-based designer of Navajo-inspired cloaks and all manner of 21st-Century Earth Mother wear, Lindsey Thornburg offered up her various opinions of the fashion Internets to The Contributing Editor. Yes, as an up-and-coming designer she loves it. Yes, by the same rationale, she hates it. But at the end of the day, it’s all about the Benjamins. “I love how you can really do some solid background checks on possible love intere

In New York City’s Meatpacking District, you’ll find the home and creative studio of partners in design
and life Steven Cox and Daniel Silver of men’s line Duckie Brown. Somehow, The Fashion Informer managed to wiggle their way into the duo’s abode for an exclusive peek of where their unique menswear comes together and with the designers about their sweet space… (more…)

This partnership also includes support of the CFDA‘s charitable initiative, Fashion Targets Breast Cancer.

A kick-off event is being hosted by CURVExpo on Monday, August 2 (6pm –7 pm) in the South Concourse of the Javits Center, to celebrate thenewly formed partnership and to mark the launch of CURVExpo’s supporto

This partnership also includes support of the CFDA‘s charitable initiative, Fashion Targets Breast Cancer.

A kick-off event is being hosted by CURVExpo on Monday, August 2 (6pm –7 pm) in the South Concourse of the Javits Center, to celebrate thenewly formed partnership and to mark the launch of CURVExpo’s supporto

We had the pleasure of bringing you inside this year’s (Capsule) show in New York and to round up what we captured, we’d like to present you with this little video. The Best of (Capsule) highlights all the wonderful designers we had a chance to meet and while there were just too darn many to chat with them all, we got a nice taste of the best designers there. Click play now to see who and what we ran into at the menswear trade show.

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With continuing to capture footage for our ongoing (Capsule) video series, we ran into the smart, stylish, and if we may say so, lovely owner of Brooklyn boutique Bird, Ms. Jen Mankins. While shopping for new looks for her beloved store, Mankins paused a bit to give us her take on the Spring/Summer 2011 trends, her favorite designers, and what she looksfor when selecting menswear for her racks. Click play to hear what this buyer had to say.

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Remember those old Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes commercials where the sainted Ed McMahon’s prize crew would deliver over sized checks to ecstatic, unsuspecting winners? Well, what if that unsuspecting winner was a fashion designer and instead of Ed McMahon, it was the editorial staff of GQ dropping off the money? We may have found the closest thing possible today with this new video published on the GQ Eye blog.

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London Fashion Week 2009 | Image via Flikr/Swamibu

If you’re anything like us, you associate the early part of September with the madness of New York Fashion Week. Oh, but September is so much much than that fast-paced, magazine editor and celeb filled event that takes up just over one week out of the month. But just over the pond, there’s another– and some would argue better– runway explosion: London Fashion Week. And, wouldn’t you know it, LFW’s schedule just debuted.

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After the successful completion of the online event “Spring-Summer-2010”, Autumn Winter 2010 – the online fashion show goes live. Fibre2fashion is recreating the second season of global fashion show after the huge success of it
maiden showcasing of the Spring Summer 2010 recently.

Fibre2Fashion has been catering to the textile-fashion industry since a decade and this is a step taken by fibre2fashion to give all the leading designers an
opportunity to let the whole world see their collection at one

For this edition of Flea Bites, we took a trip to Limelight Marketplace to get a sneak peek of Coumon, a line of vintage-inspired knotted jewelry by Julie Robinson. The Brooklyn-based designer specializes in lightweight kimono silk necklaces and headpieces that make a big statement. To take a look at what she’s created with a variety of cool silk fabrics, click play.

Limelight Marketplace, 656 Avenue of the Americas (at 20th Street)

Photo via People's Daily Online

Any fashion know-it-all is versed in Paris, New York, and Milan fashion. It’s just basic knowledge. But…Berlin? Well, it’s time to add the German capital to your runway repertoire. We’re on day three
of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin 2011, and the first day was hotter than New York City’s current heatwave…As if that’s possible.

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The FashionStake Diaries | Image via Business of Fashion

Ideas are easy. Money, however, is hard. If you’ve ever considered starting your own line or business, you already know that funding is the most significant and trickiest part of launching. Creative minds aren’t always good business minds and, consequently, many a good entrepreneurial idea slips through the cracks between inspiration and capital investment. Well, the masterminds behind Business of Fashion
know all too well the importance o

Photo: Todd Heisler/New York Times

While we were enjoying Pulino’s pizza and brews at the preview of the new Rag & Bone store on Houston last night (more on that later), Diane von Furstenberg, Norma Kamali, and Prabal Gurung
were getting real with New York Times scribe Eric Wilson in front of a paying audience for the latest edition of the newspaper’sTimes Talks series at the beautiful The Times Center just across from the picturesque Port Authority Bus Terminal. Given the reports leaking out on v