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The Kankakee Country Club is celebrating its 100th birthday this year, and one group of women kicked off celebrations with a Vintage Fashion Show and Luncheon Thursday.

It was the first big centennial celebration for the women, said Margie Mortell, chairman of ladies activities for the county club, which opened in 1916.

"We have something representing each era for the last 10 decades," Mortell said. Many guests also dressed in vintage clothes.

The event, for club memb

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If you take a good idea and match it up with good and capable and committed people, then you’ve got something that has lasting power,” said Ned Helms, grandson of Goodwill founder the Rev. Edgar J. Helms of Boston, who began the organization back in 1902. “He took it and ran with it, and that was the seed of Goodwill International today.”

Helms, his wife, Sally, and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Goodwill of Northern New England’s president and CEO, stood together surveying the crowd of over 300 at the

Hangovers can take you to bleak places and on a recent weekend I was transported to a scene akin to one of those hoarder TV shows from a channel on the fringes of digital television: I was surrounded by 10 black bin bags filled to the brim with my clothes. These weren't just any clothes, these were high street clothes.

After years of high street hoarding, I decided to edit my wardrobe, or let's be honest my floordrobe, which covered my entire bedroom floor. Fact fans: my room is the size of a ten

Wonderland fave Craig Green’s design credentials – notably, his deft marriage of the functional with the conceptual – have steadily accrued critical acclaim. Last night, it was his business acumen that was brought to the fore, as he was revealed as the winner of the third BFC/GQ Designer Menswear Fund during a ceremony held at Boundary Restaurant in Shoreditch, London.

The award, supported by Vertu, was established by the British Fashion Council and GQ Magazine in 2013

While it is evident that Nashville has grown, for this native son, it's hard to grasp that reality. Case in point is the recent Symphony Fashion Show. Follow closely, because I’m going to move at the pace our fair city seems to continue to move.

The Symphony Fashion Show Patrons spent a recent evening with Gov. Bill Haslam and First Lady Crissy Haslam at the Tennessee Residence. It was a splendid evening that began with cocktails and passed appetizers on the veranda.

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Another fashion vacancy as Alessandra Facchinetti leaves Italian label Tod’s

Another month and another top fashion house loses its creative director – this time Italian label Tod’s. The company announced last week that the creative director of its women’s collections, Alessandra Facchinetti, was stepping down from her role with immediate effect.

“I would like to thank Alessandra for her contribution to Tod’s. We wanted to develop the Italian style as well as a strong point of view in fashion, pres

CELEBRATE Mother’s Day this Sunday with thePE Express and Jenni Gault International Jewellery Design by winning stunning jewellery to spoil that special lady in your life.

We are giving a few readers the chance to get their hands on these beautiful jewellery pieces. The first prize is a Paris Inspiration Ring, a pair of Brilliant Round Studs, a Crystal Combination Ring and a Jenni Gault International voucher, valued at R1 950.

The second prize is a Paris Insp

A new study says that an increase in women with breast cancer choosing double mastectomy may be influenced by media coverage of celebrities.

From 2000 to 2012, 17 celebrities publicly disclosed their breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Researchers from the University of Michigan analyzed 727 articles from major U.S. print publications that covered these celebrity diagnoses.

Four celebrities underwent double mastectomy, and 45 percent of the media coverage about their

Some jobs you could never do if you didn't truly love them, and ballet costumier has got to be near the top of that list.

James Kelly has spent more than 20 years bringing designers' visions to the stage, and now he's at work on the Royal New Zealand Ballet's production of The Wizard of Oz.

His job is to bring sketches to life, to translate an idea into a garment, and to make it work on a practical level.

"You have to love it. I'm not a designer, that is not what I'v

Dad jeans turned into a skirt, and a business suit and old newspapers transformed into ball gowns. With pieces made of 90 percent recycled materials or trash, every outfit was different.

This year’s Trashion Refashion Show, which took place Sunday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, was the primary annual fundraiser for the Center for Sustainable Living. Bloomington designers submitted looks created with long-abandoned garments or found garbage.

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The topic of my latest fashion rant is the questionable fishnet fabric. But, rather than slamming it wholeheartedly, I’ll censor myself and look at how the notoriously exposed material has inspired some really cool style trends of late.

Perhaps I’m the only one who is instinctively baffled by the fact that webbed fishnet-like fabrics are currently being given the thumbs up in fashion. There was a time when the textile was most symbolic of theatrical shows. But, trends often

Think graffiti, but with yarn instead of spray cans.

The art of yarnbombing started in 2005 when Texan clothes shop owner Magda Sayeg found a creative way of using up half-finished jumpers and scarfs - by putting them on door handles.

The craze took off, with artists plastering street signs and even buses with colourful strands of wool made by knitting or crocheting, reported The Telegraph.

Freelance graphic designer and illustrator Kelly Lim, 25, is one such yarnbombing enthusiast here.

She first s

Important pieces of art and jewelry that once belonged to the storied Bobst family — benefactors of health and educational institutions including New York University’s Bobst Library — are to be auctioned at Sotheby’sthis spring. The collection of Mamdouha and Elmer Holmes Bobst includes Impressionist works by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and gem designs signed by Van Cleef & Arpels, and Donald Claflin for Tiffany & Co., among others.

Many of the collect

Actress Jamie Chung's new customised Levi's jacket reflects an inside joke with husband.

The Once Upon a Time star got down with denim at the brand's Coachella party over the weekend (15-17Apr16), joining fellow A-listers like Freida Pinto and Suki Waterhouse in celebrating style. When it came to getting personalised details on their clothes, Jamie paid homage to her hubby Bryan Greenberg, who she married last year (15).

“I got Chungberg on my jacket,” she grinned to

After years of striving towards creating a picture perfect show, fashion designers appear to be challenging norms now. At the just concluded Lakme Fashion Week in the city, a few designers challenged the concepts of a model and a showstopper by making some unconventional choices on the ramp.

Hyderabad-based designer Gaurang Shah made headlines when he got supermodel Carol Gracias to walk the ramp, cradling a baby bump. He was highly applauded for the bold step but he wasn’t anticipating such an o

It’s new-age fashion, not fantasy. When Berlin-based ElektroCouture and Friends lit up the runway at the Lakme Fashion Week with their light-emitting jackets, colour-changing clothes and glowing accessories, it was apparent that technology-driven futuristic fashion was moving rapidly from far-fetched concepts to commercially viable style statements.

In Mumbai for the show, Lisa Lang, founder, ElektroCouture, spoke about pushing the boundaries of smart textiles and creating tech-driven garments th

As I write this, I am about to go Down Under, which, of course, refers to Australia and New Zealand, half a world away.

The occasion: a Down Under family reunion with my kids.

My daughter, her husband and their two small children will join us from Thailand. My son and his wife will join us from France. We have planned a grand exploration of the nature, beauty and marvels of New Zealand, said to be one of the most gorgeous places on earth.

While I am beyond proud of who

The see-now-buy-now fashion week model is still the fashion industry's most debated topic. Karl Lagerfeld hates it. Christopher Bailey loves it. It's all a bit confusing, non?

Between designers producing special capsules available to buy immediately after their runway debut, and the more dramatic move to present the collection that's due to drop in-store (and online) - instead of showing the line-up that ordinarily wouldn't be ready to purchase for another six m

Contrary to all the ardently propagated stereotypes, Pakistanis are not just people clad in burqahs, salwars slight above the ankles and caps. People of Pakistan are vigorously in love with colours and beauties of life and their various cultural attires reflect this attribute. Not only our traditional short formal dresses and jewelleries are exquisite, Pakistan’s fashion industry has been showcasing its unique and elegant creations to the world from quite a long period of time now. Style and fas