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Cheongsams or qipaos (旗袍) are believed to have the most alluring body-hugging silhouette that highlights feminine curves in the best way ever. Today’s top international designers/brands such as Vivienne Tam and Shiatzy Chen have seeked inspiration from these traditional Chinese dresses for setting the modern oriental trend to celebrate the inheritance of Chinese clothing aesthetics. To promote “Hong Kong Week 2013@Taipei,” Institute of Textiles & Clothing (the Hong Kong Polytechnic University) a

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Anastasia Lomonova / Spring 2012

That's so New YorkOnce again, multiple designers have been shelling out with kind emails and sending across images from their soon to be launched collections. In this case, we have Anasasia Lomonova, a designer who is originally from Ukraine, Europe yet after the collapse of the USSR she then went onto relocate to Cyprus with her family and now resides over in Canada after training as a visual artist and specializing in oil painting, later moving on and attending Ryerson University, Canada. A

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Mina + Oli

That's So New YorkFrom the various thoughts which have been rushing through my head over the course of the past day or two alone, I think it's safe to say that the simple things in life certainly seem to be pleasing me a little more frequently than usual; all I can assume is that my brain has decided that college is a little too strenuous and persnickety items which hold large amounts of detail are too much for it to process. The result? My mind is becoming more and more attracted to restrict

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BCBG, The Academy of Art, Max Azria and Tips

We came back from our 2011 Fashion Week bursting with excitement.  Simply said, the designers did impress.  The following is our little insight.

Sleek and chic are often used as buzz words. For this fall, they are anything but just buzz. When a designer can convey effortless simplicity in his or her design so that the clothing seems to float on the body even with a touch of geometrical structure, they have achieved sleek and chic in my book. These two words aptly describe all three of the shows K

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Mad About the Boy

8842851689?profile=originalI’ve fallen madly in love.  With a gentrified brand.  He’s not a new thing, nor particularly cutting edge. 
In fact he’s having a mainstream moment, something I usually avoid like pearls and curls. 

 You see - I never quite understood the Ralph Lauren/Tommy Hilfiger fixation, although Abercrombie & Fitch have gotten closer to pushing my brand buttons – but I think being a Brit girl I still couldn’t connect 100%. 

All that’s changed.  Jack Wills is six foot one, old-school Oxford, in a hoodie
& pad

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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

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30paarhaende (Photo via Zimbio)


Another fashion week has come and gone, and, just like the others, Mercedez-Benz’ Berlin shows had the odd, ugly moment. But overall, clothes were structured, funky, and, most importantly, wearable!


Perret Schaad (Photos via Zimbio)


Perret Schaad’s show wins our unofficial “Straight From the Runway” award for clean designs that we’d take right off the models. By mixing neutral creams and beiges with a popping canary yellow, we feel that Schaad’s collection had the pe

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Photo via Flickr/anyakamarek


Another Graduate Fashion Week has sped by, and we’re sad to have to wait another 365-ish days for the next crop of UK student talent. To cope with our melancholy, we’re reveling in our favorite finalist collections and the trends that might just catch on past the student runways.

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Photo via Fashion156


Just as we promised, we’re keeping on top of the best and, um, most interesting trends at London’s Graduate Fashion Week. Take a look after the jump for these hot, fresh, and often bizarre styles.


Left: Maria Lazari (Photo via @River_Island; Right: Leoni Newcombe (Photo via Fashion156)


Newsflash: Your childhood kaleidoscope has resurrected from the crawlspace shaped like a sweater—but don’t be scared. Geometric shapes hit the catwalk, and—when they worked—we squealed like schoo

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Photo via The Fashion Scout


You can hear the buzz from clear across the Atlantic Ocean—the much-hyped UK Graduate Fashion Week has begun. Sure, we got a sneak preview of 11 upcoming outfits courtesy of fashion
photographer Rankin, but the top colors, drastic structures, and even runway performances
offered by this year’s graduates demand a second look. Get your eyes
ready.


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Alice Halliday's Collection | Photo via Fashion156


We’re only a few days into Graduate Fashion Week London 2010, and trends are all over the map. From super girly to super, well, not, graduates are pushing the creative envelope. There’s so much talent on the runway that Alberta Ferretti (this year’s chair of the judging panel) might just have to draw the week’s winning name out of an ultra-fashionable hat. See the trends—terrific and terrible—after the jump.


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Cheongsams or qipaos (旗袍) are believed to have the most alluring body-hugging silhouette that highlights feminine curves in the best way ever. Today’s top international designers/brands such as Vivienne Tam and Shiatzy Chen have seeked inspiration from these traditional Chinese dresses for setting the modern oriental trend to celebrate the inheritance of Chinese clothing aesthetics. To promote “Hong Kong Week 2013@Taipei,” Institute of Textiles & Clothing (the Hong Kong Polytechnic University) a

Read more…

Anastasia Lomonova / Spring 2012

That's so New YorkOnce again, multiple designers have been shelling out with kind emails and sending across images from their soon to be launched collections. In this case, we have Anasasia Lomonova, a designer who is originally from Ukraine, Europe yet after the collapse of the USSR she then went onto relocate to Cyprus with her family and now resides over in Canada after training as a visual artist and specializing in oil painting, later moving on and attending Ryerson University, Canada. A

Read more…

Mina + Oli

That's So New YorkFrom the various thoughts which have been rushing through my head over the course of the past day or two alone, I think it's safe to say that the simple things in life certainly seem to be pleasing me a little more frequently than usual; all I can assume is that my brain has decided that college is a little too strenuous and persnickety items which hold large amounts of detail are too much for it to process. The result? My mind is becoming more and more attracted to restrict

Read more…

BCBG, The Academy of Art, Max Azria and Tips

We came back from our 2011 Fashion Week bursting with excitement.  Simply said, the designers did impress.  The following is our little insight.

Sleek and chic are often used as buzz words. For this fall, they are anything but just buzz. When a designer can convey effortless simplicity in his or her design so that the clothing seems to float on the body even with a touch of geometrical structure, they have achieved sleek and chic in my book. These two words aptly describe all three of the shows K

Read more…

Mad About the Boy

8842851689?profile=originalI’ve fallen madly in love.  With a gentrified brand.  He’s not a new thing, nor particularly cutting edge. 
In fact he’s having a mainstream moment, something I usually avoid like pearls and curls. 

 You see - I never quite understood the Ralph Lauren/Tommy Hilfiger fixation, although Abercrombie & Fitch have gotten closer to pushing my brand buttons – but I think being a Brit girl I still couldn’t connect 100%. 

All that’s changed.  Jack Wills is six foot one, old-school Oxford, in a hoodie
& pad

Read more…



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

Read more…

30paarhaende (Photo via Zimbio)


Another fashion week has come and gone, and, just like the others, Mercedez-Benz’ Berlin shows had the odd, ugly moment. But overall, clothes were structured, funky, and, most importantly, wearable!


Perret Schaad (Photos via Zimbio)


Perret Schaad’s show wins our unofficial “Straight From the Runway” award for clean designs that we’d take right off the models. By mixing neutral creams and beiges with a popping canary yellow, we feel that Schaad’s collection had the pe

Read more…

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