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Topshop taps Karlie Kloss for global SS16 campaign

London - British high street retailer Topshop has tapped none other than US supermodel Karlie Kloss to be the face of its Spring Summer 2016 campaign. She returns to model for Topshop after eight years, during which she cemented her modelling career by starring in major campaigns for Dior, Marc Jacobs and Victoria's Secret. "One of my first...

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Paris Fashion Week Trends

London - As is the case with most fashion weeks, the assemblages seen on the runway are best analysed, layer by layer, as there are so many styles and themes presented to make sense of what designers propose. There is a collective individualism to fashion this decade, where the options are never-ending and an anything-goes-attitude surpasses...

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The Best of Paris Fashion Week

Fashion week always ends on a high note, not because it marks the end of four weeks, four cities and hundreds of shows and most editors are no longer compos mentis, but because the month-long catwalk season finishes in Paris, the city where the world's most beautiful clothes are seen on the runway. Spring Summer 2016 was a particularly strong...

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Saint Laurent's grunge princesses strike a chord at PFW

Whether you love or loathe Hedi Slimane's transformation of the Yves Saint Laurent brand, you cannot deny its impact on contemporary fashion. The house has been revived more than just economically with Slimane's interpretations of contemporary youth culture and is currently thriving. Other fashion brands are not churning out the same of rate of...

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Milan Fashion Week: SS16 Catwalk Trends

Milan fashion week started off boldly, with Gucci paving the way for a season that will see a new romanticism alongside a maximalist take on colour, pattern and extravagent embellishment. Analysing the catwalk collections, what emerged were key materials such as fluid sheers and layered transparencies, mostly cut in voluminous trails; bold...

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The return of On|Off at LFW

London Fashion Week was really put back on the map this season with the influx of emerging talent hitting the scene and that in part was due to the successful return of On|Off, the non-profit showcase founded by Lee Lapthorne, to the LFW schedule. The emerging design talent organisation has been responsible for nurturing many big names on the...

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Will Prada's new stripes turn around its woes?

Prada's parent company has been much in the news lately, but not for its collections and subversive take on fashion. The company has seen a challenging sales market and China's slowdown has made a lingering dent on the once powerful Italian luxury house. After years of stellar growth, lauded shows, and idolising, the Prada brand of late has been...

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Fashion Week goes techy for SS16

One of the hottest trends this SS16 fashion week season isn’t whether florals are hitting the spot over prints, or whether the colour palette is bold or filled with sugary pastels, it's more about the collaborations between the fashion and technology worlds and a number of London Fashion Week and New York Fashion Week designers used digital...

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London Fashion Week Highlights

London - The fashion pack may have already moved onto Milan but there is a lot to celebrate from the fashion seen during London Fashion Week, where the designers seemed to embrace the free spirit of the city’s new hub in the centre of Soho to produce collections filled with 90s references, delicate floral prints, colours galore from sugary...

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London Fashion Week SS16 trends

London Fashion Week consistently delivers on innovation, and this season seemed especially relevant with an inaugural location in Soho's Brewer Street Car Park. There was modern romance, 90s references, Victoriana, modernism, high brow and lo-fi, and without attaching a label to London Fashion Week it is best described as an eclectic culmination...

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New York Fashion Week SS16 trends

New York Fashion Week got off to a directional start with Givenchy's spring summer 16 presentation, setting the tone for an eclectic and innovative fashion week. On the whole, collections were aimed at a wider and commercially focused market, but there was plenty of fashion forward presence and innovation. Fabrications Sport luxe is embedded in...

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Vivienne Westwood gets political at London Fashion Week

London - The queen of Punk, better known as Dame Vivienne Westwood, would never just stage a fashion show just for fashion's sake, as was evident at her SS16 LFW presentation on Sunday. These days Dame Viv, as she is affectionately called, is focussed as much on global causes as she is on each season's new collection. She is notorious for her...