The Top Trend of the Spring/Summer 2012 Season is Under The Sea Style

This season designers are challenging fashionista to follow them to new depths. They are taking them under the sea to a water world filled with outfits awash with ocean waves, covered in chunky coral or swimming with schools of tropical fish. This underwater love luckily never succumbed to the undertow of trite references or ironic [...]

From December 30th, 2011

As Paris Fashion Week has drawn to a close, I round up the best and worst of this season’s collections. Karl Lagerfeld turned the Chanel show into a giant aquarium, Jean-Paul Gaultier reinvented classic pieces with a street twist, and Sarah Burton for McQueen was theatrical with a feminine touch. But who was crowned winner? [...]

France 24: The Best Fashion Books To Buy This Fall

This Fashion Friday I talk about fashionable and thoughtful thank you gifts: I reveal the best fashion coffee table book buys, including Harper Bazaar’s great offering. And three new biographies about Coco Chanel (Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life , Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War and Intimate Chanel) that disclose some intriguing information [...]

Promoting from within- A new trend for luxury fashion houses?

After years of designer merry go round behavior- where luxury fashion houses seemed to give artistic directions three seasons (and sometimes less) to re-launch a brand, create a buzz and bring in the bucks – it looks like the ride is over. A number of major brands are now deciding that instead of betting on [...]