Young men's fashions change less frequently than girls. Perhaps they are less fashion conscious, or prefer to spend their money on something else. Jeans are jeans aren't they? Well no, not really. The material may look the same, but manufactures change 'the cut' the shape of the waistband or position of the pockets, even the shade and texture of the colour etc.,
What you wear says something about you, and gives people you meet for the first time, an immediate impression. 'The 10 second look!' This is especially the case when attending, special functions, such as an interview, casual parties or more formal functions like weddings.
Don't underestimate the importance of colour either. Black indicates a sense of something special. Wearers tend to be professionals, such as an architect or artist. It is an easy colour to decorate with accessories, designs and colours. Take a look next time you watch a television programme; especially concerts or music show.
The greatest student fashion show on earth
Schools, universities and colleges prepare their
hopeful young designers for the much-anticipated celebration of the
best of student fashion
Designs by Carly Ellis and Sera UlgerPhoto: RANKIN
At schools, colleges and universities up and down the land,
hundreds of hopeful young designers are putting the finishing touches
to the collections which will be shown at the greatest student fashion
show on earth - Graduate Fashion Week, being held in London, at Earls
Court 2, in London, from June 6-10.
This year’s event features the work of more than 1,000 BA fashion
graduates from more than 60 UK universities, as well as an
international catwalk event with collections from five overseas
colleges: Amsterdam Fashion Institute; Hamburg’s Academie Mode and
Design; the FHNW Academy of Arts & Design/Institute Fashion Design,
of Basel; St Petersburg’s State University of Technology & Design;
and the Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.
Graduate Fashion Week, now in its 19th year, is being sponsored by
the high street fashion chain, River Island, for the sixth year
running. “The last five years have been a total eye-opener,” says
Richard Bradbury, CBE, River Island’s CEO. “No other event in the world
can display so much raw talent to a continually growing audience.”
Apart from a daily schedule of fashion shows by nineteen different
fashion colleges and universities, GFW is also home to a vast
exhibition where all the sixty-plus participants take stands to
showcase the work by each Class of 2009/2010. Of special interest this
year is a display of the “campaign images” shot by the acclaimed young
photographer, Rankin, and featuring the work of a number of ‘hot’ names
to watch, chosen by the stylist, Katie Shillingford.
The Graduate Fashion Week Gala on Wednesday June 9th includes the
annual awards ceremony, with prizes given for the best womenswear,
menswear and knitwear, among others, as well as the prestigious River
Island Gold Award, worth £20,000. A new prize has been added to this
year’s list, the Inspiration Award, which is being voted for by GFW
students, and will acknowledge the contribution to fashion by an
inspirational figure, such as an actor, musician, designer or model.
Alberta Ferretti, one of Italy’s top designers, is chairing this year’s
judging panel.
Graduate Fashion Week ends on Thursday June 10th, with its
Education Day, now in its third year and proving a huge attraction for
14-18 year-olds interested in a career in fashion. Last year, more than
3,500 students attending from 140 schools nationwide.
Further details, admission prices and times: www.gfw.org.uk
Fashion worlds collide at Museum of London
Fashion worlds collide as Philip Treacy creates hats for the Museum of London.
Philip Treacy's "ship hat" at the Museum of LondonPhoto: MUSEUM OF LONDON
The London-based, award-winning milliner, Philip Treacy, has
re-created some of his most famous hats for a new exhibition opening at
the Museum of London, today ( Friday, May 28th) .
The exhibition is the perfect example of when fashion worlds
collide, as Treacy’s 21st century hats are seen as the contemporary
accessories for a Georgian masquerade, circa 1760.
His legendary black ‘Galleon’ hat, for example, famously worn both
by the late Izzy Blow, and the singer, Grace Jones, is re-designed as a
smaller, tricorne of the 1700’s, to accompany a ruffled and bowed,
fine-stripe, silk crinoline, worn by a mannequin dressed as a mid-18th
century ‘It’ girl. (An inspirational print from 1778 depicts Queen
Marie Antoinette wearing a ship head-dress, designed to commemorate a
French naval victory over the British).
Treacy’s modernist, sculptural “saucer” designs, in straw, are
embellished with organza flowers and spirals, and accessorised with
lace masks, to accompany the gowns worn by other mannequins dressed as
coquettes, country girls, and ladies’ maids.
The milliner worked closely with the artist Yasemen Hussein, who designed the copper metal wigs for each mannequin.
The backdrop to and theme of the exhibition, as envisaged by the
curators, Beatrice Behlen, and Hilary Davidson, is a masquerade in a
Georgian Pleasure Garden. One of the party-goers wears a midnight-blue
crinoline, printed with golden stars, and topped with a copper
‘antlers’ head-dress, which soars into the twinkling night-scape. The
head-dress was crafted by Yasemen Hussein, inspired by Diana, the
goddess of the hunt and the moon, which was a popular fancy-dress
costume of the era.
The 22 ‘party-goers’, in their elaborate gowns - many of them
originals from the Museum of London’s costume archives, which have not
been exhibited before; others replicas - millinery and finery, are seen
amongst male mannequins variously dressed as highway men or a Turkish
ambassador, in a gleaming, gold, silk turban.
The Museum of London, 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN, open daily, 10am-6pm, free admittance; www.museumoflondon.org.uk
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Karl Lagerfeld defends fur industry saying 'beasts' would kill us if we didn't kill them
Karl Lagerfeld has defended the fur industry saying it is justified because the "beasts" fur comes from would "kill us if they could."
By Stephen Adams, Arts Correspondent 02 Jan 2009
Karl Lagerfeld. Photo:AFP. The Chanel supremo said it was "childish" to even discuss the issue of wearing fur in a world where eating meat was normal. German-born Lagerfeld, 75, a contemporary of the late Yves Saint Laurent, said that he did not himself wear fur. But he defended the practice, saying there was "an industry who lives from that".
Hunters in the north "make a living having learnt nothing else than hunting", he said, "killing those beasts who would kill us if they could." Animals should be killed "nicely" if at all possible, said Lagerfeld, who admitted to being queasy about eating meat. "I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive," he said.
He concluded: "In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish."
In further questions on BBC Radio 4, Lagerfeld said he viewed the global recession as "more like a cleaning up." "It too was rotten anyway, so it had to be cleaned up," he said.
A spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) described Lagerfeld as a “dinosaur” who had got his facts wrong. She said: “Karl Lagerfeld is a fashion dinosaur who is as out of step as his furs are out of style.
Karl Lagerfeld. Photo:AFP. The Chanel supremo said it was "childish" to even discuss the issue of wearing fur in a world where eating meat was normal. German-born Lagerfeld, 75, a contemporary of the late Yves Saint Laurent, said that he did not himself wear fur. But he defended the practice, saying there was "an industry who lives from that". 
