Vera Wang's Beautiful Dream

It is believed that dreams can be the manifestations of our subconscious desires or feelings of our more internal and spiritual state. Colors represent auras and their importance in our subliminal messaging to ourselves and others should not be underestimated. With that sentiment in mind, Vera Wang delivered a telling bouquet of wedding gowns for...

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The Rakes Stylish Latest Progress

Finally a fashion moment in London's first-ever menswear fashion season, as designer Clive Darby wowed rather wonderfully with his latest collection for the house of Rake. Rake as a name, rake as attitude, in this stylish show presented Saturday, June 16, with great nonchalance in Little House Mayfair, an intimate dining club and the latest outpost...

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Valentino's Edgy Gilded Dream

If any catwalk show attracts an audience of enviably glamorous youth it is above all that of the house of Valentino, which presented a quietly edgy and blatantly romantic collection in Paris, on a blustery and rain drenched Tuesday, March 6. Before some 1,200 pampered guests, on a carefully laid antique parquet catwalk, the Valentino design duo...

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Louis Vuitton's Accessories Express

All aboard, the Louis Vuitton express is about to leave. In an exceptional setting - even for this extravagant house - a life-sized steam train pulled 50 yards across the tracks in a show tent built inside a courtyard of the Louvre on Wednesday, March 7. It bore the name, Louis Vuitton, from whose single carriage emerged two score of grandly dressed...

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Magically Mannish Miu Miu

They say fat is a feminist issue, but fashion is too, especially in the hands of Miuccia Prada, whose latest collection for her label Miu Miu, was a fashionable game changer staged on the final day of the French runway season in Paris on Wednesday, March 7. Signora Prada's fashion has always stood for expressing the importance and independence...

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John Galliano: Ladylike Erotica

If any designer is having a good fashion season it has to be Bill Gaytten, whom after a highly accomplished show for Christian Dior two days ago, staged a suggestively seductive collection for the house of John Galliano on a rainy Sunday, March 4, in Paris. Inspired by English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, this fall 2012 collection was thoroughly...

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Givenchys Hard Core Chic

If one had to pick a designer who is setting the fashion agenda above any other this season it is very much Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy. His sizzling, hard-core chic, fall 2012 collection staged in a college in north Paris Sunday night, March 4, also announced the comeback of a triumphant sexuality in today's fashion. Opening with tough, cool,...

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