Women Fashion Models and Designer

To all Halifax fashionistas, prepare yourself, CBC Television is holding a national search for a new Fashion File host and auditions will be held in Halifax on Sept. 27. Fashion File: Host Hunt” will travel across the country testing hopefuls on their knowledge of fashion and style to replace longtime host Tim Blanks, who is leaving the show as the voice of the influential show after 17 years. Ten finalists will then be flown to Toronto to compete for this dream job.

They are looking for knowledgeable and stylish individuals who can write for TV and print. It’s best to read all the contest details before auditioning. If you can’t make the auditions you can mail in your application. Read more!

Inspired by subjects as varied as icon Mother Teresa to the sunflower and 160 buyers, 75 designers responding, India’s top designers are readying to showcase their spring-summer lines at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) that kicks off Wednesday, the first time two such shows will be hosted in a year in keeping with international practices.
We are not trying to spring surprises every time we host a fashion week,” says Rathi Vinay Jha, Director-General of the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), about India’s largest fashion bonanza. “Our main aim is to enhance the business potential with each event.”

Coming close on the heels of the fall-winter edition in April, the Aug 30-Sep 3 event marks a quantum leap forward for Indian fashion as it is the first time the country will be hosting two shows a year in line with international practices. Read more!

In the latest step by department stores to team up with high-end fashion designers, mid-brow retailer Kohl’s Corp. announced Thursday a union with Vera Wang beginning in the fall of 2007, known for her $10,000 wedding gowns, to create a new fashion and lifestyle brand. The Very Vera by Vera Wang brand is licensed by a subsidiary of Vera Wang Group to Kohl’s under an exclusive long-term agreement. Terms weren’t disclosed.
Wang told reporters on a conference call that “it has troubled” her for quite a while not to be able to offer her designs to all women.
“We have been quite elitist in terms of price points,” she said.

To be known as Very Vera, items such as sportswear, intimate apparel, leather handbags, accessories, jewelry, footwear, linens and towels will be sold exclusively in all Kohl`s stores and on Kohls.com, the companies said Thursday in a statement. Read more!

Kate Moss stole the show when she attended the wedding of Primal Scream front man Bobby Gillespie and his new fashion stylist wife Katy England, at the weekend, even if Miss Moss wears a bin bag, she’s still likely to look hot. She arrived wearing an all white outfit of tiny shorts and matching jacket accessorised and a matching jacket with her former partner Jefferson Hack and their daughter Lila Grace, stiletto heels and a white hat.
Although no bride wants to be upstaged on their big day, if you are friends with a style icon like Kate Moss it’s got to be expected. The glamorous covergirl is best mates with the couple and arrived to read a poem at the wedding at their request. Read more!

Sportswear giant Reebok have signed a multi-million dollar deal with Scarlett Johansson to help create their Scarlett ‘Hearts’ Rbk range - a new “high-end signature line of retro-chic footwear and clothing”. “Reebok has a rich heritage in developing and designing cutting-edge women’s product which makes them an ideal company to partner with to launch Scarlett ‘Hearts’ Rbk,” the 21-year-old actress said in a statement. “I am very enthusiastic about working with Reebok to design this line.”

The clothes and shoes, which the company describes as being for the “multi-dimensional woman” will debut in high-end department stores and boutiques next spring. “This is so surprising. I never expected all this,” Johansson said of the large number of employees on hand for her Reebok visit. Read more!

During the on-camera limo ride to the launch party for the new season of Bravo’s Project Runway, radiantly pregnant supermodel Heidi Klum admits she can’t resist a bargain. She confessed: “I love flea markets because you just never know what you’re going to find. You can’t go in with an idea, you just have to wander around and wait for something to catch your eye.”
Even though she loves to shop, Klum has a strict set of guidelines as apparently hates the sight of the elastic-waisted maternity jeans so much, that she has now called on designer pal Scott Morrison to make her a customised pair of denims for each month of her pregnancy.

She explained: “If you aren’t sure, don’t buy it, flirt a little, take your time and always go lower than you think you should pay. Finally, be nice.” Read more!

Linda Evangelista, 41 and pregnant, being the first model, not a Hollywood star, to be featured on the magazine’s cover in more than a year as she is on the cover of the August issue of Vogue 2006. It’s her 10th cover for the Vogue magazine and she isn’t worried about the effects of pregnancy on her supermodel figure. “I’m not freaked out at all,” she tells the Associated Press. “I embrace it. I believe I’m doing everything to go through this as smoothly as possible. I’m either doing yoga or exercising every day.”

The Canada-born catwalker Linda Evangelista never saw modeling as a means to another career and says she won’t make a “comeback” after the birth, because she’s not going anywhere to begin with. Read more!

Hong Kong Fashion Collection Award, a highlight of Hong Kong Fashion Week held for the sixth consecutive year — one of the world’s leading fashion-industry sourcing events launched Friday.
The Award is a show-cum- contest that aiming to discover and encourage local talents clothing enterprises to start their own collections and brands. The organizer, Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), said the contest will help enterprises work more with better and more marketable designs in a bid to improve overall competitiveness of local firms.

Since its debut, Hong Kong Fashion Week has become an international modish event where industry players converge to promote fashion-related products and services, and tune in to global trends. Read more!

Welsh singing sensation Charlotte Church has announced that she and her mother, Maria are planning on opening a fashion store in Cardiff, Wales. The 20-year-old and her mum, who both have a passion for clothes and shoes, are investing in an upmarket boutique and hoping her passion for clothes will transfer into a healthy little business.
According to a family friend, Charlotte wants to commission a designer to help her start her own clothes range.
The source says, “Charlotte Church wants to build up a successful business so she can retire from singing when the time is right.”

Anyone wanna join her?

After nearly being excommunicated from the fashion biz, Kate Moss uses her supermodel powers to reinvigorate her career and modelling again for English fashion house Burberry nine months after her cocaine scandal. Staring directly at the camera, Kate Moss appears to revel in the very public endorsement of yet another major fashion house.
Moss, 32, appears in a white lace trench coat at the center of Burberry’s main autumn-winter 2006-2007 advertisement, one in a series of ads launched Monday to celebrate the clothier’s 150th anniversary. Alongside model Stella Tennant, Tennant’s daughter Jasmine and Bryan Ferry’s sons Otis and Isaac and shot by celebrity photographer Mario Testino.

After the scandal broke, Moss lost contracts with Swedish retailer H+M, Roberto Cavalli and Gloria Vanderbilt. Read more!

Nowadays, when clothes with built-in iPod controls are becoming common, it is still hard to imagine the apparel which will integrate electronics into fabrics without any visible traces, at nano-level, to react to body temperature and to display your favorite movie on T-shirts.
But the experts from LCF reported that they already had those designs under development, Of course, none of the innovations are available for sale, but here’s the hopes that it will change soon.

According to Sandy Black, a Reader in fashion and textiles at the LCF, digital jewellery, being portable and tiny, has the best chances to reach shop counters. As for the clothes, they are promised to be able to survive machine washing even being integrated withing the fabrics. Another possible products we will see soon are temperature-sensible cushions or rugs which can become a good purchase for the elder people. Read more!

Madonna has hit back at claims she is too old to represent fashion chain store Swedish retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) fashion brand. - her spokesperson insists the 47-year-old has more energy than an 18-year-old. For many, Madonna has more in common with Versace than H&M’s inexpensive yet fashionable clothing.
Hennes & Mauritz AB, the owner of H&M discount clothes stores, will feature Madonna in a series of advertisements capitalizing on her popularity to help sell clothing.

But at the busy intersection of music and fashion, Swedish brand H&M has signed on to supply Madonna and her entire touring company (band, stage crew, dancers) with offstage wardrobes during the artist’s already-in-progress Confessions Tour. (Madonna’s onstage outfits for the trek are designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier.) Read more!

Actress Scarlett Johansson has been deemed by vote through a Yahoo! Poll as this summer’s (06) best dressed female star, according to a published report. The Lost In Translation star, 21, edged past label-conscious Victoria Beckham, 32, second in a poll conducted by Yahoo!, participated by 1,000 people.
Liz Hurley, 40, was placed third, Kelly Brook, 26, fourth and OC star Mischa Barton, 20, fifth. Shopaholic Coleen McLoughlin, 20, limped in eighth. Read more!

“Oceans 12″ beauty Julia Roberts is set to be make-up giant Avon’s spokesmodel this week, after being dropped as the face of cosmetic company Christian Dior, according to a published report. Just a month after she was dropped as the face of Christian Dior make-up, the actress and mother of two is ready to agree a $2m to $4 million (€1.6m to €3.1m) deal with Avon, reports PageSix.com.

The star - who is currently starring in the hit Broadway show, ‘Three Days Of Rain’ - was in negotiations to be the face of a new perfume due to be launched next year, but the firm has pulled out of talks. An insider said: “We are not so interested anymore. We are looking at lots of famous women to maybe be the face.” Read more!

He’s known as “Lord of the Pants” and for good reason. Designer Alvin Valley makes pants fashion that get rave reviews from women of every size who love their “new” curve.
In fact, his pants are such a hit that he’s having his trouser pattern patented as the Wonderbutt. “he understands that real women do have a butt and boobs,” says movie queen Kate Winslet, who has asked him to create an entire post-pregnancy wardrobe for her.

Inspired by the figure of supermodel Naomi Campbell, he started experimenting with different patterns until he hit on the one that has been dubbed the Wonderbutt. The pants have darts around the buttocks to control them and push excess skin up. Read more!