Women Fashion Models and Designer

What were you doing in the decade of power suits and power hair, overdone makeup and jewelry, tasseled socks and silver-adorned leather boots?

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you weren’t around in the decade of excess… the ’80s!
Funny thing, while I was living in that time, I was fascinated with the fact that every other decade had defining fashion styles… the ’50s had poodle skirts and bobby socks, the ’60s had hippy chic, the ’70s had sparkly disco shirts and leisure suits, and the ’80s… had nothing. At least that’s how it felt at the time!
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Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has vowed she will never sing again and has laughed off reports linking her to a career in Hollywood. Instead, Posh Spice will be launching herself into her fashion career; after already designed a range of jeans for Rock & Republic and host fashion TV Show, she now wants to create and entire clothing line.
She said, “I’m done with music and I’m never going to act. That’s in the past. I was an okay singer and an okay dancer, and I had to work at it.
“Fashion is what I love. I’ve dreamed of doing my own clothing line from even before I was a Spice Girl. Now I’m able to do what I love and I’ve found I’m really good at it. Read more!

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!

THE rock singer Bryan Ferry has been unveiled as the latest famous face to promote Marks and Spencer’s menswear range. The retailer is hoping the Roxy Music frontman will boost sales of its Autograph clothing range. Ferry said: “Marks & Spencer is a great British brand and I’m very happy to be associated with it.”
Bryan Ferry is no stranger to the fashion world himself, having collaborated for many years with fashion designer Antony Price - famous for his shop on London’s Kings Road.
Marks & Spencer marketing executive director Steven Sharp said: “He’s a real British style icon and looks amazing in the Autograph range. What man wouldn’t want to look as cool as Bryan Ferry?”

The Roxy Music singer was photographed by legendary snapper David Bailey for the High Street store’s autumn campaign, which will be called ‘Autograph’. The adverts will appear across the country from September. 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!

Surviving from her topless photos storm, Australia’s Miss Universe contestant Erin McNaught has been struck by a new fashion dilemma in the US when wearing a dress in public twice - with many more events to go before Miss Universe is crowned on July 23. She has been living the high-life in Los Angeles during the past week, mixing with Hollywood celebrities, rap stars and millionaire basketballers at events to promote the July 23 Miss Universe pageant at LA’s historic Shrine Auditorium.

With two weeks and many more events to go before this year’s Miss Universe is crowned, the 24-year-old faces committing a fashion faux pas – wearing a dress in public twice. 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?

A nude Hilary Swank is the poster girl for French fashion house Guerlain’s latest fragrance, Insolence.
The Million Dollar Baby star, who has modelled for Calvin Klein, will front the advertising campaign for the Insolence scent.

The company’s president and chief executive, Renato Semarari, enthuses: “She’s a very, very talented actress.”
International marketing director Laurent Boillot adds: “She is a feminine mix of Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro. She is capable of transforming herself.” Read more!

Marie De Villepin, daughter of French Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin, has been chosen by Givenchy to model its perfume, Angel or Demon due to her striking yet mysterious good looks, The Times of London reported. The eldest of Villepin’s three children, Marie, 20, who has inherited her father’s good looks but not his disastrous public image, has been selected for a campaign to “reveal the darker side of women.” She has already modelled for the magazine Elle and appeared once on the catwalk. She has also had a small role in three films.

Marie De Villepin will use her stage name, Steiss, to avoid accusations that she is exploiting her father’s position. The advertisements show her under a chandelier next to the slogan “ange ou démon elle seule le sait” (angel or demon only she knows). Read more!