Fashion Designers, Latest Trends

There’s a fine line between understated and dull, a narrow gap twixt quiet elegance and predictable formulism, and one cleverly negotiated – happily on the right side – at Louis Vuitton on Thursday in Paris when it presented its latest men’s collection. Inspired, albeit pretty loosely on Charlie Chaplin, the collection used elements of the Little Tramp’s look and, above all, his unique... 

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Few things are more painful than watching a major luxury label get things badly wrong, which was very much the dismaying case Sunday night in Milan when Prada decided to launch its latest men’s cologne and made it tricky for most guests to actually smell the very product. Instead, the Italian brand staged a runway show unveiling its spring 2009 men’s collection and then projected a series... 

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The latest designer to launch into the foreign cruise runway moment is Diane von Furstenberg who staged a charming show in a beautiful Florentine garden on Wednesday, June 18, as celebrity and sports greats mingled with enough Italian aristocrats to elect a new king. Few things summed up Diane’s drawing power better than her front row where Tony Parker and Eva Longoria sat between princes and... 

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It was a fashion disaster-free night at Sunday’s Tony Awards, even though one actress lost her Chanel the night before. After an airliner lost her luggage — and dress — Alice Eve (“Rock ‘n’ Roll”) said she remedied what could have been a disastrous situation by venturing Sunday to a Prada store for a replacement frock. Eve’s choice: A flapper-style dress in... 

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Feathers and bows and peony pink, oh my! Donna Karan took it to the boudoir for her Resort 2009 collection, aptly titled “Bonjour New York.” Karan’s Fall 2008 collection, with its slinky robe-like dresses, had her setting her sights on the bedroom, and this collection followed suit. Marrying French sass with New York sophistication, Karan’s signature sensualist touch came... 

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French fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent, who changed the silhouette of 20th century woman with a daring new dress code, has died aged 71. The reclusive Saint Laurent died at his Paris home of a brain tumour late Sunday after a prolonged illness and is to be buried Thursday, said his long-time partner Pierre Berge. Mentally and physically frail through most of his life, the bespectacled Saint Laurent... 

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Forget what your mother told you about not mixing prints. The Elie Tahari Resort 2009, shown in a preview in New York on Thursday, May 29, breaks that rule, with an array of prints that will satisfy anyone suffering from late winter doldrums. The collection included everything from abstract watercolor prints on silk shift dresses and loose flutter sleeve tops – think Georgia O’Keefe’s... 

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Swapping kimonos for bustle skirts and wooden sandals for leather boots, a fashion show in Tokyo on Wednesday celebrated the revolution in womenswear ignited by Japan’s opening up to the West 150 years ago. In 1858, then U.S. envoy Townsend Harris pushed the Japanese government into signing its first trade agreement, effectively ending centuries of self-imposed exile. The pact was followed within... 

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