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Faith Hill wants a fashion line

April 23rd, 2010

This according to The Press Association:

Faith Hill has revealed she hopes to create her own fashion line.

The 42-year-old red carpet regular is judging the finale of this season’s Project Runway, and said she’d like to make clothes for working mothers like herself.

The singer, who is mum to three daughters, said: “If the right opportunity presents itself, I can guarantee you it would be my passion, and I would put my heart and soul into making it the best it could possibly be. I would design for the women I know and their kids … busy moms with great style.”

The country star said she could really relate to up and coming fashion designers that are on the show. Hill, who is married to Tim McGraw said she got along great with Heidi Klum, the Project Runway host.

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Dannii Minogue has a new fashion line

April 23rd, 2010

Dannii Minogue’s new dress collection has been a big secret since news of the project leaked in February but that’s about to end.

In just 2 months, it will hit stores and the first pictures of her clothing line (known as ‘Project D’) have been released and can be found on the internet – including on this site. The collection was a collabarition between Minogue and her friend – designer Tabitha Somerset-Webb.

The first image is of a model wearing a glamorous sequinned evening gown belted at her waist. Here it is:

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Minogue is 38 years old and is six months pregnant with her first child.

She said this of her new collection:

“Fashion has been a passion of mine since I can remember and I hope that every woman who slips on a Project D dress will feel glamorous yet effortless.”

“Our philosophy is to make feeling confident with your wardrobe easy. We will do the hard work and get the details on the dresses right, so all you have to do is enjoy them.”

We’ll see how the rest of the collection looks in the coming days.

ITN’s new fashion app

April 22nd, 2010

The iPhone is getting a great new fashion app thanks to ITN. They are releasing a “fashion-focused iPhone app” in the next few days which will be branded as “Fashion 411.” It will offer previews and information about designer and high street collection as well as features and interviews with designers, models, and others involved in the fashion world.

The new ITN app will exted their work with Hilary Alexander, the Telegraph’s fashion editor as well as London Fashion Week. They will work with certain brands in the advertisement realm as well. All of the content can be found on a new Youtube channel so you don’t need to app to access that content. Some of it will be free of ads as well.

“Lifestyle content is a key growth area for ITN Productions and The Fashion 411 will be a big contributor to this revenue stream”

That is a quote from Mark Browning who is the commercial editor at ITN.

“Through our existing relationships with fashion events, brands and designers, it is only natural we develop a channel with daily premium fashion video which builds on the success of our other content strands on iPhone and YouTube.”

Here is what it will look like…

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25 movies that shook the world of fashion

April 20th, 2010

The Times Online published a recent list of 25 movies that shook the world of fashion this week and I have to say they have a few good films on the list. Here are a few of my favourites from the list:

4 Atonement, 2007
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6 Annie Hall, 1977

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9 Gone with the Wind, 1939

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11 Pulp Fiction, 1994

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19 Zoolander, 2001

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21 The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001

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Fashion Models with Gray Hair

April 19th, 2010

The final taboo of the fashion world may finally have been broken and it looks like grey haired models are the new in thing for fashion houses like Calvin Klein.

In days gone by this would not have been possible. No way, no how but a number of shows this fall and winter will feature models with gray hair.

A Calvin Klein show’s audience recently was shocked to see 43-year-old model Kristen McMenamy wearing her silvery grey hair.

Designers from Calvin Klein said they wanted to better represent the woman that bought their clothing and this was a good step in that direction.
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Credit cards – a fashion statement or a necessity?

April 18th, 2010

For me credit cards have always been just a means to an end. I need money, out comes the plastic with which to supply it me with! So you can imagine my surprise when my friend pulled out a beautiful looking credit card. I have a low APR credit card from MBNA, bought solely as it was the best deal online at the time (and still is!) her credit card was however charging an extortionate interest rate and had a very low credit limit. When asked why she had one? “It looks good”!

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I started doing some research online to see if there was other ‘mad people’ out there that cared more about what they looked like than what they were paying for a credit card – I mean clothes I can understand, I am a woman after all, but for a piece of plastic you only pull out at the counter? Seemed a little crazy to me, but I did find out my own friend has 17 different credit cards. When I asked why she felt the need to have so many? “I got bored with the design” and so she applied for new cards with new designs!

As I looked around I realised the incredible number of people who choose their credit card for the fashion statement it gives off and not the financial advantages it comes with. However the more I researched about it, the more I realised how vain people are. You know you can get credit cards with your own photo as the design on it?

I have a charity card; the skin on this one is representing the charity. It makes me proud to pull that out my wallet and use, and don’t worry this one is also a low APR credit card.

My friend’s argument for having a ‘fashionable’ credit card was actually not that bad. “If I pay off my balance in full at the end of every month, the the APR is of no bother to me. Why then should I not go for a good looking credit card?”

Because my friend…. there will come a time when you will forget or simply overspend! What then? That sting will be worse than not looking good!

More photos from the dog show…

April 15th, 2010

Here are a few more photos from the dog fashion show…

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Furry Fashion in New York

April 13th, 2010

These photos were all taken during “Last Bark for Bryant Park” which is the Fashion Institute of Technology’s second annual pet apparel fashion show. The event took place in New York, yesterday:

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Princess Diana’s Dress to be Sold

April 13th, 2010

The black dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, for her first official appearance with the Prince of Wales shortly before their engagement in 1981 surfaces at auction this summer.

There were rumours that black taffeta gown had been destroyed by the Princess but that was not the case. It recently turned up at the studio of dressmakers Elizabeth & David Emanuel. It’s expected that the dress will go for as much as £50,000 when it goes up for auction in London this June.

Kerry Taylor Auctions is where you can find it if you’ve got the pounds. Here’s the dress and the Princess:

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A few more great Kim Jong fashion photos…

April 10th, 2010

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