Fashion News

On the agenda: Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks; Roundhouse Records; Joaquin Phoenix; Susie Poole's Sister Lucy's Great ...

4 September 2010, 7:24 pm

The riotous snaps and flashes of the zoom lenses are about to start all over again with New York Fashion Week kicking off this week, but the fashion pack's current favourite coffee-table book recalls a gentler era.


Actor Chad Kimball plying fashion skills

4 September 2010, 1:33 pm

NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Broadway star Chad Kimball has expanded his Obvious Clothing T-shirt line to include "Lolly Cashmere" sweaters, named after his grandmother. Chad Kimball - Broadway theatre - Actor - Arts - Chad


News by location

4 September 2010, 3:37 am

Get local and national news updates via E-mail. The shirt is a fashion statement of personal sacrifice. Wearing it is a message. All summer long, South View's cross country team has been running 40, 50, 60 miles a week in pursuit of either a "300 club" or "500 club" shirt.


Fashion Diary: Where to find the fall season's best looks

3 September 2010, 8:43 pm

Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, JCPenney, Loft, Express and Gap: Retailers at all levels are bringing out affordable versions of 'Mad Max' military-inspired fashions. This fall, fashion is a bit schizophrenic. On one hand, you have "Mad Men" beauties in retro full skirts, tight sweaters and kitten heels. On the other hand, you have "Mad Max" beasties in cargo pants, shaggy fur vests, animal prints ...


This year, a busy Fashion's Night Out

3 September 2010, 8:42 pm

Beverly Hills, Los Angeles and West Hollywood have hundreds of shopping events planned for the Vogue-sponsored celebration next Friday. Last year's first installment of Fashion's Night Out, an effort to jump-start a sagging industry with an evening full of shopping events in major cities all over the world that was brought to us by New York-based Vogue magazine and the Council of Fashion ...


Pitchford explains the Duke shirt that predates Duke Nukem Forever

3 September 2010, 4:30 pm

Come get some background on Randy Pitchford's back-in-fashion Duke Nukem shirt, seen above: "I moved to Texas and became a professional game maker to join Allen Blum, he created Duke Nukem 3D, " the Gearbox co-founder told an audience at PAX. "He and Todd Replogle in Southern California, freaking invented this whole damned thing. And I moved out to Texas to join him and George Broussard and ...


Cleaning up local fashion

3 September 2010, 3:46 pm

Mark McErvale is a young Toowoomba man on a mission. To clean-up fashion. He says the trend of T-shirts adorned with semi naked women, provocative poses and risqué slogans is growing, and some local shoppers have had enough.Sex sells, Mr McErvale says, we all know that. But what is happening now is that theyre starting to approach the young people and force it into their faces as something that ...


Editorial: Fashion advice for the jobless guys

2 September 2010, 6:07 pm

In the fashion world, minimalism is in. On the Today Show this week, an NBC correspondent proved that she could juggle six pieces of clothing for an entire month – with no one the wiser. Just add a belt, a scarf and a different pair of shoes and it’s possible to do with less.


FNO: WeHo's official T-shirt (designed by a city employee) debuts

2 September 2010, 11:52 am

Fashion's Night Out in New York has an "official" T-shirt — a jaunty black and white graphic top seen most publicly on giddy-looking supermodels. But the closest facsimile we're likely to get in L.A. is the official T-shirt for the...


Fashion's Night Out coming to Ala Moana

2 September 2010, 7:38 am

Fashion's Night Out was conceived by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and designer and Council of Fashion Designers President Diane von Furstenberg, as a way for retailers, designers and all involved in the fashion world to come together to save their industry after the economy collapsed and it became clear people were too cash-strapped to shop.