The fashion industry is entering a new growth cycle with a bigger focus on customers’ price, quality and style expectations than in the mid-2000s, prompting brands to renew their design teams, executives said this week. Ever since Dior (DIOR.PA) (LVMH.PA) sacked John Galliano days before Paris Fashion Week in March, designers’ heads have been rolling [...]
J. Mendel Is Cooper-Hewitt Fashion Design Award Winner Designer Gilles Mendel with Taylor Swift at the 2011 Costume Institute Gala Let’s hear it for J. Mendel. Gilles Mendel’s celebrity-adored label has bested finalists Jason Wu and Prabal Gurung to claim the Fashion Design Award at the 2011 National Design Awards from the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National [...]
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By Ellen TrudellSpecial to the Sun While Central Michigan University offers a summer camp for virtually every palate, its Fashion Design Summer Camp is truly innovative for perspective students with a passion for fashion. CMU is the only four year university in Michigan which offers a full apparel design program. Located in the department of [...]
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Morgan’s clothes are exquisite — the diaphanous gowns, the Celtic jewelry, the gold sandals. JB: Yes, because it’s Irish mythology, I imagined that she could shape-shift, maybe even shape-shift and steal a bolt of fabric from someone traveling the Silk Road! The jewelry in the series is also spectacular. Did you make it?JB: Yes. I [...]
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Mondo Guerra—who you may know from last season of Project Runway (he was the one who got robbed of the win!)—is back in New York City for a few days. While he’s still making strikingly gorgeous clothes (seriously, totally robbed!), he’s also leading the national HIV education campaign Living Positive By Design alongside fellow show [...]
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