London Fashion Week strives for rising star status
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London Fashion Week sashayed into action on Monday with a clutch of feted young designers promising to boost its star status on the industry's map.
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The debate about size zero models hangs over London Fashion Week as the winter shows got under way with a German-themed catwalk parade by Danish designer Noir.
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The focus was more on who was in the audience when London's premier fashion event began on Sunday because designers said U.S. recession fears had made Russia and Asia the markets to target.
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New York Fashion Week is basking in the success of the dress. It's already been a strong item for fall fashion, but it has emerged as the key piece for spring.
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Fur was flying in London on the second day of a fashion week that has seen fox, mink, sable, rabbit and other critters cruise the catwalk as stoles, coats and capes, all in a bid to warm wealthy Russians in winter.
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London celebrated the opening weekend of  its fashion week with greater fanfare and more international  influence than ever filling its runways with spectacle and its  front rows with stars.
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Youth, attitude and gritty city glamour were the themes on the catwalk Monday as Paris fashion week opened with a spotlight on young designers.
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While most of the fashion press will see spring styles for the first time during Fashion Week, any store buyer worth his or her Palm organizer knows what is ahead.
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"Fashion is not just for a chosen few who have front-row seats in some elite tent somewhere."
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily September 20,2004- LONDON - Ok, so all of our good designers have left to show their collections in foreign cities. Even London stalwart Sophia Kokosalaki is in Paris this season. Maybe there&#8217;s more to the Kokosalaki/Givenchy whispers than meets the ears. Maybe. But where does that leave London? Sandwiched between a week of glitz and glamour in NYC and fashion powerhouses in Milan can the world&#8217;s most creative metropolis present a world class fashion week? Early signs suggest not; but that doesn&#8217;t mean there is nothing to see. Creativity is the rough diamond everyone is looking for in this town; and the hunters are out.
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The early shows of New York Fashion Week indicate the style pendulum might be swinging toward a more fitted, tailored look this fall, but most of the heavy hitters &#151; including Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein and Vera Wang &#151; have yet to weigh in.
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Models at London Fashion week must prove they are in good health before they can be signed to an agency, a report says.
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Paris designers looked to Hollywood on Wednesday with haute couture collections that could vie for "best dressed" on the red carpet.
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Britain produces some of the world's top fashion designers -- Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen among them -- but many of the best fly off for Paris, New York or Milan as soon as their star has risen.
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Designers trumpeted warmth Monday at a London Fashion Week preview with models draped in silk and muslin taking to the catwalk splashed in bronze, brass, chocolate and caramel.
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The first step of the nightclub ladder is hustling for models to attend a party during Fashion Week.
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Banning ultra-thin models from the runways might be the next fashion trend, but it's one that the fashion industry in London is in no hurry to follow.