fashion week

April 19, 2024

With thunderous applause and awe, the eagerly awaited Plaza Indonesia Fashion Week (PIFW) 2024 set the stage for a fashion-for ward showcase and a slew of fresh innovations.

Embracing the theme Bigger, Better, & Bolder, PIFW 2024 presented a feast of style diversity, cultural beauty, and fashion innovation. From 2 to 8 March at The Warehouse Plaza Indonesia Level 5, this fashion extravaganza showcases 31 shows from 75 distinguished brands and designers, parading 756 models and over a thousand looks.

Deputy Chief Marketing Officer of Plaza Indonesia, Zamri Mamat, reflects on the event’s evolution since 2007, underscoring its role in celebrating Indonesian fashion diversity and creativity. PIFW 2024 aspires to act as a catalyst for positive transformation within both the local and international fashion industry.

Sustainability takes centre stage this year, highlighting the industry’s capability to voice environmental consciousness and positive values through a mesmerising and meaningful experience for fashion aficionados at Plaza Indonesia.

Aside from the latest fashion trends and collections from both local and international brands, collaborations bloomed between renowned fashion designers, including an impressive roster that spans from Marks & Spencer Kids to SEBASTIANred, and from Rama Dauhan to Adrian Gan X Sejauh Mata Memandang, among others.

Prestige Indonesia was present from the very first day of this momentous fashion event, observing each runway show from the perspective of the discerning fashion enthusiast. Our highlights present avenues of fashion where designers and brands reveal their latest endeavours in a narrative that threads through the fabric of modern style and tradition.

Plaza Indonesia Fashion Week 2024 unfolded with an air of anticipation as the runway was ignited by Wilsen Willim’s collaboration with Batik Keris, presenting Sebelum Terbakar Menjadi Asap, a collection that presented 20 ready-to-wear looks infusing the rich heritage of batik with modern sartorial expressions.

The allure

April 10, 2024

Weiræn’s debut runway show at Shanghai Fashion Week featured intricate metallic accents and … [+] transparent elements.

Courtesy Weiræn

The world is watching China’s luxury consumer. And as such, all eyes were on the Shanghai Fashion Week schedule—which showed the almost infinite variety of contemporary Chinese fashion.

With over a hundred brands on the eclectic runway line-up—not to mention the hundreds more scattered across the city’s various showrooms and tradeshows—Shanghai was an explosive blend of brands, trends and predictions. It was difficult for those watching to keep up. Still, five themes emerged across the event, which speak to notions of openness, contemporary femininity—and even hope.

Shanghai Fashion Week is looking outward

For its third post-covid season, change was on the horizon in Shanghai. In March, Lv Xiaolei, known as Madame Lv, retired as the secretary-general of the Fashion Week. For over a decade, Lv had been instrumental in repositioning the event as one of the world’s most influential Fashion Weeks. Now she’s looking outward: Lv will focus on a new role as executive vice chairman of the Shanghai Fashion Designer Association (an initiative founded in 2009 to promote Chinese fashion creative talents on the global stage) while still keeping a hand in the Shanghai Fashion Week Organizing Committee.

With that in mind, it’s obvious to see that Shanghai Fashion Week is consolidating itself on the world stage–as well as both domestically and in Asia. “It’s one of the most prominent fashion events in China but attracts attention from international fashion communities too,” fashion PR Congya Zhang explains. Zhang herself is playing a role in shaping trends in China and works with a roster of up-and-coming domestic talents including Weiraen which burst onto the fashion scene this season.

Founded eleven years ago by the Chinese supermodel Lu Yan, Comme Moi is

April 9, 2024

It’s time again let your creativity shine!

The Vaal Fashion Week will feature Fashion and Beauty Industry exhibitors for 4 days.

There will be matric fashions, accessories, beauty fairs, fashion shows and hair and make-up at the shopping center for three days.

The Vaal Designer Of the Year event will also be part of the Vaal Fashion Week.

The Vaal Designer of the Year will take place on Friday, May 17 at River Square. The theme for 2024 is Futuristic Street Style.

You can enter as many designs as you wish at R50 per garment. This is an ideal opportunity to get noticed in the fashion industry.

Requirements a Futuristic Street Style Themed, standard size 10 / 34 for a female model. The standard size for males is 32-34 and kids wear for ages 5-11 years.

The Diamond of the Vaal semi-finalists will showcase the Vaal Designer finalist’s garments as well as exhibitors’ and River Square tenants’ matric farewell garments.

The Vaal Designer of the Year Categories are:
1. Non-qualified designers with NO TRAINING
2. Non-qualified designers still IN TRAINING
3. Designers with an established business

Diamond of the Vaal Pageant organisers would like to invite all Vaal Triangle pupils and their parents who would like to get fresh ideas for the 2024/ 2025 Matric Farewell events to make use of this opportunity.

You could find a new, affordable couture designer at the Vaal Fashion Week.

To enter or to exhibit at Vaal Fashion Week, Whatsapp your email address to 082 4161 710.

Fashion accessories, beauty fairs, fashion shows and hair and make-up forms part of Fashion Week.

March 25, 2024

BRUSSELS — Belgian designer Dries Van Noten, who for almost four decades dazzled the fashion world with his luscious use of colors and fabrics, said Tuesday that he will step down as creative director of his namesake brand at the end of June.

Van Noten, 65, a master of blending the old with the new, said in a statement that the 2025 men’s spring-summer collection will be the last in his current role. He added that the women’s collection will be designed by his studio.

Van Noten’s successor will be announced at a later stage, he said.

“I have been preparing for this moment for a while, and I feel it’s time to leave room for a new generation of talents to bring their vision to the brand,” Van Noten said.

Although he will relinquish his role as creative director, Van Noten will still be involved in the fashion house.

Fashion firm Puig acquired a majority share in Van Noten in 2018, with the designer remaining creative director of the brand, which has expanded into beauty and fragrance. Van Noten said Puig’s takeover has helped the brand to keep “blooming.”

“Like in a garden, you decide what to plant; and at some point, it continues to flourish,” he said.

Van Noten graduated from the fashion design course at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium in 1981 and debuted his first collection five years later. His first flagship store opened in 1989 in Antwerp, the Belgian port city where he was born into a family of tailors.

As Antwerp developed a reputation of Europe’s capital of cool, Van Noten emerged as a major creative force as part of “The Antwerp Six,” a collective that also included Walter Van Beirendonck, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee.

March 11, 2024

PARIS — Chloe revisited its vibrant 1970s essence, infused with late Karl Lagerfeld’s indelible influence, while propelling the brand into a new era for the debut show of its new designer Chemena Kamali on Thursday at Paris Fashion Week.

Despite Lagerfeld’s lasting presence in the brand aesthetic, Kamali is the latest in a swathe of female designers — including Gabriela Hearst, Clare Waight Keller and Phoebe Philo — at the helm of the storied Maison. This is apt for the house credited with inventing ready-to-wear in the 1950s post-war period that liberated women from the constraints of formality.

Here are some highlights of Thursday’s fall-winter 2024 shows:

Going back to its roots — or close enough — Kamali challenged the brand’s 70s heyday and, in the process, pulled in the great and good of the fashion world for her debut. This show was among the hottest tickets at Paris Fashion Week.

Attendees were a who’s who of fashion dynasties — harking back to the past and looking to the future. Pat Cleveland, the iconic model — and one of the first women of color anywhere to attain success on the runway, in the 1960s and 1970s — entered into a flurry of camera snaps with her model daughter, Anna Cleveland.

The fashion dynasty was followed shortly by Jerry Hall and Georgia May Jagger, the model daughter of Hall and Mick Jagger. They nestled into their cushioned seats near Mikhaela Aghion, the granddaughter of Chloe’s founder, Gaby Aghion.

Kamali, a 42-year-old designer from Düsseldorf who rose the ranks inside the house, said a “sense of nostalgia” and “something that triggers a memory” is at the heart of the brand — seen not just in the stars who attended but also the clothes that had one foot in the past and

March 10, 2024

I’m celebrating International Women’s Day 2024 by recognizing some female designers who launched at jewelry shows that took place during Paris Fashion Week.

Inspired by the presence and power of the moon, Anoona Jewels are designed in London and handcrafted … [+] in Europe.

Anoona

Designed in London and handcrafted in Europe, Anoona Jewels debuted in the Nouvelle Box showroom during Autumn/Winter Paris Fashion Week 2024. Inspired by the moon’s eternal presence, Anoona designs also draw their substance and style from the mysterious power of lunar cycles over earth’s tides and human biology. From antiquity through today, the moon has served as a constant and compelling motif in jewelry history. Given the moon’s poetic power and because of the sheer beauty of its designs, Anoona Jewels embody an elemental, universal appeal emanating from their ruling motif and energy source, the moon.

As Anoona’s Creative Director Sadhbh Roux-Fouillet notes on the brand’s website, “Anoona channels those influences in my life that are constants: the Moon, colour and the inherent poetry of a circle, which is a shape that features prominently in my designs.” Fittingly, the brand’s logo is a slender gold crescent moon.

The Anoona Gold & Diamond Circles Bracelet design is inspired by the full moon which exerts great … [+] power over Earth.

Anoona Jewels

Notable standouts from Anoona’s NouvelleBox show include the Umbra collection, the designs of which gleam with tiny, interconnected circles of 18-karat solid gold interspersed with diamonds. These interconnected circles cascade one over the next in necklaces, bracelets and chandelier earrings. Umbra takes its name from the shadow of an eclipsed moon and references how the moon transitions from shining bright in its many phases and also becomes eclipsed in darkness.

DILHAN jewels are characterized by organically sculpted and sensually appealing forms that grace the

March 7, 2024

COLUMBIA — People who might not be familiar with the “Tamron Hall Show” might not know that Hall is quite a fashionista. For four seasons, she’s hosted an up-and-coming designer series, where designers have their work showcased on live television, have the opportunity to dress Hall and even be mentored by someone from the fashion industry.

South Carolina native Sergio Hudson served as a mentor on Hall’s show for the fall installment of the series, but another SC native was featured on Hall’s latest installment.

Roneisha Stark, Twin Stitch Designs, had the opportunity to be the seventh featured designer in February, where she and her work were featured for a week on the ABC talk show.

Stark and her sister, Ronnia, grew up with a single mom and learned the importance of working smart. Their mom provided her daughters with nice things but worked 100 hours to afford them.

Stark’s mother did not go to college, and her lifelong hustle inspired her daughters to go to college and find meaningful careers.

Image (11).jpg — Tamron Hall, seated on left, and Roneisha Starks, right, watched one of Stark’s designs on the runway during the “Tamron Hall Show,” where Stark’s fashion design company, Twin Stitch, was featured in February 2024.

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After school, Stark worked part-time as a nurse, and Stark’s sister worked as a pharmacist. Ronnia Stark used to design clothes but no longer does, leaving Stark the full-time designer of Twin Stitch.

Stark loved getting dolled up as a kid, but she credited her aunts’ extraordinary style for giving her and Ronnia the fashion bug. As teenagers, Stark and her sister began designing by customizing or DIYing (Do-it-Yourself) jeans that they bought at thrift stores. They sold their upcycles to friends for around $20-30. Stark’s mom eventually purchased an $80 Singer Sewing

March 3, 2024

By Ashleigh Gray For Dailymail.Com

Published: 20:31 EST, 2 March 2024 | Updated: 20:36 EST, 2 March 2024

Julia Fox made a style statement as she stepped out during Paris Fashion Week over the weekend.

The 34-year-old actress and socialite — who attended the Vivienne Westwood show this week — put on a busty display in a plunging, ivory corset and matching skirt.

Her peplum top featured off-the-shoulder straps before cinching at her midriff to accentuate her trim waistline.

Fox accessorized with a coordinating head scarf wrapped around her icy-toned locks and glossy, black, oval-shaped sunglasses with pearl details on the sides.

The fashionista also wore sheer, cream-colored gloves and carried a small, round, blue handbag.

Julia Fox made a style statement as she stepped out during Paris Fashion Week over the weekend

The 34-year-old actress and socialite put on a busty display in a plunging, ivory corset and matching skirt

Her peplum top featured off-the-shoulder straps before cinching at her midriff to accentuate her trim waistline

The Uncut Gems star added inches to her height in a pair of towering, golden yellow, paisley-patterned platforms.

She looked exquisite in a full face of matte makeup that included warm-toned blush and nude lipstick framed with brown liner.

For the Vivienne Westwood show, Julia wore a plunging, green, corseted gown, typical of the late designer’s style.

She teamed it with a quirky headdress and loads of body glitter.

The shimmering deep green and black number featured flecks of gold throughout the fabric and boasted a draped, sheer overlay.

The mom-of-one styled her hair in wet waves, topping the locks with a gold and diamond encrusted crown.

Referencing both nature and the medieval period, the model’s look was rounded out with a pair of gold heels.

She shared her get-ready

March 3, 2024

TAMPA, Fla. — “I think it’s a really big deal, and I think it’s unique,” said Fatima Elkott, co-founder of Conscious Community Connector.

During a sunny downtown Tampa afternoon, local fashion designers and models walked a runway outside of Visit Tampa Bay.

It’s part of an effort to showcase these artists ahead of a bigger fashion show coming up in March with Tampa Connect.

“There are so many designers that do not get a chance to really showcase their style in Tampa,” said local designer Stephanie Jackson.

Tampa Connect Fashion Week is a fundraiser for the Tampa Junior Heights Civic Association, a grassroots nonprofit that helps provide after-school care, summer programs and more to kids in the area.

For Naya Young, seeing this preview really showcases Tampa Bay’s creatives.

“It’s so beautiful. It’s like a melting pot of so many different people, cultures, personalities. Today, we are doing a downtown activation fashion pop-up event. Some of the designers actually have some of their designs out on display,” said Young, executive director of the THJCA.

The fashion show is full of designers trying to get their start in the industry.

“We have servers, digital designers. I think it’s a conglomerate of a lot of different experiences, ages, backgrounds. That’s what makes it so awesome,” said Elkott.

“For me, I can see something like a tablecloth, and it will tell me it doesn’t want to be a tablecloth,” Jackson said. “What I’m wearing today is a tablecloth, but it wanted to be a dress. So I made it into a dress.”

The Fashion Week kicks off on March 8 and goes all weekend long with three events across the Tampa Bay area. You can find out more by clicking here.

“I think it’s just that sense of community being with people who