All Entries Tagged With: "Fashion News"
The Challenges of Garment Production in Portland, Oregon
When it comes to purchasing goods, there is a hierarchy of consumerism that goes something like this: knowing a product was made in America, good; knowing a product was made in Oregon, better; knowing a product was made right here in Portland, super bananas awesome. This line of thinking drives us to support farmers’ markets [...]
‘Fast Fashion’: Italians Wary Of Chinese On Their Turf
“A Chinese employee works in a textile firm in the Macrolotto area in Prato, the biggest textile district in Europe, in 2005. The town has become home to the largest concentration of Chinese residents in Europe — many of whom are not legal.”
by Sylvia Poggioli
For more than a thousand years, the Italian town of [...]
Fashion News: Oscar de la Renta’s Fanciful Fall Florals
Renata Espinosa
December 04th, 2007 @ 10:53 AM – New York
Florals for fall was the big message at Oscar de la Renta’s pre-Fall 2008 collection, which the designer showed to an audience of press, buyers and socialites on Park Avenue in New York on Monday, Dec. 3, who sat theater-in-the-round style around the runway.
Large flower [...]
Fashion News: What’s Hot in Fashion, Designer A.F. Vandevorst
The Label
Despite much critical acclaim, AF Vandevorst, launched in 1998 by Antwerp-based duo Filip Arickx and An Vandevorst, remains one of the more under-the-radar lines of the distinctly Belgian breed that includes Dries Van Noten, Martin Margiela, Olivier Theyskens, and Raf Simons. What’s often described as an artsy and intellectual aesthetic translates into imaginatively tailored, [...]
