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 Fashion month returned to New York in a big way, with five-and-a-half-days of in-person runway shows including Gabriela Hearst, Prabal Gurung, LaQuan Smith, Collina Strada and Batsheva, hosted in iconic locations around the city. Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon showed a collection of lush florals inspired by "The Secret Garden" inside The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, while designer Victor Glemaud presented knits on rollerskating models at Rockefeller Center's famed rink. Jason Wu's collection -- sheer elegance in beaded gowns and digital prints -- showed in a space overlooking the East River at Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport, and Ulla Johnson took over the Beaux Arts Court of the Brooklyn Museum.Tommy Hilfiger, meanwhile, teamed up with British designer Richard Quinn for a modern take on classic Americana on the Brooklyn waterfront, against the New York skyline. The show, a tribute to another former icon of the city -- Andy Warhol's Fa

 Celebrity fashion and style guru Shubh Malhotra will be the Style Director – India for the prestigious London Fashion Week (LFW) to be held from September 16 to 20, 2022, as a digital-physical hybrid, styling both womenswear and menswear brands. Presented by Clearpay, the LFW enables collaboration and brings together fashion, culture and technology. “Fashion represents constant change while style is an emotion. The combination creates a unique identity of yourself,” says Shubh Malhotra. It’s a dream for every designer and stylist to be a part of the big four Fashion Weeks (the other three being in New York, Milan and Paris) and Shubh looks forward to the London Fashion Week “as part of a fashionable and meaningful journey of life.” For the record, Shubh Malhotra is an acclaimed celebrity fashion and lifestyle designer, influencer, image consultant and brand mentor, a national and international pageant and fashion show director, a personality groomer, motivational speake

 As Paris Vogue Week Fall/Winter 2022 kicked off, the runway was as soon as extra lit up with trailblazing concepts and developments. Ace designers and famous names from the business welcomed the present in particular person after a long-drawn halt as a result of COVID-19 pandemic and audiences have been handled to a long-awaited trend extravaganza. Because the world regularly begins to get again on observe, luxurious trend homes have taken to the coveted areas of the Paris Vogue Week to showcase their collections and ranges with types and developments which can be certain to dominate the following 12 months. Town of lights noticed the right amalgamation of dishevelled jeans and high fashion robes and attire in the course of the week. Whether or not it was Off-White’s electrifying present or Dior’s sombre and protecting show, the style week ushered in daring, new appears to be like that set stage for 2022. Though there was a shift to bodily runways, in an effort to keep pr

 At the beginning of this year, East London-born Lukhanyo Mdingi showcased his African-inspired collection, Bodyland, at the Autumn/Winter 2022 collection at Paris Fashion Week. While LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers Thebe Magugu unveiled a collection titled Banyoloyi A Bosigo at the Autumn/Winter 2021 at Paris Fashion Week in 2021. Therefore it’s undeniable that there’s an abundance of creative talent in our country but the challenge however is to get the world to see more of it. Businesswoman and the founder of IFW Business, Nkano Senyolo, is determined to change that. IFW Business is a company which assists upcoming and registered South African Fashion Designers in educating them on how to build their businesses through multiple resources such as educational workshops, masterclasses, trade fairs, exhibitions, retail and showcase. Senyolo, a fashion design graduate from the faculty of Art Design and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg and who has over

 After stints in fashion design and fine arts, Violette Serrat finally found her calling in makeup. “Colours have a story to tell,” she says when I reach her over Zoom. The professional makeup artist is a social-media sensation, heads her own makeup line, Violette FR, and, following sought-after gigs at Dior, Sephora, Estée Lauder and La Mer, is now the creative director of makeup at Guerlain. It’s a tailor-made role for Serrat, who sees the luxury house as a part of French heritage. “It’s as if Guerlain had participated in writing the history of France,” says the Paris native, who now lives in New York. “Ours was one of the first buildings on the Champs-Élysées, and our brand created the first lipstick in a tube. It’s incredible! We even had a Guerlain street in France. I wish we could get it back!” Her love for the brand goes way back. As a child, she would admire the case containing the Météorites light-reflecting complexion pearls that all the women around her used, kn

 Iconic arts school, Idyllwild Arts (www.idyllwildarts.org) announces the hiring of LA-based fashion designer Kentaro Kameyama as the Chair of Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Fashion Design Department. The position commences this fall and the winner of season 16’s Project Runway, Kentaro Kameyama, will be living between West Hollywood and Idyllwild so he can teach his classes in person. In his new role, Kentaro is determined to help foster the next generation of fashion talent. According to Abbie Bosworth, Chair of InterArts and Fashion at Idyllwild Arts, “Kentaro was chosen for the position of fashion chair because of his conviction that he can inspire young people in their journey to success in the fashion industry. When searching for a fashion chair she felt that they needed someone with an understanding of more avant-garde or conceptual fashion to balance the already practical and industry-savvy fashion faculty”. Idyllwild Arts fashion alum include Quoi Alexander – who’s had e