Bonjour Couture
Comments (0) 
The Haute Couture Fashion Week has begun and the high fashion market has posted some very positive sales news. Top Parisian labels, including Chanel, Dior and Jean Paul Gaultier, have revealed a marked increase in both sales and demand. ”We have received so many orders, we are not sure we can deliver them,” said Dior ceo Sidney Toledano. “The demand is here. The number of clients has increased – they are looking for high quality, and haute couture is the summit. I’m very optimistic for the future,” he continued. “In the business of couture, the numbers are becoming interesting. The rise has been credited to an influx of orders from China, the Middle East and Russia. Chanel has seen a rise “between 20 and 30 per cent” over the past year.
“There is no end of the season,” said Bruno Pavlovsky, president of fashion at Chanel to WWD. “The people who are interested in couture, they are quite active at the moment. They can come at any time.”
Kicking off this week’s shows today are Bouchra Jarra, Dior, and new comer Axelis Mabille. Tomorrow sees new offerings from Armani Prive, Chanel and Givenchy – the last time the label will show its highest end collections in catwalk format after it opted to conduct individual appointments. Elie Saab, Gaultier and Valentino will round up the event. This year’s event will also see the introduction of jewellery on the official couture schedule. Van Cleef & Arpels and Chanel Joaillerie will both present their new collections.
Amsale Aberra was born in Ethiopia, Amsale at first just want to come to the United States to study commercial art courses for some time, but left her hometown of political turmoil had to remain in the United States to continue their studies. In order to work-study program, Amsale started trying to design their own clothes, and all kinds of different kind of African style clothing for her customers greatly welcomed. Amsale at the University of Massachusetts political science degree after leaving Boston, and went to Fashion Institute of Technology to study fashion design after graduation, Amsale smoothly as Harve Benard designers. In 1985, Amsale found in organizing the wedding to find an elegantly simple wedding turned out to be so difficult, so she decided it-yourself design aesthetic dream wedding, this same time she also found that waits to be the wedding design industry Perhaps it would become a turning point in her career, so she chose to rent a loft in her new career began. Experienced 20 years of ups and downs, Amsale wedding today has grown to include series, gown series, and custom evening wear fashion brand in New York.
Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce celebrated 20 years of their menswear business in Milan on the weekend with a multi-media event, exhibition, and gala in Piazza della Scala. The duo were joined by Hollywood heavyweights including Rachel Weisz, Morgan Freeman and Matthew McConaughey and by some of the biggest names in Italian fashion - Franca Sozzani,Francesco Scognamiglio, Giovanna Battaglia, Roberto Rimondi and Tommaso Aquilano and Margherita Missoni.
in line with his final wishes, his family said on Monday. McQueen, who rose from a modest background to become one of the world’s most flamboyant and high-profile designers, committed suicide in February on the day before his mother’s funeral. A family statement said: “On the 29th May 2010, Lee Alexander McQueen was laid to rest on the Isle of Skye. ”Lee cherished the times that he was able to spend on the Isle of Skye — he enjoyed the beauty, peace and tranquillity. It was Lee’s final request that his ashes should be buried at Kilmuir,” it said. They also thanked Isabella MacDonald and her family at the local Kinloch Lodge Hotel on Skye, “whose support at this sad time was of immense help in making it possible for them to carry out Lee’s wishes.” The body of the 40-year-old was found hanged in a wardrobe in his central London flat. An inquest into his death concluded in April that he had taken cocaine, sleeping pills and tranquillisers before killing himself. McQueen was one of fashion’s superstars and designed for Givenchy before being creative director of his own label. His death cast a cloud over New York’s and London’s Fashion Week, which was just about to start when he died.
JONATHAN SAUNDERS was last night crowned Scottish Designer of the Year at the fifth anniversary Scottish Fashion Awards, held at Glasgow’s Science Centre. Complete with its own tartan – as opposed to red – carpet, guests to the annual celebration of Scottish design talent included David Gandy, Amanda Wakeley, Graeme Black, Antonio Berardi, Markus Lupfer, Peter Jensen, Holly Fulton and Louise Gray – all of whom enjoyed a VIP dinner and runway show from Swarovski after the night’s winners were revealed.
Rachel Zoe (born September 1, 1971) is an American fashion stylist and author best known for working with celebrities, fashion houses, beauty firms, advertising agencies, and magazine editors. In 2008, the first season of her Bravo reality television series The Rachel Zoe Project debuted. She is married to Rodger Berman, with whom she went to college at The George Washington University, in Washington, DC.
the 1980s, but has never been a common item of everyday wear. They retain connotations of futurism because they have been frequently featured in popular science fiction. Jumpsuits have often been used as stage costumes in stage productions and by various singers and bands: Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, The Who, FreddieMercury, Feeder, Alphaville, Goldfrapp, Britney Spears, Pink, Devo, Polysics, Spice Girls, Korn and Slipknot, for example, have all performed in flamboyantly-designed jumpsuit-like garments. Catsuits, or skin-tight jumpsuits of shiny fabric, have also been popular on stage. The jumpsuit, playsuit, romper-suit, catsuit is a slimming outfit that jumpsuit, playsuit, romper-suit, catsuit is a slimming outfit that befits any occasion. Dress it up with lots of jewelry and killer heels or “play it down for work with pumps and a jacket,. For casual daywear pair a suit with this season’s must-have shoes,
The story for this summer is nudity – the vast majority of shows opened 
with nude, ice-cream colours, making cut and drapery the big style statements as opposed to eye-popping colours. Where last summer we obsessed about colour blocking, next will be about subtleties of tone: nude with peach with washed out nutmeg, or grey with icy blue. A general lack of clothing will be approved of too – your underwear must look its best next summer because if it’s not on show it’s not worth wearing – only to be covered by swathes of knotted and ruffled sheer chiffon – and a touch of lace will keep things interesting Stella McCartney, Fendi. White is always a trend for summer, but 2010 is expecting a full washout – bleached cotton came tailored and masculine or bulging and ruffled. And if you want colour, make it a check Christopher Kane, Louis Vuitton. So what to buy, if you will be shopping? Party dresses – lots of them, to be worn day and night: with interesting and forgiving folds around the hip for added shape. A jumpsuit – single shouldered or strapless if you dare. Loose trousers that taper to the ankle, preferably in silk. Bring shoes down a level or two, and if you venture from the washed out palette, make it a bold, tribal or ethnic print Dries Van Noten. A trench coat, long or short or turned into a party dress at Burberry. A belt – skinny ribbons or wide leather versions; the waist intends to allow you to show off your curves. And if your curves are that good, swimwear is teeny weeny as can be.
Agbada is a loose-fitting robe worn in many different regions of Africa, 
especially in West Africa. These robes reach to the ankles and are either open at the sides or stitched closed along the edges. In West Nigeria a loose-fitting robe is called an agbada. An agbada has sleeves that hang loosely over the shoulders and an opening at the front. A similar garment, called a gandoura or leppi, is worn in Cameroon, and the Hausa of Nigeria call their loose-fitting robes riga. The same garment is called a dansiki in West Africa. Most often made of cotton, agbada and other robes are typically highly patterned. These patterns may be woven into, dyed, painted, or appliqu
A head tie is a west and southern African women’s head scarf, specifically an elaborate ornamental head covering. In the Yoruba part of Nigeria, the head tie is popularly known as “Gele”. In the Yoruba part of Nigeria, the head tie is popularly known as “Gele”. Gele is fancifully decorated, it comes in different colours and comes in a rectangular shape. Gele is worn for special occasions like weddings, child dedication, national celeberations, family celeberations and to church. The final shape of the gele takes form as the user ties and pins the folds of the head tie together on her head. Interestingly the style’s of wearing the head tie “gele” have been given various names as they tend to impart a message from the wearer to her admirers. So a style called “CASH MADAM” tends to have the folds as high as possible to attract as many people to the wearer and to inform them that this is a lady of means who can afford the best outfit in town.
