Category Archives: Designers

Unique designer dolls for UNICEF’s Les Frimousses de Créateurs project

November 11, 2014 by The CoF

Every year, UNICEF unites the greatest fashion designers, jewelers, designers and artists to create dolls for Les Frimousses de Créateurs initiative that helps promote the vaccination of children, “the 100% goal: immunize every child” in Darfur, Sudan. In its 12th edition, the project brought together forty-four names as Chanel, Gucci, Dior, Lanvin, Sonia Rykiel, Chantal Thomass, regular participants, as well other new brands as lingerie brand, Maison Lejaby and Louis Quatorze,leather goods . To raise funds, more than 80 unique and unusual dolls are auctioned. Each year […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion, News, People • Tags: Chanel, Gucci, Paris, Sonia Rykiel, Théâtre du Châtelet, UNICEF

Inside Charlotte Olympia’s Closet

October 24, 2014 by The CoF

Charlotte Olympia Dellal is one of those beautiful girls of good family who today call themselves “socialite”. In 2008 she decided to found a brand of shoes that resembles to her soul in every way: crazy, full of glamor, English creative soul and luxurious Italian craftsmanship. Her kitty cat flats conquered the world and style icons such as Kate Moss or Daphne Guiness became fans. The rest is history. And what better way to know a woman than that of searching […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion, Lifestyle • Tags: Charlotte Olympia, the coveteur

Oscar De La Renta The Style, Inspiration and Life of Oscar de La Renta

Oscar de la Renta’s work and life in Assouline Publishing’s vision

October 21, 2014 by The CoF

Remembering the gentleman of fashion that passed away Monday night at the age of 82 years. He was battling cancer since 2006. Oscar de la Renta fashion adventure began in Spain, chez Cristóbal Balenciaga ,after working in Paris at Lanvin finally moving in the 1960s to the United States launching his eponymous ready to wear line and becoming quickly a leading figure on the international fashion scene. After five succesful decades he continues to produce fascinating collections and projects all results of his enduring creative vision. De la […]

Categories: Book, Culture, Designers, Fashion • Tags: Anna Wintour, Oscar de la Renta

John Galliano Photo By Patrick Demarchelier

John Galliano new creative director at Maison Martin Margiela

October 7, 2014 by The CoF

From WWD issue 10/07/2014 by Miles Socha with contributions from Nina Jones, Marc Karimzadeh, Joelle Diderich On Monday, Rosso surprised the fashion world again by appointing John Galliano, one of fashion’s most flamboyant and controversial figures, to take over the creative direction of Margiela, founded by an intensely secretive Belgian designer. Renzo Rosso acquired Maison Martin Margiela in 2002, it was described as a wedding of fashion’s Greta Garbo with Harpo Marx. The appointment telegraphed Rosso’s daring approach to the fashion business and raised questions about how […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion • Tags: John Galliano, Martin Margiela, Renzo Rosso, WWD, wwd.com

Eddy Anemian Capsule Collection for H&M

September 30, 2014 by The CoF

H&M Design Award 2014 winner Eddy Anemian has created a highly developed capsule collection, translating his painstaking techniques of cut and construction. To create this special collection, Eddy has worked closely with the H&M design team to capture the elegant mood and precision of his winning designs. The pieces will be available at selected H&M stores, as well as online, from October 23. “I had such a good experience creating the collection with H&M. They really respected the idea of […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion • Tags: Eddy Anemian, H&M

First Look at Prabal Gurung for MAC collection

August 24, 2014 by The CoF

After launching a sophisticated and exclusive collection with Proenza Schouler, cosmetic giant MAC presents its new partnership with Nepalese American fashion designer, Prabal Gurung. This is the first step of the young fashion designer in the beauty industry . “Creating this line has certainly been emotional for me,” Gurung said in a statement. “I think back to the beauty products on my mother’s vanity that I saw growing up and how much they resonated with me. It’s pretty incredible to be in […]

Categories: Beauty, Designers, Fashion • Tags: mac cosmetics, Prabal Gurung

Barbie Lagerfeld Doll the latest from the Barbie Collector series

August 24, 2014 by The CoF

Barbie Lagerfeld Doll : A new collectible doll is ready to become a real must-have for all fashionistas The kaiser of fashion in person has bothered to put his signature on the sexy doll produced by Mattel who is celebrating Barbie’s 55th birthday this year. The inspiration is given by the unique style of Karl Lagerfeld: Barbie assume the role of the designer borrowing the iconic image of the designer. “Working with Karl Lagerfeld for this unique collaboration is a great honor for […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion • Tags: Barbie, Karl Lagerfeld

Balmain’s designer with muses Rihanna, Naomi and Iman for W September 2014

August 11, 2014 by The CoF

Olivier Rousteing, creative director of venerated fashion house Balmain poses with muses Naomi Campbell, Rihanna (who is also the face of his campaign) and Iman in the September issue of W. “These women are inspiring to so many different people. Bringing them together represents the concept I’m working towards.” The young black designer knows he represents a rare spot of diversity in the fashion world. “My job is not just to design clothes but to also give a new vision […]

Categories: Celebrities, Designers, Fashion, Magazines • Tags: balmain, Iman, Naomi Campbell, Olivier Rousteing, Rihanna, September 2014

First Look : Alexander Wang for H&M collection

July 9, 2014 by The CoF

A small keychain with two boxing gloves hanging from it, in black with Wang’s AW initials on the back. This is the breakthrough of the most anticipated collaboration of fall 2014 , that Alexander Wang and H & M have offered on their social networks to all fans . The news saw the light on 13 April at the Coachella music festival in Indio Valley, California, also through the social media, Twitter accounts and Instagram giving the news to the world. After the […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion • Tags: Alexander Wang, Fall 2014, H & M, November 2014

Isabel Marant by Laurent Humbert for Madame Figaro

The Summer Of Isabel Marant

June 23, 2014 by The CoF

To welcome the arrival of summer, French designer Isabel Marant tells us the essence of her holiday wardrobe : leather, lace and nonchalance. Her free, light, facetious style puts electricity in world of fashion. Isabel Marant has it all, she creates what she likes and it suits us. To greet the sunny days, the designer tells us the essence of her holiday wardrobe: leather, lace and disarming nonchalance. And rightly so. It was an intense year for the French designer : opening […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion • Tags: Isabel Marant, June 2014, Laurent Humbert, Madame Figaro

The DVF Project , Diane von Furstenberg reality show on E!

May 12, 2014 by The CoF

Diane von Furstenberg just celebrated 40 years in the fashion industry, 40 years since she introduced the wrap dress on fashion’s timeline, a style still so loved today as in the 70’s. And because the 68-years old designer, also president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America since 2006, is unstoppable she is throwing herself in the trendy world of reality shows. Diane von Furstenberg teamed up with E! entertainment channel for “The DVF Project” a show that “will document Diane’s search to […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion, News • Tags: diane von furstenberg, E!

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Alexander Wang x H&M November 6, 2014

April 13, 2014 by The CoF

H&M chooses American designer Alexander Wang for its next collaboration H&M announced yesterday during an event at the Coachella Music Festival, in Palm Springs, California, USA, that their next designer collaboration will be with Alexander Wang. This partnership marks the first time that an American designer teams up with H&M on the much anticipated designer collaboration. Wang made the announcement with a video on his newly debuted Instagram account at midnight EST. The video, a take on the basketball shot clock, ended with the […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion, News • Tags: Alexander Wang, H&M, November 2014

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Giuseppe Zanotti celebrates the 20th anniversary of his brand

April 11, 2014 by The CoF

Italian shoe designer Giuseppe Zanotti celebrates his 20th anniversary in the business with four capsule collections that will be released throughout the year. The designer has another reason to celebrate as he welcomed a significant new investor, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, who acquired a 30 percent stake in Giuseppe Zanotti Design. Looking back at the past 20 years the designer remembers with nostalgia the beginnings : “(about its first trip in NYC) I started in the Plaza Hotel, where I had a room for FFANY,” […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion, News • Tags: Bergdorf Goodman, Giuseppe Zanotti

Celebrities remember L’Wren Scott

March 17, 2014 by The CoF

After the sad announcement of L’Wren Scott’s death, celebrities, many of whom friends of the designer, did not delay to pay homage and remember the beautiful Scott. Anna Wintour said in a statement : “L’Wren was a total perfectionist, someone who absolutely embodied everything her marvelous clothes stood for: strength of character combined with a confident and powerful style.In person, L’Wren was always unbelievably generous, gracious, kind, and so much fun. Her old world American manners and charm were from another time, […]

Categories: Celebrities, Designers, Fashion, News • Tags: Daphne Guinness, L'Wren Scott, Madonna, Sarah Jessica Parker, Stephen Jones

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Tom Ford shots Pat Cleveland for Numéro Russia March 2014

February 28, 2014 by The CoF

For the March 2014 issue of Numéro Russia Tom Ford has teamed with André Leon Talley,Numéro Russia’s international editor at large. The duo worked together for the cover and a 14 pages fashion story that features the 70’s supermodel Pat Cleveland and South African model Conrad Bromfield dressed in looks from Ford’s spring women’s collection. “There are two people of color on the cover looking provocative and elegant. And Pat must be 60 now, proving that fashion is not about age. It crashes through the boundaries […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion, Magazines • Tags: andre leon talley, March 2014, Numéro Russia, Pat Cleveland, Tom Ford

Kate Moss supports the Russian LGBTI community

February 16, 2014 by The CoF

British supermodel Kate Moss supports the Russian LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) community and stars in a campaign backed by Amnesty International that includes Matthew Williams, Nick Knight, Katy England, Roskanda Ilincic and Gareth Pugh The Amnesty International’s campaign gathered already many important people of the British fashion industry – including designers Henry Holland , Giles Deacon and RoksandaIllincic, stylist Katy England, fashion commentator Caryn Franklin and photographer Nick Knight. Now supermodel Kate Moss joined them to fight against the prejudice and […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion, Models, News • Tags: Amnesty International, Gareth Pugh, Giles Deacon, Henry Holland, Kate Moss, LGBT, Nick Knight, Russia

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First Look at Proenza Schouler for MAC collection

February 11, 2014 by The CoF

Proenza Shouler’s designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez are known for their natural, barely there makeup looks that they send their models down the runway. For one of the most expected beauty collaboration of 2014 announced since last fall, in collaboration with cosmetic giant MAC they created a limited-edition collection for spring 2014 that includes Ombre Face Powders, Lipsticks, Pro Longwear Eye Liners and Lip Pencils, Nail Lacquers, and a Powder Brush. As it was expected in this little preview you can see a […]

Categories: Beauty, Designers, Makeup • Tags: mac cosmetics, Proenza Schouler

Eva Herzigova as Heidi Klum for Project Runway Italy

February 10, 2014 by The CoF

After 10 successful years in the US, Project Runway Italy is ready to entertain its Italian audience The successful TV show Project Runway, launched ten years ago in the U.S. and already broadcast in 45 countries around the world , finally arrive in Italy . Instead of German supermodel Heidi Klum the Italians will have Czech supermodel Eva Herzigova who will also be a judge along with with Alberta Ferretti and Tomaso Trussardi to discover the designer of the future or the new fashion giant ( as they […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion, Models, News • Tags: alberta ferretti, Eva Herzigová, Project Runway, Trussardi

Donna Karan celebrates today the 30th anniversary of her brand

February 10, 2014 by The CoF

Today , February 10, Donna Karan will hold her fashion show for the fall/winter 2014-2015 collection dedicated to the 30th anniversary of her brand. It was 1984 when Donna Karan was pushed away from Anne Klein ,the brand for which she was working since 1968 , and received an investment of $3 million from the company that was owning Anne Klein to create her own brand, Donna Karan New York. Soon after Karan wins her first followed the year after by the second CFDA award, that acknowledged “her impact on the total look […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion, News • Tags: DKNY, Donna Karan, February 2014

Pop Wrap: a DVF and Andy Warhol Foundation Collaboration

February 7, 2014 by The CoF

40 years ago, Diane von Furstenberg created the famous wraparound dress , which helped her to write her name in the fashion history. Around the same time , in 1974, she posed for the great Andy Warhol . These memories are merged together in a capsule collection called Pop Wrap: a DVF and Andy Warhol Foundation Collaboration. Clothing and accessories from it , among which there is the famous wraparound dress , combine recognizable style features of Diane von Fürstenberg like […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion, News • Tags: Andy Warhol, diane von furstenberg, Wrap dress

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6 covers for Vs. Magazine spring/summer 2014 issue

January 29, 2014 by The CoF

Supermodels and actresses for Vs. Magazine spring/summer 2014 issue With its spring/summer 2014 issue Vs. Magazine tries to reach a larger readership , releasing six covers in black and white featuring different heroines. For fans of the series ” Game of Thrones ” the publication placed on the cover the actress Emilia Clarke . Cinema lovers can purchase the cover with Julianne Moore who recently presented her new film ” Telekinesis .” Another cover ,another actress Stacy Martin who soon […]

Categories: Celebrities, Designers, Fashion, Magazines • Tags: Christy Turlington, Emilia Clarke, Helena Christensen, Julianne Moore, Soo Joo Park, spring/summer 2014, Stacy Martin, Vs. Magazine

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Oscar de la Renta’s work and life in Assouline Publishing’s vision

January 20, 2014 by The CoF

Oscar de la Renta fashion adventure began in Spain, chez Cristóbal Balenciaga ,after working in Paris at Lanvin finally moving in the 1960s to the United States launching his eponymous ready to wear line and becoming quickly a leading figure on the international fashion scene. After five succesful decades he continues to produce fascinating collections and projects all results of his enduring creative vision. De la Renta once declared “I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big […]

Categories: Book, Culture, Designers • Tags: Anna Wintour, Assouline Publishing, Oscar de la Renta

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Roberto Cavalli for Miley Cyrus’s The Bangerz World Tour

January 20, 2014 by The CoF

Miley Cyrus will start her World Tour The Bangerz in February in Vancouver, Canada. Italian designer Roberto Cavalli is one of the designers that will dress the controversial American singer Miley Cyrus. And the brand has unveiled all the sketches of the looks. Among the eye-catching garments are two suits with a see-through effect. The first a total black with a zebra effect, paired with ankle boots and a baseball cap. The second is transparent and luminous, studded with Swarovski crystals. Miley’s looks are completed by a number […]

Categories: Celebrities, Designers, Fashion, News • Tags: Miley Cyrus, Roberto Cavalli

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Harper’s Bazaar US celebrates DVF’s Wrap Dress

January 17, 2014 by The CoF

Diane von Furstenberg continues to celebrate the anniversary of her invention,the already iconic wrap dress that this year celebrates 40 years of success. Why such a success? First of all the style flattered any body shape.Made from silk jersey it is perfect to be wear from day to night so you can feel both professional and feminine,perfect to throw in your luggage when traveling and take it with no wrinkles. Diane recalls : “It was a nothing little dress, but […]

Categories: Designers, Fashion, Magazines • Tags: diane von furstenberg, February 2014, Harper's Bazaar US, Terry Richardson, Wrap dress

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