Shows
David Jones’s flashy winter fashion launch
Feb 10th
It wasn’t enough for Miranda Kerr to rule the runway at David Jones’s launch of the Autumn/Winter 2010 Australian designers’ collections. She turned to directing the snappers in the media pit as well.
“I like it when you use your flash,” the 26-year-old beauty shouted at the scrum of photographers before getting down to what she does best – posing up a photogenic storm.
The atmosphere was electric as the launch got under way in a room packed with 500-plus guests including such fashion luminaries as Jodhi Meares, sass & bide’s Sarah-Jane Clarke and Heidi Middleton, Sam Armitage and David Jones’s brand ambassador Megan Gale.
Models for Haiti
Feb 8th
Tonight may be Urban Zen and The Standard’s Haiti Hope Help & Relief benefit, but on Friday, a new bevy of beauties will support the cause. Hearts for Haiti, and LakayPAM Awareness and Fundraising Event, will launch on February 12, hosted by Coco Rocha, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Narciso Rodriguez. LakayPAM (which translates to “my home”) is a non-profit organization founded by model Carolina Bittencourt and her husband, Haitian website developer Cedrick Roche, and 100% of all the evening’s donations will go to rebuilding a Hatian school and caring for its orphans. Raquel Zimmerman, Natasha Poly, Hannah Holman, Ali Stephens, Chanel Iman, and Valentina Zelyaeva will make up the rest of the model lineup, while Robert Geller and Richard Chai will represent the fashion crowd—joining the Haitian Consulate General, Haitian UN Ambassador, and Brazilian Ambassador.
Burberry to partner with Sky for 3D live streaming event
Feb 8th
Burberry is to live stream its upcoming Autumn Winter 2010/11 womenswear show in 3D to events in New York, Paris, Dubai, Tokyo and Los Angeles.
The Burberry Autumn Winter 2010/11 womenswear show will take place at The Chelsea College of Art in London at 4PM on 23 February 2010, during London Fashion Week. The private 3D events will receive live stream from London to custom screening spaces designed by Burberry Chief Creative Officer, Christopher Bailey.
Burberry will be partnering with broadcaster Sky television on production using its innovative 3D technology.
Valentino’s Eco Modernism
Feb 5th
Paris – Valentino offered a large dollop of eco modernist fashion in the house’s Spring 2010 haute couture collection, presented before huge images of swaying digital trees projected on the walls of the medieval convent hospital in Paris where the show was staged Wednesday, Jan. 27.
“Hidden Eden” was the name the design duo of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli gave to the collection, an evocative display of naturalistic fashion and quivering clothes.
In a show and collection that neatly juxtaposed technology and nature, it was telling what were the two defining materials – soft chiffon and hard sharkskin, or to use its technical term, galuchat. These two were combined in one remarkable jacket, a curvy biker jacket with cashmere trim.