Kate Moss is officially going to become part of British history as a 50kg gold statue of the model is to be added to the British Museum. 'Siren' is a piece of artwork by Marc Quinn and he described Moss as "the ideal beauty of the moment".
It will be part of an exhibition entitled 'Statuephilia' opening on 4th October which will also include work by Damien Hirst and Antony Gormley.
Quinn previously created the 'Sphinx' statue of Moss which featured her in a yoga position.
Two fashion worlds collided in a recent collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Rei Kawakubo. The Japanese designer behind Comme des Garçons, known for her simple and avant-garde styling, has designed an exclusive collection of evening bags for the monogram heavy luxury label.
“Due to our clever coordination, I anticipate that the wall between us will disappear. Funnily enough, I have never actually bought anything [at Vuitton], but I probably will buy a party bag next week,” said Kawakubo .
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Sky One has today confirmed that there won't be a fourth series of Project Catwalk. The show was presented by Kelly Osbourne and watched aspiring fashion designers compete for success.
Richard Woolfe, channel controller, hinted at the Edinburgh International TV Festival that the programme might be coming to an end. "What we really need are some female-friendly formatted shows.
This Paris Fashion Week Sonia Rykiel marks 40 years in the fashion business and it looks set to be one hell of a party.
The Parisian based designer famed for her quirky-yet-wearable knits is set to have a party on 1st October as part of Paris Fashion Week and looks set to invite the who's who of Paris fashion.
To mark the occasion her daughter Nathalie has asked designers Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan and Jean Paul Gaultier to design an outfit in the style of Sonia Rykiel to pay homage to the designer.
As Karl Lagerfeld is famous for being able to get in the mindset of many designers, I am intrigued to see how he would interpret her influence on the fashion world.
With the fashion world at her fingertips, Michelle Obama could have worn a frock from the likes of Oscar de la Renta, Yves Saint Laurent, or St. John at the Democratic National Convention. Instead, Obama opted for a '50s-inspired turquoise blue fitted sheath dress from her favorite hometown designer, Maria Pinto.
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Apparently, I wasn't the only one going back to cool, 90210 style. CBS Consumer Products has just announced a merchandise rollout to go along with the highly anticipated spinoff of the popular teen show of the '90s.
The clothing collection of tees, tops, and fleece pieces will feature signature logos from the old show and the new show, as on these t-shirts. If you're embarrassed of showing your 90210 love on the outside, check out the innerwear selection of pajamas and underwear.
But there's more.
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Fret not Steve & Barry's shoppers, the store will live on. The company, who recently filed for bankruptcy, has been purchased by investment firm Bay Harbour Management for $168 million. We're not the only ones excited about the news.
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Graduate Fashion Week may feel like a lifetime ago but this summer's show of graduates is still having a big impact on the fashion industry. Today it was announced that Manchester School of Art graduate Nabil El-Nayal is the lucky winner of the British Fashion Council's scholarship.
The young designer will take up his place at the Royal College of Art to study an MA in Fashion Womenswear.
R&B diva Janet Jackson recently announced she's getting cheeky with a new lingerie collection and the proof is here. Pleasure Principle, named after a hit single off the singer's 1986 Control album, is set to land in stores by the end of this year or early 2009. The collection is the brainchild of Jackson and the Australian lingerie designer behind Dr.
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Much like the post-war days, Britain's are today being urged by ministers to 'make do and mend'. The House of Lords today published a report criticising fast fashion High Street clothes stating that they are made of poor quality fabric which wear out more quickly and are hard to recycle.
The report stated that, "We must tackle the high rate of wasteful consumption to which our society has become accustomed." There was also the suggestion that tax rates could be reduced on products which used sustainable materials.
They went on to explain that there needs to be action to reduce the high amount of waste that is currently being produced.
