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.
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.
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.
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.
