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    Berlin Fashion Week, S/S 2010
    Berlin Fashion Week From the 1st to the 5th of July in the historic Bebelplatz of Berlin, the fifth Berlin Fashion Womenswear Week for Spring and Summer of 2010 was held. Berlin Fashion Week is one of the youngest fashion weeks. The first took place in July 2008. Its «youth» appears in the number of days the week dauerts, exceeding the average of three days that usually...
    by Anthi Papageorgiou at 09:20 at 09:20
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    Alice in Wonderland
    The movie Tim Burton is preparing his new film. It will be «Alice in Wonderland». Alice viewed from a different perspective, the “weird” perspective of the director, which gives it a more dynamic and girlish role, in a totally different context and placed facing Helena Bonham Carter (as The Red Queen) and Johnny Depp (as The Mad Hatter). The photoshoot Annie Leibovitz...
    by Anthi Papageorgiou at 09:11 at 09:11
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    Boys go to Milan
    Milan Fashion Week Last week was not just another week of a typical month. It was Milan Fashion Week for menswear in which spring/summer 2010 collection were presented. Milan is the fashion capital and when fashion shows and events happen there they are considered something more than plain shows. Hundreds of fashion shows attract thousands of fashion journalists from around...
    by Anthi Papageorgiou at 09:44 at 09:44
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    CFDA Awards 2009
    Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award-Anna Sui. On Monday the 8th of June the annual CFDA – Council of Fashion Designers of America – Awards were given for 2009. The awards were held at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, which is the new home for all the New York Shows. Womenswear Designer of the Year-Rodarte & Kirsten Dunst US Fashion & The first...
    by Anthi Papageorgiou at 08:23 at 08:23
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    New Acropolis Museum & Ancient Fashion
    The new Acropolis museum will turn me into a tourist girl. I can get map of Athens and the TOP 10 guide, sunscreen, athletic shoes and a hat and try to discover Athens not as local but as a visitor. Although a visitor, my interest in fashion is constant, a day will be dedicated to fashion in ancient Athens. Needless to say that modern fashion takes up the rest of my time. Ancient...
    by Anthi Papageorgiou at 09:39 at 09:39
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    Burberry Day?
    Burberry back to basics The house Burberry which is based in Milan announced its 2010 spring  collection show in London, home of the house, in order to be part of the celebrations of the 25 years of London Fashion Week and the British Fashion Council. New Yorker Headquarters Besides the London “return”, the house opened its new headquarters in Manhattan, New York...
    by Anthi Papageorgiou at 12:41 at 12:41
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    Politicians with style… or not
    Maids wear aprons, electricians wear uniforms and waiters were the black and white. Politicians wear them to wear ‘grey’ for that is what they are given. It is possible that if they had the initiative there could be a better result. I emphasize though the ‘possible’ factor. Gray and blue suits, red and orange and green and blue ties, white and light blue shirts. Within...
    by Anthi Papageorgiou at 10:40 at 10:40
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    Luella Bartley: fashion for inquisitive royalty
    Another graduate of Central Saint Martin’s school. Started as a fashion journalist for the Evening Standar, then The Face and Dazed & Confused and just before she changes her perspective over fashion and becoming a designer herself, worked for two years for the British Vogue ‘Daddy I Want a Luella dress’ The first collection was titled (SS’00)...
    by Anthi Papageorgiou at 09:31 at 09:31
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    Ms Margaret Howell, the Brit
    The middle name of British fashion is Margaret Howell. Howell began her career designing men’s clothes which ultimately were worn by women. That hasn’t stopped her, and she still designs manly clothes for women –this time. The beginning Howell began her career by making accessories and selling them to shops in London until he designed her first men’s...
    by Anthi Papageorgiou at 10:40 at 10:40
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    Dancing with Gaultier
    The fact The eccentric Jean Paul Gaultier designs costumes for “Snow White”. A choreogaphy by Angelin Preljocaj, performed by 26 dancers to Mahler’s music symphonies and a set designed by Thierry Leproust. The dance company “Ballet Preljocaj” will dance in France, USA, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and Germany till the end of July 2009. The background & influences This...
    by Anthi Papageorgiou at 09:44 at 09:44
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