Couture

Deborah Lindquist: It's Not Just a White Dress Anymore

Red Room | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Wedding Dresses, Deborah Lindquist, Couture Wedding Dresses, Couture, Designer Dresses, Weddings, Style News
Red Room

It's not just a white dress anymore. Wedding dresses are inspired by the uniquely beautiful women who wear them. Today, women are making new and different choices in what they choose to wear for the most romantic day of their life, their wedding ceremony.

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Cristóbal Balenciaga: The Great Master of Couture

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Couture, Galliera Museum-Paris, Fashion Exhibition, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Art Exhibitions, Cité De La Mode Et Du Design, Fashion, Style, Arts News
Evelyne Politanoff

Velvet boleros, satin torero costumes, magnificent capes and mantelets, cashmere stoles, lace mantillas, dresses, samples of embroidery and trimming, all these lavish items figure in profusion in this collection assembled by the the great master of couture and generously donated to the museum by his family.

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A Dress Worthy of a Nobel Prize

Wendy Brandes | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Couture, Science, Nobel Prize, Dresses, Fashion, Nobel Prize Ceremony, Ralph Steinman, Style News
Wendy Brandes

What do you wear on a day that encompasses both grief and unexpected joy? Maybe something wholly unexpected.

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Amy Winehouse's Family Upset Over Gaultier Runway Show

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 01.27.2012

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The most memorable of this week's Spring 2012 couture shows was undoubtedly Jean Paul Gaultier's homage to Amy Winehouse. The irreverent French design...

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PHOTOS: Cameron Diaz Shows Couture Week Who's Boss

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Couture, Video, Cameron Diaz Style, Couture Week, Cameron Diaz Couture Week, Cameron Diaz, Haute Couture, Cameron Diaz Fashion Show, Cameron Diaz Couture, Fashion Week, Style News

When Couture Week kicked off with the Versace show on Sunday, we were a bit perplexed to see the guest list. Diane Kruger was there, of course, sh...

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PHOTOS: Yasmin Le Bon Walks The Runway In 110-Pound Dress

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Couture, Stephane Rolland 100 Pound Dress, Stephane Rolland Show, Video, Stephane Rolland, Couture Week, Yasmin Le Bon 110-Pound Dress, Yasmin Le Bon, Fashion Week, Style News

If you are going to create a dress that weighs over 100 pounds, Couture Week is definitely the week to do it. Designer Stephane Rolland presented h...

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PHOTOS: Did This Couture Designer Rip Off Alexander McQueen?

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 01.23.2012

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It's not rare for designers to find inspiration in earlier designers' work (read: every designer and her mother who has referenced Christian Dior's Ne...

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PHOTOS: Cameron Diaz Takes Her New Look To Paris

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Couture, Donatella Versace, Video, Cameron Diaz Versace, Cameron Diaz Versace Show, Paris Couture Week, Couture Week, Versace, Designers, Versace Couture Show, Paris Fashion Week, Cameron Diaz, Fashion Week, Style News

On Sunday, Atelier Versace's first couture show since 2004 brought out the chic usual subjects: Diane Kruger, Ines de la Fressange, Anna Wintour. ...

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Exclusive: Marc Bouwer's Latest Collection

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Couture, Fashion, Fashion Week, Marc Bouwer, Video, Style News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

I found Marc Bouwer's fashion by chance one day when I was surfing the internet and was blown away by how beautiful the clothes were. I had never seen an online fashion show before and thought it was a brilliant way to present a new couture collection.

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Red Carpet Fashion Chat with Haute Couture Designer Randi Rahm

Holly Cara Price | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Bridal Gowns, Style News, Jennifer Hudson, Fashion Design, Academy Awards, Sharon Stone, Golden Globes, Joan Rivers, Beyonce, Couture, Fashion Police, Celebrity Style, Joy Behar, Carrie Underwood, Randi Rahm, Celebrities, Style, Halle Berry, Edie Falco, Mariah Carey, Red Carpet, Children's Storefront, Oscars, Vanessa Williams, Style News
Holly Cara Price

One of the most important pieces of the entire puzzle is red carpet fashions and who better to ask about this than couture designer Randi Rahm, who first opened her successful Fifth Avenue atelier 14 years ago.

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WATCH: At Home With Sacha Walckhoff, Creative Director Of Lacroix

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Couture, Christian Lacroix, Fashion House, Sacha Walckhoff, Designer, Theatre, Madonna, crane.tv, French, Wedding Dress, Fashion, Womenswear, Paris, Menswear, Arts News
Constantin Bjerke

Christian Lacroix may be known for theatrical couture dresses fit for princesses, but in the past few years the Lacroix story has been far from a fair...

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Artist Painstakingly Weaves Dresses From Balloons

Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Soup Cans, Couture, Video, Bbc, Style, Rei Hosokai, Reuters, Rei Hosokai Balloon Dress, Balloons, Fashion, Japan, Balloon Dress, Millenium Jam, Arts News

Japanese Rei Hosokai's work is redefining 'Pop' art, but don't expect soup cans. Hosokai's medium is, of all things, balloons, and her breathtaking dr...

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When Fashion Meets Art: The Top Exhibits

The Huffington Post | Analise Roland | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Couture, Jean Paul Gaultier, Art, Style, Museums, Fashion Art, Art Installation, Yves Saint Laurent, Fashion, Art Museums, Haute Couture, Fashion Exhibition, UK Arts, Culture, Culture News

Whereas other art may be confined to the halls of museums, there is one type that is created by the human form and lives on it: fashion. The most powe...

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9 Styles From Space: How Aliens And Sci-Fi Have Inspired High Fashion

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Space Age Fashion, Alexander Wang, Laura Mulleavy, Rodarte Fashion, Kate Mulleavy, Jane Fonda, Lady GaGa, Aliens, Alexander McQueen, Beauty, Makeup, Fashion Week, Hair, Couture, Space Fashion, Galactic, Sci Fi, Space Age, Space, Reese Witherspoon, Fashion, Rodarte, UFO and Paranormal, Science Fiction, Shoes, Goldin, Outer Space, Weird Photos and Videos., Barbarella, Style News

Ever since the Space Race defined international relations in the mid-to-late twentieth century, human culture has always had at least one eye turned t...

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PHOTOS: Top 10 Trends From The Couture Shows

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 09.08.2011

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Haute couture season has wrapped up in Paris, meaning we've got lots of crazy looks to ogle and imaginary wish lists to make (you know, for all those ...

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PHOTOS: Vogue Editors Banned From Azzedine Alaia's Runway Return

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Couture, Style News, Designers, Azzedine Alaia Couture, Azzedine Alaia Michelle Obama, Paris Fashion Week, Azzedine Alaia, Haute Couture, Anna Wintour, Fashion, Slideadbigshot, Style News

It was a triumphant return to the runway for Azzedine Alaïa, who presented his first couture collection in eight years on Thursday. The collection, ...

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PHOTOS: The CRAZIEST Couture Show?

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Couture, Style News, Craziest Couture, Iris Van Herpen, Paris Haute Couture, Designers, Iris Van Herpen Couture, Haute Couture, Fashion Week, Fashion, Slideadbigshot, Iris Van Herpen Show, Style News

Newsflash: we may have found the nuttiest couture show this season. Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen presented her Fall/Winter 2011 Haute Couture coll...

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PHOTOS: Who Turned Up To Chanel's Haute Couture Show?

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Style News, Slideadbigshot, Fashion Week, Chanel, Milla Jovovich, Couture, Chanel Haute Couture, Front Row, Paris Haute Couture, Fashion, Diane Kruger, Elle Fanning, Chanel Couture, Style News

The stars came out in black and white for the Chanel Couture Fall 2011 show in Paris on Tuesday night. Karl Lagerfeld's glamorous gal pal Diane Kr...

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Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

Camilla Morton | Posted 09.03.2011

Read More: Jean Paul Gaultier, Couture, Stephen Jones, Dior, Fairytales, Jeremy Healy, Picasso, Pat McGrath, Christian Lacroix, Fashion, UK Style News
Camilla Morton

I cannot remember the last time I bumped into a fairy godmother. But the more news channels that go live the more opportunity there is for some bleak prophecy of doom so where better to escape than in the petticoats of Paris? Fashion is there after all to create magic.

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PHOTOS: Couture Catastrophe At Christian Dior

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Style News, Couture, Christian Dior Couture, Designers, John Galliano, Christian Dior, Galliano, Haute Couture Week, Fashion, Slideadbigshot, Style News

On Monday morning in Paris, the house of Christian Dior showed its first couture collection in fifteen years without former creative director John Gal...

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Jean Paul Gaultier: From Sidewalk To The Catwalk

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Jean Paul Gaultier, Fashion, Fashion Exhibition, Mmfa, Art Exhibitions, Pret-a-Porter, Andy Warhol, Couture, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Gaultier, Style, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent, Haute Couture, French Couture, UK Arts, Arts News
Evelyne Politanoff

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PHOTOS: Isabella Blow's Most Amazing Hats

The New York Observer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Couture, Ny Shopping, Couturier, Celebrity Deaths, Alexander McQueen, Isabella Blow, Couture Hats, New York News

On May 7, 2007 Isabella Blow, one of the great style icons of recent decades, took her own life. And while "Issie's" famously eye-popping hats themsel...

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Blogger Series: London Fashion (VIDEO)

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Creativity, Walmart, Twitter, Vogue, Foie Gras, Print, Talent, Creatvity, Sasha Wilkins, Liberty London Girl, Media, London, Journalism, British, Couture, Mademoiselle Robot, Blogger, Anonymity, Blog, Online, Voice, Ffg, Designers, Editorial, Fashion, Runway, Alias, Laetitia Wajnapel, Magazines, Writer, Style News
Constantin Bjerke

Fashion Foie Gras For most of us a high-flying full-time career is more than enough, but not Emily Johnston - the (super)-woman behind the globally su...

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PHOTOS: SCI-FI DESIGN: Our Top Picks From Disney's TRON: Legacy Couture Fashion Line

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Couture, Art, Jeff Bridges, Cult Classics, Hayden-Harnett, Tron, Slidepollajax, Olivia Wilde, Disney, Fashion, Tomtom, Hurley, Rosseau, Arts News

Disney's TRON: Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 cult classic will be released shortly. Along with the film, Disney has released a TRON: Legacy couture f...

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Cocktail Couture

Colleen Mullaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Entourage, Cocktails, Prosecco, Adiran Grenier, Avion Tequila, Entertaining, Couture, Fall Fashion, Fashion Week, St-Germain, Colleen Mullaney, Food News
Colleen Mullaney

While Fashion Week came and went faster than a Chanel bag at a sample sale, I love fall for taking a fresh look at your closet and your cocktail couture.

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