In an exciting departure from the typical luxury fashion shows during its semi-annual New York event, one of the runway shows to be presented during Couture Fashion Week this season will be Space Couture, a sampling of the highly creative winning designs of a series of competitions. This inventive fashion show will be held on Sunday, February 15, 2009 at the world-famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
New York fashion week is being hit by the recession as top designers including Vera Wang and Betsey Johnson opt to save money by shunning its famous runways.
Starting with summer 2009, followers of local design will be able to get the earliest first fix on the local fashion front months ahead of the actual season as Sanlam SA Fashion Week (SSAFW) goes live with its new timeline that will launch the summer 09/10 collections of top local designers in April.
The Urban Fashion Week Paris is back after 4 exciting days in Paris and fashion show at Marriott Champ - Elysees Hotel. The UFW is now Global and will be in London (1st week in May) and Russia, Moscow (1st Week in Aug).
Expect an independent spirit to run through Los Angeles Fashion Week next March.
Fall shows will be muted by the economic downturn.
* New York Fashion Week aims to inspire consumers to spend * Recession pushes designers to reassess industry * Fashion is NYC's second biggest industry behind finance NEW YORK, Sept 9 - New York's Fashion...
From 29 to 31 January 2009, the Offshow 14 oz. 2nd floor takes place parallel to Fashion Week Berlin.
Asia's leading fashion fairs, HKTDC Hong Kong Fashion Week for Fall/Winter 2009 and HKTDC World Boutique, Hong Kong 2009, opened today and continue through 15 January, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
India's No.1 and expert beauty brand, announces its association with the internationally acclaimed Anamika Khanna as the Lakme Grand Finale Designer at Lakm茅 Fashion Week (LFW) Fall-Winter'09, India's premier fashion and trade event, scheduled for 27th to 31st March'09, at the Hotel Grand Hyatt, Mumbai.