Paul Smith For Barbour

BRITISH heritage brand Barbour has collaborated with Paul Smith Jeans to create a limited edition capsule collection. The range, which is launching for autumn/winter 2012-13, is designed for both men and women. The women's line features two of Barbour's most popular styles, but with a Paul Smith-twist. The classic ladies International coat and festival-favourite Beadnell jacket are both given a makeover with brightly-coloured printed linings - patterns which are picked up in the matching T-shirts, jeans and chambray shirts which make up the rest of the line. "I have always been a fan of Barbour," said Paul Smith. "This has been a great opportunity to collaborate on a collection that combines the British heritage and identities of both companies." The capsule collection is due to hit stores on September 1, with prices ranging from £39.95 for a T-shirt, to £499 for a men's jacket. "With any collaboration that we do, it has to add interest and create something special for our brand," said Ian Bergin, Barbour's head of menswear. "By bringing together Barbour and Paul Smith Jeans, two very British companies, we have created a collection that is unique and fun, yet still reflects the core values of the Barbour brand."



31 August 2012
Sarah Karmali
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/08/31/barbour-paul-smith-jeans-collaboration-launches

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Ferragamo Pays Tribute To Marilyn

THE MUSEO Salvatore Ferragamo is marking the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death by releasing a book of iconic and previously unseen photographs of the star. The tome coincides with an exhibition currently being held at the Florence museum. The book - simply titled Marilyn - is edited by museum director Stefania Ricci and art critic Sergio Risaliti, and features imagery of the actress from throughout her life and career; on film sets, at home, and in public. It's due to hit shelves on September 25. The accompanying 50th anniversary exhibition sees 50 of Monroe's outfits on display - including her favourite Salvatore Ferragamo footwear. The actress was a loyal customer of the Italian fashion house, and is credited with making Ferragamo's four inch-heel pumps world famous.







31 August 2012
Sarah Karmali
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/08/31/marilyn-monroe-anniversary-book-and-exhibition---museo-salvatore-ferragamo

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Prada For Gatsby

MIUCCIA PRADA has reworked 40 dresses from the Prada and Miu Miu archives to create costumes for the upcoming film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. The designer has collaborated with the film's head of wardrobe, Catherine Martin - wife of the film's director, Baz Luhrmann - on the Twenties-era flapper dresses worn by several actresses throughout the movie. "I usually try not to literally reference periods in my work, because that's not the way I think," Prada told US Vogue. "But when I worked on the costumes, I realised how many pieces would become very Twenties with a little intervention and another point of view." It's not a first-time partnership for the designer and director: Prada worked on Lurhmann's 1996 film Romeo + Juliet, designing a suit that was worn by Leonardo DiCaprio - who, coincidentally, also stars in The Great Gatsby. Lurhmann also created a series of short films for the recent Prada and Schiaparelli exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. This latest Great Gatsby news comes following the confirmation that Tiffany & Co has provided all the jewellery for the adaptation, as worn by Carey Mulligan in her role as Dasiy Buchanan. Originally due to premiere in cinemas this Christmas, The Great Gatsby is now set for release in July 2013.












SARAH KARMALI 23 August 2012
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/08/23/miuccia-prada-designs-costumes-for-the-great-gatsby

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100 Most Powerful

DIANE VON FURSTENBERG has been named the most powerful woman in fashion by Forbes. The magazine has just released its annual 100 Most Powerful Women list, which sees von Furstenberg ranked at number 33, ahead of fellow industry heavyweights Anna Wintour, in 51st place, Miuccia Prada, at 67, and Gisele Bundchen, at 83. The most powerful woman in the entertainment industry is Oprah Winfrey, who came in at number 11, closely followed by Lady Gaga at number 14 - who, at the age of 26, is also the youngest female to make the top 100. "These are the women who adhere to the traditional classifications of power (political and economic might) and those who have risen to the top of the social and cultural landscape," said Forbes. "It is our annual snapshot of women who impact the world." The top ten was a mixture of leading political figures, with the top three remaining unchanged since last year. Once again German chancellor Angela Merkel took the top spot, shortly followed by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in second place, and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in third. Michelle Obama is ranked seventh most powerful, while the Queen was placed at number 26. In the celebrity world, music industry stars ranked far higher than Hollywood actresses, with Beyonce at 32; Jennifer Lopez at 38; and Shakira at 40; all beating Angelina Jolie who ranked in 66th place.








SARAH KARMALI 23 August 2012
 http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/08/23/forbes-100-most-powerful-women---diane-von-furstenberg-tops-fashion-list

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Garance Style

GARANCE DORÉ's collaboration with Kate Spade sees the blogger mixing her innate French style with the brand's own New York chic for a collection bound to make its way into a whole new host of street style photographs. "It's actually the first time I've been asked by a brand to do illustration for a print," Doré - who was an illustrator before she began her blog in 2006 - told us at the launch of the collection last night. "The idea of this particular print is a cocktail party, mixing the style of France and New York - my two homes. So it's a kind of blending of the two, and that's what you see on the shirt, the dress, the bag.

" The printed pieces - including Doré's favourite, a Peter Pan collar blouse - are joined by Paris-inspired charm bracelets, tweed bags and T-shirts and sweatshirts printed with French phrases. "In France we have good icons - women whose style we can be proud of. People seem to have the idea that there's an effortlessness to it, that we don't try, and we just let them think that!" Doré revealed. "The thing with French women is that they are body conscious. They know what suits them and they choose clothes that make them look good and that fit them - the mother teaches it from a young age. I actually think I dress in even more of a French way now that I live in New York - I'm more conscious of my Frenchness!" Having started her blog after becoming frustrated with her job as an illustrator, Doré has seen it grow into an international success - and is now a front row regular at fashion shows around the world. "I never started my blog for the 'fame', but I was committed - I have posted every day for six years - and now I'm getting to do things like [the Kate Spade collaboration] and to live my dreams. It's amazing."














LISA NIVEN 17 August 2012
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/08/17/garance-dore-and-kate-spade-collaboration

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Vogue’s Olympic Gold

FASHION has played its part in the fantastically successful Olympic events over the course of the last two weeks via Stella McCartney's Team GB kit - but Vogue itself has been credited with the success, in part, of tonight's Closing Ceremony. "It just wouldn't have been possible without Vogue and without [fashion director] Lucinda Chambers specifically, who persuaded all the models and the designers to get involved," Daniel Marks, director of public relations powerhouse The Communications Store, told us tonight - describing in detail how the fashion element of the extravaganza came together. Just in case you missed it - it involved Nick Knight-shot billboards featuring the biggest names in British supermodelling wearing our most headline-making British labels - Kate Moss (in McQueen), Naomi Campbell (McQueen), Karen Elson (Burberry), Stella Tennant ( Christopher Kane), Lily Cole (Erdem), Jourdan Dunn (Jonathan Saunders and Stephen Jones), Georgia May Jagger (Victoria Beckham), Lily Donaldson (Vivienne Westwood), and David Gandy (Paul Smith) - coming alive as the billboards were torn down (to a soundtrack of David Bowie's Fashion), to reveal the models' themselves. They then took to a Union Jack-shaped catwalk, followed by a legion of black-adorned foot soldiers who fell into formation in the centre of the catwalk - revealed by a helicopter above them to be the iconic Alexander McQueen skull shape, in tribute to the most revered British designer of this generation. Britain's most celebrated hair and make-up artists - Sam McKnight and Val Garland respectively - were called upon to perfect the look.

 Two years in the making, tonight's fashion offering came as a result of Marks approaching Kim Gavin, creative director of the Closing Ceremony, to establish whether it would play a part at all in the proceedings. "At that time there wasn't a plan but then Kim came up with the idea of the billboards and that's when we called on Lucinda to come to the rescue," he explained. "I didn't think about the hugeness of it until I saw the Opening Ceremony and thought, 'wow, lots of people are watching this,'" Lucinda said before tonight's event. "I'm a bundle of nerves." "It felt like such a privilege, such a celebration of fashion. The clothes were beautiful but not bonkers or mad. It was the best of British," she went on. "Sport is glamorous - and the fact that Stella was asked to do the kit is wonderful. Sport, fashion, music - they're all so blurred. How great to celebrate everything that's wonderful about Britain and part of that is fashion." DOLLY JONES












12 August 2012
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/08/13/olympic-closing-ceremony---supermodels-fashion-segment-vogue

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The September Issue

THE September issue of Vogue is the biggest international collections issue ever to be produced. The edition is a feast for the eyes - with no shortage of beautiful shoots to gaze at, trends to inspire and interviews with the industry's most exciting names. Nick Knight's Midas Touch shoot shows the country's top models wearing a series of glittering, bespoke gowns; Karlie Kloss makes her debut Vogue cover wearing head-to-toe clashing prints; Lara Stone looks every inch the pre-Raphaelite muse in Ryan McGinley's Dark Blooms fashion story; while Stella Tennant demonstrates how to work autumn/winter 2012-13's Edwardian trend in Deauville Rendezvous. If vibrancy and flamboyance is more your thing, read about the new season's most glittering trend - disco inferno, as championed by Meadham Kirchhoff and Vivienne Westwood. Read about two of the fashion world's most influential women, with a profile on legendary Central Saint Martins MA fashion course director Louise Wilson, as well as a look inside the beautiful London home of Vogue's former co-fashion director and now Topshop creative director Kate Phelan. And if reading the issue wasn't enough, you'll now be able to interact with the magazine's print features through the new Vogue iPad app - now available monthly.








 ELLA ALEXANDER 03 August 2012
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/08/03/september-issue-of-vogue-highlights---karlie-kloss

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Footwear Fanatic

FORGET her own medal win, Rebecca Adlington seemed more impressed by the Duchess of Cambridge's shoes when the royals paid a surprise visit to the Olympic Village yesterday. The Team GB swimmer was busy admiring Catherine's blue wedges as the Duchess, Prince William and Prince Harry stopped by to congratulate the team on their success so far. "I just love her shoes. They're much nicer than the sports gear we're wearing this week," Adlington told The Daily Telegraph. "It's amazing that the royals are here today. They were so, so lovely." The Duchess was wearing a pair of £245 navy blue cork wedges by Stuart Weitzman for Russell and Bromley, which she teamed with slim-fit jeans, a nautical striped top and Smythe blazer. Catherine, accompanied by Princes William and Harry, had been out supporting cousin Zara Phillips earlier during the day - who helped Team GB take home a silver medal in the eventing team jumping final. Adlington has also added to the total medal count, winning the bronze in the 400-metre swimming freestyle. A keen follower of fashion, the 23-year-old was spotted showing off her patriotic nails as she accepted her prize.







SARAH KARMALI 01 August 2012
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/08/01/rebecca-adlington-loves-the-duchess-of-cambridge-kate-middletons-shoes

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