Who were the runway disasters and divas?
THE key moments of fashion week are not always on the runway. Here’s our snapshot of the stuff that kept everyone talking backstage and beyond.
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The bitchiest one-liners at Fashion Week
“SORRY to ignore you, but I just noticed the coffee cart.” This howler and many more delicious one-liners were overheard by our spies at Fashion Week. So fashion.
7 coolest trends at Fashion Week
FROM weird wetsuit material to midriffs and gelato coloured clothes. Here’s what had everyone talking at this week’s fashion extravaganza. But would you wear any of them?
Alex Perry: ‘I was wrong’
FASHION designer Alex Perry has said he suffered a “serious lapse of judgment” for his use of overly thin models during Australian Fashion Week.
‘Models are tall, slim, long, lean. Get over it’
OPINION: THE ‘skinny model’ debate has reared its head. Again. But if you’re pointing a manicured finger, saying “you are too thin and therefore sick and unhealthy”, you are a bully.
Fashion Week: ‘It’s like preparing for battle’
WANT to know what really goes on behind the scenes at Australian Fashion Week? Eleven industry insiders dish the dirt on how they prepare for the biggest week on the Aussie style calendar.
Who knew Dad was so fashion-forward
IT WAS once such a fashion atrocity that only daggy dads could pull it off, now it’s all the rage. What is it?
What Fashion Week prep is really like
HAVE you ever wondered how much prep goes into a runway show? Take an inside peek when we go behind the scenes with We Are Handsome and Maybelline.
Frocks and shocks from VAMFF day two
DAY two of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival proved to be just as dramatic off the catwalk as it was on it.
Montana Cox replaces Jagger at VAMFF
GEORGIA May Jagger will be replaced by Montana Cox in Camilla Franks’ Melbourne Fashion Festival show after the death of her rock star father’s girlfriend.
Visual feast with Hitchcock flair
THE Melbourne Fashion Festival will take flight tonight with Mimco’s runway homage to Hitchcock’s The Birds.
Fresh names head up Fashion Week
ESTABLISHED names, designers yet to prove their mettle and brash young guns: Australian Fashion Week will have something for every style lover.
Designer makes Louis Vuitton debut
NICOLAS Ghesquiere’s debut for Louis Vuitton was the “must see” show at Paris Fashion Week.
Rihanna goes braless at PFW
ONE minute she’s showing her cleavage, the next she’s covered head to toe in fleece and fur. There’s one thing that’s for sure: Rihanna never fails to surprise.
Armani show pays homage to Nikita
ITALIAN fashion legend Giorgio Armani says he was inspired by Luc Besson’s film Nikita for his latest fashion collection.
Jen Hawkins leads 43 models down Myer catwalk
IN front of a VIP crowd of 350 people, Jennifer Hawkins strutted her stuff to show off Myer’s autumn-winter collection in Melbourne.
Supermodel takes ‘world first runway selfie’
CARA Delevingne has strutted down the catwalk, iPhone in hand, to record what she claims is the first ever runway selfie in a series of Instagram posts.
Whoops! Model stacks it at NYFW show
IT WOULDN’T be a fashion show if there wasn’t a catwalk fall. As New York Fashion Week reaches its peak, a model has taken a tumble at the Lela Rose show.
Streaker crashes runway at New York Fashion Week
WEARING a crown, a G-string and a big smile, a serial pest stole the show during New York Fashion Week when he jumped up on the catwalk.
New York Fashion Week has begun
DESPITE snow and rain cancelling thousands of flights, New York Fashion Week has started with a bang. Here’s what you’ve missed so far.
Ten hot fashion trends for 2014
AUSSIE designers have anointed animal print, metallics, long skirts, jewel tones and black as ‘must-wears’ but how do you get ‘the look’ right?
DJs launches a winter wonderland
A WHIMSICAL enchanted forest set the scene for the glamorous David Jones autumn winter collections launch tonight.
Versace: ‘Bikers are the new cowboys’
WE’RE not sure what’s more ridiculous: Donatella Versace’s line of chaps or the hilarious quote she made about cowboys and bikies.
KISS rock Milan Fashion Week
ONE of their albums is called Dressed to Kill. And that’s just how the members of KISS looked when they took to the catwalk for designer John Varvatos.
Perry, Upton take in Chanel show
KATY Perry, Kate Upton and Vanessa Paradis were front-row guests as Miranda Kerr and Cara Delevingne strutted down the catwalk for Chanel.
Plus size catwalk for Pulp Fashion Week
PARIS has hosted its first ever fashion show featuring plus size models, dubbed Pulp Fashion Week – because pulp means ‘luscious fruit’ in French.
Janice Dickinson reviews Collette Dinnigan show
THE world’s first acerbic supermodel Janice Dickinson thinks Collette Dinnigan is “a legend, she is a dream and just a fashion ingenue.”
Street style at Paris Fashion Week
YOU thought what came off the Paris runways was wild, avant garde and set the style agenda for next year and beyond? Well, take a look at what ‘real’ people wear off the runway.
Rosie goes nude in more ways than one
NO BRA. No makeup. No worries. As if you didn’t envy Rosie Huntington-Whiteley enough, see how she looks without a lick of makeup.
Catwalk with a view in Paris
PARIS fashion week got off to a charmingly chaotic start with a rooftop catwalk show at which fashionistas played ‘spot the model’.
McCartney exercises fashion flair
AFTER days of runways showcasing skinny models in high heels, London Fashion Week has switched gears and taken to the gym.
Live: PFF closes with Ellery
PERTH Fashion Festival closes tonight with the much anticipated show of Ellery’s 2014 Vitreous resort collection. FOLLOW IT LIVE
Bread scented perfume in fashion
MODELS at London Fashion Week have been invited to sashay down the catwalk wearing Eau de Toast, a scent with yeasty top notes and a hint of caramel and malt, designed to fight back against the trend of bread-free diets.
Topshop trends for Summer 14
BURBERRY, Celine, and Mary Katrantzou graced the London Fashion Week runway, but only one show drew the likes of Cara Delevingne, Kate Moss, Anna Wintour and Ellie Goulding.
Kerr dumped from Victoria’s Secret show
AUSSIE model Miranda Kerr has been noticeably left out of this year’s line-up for the widely-watched Victoria’s Secret lingerie show.
Designers strut stuff in New York
THE northern Summer’s not over just yet, and some designers at New York Fashion Week were are clearly focused on the beach.
Get ready for Myer SS/14 fashion launch
HARRY Kewell will join Jen Hawkins, Kris Smith and Julia Nobis on the runway tonight for Myer’s Spring Summer launch.
Who will be at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week?
A MONTH to go and a roll call of fashion’s newbies has been announced for the Mercedes-Benz sponsored Fashion Week from April 8.
L’Oreal Melbourne fash fest going off
NOT content with hosting the F1 Grand Prix, the soon-to-kick-off AFL season, Black Caviar galloping on Friday and a party for Ellen next week, along comes the annual celebration of style.
The 11 most wearable outfits from MBFFS
RUNWAY shows. They’re always a spectacle of clothing that looks great on the catwalk, but not so great in real life – until now.
A-list front row of Paris Fashion Week
I WAS reminded this week of the inextricable link between celebrity and fashion.
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