Fashion News: Jessica Simpson to design line for Destination MaternityNews from Los Angeles Times: Jessica Simpson is designing a line for Destination Maternity, which seems fitting because hers was one of the most watched celebrity pregnancies of the year (culminating in the birth of daughter Maxwell earlier this month). The line is scheduled to launch [...]

Fashion Designer Launches Platform for Crowdsourced DesignNews from Mashable: The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Cut On Your Bias Quick Pitch: Vote on a range of [...]

Emily Blunt Talks Obama Crush, Fashion with Time Style & DesignNews from The Gossip Girls: Posted Sunday March 18, 2012 1:05 PM GMT She has numerous movies set for release this year including “The Five Year Engagement” next month, but Emily Blunt was able to make time in her jam-packed schedule to put together the [...]

NBC reality show ‘Fashion Star’ looks at the business side of fashion designNews from NorthJersey.com: FASHION STAR From left, Nicole Richie, John Varvatos, host Elle Macpherson and Jessica Simpson on ‘Fashion Star.’ 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, NBC For all of its loud pop music, flashing lights and dramatic buildups, NBC’s new reality show “Fashion Star” does [...]

Alegria fashion show again highlights New Orleans’ emerging design talentNews from NOLA.com: If you want to see how the local fashion scene is evolving, take a look at the Alegria runway show and competition. What we saw on stage Sunday (March 4) at the four-year-old benefit for the Louisiana SPCA was pure theater mixed with [...]

Kingston University Fashion Students Design Eco-Friendly Clothes In LondonNews from Huffington Post: By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) – Could “green” be the new black? Perhaps only if you can imagine wearing stilettos made from pistachio nuts and coffee beans and clothes from orange peel, fungi and mould. While the fashion pack are hitting the catwalks [...]

Altering Clothes, and Lives, With DesignNews from New York Times: Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times Veronika Scott, right, has designed a coat, that doubles as a sleeping bag.  Demetria Stewart, left, a seamstress for the company who had been homeless, has found housing. IT’S not exactly “Project Runway,” but in Detroit a group [...]

Denim mill tour gets collegiate clothes design contest movingNews from LubbockOnline.com: LITTLEFIELD — Plains Cotton Cooperative Association and a clothing design program at Texas Tech are partners for a third year in a a fashion design competition focused on denim. This is the third year for PCCA’s Denim Runway design competition, in which Tech students [...]

Denim mill tour gets collegiate clothes design contest movingNews from LubbockOnline.com: LITTLEFIELD — Plains Cotton Cooperative Association and a clothing design program at Texas Tech are partners for a third year in a a fashion design competition focused on denim. This is the third year for PCCA’s Denim Runway design competition, in which Tech students [...]

Council of Fashion Designers of America looks back at 50 years of design in …News from Washington Post: NEW YORK — Paris has its scarves and skinny suits, Milan has its luxe leather and London its swinging miniskirts, but ask American designers what they’ve added to fashion and the collective answer is democracy, from wrap [...]