Students behind SCAD Fashion Show ready to rock runwayNews from Savannah Morning News: The tension was thick enough to cut with a knife. Savannah College of Art and Design fashion students were waiting to learn if they’d be chosen to show their work in the 2012 SCAD Fashion Show. Only the work of top graduating [...]
Continue reading?How Dowdy Amazon Can Walk the Fashion RunwayNews from Bloomberg: Illustration by Sam Island By Virginia Postrel Thu May 10 23:00:44 GMT 2012 About Virginia Postrel Virginia Postrel writes about commerce and culture, innovation, economics and public policy. Shes the author of “The Future and Its Enemies” and “The Substance of Style,” and is writing [...]
Continue reading?Tweaking model looks head to toe is last-minute art before runway shows, says …News from Washington Post: NEW YORK — Casting and fitting models for a fashion show is more art than science, but, says designer Jason Wu, there’s still a formula. “It’s like match-making,” he said. “It has to fit.” The process of choosing [...]
Continue reading?‘Project Runway: All Stars’ recap: Clothes Off Your BackNews from pictures – Digital Spy UK: Project Runway: All Stars‘ fifth episode opens with a rather tricky challenge – the designers will have to find a muse on the busy streets of New York and convince said muse to give them the clothes off their back. [...]
Continue reading?Project Runway All Stars: Elisa JimenezNews from TV Grapevine: Project Runway All Stars Elisa Jimenez El Paso, Texas Elisa Jimenez was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1965. She is the daughter of sculptor Luis Jiménez and graphic designer Vicky Balcou. By the age of five, she was sewing doll clothes and fixing her own [...]
Continue reading?Designer Brings Muslim Fashion To The RunwayNews from NPR: [3 min 33 sec] Download Courtesy of Nailah Lymus Fashion designer Nailah Lymus (third from right) stands with models wearing her latest collection after a runway show. Nailah Lymus is a 27-year-old aspiring designer who had her first runway show during New York’s Fashion Week in [...]
Continue reading?Project Runway Season 9 Finale – Designers ‘Make it Work’News from BuzzFocus.com: Last night’s finale of Project Runway Season 9 was filled with “Make it work moments”. The final designers could not have been more different. Each one had his or her own point of view that is not typical on today’s fashion runways. Both [...]
Continue reading?The Project Runway Season 9 Winner Is…News from TV Guide: Project Runway After weeks of challenges and months to create a collection, the final four Project Runway designers converged at New York’s fashion week to prove which of them could make it work the best. Here’s a look at how the runway battle went down: [...]
Continue reading?Project Runway Review: The Finale Part OneNews from Poptimal.com: Browse > Home / Television / Project Runway Review: The Finale Part One – Poptimal.com For the Project Runway finale, all four designers will design a collection, but only three will attend Mercedes Fashion Week. With $ 9,000 and five weeks, the designers were sent home [...]
Continue reading?‘Project Runway’ recap: The Home SketchNews from Entertainment Weekly: The penultimate episode of a Project Runway season, in which Tim Gunn visits the designers at work in their natural habitats, always reminds me of The Bachelor/Bachelorette hometown visits: You see the human side of the contestants, and it makes it that much more awkward to [...]
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