Monthly Archives: September 2009

September 26, 2009

Life is good: Jenden’s not jaded

Fashionista has been busy this week! On Thursday afternoon she attended the most recent Fashion Business Club meeting, at which Aquascutum’s head of womenswear Michael Herz interviewed Diane von Furstenburg’s Creative Director Nathan Jenden. The interview came hot on the heels of Jenden’s successful show at London Fashion Week which, for Jenden is the best [...]
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September 25, 2009

Fashion with compassion

Fashionista loves a birthday and now that London Fashion Week is over, what better way to celebrate the weekend than to toast another fashion milestone? Fashionista has celebrated the birthdays of some well known and long established English brands but on this occasion wants to celebrate the first birthday of a small but fabulous independent [...]
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September 25, 2009

Manny’s the man!

Handbags at Dawn, this year’s version of the annual IP and fashion conference run by CLT, was by general acclaim a good deal of fun. That this was so, Fashionista opines, was at least in part the consequence of Manny Silverman’s infectious humour and dazzling enthusiasm. Speaking on “Fashion Industry Business Strategy — Just Where [...]
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September 24, 2009

Dusk has set on "Handbags at dawn"

In association with Fashionista, the long awaited annual “IP in the Fashion Industry – Handbags at Dawn” CLT Conference was held in London on Tuesday – and Fashionista was there to support the event. The illustrious panel of speakers were welcomed by a warm, engaged audience and the conference seemed to be enjoyed by all. [...]
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September 17, 2009

London Fashion Network: 1st birthday bash

So last week Fashionista headed to the very glamorous Soho House to celebrate the first birthday of the London Fashion Network (“LFN”). The evening began with a Q&A session with Tim Danaher, editor of Retail Week, and Jess Price-Brown, Editor of Drapers; together the two most influential retail publications in the country. The retail landscape [...]
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September 16, 2009

No Crocs, no party

Fashionista was surprised by the news that one of her favourite Hollywood actors, the one and only George Clooney, has decided to come to rescue of the not so fashionable and virtually indestructible footwear, Crocs. John Duerden, President and CEO of Crocs Inc., stated in an interview with the Washington Post that the brand that [...]
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September 14, 2009

Handbags at Dawn: one week to go

She’s absolutely certain that you’ve not forgotten, but Fashionista is just reminding you anyway — Handbags at Dawn: protecting your clients and their designs , the 2009 version of CLT’s annual one-day conference on intellectual property in the fashion industry, takes place next Tuesday, 22 September, in the lovely old Pru building on High Holborn. [...]
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September 11, 2009

It’s a Twittering frenzy!

We know Demi and Ashton do it. We know Susan Boyle of Britain’s Got Talent became an overnight sensation because of it. We all know David Cameron’s dismissive views of it. Like it or not, Twitter seems to be taking the online world by storm. The need to be constantly up to speed with everything [...]
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September 7, 2009

Only CHANEL. Never Chanel-esque.

Fashionista has read negative commentary surrounding Chanel’s publication in Womens Wear Daily of a notice of how its brand is to be used – and, in particular, not misused. But what about the benefits to brands of getting the message across as to how your brand should or should not be used? Playing Devil’s Advocate [...]
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September 3, 2009

Nudity in fashion advertising – how much is too much?

Campaign yesterday reported that an American Apparel advert originally placed on the back cover of Vice Magazine has been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA). The advert consisted of a six images of a female model wearing an American Apparel hoody. The sequence of photographs reveal progressively more nudity, with the second row of [...]
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