Yearly Archives: 2010

November 23, 2010

Legal training young upcoming design talents

The Brussels Fashionista Team recently held an IP/fashion law seminar entitled “Protection of creativity in Fashion”  in collaboration with the FFI (Flanders Fashion Institute). Young upcoming talents attended the seminar with enthusiasm and the Brussels Fashionista Team received a lot of positive feedback. As a follow up, the Brussels Fashionista Team will organize a second [...]
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November 5, 2010

The Katrantzou that got the cream

Fashionista wants to say a huge congratulations to Mary Katrantzou who, according to VOGUE.COM, was last night named the winner of this year’s Swiss Textiles Award. Fashionista was lucky enough to see Mary’s collection at London Fashion Week and, in her humble opinion, it is thoroughly well deserved as the collection was absolutely stunning! Well [...]
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October 26, 2010

Growth is global…

The domestic outlook is bleak: the government’s widespread spending cuts are all over the papers, we are all feeling the cold (literally) and retail sales are down for the second consecutive month in a row. But is the current frosty spell an indicator that it is set to be a long, cold winter? Leaders within the [...]
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October 7, 2010

"Les Belges" at Paris Fashion Week

The Brussels Fashionista team was excited to have the opportunity to visit the Showroom “Les Belges” at the Paris Fashion Week. For the first time, the Flanders Fashion Institute (FFI) and Wallonie-Bruxelles Design/Mode (WBDM) joined their forces to offer a common platform to young upcoming Belgian designers including NOOR D*IZAR, Marko Galovic and Schipper/Arques. In [...]
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October 5, 2010

BIBA is back!

Times may be hard, but it’s always nice to read a good news story for a change. Fashionista can’t be the only person to notice that the legedary BIBA brand has been revived exclusively at House of Fraser. According to the Guardian, despite the current talk of spending custs and recession, the brand’s relaunch has been a hit [...]
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September 21, 2010

London Fashion Week – the story so far . . .

Fashionista was thrilled to receive an invitation to see some of the most awe-inspiring and original catwalk shows at London Fashion Week this week. Donning her Jimmy Choos she hotfooted it to see Louise Gray, Mary Katrantzou and Holly Fulton’s Spring/Summer 2011 collections hit the runway and came out positively drooling. The gorgeous patchwork dresses [...]
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September 17, 2010

Emerging design talent at LFW

Fashionista is delighted to learn that top city law firm Olswang is providing much needed legal support to some of London’s best new fashion designers as part of its recent cooperation with the Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE), the pioneering business development platform that nurtures emerging fashion design talent. CFE boasts an impressive past roster [...]
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September 8, 2010

It’s Shoemania!

For those who missed Channel 4 News last night, Fashionista was very interested to hear that she was not alone in having a shoe addiction. The C4 report referred to data from Bain and Company which showed that in 2009 the overall luxury market shrank by 8 per cent, but that sales of luxury shoes only fell by 0.5 [...]
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July 7, 2010

Not such a fairy tale ending for Miss Sixty

Fashionista followers will know that regardless of how beautiful she finds a pair of Jimmy Choos, Fashionista is all too aware that it’s unwise to skip paying the rent to pay for that classic kitten heel as the landlord always has the final word. This point will no doubt be ringing in the ears of [...]
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June 30, 2010

Football’s fashionable side

Fashionista doesn’t often have cause to write about football but, with World Cup fever at its height as we reach the closing stages of the competition, Fashionista has considered with interest the opportunity for mass exposure which the world’s biggest, most viewed sporting event lends to fashion brands. Sportswear brand exposure is a given through [...]
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