Simonlee's Blog – March 2015 Archive (12)

The 10th season of Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion Days was the best in the history of the event thus far. It’s been five years since I realized that Ukrainian fashion could become its own industry and created Kiev Fashion Days, and since that time we have had groundbreaking results. It would be impossible to talk about every achievement; however, here is…

Designer duo Hemant and Nandita, and Pallavi Mohan opened the Day 2 of the Amazon India Fashion Week on Thursday with a modern take on the looks from the bygone era. Pallavi’s collection, Nostalgia, covered the period of 1920s, aka The Roaring Twenties, when fashion was all about blending style and function. The collection reflected Pallavi’s design…

Memphis Fashion Week is celebrating its emergence as a full-fledged event.

For the past three years it has been known as Memphis Fashion Weekend, but a new branding effort through inferno LLC has produced a stable logo and a stable vision.

“We would change logos every year, which is indicative of us trying to find who we are. Having…

Menswear at Seoul Fashion Week has never been so diverse in styles and ideas as in the 2015 fall and winter collections.

Designers presented an interesting mix of styles from streetwear and traditional tailoring to avant-garde while exploring the relationship between social and political issues and fashion during the two-day menswear show on…

Digital technology had played a significant role behind the scenes in fashion weeks for many years, but it was when digital publishing methods – namely blogging - were becoming mainstream that we started to see the power this technology had on communications. Early bloggers, like Kathryn Finney of The Budget Fashionista, helped get the less…

Mr. Anderson didn’t go for the wine and Champagne on offer by tray-carrying waiters.

“I’m drinking water so I’m being good tonight,” he said. “I had a glass of wine [earlier] and I was like I think this is a bad idea.”

There was the excitement over the event, and the display of his Loewe collection in the store windows, and the memory of his being a shopper at Barneys and now actually having his designs sold there, and his just arriving in New York two days before on the high…

You wondered if the chandeliers that hung overhead at Fausto Puglisi’s Emanuel Ungaro show were real or fake; throwbacks to the Second Empire heyday of the hôtel particulier he chose to present in, or something shiny and new, roped up especially for the occasion?

Those light fixtures are a great metaphor for Paris fashion week as a whole.…

As the last stop in a month-long whirl of fashion shows, Paris debatably holds some of the most exciting presentations. On the one hand, its lineup features shows from the famed historic houses (Chanel, Dior, Saint Laurent) of fashion history. And on the other hand (in what can be considered a case of amnesia), sartorial enthusiasts forget what they’ve seen in the fashion…

The annual industry event launched its preliminary schedule in Sydney last night, for its milestone 20th anniversary.

With several leading designers focusing increasingly on inter­national markets for ­expansion, the event has come under fire in recent years because of a lack of experienced players and a reliance on emerging designers, first-timers…

Cristiano Ronaldo says having his own collection of smart footwear is a "dream come true".

Cristiano Ronaldo has released a new range of smart footwear.

The footballer ventured into the fashion industry when he first launched his company CR7 back in 2006, and expanded it in 2008.

But after creating underwear and clothing ranges,…

Bye, New York! Ciao, Milan! Bonjour, Paris!

The world’s largest travelling circus of fashion editors, models, buyers and journalists has descended on the French capital, clutching their metro maps and city guides, to cap the ready-to-wear fashion season.

For fall-winter 2015-16, the dizzying 92 scheduled shows mean the nine-day “week” almost…

Delhi-based culinary expert & cookbook author, Komal Taneja reveals her secrets of aromatic and flavourful Indian non-vegetarian cooking.

In keeping with our ideas of eating healthy, but delicious food, Chef Komal lists her top 5 in-season healthy non-vegetarian recipes, which can be whipped up in a jiffy. The star qualities of these recipes…