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Keeping up with New York fashion Week is hard enough without having to think about London, Milan and Paris. The shows, the models and the beauty all starts to blur if your life isn’t dedicated to finding the hottest trends of the seasons. So 303 Magazine is here to help you learn more about the top five shows of the season without leaving the comfort of your computer screen.

Over at Balenciaga, Alexander Wang showcased his last collection for the Spanish design house before stepping…

If you have not already heard, Fashion Week of Rochester is about to hit downtown. Celebrating its sixth year, the event will take place over six days, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 13. For the first time, events for all six days will be in one location: A 15,000-square-foot tent on Main Street in downtown Rochester, fashioned with a 96-foot runway, and retail and food vending areas.

For fashionistas, Tuesday’s kickoff can’t come soon enough. For others, Tuesday…

But a group of dedicated volunteers, helped by WA brides, are doing what they can to be there for couples in the midst of unimaginable grief.

Angel Gowns Australia makes garments from old wedding dresses and donates them to hospitals nationwide for parents of stillborn or miscarried babies.

Ilga Boomsma, who runs the WA branch of the national charity,…

Every fashion week has a defining pair of shoes. Be honest: the one catwalk item you actually remember from the previous season is the Gucci fur-lined loafers, right? And that’s fine, because that one pair of shoes told you everything you needed to know about where fashion was at – geeky but luxurious, challenging but not uncomfortable.

This Paris fashion week’s shoe-shaped soundbite came on Friday evening, at the Balenciaga show. Balenciaga wasn’t, funnily enough, a collection from…

Whether you have a facial to relax or anti-age, chances are you prefer indulging during the day or in an evening pamper session. Anytime before first thing in the morning! But Sarah Chapman is challenging this notion with her Skinesis Morning Facial.

Subscribing to the mentality that skin needs a get up and glow approach in the morning, this bottle of goodness delivers an…

You may have the entire world's troubles sitting on your shoulder but your sleeves needn't be there. Spotted on some of the 'it' girls of Hollywood and Bollywood, off-the-shoulder silhouettes are taking over this autumn.

Pair yours with shorts, skirts, high-waist pants or opt for a dress and be ready to turn heads! Available in a lot of unpredictable…

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She’s only 4-and-a-half months old, but Princess Charlotte, the daughter of Kate Middleton and Prince William, has big fashion shoes to fill. Yet there’s one key piece missing from her stylish wardrobe:…

The homecoming dance at Coeur d'Alene High School in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho was supposed to be a blast for its students, but this past weekend's festivities were dampened by a last-minute dress code that caused several students to not attend.Only two days before the dance, parents were sent an email notice that bare shoulders and spaghetti strap dresses were not allowed, meaning many girls who had spent $100 and upwards on their…

India market is considered the biggest market for beauty products specially fairness solution. Among Indian society there is an absurd statement and phenomenon of beauty.

Thanks to our high list of endorsement start, both men & women need variety of fairness creams. In spite of existing multimillion dollar market of fairness products in country, the…

Barbara Tfank designs the kind of clothes that women dream of wearing; elegant and timeless in wonderful, richly textured fabrics sourced from Italy and France. Arab News caught up with Tfank in London this week; she was in the capital for the launch of her collection at Harrods in the midst of preparing for her upcoming show at New York Fashion Week.

She looked immaculate in one of her own beautifully cut, jewel-like dresses. What was immediately notable was that Tfank wears her…

The typical Westport teen outfit can be found anywhere throughout the halls of Staples: A Brandy Melville top, Lulu Lemon leggings and bleach white converse seems to be the go-to apparel for any high school girl, except one. Sophomore student Emerson Kobak ’18 makes her statement by wearing homemade clothing and is becoming a known trendsetter.

Q: What…

Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW) took over the city’s central business district last week in a flurry of frocks and fedoras and the annual event provided some helpful lessons for SMEs.

This year’s festival achieved record social media coverage with 10,539 images posted on Instagram and 841,268 likes, which was almost double last year.

Five of the runway shows sold…

TOP South African actress Sophie Ndaba, known by many Zimbabweans for her unforgettable character, Queen Moroka, in the South African television soap Generations, is coming to Zimbabwe this month to officially launch ‘Summer with Edgars Stores’ through The Edgars Fashion Extravaganza.

Edgars group marketing executive, Rumbie Dzimba said they settled on Queen Moroka because she was a trend-setting icon.

“Edgars bringing in Sophie Ndaba in particular is tied to Sophie being a…

New Zealand Fashion Week is for sale.

Dame Pieter Stewart, the independently wealthy businesswoman dubbed the nation's first lady of fashion, invited suitors to kick the tyres on the company she founded in 2001 during last week's festivities.

Potential buyers attended events and looked over the company's books. However, there are no…

It took me a week to recap the final piece of this pie. I watched it twice, but thought that perhaps if I didn’t blog it, it wouldn’t be done. I am sad to see this group go. It has been a good season and if they just get rid of the dead weight of Heather and Kristen, next season should be back on track and we’ll get the show we fell in love with in the…

The 18th edition of the Russian Art Festival, thanks to a quality artistic programming, unveiled the wealth of this nation which, for more than a century, has been maintaining friendly relationship with the Capital of Cinema. During five days, concerts, exhibitions, ballets, theater, puppet theater, symphony orchestra, are plunging the public into a fabulous Russian atmosphere.

The wonderful “Alan” from Ossetia

The Russian Art Festival offers an overview of the Art and artistic…

New York & Company wants to forge deeper, emotional customer connections.

Customer engagement that includes an emotional connection can lead to brand loyalty. New York & Company CEO Greg Scotton has made this one of his four imperatives for 2015.

“The quarter included progress toward our four keys to success,” Scotton said during the…

In a unlikely alliance, department store chain Myer is collaborating with a pure-play online fashion brand with more than one million social media followers to attract young fashionistas into its bricks-and-mortar and online stores.

In a move described by chief executive Richard Umbers as a "mash up" of physical and digital retailing, the department store chain has signed up…

Now that you have pushed your black skirt suit to the back of the wardrobe and overdosed on candy-hued pastels, it's time to hibernate the monotonous sleekness of tight ponytails and neat office buns.

Hair dresser Anne-Laure Lecerf Asgar Saboo, celebrity hairstylist and style director at the Daniel Galvin Salon (Mayfair) and share with us five easy-breezy…

Taking care of your hands should be an essential part of your daily skincare regime, because they are dead giveaways about your actual age.

Right from preparing food, to applying makeup, texting, showing off your diamond ring to even a simple handshake — your hands, every day, are playing an important role and deserve to be cared for and pampered just…