A New York Fashion Week Of Firsts And Lasts – Yahoo News

Ptak Fashion City Invites You to the 2nd Edition of the International Fashion Fair and to the 1st Edition of Fashion Week Poland, to be Attended by Paris Hilton – Yahoo Finance

. New York (AFP) – Celebrities are jetting in, gluten-free cocktails are concocted and designers are unveiling their 2015 fall/winter collections: a frozen New York kicks off its multi-million-dollar Fashion Week Thursday. Hot on the heels of haute couture shows in Paris, the fashion glitterati is flocking to admire the best and brightest in US design, where young talent rubs shoulders with fashion barons Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger. But it’s not just the jet-set tripping through snow on stilettos. Fashion is big business in New York, where twice yearly fashion weeks generate nearly $900 million for America’s biggest city. Here’s what you need to know as more than 270,000 people watch the 350 shows that kick off the 2015 fall/winter season before the juggernaut shifts to London, Milan and back to Paris. CELEBRITY SHOE-IN Fresh from his on-stage protest against Beyonce not winning album of the year at the Grammys, rap star Kanye West makes his New York fashion debut on Thursday with a collection for Adidas.
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Fashion Week begins with Kanye, BCBG, Creatures of the Wind – Yahoo News

12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — On 18-22 February 2015, Ptak Fashion City, the only City of Fashion in Europe, will host the 2ndedition of the International Fashion Fair and the 1stedition of Fashion Week Poland. Ptak Fashion City operates as the largest European Wholesale Centre, being home to 2,500 producers and importers who supply products to thousands of merchants from all over the world, every day. Fashion City is becoming the major Central European meeting point, gathering producers and merchants from the fashion industry, as well as a prominent fashion design centre and source of new trends. This time, the International Fashion Fair, being the largest fashion event in Central Europe, attracting 3,000 exhibitors, will for the first time host Fashion Week Poland. This will create an opportunity to watch over 50 fashion shows by the most renowned producers and designers, both from Poland and abroad, including the fashion show by Patrizia Gucci, the Polish producers’ fashion festival for Anna Fendi’s prize, fashion shows by Maciej Zien, Teresa Kopias and others.
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Fashion Week begins with Kanye, BCBG, Creatures of the Wind – New Jersey Herald

Among the celebs who turned out: Rocker Pete Wentz and models Coco Rocha and Petra Nemcova. Jocelyn Noveck A TRIP BACK IN TIME At Creatures of the Wind, design duo Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters went for an esoteric cultural theme: They called their show “an exploration of definitive moments in American psychedelic culture.” Gabier said the designers were particularly attracted to the blacklight rock-band posters of the late ’60s and early ’70s – posters using inks that became fluorescent under black light. A number of the garments on the runway were made of a “deco metallic silk” – in pink or black – that looked both psychedelic and Art Deco at the same time, melding looks from the ’20s into those from the ’70s.
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“Sew” proud – Connecticut teen wins national fashion-design honor – Jewish Ledger

At the last minute, they were also asked to create a complementary design. With the final episode of the season taped in May, Grinfeld had to keep her secret for seven months. She won tuition to the summer program at Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles, $10,000 to be used at JoAnn Fabrics, a Brother sewing and embroidery machine, and a feature in Seventeen magazine.
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How do the trainers symbolize Kanye? “It’s not me. It’s the people,” he said. “I think that there’s something that people have been wanting and missing and this is my proposition, you know, to contribute in some way. I want to contribute to society through usable art.” View gallery Kim Kardashian and Kanye West sit with their daughter North West during a rehearsal for the showing The star-studded presentation also drew West buddy Jay Z and Justin Bieber. Kardashian Momager Kris and Kim sisters Kendall and Khloe smiled from the front row against the backdrop of New York Fashion Week’s opening day and the NBA All-Star game this weekend. Leanne Italie ___ SUNSHINE ON A WINTRY DAY Fashion Week always seems to hit New York when the weather is at its most extreme.
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