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

Fashion Week brings about $547 million in direct visitor spending, which is more than the 2014 Super Bowl, the New York Marathon and the US Open tennis championship. BOTTOMS UP Vodka company Ciroc, for which music mogul Sean Combs is brand ambassador, has concocted three official cocktails, and to honor the carb-conscious fashion brat pack, they’re gluten free. DISEASE, GUNS AND BOMBS British supermodel with a temper Naomi Campbell is hosting a charity fashion show and clothing auction to raise money for Ebola victims. The hemorrhagic fever gets a second look when charities including the International Rescue Committee host a pop-up lounge to showcase a protective suit for medics who treat Ebola patients. Donna Karan and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg host an event to spotlight efforts to end gun crime and save lives.
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Fashion Week begins with Kanye, BCBG, Creatures of the Wind – Yahoo News

16 hours ago Done RZGOW, Poland, Feb. 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. A special guest, Paris Hilton, will add lustre to this unique event.
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Fashion Week begins with Kanye, BCBG, Creatures of the Wind – New Jersey Herald

20, and the semester begins March 2, Ptak says. Ptak co-founded AFI with husband Scott Hanna , a professional artist for DC and Marvel comics. Hefty industry tuition fees, a desire to share her knowledge and a goal to redefine education and career training spurred Ptak’s decision to open the school. “Tuition at top schools is about $60,000 per year, our tuition is $7,000 per year,” Ptak says. That means the four-year program, which is not accredited, costs about $28,000. Ptak says landing a good job in the fashion business is more about what you know and how well you can execute that knowledge, than any other factor. “Hiring firms care about what you can do.
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“Sew” proud – Connecticut teen wins national fashion-design honor – Jewish Ledger

The rapper has big plans to create more Yeezys, for women and kids as well, after leaving Nike for Adidas more than a year ago. 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.
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For Grinfelds episode, the contenders had to design what would be the final look in their own personal fashion shows. 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. Fresia says that the theater-design and production department is proud of Zoe. She is very talented and maintains high grades while working on many of our shows, and she found time to go to Los Angeles to shoot the show, she says. Her design work is creative and thoughtful.
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Four-year fashion design program debuts at Arts and Fashion Institute in Riegelsville | lehighvalleylive.com

“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.
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