All the fashion news that’s fit to print – and some for Rescu. readers only!
Dion Lee Designs Line For Cue
Dion Lee, the darling of Australian Vogue and one of the most exciting designers to come out of Australia in years, has just ramped his career up a notch.
Now you can find his designs at the haven for the cutting-edge career girl, Cue. He’s designed a range for their newest collection, Dion Lee For Cure, and it’s got his signature extreme, futuristic tailoring and block prints.
Pick it up before he really hits the stratosphere.
Vivienne Westwood Claims Punk Was ‘Just A Marketing Opportunity’
The flame-haired doyenne of British anti-establishment is off again. This time she’s shocked even her oldest fans.
Westwood, who was so synonymous with punk that the fashion industry was astounded when she received a Damehood, said in typically don’t-care style to the Wall Street Journal:
“It really was alternative at the time [in the 1970s] to take S&M and pornography and turn it into fashion. You can’t do that anymore. But when I look back, it was only a look, and it was just a marketing opportunity.”
The Real Reason Behind The Diane Von Furstenberg Wrap Dress
The wrap dress of Diane Von Furstenberg, pictured at left, is a fashion legend. Easy, elegant, dress-up, dress-down: it made getting ready in the morning far easier than it had once been.
This week, though, Von Furstenberg herself revealed why she’d made it: to ease the awkwardness of escaping one night stands.
Quoth the fashion legend – “Well, if you’re trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare.” Truth indeed.
Fashion World Continues To Go Royal-Wedding Crazy
At last count, Kate Middleton had three wedding dresses (in case the press discovered one or two before the big day), a sea of imitators buying up every last copy of her Issa engagement dress, and the hysterical interest of the world press.
What next? Lingerie and jewels, it seems. The head designer of Ultimo, the British lingerie brand most infamous for dropping Peaches Geldof as a face once drug-related photographs emerged, has said that she’s “designed Kate’s bridal lingerie” despite the royal family never requesting her services.
And then, of course, there’s the infamous engagement ring. Originally Princess Diana’s, Kate’s huge sapphire is now the subject of incredible interest, and jewellery companies such as Secrets are producing Royal Collections in the hope of creating similarly princess-sized dreams for clients.
Next it will be the glass slippers. Manolo Blahnik, surely.
Friedrich Gray Takes A Bow
Say it ain’t so! The beautifully dark and directional Aussie label Friedrich Gray, headed by Ben Pollitt, is ‘taking a break’ from the market.
Apparently financial pressures and the demands of the international fashion cycle on the brand were just too much. Pollitt said he couldn’t go on as a “one-man show”.
Hailed as the Next Big Thing three years ago – on RESCU, too! – Friedrich Gray is only one recent casualty of the financial crisis, with Ksubi and Mad Cortes also folding.
Carine Roitfeld Breaks Silence
Carine Roitfeld, now-ex editor of French Vogue, has a new interview in which, among other things, she describes fashion shows as having “as much charm as a medical conference.”
Roitfeld also said she’d seen rampant drug use in the industry but never partook herself, and was shocked with Yves St Laurent, the titan of the French fashion industry, was the first to confess to being a drug addict.
She also, groundbreakingly, now allows herself to wear jeans.
