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This season, Intertextile Directions trend forum (W2) will be under the creative guidance of NellyRodi Agency who will be in charge of the entire trend forum conception from forecasting to on-site design. These cooperations gave rise to four themes:
Northern Shelter Calm serenity and protective cocoons introduce a melancholic atmosphere. Cool colours with a neutralised light effect ranging from fine jerseys and coarse cashmeres to cross-stitch embroideries and windproof nylon materials.
Indulgent Dreams A seductive and multisensory winter that expresses feminine consciousness and nostalgic feelings. Serene and soft colours in nude skin tones and cosmetic pink hues in materials ranging from superfine wools and antique laces to monochromatic brocades and prints with ephemeral motifs.
Layers of Time Recovering traditions as well as exploring the heritage of ancestral memories and passed time glory. Colours modulated by a vintage patina with materials ranging from woollen twills and kempy mohairs to coarse canvas and paisleys on velvets and satins.
Crazy Creations Opulent extravagance expressing personality and uniqueness that dares to be unconventional with fantasy and fun. Vibrant colours in materials ranging from coloured denim and sparkling jersey knits with fake furs to exaggerated graphics and techno lycra.
Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics is co-organised by Messe Frankfurt HK Ltd, the Sub-council of Textile Industry, CCPIT and the China Textile Information Centre.
The period 2010-2015 will be a crucial time for China and the forming of new "consumption society" from the point view of macro economy.
Under such circumstance, there will be great opportunities on the aspect of clothing consumption in the coming 10-15 years, which will be an era of demands for improvement and sustainable demands, and also the age for the full upgrading of consumption concepts and capability.
According to the figures released by Economic and Trade Commission in Wenzhou city, the city’s exports in industrial sectors grew 26.5% in the first three quarters from a year earlier.
Production in the industries of automobile and motorcycle components and parts, electrical appliances and leather reported the growth of 57.6％, 43.7％and 39.4％ respectively.
At the same time investment in the city’s industry continued to grow and up 33.1% to 20.352 billion yuan. Further more 11.59 billion yuan were invested on renovation of technology for updating the technical and production facilities.
The 19th International Fur Fair in Daying to be run from October 28 to November 1, 2010 was announced on the press conference that took place on Great Hall of People in Beijing on October 15.
Xu Yong, the vice president of China National Council of Light Industry, officials from all level of Hengshui municipal government departments and more than 20 news media organizers presented at the press conference.
Daying is an area known for fur processing since the ancient time, fur processing can trace back to 3,000 years ago, today it has grown to one of important fur production bases in China. More than 15,000 professional buyers for dozens countries and regions is expected to come for the fur trade fair that include South Korea, Japan, Russia, Turkey, Romania and Hong Kong.
Varieties of fur and fur products will be shown on the fur trade fair. The categories of product cover fur clothing, fur scarf, fur plate, handcrafts made from fur, sheared fur products and so on.
Models present creations by Marina Makaron Moscow during the Russian Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 18, 2010.
Yayoi Kusama was a no-show at her own welcome-back party, but that didn't stop A-listers like Sofia Coppola and Diane Kruger or the art world stars Tom Sachs and Kara Walker from raising a glass in the Japanese iconoclast's honor at the opening of her Whitney retrospective last night. The dinner was hosted by W magazine and Louis Vuitton, which is simultaneously launching a collaboration between Kusama and Marc Jacobs. "I've been a fan of hers for years," Dianna Agron told Style.com. "Going against the grain of what you first learned, against your training—it's fantastic."
If New York knows Kusama only for her polka dots and phallic sculptures, the six-decade-spanning exhibition, with its delicate watercolors and detailed collages, seems designed to change that. "I think it will be a great surprise," the Whitney's Adam Weinberg said. "Her range is extraordinary." Vuitton's Yves Carcelle emphasized the artist's perfectionism. Discussing their partnership, he said, "We learned that between a dot and a dot, there are millions of differences."
As for Kusama's absence, the octogenarian artist, who retired to a mental institution in Japan 40 years ago after a 15-year stint in the New York art scene, had a good excuse. She spent the greater part of the day at LV's Fifth Avenue flagship, where her polka-dotted collaboration with Jacobs was unveiled. "Having met Marc changed my visions," she said. "I've had some hard times in my life, but having met him and having done this collaboration makes me feel that life is beautiful."
Kusama has the same kind of effect on others. With a line of people waiting to get in to her Fireflies on the Water installation behind them, more than a few partygoers were reminded of the one-minute rule by a security guard's sharp knock on the door. You can see infinity in there.
cbamd.com contributing editor and party reporter Darrell Hartman circles the city and, occasionally, the globe in the line of duty. In a new column, he reports on the topics—whatever they may be at whatever given moment—that are stirring the social set.
As usual at the most recent Paris Couture collections, there were openings—including a big one for Louis Vuitton’s haute joaillerie store on Place Vendôme. But this time around, there was a major closing, too. As just about everyone knows by now, the Ritz is shutting its doors at the end of July. Not forever, just for two years and change. Of course, to a lot of fashion people, that is forever.
“Everybody’s talking about it,” Claire Courtins-Clarins told me at the Louis Vuitton party. We were, incidentally, at the Ritz; Vuitton had booked the hotel’s pool room for one last go-round. The Atelier Versace show had happened there two nights before—poignantly, considering it was Gianni Versace’s old venue. (That’s Gianni, below, with the usual clatch of supermodels backstage at the Ritz during one of his Couture shows.) Immediately after Donatella’s runway came down, a VIP section went up, for an after-party with a performance by M.I.A.
If the hotel owes its place in the fashion annals to anyone, however, it’s Coco Chanel. The designer lived there from 1934 until 1971, albeit on the less glamorous Rue Cambon side. “Poor Chanel, I use the front door of the Ritz, she must use the back,” Elsa Schiaparelli liked to snipe.
People no longer name-drop the Ritz that confidently. It doesn’t dominate the social scene quite the way it used to, and if it’s true, as someone told me at that Vuitton party, that mice are turning up in guest rooms, then it’s certainly time the place got a refresh.
Still, plenty of fashionistas stay at the Ritz, and they’ll have to find a new home in Paris. What to do? The Crillon is also shuttering for a revamp, and the Bristol may have lost some cachet now that it’s no longer Sarkozy’s lunch joint. Daphne Guinness has reportedly solved the problem by buying an apartment.
Sofia Coppola went that route a while ago. "I remember staying here when I was younger, and it was always exciting with the gold swan faucets and the satin bed covers and stuff, but now I have an apartment [in Paris] and I love to come have lunch or have a drink here," she told me. So did Danielle Steel. As a result, her daughters, the Traina sisters, don’t spend nearly as much time at the Ritz as they did as children.
But they do use the gym. In fact, the Ritz’s health club is what the international jeunesse dorée may miss most about the place. "Best swimming pool in Paris," Vanessa Traina declared at the Vuitton party. "I don’t know where I’ll work out now," Victoria said.
Virginie Courtin-Clarins told me she’d already switched to the Royal Monceau (which, incidentally, has a Clarins spa). “When you want to have a luxurious gym in Paris, you go in the hotels,” she said. "There is no Equinox. There are big chains, but there’s no service." Ritz renovators, take note.
"I like the complexity of Art Nouveau, the torture," Gaia Repossi said last night. The jewelry designer was hosting a dinner in the most exquisite of torture chambers, a room at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs encased in intricate turn-of-the-century boiserie and full of Art Nouveau porcelain. Joining the historic objets were a pair of newer ones, the chain-gang-inspired silver cuff and necklace Repossi recently created with input from her label's stylist, Vanessa Traina. The two of them shared a center table with, among others, Shala Monroque and Haider Ackermann, who gleefully made off with one of the cuffs. "He has a shoot, he said, so he wants to play the muse," Repossi explained.
Following a deliberately paced Japanese dinner, many of Repossi and Traina's guests—including Aaron Young and Laure Heriard Dubreuil—ended up at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, in the eighth arrondissement, where Valentino's Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli were hosting a bash of their own to celebrate that day's Couture show. Umbrella-toting doormen escorted revelers inside the mansion, where Champagne and platters of strawberries awaited. Few present were in a more festive mood than the label's PR and party mastermind, Carlos de Souza. Not only had the collection—"the incredible artistry of the little hands of those Roman ladies who've been working more than 45 years with Valentino"—impressed him, but his sons, Sean and Anthony, were at the decks. (The Brazilian duo has been making the global rounds since January, when Madonna heard them at Valentino Garavani's Gstaad chalet and subsequently tapped them to deejay the premiere party for W.E.) On the bookings front, Dad's connections couldn't have hurt. In terms of performance, de Souza insisted, his influence has been minimal. "I teach them how to dance," he said. "But on music, no—not at all."
They’ve got the face, the body, a portfolio full of ad campaigns and editorials shot by top photographers in the industry, and a runway roster to match. But in our new Model Slash column, cbamd.com profiles girls whose ambitions and drive extend beyond the catwalk.
After she starred in Prada’s Resort ‘12 lookbook just about a year ago, Sojourner Morrell’s modeling career kicked up from trotting pace to a full gallop. Since then, the 21-year-old has parlayed her androgynous appeal to appearances on the past four Chanel runways (plus turns at Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, and Yves Saint Laurent, among others) and editorials for the likes of Vogue Italia (she covered the April “Prom Night” issue), Love, and Another magazines. While Morrell quickly adjusted to the jet-setting lifestyle and fancy clothes, her favorite place to be is back in the saddle. “I grew up partially on a farm in New Jersey, and we had donkeys, goats, you name it. My parents finally gave me riding lessons for my sixth birthday,” she tells cbamd.com.
For the next ten years, Morrell rigorously studied and competed in equestrian sports. She made headlines as the first female student accepted into the 440-year-old Spanish Riding School in Vienna, which specializes in classical dressage. “If you ride horses, you know about that school,” she said. “I didn’t really expect anything when I wrote to them but thought, it can’t hurt. To my surprise, they invited me for an interview, watched me ride, and then invited me to join.” The program, which requires a whopping 10-year commitment, eventually proved to be too strict for Morrell (being the only foreigner training with a group of older men would, after all, make many girls homesick), so she moved back to New York to pursue modeling full-time. Now she takes advantage of her somewhat flexible schedule and rides in Westchester whenever possible. “Dressage is about feeling in sync with the horse’s muscles and enhancing its natural movement—kind of like gymnastics or dance. You’re not forcing anything; it should be graceful,” Morrell says. “The physical relationship you have with the horse is kind of like that of a musician. A violinist, for example, can play all the right notes but the song won’t sound right unless there’s that synchronized feeling.” So did any of those horseback exercises pay off in the modeling world? Great posture, Morrell reports, always comes in handy.
Wedding season is upon us, and we're celebrating with a roundup of some of our favorite celebrity engagement rings. Even though some relationships have come and gone, the ring photos are here to stay. Celebs go big when it comes to diamonds, including Kate Hudson's reported $200,000 sparkler from Matthew Bellamy and Mariah Carey's gorgeous 15-carat bauble from Nick Cannon. Miley Cyrus is the latest lady to join the bunch with a stunning 3.5-carat rock from fiancé Liam Hemsworth.
Click through to see all the precious gems, and if you're planning on attending a ceremony, be sure to keep up with all of our wedding coverage across the Sugar Network.
