THE WEEK IN FASHION: NOVEMBER 21st-25th
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Posted by Bethan Holt, Fashion Junior at Large
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| Rihanna in McQ on X-Factor (from fashionforlunch.com) This has been a wonderful few days for London Fashion Week build-up after two of Britain’s greatest fashion exports, Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney, both announced that they would be holding shows during February’s London Fashion Week. The Alexander McQueen house’s younger line, McQ will be showing for the first time ever and has chosen London for the occasion. McQ’s first store will also be opening on Dover Street next Spring. Meanwhile, Stella McCartney has held her catwalk show in Paris for years now but she is bringing a special one-off presentation to the capital. Next February’s London event will be an evening affair to celebrate Stella’s association with the 2012 Olympics, for which she is designing kits for Team GB. Not to be outdone by McQ, Stella also has plans for another store, this time in Brompton Cross. Until then, we can satisfy our Stella love at Selfridges’ ‘World of Stella’ pop-up in January. Be sure to check out next week’s Grazia for more McQ news from the FashEd. |
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| A stellar 2012 for Stella (image from newsonlineinternational.wordpress.com) |
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| Someone’s on the run with a hell of a lot of Vuitton (image from coachhandbagclub.com) A quite odd announcement from the Advertising Standards Authority this week; the images of 14 year-old Hailee Steinfeld sitting beside a railway line for Miu Miu’s SS11 campaign have been banned. This is because they show a child in a hazardous situation. Obviously, that’s completely understandable grounds for banning an image. However, they have have been all over the Internet and in magazines for months. This makes me think that the damage is done by now, so why ban the images just as they are being replaced with those from the Resort campaign anyway? I cannot help but think that is a clunky bit of bureaucracy rather than a meaningful decision. Am I wrong? |
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| Look away children |
On Wednesday evening, Net-a-Porter founder, Natalie Massenet interviewed Christian Louboutin at the V&A museum. You can see the best bits in the video below. Net-a-Porter were tweeting the event live. One of these tweets informed us that Mr Louboutin‘s dream woman to make shoes for would be Queen Elizabeth II. Interestingly, that very same day, some quite funny pictures were published of none other than Her Majesty (clad in her usual sensible black courts) shooting a concerned look at the Louboutin-esque footwear of Hayrunnisa Gul, the wife of Turkey’s President, as she arrived with her husband at Buckingham Palace as part of their state visit to the UK.
