Here's a pop-up concept with a little more depth than just collaboration t-shirts and last season's overstock--The Metal Shop, opening in New York this Thursday, will host a variety of designers with the theme of metals in mind. Michael Kors, Helmut Lang, and Patrik Ervell are among designers included in the pop-up which will appear at participating designer, Issey Miyake's Tribeca retail space. The pop-up is being curated in conjunction with The Metal Ball, an event inspired by the legendary Bauhaus Metallic Festival and held in the wake of Performa's 2006 White On White Party. The Bauhaus School was once decorated entirely in metallic colors and it is the aim of the Performa sponsored Ball and resulting pop-up store to once again celebrate that, well, celebration. Just in time for the holidays too...
All we are saying is give peace, erm, fashion a chance says bridal fashion show Bridal Asia in New Delhi India which featured Pakistani models in an effort to promote cross cultural understanding through every little girl's dream. Literally we are imagning, arranged marriages are still huge.
The country lifestyle has gone far beyond Barbour jackets and duck boots when it comes to strange inspirations for fashion. It turns out shooting is the next big fashion inspiration. Beretta, the firearms manufacturer, has a clothing line called 1526. The line focuses on the shooting lifestyle that countryside sports represents. Made in Italy from luxury materials we are willing to bet this is going to show up at Freeman's in a month or so. Other gun manufacturers seeing a boom in clothing demand include James Purdey & Sons and Holland and Holland. Who knew?
Fashion critic and illustrator Michael Roberts has a new book called "Fashion Victims" features 26 poems with accompanying illustrations based on the letters of the alphabet, ranging from Auctions to Zips.
The solution the Wall Street collapse? Brazil, Russia, India and China - the BRIC economies, have a growing middle class that is developing an appetite for luxury.
Boucheron has launched an ecommerce site proving once again that Gucci Group is consistently the most innovative of the luxury conglomerates when it comes to online retailing and luxury technology use. 
"Fashion shouldn't be about absoluteness, otherwise it would be a church," says Lang, whose first art exhibition, Alles Gleich Schwer, at the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, Germany, is currently attracting him plenty of renewed attention.
L'Oreal is sponsoring Dubai Fashion Week which runs October 5th through the 9th. Way to hop on that trend guys!
You could always forego the trip to Spain, buy this frock, and hop a jet to Mexico City. The Mint Jodi Arnold Side Button Dress has us thinking of immediate departures. A strong color for summer, particularly cobalt, will surely make the season (as limited as it is) seem more fashionable. We saw this color in the Richard Chai and Helmut Lang shows for spring, and, many a Fall 07 collection sampled the hue. Stop blow drying your hair, use olive oil as moisturizer, sweep the most basic rouge across your cheeks (while wearing this dress, of course) and you've got sexy down pat. Screw Bridal Week, go find yourself a single caballero.
Photographer Alex Norden, Art Director Julie Fredrickson, Fashion Editor Megan Zanke, Assistant Maleeha Khan, Makeup Artist Jeffrey Dwayne. Clothing From Aurelio Costarella, Operation Clothing, Chris Han, Erotokritos, Tom's Shoes, Frye Boots and Helmut Lang. Lauren Hanawalt with Elite Model Management.
Designer Richard Chai's collection was one of our favorites from the Spring shows. Now that deliveries are being made, and the season is upon us, we thought to recap the collection that wooed us back in September. Chai, who worked under Marc Jacobs and label Tse (he turned Tse right around), launched his own collection back in 2004. He is known for his intricate details and special fabric choices. This Spring 08 Chai showed the kind of sporty silks that we love from designers like Calvin Klein, or on the more avant garde side of things, Helmut Lang. It is a wearable collection that would flatter women of all ages, potentially explaining why this year's collections were picked up by Bergdorf and the like. Our favorite aspect of the collection were the trousers. Right on point with this relaxed mid-section thing that's been sweeping through fashion, the trousers were mostly high-waisted, moved like water, and had a fold-over waistband that pulled in the look (reminding us the wearer has a waistline). Check out our video and gallery of the Spring 08 collection as well as links to Fall, below.
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