I can’t be 100% sure that a professional field as competitive as the world of fashion is able to nurture pure, altruistic friendships, but I am romantic enough to tend to believe that we had a couple of nice examples of friendship in fashion in the past few days. Of course the case of Lady Gaga and Nicola Formichetti can be conceived as a win-win situation, as the BFA…
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Belle is for beautiful and Sauvage is for wild. The question is, how can anything smashingly wild feel utterly beautiful? Virginia Ferreira and Christian Neuman answered their part on the catwalk, by giving life to a seductively aggressive and primitively honest female who always knows, says and gets what she wants. [Watch video at the end of the article] The show started with…
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Guess what – Wonder Woman is back in fashion. The iconic superhero girl who rose to stardom in the 1970s thanks to the omonymous TV series, was actually born in the 1940s -at the same time when World War II urged women to take up the place of men in the production line, offering the so-called “weak gender’ qualities and rights…
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Akong London will be showing the brand’s new collection, “Conquistadora”, in the Lower Embankment Galleries during the London Fashion Week starting this Friday 18th February. Here is a preview of some of the most exciting pieces from the A/W 2011-12 collection which will be following the current “Midas Touch” S/S 2011 collection. Nicole Akong went for bold ethnic colors and warm materials instead of…
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On the occasion of the -well-known by now- story when he returned a long lost icon he had accidentally bought by an art dealer, to its legal owners, the Church of Cyprus, music legend Boy George talked art, faith, and his beloved Cyprus on our over-the-phone interview for Sigma TV. The icon was stolen by the turkish troops who invaded the…
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