Fashion Shows

A Crayola box of color saturated the runway at the Spring 2008 Nordstrom Designer Preview, which was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego last Thursday.

THE dark side of Russia proved an inspiring theme for Collette Dinnigan who presented a tight autumn-winter collection in Paris on Sunday. The collection, Midnight in Moscow, had a sexy, military mood, but its feminine touches were classic Dinnigan.

When New York Fashion Week ended earlier this month, high-profile pundits and retailers moved on to Milan. Designers such as Prada, Versace, Burberry and Armani provided part of the drama.

KUALA LUMPUR: The city will see a landmark fashion event next month that will, for the first time, establish it as the destination for fashion runway extravaganza.

The imposing Musée de L’homme at the Trocadero was a suitable location for Hussein Chalayan’s intriguing exploration of the evolution of Man.

For a nation that's getting fatter and broker, Fashion Week seemed increasingly irrelevant this year.

The fashion shows in Bryant Park were a glorious explosion of color - unless you were looking at the models.

In his second season for Issey Miyake, designer Dai Fujiwara took ‘Apocalyptic Lovers’ as his theme, apparently tracing their lives from birth to death. But what sounds like a gloomy subject, in fact produced quite joyful clothes.

The Fashion Telex: In which the editors of T: The New York Times Style Magazine file almost-real-time dispatches from the show of the moment. This week, the Telex comes from Paris women’s fashion week.

It’s no secret that fashion designers (excluding urban wear) aren’t keen on using black models for their shows or campaigns, but the New York Daily News put the issue on blast in an article published earlier this month.