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Fashion Roundup: Roberto Cavalli Tweets Away! Posh Spice designs a Range Rover! Gisele’s Niece . . . The World’s Youngest Fashion Designer?

Fashion Roundup: Roberto Cavalli Tweets Away! Posh Spice designs a Range Rover! Gisele’s Niece . . . The World’s Youngest Fashion Designer?

Roberto Cavalli is in a complicated relationship with his Twitter account. The famed designer is becoming infamous for his micro-blogging. Last weekend Cavalli Tweeted some criticisms at Anna Wintour, stated that there are no true French designers and complimented Marc Jacobs’s on his namesake brand, as opposed to the show he stages for Louis Vuitton, which he described as being “for an old lady.” (New York Magazine)

In honor of Earth Day, Fashionista collected ten eco-friendly brands that design with organic materials or have environmentally-friendly work ethics. “Not buying at all is the most friendly, buying second hand is second best, but buying sustainable-designed clothes is certainly third best”. (Fashionista)

Is the Fashion Industry fueling the Presidential Race? According to Women’s Wear Daily, around $234,600 has already been donated to President Obama, while another $195,820 has been donated to Mitt Romney. Not including Anna Wintour’s Runway to Win, Obama campaign, featuring 22 designers. (Styleite)

The Spice Girl turned designer, Victoria Beckham, revealed her debut design for a Range Rover in Beijing. Inspired by husband David Beckham, who was appointed the creative design executive at Range Rover in 2010, Range Rover will produce 200 models with this design, selling at $127,000 each. (Telegraph)

With Barcelona Bridal Week set to start next month, the Fall 2012 Bridal Trend is sizzling hot at the moment and is due to go vintage, take a look at several items from this trend. (WWD)

Closing our list of fashion highlights for this week, Duda Bundchen, the 5-year-old niece of supermodel Gisele Bundchen, is designing for Brazilian clothing company Brandili Mundi. By doing so, Duda has set a new world record, according to the World Records Academy, becoming the world’s youngest ever fashion designer. See for yourself:

Fashion Roundup: Kate Upton And Jennifer Lawrence Must-See Photoshoots

Cara Delevingne on LOVECara Delevingne on LOVE

Heidi Klum shares too much information about sex in Marie Claire’s February issue! The Project Runway host also features on the magazine’s cover issue. Nudity and sex seem to be two very important subjects on Heidi’s mind this week, after also having tweeted earlier this week that not all nudity shoots are cool and classy and sometimes you have to say no. (Huffington Post)

Have you seen Kate Upton’s editorial for V Magazine? You should… This amazingly sexy photoshoot follows Upton on an illicit afternoon at a hotel with a male companion. Upton wears clothes by Balenciaga, Marc Jacobs, and Louis Vuitton. (Styleite)

Tom Ford confirms his first full-scale catwalk show at London Fashion Week next month: “Photographers, bloggers -- a regular, real show,” says Ford. The brand has now grown to a reach of 100 stores worldwide and has not hosted a full fashion show, since the launch of Ford’s Womenswear label in 2010. (Vogue UK)

Cara Delevingne covers LOVE Magazine. The queen of kooky faces and British Fashion Council’s Model of the Year, kept herself very busy in 2012 -- becoming the model that every designer wanted for their upcoming campaign. (Yahoo Lifestyle)

How would you like to win an iPad? Predict the 2013 Golden Globes winners and you can win $1,500 and an iPad. Will it be Marion Cotillard or Rachel Weisz? Django Unchained or Life of Pi? Girls or Modern Family? (Buzz Sugar)

Closing this week’s list of fashion highlights, Hunger Games star, Jennifer Lawrence, takes you behind the scenes of her Vanity Fair black-and-white cover shoot, which is already out and available at newsstands around the world. Take a look:

Shaun Samson AW13

In the past, Shaun Samson has explored ideas of teenage angst, masochism and loitering on the streets – even branding his models by shaving 'SAMSON' on the back of their heads. However, this season things felt very different. He even toyed with me after his last show, saying this season the Shaun Samson man might grow up. And maybe he did - just a little bit.

Samson's use of fabrics felt more refined than ever. He re-introduced his needle-punch felting technique, something that leaves no seams on the garments and defined his graduate collection from Central St. Martins. This season he used it to blend angora wool with jersey, creating a seamless transition between two tones of red, as featured on trousers and jumpers. Intricate and chunky cable knits also ran through the collection alongside leather striped detailing. Even his box-like silhouettes of past seasons were given new triangular shapes - Samson reaffirming his desire to create street boys who look luxury.

Backstage, Samson cited “monsters, ice hockey, camping and prayers” as references. Revealing themselves in his use of shabby fur details, pyjamas and large blankets that were worn over the models shoulders. Eager to find out more, we asked him to talk us through his thoughts behind the collection...

“There were so many different references. I started by looking at camping. For some reason, I always think that when you go camping you feel like your in your pyjamas. There are monsters out in the woods and the only way you can protect yourself from the monsters is to say a prayer to god. The serenity prayer [which was printed on garments – ed] was a fun little prayer because it is the same prayer that you say in A.A. meetings. I wasn’t sure if people got that. I swear I have never been to an A.A. meeting but I have seen that blanket so many times.

I have experimented with shape before in the past. This season I wanted to make it more relatable to people. I think the ice hockey jersey shape is something that people will recognise and hopefully see themselves in automatically. Rather than people thinking that I am experimenting with the things I have worked with in the past. Even more of the easier pieces like the angora jumpers that felted into a sweatshirt – where I am mixing street culture with luxury knits, I am dressing it down on street cast boys. I think there are enough designers out there who are designing for the mature man. I feel like with me I want to have the mature boy. I think there is a lot of youth that we are trying to chase – is that sad?“

Katie Eary AW13

Katie Eary created a new breed of vampire on yesterday's runway. Models emerged with fangs, slicked back hair and wearing bold prints - all to a heavy soundtrack of A$AP ROCKY. Yet this season Eary looked to the past to create her contemporary vision of undead beauty. “I started by looking at eighteenth century paintings of banquets,” she explains; a reference that manifested itself in her use of hypnotic pink floral prints and blue lobster designs, which were taken from the compositions and rich colours of these paintings. These bold tones stood in contrast with her more muted garments. Particularly a series of inky blue and midnight black tailored jackets – something that could have been taken from a contemporary Dracula film. With horror in mind, we caught up with Eary backstage to talk slasher movies and how the collection came about:

“Horror is something I am constantly obsessed with. I love the 90s Scream movies. We all had sleepovers and watched Scream movies and loved it. I started by looking at eighteenth century paintings of banquets. I was looking at the food actually and then I thought what if there were bodies amongst it – this idea of eighteenth century gore. The prints came about as they were always covered in flowers and with lobsters – because that was the food of the rich. In terms of tailoring, I wanted to show that I can do it. I gave it my own twist. London can be quite slack and everyone gets on their high horse and thinks they are a tailor. Actually it is really not that difficult.”

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Alternative Fashion Week: It’s All About Fashion

They may not be as popular as Marc Jacobs, Jean-Paul Gaultier or Vivienne Westwood yet, but many would say they are not less talented. Alternative Arts present East London's Alternative Fashion Week! Alternative Fashion Week features new designers, fresh models and innovative designs during a six-day fashion celebration.

Each season, Paris, Milan, New York and London are host to a major international fashion week, presenting the latest by top designers such as Dior, Givenchy, Versace and many others. For a new designer, showing at one of these major fashion weeks can be a long and frustrating road. As for the public, it is nearly impossible to get a front row seat at the major shows, many of which are reserved for celebrities, first class journalists, models and other designers.

Once a year, East London hosts an extravagant fashion event that abandons the strict hierarchy that governs the major fashion weeks, and gives new fashion designers a chance to rise.

Alternative Fashion Week strives to guarantee availability for everyone. Designers don't have to pay to present their collection, admission is free for the runway shows and even the models are volunteers who take a free six-week crash course in modeling before they walk the runway. The refreshing fashion week is a six-day event sponsored by Alternative Arts. According to their website, the fashion week is a great opportunity for new fashion designers to glow.

14 different designers present on each day of the fashion week. Those talented designers are chosen from hundreds of applications.

Eco Friendly Fashion

This year, the Alternative Fashion Week's program includes designers from UK, Italy, Spain, Norway as well as from Sri-Lanka and Uruguay. New brands like Majo Rey, Stella & Dot, Didou Boutique and Eliza Joan are just some of the fashion designers presenting.

At Alternative Fashion Week, both designers and producers put emphasis on environmental awareness. Recycled textiles and eco friendly industrial aspects are at the heart of many new collections.

New Designers, New Models, Lots of Shopping

Apart from the chance to possibly discover the next Galliano, new fresh face beautiful models can get their start at Alternative Fashion Week.

Unlike Paris or New York Fashion Week, designer items can be purchased once the show is over. London-style fashion, cutting-edge accessories, and shopping make Alternative Fashion Week an experience that’s worth having.

Fashion Roundup: Cameron Diaz Shows Skin on Harper’s Bazaar UK, Superhero Fashion from Down Under and Rihanna’s New Video!

Fashion Roundup: Cameron Diaz Shows Skin on Harper’s Bazaar UK, Superhero Fashion from Down Under and Rihanna’s New Video!

The Sunday Times have officially released their “Fashion Rich List”, which includes names such as Mulberry owner Christina Ong who jumped up 53 places on the list thanks to a 70% growth last year. The Sunday Times also released a “Richest Couples List” and an “Under-30” list that includes Vogue cover girls Keira Knightley and Adele. (Vogue UK)

Cameron Diaz poses for Harper’s Bazaar UK’s June issue, photographed in a beige seductive dress just a scandalous centimeter away from a “nip slip” incident. The actress also posed for the sexy shoot in a white button-down and her undies. (Huffington Post)

The White House Correspondents Association Dinner showcased fashionable gowns worn by ‘A list’ celebs, including, Mila Kunis, Kate Hudson, Charlize Theron and Kim Kardashian, who was the target of some jokes coming from President Obama and Jimmy Kimmel. (Washington Post)

Superheroes Fashion Show at Australian Fashion Week! The Aussie designers of fashion label Romance Was Born put on an astonishing show featuring an incredible superhero theme. (Herald Sun)

Model-turned-actress Brooklyn Decker appears on the cover of Flare’s June issue, looking as beautiful as ever, wearing an amazing top and skirt by Peter Pilotto on the cover as well as Victoria Beckham and Stella McCartney designs inside the issue. (Styleite)

Closing our list of fashion highlights for this week, Rihanna is out with a sizzling hot new video! ‘Where Have You Been’ is the title for this summer’s potential hit track. The styling in this video is tribal and heavily-accessorized, also Rihanna is wearing a Roberto Cavalli swimsuit. Check it out:

Richard Nicoll Studio Visit

New year, new clothes. The AW13 collections are earlier than ever this season, as the second London Collections: Men kicks off today ahead of Pitti, Milan and Paris, following the success of the capital's AW12 standalone schedule. As designers put the finishing touches to their collections; carry out castings, fittings and hair tests, we go on a series of studio visits to get a feel of what to expect. Our final behind-the-scenes peek is Richard Nicoll, who makes immaculately balancedclassicist designs from his work-space on east London's Kingsland Road.

Dazed Digital: What was the biggest challenge in putting the collection together?
Richard Nicoll:Christmas.

DD: Favourite advice you've had from someone?
Richard Nicoll:
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

DD: Any tips for staying calm during fashion week?

Richard Nicoll:Xanax.

DD: ...Or staying awake when there's so much work to do?

Richard Nicoll:Strong Coffee.

DD: What were the first pieces in the collection you designed?

Richard Nicoll:The parkas and the leather pieces.

DD: What are you most proud of?
Richard Nicoll:I'm really proud of the collection as a whole and proud of my team for making it happen.


DD: What other shows are you looking forward to seeing?
Richard Nicoll:
I'm actually looking forward to seeing it all.

DD: Who embodies the spirit of your collection?

Richard Nicoll:David Byrne.


DD: Sum up AW13 in three words…

Richard Nicoll:No-Wave, Industrial and Classical.

DD: What difference does fashion make?
Richard Nicoll:It makes none in the grand scheme of things but being able to dream is important.

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