Giles Giles Does It Again Giles Deacon's first jewellery collection had his fans clamouring for anything they could get their hands on - launched at a starry party (with Giles himself on the decks), in July, it's set to hit stores in September. "Make it graphic, make it fun," said Giles when describing his first attempt at jewellery - which has resulted in a collection of solar system-inspired black and white pieces, often fashioned into skulls, ring pulls, and safety pins. Fashion fun as only Giles can do.
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Zeinab El Alami The Moroccan Experience Moroccan-based designer Zeinab El Alami, who trained at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture School in Paris, has reinterpreted traditional hand-embroidery techniques to create unique jewellery made of vividly colourful cotton, silk and metallic threads. Each piece takes up to 9 hours to create and is a brilliantly original way to take on the trend for neon brights this summer. Available at www.kabiri.co.uk.
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Tiffany & Co Bling-Fest At Tiffany's As if it was possible, the luxury "Village at Westfield London" just got a little more appealing - some seriously bling jewellery will be on display at the Tiffany & Co. store for a limited time only from Westfield's opening date on October 30. The dazzling eight-point Diamond Star pendant will be on loan from the Exceptional Diamonds and Rings Travelling Collection and displayed alongside the Ultimate Charm Bracelet, which incorporates all that is Tiffany - from iconic Peretti designs to fragrance bottles - in one show stopping piece.
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Browns' Shoe Showdown SURELY the dream of any budding shoe designer is to see their creations sitting pretty alongside the likes of Christian Louboutin, Rupert Sanderson and Nicholas Kirkwood - and for Lislie Yeung, Sophia Grace and Chewling Lee it might not be a dream for much longer: they are the finalists of the first Browns Shoe Awards. Browns' owner Joan Burstein, owner of Gina Aydin Kurdash, Browns' buying director Erin Mullaney, Vogue fashion director Kate Phelan and shoe designer Nicholas Kirkwood. The three finalists will now work with luxury footwear label Gina and its factory to have one of their designs made up into a sample. The winner will then have their capsule collection created and showcased at Browns - plus receive a percentage of the revenue from the retail sales of their design.
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Lanvin Pearly Queens The fashion pack fell in love with the pretty pearl jewellery on the Lanvin spring/summer 2009 catwalk - is it any wonder when the pieces are this gorgeous? NET-A-PORTER.COM has just received a selection of the covetable trinkets, with their delicate, interwoven grosgrain ribbon details, so it's time to start dropping hints for Father Christmas. Available now at www.net-a-porter.com.
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Clogau Into The Valleys If what you mean is forever, there's no more stunning way to say it than with Clogau Gold's Am Byth eternity ring. The Bodelwyddan-based jeweller uses rare Welsh gold (much of which is rose-coloured due to the high copper content in the mountains from which it is mined), to create designs inspired by the ancient history, mythology and natural scenery of Wales; here, an 18-carat yellow gold band set with 33 brilliant cut diamonds is encircled by berries and vines rendered in a beautifully contrasting rose. £1,600; www.clogau.co.uk.
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SHOE designer and VOGUE.COM blogger extraordinaire Rupert Sanderson has announced the opening of his first ever pop-up shop in Paris. Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche in Paris will host a selection of Sanderson's sprin/summer 2009 collection from Thursday 5 March, just as fashion week begins. The department store has been a great supporter of Sanderson and is excited to launch now, just as his star is on the rise. Sanderson recently won Accessory Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards and - as he revealed in his recent blog - he has been asked by Karl Lagerfeld to design the shoes for his AW09 collection, showing in Paris on 8th March 2009.
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Lacroix and Armani were the big winners on last night's red carpet | Vogue
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Barbie's Girls 15 January 2009, 10:10AM STYLE icon Barbie certainly knows her fashion - so it's hardly surprising to learn that she's backing Roksanda Ilincic and Danielle Scutt, two of London Fashion Week's most exciting design talents, this coming show season. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary plans that will see Barbie have her very own catwalk show in New York, the plastic beauty will sponsor thr shows of Ilincic and Scutt in the UK; and to say thank you both designers have created a special outfit, just for her. "I couldn't wait to dress Barbie," says queen of romance Ilincic. "She's such an iconic model and the perfect front row show guest." It's certainly quite an honour for the duo to have been singled out by her - just last week Alber Elbaz, himself one of the most powerful forces in fashion, noted that Barbie "is influencing the world because she is part of culture and life and fashion".
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Bonhams Leigh-ding Lady That age-old question: what do you give someone who has everything? Bonhams surely has the answer with this cheerfully floral, 18th century diamond, ruby and emerald ring, which was once owned by Gone With the Wind star, Vivien Leigh. Leigh gave the Giardinetto ring to her life-long friend - Mercia Seinburne - and is expected to fetch £1,500 - £2,000 at the Bonhams Art of Jewels Sale, which is to be held in London on December 4; www.bonhams.com/jewels.
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ATELIER SWAROVSKI Saunders Meets Swarovski Jonathan Saunders certainly has a few strings to his bow - two shows on the international catwalks, and now his third collection in collaboration with ATELIER SWAROVSKI will launch exclusively at Kabiri on October 13. The graphic nine-piece range combines architectural and industrial references in a palette of black, white, gold and soft aqua. Making use of the intricate Swarovski pointillage technique, pieces include cylindrical and circular pendants, rings and leather bracelets. www.kabiri.co.uk.
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Asha by ADA Asha to Asha Greenwich-born Ashley Dodgen-McCormick has distilled her love of art and travel into a jewellery collection that is now available online at Astley Clarke. Already a hit in chic boutiques from New York to Palm Beach, Asha by ADM (so called because of a nickname bestowed by her grandfather) is a sleek range of striking colour combinations and semi-precious stones like turquoise and amethyst set in very covetable, voluptous designs. www.astleyclarke.com.
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Solange Azagury-Partridge Your Name in Gold Beloved designer of Vogue editors, celebrities and the world's most fashion literate jewellery fanatics, Solange Azagury-Partridge's talent for jewellery making is revered as one of the most exciting of this generation. Surely one of the all-time cult pieces is her name ring: just tell her your name and she'll set it in gold, silver or platinum. Even better, if you're feeling really special, she'll add a diamond, too. www.solange.info.
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Dior One to Watch Designed exclusively by John Galliano for Dior, the new Christal Midnight Blue Rubber watch will be available from Dior boutiques and selected retailers from May 2008, priced at £3,150. "Navy blue is the only colour that can ever compete with black, it has all the same qualities," Christian Dior himself once said. And having seen this version of it - with a blue lacquered dial featuring 76 diamonds and 15 hand-cut sapphire crystal inserts on the bezel - you can't help but agree.
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Couture Cakes 03 February 2009, 07:00AM The couture shows might be over but that doesn't mean you still can't get your fix of fashion frivolity. The Berkeley's seasonally-inspired Pret-A-Portea (a fashion take on the traditional afternoon tea), means that even if you can't make it to the shows, they can indeed come to you - and all in the shape of delectable pastries and dainty cakes. "Fashion and cakes have always been the perfect match for me," says The Berkeley's head pastry chef, Mourad Khiat. "We can count on our insider fashion contacts to brief us on the latest must-haves of the season. Of course I have my favourite designers but I could never reveal who they are!" So what makes something on the catwalk translate so well on to the cake stand? "Mostly, I look for vibrant colours and unusual designs and textures in the latest fashion collections," Khiat adds.
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Haute Revision WITH the countdown on to the start of the Couture shows in Paris on January 26, Didier Grumbach - president of the Fédération Française de la Couture, du Prêt à Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode (aka the Chambre Syndicale) - has been giving the press a fashion history lesson. "Couture is in fact not an industry, it is a savoir faire, a craft, and is a complement to ready-to-wear," he explains in an interview with the Taipei Times. "When haute couture was organised and structured the way it was in 1944, there was no ready-to-wear as we know it today. Everything was made for you. Creative ready-to-wear did not exist." "Today Chanel and Dior, the most mythical couture houses, are also at the same time among the biggest exporters of ready-to-wear, and without their ready-to-wear lines, their couture lines could not exist.
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WHILE Sir Paul Smith is busy guest-editing French newspaper Liberation this week, it seems that Gareth Pugh has really, really hit the big time this season. The London designer whose debut show in Paris last season drew compliments to the effect that he may one day be our new Alexander McQueen, will guest edit Time Out for London Fashion Week - as well as appearing on its cover alongside Daphne Guinness, both wearing the black and white armour pieces from Pugh's spring/summer 2009 collection that Beyoncé recently chose to wear in her new Diva video. It's a coup for Gareth, who will show his first menswear-only show in Paris this week, as well as more good news for the London fashion scene which, despite the miserable economic conditions appears to be thriving with new sponsors coming on board to support some of our best emerging talents
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