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This page will be used
occasionally to comment on interesting
fashion articles from British newspapers and magazines.
Usually they will be those I have enjoyed or
which have useful statistical information suitable for this website. 13 February 2007
Ahhhhhh London has worked hard in the past few
years to add to the global fashion buzz. The internet and better
electronic communication has meant that London Fashion Week has become
better organized and is attracting fashion talent from far and wide.
Even more - now we have IQONS to look forward to
every day.
New
IQONS announced
IQONS
(iqons.com) is a new on-line fashion community that aims to
have the same impact on
Fashion as MySpace had on music. Today, at a press conference
held in London, IQONS was officially launched. The site has had
a ‘soft launch’ over the last two months with events in Paris
and New York and has already attracted thousands of members.
Colin
McDowell, one of the most authoritative fashion commentators
in the world, who is The IQONOGRAPHER, announced key fashion
industry figures who have agreed to become IQONS. Each month
these IQONS will select, comment and offer advice to
selected IQONS members. Read more ... at my webpage
IQONS
17 February 2002
Last week in the British Sunday Times supplement called
Style, Nicholas Coleridge MD of Condé Nast and Chairman of The British
Fashion Council wrote an article highlighting attitudes to London Fashion
Week. He emphasised the local snobbery and prejudice which for years has
rejected cutting edge fashion seen on London's catwalks in
favour of predictable fashion on catwalks overseas.
He wrote of the British fashion scene taking knocks every
week from individuals who have nothing better to do, but run it down.
FACT British fashion is a huge industry with well over
270,000 employees with an annual turnover of £14 billion.
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According to Coleridge only 65 British designers both old
and new would show in London Fashion Week 2002 compared to 130 shows in New York
and nearly a hundred in Paris. Despite this, it is still to London that the
world turns for fashion inspiration and fresh ideas.
He tells us that designers like Tom Ford have their design studios in London so they can pick up the cosmopolitan London street
fashion vibe. That in turn sets the tone via Ford's end products for fashion
design houses Gucci and Yves St Laurent.
Designers from Paris and Italy mingle amid crowds in street
markets in places such as Notting Hill and absorb ideas and fresh ways that
emerge a few months later as nouveau in their next collection.
He reminds us that the best designers in Paris today are all
British. Coleridge named John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Julian Macdonald
and Stella McCartney as designers who dazzled the world when they first
arrived, but made no impact on British fashion commentators until a few years
later when the same designers all became prized possessions of Paris couture.
20 April 2002
In today's UK Daily Telegraph magazine Sally Williams
updates us on the house of Hardy Amies. The recently formed British owned
Luxury Brands Group (LBG) now owns the House of Hardy Amies at 14 Savile Row,
London.
LBG plan to bring the fading house of Amies into the C21st. They also
own the Norman Hartnell company and hope to eventually compete with the likes
of the French LVMH group and the Italian Gucci Group.
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