Contestant Orly Shani, in SoHo, makes her debut in reality TV on Tuesday when NBC’s ‘Fashion Star’ launches

From bartender to ‘Fashion Star,’ N.Y. designer Orly Shani hopes for breakthrough on new NBC show

A star is not made overnight. It takes a lot of late nights and strong drinks. Orly Shani can testify to that. The 27-year-old Murray Hill woman moved to New York City nearly 10 years ago to build a fashion brand, but ended up slinging drinks at bars throughout Manhattan to pay her ...

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Designers pump up the volume in Paris

Designers pump up the volume in Paris

Not in the sense, necessarily, of big news or even making a big noise but literally. Leave it to Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons to show every other designer how this might best be done. Her collection of "two dimensional" (flattened) and enormous clothes in uncompromising colours – blithe ...

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Chanel

Karl Lagerfeld top of the designer hierarchy

Paris was the last city to showcase the A/W12 trends and in true Parisian style the catwalks were filled with elegant and classic designs. From Parisian natives like Chanel to British born talent Stella McCartney each collection added something new to the looks of A/W12.  Chanel Karl Lagerfeld returned again creating a collection that ...

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sarah burton for Alexander McQueen

what’s in store..Paris Fall 2012.. . Alexander McQueen

Paris, some say is the home of fashion. Yesterday was a highlight of what has been an excruciatingly long season of shows spanning 4 fashion capitals of the world.  The fashion flock has been at this for almost a month and it is time to go home. The trends for next ...

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Models walk the runway at the Vivienne Westwood Autumn Winter 2012 fashion show during Paris Fashion Week

Vivienne Westwood combines leggings and cardigans in bizarre fashion statement for Paris Fashion Week

Call them... cardapants? British designer Vivienne Westwood manged to combine cardigan and leggings on the runway at Paris Fashion Week. Two models took the runway in the strange garb, which look like an 18th century onesie with the buttons open. While the look evoked cozy bedtimes, the mannequins wore the Dickensian duds over grey-blue tights ...

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Marc Jacobs Pays His Models In Gum

Marc Jacobs Pays His Models In Gum

Both Marc Jacobs' Fall 2012 runway shows for his eponymous line and his secondary collection, Marc by Marc Jacobs, seemingly went off without a hitch in New York last month, despite the inevitable backlash that came when everyone found out he disregarded the CFDA 's guidelines to use models who are at ...

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