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London Fashion Week Gossip Recap- From the legacy of Alexanader McQueen to Mark Ronson’s fete, my tipster has the dish

The Alexander McQueen legacy is coming to New York City on May 4th, The Box makes it to London and is graced with the like's of bad boy Damien Hirst, Kate Moss, Tilda Swinton and Daphne Guinness! London Fashion Week proves to be filled with lots of Tartan... As Season 2 of "The Real Housewives of New York City" is airing in England, I'm getting an extra dose of dish from the other side of the pond. One of the pleasures of being the contributing editor at large here at FocusOnStyle is that I get all the really cool news from my tipsters around the world. This just in: "Savage Beauty", the upcoming exhibition to honor the brilliance of the

Supermodel Style- Claudia Schiffer and Yasmin Le Bon Get Casual Chic Right

I'll Have What She's Having: We get so caught up in red carpet fashion, but it's everyday style that most of us need! Sure, it's fun to ogle red carpet fashion and photos of today's young crop of models, but what's supposed to inspire a real woman over 30ish? Really, when was the last time you wore a ballgown or a pair of cut-off shorts and thigh high boots? Not too recently, I'll bet. We need grown-up ageless style that we can wear everyday of our life, not in some fantasy. We are old enough to see trivial trends come and go and savvy enough to know what works on our body... what we want is realistic fashion without an

Dedicated to the Little Black Dress, Fashion Designer Elizabeth Emanuel is Back

Runway Review: The Art of Being is the new label for Elizabeth Emanuel and is is Be-Utiful! Julie Anne Rhodes interviews the designer. FocusOnStyle asked Julie Anne Rhodes, the former model, actress, award-winning personal chef, and author of the blog “Jewels” from The Roving Stove (from VIP entrances in Versace to service entrances in my apron) to interview her longtime friend, fashion designer Elizabeth Emanuel. Here, Julie Anne shares her chat with the designer famously knwn for for creating Princess Diana's, well very Princess-like, wedding dress.-- S.H. Designer Elizabeth Emanuel and model backstage at her Spring 2011 fashion show in London After ten years away from the catwalk, Elizabeth Emanuel's spring/summer 2011 collection dedicated to the Little Black

Fashion Week Roundup- Best of London, Spring 2011

Runway Review: Reflections of eclectic London designers Erdem, Meadham Kirchoff, Charles Anastase, Peter Pilotto, Richard Nicoll Naveed Hussain takes us a view of Spring, 2011 quirkier and energetic London style hot off the catwalks. -- S.H. At the London shows you can always expect a generous helping of ingenuity & energy and many of our favorites did not disappoint for Spring 2011. They made a strong case on the need for new with collections that stand on their own while touching on the season's varied trends from Peter Pan collared school girl dressing to artfully ladylike to clean yet conceptual minimalism. London's promising young talents are growing up and their work is only getting more confident in realization. Here's a

Wacky Fantasy Nail Art Has Its Own Olympics

Odd but True: Nailympics 2010, the global ‘Olympic Games of fake nails... in Britain, of course! Gotta love these talons... The British love bizarre contests but they've all scrathed the surface until this one that digs deep! I've seem some crazy, freaky long nails in my time, mostly on my old bank teller. Come to think of it, on many bank tellers. They're the kind of nails that curl to no end and create all sorts of strange hygienic visions that I'd rather skip. Nailympics 2010 at the Olympia Beauty Show in London However, every once in a while there are some ultra fantastc, super exotic works of nail art and now they have their own "Olympics" of sorts. The

Janice Dickinson, World’s First Supermodel Talks at London Fashion Week

Janice Dickinson Video interview with Janice Dickinson, "the world's first supermodel" and editor at large of Love Magazine at Cerati during London Fashion Week. Watch and discuss... Video: t5m Networks.

Mulberry

> Read Complete Mulberry Runway Review Click on each picture for an enlarged view. Photos, this page only Catwalking.com via Kirsty

Mathew Williamson

Read Full Mathew Williamson Runway Review >> Shop Mathew Williamson online at farfetch.com Click on each picture for an enlarged view. Photos, this page only, Kirsty via catwalking .com

Mary Katrantzou

Read the complete Mary Katrantzou Runway Review >>Shop Mary Katrantzou diffusion line at TopShop Click on each picture for an enlarged view. Photos, this page only, Kirsty via Catwalking.com

Mark Fast

Read Runway Review of the Mark Fast fashion show

Burberry Prorsum

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London Fashion Designers Pay New York a Visit

Mark Fast, Louise Gray, Hannah Marshall, Meadham Kirchoff, Todd Lynn, Mary Katrantzou, Marjan Pejoski, Holly Fulton, KTZ are some of the trendsetting London fashion designers who brought their collection to NY Thanks to the efforts of the British Fashion Council and Centre for Fashion Enterprise, New York fashion editors, stylists and buyers were treated to a special viewing of London's latest crop of forward-thinking labels at the Soho Grand Hotel in a series of cheery showroom style vignettes, with each designer on hand to show off their Fall 2010 collection. Last season FocusOnStyle caught up with the The LONDON Show ROOMS in Paris and Sharon & I were delighted to have the opportunity to meet the London fashion designers this

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