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Swedish clothing chain H&M has signed French fashion veteran Sonia Rykiel to design a range of lingerie and related accessories to be launched on December 5.
The lingerie collection will be launched in 1,500 H&M stores worldwide as well as major Sonia Rykiel boutiques. It is the first thime that H&M has extended its designer collaboration in to lingerie and accessories for women.
Talk about fashion influence! Among their stylish accomplishments, Levi Strauss & Co. created the first pair of women's jeans 75 years ago. Back in the fall of 1934, the all-American company took a gamble by producing the first jeans made exclusively for women called "Lady Levi's jeans
In his program notes for his show this morning Ralph Lauren included a blurb about the inspiration for the collection which focused on denim in all it's incarnations from the real thing cut and studded with crystals, to a silk washed to look like denim and even denim-dyed silk tulle. "I believe in the resilient spirit of America," Lauren wrote. "Hard times seem to sharpen our capacity for idealism and our optimism..."
New York -- G-Star Raw's show at the Hammerstein Ballroom last night was a noticeable departure from past seasons in two ways.
The biggest difference was that although it was still heavy on its signature military-industrial-aviator aesthetic -- chunky leather and denim straps and holsters, flight suit flourishes, rivets and buckles on denim fabrics with all the give of Kevlar vests, for the first time I can remember, the label was hewing close to the prevailing trends seen elsewhere this season -- particularly the love affair with blue.