Textile designer launches online store

The award-winning textile designer, Alex Feechan has launched a new online store to supply her products all over the globe. The designer has relocated to the borders to pursue her dream of creating beautiful Scottish knitwear using traditional techniques.

The new online store showcases a range of beautiful handcrafted knitted products made from the finest Geelong lambswool, combined with traditional age-old knitting techniques. The designer has a string of awards to her name, as well as an MA from the Royal College of Art, London.

With 12 years of practical design experience in the industry and five years of educational and lecturing experience, Alex felt that the time was right to focus on creating a contemporary, desirable Scotland-based lifestyle brand as the Scottish knitwear industry has an outstanding reputation and has supplied some of the world's most famous design houses with luxury knitwear.

On the other hand, Alex has gained recognition and interest from stockiest including Browns, A la Mode, Tokyo and Bergdorf Goodman New York through her work as an independent designer and as a consultant to a number of international brands.

The designer is passionate about well-designed, beautifully- crafted products, while Scotland has always been a great source of inspiration to her as she believed that textile industry in Scotland is a great resource for any designer. Combined with the beauty, colours and texture of the countryside everything is here to create highly desirable 'Made in Scotland' products.

Alex has also been involved in setting up hands-on textile projects throughout the Borders and North Lanarkshire, working with primary and secondary schools. Alex's work can be obtained from stockists across the UK including Scottish outlets.

Source : India Fashion Week

L’Oréal Fashion Week wraps up in superfluous style

L’Oréal Fashion Week, which scheduled after the world’s top tier fashion weeks remains a superfluous, largely disregarded showcase of a handful of Canada’s brightest designers and their fashion-inclined, environmental-scanning contemporaries.

Save for the cadre of Canadian fashion, consisting of the so-called Group of Seven and the season’s standout, Paul Hardy, L’Oréal Fashion Week exists merely as a venue to offer a uniquely homegrown raison d’etre to Canada’s fashion crowd.

To wax lyrical on the prevalence of pencil skirts and bold colour is to miss the point; fashion week is not for the fashion. Rather, it’s simply for the media to clamour in their standalone tent, for the editors to look wittingly apathetic, and for the models to parade around in post-show makeup and sip on free drinks.

At the event some designers made strong arguments for fashion’s sake. Caoc dazzled the eyes with his signature shots of citrine and fuchsia, often draped and pleated by what’s obviously a novice hand. And Dixon tugged at heart strings with a collection of diaphanous, eau de nil frocks and curvilinear seaming. These constituents of the Group of Seven proved the weighty moniker to be a germane one.

In lieu of a straightforward ready-to-wear collection, Ryerson-grad Paul Hardy offered up various couture detailing generously tufted silk, pleated chiffon, and art-deco beading on several cocktail numbers.

However, the most laudable efforts were those of the Fashion Design Council of Canada (FDCC) and its fearless leader, Robin Kay. Gone was the usual out-of-the-way venue, replaced by a large white tent smack in the middle of Nathan Phillips Square a la the Bryant Part tents erected bi-annually for New York Fashion week.

The venue switch-up offered L’Oréal Fashion Week the infrastructure to compete with the top-tier fashion weeks.

Source : India Fashion Week

Fashion show reflects rich past and future of Karnataka

The recently concluded ‘Heritage, Culture Tourism and Fashion show’ here in the city at the Hotel Chancery Pavilion Garden City on 21st December was not only a fashion show but was a reflection of Karnataka's rich past and its bright future.

The event was a cultural event which also focuses on the awareness about the exotic tourist destinations in Karnataka and depicts the present and future fashion of Bangalore by launching the new brand Naughty Me.

Rebel Star Ambarish, Sahasa Simha Vishnuvardhan, Anuprabhakar, Mayur and Tilak witnessed the show. The leading models from Karnataka walked on the ramp. Jeckey Shetty, Pashmina Barkar, Rachyal, Meenu Neethu Mazumudar showcased designers Shobha Deand Bobby Gowda's collection khadi Chudidar and Deepam's Sari.

Leading Kannada film stars and music directors, models, designer’s celebrities, witnessed the Cocktail night at the Karnataka's Heritage, Culture Tourism and Fashion show.

Bangalore is an International city and Karnataka has so many tourist spots that depict the heritage of Karnataka with hundreds of world-class monuments.

Source : India Fashion Week