All-Star Fashion Show For Haiti

Naomi Campbell's organized fashion show for the benefit of Haiti earthquake victims did not disappoint. Aside from raising funds, Fashion for Relief also featured an all-star casts including supermodels, celebrities, and fashion designers.


Supermodels Helena Christensen, Daphne Guinness, Natasha Poly, Karen Elson, Angela Lindvall, Sasha Pivovarova, Heidi Mount, Selita Ebanks, and Alek Wek all came in to support the cause.

Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson also took a spin in a black gown with gold beading after doing an opening speech about charities.

Celebrities like Kelly Osbourne, Donna Karan, Diane von Furstenberg, Georgina Chapman, Alan Cumming, Maggie Rizer, and even the infamous Chris Brown also walked the runway wearing "To Haiti With Love" shirts.


British supermodel Agyness Deyn who rarely walks the runway anymore took a tumble twice in her Burberry's. But at least we learned a runway trick from her. Agyness Deyn's smile when she tumbled on the catwalk was very lovely so that it lessened the focus on her fall.

Fashion for Relief also made a tribute to Alexander McQueen. Daphne Guinness wore a veil and one-off silver jumpsuit created by the fashion designer while the other supermodels wore designs from Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2010 collection, including the impossibly high heels.

All 92 looks from the show will be sold on Net-a-Porter.com from March 15 that will support CARE's efforts in Haiti. The show's sponsor American Express said that 950 tickets ($100-$150 each) were sold out within three days.

Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Haiti Is Open To Public!

Naomi Campbell continues her charity efforts through her fashion expertise. She now sets the stage for a series of fashion shows to benefit the victims of Haitian earthquake. Unlike typical runway shows, the event will be open to the public.


For the coming New York Fashion Week, Naomi Campbell will be participating with an entourage of famous celebrities and fashion designers at the Bryant Park Tents on February 12 at 7 p.m.

The show will feature looks that the supermodel has personally solicited from fashion designers to be worn by celebrities at the runway event. The dresses will then be auctioned to raise more funds on Net-a-Porter.com starting next month.

Not only will the upcoming fashion show in New York (and another one which will be staged in London) raise funds for Haitians, the event will also provide rare opportunity for the public to see the Bryant Park tents in person. Naomi Campbell adds:

"It's not your typical runway show. Having the public be in the audience is much more fun. They are the ones who are not usually allowed in the shows."

Naomi Campbell has been active with charity fashion shows since 2005 under the name Fashion for Relief. Her efforts have helped raise funds through auctions benefiting tragedies like Hurricane Katrina and the Mumbai terrorist attacks.

"It's the world that I am in. Fashion is what I know and what I have loved for 25 years. It's great that you are seeing actors coming together and singers coming together, but this is our way of coming together and giving a contribution."


For those who are interested to attend, tickets can be bought for $100 or $150 through Ticketmaster.com and will go on sale first to American Express cardholders today, February 5. The ticket sales alone are expected to raise $100,000 for the charities connected to Fashion for Relief.

Weird Runway Hairs At Rome Fashion Week

Rome Fashion Week featured runway models with hair sculptures yesterday at Lorenzo Riva fashion show.


The former Balenciaga designer paid homage to the 1970s heyday of actresses such as Monica Vitti with a collection that includes feminine skirt suits, gowns with big bows at the waist and lots of large, black-and-white patterns.

But the Lorenzo Riva fashion show was not memorable because of the dresses but because of the attention-grabbing runway hairs, which were actually hats.

One hair hat looked like a weeping willow tree:

Another hair hat was shaped like a flower pot:

Glamour supposed that these hair hats were meant as geometric artist statements that provide balance to the clothes.

For designer Lorenzo Riva, the hairstyles were just one element of his fashion show that calls for the return of elegance to Rome:

"Haute Couture must stay here. Now if only one 'big name' designer would return to Rome, the other Italian stylists would come home too."

Anti-Wrinkle Bra At Paris Lingerie Show

A new anti-wrinkle bra that can iron out crinkly cleavages as a woman sleeps will be unveiled at the Paris lingerie show on January 23-25.


"The Dutch designed cupless anti-wrinkle bra by Decollete is supposed to be thrown on at bedtime keeping breasts apart to prevent the formation of feared crinkles that appear in the night."


Aside from the anti-wrinkle bra, there is also a smart Slovenian brassiere whose foam cups expand with body heat when the wearer works out or flirts. Lisca's "smart bra" have cups made of memory foam that ebbs and flows with body-heat, said to be a NASA patented technology from the 1960s.

Also highly-anticipated in the upcoming lingerie show is the range of French lingerie called Milkshake that is made of milk proteins fabric that contains 10 amino acids to hydrate the skin.

Then there's Brazil's LZ with an ultra-light bra that weighs in at 67 grammes (two ounces).

These new lingerie innovations are among the many high-technology designs that will be presented during the end-month Paris trade fair.

"High-tech's playing a growing role in underwear. Take ultra-sounds for example, now used as well as laser technology to cut and construct garments without seaming or stitching," said the fair's fashion manager Sophie Morin.

The Paris fair is expected to draw in 20,000 lingerie types from more than 100 nations with more than 500 brands to showcase.

Models Walk The Eco-Friendly Fashion In Copenhagen

Last Wednesday in Copenhagen, models walked the runway in organic cottons, polyesters made from recycled plastic bottles, and fabrics made from recycled agricultural or industrial waste. The runway show was out to prove that eco-friendly fashion can be just as fashionable as the traditional textiles.


Held at Copenhagen's Opera House, 20 designers from 5 Nordic countries and some representatives of big retailing companies like H&M and Barneys displayed the "green fashion." It was organized by the Danish Fashion Institute and highlighted the establishment of the Nordic Initiative Clean and Ethical (NICE), a collaboration that aims to motivate and assist companies in the Nordic fashion industry to become more sustainable.

Each designers presented two looks from eco-friendly materials like organic cottons and silks, polyesters made from recycled plastic bottles, and new fabrics made from agricultural or industrial waste left over. It introduced the Crabion - a clothing material made from byproducts in the crab industry, Ingeo - an organic wool made out of corn scraps that mimics the smoothness of silk or the glossy sheen of PVC, and the Milkfiber - a material milled from the powder left over of boiled milk.

"It was an exercise to show that you can replace traditional textiles with innovative new ones that are being made in mills in Japan and Italy and that are less polluting," said Stine Hedegaard of the Danish Fashion Institute.

The eco-friendly runway show also doubled as a design contest for the prize of 50,000 kroner ($6,720), with a jury of fashion insiders to judged the show's 40 looks.

Saara Lepokorpi, a Finland-based fashion designer, took home the award after vowing the crowd with her asymmetrical cocktail dress woven from Ingeo and Milkfiber. "They were really nice materials to use and I intend to use them again," exclaimed Lepokorpi.

Awarding the prize, Denmark's Australian-born Crown Princess Mary said:

"The fashion industry is full of good ideas and creative people, people who are always ahead of time. It is an industry that picks up on and mirrors the developments in our society."