Koko & Palenki welcomes celebrity designer Nicole Richie

Koko & Palenki, South Florida’s trend setting boutique, teams up with Nicole Richie for an afternoon of style. On Friday April 29, 2011, Koko & Palenki’s Aventura Mall store will host celebrity Fashion designers, Nicole Richie from 2-4 p.m. Richie will be signing autographs and showcasing new pieces from her Spring line of House of Harlow 1960.


“Of our five South Florida locations we picked our Aventura store because it’s central to our clients coming from both the north and south,” said Pamela Garcia, President of Koko & Palenki. “This is going be a great event because our boutique is the perfect setting where fashion lovers and style icons can connect.”


In 2009 Richie launched her boho-chic line House of Harlow 1960, as a jewelry line. Since then HOH 1960 has grown into a full line featuring shoes, ready-to-wear fashion and jewelry. Koko & Palenki has been showcasing the line since its inception. The boutique now carries HOH 1960 jewelry, sunglasses and shoes. In the fall the store will also be carrying Richie’s Winter Kate line.


Nicole Richie’s appearance is going to be the first in a series designed by Koko & Palenki to bring fashion icons and celebrities to its South Florida locations. For future events Koko & Palenki customers will receive special invites to other in-store appearances.

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Lingerie brand Ultimo picks real women over models

UK’s leading fashion designers lingerie and women’s wear brand, Ultimo recently signed seven 'real women' to represent its new lingeries collection.

Being insightful to the complaints from ordinary women that real need not mean fat, the firm organized a national level competition, where the firm received over 10,000 entries from several women, eager and willing to model for the brand.


The firm picked the seven finalists to be the new faces and bodies of the brand. This was the company’s second campaign where it shunned professional models to use the so-called 'real women'.


Michelle Mone OBE, CEO of Ultimo, who modelled for her own lingerie in a campaign last year, said that, they were inundated with applications during the last competition, and added that, all the women were very much excited and did a wonderful job.


The models picked by Ultimo vary in the age group of 18 to 31 years and ranged in sizes from 8 to 18. 

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Vancouver Fashion Week to foster growth of designers

This April will mark the 10th anniversary of Vancouver Fashion Week (VFW) with the upcoming Fall/Winter 2011 Show. Recognised as a global platform for established and upcoming designers, VFW has become a much sought-after event for the Canadian and international fashion elite. 


VFW has built a respected reputation on its ability to showcase the fashion industry and accommodate multicultural fashion designers successfully. Hailed as the West Coast's most prestigious industry event, VFW is committed to fostering the growth of designers and celebrating the fashion industry. Attendees at Vancouver Fashion Week will include editors, designers, buyers, top executives, celebrities, fashionistas and highly regarded socialites. 


VFW draws both national and international attention and has been featured on CityTV, Shaw TV, The Vancouver Courier, The Asian Post, The Province, ELLE Canada, Flare and CeCi magazine among others. Starting on Tuesday, the exclusive and highly anticipated Opening Gala will be held at the Sutton Hotel and will highlight one piece from each of the designer's collections as well as present beauty products and other fashion related accessories in an exhibition.

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Fashion designers vouch for viscose fabrics

To promote consumption and to propagate the inherent qualities of viscose yarn, the Association of Man-Made Fibre Industry in India (AMFII) organised a day long event - ‘Viscose Connect 2011’ in Surat, which concluded with a dazzling fashion show, presented by top-notch Fashion designers of India.

The morning session included interactions between the top officials of the three viscose filament yarn Manufacturer; Century Rayon, Kesoram Rayon and Indian Rayon and those from across the textile value-chain in Surat, which included weavers and embroiders.

These round-table deliberations were meant to inform the Surat textile value-chain about the properties of fabrics made from viscose filament yarn like very good water absorbency and eco-friendliness. They were also informed that, an array of woven fabric like crepe, georgette, satin, velvet and taffeta are manufactured using VFY, thus providing a complete fabric solution.

They were further told that, unlike most man-made fibres, rayon is not synthetic. It is made from wood pulp, a cellulosic based raw material which is naturally-occurring, bio-degradable and is a renewable resource. It is eco-friendly & similar to those of natural cellulosic fibres, such as cotton or linen, than those of other man-made fibres such as nylon or polyester

This was followed by the main event which began in the late evening in which around 300 of the who’s who from the Surat textile sector were invited. The welcome address was given by Vice-President of AMFII and also President of Century Rayon Ltd, Mr Chitlange.

He welcomed the audience by saying that this event has been first organised in Surat due to the fact that, the association of viscose yarn with Surat goes back to the late 50’s and early 60’s, as it was the first city to adopt and consume viscose filament yarn whole-heartedly. Consumption of polyester, silk and nylon followed later.

He added by saying’ “Our objective was to inform the textile value-chain in Surat about the unique properties of viscose like luster which is equivalent to silk, but is also absorbent like cotton. Fabrics made from viscose filament yarn are eco-friendly and skin-friendly. Considering the growing disposable incomes of the Indian consumer, we anticipate high demand for viscose fabrics in the near future”.

 

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