Mark Jacobs presented comfortable garments in New York

Mark Jacobs gave up the image of fashion’s "wild child" with his Fall/Winter 2010/2011 collection at New York Fashion Week.

His elegant collection was presented by models with simple, natural hair and almost non-existent make-up. The focus was on the comfortable to wear skirts and jackets in graphite color, combined with soft, warm sweaters.

Julia Roberts - deal for millions

Julia Roberts is the new face of Lancome, the online edition of British Vogue reports. The pretty woman will be a global ambassador of the brand and for that role she will receive over $20 million. The first ad she features in, shot by Mario Testino, is for a Lancôme’s mascara and will be broadcasted around Europe in March.

The Oscar-winning actress was a fan of the brand long before the deal was announced. The star's lipstick of choice is Lancôme's L'Absolu Rouge in Rich Cashmere - a hydrating nude praline shade.

IT'S MY TIME - Benetton launches the global interactive multimedia campaign

Benetton launches the first worldwide casting session to find the personal styles of young people and their vision of the future.

The winners will appear in the United Colors of Benetton product campaign for autumn-winter 2010/2011.

The ball starts rolling in February with a worldwide periodical-press campaign. Young people are invited to attend a global casting session and illustrate their style and personality – the things that make them unique – through videos and photographs, which can be uploaded at will and free of charge at www.benetton.com/casting and through a special YouTube page.

Sofia Borisova presented collection LUXUS COUTURE 2010

Fashion house ROMANTIKA FASHION is on the fashion market 17 years already and has three own boutiques in Sofia and one in Bourgas.

Every year the chief designer of the brand Sofia Borisova prepares a fashion show and invites the fashion elite from Bulgaria. In January 2010 the designer presented her new collection Luxus couture 2010. The collection includes 3 lines - sport-elegant, formal and bridal dresses.

Premier collection for early Spring by Darryl Jagga

A life long fascination with the South of France served as the inspiration for the Spring collection 43.46 aggaj by Darryl Jagga.

The cascading waves of the sea have always provided a lyrical setting to the romance and mystic of the city landscape. When exploring the splendor of the South of France, everything always seems to appear three-dimensional. The delicate contrasting spectrums of light serves as an inspiration for the usage of color and décor of the collection.

Old Fashion Fashion 2010. A story of one's own wardrobe

The institute for contemporary art - Sofia and theater workshop Sfumato presented the project of the designer Mariela Gemisheva "A story of one's own wardrobe". The collection contains garments from silk cambric, linen and velvet. The project Old Fashion Fashion, season 2010, on the stage of "Sfumato" is a mono spectacle of Maria Silvester, behind which is "masked" a fashion show.

Mariela Gemisheva along with the designers of the FAC Jelena Kesic and Bojan Petrushevski analyze the connection between the reality and the notion, between the personality and camouflage, between fashion and theater.

Big Christmas fashion show of fashion students in New Bulgarian university

On 16 December students in fashion in New Bulgarian university showed their creations. The fashion show is a result from the work of students and teachers who prepared the models in the course of several months for this big event. The artistic fantasy and inspiration of the young people, their non-standard ideas were realized very successfully. The fashion show presented the style and methods of education in fashion in the university. The students designed and produced the clothes on their own.

The fashion show was separated in two themes - Winter kaleidoscope and Clothes & armor.

Fantasy, magic, fashion! Sonia Rykiel pour H&M

Kate Bosworth, Eva Herzigova and Nadja Auermann partied together with fashionistas in a magical world in Paris to celebrate the launch of Sonia Rykiel pour H&M.

The Grand Palais, one of the city's most famous buildings, was transformed into a Parisian fantasy land for around 2,000 guests. Among them were stars such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Ellen von Unwerth and Emanuelle Béart, who walked through an enchanted forest before arriving at a recreation of Saint Germain, the spiritual home of Sonia Rykiel.

Buy an elegant coat online

VIEMA is established in 1995 as a designer brand and manufacturer of outerwear. The strong classic appeal of the brand has earned broad appreciation and popularity and has long become a fixture in the wardrobe of the people with affinity to smart wear.

The company manages its own manufacturing site in the city of Pleven (North Central Bulgaria). Its adaptable size makes possible a flexible planning process and better quality control to ensure outstanding final product.

Collection 2010 of Atelier Simon - combination of retro aristocratism and contemporary youthful style

Atelier SIMON made a photo session 2010 with the model Iva Yankulova from Ivet Fashion. The photographer Dilyana Florentin succeeded to catch the artistic look of designer Gergana Simeonova and to bring us in the atmosphere of retro aristocratism, skillfully combined with contemporary youthful style.

The models look like taken from the movie "Titanic" bring us in the exquisite and mysterious world of the past times.

"Keep and Love" The new capsule SS10 collection

Inspired by loved objects, treasured jewellery and most importantly by falling in love, shoe designer Hetty Rose has created her latest collection of shoes for Spring/Summer 2010.

Designer Hetty Rose, known for her use of amazing vintage kimono fabrics feels that this new collection is a progressive change in her work. In keeping with the ethos of reusing and reworking vintage fabrics, Hetty Rose has taken shoe embellishment to a new level.

Hetty's latest collection has been adorned with special trinkets and fabrics found on her travels to flea markets, vintage fairs and exotic locations. Some of the artifacts have even been living in Hetty's special treasure chest for years, waiting for their chance to be used.

Marie Antoanette's romantic style inspires Teleno's new collection

Teleno's new Spring/Summer collection 2010 is without any doubt influenced by Marie Antoanette's romantic style and her time, e.i. the 18th century. Her own gorgeous style takes care of every detail, in particular of embroideries and endings of each item. The historic figurehead crowned as the absolute queen of fashion at that period influences now women's underwear. Laces, brocates rigid materials and corsets with suggestive low necked are the common denominator of the collection. Pastel colours highlight the sweetest side of women triggering both her femininity and her sensuality.

Bulgarian pop-folk singer Galena with attractive visions in a photosession

Bulgarian pop-folk singer Galena provokes again with interesting and original visions. She recently made a photo session for the November issue of "Kosa i krasota" magazine (Hair and Beauty).

The hair dressing is made by the coiffure Joro Petkov, the make-up - by Slav and the photographs are shot by Kostadin Krastev.

The photo session is a part of the returning of Galena on the music scene after she gave birth to her son Stefan.

Sonia Rykiel fashion house presented collection during Art Week Style.uz 2009

On 12 October in Tashkent, Uzbekistan started the Art Week Style.uz 2009 - annual wide-scale culture, arts and fashion event, which will continue until 17 Ostober .

Art Week Style.uz – is a crossroad of arts, traditions and modernity. For four years now the Week impresses with its scale and dynamics, versatility of its events and attracts more and more attention of the world most famous figures. The format of ‘the Week of Art’ has been initially set as a concept of Style.Uz by the project’s main initiator and leader – Gulnara Karimova, the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Forum of culture and arts of Uzbekistan Foundation (the Fund Forum)

Colourful mood with the new collection of Akropol

The new collection of the fashion company Akropol will seize every woman's attention and will boost her mood with the many colours and shades in the models.

In the company shops you can find the hot colours for the season - gray, bordo, jeans and lilac in all their shades. The classic style of the clothes underlines femininity in an elegant and natural way.

Lindsay Lohan's mother Dina is launching a shoe range.

Dina will collaborate with Long Island-based company I Love My Shoes for the line, which she has called Shoe-han.

I Love My Shoes founder and president, Robert Yeganeh, said: "She will do a radio and TV commercial and she will sit in on the casting call to find two or three hot girls we need for the commercial.

"Although she won't be the designer of the line, she'll definitely have a major influence in which direction it will go."

Louis Vuitton's Spring/Summer 10 collection was inspired by "hippie punks"

Creative director Marc Jacobs showed the line at Paris Fashion Week on 07.10.09, and revealed his theme was the New Age clothes popular in the 80s and 90s.

He said: "Street clothes, embracing the hippie-cyber, tribal-punk world."

Models wore huge, brightly-coloured Afro wigs and pranced down the catwalk to music by British girl band The Saturdays.

Happy hues dominated at London Fashion Week

Orange, lemon, lime green, cerulean, fuchsia and other happy hues made the runways come alive at London's Fashion Week.

"Right now, everyone's looking for colour, I think they're looking for optimism, more shape, less layering," commented Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour for Reuters.

Paul Smith presented clothes in the colours of the rainbow, inspired by Congo, Nicole Farhi created cocktail dresses in orange and green, and one in neon yellow with a deep neckline.

Rihanna has posed topless for Italian Vogue

The 'Umbrella' singer has taken part in a raunchy photoshoot with famed fashion photographer Steven Klein for the magazine's annual couture supplement.

The Grace Jones-inspired cover of the special publication sees the star clad in a structural feathered Valentino gown and patent knee-high boots, throwing a bucket of water at the camera.

Inside, the daring pictures see the 'S.O.S.' star clad in just skimpy pants, with glitter covering her chest.

Bulgarian design assaults Paris

Bulgarian fashion brand Doychinoff will take part in Paris' fashion week this year for the first time.

“Co-evolution occurs when two or more biological species influence each other to their evolution.” This sentence is on the top of the new catalog cover of designer Maria Doychinova, which presents her last collection, named Symbion. “It is symbiosis between arts and fashion. We worked with two artists Iskren Iliev and Iliana Nagel. We make one closed circle , in which on one side their paintings were inspiration for me, and at the other side created huge paintings 2x2 metres, connected with my collection”, explains Doychinova.

Dynamic colourful fairy-tale

As we promised in the previous article of bgfashion.net we will present you the collections of the designers and fashion houses who took part in the Day of Bulgarian fashion in Rome. The final evening, dedicated to Bulgarian fashion design was organized by Mrs. Jana Yakovleva, chairwoman of the Bulgarian-Italian cultural association Phoenix and Prof. Lubomir Stoykov – chairman of the Academy for fashion.

Stella McCartney finds making non-leather shoes thrilling

The fashion designer - who is a strict vegetarian and refuses to use animal hides in her collections - admits making attractive, non-leather shoes can be hard, but it determined to make her designs as desirable as possible.

She said: "It is 70 per cent more expensive for us to make non-leather shoes. Thank God we have a profitable business and can afford to do it. But ultimately, I'm a fashion designer and I see it as my job to create a desirable pair of boots, whether they are made from recycled cotton or a cardboard box. I find the technical challenge thrilling."

Gucci's commercial campaign autumn-winter 2009/10

Gucci's commercial campaign autumn-winter 2009/10

Fotographers Ines van Lamsvered and Vinuda Matadina made a fotosession with models Natsha Poly, Anja Rubik, Raquel Zimmermann, Myf Shepherd and the top model Gerhard Freidel with an insolent air and sexual poses.

United Colors of Benetton Fall/Winter 2009/2010

The byword is understated elegance, just what is needed for a day at work or in town.

The colour is sober yet never banal, with a palette full of blues, greys and blacks illuminated by touches of red. The collection is built on fabrics with modern, sophisticated weaves that nonetheless reflect a textile tradition of sewn garments and outerwear. Haute couture atmospheres in jacquard, waffle or ottoman fabrics ideal for chic little coats or well-proportioned short jackets. Satin crepe, on the other hand, is perfect for cocktail dresses or edgy trousers.

Lady's shoes collection from Marino Fabiani, summer 2009

The Spring-Summer collection 2009 of the Italian trend exclusive shoes Marino Fabiani literally is filled with red colour.

The shoes and sandals from light varnished leather, skillfully decorated with extra gold buckles, stones, varicoloured knitted leather also garnished with cherries and butterflies.

Dress-map from Francis

With the dress from Francis' trend you will not lose yourself if you decide to walk in New York streets.

On the light silky dress with free cut is printed a two-sided map of the New York city metro.

Bidding has closed on buying Christian Lacroix

he fashion house went into administration in May - slashing its workforce from 124 to just 12 in a bid to cut costs - and potential buyers will be evaluated by a court in September to decide who will assume control of the label.

Favourites to take over are believed to be the Italian Borletti Group, whose last minute bid was being treated as "serious" by administrators. Financial assessors have already thrown out an "unsatisfactory" offer from French turnaround firm Bernard Krief Consultants, along with two bids of one euro.

Milan has ended New York's five-year reign as the world's top fashion city

Milan has ended New York's five-year reign as the world's top fashion city, while Hong Kong and Sao Paulo have sashayed into the top 10, according to an annual survey of top fashion cities.

The list was compiled by the Global Language Monitor, a US based non-profit group that tracks the frequency of words and phrases in the media, on the internet and throughout the blogosphere.

The world of fashion is dominated by five cities - New York, Rome, Paris, Milan and London - but New York had led the list for five consecutive years

Christian Dior's collection on Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture

Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture finished. It continued 3 days, during which their collections presented Giorgio Armani, Jean Paul Gaultier, etc.

On the first day of the fashion performance become an event John Galliano's collection for the fashion house Christian Dior. Christian Dior Haute Couture autumn/winter 2009-10 collection obviously is inspired by transparent materials and usage of underwear as top cloth. John Galliano showed a mix of grand style dresses and underwear like 50's: silk blouses with stockings and garters, splendid skirts with beige bras and gloves, enhancing thigh bastions, short jackets and round combinations on the edge.

The whole swimming suit came into fashion this summer

Ladies swimming suits made interesting transformations: from swim dresses, whole suit till model of two bikini parts. Now things are turning and instead of showing as much as possible naked skin is becoming enigmatic “hiding”.

On the fashion shows in Madrid, Milan and Paris rise up whole swimming suit. Versace, Chanel, Hermes, Stella McCartney sell them in fashion boutiques and stores. Nancy Wisebach, who is longer occupied with fashion, perceived that bikini set.

Avril Lavigne is expanding her fashion line to include younger girls

The 'Girlfriend' singer - who launched her Abbey Dawn collection for juniors at US store Kohl last year - has created a children's line for the range, which is inspired by her own rocky style.

Taking about the designs, which will feature layered T-shirts with skulls on and leggings, Avril told People magazine: "We have a really cute zebra hoodie with ears and I'm like, 'Can I fit into the extra-large? Because I really like these!' "

Madonna's new stage costumes were designed to help her "make history"

Givenchy Haute Couture designer Riccardo Tisci made the outfit Madonna wears in the opening act of the second leg of her 'Sticky and Sweet' world tour - which kicked off in London on Saturday (04.07.09) - and was determined to make her look as electrifying as possible.

He said: "The new costume is super couture, sensual, Goth, bondage.

"What I wanted for the opening was to give a very iconic view of Madonna. She's wearing an outfit that will make history. I wanted to do something even stronger than what he designed for her in the tour's first leg because she wants to be stronger."

John Galliano sent models down the catwalk in their underwear at the first day of Paris' Couture Fashion Week

The 'Fever in the Cabine' Christian Dior collection was inspired by shows put on in the 50s, and featured models in jackets and knickers, and skirts and bras.

Galliano was inspired by a picture of Dior backstage at a show surrounded by models hurriedly getting dressed.

He attempted to recreate the mayhem on stage, with the couture outfits available to order as sets.

Christy Turlington is the new face of Yves Saint Laurent

The 40-year-old supermodel will front the fashion house's upcoming Autumn/Winter campaign, taking over from German beauty Claudia Schiffer, who starred in their most recent series of advertisements.

Christy - who has two children, Grace, five, and three-year-old Finn with husband Edward Burns -fronted YSL's campaign five years ago.

Her latest pictures, which were taken by photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, will appear in fashion magazines from later this month.

Everything For The Wedding From Odeta

Summer is the season of weddings. If this wonderful event is coming for you and you still haven't picked your dress we recommend you look through the models of fashion house Odeta.

The dresses made by designers Donka and Valeria Lazarchevi are original and sophisticated, made by hand with perfect production and quality materials.

You can choose different models of corset and skirt and have them made into a whole dress. During the producing of your dress you can change everything you don't like in the model as long as it's possible from a constructive and technological point of view.

Beyonce Knowles' latest fashion range will be aimed at schoolgirls

The 'Crazy in Love' singer has teamed up with her mother Tina Knowles to launch Sasha Fierce for Dereon, which will include shoes, glasses, lingerie, sportswear and jewellery.

Tina will create the clothing and accessories but she insists Beyonce will be very involved with the designs.

She explained to WWD: "She definitely tells me what she likes and what she doesn't. It was her suggestion to line the rips of the jeans with the mesh and lace. It makes the jeans look really different from what's out there."

Dries Van Noten's Edgy Ethnic Gents

Paris – In a certain sense, really good designers like really good artists and film directors, often make one extended work of art, and each show, opening or movie is just part of an extended commentary on the human comedy.

That felt very much the case Thursday, June 25, at the rain-interrupted menswear show by Dries Van Noten, the latest opus from a designer whose ethnic inspired globe-trotting gentleman style was again elegantly on display.

Though staged in Palais de Brongniart, site of the former Paris Stock Exchange, the clothes had no sense of any business gent. This was a triumph of the new understated sophistication, a collection where subtlety not sass counted.

MySkins company created a new underwear collection to match every skin tone

Have you ever wished that your underwear matched your skin tone, fit you like a glove and could be worn under any type of clothing? MySkins.com designed lingerie that does just that.

The seamless bras and panties serve as an almost invisible "foundation" beneath a woman's clothing so people can see your dress, slacks or blouse... not your underwear. For years women have suffered through a handful of lingerie colors that didn’t match their skin, but not any more!

Michelle Obama praised fashion as an "American art form"

The US First Lady was honoured at the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) awards in New York last night (15.06.09) and praised the industry in a pre-taped video message.

She said: "Fashion is an American art form with ingenuity and craftsmanship that contribute so much to our economy and culture." Noting her "meteoric rise as a fashion icon", CFDA president Diane Von Furstenberg paid tribute to the wife of President Barack Obama, saying she had a unique look that balances the duality of her lives as an adviser and mother to Sasha, eight and Malia, 10.

Stella McCartney is launching a children's collection with Gap

The 37-year-old designer - who has three kids with her publisher husband Alasdhair Willis - is teaming up with GapKids and babyGap for the new line, which will launch later this year.

Stella said: "For years now I've wanted to create a collection for children, it's something I've often been asked about. I believe that this one off collaboration will be a great way for customers to be able to participate in the Stella McCartney brand."

The new photosession of Galinel Fashion House

On June 27, fifty-member "Galinel" fashion house crew is going to distant Kapadokya, Turkey. It is located near the Syrian border and is famous for its unearthy rock formations, the untraditional way of life and adventurous enthusiasm preserved to our days.

The reason for this trip is to shoot an advertising clip of the brand's new collection of bridal dresses, which is going to be on air for a month on the world fashion channel FTV.

Long holidays inspired the latest fashion range of Kate Moss

The supermodel - who designs her own line of clothes for British high street store Topshop - knows how important it is to have the right pieces to wear in the sun so was determined to design something to wear for every occasion.

She said: "I was inspired by my constant travelling to hot places and long summer holidays with family and friends. The right holiday wardrobe is essential.

Burberry will show its Spring/Summer 2010 collection in London

The British fashion house has decided to present its Burberry Prorsum in the UK capital rather than in Milan, as is usual, to mark the 25th anniversary of London Fashion Week.

Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey told WWD: "London is our home - it's the heart of this global luxury brand and the centre of all our creativity.

American Idol judge Randy Jackson considers launching a range of handbags

The 'American Idol' judge - who rarely ventures away from his signature style of shirts, trousers and glasses - reportedly held a business meeting at the W Los Angeles - Westwood hotel to discuss creating a line of women's accessories.

A source told the New York Daily News newspaper: "Randy met with a PR agency to discuss how to market a new line of handbags, but he had to cut the meeting short to film 'Idol'."

Randy - who will have a six-month break once the current series of 'American Idol' finishes - is not the first celebrity to venture into women's accessories.

Liv Tyler is addicted to sweatpants

The 'Incredible Hulk' actress enjoys dressing in expensive dresses when she goes to showbiz events, but claims nothing beats changing into her comfortable clothes at the end of the night.

She explained: "I really enjoy dressing up but the moment I get home I take everything off and put my sweats on or my pyjamas - I like to be comfortable.

" I still have my original pair of Converse trainers from when I was a teenager somewhere in my closet."

Metropolitan Museum of Art opened "The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion" exhibition

he Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, the spring 2009 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, focusing on iconic fashion models in the latter half of the 20th century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras. The exhibition is on view at the Metropolitan from May 6 through August 9, 2009.

A suit from the most expensive luxury wool sold for £70,000

A suit made from "the world's most expensive wool", designed by Alexander Amosu, has been sold to a mystery buyer for £70,000.

It took more than 80 hours to make the suit from Arctic wool, qiviuk, and rare South American wool, vicuna.

"I firmly believe that in the wake of the recession, there is still a demand for uncompromising quality", said the designer Alexander Amosu.

Markam Fashion in Tokyo, Japan

Markam Fashion presented the new Autumn/Winter 2009/10 collection in Tokyo, during the fashion design program WEAREUROPE. The European commission and the Delegation of the European commission in Japan organized the event. Among other 35 companies from EU, Markam was chosen to demonstrate the European fashion trends for the upcoming season.

Mrs. Helene Retsinis Stalsbo, Attaché Trade Section to the Delegation of the European Commission to Japan and Mr. Bernard Cendron, President of K.K.BCIL Japon, who visited the booth of Markam, underlined that the Bulgarian brand has a very good chance as a part of the European fashion, which is respected very much by the Japanese consumers. The most important advantage though is the indisputable quality of the product, the unique design, as well as the use of Italian and French textile.

Simple beauty or new subject in Bulgarian fashion

Fashion specialists are categorical: for the new season you must chose simple beauty, candy colors and lots of flowers. The classic combination between black and white is interpreted in original way in the propositions of the fashion designers and presents a new, modern outlook. These tendencies are seen in the new collection spring-summer 2009 of Jana Jekova. The dynamic color palette interprets the colorful range of the rainbow. It passes through candy colors as turquoise blue and cyclamen, sunny orange-gold tonality and reaches dark purple and metallic. The dresses are mainly made of silk, lace and hand-written materials. The designer uses again high class fabrics such as luxurious Italian silk.

Virginia Zdravkova presents pret-a-porter collection in new own boutique

Virginia Zdravkova opened her first boutique for clothes and accessories for every day in Sofia. The collection Winter 2008/2009 is created for all ladies that care for their style and the individual sign of the designer. Sweaters, shirts, trousers and skirts with the brand VIRGINIA are presented for the first time in the new boutique of Virginia atelier on 166 Rakovki Str.

To the clothes Virginia Zdravkova has created many accessories - shawls, belts, bags and glasses. In the collection dominate the trendy for the season black, gray and lilac.