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September 2008, " Red Label ", London Fashion Week, ( Place tbc - London ) Hats by Prudence
0ctober 9 to 12, 2008 Prudence Millinery Stand TGB5 will be at the :
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will be able to talk to Prudence personally, buy our fabric flower
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Now on the screens all over the world, see Prudence Millinery hats for Vivienne Westwood in :
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Vivienne Westwood : 34 years in Fashion "
Click here for Our press release dated february 2008 pdf format
14 February 2008, " Red Label ", 7.30 pm ( Place tbc ) Hats by Prudence
VIVIENNE
WESTWOOD has announced she will return to London Fashion Week to
show the autumn/winter 2008 collection for her second line, Red Label,
in February – for the first time in nine years. Of the move, Vivienne
Westwood said: "We are back by popular demand. The sales of all of
our lines are increasing and we decided that the Red Label, which is
successful worldwide and so popular in the UK, should have its own
show." The move comes after several high profile designers, Luella
and Marc Jacobs, have chosen London to show their collections over the
last few seasons, although Westwood will continue to show her first
line, the Gold Label, in Paris. (December 17 2007, AM)
10 February 2008, " Biba - Ready to wear", 1.15 pm ( Place tbc ) Hats by Prudence
DESPITE
receiving a mixed critical response to her Sixties-inspired collections,
Bella Freud is proving a hard act to follow at Biba; a whole new
creative team, headed by Hector Castro, has been drafted in following
her departure as artistic director of the resurrected brand last month.
The five-strong collective - which includes New Gen-sponsored knitwear
designer Louise Goldin - will have its work cut out to safeguard the
label's future growth, but the company is positive about its new
creative circumstances. "Bella did a great job for Biba," says
Michael Pearce, ceo of Biba International. "However, we feel that
this is the perfect time to take the brand to the next level. We want to
find that very pretty, super-feminine Biba aesthetic." The brand is
not only having a shake-up in terms of design - plans are underway for
the first London Biba flagship store in 30 years to open in 2008, along
with stand-alone outlets in LA and Las Vegas, following a new
partnership between the company and Manny Mashouf, chairman of US label
Bebe. "We have looked for while for the right partner to take the
business forward and Manny brings a wealth of experience in retail and
sourcing," Pearce explains. "He also has a great instinct for
the brand and how best to grow the business." As well as opening
new stores, this is expected to include improving the brand's delivery
structure and a customer service push. (July 16 2007, PM)
15 February 2008, " Julien MacDonald - Ready to wear", 7.30 pm ( W1 ) Hats by Prudence
JULIEN
MACDONALD's show
is typically the last of the day - and it always feels like the party's
started before the models have even appeared, as an impossibly glamorous
gaggle of international It-girls, glamour pusses and fashion glitterati
pack out the venue, fully prepared for high voltage catwalk action. This
season the paparazzi went for Kimberley Stewart, Isabella Hervey and
Welsh soprano Katharine Jenkins who had joined the throng for
Macdonald's spring/summer 2008 offering. A brief burst of Diamonds
are Forever was an homage, perhaps, to Dame Shirley Bassey - who sat
next to Joan Collins in the front row, looking far younger than her 70
years in rock chick black leggings and a biker jacket - as the show
kicked off. Macdonald wants us all to chivvy up and go for sporty
glamour next summer; inspired by the impending Olympics, he gave us
Y-back tennis dresses, racing stripes (sometimes formed in lines of
different blocked-colour sequins - one dropped waist feather-skirted
dress had the crowd whooping), and cycling shorts peeking out from under
flirty coral mini skirts. The palette was strong and spot on - black and
white teamed with coral, jade and lemon - as were the equestrian-style
style patent hats, dipped rakishly over one eye and tied behind the head
with a sumptuous ribbon. Light on the fairy-tale floor-sweepers this
time around, it was Macdonald's luxe flapper dresses that stole the
show; gem-studded metallic bands above the bust and at the waist dripped
with long white and gold fringes that his fans would be tempted to do
the Charleston round the block for. There were a couple of misses - an
early-airhostess style teal satin tunic worn over teal satin trousers
erred too close to pyjama territory, for example - and those trademark
gowns were sorely missed. Overall though, the collection felt fresh,
young and new, yet typically Julien Macdonald: quite an achievement,
we'd say. (September 16 2007, PM)
Click here to see our Press Articles See also in the following issues : British Vogue October 2005 issue Article : Military Service page 359 Cotton Cap, to order at Vivienne Westwood, page 364 Hello Autumn / Winter 2005, issue 883 French Foreign Legion Cap, to order at Vivienne Westwood, page 42 Japan Vogue January 2005 issue Double brimmed witches hat with silk tie, to order at Vivienne Westwood, page 192 Vogue Italia February issue 2005 Giant mountain hat, to order at Vivienne Westwood Harpers & Queen February issue 2005 Witches hat, to order at Vivienne Westwood Vogue Italia August issue 2005 Gold turban
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