7 Posts are tagged with: london

NAOMI GIVES BACK

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Sep 13, 2008 by Stephanie S.

Don't worry, she's not giving back in her usual manner of foul language, back slaps and other undesirable ways. She's forming a charity catwalk extravaganza featuring several 'It’ designer collections, including Alexander McQueen, Jaeger, Dolce and Gabbana and Vivienne Westwood.

This London Fashion Week event, called Fashion For Relief, will raise money for the White Ribbon Alliance for safe Motherhood, an international coalition to prevent pregnancy-related deaths. Starting price for a ticket to the show is 75 pounds, about 150 dollars. But remember, it's for a good cause.

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THE GOLDEN GIRL

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Aug 29, 2008 by Stephanie R.

Brtitish artist and sculptor Marc Quinn indeed thinks model Kate Moss is a golden girl and has created a 50 kilogram solid gold statue of her to prove it. The Moss statue, in all of its golden glory (pardon the pun), was unveiled to the public in London on August 28. The artist's statue of Kate is the largest statue created since ancient Egyptian times and will premier at the British Museum as part of the 'Statuephilia: Contemporary Sculptors at the British Museum' on October 4, 2008.

Quinn is an artist that is used to pushing the artistic controversial line and is most famous for his very pregnant, armless, Thalidomide victim statue that resided in Trafalgar Square from 2005-2007. During the press conference for the unveiling, Marc told reporters: "I thought the next thing to do would be to make a sculpture of the person who's the ideal beauty of the moment. But even Kate Moss doesn't live up to the image."

Clearly, at the moment he conceived the idea for the statue and created it, Kate did indeed live up to that image. But then again, even Kate Moss has been reported as saying, 'it is hard being that Kate Moss' all the time.

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TOPSHOP COMES TO THE STATES!

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Jul 27, 2008 by Stephanie S.

I can’t be the only one who would plan a trip to London around a shopping trip to good ‘ol Oxford St. and a three to four hour stop at TopShop. Now, I guess I’ll have to center my future trips to New York around a TopShop trip, because finally, Sir Philip Green has announced the first US TopShop will be in New York!

I, for one, am excited. The store is said to open October 10, and Sir Philip Green, the man behind the plan, plans to keep the store quintessentially English. Exactly what that means, Green wouldn’t elaborate, but since TopShop UK is one of the greatest places to shop ever, it can’t be a bad thing!

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JADE JAGGER MADE A DAGGER

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Jul 26, 2008 by Stephanie S.

Of sorts, that is. The model collaborated with Belvedere Vodka and designed a limited-edition ice pick made of white gold, diamonds, sapphires and lapis. The $350,000 version is for sale at Harrods in London. Don’t have quite that much? You can see the less-pricy versions being used in select bars around the world, like 1Oak in New York City. Now that’s one expensive way to chip away ice.

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TOPSHOP'S TOP SHELF JEANS

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Jul 15, 2008 by Stephanie R.

Just when you thought Topshop could not possibly get any better, or give any news greater than the fact that they are finally opening stateside, they up the High Street ante. It would seem that the current vast denim corner just got a little bit more chic with the addition of their new premium brands consisting of Sass & Bide, J Brand, Joe’s Jeans, Radcliffe, Los Angeles-based Ditto Jeans and My Lovely Jeans. Besides stocking the latest models of these jeans, they will also have limited edition capsule collections with some of the brands as well as pop-up jean clinics at the Oxford Circus flagship during London Fashion Week. Jean-ious!

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THINGS GO BETTER WITH DIET COCA COLA

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Jun 30, 2008 by Stephanie R.

Well at least in Patricia Field’s world they do. The stylist/designer has been commissioned by Selfedriges in London to design a limited edition Diet Coca Cola bottle sets to be sold exclusively at their stores and on Field’s website, patriciafield.com. There are four bottle in total, and no, they do not represent any of the Sex And The City characters. The bottles represent passion (the red one), fashion (the turquoise one), career (the gold one) and love (the pink one). Only 25 sets will be sold online at Field’s site, patriciafields.com, so you have to act quickly or else you only choice will be to hop a flight to London.

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SMASH AND GRAB AT D&G

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May 23, 2008 by Stephanie S.

In London, smash and grab gangs have burglarized Luella, Anya Hindmarch, Salvatore Ferragamo and FrostFrench, and Dolce and Gabbana is the latest victim of the raids. Robbers on scooters smashed through the glass door of its Old Bond Street boutique late on Monday evening and helped themselves to thousands of pounds worth of handbags and accessories before speeding off.

So, wait…the high-end stores on Old Bond Street, a street famous for expensive boutiques, do not have top-notch, high-calibur security systems, apparently? Why not? Especially with glass door storefronts?

Police are investigating the incident, which is the sixth robbery in the past three weeks.

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