Fashion News

Think of rock’n’roll and you think of denim. Skin tight jeans, customised cut off denim jackets and if you’re a Status Quo fan, maybe the odd denim waistcoat! That’s why Jeans for Genes is the perfect partner for the Harrods Rocks event taking place throughout February at the Knightsbridge store.

On Saturday 10th February 2007, the Creative Director of Burberry, Christopher Bailey and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts will be hosting the inaugural BAFTA nominees reception to take place the night before The Orange British Academy Film Awards.

Born as a small clothes shop on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco in 1969, ‘the Gap’ expanded to become the number one retail shop in America with over three thousand outlets worldwide. In 1988, the company launched the latest of its advertising campaigns – ‘Individuals of Style’ – bold black and white photographs of famous faces wearing Gap items, combined with their own clothes to create a portrait of each individual’s personal style. Using the world’s leading photographers and now shot occasionally in colour, the campaign continues today.

In celebration of Black History Month, Nordstrom will showcase a photography exhibit by Kamoinge, a talented group of African American photographers. These images illustrate life and culture as expressed through music over the past 40 years. The exhibit will be displayed in select Nordstrom stores and online throughout the month of February.

Playboy Enterprises announced today that it will open a freestanding Playboy Concept Boutique on London's popular Oxford Street, next spring. Reflecting the global fashion-lifestyle brand's retail strategy to launch at least three stores per year over the next few years, Playboy's upscale shopping destination will be owned and operated under license by Global Designer Brands.

H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB has signed a contract for its first store in Japan. The store will be located in the best business location in one of Tokyo's prime shopping districts, Harajuku. The building is under construction and the opening is expected in the autumn of 2008.

To celebrate the festive season in style, Boutiques Aeroports de Paris is offering passengers, a unique new complimentary service: Personal Shoppers. On December 14-17 and 21-23, for the first time in a major airport international, bilingual Personal Shoppers will be on hand to help passengers do their Christmas shopping.

H&M the international retail giant and their head of design Margareta van den Bosch have teamed up with Madonna to create a line of clothing and accessories that are scheduled to arrive in all stores carrying the women's wear collection, around the world in March 2007, it was announced today.

With slender Kate Moss on the front of every major fashion magazine, latest research from Mintel finds British women's vital statistics rising, with almost one in five British ladies - or some 4.9 million women - taking a size 18 and over.

Shopping the Trend, a website dedicated to meeting the needs of today’s busy online shoppers, has announced the launch of sister site Searching The Trend (searchingthetrend.com). Searching the Trend is a unique shopping engine that specializes in luxury catalogues, with a focus on fashion, home, gift and gourmet trends.