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If there is a giant 19 painted on one end of the runway, there is a giant number 1 painted on the other side. (Just remember that you’re facing outward from the compass.) In the US, our runways omit the leading zero for runway 01, which is not the case in much of the world. So, at London Heathrow (LHR) you’ll spot runway 09L. Bravo’s Emmy-winning competition series Project Runway returns for another season of high stakes and fierce fashions on Thursday, December 5 at 9:30/8:30c. Sixteen new hopefuls are ready to take. 19.4k Likes, 499 Comments - Carmen Electra (@carmenelectra) on Instagram: “Runway Magazine 2020 #fashion #runway #hair #styling #photography #makeup #magazine”.
NEW YORK - Designer Kimberly Goldson showed her signature bold looks in a streaming fashion show.
Goldson grew up in Brooklyn and always had a love of fashion, but she never saw a path to get her to this day - showing as part of Harlem’s Fashion Row showcase during New York Fashion Week.
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- Brooklyn Fashion Designer Kimberly Goldson always had a passion for fashion, but without seeing any designer of color, she had no idea that it could be a career
- After attending FIT and competing on the TV show Project Runway in Season 9, she founded her namesake brand but feels she is often seen simply as a Black designer whose clothes would only appeal to Black women
- As the Fashion Industry has a reckoning with a lack of diversity at every level, many in the industry are rolling out new initiatives to address the diversity issues
- Ngozi Okaro has been working on these issues of diversity for years with her organization 'Custom Collaborative,' which works with brands to increase diversity and pay equity, and also advocates for paid internships to make sure low-income fashion students can take advantage of the opportunity
'I used to cut up clothes with my friends and distress them and things like that. I didn't see any designers of color at the time, so I didn't know that it was possible for me to even be a fashion designer,” she said.
Still, she attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and in 2011 competed in season 9 of Project Runway where she impressed the judges. From there, she founded her namesake line with her sister Shelly.
But despite enthusiasm for their designs, they face challenges convincing the industry that just because she is a Black designer, doesn't mean her clothes can't be enjoyed by all kinds of women.
'The challenge has been that we have the talent but that we don't have the opportunities. It didn't just have to be that just black women and Black consumers want to wear bold, there are plenty of other women from other races and nationalities and walks of life that want to be bold and feel empowered,' said Goldson.
Nudged by the Black Lives Matter protests, the fashion industry is embracing programs that encourage inclusion.
Ngozi Okaro has been tackling these problems for years with her organization 'Custom Collaborative,' which works with brands to increase diversity and helps get women of color and low-income women into jobs in fashion.
She says unpaid internships can shut out young people from less privileged backgrounds from gaining a foothold in the industry.
Change, she says, must be systemic, providing more access to every kind of job, from models to designers to production managers.
'People that make the clothing that produce the clothing are mostly Black and Brown people and so we need to value their contributions and so that means paying people fairly and giving people opportunities. Black models, Asian models and Latinx models don't have as much opportunity. Designers do not have as much opportunity,' said Okaro.
Media attention is also key. Goldson and her sister will be featured in this month's Cosmopolitan and hope to inspire others with their story.
To see Goldson's fashion line, you can visit her website.
LONDON (AP) — It’s the September fashion week season, and in any other year London would be abuzz with fashionistas zipping across town in Mercedes Benzes, hobnobbing with celebrities at glittering catwalk shows before sipping champagne at late-night parties.
This is no typical year, though, and London Fashion Week is decidedly less glamorous. There are all of three socially-distanced catwalk shows, with a smattering of small salon shows or invitation-only appointments offered by designers like Victoria Beckham and Christopher Kane. International buyers, editors, and models aren’t jetting in.
With most designers showing their wares online only, style in the COVID era is largely limited to streaming fashion shows on an iPad from the couch - probably with slippers in place of stilettos.
The luxury brand Burberry, which usually hosts a packed runway show complete with a red-carpet reception for A-list celebrities, decamped its models to a forest clearing Thursday for a live-streamed show with no catwalk or physical audience. Burberry shared its blend of performance art and fashion with some 42,000 viewers via Twitch, the streaming service for online gamers.
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“This is not a full-blown fashion week - it’s not mass audiences. It’s very much happening in private and the scales have tipped in favor of digital,” said Caroline Rush, chief executive of the British Fashion Council, which organizes London Fashion Week.
Still, she said, it’s a step forward - albeit a small and tentative one - for the industry to regain some semblance of “the life we were living before.”
The fashion industry has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, and in Europe, where countries are seeing an alarming new surge in cases, few consumers are in the mood to buy luxury bags and dresses. Nor are they likely to resume spending to pre-pandemic levels any time soon, with weddings and parties largely cancelled and big parts of the workforce staying at home. Forecasts by analysts predict global luxury goods sales could drop by 20% to 35% this year.
Many say that has forced a sharp rethink about how the business works. That includes questioning how the traditional calendar of biannual fashion weeks - always staged across New York, London, Milan and Paris - is organized, and how to leverage new technologies instead.
While the glitzy trade events are key for designers to connect with global retailers and consumers, some critics say the relentless pace of fashion weeks generate an unnecessarily huge carbon footprint - and contribute to an unsustainable cycle of over-production.
“It’s a moment of reflection in terms of shows, but also in terms of business models and environmental impact. It’s a moment to reset,” Rush said.
Even before the virus outbreak, brands had been experimenting with technology to get to broader audiences by streaming shows online. In the same way that companies in other sectors are wondering whether employees will return to offices after the pandemic, the fashion industry is questioning whether there is even a place for models strutting up and down runways.
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Imran Amed, founder of the influential trade news website Business of Fashion, thinks that while there is no replacing the atmosphere of an in-person show, virtual or augmented reality will play an increasing role. Virtual reality provides an immersive 3D experience, whereas augmented reality overlays digital images on a viewer’s surroundings, so that a model might be seen walking through their living room.
“For people to, say, experience a Burberry show or a Prada show or a Vuitton show in their homes using augmented reality, with the ability then to pre-order some of the things they’ve seen - that’s where I think there may be some opportunity,” Amed said.
“I don’t think we’ll completely get rid of fashion weeks, but at the same time I think there will be new ways of showing clothes that we haven’t really seen yet,” he added. “I just don’t think we need as many shows, in as many cities, for as much of the time of the year.”
Designer Gareth Pugh, who hasn’t appeared on the London Fashion Week roster for two years, said it was an exciting time to return and stage a multimedia fashion exhibition he called “The Reconstruction” because the usual rules are out the window.
The exhibition at London auction house Christie’s showcases 13 designs that appear on mannequins, in art photographs and in a documentary. Fittingly, one of the looks features long, sinister beaked head coverings harking back to the plague masks worn during the 17th century.
Pugh is known for experimenting with fashion boundaries: his dramatic and sculptural styles, worn by the likes of Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj, have never been geared toward the whims of the commercial market, and he ditched the runway for artsy fashion films to showcase his creative vision years before anyone did.
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The pandemic is a moment for “creative problem-solvers” who are willing to bend the rules to step forward, he said.
“Right now when those established ways of doing things is questioned, and are impossible to actually implement anymore, we have to reinvent,” he said. “You don’t have to do what everybody else does. You don’t have to get 400 people in one room and show your work in that way.”