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Designers

Take part in our one minute silence for Alexander McQueen who’s funeral is being held today.

By Andrea Petrou on February 25th, 2010

Although a few weeks have passed we’re still very much saddened by Alexander McQueen’s death, and we know we’re not alone, with a huge majority of the fashion world still in mourning.

According to WWD, the funeral service for the designer will be taking place today. However it’s “for family only”.

And although a spokesperson said a memorial service for friends and fans will take place later this year, no details have been confirmed.

“We are focusing right now on the Paris show, which takes place on March 9th,” she said.

Until then, we want to make a small tribute to the great designer here at ShinyStyle, so we ask all our readers to join us in a minutes silence at 3pm today.

And of course, our thoughts will be with Mr McQueen’s family.

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charity, London fashion week, Models

Naomi Campbell hosts pop up shop at the Westfield shopping centre to raise funds for victims of the Haiti earthquake

By Andrea Petrou on February 25th, 2010

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Naomi Campbell will be making a special appearance at Westfield London tomorrow where she will host a pop up shop in aid for her Fashion For Relief cause.

The supermodel will be lending a hand in selling the official Fashion for Relief T-shirt designed by Vivienne Westwood, which were unveiled last week at her LFW charity show and worn on the catwalk by a host of celebrities including Dame Shirley Bassey and Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh from Girls Aloud.

Funds raised from the sales of the T-shirt, which retails at £40, will go to The White Ribbon Alliance to support the health needs and rights of women and girls around the world, with particular focus on its partners in Haiti , who at this time are helping to rebuild the healthcare system for mothers and babies.

Naomi has personally signed 10 T-Shirts, which will be available for £70, at the pop-up shop, which runs until Sunday 28th February.

The supermodel said: “I am delighted that Westfield London has partnered with myself and the White Ribbon Alliance to support this years Fashion for Relief in London . I am very grateful to Vivienne Westwood and her team for their dedication to this project whilst they themselves were in the midst of preparing for their own fashion week show. The Fashion for Relief Pop Up Shop at Westfield London has been such a huge success and I’m looking forward to my visit to Westfield tomorrow to personally help out.

“Purchasing a limited edition Westwood Fashion for Relief T-shirt is a great way for everyone to get involved in raising funds to help mothers and babies in Haiti who are most vulnerable after the recent disaster.”

However if you can’t make it down to the shopping centre you can still get your hands on one of these must have t-shirts by logging on to www.naomicampbell.com.

Tags: Fashion for Relief, Naomi Campbell, Viviene Westwood Fashion for Relief t-shirts, Westfield shopping centre
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Designers, Fashion News

Armani confirms it designed some of Lady Gaga’s outfits for her Monster Ball tour

By Andrea Petrou on February 25th, 2010

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Armani has revealed that its created several of Lady Gaga’s looks for her Monster Ball tour that kicked off in the UK last week.

The designer who first dressed Lady Gaga for the Grammys last month said the looks included a floor-length black patent trench, sparkly structured body suit with enhanced curved shoulders, another body suit with a lobster effect on one sleeve, and a geometric mini-dress with a dramatic mirror effect.

Armani also said each look was finished off with matching shoes and sunglasses. .

Georgio Armani said: “We hear Lady Gaga’s music everywhere we go, it is like a soundtrack of our times.

“In addition to her formidable songwriting skills, she is a modern fashion phenomenon.”

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

[via Vogue.com]

Tags: Armani, lady gaga, Monsters Ball, tour, UK
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Fashion News

Claires launches Alice in Wonderland Pop Up Shop

By Andrea Petrou on February 25th, 2010

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We know we went a little bit Alice in Wonderland crazy yesterday so today we promise we’ll try not to go too overboard.

However we couldn’t resist telling you about another pop-up shop opening up in honour of our new heroine, which has been launched by highstreet chain Claires Accessories.

The Claires Alice in Wonderland shop pop ups shop in London from tomorrow and will remain there until next Friday.

Enter the shop and you’ll be met with forests that are larger than life and white rabbits rushing past, late for their meetings.

You’ll also be able to buy items such as miniature top hats to playing card themed charm bracelets, as well as getting into the wonderland trend with cute stripey knee socks, and classic Alice bands. There will also be Mad Hatter tea party inspired earrings and necklaces, covered with details such as silver tea pots and keys.

The Claires Alice in Wonderland pop up shop takes place from 11am – 6pm, Friday 26th February – Friday 5th March 2010 at 18 Maddox Street. silver tea pots and keys.

Tags: Alice in Wonderland, Claires, Film, pop up shop, Tim Burton
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First Looks, plus size

First looks: Crystal Renn for V Magazine

By Andrea Petrou on February 25th, 2010

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Cystal Renn is flying the flag for plus sized women and models everywhere.

She appeared in last month’s V magazine’s plus sized edition and earlier this week donned a bodycon dress for Mark Fast’s LFW catwalk show. And she’s still going.

The successful plus sized model, who admitted she used to suffer with anorexia due to the pressure of trying to make it as a “normal” sized model, has once again made her way to the front cover of V’s next issue hitting the shelves next month.

Posing in an Agent Provocateur bra and Dolce & Gabbana knickers, she’s the epitome of real beauty in our eyes.

Tags: Crystal Renn, LFW, Mark Fast, plus size, Plus sized models, V Magazine
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Features, Gallery, Trend Alert

Return of the mac: The best macs for spring 2010

By Andrea Petrou on February 25th, 2010

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Spring is only a month away and SS2010 trends have already been hitting highstreet and online shelves with a vengence.

There’s a few essentials you’ll be needing this season to update your wardrobe, but one must have is a mac.

The mac is perfect for those inbetween Winter-Summer days, where rain will be at a premium but the warmer weather means we need something a little bit lighter. These macs were also a big hit on SS2010 catwalks last year.

They’ve also made an appearance in a range of brand’s SS2010 campaigns, including Burberry (who can forget that gorgeous mac Emma Watson modelled for the brand).

We’ve therefore put together a gallery of the hottest macs this spring to ensure you brave the wet spring in style.

Click on the picture below to begin.

Tags: Burberry, coats, Spring Macs, spring trends
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Fashion News

Uniqlo launches Alice in Wonderland range

By Andrea Petrou on February 24th, 2010

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We think we’ve got a bit too carried away with the Wonderland theme today, but we can’t quite resist all the cute and quirky creations crawling out of the rabbit hole this week.

However, we’ll stop after this one (for today anyway) or it may just be off with our heads.

So what’s making us mad as a hatter this time? The The Alice In Wonderland UT collection by Uniqlo, which comes to a store near you from March 1st.

The range includes t-shirts, vests, leggings and tunics and with prices starting from £12.99 you won’t want to be missing out on this one. If you hurry you’ll also receive a free hand mirror with each purchase.

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Fashion News

Miss Selfridge launches Alice in Wonderland t-shirts and vests

By Andrea Petrou on February 24th, 2010

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It’s all gone a bit fantasy like here at ShinyStyle today, with more and more news pouring in about Alice in Wonderland.

And although we’ve already put together a gallery of kooky Alice accessories we couldn’t resist telling you about a new clothing range being launched by Miss Selfridge.

The highstreet store has teamed up with Disney to bring us a 5 piece collection of vests and t-shirts each with different illustrations of the film. These include the Cheshire Cat, Queen of hearts and an “I’m late. I’m late rabbit vest.

We’ll also be bringing you a round-up of Alice in Wonderland t-shirts tomorrow.

Tags: Alice in Wonderland, Miss Selfridge, t-shirts, Tim Burton
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Fashion News

Pixie Lott models, new to the UK label, Supertrash

By Andrea Petrou on February 24th, 2010

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Pixie Lott has been a busy girl over the past few months designing a range of charity clothing for various retailers. So it really comes as no surprise that the singer has been snapped up as the face of much coveted new range Supertrash.

The collection, which launches for the first time in the UK at My-Wardrobe.com, this week is said to blend pretty feminine styling with a punk rock twist. The range will include bright prints, flirty dresses and dramatic colours as well as boyfriend cardigans, and feminine blouses – meaning there is something for almost everyone.

Sarah Curran, ceo and founder of My-Wardrobe, told Vogue: “We are delighted to launch the Supertrash collection for spring/summer 2010.

“It’s a new label for both My-Wardrobe.com and for the UK. We are always focused on introducing new designer collections to the site, especially those new – much talked about – international designers, to continue to provide an exciting and accessible offer for our customer.”

And with Pixie Lott as the face of the brand we’re sure it’s going to be hot stuff.

Tags: My-Wardrobe.com, Pixie Lott, Supertrash
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London fashion week, YouTube Watch

ShinyStyle watch: Burberry at LFW

By Andrea Petrou on February 24th, 2010

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Yesterday we bought you coverage and a round-up of Burberry’s much awaited London catwalk show, where the brand wowed us with aviation style jackets, furs and flimsy dresses.
However, we know that reading about it isn’t quite the same as seeing it for yourself so we’ve managed to get hold of a video of the show, which was streamed live yesterday.

Have a peak and let us know what you think about the styles by leaving your comments in the box below.

Tags: Burberry 2010, London fashion week, YouTube
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Features, Gallery

All things Alice in Wonderland: Jewellery

By Andrea Petrou on February 24th, 2010

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Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland will be hitting cinemas on 5 March and it’s already caused a huge stir in the fashion world with a range of designers including Stella McCartney and Tim Binns, Swarovski creating jewellery inspired by the film.

In fact it’s become so popular amongst us fashionistas that Selfridges has also announced a pop-up shop dedicated to the blonde haired character. So we’ve decided to start off a mini-series bringing you everything Alice. Within this we’ll be including trends you might expect to see as a result of the film as will as clothing ideas to help you get into the Wonderland mood.

However to start off the series we’ve decided to put together a gallery of Alice in Wonderland inspired jewellery, which we predict will be huge over the next few months. We’ve already been grinning like Cheshire cats just looking at them.

Click on the picture below to begin the gallery.

Tags: Alice in Wonderland, Jewellery, Stella MaCartney, t-shirts, Tim Binns, Truffle Shuffle
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charity

Red or Dead design a bag for Cancer Research

By Andrea Petrou on February 24th, 2010

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We’ve been very preoccupied with London Fashion Week and the numerous awards events that have been taking places over the past week. However as things begin to quiten down we thought it was time to start giving you some product news and what beeter way to start than with this charity collaboration.

Brit fashion mavericks Red or Dead, have teamed up with Cancer Research UK to create this covetable canvas shopper, available nationwide from late March ’10.

Red or Dead have donated their brand spanking new print, aptly amed ‘Swing On A chandelier’, which features busty showgirls in the swing of things.

The result? A fashion-tastic, guilt-free purchase, allowing you to indulge your shopping habit whilst supporting a worthwhile cause.

The cute bag can be bought from Cancer Research UK stores nationwide, and also online. It costs £3.99.

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London fashion week

ShinyStyle at LFW: Burberry Autumn/Winter 2010

By Andrea Petrou on February 23rd, 2010

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We’ve been eagerly awaiting Burberry’s offering at London Fashion Week, and have been counting down to the beginning of the show.

After all the British Brand’s recent collections thanks to the amazing directorship of creative director Christopher Bailey, and high profile ad campaigns have done more than enough to boost this company onto our fashion radars. And of course who can forget the celebrities that always come out in force for this show.

And we’re pleased to say we weren’t disappointed.

Celebrities including Kate Hudson and Twiggy turned out for the show, labelled by Mr Bailey as the “the Burberry Cadet girls” collection.

It included a range of big aviation and military pea coats, parkers, trench coats, heavily embellished with leather, buckles and zips,which contrasted with the flimsy dresses worn underneath with thigh high boots.

Hues included olive green, brown and black. There were even a few fuscia pink numbers, as well as one or two lace blouses whose ruffles and colours gave a nod to the late 80s.
And of course, fabric du jour fur also made a huge appearance on collarless and aviation style jackets as well as calf length buckled boots.

Mr Bailey said before the show, the collection “takes aviation as a pivotal focus but then gets much more decorative. It’s a very detailed collection.”

We couldn’t agree more Mr Bailey, except to say the collection was beautiful.

Tags: A/W 2010, Burberry, Christopher Bailey, London fashion week
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Red Carpet

Elle Style awards: Naomi Campbell pays tribute to Alexander McQueen

By Andrea Petrou on February 23rd, 2010

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Naomi Campbell paid tribute to late British designer Alexander McQueen during her acceptance speech for the ELLE Style Outstanding Contribution Award,

The supermodel who was given the award for her modelling and charity work, also carried on the tribute by wearing one of the designer’s frocks to the ceremony last night.

And it doesn’t end there. Since the designers death, Naomi has been wearing his creations at all the fashion events she’s attended and also made sure his collection was highlighted at the Fashion For Relief show last week.

[via Elle]

Tags: Alexanader McQueen, Elle Style Awards, Naomi Campbell
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Red Carpet

Elle Style awards: Best dressed

By Andrea Petrou on February 23rd, 2010

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It was another night of spectacular dresses by a range of designers at yesterday’s Elle Style Awards but as always there’s always the few that stand out.

First on our best dressed list was the gorgoeus Alexa Chung, who won the Editor’s Choice award. The starlet looked cute and girly in a blue frilled Chanel dress, which she matched up with a Chanel bag.

She was followed by Kristen Stewart who won the ELLE Style award for Woman of The Year, wearing a strapless panelled dress. However it seems the Twighlight star learnt her lesson from the Baftas the night before as she wore, what looked like a hoodie, to keep warm on yesterday’s red carpet

Twins Mary-Kate and Ashley also make it into our best dress list with their vintage and Gothic dresses. Mary Kate opted to show this by wearing head-to-toe Lanvin, while Ashley opted for a vintage Christian Lacroix dress with a dramatic taffeta train.