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Self-Portrait unveils campaign starring Kate Moss

London-based fashion brand Self-Portrait has released its pre-Fall/Winter collection with a campaign starring British model Kate Moss. Label founder Han Chong stated the latest collection centers around soft fabrics and day-to-night versatility. It features maxi and mini dresses, skirts, organic cotton jumpers, knit cardigans, knit joggers,...

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Anine Bing continues Terry O’Neill collaboration

Anine Bing is launching the third instalment of its collaboration with photographer and long-term inspiration, Terry O’Neill with a limited-edition collection featuring a photograph of British supermodel Kate Moss. Each collection launched as part of the Anine Bing x Terry O’Neill partnership has been specifically selected to honour an...

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Kim Jones unveils Fendi Haute Couture debut

British fashion designer Kim Jones, who was appointed artistic director of Fendi in September 2020, has unveiled his debut haute couture collection for the Italian fashion house. Drawing from seemingly diverse inspirations, from the visual language of Bernini's marbles to Virginia Woolf's time-travelling, gender-blurring novel ‘Orlando’, the...

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The end of Topshop and Arcadia would be the biggest UK collapse of the pandemic

Once the king of the high street, Topshop parent company Arcadia would be the biggest corporate collapse during the time of the pandemic if it goes into administration. With its 500 store portfolio its closure would create giant craters in the high street leaving unfillable gaps. Questions about what will happen to Arcadia’s 350 million pound...

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In pictures: Alexander McQueen taps Kate Moss for AW19 campaign

Alexander McQueen has teamed up with British supermodel and fashion icon Kate Moss for its latest AW19 campaign. Shot by photographer Jamie Hawkesworth in the Northern English countryside which is also home of the brand’s creative director, Sarah Burton, Moss is seen wearing sharply tailored suits and romantic gowns. In the show notes, Burton...

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Zadig and Voltaire to collaborate with Kate Moss

Contemporary French fashion brand Zadig and Voltaire has announced Kate Moss as its muse for its upcoming autumn/winter 2019 campaign, and added that the British model will be working with artistic director Cecilia Bönström on an exclusive collaboration. In a short statement the Parisian brand said that Moss was “more than just a muse” for the...

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Video: Cooking With Kate Moss

Kate Moss, cover star of the May 2019 issue of British Vogue, cooks a roast dinner for her famous friends Edward Enninful, Charlotte Tilbury, Emma Viscountess Weymouth, Kim Jones and Blondey McCoy. Source: British Vogue, YouTube.

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Why female models top the catwalk cash charts

It is a rare exception to the rule: the gender salary gap in the fashion industry means female models are paid more than their male counterparts for the same job. None of the dozens of buffed and toned men parading at the latest Milan menswear shows since Friday can dream of earning anything like female catwalk stars, or of equivalent fame....

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Why top runway fashion models never smile

They wear the world's most beautiful and expensive clothes yet their faces are the picture of blank boredom. Why do fashion models always look so miserable? "You don't smile. It is just not done," said model Ty Ogunkoya as catwalk stars criss-crossed Paris for fashion week. In his decade as a top model, the 26-year-old Nigerian-born Londoner has...

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Top model agencies fined in France for price fixing

Some of the world's top modelling agencies were hit Thursday with a 2.4 million euro fine (2.7 million US dollars ) for price fixing by French competition authorities. Elite, IMG and Next -- who have some of the biggest catwalk stars including Gigi Hadid, Kate Moss and Karlie Kloss on their books -- actively "distorted the basis for commercial...

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Catwalk models beware as Instagram builds new model army

As catwalk stars criss-cross the globe for fashion week season, modelling agencies are increasingly using social media worldwide to scout out their new faces, to the alarm of some. Leading agencies such as IMG, Elite and Nevs and fashion houses including Marc Jacobs have all taken to sites such as photo-sharing service Instagram to recruit...

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Sexual harassment remains rife in modeling industry

Everyone in the fashion industry is aware of the blurred lines that exist between creativity and sexuality, none so more prevalent than in the modelling industry. To create amazing images and campaigns that illicit thought, that inspire, and that capture the zeitgeist means models are subjected to all kinds of odd requests by photographers and...