Tweet Pin It Yes, it’s that time of the year again. The world’s top fashion designers showcase their works on the most publicised catwalks ever for four consecutive weeks in four different fashion capitals. This week is the turn of London Fashion Week, but to wet your appetite I bring you this recap of some [...]

Tweet Pin It Copenhagen Fashion Week took place on August 2-9 this year. If you haven’t heard about it, it is a week organised by the Danish Fashion Institute for the purpose of helping to promote Danish fashion. The week attracts more than 50,000 buyers, designers and members of the fashion press each year, and [...]

Tweet Pin It The runway was on fire with glamour in Spain recently with a fashion fiesta of everyone from Rosa Clará to Jesús Peiró. While traditional strapless wedding dresses made their rounds, flowing white wedding gowns were also all the rage with a few gold stunners in the mix. Floral applique, feathers and ruffles [...]

Tweet Pin It The Paris Couture Fashion Week hit the runways this month displaying the 2010 collections from some of the top designers in the world. Forever showcasing the designer’s ideas, fashion on the runway is portrayed as an inspiration of dreams and a wedding dress traditionally closes a designer’s show. The identity of each [...]

Tweet Pin It Rosa Clará’s 2010 wedding gown collection is a blend of contemporary and traditional, just skirting the edge of daring. While many of the dresses feature sharp lines and three-dimensional design elements, there is also a recurring theme of sweet, dainty and classic. Though many of the dresses play it safe, a few [...]

Tweet Pin It Jesus Peiro aim to create contemporary designs that encompass current trends in bridal fashion. His 2010 collection is no exception. It has successfully embraced the fashion for vintage Hollywood style to create fascinating hybrid of contemporary/ vintage wedding gowns that are perfect for today’s fashion conscious bride. Tweet Pin It

Tweet Pin It Dense laces and tulle stole the runway during the Pronovias 2010 collection at a Spanish Bridal show recently. I noticed Pronovias featured a few wedding dresses with the trumpet style skirt in this particular collection, and added uniqueness by altering the styles with the Spanish style embroidery and lace that they’re known [...]

Tweet Pin It The Ultimate Wedding Sale offers brides in the UK some of the best dresses and the biggest discounts.  Being held at seven locations around the country on June 14th, the show includes designer wedding dresses, shoes, tiaras, veils and other accessories at slashed prices. Some designer gowns are as little as £99 [...]

With a number of designers exhibiting from all over the world, including some renowned Italian designers, the quality of dresses was always going to be extremely high. But I think the award for the most spectacular has to go to designer Ahmed Al Reyaysa, who is from the UAE and is known as the “King of Wedding Dresses”

Tweet Pin It Gender confusion is nothing new to the world of fashion. Chanel practically started riots when they started a trend for tailored suits for women in the 50′s, men in the 80′s sported more eyeliner than women had ever dared to use, and the 90′s saw a general androgynous ambiguity on the catwalks. [...]

Tweet Pin It As you scan the gown from the top, you feel a thrill of excitment, and a tingle of awe at the tailored bodice, embroidered trim, satin waistband, flaring tulle and then SUDDENLY… …the dress is sucked in and trussed up around knee level in a jarring manner that I hope doesn’t become [...]

Tweet Pin It One of the best resources for a bride, The Knot has offered it’s top 50 dresses of designers’ latest collections. Here are my top 10 favourites from their list. The Knot is an American site, and I find it interesting that none of these dresses show the same Greco-Roman influences that have [...]

Tweet Pin It Not to be outdone by it’s northern contemporary, Barcelona, Madrid also holds it’s own huge wedding fashion-fest each year. Madrid has long been synonymous with European fashion, and while the offerings at Barcelona Bridal Week may be more geared towards a commercial audience, The Pasarela de Novios at the Puerto de Europa [...]

Tweet Pin It Barcelona Bridal Week is one of the highlights of the European fashion calendar, and one of the largest features for the wedding industry in the world. Top designers such a Pronovias, Amanda Wakely, and Christian Lacroix show off their latest collections, while new raw talent has the opportunity to introduce fresh ideas [...]