http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/fashion Fashion news and features en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:02:18 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042275-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml Paris Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042276-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PARIS -- The Lebanese designer Elie Saab turned to the dark side for his autumn/winter show and going bad has never looked so good for the designer. His femme fatales in form-fitting daywear looked deadly desirable in all-black ensembles. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042277-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml CÉDRIC CHARLIER is a designer who has a thing for monochromatic outfits. Cacharel is a 50-year-old French house known for its colorful prints. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042278-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PARIS -- Hermès is a leather house -- and just in case you should forget it, everything from a top hat through a three-piece suit to extraordinary crocodile boots was made out of skin. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042279-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PARIS -- The images of streaming water projected on the vast walls of the Valentino show area followed the blowing trees of the haute couture season. But this time, the work of the visual artist Kenneth Anger was a reflection of the forward flow of the designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042009-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml LAST month, Johnny Weir, the United States figure skater, switched one of his costumes for the Vancouver Olympics after he said he received threats from anti-fur activists for accessorizing his already colorful wardrobe with just a touch of white fox. At almost the same moment, fashion designers in New York were showing fall collections with so much fur that they seemed to collectively stick a thumb in the eye of political correctness. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042010-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml FOR most people, the 2009 movie "Away We Go," directed by Sam Mendes, has all but faded from memory, a wry little comedy that didn't gain much traction at the box office and was all but ignored during the past awards season. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042011-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PERMANENTLY dyeing hair goes hand in hand with damaging it. The process dries out hair and leaves it jagged. Ammonia -- used to open the hair fiber so that dye molecules can nestle in -- is as delicate as a can opener. It also smells horrid and sets delicate scalps afire. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042012-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PARIS -- Arcs of water rose from a fountain and fell in curtains of spray at the Louis Vuitton show Wednesday, the closing day of the four-week, four-city international women's shows for autumn 2010. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1042013-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml RYAN, Ryan, Ryan. It's Journalism 101: who, what, when, where and why, as in, "Who are you wearing?" Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041562-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml WHEN the world was young, there was a phenomenon loosely referred to as the Magical World of Television. Pains were taken to dazzle the eye. Chandeliers appeared extra-prismatic, with mescaline auras. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041563-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml AROUND the time I graduated from college, my parents sold the house I grew up in. It came as a shock to me to learn that my bedroom, which I had always assumed would be preserved for future generations to visit -- sort of like a Presidential library with a Bobby Sherman poster on one wall -- was being dismantled. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041564-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml LIKE millions of Americans, Marisa Tomei used to play with a Hula-Hoop as a child. And like most of those same Americans, she hadn't hooped since. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041565-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PARIS Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041566-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PARIS -- The wall is pitch black, yet as eyes adjust to the dark, outfits appear like cats in the night: the gleam of satin on a lapel, the sheen of a button, the outline of "le smoking" -- the tuxedo suit. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041328-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml There was a time, not all that long ago, when luxury fashion was found only in a magazine's glossy pages or a trip to Avenue Montaigne, Bond Street and the like. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041329-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PARIS -- Sometimes a fashion moment is defined as much by what is not on the runway as by the catwalk favorites. And with only one more day of autumn/winter 2010 in Paris before the season's close, dressy evening clothes are fading from the limelight. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041330-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml Paris Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041331-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml PARIS -- Over the years, the designer Andrew Gn has built up his own fashion universe of opulence and elegance that he inhabits so easily. This season, his inspiration came directly from his own home and a Louis XV commode in his study, as well as the book "Persian Letters" by Montesquieu. With those keystones, there is always a risk of going overboard on the gilding -- but that did not happen to Mr. Gn. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041332-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml Paris Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041194-314.stm?cmpid=fashion.xml Saturday-Sunday: Lintons at the Waterfront will hold a prom trunk show to preview the newest prom fashions from Beyonce's House of Dereon, Jovani, Aidan Mattox, Sean, Nicole Miller and Xeniya by Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500