Vintage Sundays at the Empire

Fashion Events, Belfast

Northern Ireland vintage lovers don’t miss the last of Frock Around the Clock’s Vintage Sundays at the Empire summer series today from 12pm to 4.30pm at the Empire Music Hall, Botanic Avenue, Belfast. There will be eighteen exhibitors showcasing vintage clothing, accessories and jewellery and payment is just GBP2 at the door.

Jersey Shore Star Turns Fashion Designer

JWoww Launches Her Own Clothing Line

Tonight is the night we have all been waiting for as the second series of MTV’s cult show, Jersey Shore, hits our screens.  In the last eight months Snooki, The Situation, JWoww and DJ Pauly D have gone from unknowns to household names, but what few people know is that JWoww (Jenni Farley) has also become a fashion designer. At least, that is, she has her own line of clothing, the appropriately named Filthy Couture.

The line which debuted at Ghostbar at the Palms hotel in Las Vegas boasts Farley’s trademark skimpy, cleavage baring dresses in addition to swim wear and T-shirts. However, with prices for the dresses starting at $319.99 and climbing to $539.99 one is reminded of Dolly Parton’s oft quoted words, “you'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!” If that is the look you are going for, though, you can check out the collection at filthycouture.com, otherwise if you must have a little bit of Jersey Shore style in your life my advice is to stick to Ed Hardy and St Tropez.
 

Filthy Couture Launch, Video

Goodone Sample Sale

Fashion Events - London

Mark your calendars ladies, recycled clothing brand Goodone is having a sample sale, 12th August 2010 from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. at the Goodone Studio 2-4 Southgate Road, London.

Mad Men gets the Barbie Treatment

Mattel Release Limited Edition Mad Men Barbies to Coincide with the Show's Fourth Season

Whenever I was little the one thing I asked Santa for every Christmas was a special edition Barbie, the type that the local toy stores only stocked at the holidays and who came resplendent in a ball gown with a fur trimmed velvet jacket. Unfortunately for me I had two younger sisters who just so happened to be experts in destruction; they coloured in my copy of Matilda, played catch with my mother’s wedding crystal and gave my pregnant cat a bath in neat fairy liquid! My sisters have since grown up and grown out of their destructive phase, but I have yet to grow out of my desire for a special edition Barbie. That is even less likely to happen now given that Mattel is releasing Barbie and Ken versions of four Mad Men characters.

Joan Holloway, Roger Sterling, Don and Betty Draper are all getting the Barbie treatment and not only do they appear in the show’s distinctive fashions, but the dolls themselves are in the style of Barbie as she would have appeared in the early 1960s. Joan Holloway comes in a purple skirt suit complete with her trademark pen necklace while Betty Draper is in a floral ball gown accessorised with blue pumps and pearls. The dolls are available from July 2010 in order to coincide with the start of Mad Men’s fourth season on AMC. There will be a limited run of 7000 – 10000 copies of each doll and they will be available in speciality stores and online at amctv.com and forbiddenplanet.com from August.
 

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Gown Fetches £213,000

Fashion News Daily

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Gown Fetches £213,000  Marilyn Monroe's iconic pink gown from the Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend scene in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes has fetched GBP 213,000 at auction exceeding the asking price of GBP 170,000. Also on sale at Hollywood auction house, Profiles in History, on June 10-12 was Mary Poppins's magic carpet bag which was sold for GBP 65, 274 and Johnny Depp's scissor hands from Edward Scissorhands which fetched GBP 18, 885.

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