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Tags: Australia | designers | Ksubi

Ksubi 2009 season

They're a group of Australian surfers who formed a fashion label called Ksubi (pronounced Sue-bee) that has now branched out into art installations, books, music and more. Fashionbrain talked to the duo during a recent stop in town...

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Tags: Christian Dior | haute couture | profile

Christian Dior Fashion Week Paris

Christian Dior credited his brilliant-but-short career to a roll of the dice. "I would be ungrateful, and certainly incorrect, if I didn't write, in all capitals, the word 'LUCK' at the beginning of the adventure that became my career," Dior penned as the first line of his autobiography, "Christian Dior et Moi."

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Tags: Escada | Fall / Winter 2009 | sport

ESCADA SportEscada's reputation for high quality casual luxury, enlivened by striking colours and design know-how, once more finds a place in the label's exciting autumn/winter collection.

It's that time of year again with fashionistas around the world crazy with anticipation at their favourite designers fall/winter 2009 collections.

Hoping to catch a glimpse of ESCADA Sport, loyalists will not be disappointed and there are no surprises here as the label keeps close to its philosophy that sportswear dressing is feel-good dressing with an easy style that is practical yet casually luxurious.

One of the keys to ESCADA Sport's success is colour, which is crucial in their fall/winter collection. Winter capri pants, jeans, blazers and parkas are ignited by bright, winter whites and bolder raspberry, steel blue, Bordeaux, soft pink and stone..

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During the early sixties there were great changes in America, particularly, in the civil rights movements.

This meant black popular music became a lot more accepted. Soul and Motown were the main musical styles providing good fast music with a catchy beat which people could easily dance to.

These artists who sang for these labels such as Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson performed in good suits and always appeared very stylish carrying on the tradition of the jazz musicians of the decade before.

Clubs in London picked up on the popularity of this music and started to provide venues where young working class people could go to and dance. The youngsters who were attracted to by this style of music would naturally imitate their idols kicking off a trend of always dressing very stylish. Fashion was of most importance to these working class people who were known as the Mods...

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