Couture Christian Lacroix Falls

Paris: a bankruptcy court has reduced Christian Lacroix couture to a licensing operation. Efforts to find a potential buyer for Lacroix couture proved unsuccessful following reports that there was not enough evidence of financial plans for a re launch.

Monika Soszynska, an employee in Lacroix couture told The Times “It’s surreal; we can’t believe that it’s stopping, it’s not possible”.

The company will lose one hundred employees and will be left with a meagre eleven whose responsibility will be the management of Lacroix’s other products (wedding dresses, perfumes).

Seemingly nobody is untouchable in these difficult economic times.

* Good luck to Lacroix and in finding a solution to this difficult problem *

Fashion the Future : Sustainable Fashion

Following the fashion show last week fashion hot mess is continuing the ethical with its style and inspiration.

With this inspiration what better than the Fashion the Future awards held at the Fashion College of London at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion November 25.

The mission of the awards is to challenge the fashion industry concerning its casual attitude towards waste - both the waste of materials natural and manmade.

We are all too aware of economic struggles today and a large proportion of individuals no longer have disposable income. A lack of disposable income goes hand in hand with a lack of disposable fashion pieces. This careful attitude the recession has forced us to construct has created a platform for sustainable fashion to establish and promote itself, whilst inspiring us to be sustainable with our fashion.

Fashion the Future entrants have combined creativity and sustainability to inspire and raise awareness of Sustainable Fashion.


http://www.sustainable-fashion.com/

http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/53522.htm





If Anna Wintour can wear a dress more than once, so can we. Whether it is in the same form when first worn or re-created into another stylish piece thanks to the inspiration from the Fashion the Future awards.

The pieces by the entrants certainly inspire fashion hot mess to create, recreate and then recreate into something fabulously different yet using the original material and piece!

Waste not want not.

Recession Maxout Glasgow Fashion

Fashion Hot Mess offering best luck and support to Glasgow Fashion Week 2009 which announced this morning on its Twitter page that the event has been postponed this year due to its venue partner The Lighthouse going into administration.

We hope that some good fabulous samaritan gives The Lighthouse the financial support it needs and deserves to get the venue and Glasgow Fashion Week back on its feet.

What Recession Say Fashion Punks?

"Today's economic climate..." / "Sales figures down..." / "Job losses..."

Doesn't the rece$$sion depress you?! Some of us have jobs, some of us do not and those of us that have jobs may not be secure in them. What do us fashion addicts do when we're depressed to brighten up a dark day? Retail therapy of course! The one form of fabulous escapism we all have in common. If we have to be more aware of spending during a recession, how do we feed our fashion addiction?

This thought will have been echoed around the fashion world and let me give you a solution to this problem with two words: customise and D.I.Y. The punk look is in and this means safety pins a go-go.

Vena Cava unveiled their Spring 2010 collection in New York 10th September. Safety pins on their pieces added a rebellious edge


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Indulge yourself and feed your fashion addiction! Recession doesn't mean we have to come to a slow halt with fashion. Treat yourself to a big box of safety pins (uber cheap) and begin your customising yourself!