Women's Fashion

City Guides | Seoul Fashion Week

— April 12, 2010—

For Fashion City, Ana Finel Honigman explores fashion week in cities beyond the fashion capitals

Kring Art Centre, Seoul

"No one can ever find a place with the address," replied the concierge at the Hotel Riviera's help desk when I showed him a printout for a gallery that I wanted to visit. "It is impossible. There are no directions," he assured me. Everything at the Riviera, where Seoul Fashion Week had arranged accommodations for a few press and buyers was tinged by stale tobacco smoke, yet the concierge's advice was unfortunately cle...

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City Guides | Montreal Fashion Week

— March 15, 2010—

For Fashion City, Ana Finel Honigman explores fashion week in cities beyond the fashion capitals

Ying Gao

I have never been anywhere where the city's name is uttered as often and as lovingly by the locals as it is in Montreal. And their enthusiasm is contagious. Although some of the boasts can be a touch naive, Montreal is a wonderfully pleasant city. The 18th edition of Montreal Fashion Week earlier this month represented the aspirations, limitations, appropriate humility and genuine strengths of the city's fashion c...

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City Guides | Istanbul Fashion Week

— February 18, 2010—

For Fashion City, Ana Finel Honigman explores fashion week in cities beyond the fashion capitals

SantralIstanbul, Istanbul Fashion Week

It is only Istanbul Fashion Week's second season and already it fosters no illusions. Despite, or perhaps because of all the flowery language during the press presentations, Istanbul Fashion Week is blatantly a trade-fair. For a country which mass produces much of the world's disposable garments – especially in Europe, where Turkish-made is slightly cheaper and quicker to&n...

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City Guides | Copenhagen Fashion Week

— February 15, 2010—

For Fashion City, Ana Finel Honigman explores fashion week in cities beyond the fashion capitals

Kopenhagen Studio Presents / City Hall

It was a smooth, cool slide through Copenhagen's Fashion Week and its thirty-nine Scandinavian shows last week. The strictly commercial fare was artfully off-set by the impressive proportion of directional, artistically innovative and well-structured collections. Sequins and shine was the trend during the first day, but the shows themselves were somewhat lacklustre. By the second day, however, Danish cre...

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City Guides | Stockholm Fashion Week

— February 12, 2010—

For Fashion City, Ana Finel Honigman explores fashion week in cities beyond the fashion capitals

The Berns, Photography by Kristian Löveborg

Thanks to IKEA, H&M and their high-street brethren, Sweden is a world leader at distilling its own crisp aesthetic and others' designs into the accessible items we wear, work on and live with every day. "Statistics can be made to say anything," concedes Madelaine Levy, the Editor-in-Chief of Bon Magazine, Sweden's tastemaker publication. "But the facts are that Sweden is a powerf...

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City Guides | Sao Paulo Fashion Week

— January 27, 2010—

For Fashion City, Ana Finel Honigman explores fashion week in cities beyond the fashion capitals

Maria Bonita show location A/W10, Sao Paulo Photography by Chris von Ameln Agencia Fotosite

The architectural aesthetic of the Brazilian designers who showed at Sao Paulo Fashion Week this season between January 17 and 22, made perfect sense within the context of the city. Almost all of the collections featured strong angles, geometric structures and a distinct sculptural paneling that mimicked the city’s design.

Built on steep hills and tropical turf, Sao Paulo's cityscape is fashioned out of...