But even now, it isn't enough just to buy any old Christmas jumper, says former Clothes Show presenter Caryn Franklin.
Singular among the clothes in the show is a superbly cut black wool coat and trouser suit of 1928, made for Michael Strange, which was the pseudonym of Blanche Oelrichs, a poet who was once married to the actor John Barrymore.
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She was wearing operating clothes and trying not to show her face.
Alberto and Stefano Piaggi are hoping to organize a series of exhibits in Milan, "and maybe even a fashion show of her clothes, " says her brother.
The show started with clothes in camel, black and gray but these immediately gave way to oversized leopard print sweaters, a short suit in traffic light red and a wispy blue dress with a cutaway hem that was paired with drainpipe trousers.
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Making a show of inspired recycling, the clothes in this gallery offer implicit commentary on materialism, consumerism and waste.
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The storytelling power of clothes is both said and unsaid on the show.
One of the first to live stream its runway show online and to make the clothes immediately available for purchase as soon as they hit the runway.
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But in the crazy world of apparel seasons, the 4th traditionally marks the start of sales on summer clothes and the beginning of the reset to show fall styles.
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The clothes fashion for women these days is tops that show the bellybutton.
But she declined the date that the show offered them: tennis lessons, tennis clothes and a trip to an amusement park.
When car show organizers suggested Roth spruce up the grubby clothes he habitually wore, he acquired a top hat, monocle and set of tails.
Later, somehow the women lost their habits as video footage show them being led to police cars wearing street clothes.
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But she declined the date that the show offered them -- tennis lessons, tennis clothes and a trip to an amusement park.
Her first foray into fashion fame came when she appeared on the fifth season of "Project Runway, " a U.S. reality fashion show where participants compete with each other to create the best clothes.
Show that you care enough to make an effort, whether your clothes are blue-label or not.
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The show started with artists painting the backdrop for the show with prints and lattice, the same motifs found on the clothes.
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The blue and white floral wallpaper that served as the backdrop for the show should have already clued us in on the graceful and elegant clothes that were to come.
Ministry, owned by James Palumbo, son of Lord Palumbo, a former head of the Arts Council, now spans a record company, a magazine, a syndicated radio show, a website on which the club is broadcast live, clothes, and licensed products such as hi-fi equipment.
Kmart has received more than 200 shipping containers full of twill pants and other clothes from Garment Exports Village as recently as the end of April, shipping records show.
The designer, who draws a lot of socialites to his show, including New York's Tinsley Mortimer, "makes clothes that a lot of women of different ages can wear, " says Lebenthal, who personally owns many Hannant pieces.
Waitt, who sports casual clothes and shaggy strawberry-blond hair, is one of myriad monied outsiders buying their way into show business, including Marshall Field heir Frederick (Ted) Field and Federal Express founder Frederick Smith.
"For the first show in Mumbai, we were told we should probably take our passports and a suitcase of clothes as we didn't know if the play would be allowed to go until the end, because the theatre might be stormed, " says Ms Akerkar.
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