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Pamela Love and Creatures of the Wind may not have won the 2011 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, but getting a line at J. Crew is a pretty sweet consolation prize. The two design finalists, as well as winner Joseph Altuzarra, have created capsule collections with the all-American retailer. For the project, each designer put a preppy twist on their own signatures: espadrilles, pencil skirts, twinsets and some distressed denim all find their way into the collections. The capsules, which will all be...Read Full Story

The the second straight season, Tommy Hilfiger has enlisted 10 emerging to reinterpret the classic Tommy Hilfiger Trench Coat using their own design aethestic for the CFDA?Vogue Fashion Fund’s American in Paris initiative.  The ten trench coats, which showed in Paris last week, will be sold at the Tommy Hilfiger stores in New York City, Paris on March 3 and www.tommy.com in Europe starting March 12, for $298 each with 100% of the proceeds donated to the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund.  Only three of...Read Full Story

The 8th annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards were held last night at the Skylight SOHO in New York. The fashion fund was established to “provide financial awards and business mentoring to emerging fashion designers.” THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO star Rooney Mara looked stunning in a Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein dress. Loving her bangs and goth chic look. Puerto Rican model Joan Smalls wore a dress by this years CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner Altuzarra. Amanda Seyfried in a crystal...Read Full Story

Chloe Moretz, Olivia Wilde, as well as Amanda Seyfried attend a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards.Photo: Getty Images As a single would pattern from an eventuality thrown by a Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) AND Vogue magazine, a immature Hollywood starlets showed up in droves as well as clad all their excellent threads. While no a single direction or pattern residence prevailed upon a red runner (though Joseph Altuzarra, Pamela Love, as well as Creatures of a Wind did all...Read Full Story

CutOnYourBias.com and Several Rising Stars Merge Crowdsourcing, Design and Social Media for a Revolutionary Evolution of E-Commerce New York, NY (PRWEB) May 03, 2012 Cut On Your Bias, the crowdsourced social-commerce platform for womenswear, menswear and home items is the new fashion website that allows consumers to interact on preproduction decisions related to fabric, color and silhouette. All options available for online interaction are pre-selected by the designers themselves, creating...Read Full Story

Last night the 8th Annual CFDA/VOGUE Fashion Fund Awards took place at Skylight SOHO in NYC.  Joseph Altuzarra awarded the 300,000 prize that will go towards funding his career in fashion.  Coco Rocha in Suno, Lala Anthony in  Zac Posen, Jessica Stam in Band of Outsiders, Zoe Kravitz in Alexander Wang, Amanda Seyfried in Prabal Gurung, Liya Kebede in Cushnie et Ochs , Rooney Mara in Calvin Klein , Joan Smalls, Rachel Roy and much more attended the awards. Image credit wireimage TweetRead Full Story

The 8th Annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards at the Skylight SOHO on November 14, 2011 in New York CityAnd the Winner of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Is . . .  Joseph Altuzarra!!! Along with runners-up Pamela Love and Creatures of the Wind's Shane Gabier and Chris Peters and finalists including Carly Cushnie and Michele Ochs.The winner and runners-up with Rooney Mara and members of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund selection committee.Photo via VogueRead Full Story

Joe Jonas during a 8th Annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards during a Skylight SOHO upon Nov 14, 2011 in New York City.Photo: Splash News/Getty Images It’s unequivocally formidable to demeanour divided from a eyes of a single Joe Jonas, even from a 2D screen. There’s something simmering during a back of them, a little arrange of effect being baked up, as well as his inclination for smoldering hijinks seems to enlarge when he tilts his conduct somewhat downward, his eyebrows arched with Puck...Read Full Story

For those in the know, fashion week can be a lavish experience if you are an American Express card holder.  The credit card company has partnered with Mercedes Benz Fashion Week to give its card holders the opportunity to attend some of the most must attend fashion shows and be entertained in the American Express Skybox. Tickets to the Skybox don’t come cheap but there is a benefit to buying one.  Amex donates proceeds from sales of its Skybox tickets to the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund and has...Read Full Story

Scottish-born designer Jonathan Saunders beat out eight other designers including Mary Katrantzou, Marios Schwab and Nicholas Kirkwood to take home the British Fashion Council/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund award.In addition to a £200,000 cash prize — which translates roughly to $315,000 at current exchange rates and proves that the dollar is pretty much worthless —  Saunders will also receive mentoring from the BFC.“I’m so happy about winning the fund,” Saunders said. “The last 12 months have...Read Full Story