October 9, 2024

Barbie Pink

You don’t have to look farther than Hollywood to discover the next must-have color of the season.  Barbie the movie maybe a distant memory for 2023, but Barbie Pink is everywhere you look.  The 2024 Golden Globes was splashed with pink on Barbie’s star Margot Robbie and uber fashionista Jennifer Lopez struck a pose on […]

Will Work for Shoes

Who wants to be seen on the Academy Award’s red carpet? Everyone! Unless you are nominated, you need to look for an angle to get your brand seen on Oscar night. Shoe guru Stuart Weitzman came up with the “million dollar” shoe angle with Laura Harring wearing 464 diamonds! Knowing that any dress these lovely […]

Custom Couture

Before it was the norm for custom designs on the BIG red carpet, Brian Rennie for Escada, was an early pioneer. From the early sketches, fabric swatches to seeing the final results was hard work and hand holding!

Book Reveals Celebrity Product-Placement Ploys

Why have we seen a dozen paparazzi photos in recent weeks of celebrities wearing Current/Elliott’s leopard-print “ Stiletto” jeans? Surely it’s not a coincidence that Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicky Hilton, Mandy Moore and Isla Fisher all have the same jeans. More likely, it’s that a publicist “seeded” them, meaning the jeans were gifts to famous fashion influencers. […]

The Business of the Academy Award Red Carpet

This time of year, signs of Christmas abound.  If you work in fashion, it is also the count-down – and the race – to dress celebrities attending the annual Academy Awards and the red carpet’s style parade. Shipments of designer and fashion house attire arrive to be viewed, tried and worn on Hollywood’s biggest night.   […]