Giles Deacon won the Designer of the Year Award presented by the British Fashion Council after winning New Designer of the Year just two years ago.
Past winners of the Best Designer award were Christopher Bailey, Phoebe Philo, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalyan and John Galliano.
Kate Moss was named Model of the Year and Marios Schwab New Designer of the Year. Vivienne Westwood, the Grand Dame of British Fashion, picked up Kate Moss's award since the glamorous but sometimes debauched supermodel could not make the event. Westwood ended up winning the Red Carpet Designer of the Year even though she admitted she did not really know that the category even existed.
Imelda Marcus, who was famous for amassing 1,500 pairs of shoes, has finally given into temptation and has decided to launch her own footwear line.
The former lady of the Philippines is known for her extravagant lifestyle during her husband's 20 year Presidential reign which was notorious for unchecked corruption.
The family was accused of looting as much as $10 billion dollars from the people of the Philippines . Her shoe line will be affordable and aimed at young people.
...London
Borrowing a page from H&M the Gap partnered with the hot designer of the moment Roland Mouret to produce a capsule collection of 10 dresses.
The French born designer and the American mass retailer will donate 50% of the profits generated by the sale of the dresses to the RED initiative.
The global project was launched earlier this year by Bono and Bobby Shriver to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
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Roland Mouret with Lily Cole and models in his Gap collection
...New York
Joan Rivers learned the hard way to think twice before she reaches for a free swag bag.
At the recent event for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children she snatched up a celebrity loot bag like most of the other VIP guests. However the comedienne placed her late mother's antique handbag inside her goodie bag and put it down beside her when she posed for photos with Deborah Norville and Rosie O'Donnell. When she left she retrieved the wrong gift bag not realizing that her cherished mother's heirloom was not inside.
...Mumbai
Last season Lakme Fashion Week, India 's premiere fashion event was upstaged by a series of wardrobe malfunctions that included exploding zippers, popping buttons, slipping tops and disintegrating seams that left too many sensitive body parts exposed on the runway. These misadventures were viewed as scandalous by a traditional society.
The Indian media were accused of acting immaturely by constantly airing the incidents over and over again. Although record audiences tuned into the coverage very few people noticed the fashion.
This year to avoid the same thing happening undercover Police were present at all shows. All garments were required to be checked for possible weaknesses and all designers, choreographers and models were given a 28-point checklist to follow as part of the morality squad's declared war on tear-orrisim
...London
According to media reports the real reason Naomi Campbell was detained for 12 hours in a London Police station after she was arrested for allegedly assaulting a drug counselor was that she was too drunk to be questioned.
Instead the officers put her in a holding cell and allowed her to sleep it off. A source was quoted as saying.... “Several times during the evening she was visited and it was clear she was still not in a fit state to be interviewed.”
...Los Angeles
When Oscar winning Best Actress Reese Witherspoon and actor Ryan Phillippe announced their recent separation it brought the number of best actress winners who left their husbands in the last ten years to six after receiving the award.
They included Hillary Swank, Halle Berry, Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow and Helen Hunt. However Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand and Nicole Kidman were all single when they won.
