Dolce & Gabbana have been the talk of Milan Fashion Week which wrapped up yesterday.

Dolce & Gabbana’s Fall/Winter 2010 collection was the 50th fashion collection for the design pair. This is also their 25th year showing at Milan Fashion Week and the show celebrated this incredible feat.

The designers stayed true to their traditional looks of black, silk, and lace with a smattering of their signature leopard animal prints. The first part of the collection showed fitted jackets with sexy and very short lacy skirts. Followed with an homage to Chanel with Chanel style suits and continued the lady like fashion trend for fall echoed by other designers with demure fitted over the knee polka dot dresses.

Take a look at the video here:

[Photo via Steffano Gabbana]

Last season Canadian fashion designer Mark Fast made fashion headlines by using plus-size models in his revealing Spring/Summer 2010 runway show. Yesterday at London Fashion Week, the designer stayed true to his vision and used curvy models in his knitwear show again.

While other runways shows featured tradition size zero models, ABC News reports Mark Fast was adamant about making sure his clothes were modeled on real looking women. He has stood by his vision of celebrating all women through fashion regardless of size.

Mark Fast is getting good reviews for his ideas. The fashion critic from the Telegraph said, “I really enjoyed the show because I think Mark has really developed and evolved as a designer… He’s doing things that ordinary people could wear, as the size 16 models demonstrated.”

Mark Fast’s Fall/Winter 2010 collection is much less revealing than his previous show. This season he added more to his collection than just his trademark knitting. The Mark Fast Fall/Winter 2010 fashion show featured tight fitting and draped dresses with detailing at the neckline, light skirts and cropped capes. The colours spanned from neutrals of black and brown to vibrant jewel tones of red and orange.

Watch Mark Fast’s Fall/Winter 2010 show from London Fashion Week here:

[Photo via Kari Estrada]

Celebrities and fashion designers came together last night to finish the first day of New York Fashion Week with a bang. The Heart Truth Red Dress fashion show is a star-studded event where celebrities model red dresses made by top fashion designers to raise awareness of women’s heart disease.

Celebrities involved in the show included Heidi Klum, Kim Kardashian, Joan Collins, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Kimora Lee Simmons. Designers who created red dresses for the fashion show were John Galliano, Oscar De La Renta, Marchesa and Jenny Packham.

All of the dresses will be auctioned off to raise money for research.

The fashion show is meant to be a fun event with the celebrities mixing it up on the catwalk, smiling and waving for the cameras. Actress Felicity Huffman even ran back to kiss her husband.

All of the celebrities looked beautiful in their dresses. Check out some clips of the Heart Truth Fashion Show here:

[photo via Kashishds]

BCBGMaxAzria showed early yesterday morning. The fashion line was one of the first to hit the runway of Bryant Park.

The BCBGMaxAzria line for Fall/Winter 2010 has many layered looks. The silk wrap dress was popular on their runway. Many of the looks were accessorized with big belts. Colours were mainly grey and black with punches of yellow and blue. A few studded and sequined dresses were mixed into the fashion line. Skirts and dresses had asymmetrical cuts.

ABC News reported that husband and wife design team Max and Lubov Azria wanted a “nonchalant style” and were inspired by  “a clean and modern approach to fashion.”

WWD called this “their best collection in seasons.” They said: It was this consistently fluid statement that seamlessly fused dressed-up days and dressed-down nights into a soft, singular BCBG mood that was emphatically strong.

See the BCBGMaxAzria Fall/Winter 2010 fashion show here:

[photo via Kari Estrada]

While the opening day of New York Fashion Week was overshadowed by the tragic death of designer Alexander McQueen, the shows went on.

Canadian outerwear designer Mackage kicked off shows at Bryant Park on Thursday morning. The Mackage Fall/Winter 2010 line included pieces in neutral colours: white, blue, grey, black and brown.

WWD called the Mackage line “a fun and edgy outing.” The line included leather studded shorts, pencil skirts, and skinny pants. The outerwear ranged from leather jackets to wool coats and warm winter coats with fur lined hoods.

See the finale of the Mackage Fall/Winter 2010 fashion show here:

[photo via Kari Estrada]

Every girl dreams of her fairy tale wedding. It begins at a young age as we are watching Disney Princesses marry their Prince Charming.

Disney Fairy Tale Weddings can give you the dress of your dream and turn you into a real princess for your wedding this year. The Shopping Blog revealed that at New York Bridal Week, Disney Fairy Tale Weddings debuted their Princess Tiana wedding dress inspired by the one shown in the new movie The Princess And The Frog. Designer Kristie Kelly says the dress has “just the right amount of romance and sultry.” This adds to their line that already has dresses themed after popular princesses: Cinderella, Belle, Ariel, Snow White, Jasmine and Sleeping Beauty.

See the Princess Tiana dress and the whole Disney Fairy Tale Weddings fashion show here:

Be it jungle or post-apocalyptic, fashion designer Christophe Decarnin certainly wasn’t going subtle or commercial with his spring 2010 collection for Balmain presented at Paris Fashion Week.

The wunderkind designer had set fashion on fire last season with starting  fashion crazy with his military jacket. It seemed for a while that every celebrity such as Rihanna, Beyonce , Victoria Beckham and others just had to have one of the sharp shouldered creations.

Nevertheless, this new collection full of Jane ( as in Tarzan) and Tina ( as in Mad Max) mini skirts, lots and lots of metallics and gold lame and tough girl leathers has received mixed reviews. Some fashion chronicles such as Women’s Wear Daily swoon and others such as the New York Magazine are not impressed. Take a look at the show:

As we told you previously, the iconic house of Christian Lacroix had filed for bankruptsy and was facing liquidation. This threw the entire high fashion industry into a state of angst as clearly if one major fashion house falls, others will follow. So you can practically hear the collective, yet still tentative sigh of relief as a sheikh in shining armour has submitted a bid for the company which would preserve all operations in tact. Lacroix told WWD :

“As a Latin guy, I’ll believe it when it happens,” Lacroix told WWD on Wednesday. However, he added, “I feel confident,” particularly because the approach came to the designer directly via his XCLX company, through which he does a variety of projects, from signature hotels and opera costumes to tramways for French cities. “They understood my true work: crossing fashion, art and design,” Lacroix said.