school absolutely fabulous Vogue Fashion

   CAN Ergen, Turkey, leaned forward, as if you a secret. "Vogue is a storyteller," he said.

Ergen, 21, is one of 45 students who recently took the first Vogue 10 weeks certificate course in fashion Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design magazine in Soho, London based, just minutes from Vogue House.

I'm sloppy as soon as I walk through the doors of the university. Keep to the I advise myself for hours the day before and seemed better suited in my dimly lit room feels uncomfortable in shabby lights Vogue.

The lobby is of mirrors that dominates create the illusion of a large, well-lit room. As I'm in the middle of the room, surrounded by reflections of my shaggy itself, I realize mirrors are also a gentle reminder to students not in school in jeans with holes or stained blouse visit.

Officially, the area of ​​East OCN Level 4 Certificate in Fashion (Vogue) (QCF), the short course, which costs £ 6,600, was announced by Nicholas Coleridge, chairman of Condé Nast International designed.

A one-year course costs £ 24,000 is provided in October 2013.

The certificate is valid for the operation of the international fashion calendar, the retail of luxury and high-street fashion design and art direction, brand marketing, and thus practical exercises, workshops, visits and conferences designer personalities in the industry.

Ergen is one of three boys who attend the course and the Vogue described as the "fashion bible".

He said he wants to learn the "way of Vogue" for the study of communication and fine arts at the Academy of Bordeaux in France and teaching art and fashion Parsons, School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.

"In our daily lives, we wear on our body art. Fashion is an art form and a way to communicate," he said. "I think we are really happy to see the inside of Vogue," he added.

When I was in the building that looks more like an art gallery in the school led me, I feel like I have to see the inside of Vogue. The library is littered with glossy magazines, coffee table books and "look books" and is by far the most crisp archives of the University, with its stacks of books.

The main conference room where the great and the good of the industry gathered for the opening of school is subdued, with interactive screens that adorn its gleaming white walls.

Mirror paneled doors remind me again my appearance below normal.

As I presented to the students, I am for a number of beauties malnourished Burberry macs before and sweaters Chanel.

"I thought it was going to be like The Devil Wears Prada. Absolutely terrifying," says 24-year-old Camille Lappierre, Nimes.

"I was surprised at how friendly everyone was surprised. I know it sounds like a cliché but it's true."

I must humble when I discover are just as serious and confident that the students who I was when I began my studies was in philosophy. Aged between 18 and 32, there is a real sense of camaraderie between them.

Although more than half of the students from the UK and Europe, some traveled from as far away as the United States, Mexico, South America, the Middle East, the Far East, Turkey, Eastern Europe and Australia for the course. International mode is 23 different countries, of which presented no higher fees.

One of the latest is here Alice Carver, 19, from London. Alice is fresh out of sixth form. They decided to follow the course of 10 weeks during his time off, while they want to decide what career path they follow.

"University is UK £ 9,000 a year. I did not want to go to college for three years and study a topic I have not entered," she said.

"It's good to be surrounded by people who love the same thing. Everyone wants to be here, nobody is going to study. There is no rivalry. Everyone is looking for what everyone else is doing and what the experience that everyone has . "

Of course, the students look like they just got off the podium, rather than in front of the No. 38 bus.

"The night before I throw all my clothes on my bed and find you had to wear the right outfit," says 18-year-old Julia Wood, from Cape Town.

"Everyone has a style and a different way, but I always feel like I can not wear my sweater with holes in."

The Condé Nast College team of the client Susie Forbes, a former deputy editor of Vogue, deputy director Dr. Gary Pritchard, who served as dean, art, media and design, along the University of Wales, and Course Director Angela Jones, a academic adviser at the London College of Fashion and the Domus Academy in Milan.

Fashion design, publishing, fashion and fashion business: The program is broadly divided into three areas.

According to Forbes, the school is small enough that even if they can not adjust the course for each student, they can afford to be light on your feet.

Alexandra Shulman grass complete three projects over the next 10 weeks as they cover learning initiatives, they can choose how the work is presented.

"We find our strengths and develop them. This encourages us to be more confident in ourselves," Carver said.

The college - whose loans an iPad for each student for the duration of the course - also initiated discussions Twitter for students every Monday morning (week 1: When celebrities are fashion designers) as a means of integrating social media into student learning.

The prospectus of the university promises "unrivaled industry leader connections and partnerships, and a unique approach to fashion insiders."

"Condé Nast only would you be able to get all these connections and all of these possibilities to see what happens in the industry," says 22-year-old Deanne Benares, the Philippines, sees rates as a way to the fashion journalism.

"I love how you can put together something intellectual and creative thing," she said.

Forbes has assured me that his students are not treated differently when they apply for jobs or internships at Condé Nast Publications.

"You can not be applied in the same way as any other, but they are not an exemption," she said.

"It's really important, not a promise to make someone an internship or a job because people start buying during the training and use us as a stepping stone."

Instead, she believes that the certificate for students the variety of jobs that exist in the fashion industry highlights. "As a first step in this world, it's a real revelation for the students," she said.

At the end of the tour, I spit a dazzling entrance Condé Nast and bright, the dusty streets of Soho, disheveled my outfit right at home again.

I'm with the students the passion and commitment of Forbes, a feeling in my gut tells me impressed that the candidates who will be tried by the legendary brand, and £ 6,600 a pop, this brand is incredibly expensive. However, the rubbing of the aristocracy of fashion has never go too cheap, is not it?

Cynicism aside, the course offers an exciting approach to the assessment and teachers who are well placed to help students with their feet in the door of an industry that is notoriously exclusive.

As Forbes right, they whistled through the revolving door of Vogue House as we speak.

The authors of the fashion police claim E! Employees try to sabotage the strike screw come to benefit show!

  Writers more E! 'S Fashion Police are currently on strike, so they fair wages, can now get protected under the WGA, and they can (supposedly) keep all the money from their unpaid overtime ...

And because they are not currently working (ie not an income), the authors propose expected profits at the famous comedy club The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles on Tuesday to help pay their billz.

Well, this is where shit gets weird.

Our source says the writer FP benefit show sold out very quickly, which is good, is not it? But it seems that all the tickets have been purchased by one person ...

E! Vice President John Najarian!

WTF?

Our source is just as confused as we are, mostly because writers are paid for the concert, even if no one shows up.

Can not let comedy writers, a public as part of a plan to have their strike silence?

Or maybe the E! execs want to fill the theater with hecklers?

Anyway, something is wrong down tomorrow night!

Fashion Brand Lisa Ho collapses

  Delta Goodrem may find other designers for his suit pants controversial after designer Lisa Ho plunged into administration last week.

The Company agrees to go under, as they struggle in difficult trading conditions on a growing list of Australian fashion retailers. Since the global financial crisis, Colorado, Brown Sugar, Bettina Liano, Ojay and hypermarket shoes have all closed.

Local retailers are not only competing with online stores, but a number of international fashion chains have recently hired a business in Australia, including Topshop and Zara.

There is less than a month, Lisa Ho designs examining an IPO on the National Stock Exchange, which later in favor of the prosecution of a case of private equity was abandoned. The company serves 10 flagship stores, shop online and outlets with David Jones (DJS.AX) department stores.

"However, the premium fashion is under pressure from online sales, such as the retail of fashion changes to the market's expectations and requirements, to reduce costs," the company has warning. Accounts show Lisa Ho designs a loss last year of $ 2.4 million, which was attributable strategic errors, so there is too much clothing in spring / summer and not enough for making winter / autumn next season.

The management does not necessarily mean the end of the fashion house of 30 years. Administrator HLB Mann Judd says he will go through the assets of the company and are looking for a buyer, but in the meantime, all the shops will continue to trade.

The most likely buyer would be David Jones, Myer Holdings (MYR.AX) or even prime investment Solomon Lew (PMV.AX). All three are, to develop their own brands, and reduce their dependence on offshore designer.

Foolish take

For the reincarnation of a number of Australian fashion brands, including Charlie Brown, sitting and waiting, Bettina Liano and Lisa Ho designs Tsubi has a good chance born again. But it is rather part of a large stable of brands, instead of being an independent retailer.

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patriarch Ottavio Missoni fashion brand dies in Italy

  OTTAVIO Missoni, the patriarch of the legendary fashion brand knit zigzag pattern has a chic touch of color and style to many well-dressed women, died on Thursday in northern Italy. He was 92

A statement issued by Missoni SpA said he "died peacefully" at his home in the city Sumirago Thursday. The city, near the city of Varese, also houses the headquarters of the company.

It was sad for a second family in a matter of months. Earlier this year, disappeared the eldest child of Mr. Ottavio, the company's CEO Vittorio Missoni, 58, with his wife and four other while flying in a small plane over the holidays on a Venezuelan island. They have never been found and the cause of death remains a mystery.

Ottavio Missoni started the company in 1953 with his wife Rosita Jelmini who survives him. She went on to create a dynasty mode, hold three children of the couple and their children in the development of the brand.

Creative Director of the company is the couple's daughter, Angela, and a third child, Luca, work in a technical role in society. Family businesses are a feature of Italian companies, often starting with a small business and slowly expanded with the help of loyal employees often.

Born 11 February 1921 in Dubrovnik today, a picturesque coastal town in Croatia Adriatic Sea, Missoni used to say he came into the world of fashion almost by accident. His wife's family owned a textile factory and shawls made. The couple started his own company to produce knitwear shop of a craftsman in Gallarate, near Milan.

Initially produced sportswear, probably by Missoni himself, who inspired a star and athletics, which specializes in the 400-meter hurdles race and was. He has won several national medals, and participated in the Olympic Games in 1948.

The company expanded, eventually build headquarters in Sumirago. But the philosophy of applying the eye of a craftsman detail and accuracy has continued to make the issue of fashion on the catwalks of Milan and in stores around the world, as their brand became world.

Missoni, who often wore their own designs in everyday life, showed her collection in Milan in 1966 for the first time. The following year, tops a show in Florence transparent sparked outrage, but they were germinated on a fashion trend that would later in Europe.

Their ways of signing have a good reputation for resistance to wear and to many seasons changing whims of fashion survive. Among the exhibits in their honor was one of the Whitney Museum in New York. The Metropolitan Museum in New York also presented their creations.

The fashion house Missoni has also created costumes for La Scala in Milan.

Extension of the Dynasty mode, Ottavio and Rosita Missoni granddaughter, Margherita Missoni fragrance promoted and played in an advertisement.

How long can you keep with a bad mode of your partner?

  In the first wave of romanticism, it is easy to forgive a partner unfortunate choice of clothing.

But this tolerance has its limits - six and a half, to be exact.

This is the point where the women decide that enough is enough and start demanding changes in the fashion sense of the man, according to a survey by Marks and Spencer and Oxfam.

The survey found that the top five fashion for women were branches meggings (male tight leggings), rompers, pants, leather three-quarter pants and flip-flops.

Five animals were men hate onesies, jeggings (leggings designed as jeans look), velor track suits, and animal print boob tube dress.

And in case of resistance, to the measures taken to maintain the style of their partner change his ruthless. Slightly less than half of the women were throwing to know the offending articles from their partner without it, and seven took another step by the wrong wash it on purpose.

Approved even though only one in five women admit changing their taste in fashion, a style partners, more than two-thirds fit raids her wardrobe for the occasion.

Men are less likely, with only one in five admits to a garment worn by her partner.

Jo Hemmings, behavioral psychologist and relationship coach, said she "was not surprised to see that it has to take a little more than six months for women in control.

"During the period of 'honeymoon', we tend to be aware of the negative points in our new partner, or let the little things go over our heads.

"Can scream items that lost youth or slave to fashion perfectly acceptable to start a relationship, but as we grow better with our partners, we are less able to bite our tongue."

The survey for Marks and Spencer and Oxfam Shwopping initiative, the public, unwanted clothes to donate to charity instead, she was encouraged by the garbage out -. Since its launch in April, Oxfam received more than 3.8 million garments

VCs swoon for vintage Chanel, Gucci and Louis Vuitton with $ 14 million for Real Real

  Luxury never gets old, at least not for the love of fashion, which is probably why venture capitalists have over 14 million TheRealReal "are used scraped" a luxury market where you can find online Chanel bags, Hermes scarves and other luxury items for as much as 90 percent of the original price.

Founded by Julie Wainwright is a flash sales site in San Francisco, which has more than 750,000 members and more than 1.5 million visits per month. How it works: The Real Real ownership of objects increases from vendors in major U.S. cities before selling his own team of merchandisers, the authentication gemologists and professionals that the items are authentic (important because space in these fakes abound) . He returns to 70 percent of the purchase price.

"We are the way people perceive their wardrobe designer and luxury items change," CEO Wainwright said in a statement announcing the tour today. "We offer shippers the opportunity to get a return on that they originally paid for their luxuries, effortless and lucrative."

Driven by cost-conscious boomers still fashion-loving, one of a growing number of websites and mobile applications that specialize in vintage products.

An interesting twist for subscription details TheRealReal: those who pay are the side as members of the "First Look" $ 5 per month to get a look at the goods 24 hours before the flash sales even open doors. "Never sweat another stamp SOLD" says the website.

Canaan Partners, Greycroft Partners and e.ventures: The Series B round of financing, which use the company to expand its infrastructure to support the rapid growth, led by Interwest Partners with participation of all investors series. The company has also added new strategic investments TMT Ventures, Panarea capital and business journalist Suzy Welch

NBC 6 news ran a story in which officials

Times have changed. And not in a “when I was your age, you could buy an entire house for a nickel” sort of way. Past generations speak of an era where top designers made handbags and clothing without fear of counterfeiters. It was a simpler time. It was a better time. A time when pants just seemed to make sense and a man put on his world one leg at a time.On January 17, authorities intercepted $5.7 million worth of fake apparel from a semi-trailer during a routine traffic stop in Wyoming. -

Earlier this year, Miami’s NBC 6 news ran a story in which officials uncovered $11 million worth of phony Burberry and Louis Vuitton merchandise in a shipment at the Port of Miami. - Also this year, St. Louis station NBC 5 KSDK reported that a federal grand jury had indicted a woman on charges of selling counterfeit goods. According to court documents, 49-year-old Soukeye Fox kept an inventory of nearly 6,000 counterfeit purse labels with which she intended to create fake designer goods. If convicted, Fox’s charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and/or fines up to $2 million. I know what you’re thinking, “But I don’t sell knockoff bags and outfits …

I just wear them. No biggie, right?”Cities like New York are introducing new legislation that will make it a misdemeanor to buy knockoffs. Punishment can range from up to $1,000 or even a year in jail. Other cities are sure to follow. Hey jet-setters pay close attention: It is illegal to buy or carry counterfeit goods in places like Italy or France. Walking through the airport with your fake Fendi could land you a stiff fine. My advice? Consider buying designer items an investment. Often, you can resell it for close to what you paid, unlike knockoffs, which have little to no resale value. Future generations will speak of an era where top designers are able to find and destroy every knockoff purse, watch, heel and knit top all from the comfort of their phone. Unfortunately, those times don’t exist … yet. This is a more complicated time.

 A time where things are not always what they seem. But two things are for certain: Pants still make a heck of a lot of sense, and you’re not fooling me with that fake Gucci bag. Unfortunately, those times never existed. Pants make just as much sense as they always have, and popular fashion has always had its fair share of copycats who “borrow” designs and trademarks of luxury houses such as Louis Vuitton, Coach, and Gucci to peddle imitation purses and clothing. As time has gone on, however, technological advances in the world of knockoffs have made it increasingly difficult for the Average Jane to differentiate Yves Saint from Yves Ain’t – which only creates a bigger market for phony designer clothing. Many modern fakes are so well-made even buyers of genuine goods are transitioning into the world of bootlegged Balenciaga and faux Fendi just to save a little green. If your Gucci bag is about as authentic as your favorite reality TV show, the time has come to flip the script: Across the globe, authorities are stepping up their “OH NO SHE DIDN’T” stance on phony apparel in what many are referring to as an international crackdown on counterfeit goods. Don’t believe us? Take a look at a few recent stories involving the sale of counterfeits: