Fashion agenda: Chanel Cruise collection, Cannes Film Festival

Many of the world's best dressed women will be flocking to France in the coming weeks, with Chanel's Cruise collection this year taking place at the Chteau de Versailles near Paris just a couple of days before the launch of the star-studded Cannes Film Festival, sponsored by luxury jewelry house Chopard. Read about this and other important upcoming fashion events here.Chanel Cruise collection
May 14
Chteau de Versailles, France
Along with the likes of Dior and Gucci, the Chanel Resort collection is one of the fashion world's most anticipated, with last year's show at the Hotel du Cap in Antibes on the French Riviera welcoming stars such as Vanessa Paradis, Blake Lively, and Rachel Bilson to see Karl Lagerfeld's nautical-influenced creations. This season looks set to be no different with the designer heading to the Chteau de Versailles near Paris. Expect water works too as the precise location is the Trois Fontaines Bosquet fountains.
http://www.chanel.com/
Cannes Film Festival
May 16-27
Cannes, France
This year's Cannes Film Festival looks set to be particularly stylish, as creator Jean-Paul Gaultier and actress/style icon Diane Kruger are both on the official jury headed up by Italian director Nanni Moretti. Labels including Gucci, Armani and Chopard - the event's official sponsor - will all be hosting soirees while one of the most glamorous events taking place during the festival is the annual Cinema Against AIDS charity black tie event, which attracts some of the biggest names from fashion, music, business, and international society. This year it is scheduled for May 24.
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en.html
20th Vienna Life Ball
May 19
Vienna, Austria
This year's Life Ball has the theme "Fight the Flames of Ignorance" and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this annual AIDS charity event this year will see a special anniversary fashion show. Organized by Vogue Italia magazine, some of the most extravagant Life Ball designs of years gone by, from creators such as Roberto Cavalli and Vivienne Westwood, will be showcased -- with top models including Alek Wek and Karolina Kurkova taking to the runway.
http://www.lifeball.org/?lang=en
Timeless Beauty
May 20-July 15
Shanghai, China
Following on from Italian luxury goods label Bvlgari's 125 Years of Italian Magnificence expo in Shanghai, luxury jewelry maison Van Cleef & Arpels will take its Timeless Beauty exhibition to the city's Museum of Contemporary Art. The house presents a guide to its legacy, showcasing some 370 pieces of jewelry, watches and accessories and celebrating more than 100 years of high-end jewels.
http://www.mocashanghai.org/index.php?_function=exhibition
2012 CFDA Fashion Awards
June 4
New York, USA
Ashley Olsen & Mary-Kate Olsen for The Row, Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler and Marc Jacobs will compete for the coveted Womenswear Designer of the Year Award at the prestigious annual ceremony, organized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). Hollywood actor Johnny Depp will receive the Fashion Icon Award this year due to his "personal and eclectic sense of style." This in fact signals the first time a male will receive the gong, which last year went to pop star Lady Gaga.
http://www.cfda.com/category/fashion-awards/




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Rihanna Leads the Troops at the "Battleship" Premiere

It was an exciting moment for Rihanna on Thursday, May 10, as she donned a sexy white gown and walked her first red carpet as an actress. Never one to do things small, the Barbadian native is about to take Hollywood by storm, leading the charge in "Battleship," the new blockbuster action flick based on the classic Hasbro board game of the same name. Budgeted at $200 million, the movie is Hasbro's latest attempt to turn their popular games and toys into movie franchises; in fact, the great success of "Transformers" and "G.I. Joe" led directly to the making of "Battleship."
The film tells the tale of an international flotilla of military ships at sea together for naval war exercises that suddenly encounter an alien fleet, one that attacks without warning. Rihanna plays an American naval petty officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, in the film directed by Peter Berg. He marshaled his acting troops into downtown Los Angeles for the massive premiere and after party at the Nokia Theatre, where screaming fans packed bleachers and hoped for a moment with Rihanna or her co-stars. Those included Liam Neeson, Brooklyn Decker, Hamish Linklater, Tadanobu Asano, Alexander Skarsgard and Taylor Kitsch, who commented earlier about accepting the leading-man role in the film.
"Pete Berg, he's the sole reason why I took it on," Kitsch said. "We go back to the "Friday Night Lights" days together," the television show that Berg produced and that launched Kitsch's career. The actor admitted that for a moment, neither one of them was sure they should test their relationship with such a massive cinematic project.
"We have an incredible friendship," Kitsch explained. "So that was a huge thing, are we willing to sacrifice that, or put that up and go to work? But we're both very demanding of ourselves, and on set we're demanding of each other. And that made it better because the trust is there."
Connie Britton, another friend from the "Friday Night Lights" years, joined the guys for the premiere and after party, which included Malin Akerman, Apollo Ohno, Crystal Allen, Kristin Bauer van Straten and Molly Sims.




Source:Fashion Wire Daily

Fashion Fringe 2012: Christopher Bailey selects next generation of visionaries'

Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey has announced the ten semi-finalists in the running for the coveted Fashion Fringe prize, whose previous winners have included Basso & Brooke, Erdem and most recently Fyodor Golan.The London-based emerging talent platform, this year chaired by Bailey, offers its eventual winner a two year-development package comprising financial support, business advice, mentoring and an equipped London studio.
This year's semi-finalists, who have all submitted sketches of their proposed collections, will be whittled down to three later this month, with the selected trio working on their capsule collections during the summer and unveiling them at this September's London Fashion Week.
"It has been truly inspiring to review the work of these incredibly bright and creative entrants - each and every one of them with such a strong expression and point of view," explained Bailey.
"I am so proud to be able to help nurture the next generation of visionaries who will be shaping the world of design in the future."
The Fashion Fringe 2012 nominees:
Cornel Bolt (Cornel Bolt)
Dobrowolski Af Rosenborg (Heta Dobrowolski & Caroline af Rosenborg)
Dejan (Dejan Agatonovic)
Fischer (Nadine Fischer)
Haizhen Wang (Haizhen Wang)
Miyoko Kamijo (Miyoko Kamijo)
Raffaele Ascione (Raffaele Ascione)
Shu Ting Wang (Shuting Wang)
Teija (Teija Eilola)
Vita Gottlieb (Vita Gottlieb)



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