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Aspen Fashion Week 2011 to Begin March 13th

Aspen, CO, the epicenter of winter luxury, has announced plans for the the 3rd annual Aspen Fashion Week (AFW) taking place from March 13th to 16th in various locations around the
top-drawer town. The destination fashion event, designed to showcase and market winter
resort, ski and technical outerwear in the country's most stylish mountain playground, will feature daily après ski fashion shows, in-store presentations, on-mountain events and late night fashionable soirées. Participating brands include Authier, Rossignol, Dannenmann-Pure, NUMBER: Lab, Obermeyer and Burton.

Heidiskis will serve as the ofﬁcial ski partner, while FEED will serve as the ofﬁcial charitable partner, featuring their AFW FEED bag exclusively on-site. Proceeds from the FEED bag will beneﬁt the foundation, and Founder Lauren Bush (recently engaged to Ralph Lauren's dashing son David) will be on hand to host events in conjunction with The Feed Foundation. In addition, William Grant & Sons will serve as the ofﬁcial spirits partner. "Aspen Fashion Week has an intensely exciting schedule this year and an amazing follow up to last yearʼs event," says founder Lisa Johnson. " Weʼre looking forward to an exciting future with the event becoming stronger each year."

Gallery: Aspen Fashion Week

Tags: Aspen, Aspen Fashion Week, fashion shows, Fashion Week, FEED, Lauren Bush, Ralph Lauren, ski, ski resort, skiing, William Grant Sons, winter, winter sports

Land Rover & Range Rover Make the Scene at NY Fashion Week

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Filed under: Apparel, Luxury Cars & Autos, Events, Celebrity Shopping

Land Rover & Range Rover Make the Scene at NY Fashion Week

Land Rover and Range Rover added an extra dose of style to two of Fashion Week's hottest shows with a fleet of vehicles for VIPs. The new Land Rover LR4 was the starring attraction at the Rag & Bone show in Soho, sponsored by the famed UK SUV marque, where beauties like model Jessica Stam (above) and Mad Men's Jon Hamm made the scene. And at the presentation by Marchesa, designed by Georgina Chapman, Range Rovers and Range Rover Sports provided luxe transportation for the likes of actresses Vanessa Hudgens and Michele Trachtenberg, musician Eve, socialite and TV personality Olivia Palermo, and model Irina Lazareanu. At both venues the vehicles sported the designer's logos, and when lined up impressively outside got nearly as much attention as the scenesters themselves.

"Land Rover is expanding its marketing profile with, for the first time, supporting a fashion house, Rag & Bone, during New York Fashion Week," noted Stuart Schorr, vice president of communications and public affairs, Jaguar Land Rover North America. "The Rag & Bone brand, led by Marcus Wainwright and David Neville, is admired for its refined and versatile aesthetic. Both Land Rover and Rag & Bone were born in England and enjoy massive global appeal. The Land Rover LR4 has evolved a distinct design heritage that is rooted in both authentic luxury and rugged capability. Similarly, through Rag & Bone, Marcus and David have established a legacy through high levels of skill and craftsmanship." Might we dare to hope for a Ltd. Rag & Bone Edition LR4 edition in the near future....?

Gallery: Land Rover & Range Rover at Fashion Week

Tags: celebrity, celebrity cars, fashion shows, Fashion Week, Jaguar, Jessica Stam, Land Rover, Land Rover LR4, Mad Men, Marchesa, models, New York Fashion Week, Olivia Palermo, Rag Bone, Rag and Bone, Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, SUV, Vanessa Hudgens

Moncler Takes Over Grand Central at Fashion Week

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Filed under: Apparel, Events

Moncler Takes Over Grand Central at Fashion Week

Moncler, the French–Italian luxury sport label founded in 1952 famed for its stylish down jackets, took over New York's Grand Central Terminal on Sunday evening for a "flash mob" themed Fashion Week presentation. 180 models descended on the NYC landmark clad in designs from Moncler's Grenoble Fall 2011 collection for a seven-minute choreographed performance inspired by the work of Bob Fosse and garments that "combine contemporary style with the high performance of the active sphere." The spectacle delighted passers-by, while another 200 performers infiltrated their ranks disguised as fellow commuters.

Key elements of the Grenoble collection for both men and women blend the brand's heritage with ultra-contemporary styling. Tweed is used with a waterproof finish for heat-sealed snowboarding pants and a ski suit, with elasticized panels down the side. The fabrics are warm and light, including stretch flannels, wool denim, worn Ventile cottons with an opaque look borrowed from truck tarpaulins, natural waterproofs, and innovative materials such as trilaminate. Pieces are designed to be layered and incorporate hoods, warm quilting and exclusive technical padding. Colors are full and intense with a retro feel in burgundy red, mustard yellow and green-grey.

Gallery: Moncler Grenoble at Grand Central

Tags: fashion, fashion shows, Fashion Week, Grand Central, Moncler, New York, New York Fashion Week Fall 2011, outerwear, ski

Luxist Giveaway: Win a Cambria Cove Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week VIP Gift Bag

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Filed under: Apparel

As we noted in August gifting geniuses Cambria Cove – inspired by the idea that a gift is more than just the object, it's a connection between the giver and the receiver – was named the Official Gift Retailer for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week this season. The chic site sells a variety of gifts made by artisans, designers and visionary brands around the world that span the range from gourmet food to travel accessories and jewelry, including items for men and women with personalized gifts available as well. As part of their initiative for the runway shows, Cambria Cove created an Official Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week VIP gift bag (above) stuffed with dozens of desirable items which was distributed to celebrity guests, supermodels and VIPs at all the best designer displays. Now the company is offering one lucky Luxist reader the chance to win one of the exclusive sacks, along with a Cambria Cove "Pre-Holiday Shopping Spree" Gift Certificate of $100 so you can get a head start on your own gift-giving. The complete contents of the gift bag provided by various sponsors, valued at $500, are as follows:

Fashion Week garment bag
18 oz. glass bottle filled with gumballs
45g protein bar
Neoprene wine bottle insulator/holder
Two designer notebooks
Designer shampoo
Eyeglass care kit
Designer mascara and nail polish
Gourmet snacks and mineral water
Silk chiffon scarf
Compact umbrella with Fashion Week logo
Coffee mug
Fashion shopping site invitation card with $25 credit.
$200 gift certificate from a New York City spa
$100 Cambria Cove "Pre-Holiday Shopping Spree" Gift Certificate [continued]

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Porsche Ferries Models Around at NY Fashion Week [video]

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Luxury Cars & Autos, Video

Some of the stunning models stalking the runways at New York Fashion Week are getting a free ride – literally – thanks to Porsche Cars North America. The famed German marque provided a fleet of chic 2011 Porsche Panameras and Porsche Cayennes to whisk the beauties from the tents at Lincoln Center to and from the Smartwater Model Lounge at the new Gansevoort Park Avenue South hotel. The Model Lounge is an exclusive retreat for female models at from top agencies where the girls can hang out in between castings, shoots, fittings and fashion shows and enjoy a number of stylish perks, plus the hotel's luxe amenities like its rooftop swimming pool and gym. As we reported last month, Gansevoort Hotels now have their own Panamera fleet. Check out the video for more.

Tags: fashion, fashion shows, fashion week, Gansevoort Hotel, Gansevoort Park Avenue South, Model Lounge, models, New York, New York Fashion Week, Porsche, Porsche Cayenne, Porsche Panamera

A Backstage Pass to Berlin Fashion Week

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Filed under: Apparel, Events

Luxe German publisher teNeues offers an all-access pass to one of the world's most cutting edge fashion weeks, that of Berlin. Backstage: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin is a suitably oversized, lavishly illustrated volume featuring 120 stunning images behind the scenes at the designers' shows. Leading photographer Claudius Holzmann, who has chronicled Berlin Fashion Week from the very beginning, sifted through approximately 40,000 images to select those that "capture the extremes of creativity and passion." Beautiful models, brilliant designers, talented makeup artists, high-strung hairstylists and an army of fashion soldiers are seen staging some of the world's most glamorous spectacles. The book, a must for any dedicated follower of the fashion scene, features text in both German and English.

Tags: Berlin, coffee table books, fashion, fashion designers, fashion shows, Germany, Mercedes-Benz, models, photographer, photography, teNeues