Hand Embroidery Designs Clothes News

Boyish meets girlish in Gucci's latest fashion collection

International luxury brand Gucci recently unveiled its 2012 Spring/Summer collection, showing elements of sensuality and androgyny, chromatic contrasts, jewel details, and hypnotic animal prints in its clothes and accessories.

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Walk down heritage looms

Today, Philippine ethnic textiles have become synonymous with souvenirs. One goes to Baguio for Ifugao table runners, to Ilocos for an inabel quilt, to Mindanao for a South Cotabato tubaw scarf, or to Iloilo for a hablon shawl. Unknown to many, these fabrics are not just market finds.

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'Once Upon a Time' keeps Snow White's fairy tale style 'iconic and romantic'

Eduardo Castro says a lot of his inspiration for the costumes on ABC's "Once Upon a Time" comes from his own vision of fairy tales growing up."There was talk in the beginning of going very modern and avant garde with the fairy tales," he tells Zap2it. "We have gone more classic but there are elements of Alexander McQueen we've tried to incorporate into the designs.""Once Upon a Time" presents a ...

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