Christopher Bailey Makes The Fashion Hall Of Fame

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CHRISTOPHER BAILEYreceived the Hall of Fame accolade at the annual WGSNGlobal Fashion Awards last night. The event - which was yesterday staged at the Victoria and Albert Museum - celebrates fashion's most innovative talents from around the world.

The Hall of Fame honour is the ceremony's most prestigious award and is given to an individual who has "furthered the interests of the industry, broken new ground and inspired the world", a WGSN statement read this morning. Previous winners of the prize include photographer Rankin and Biba founder Barbara Hulanicki.

Earlier this month, Bailey was named Burberry CEO, replacing Angela Ahrendts - who has left to become senior vice president for retail and online stores at Apple. He still maintains his position as chief creative officer.

See the full winners list below:

Catrice Womenswear Designer: Erdem Moralioglu

Menswear Designer: Oliver Spencer

Footwear and Accessories Designer: Nicholas Kirkwood

Sustainable Design Team: Jeanologia

Best Multi-Channel Retailer: Topshop

Womenswear Design Team: & Other Stories

Menswear Design Team: Acne

Sports/Activewear Design Team: Sweaty Betty

Avery Dennison Emerging Fashion Brand: Emma J Shipley

Intimates and Swim Design Team: Princesse Tam Tam

Kidswear Design Team: Gap

Best New Store: Karl Lagerfeld, Paris

Best Store: Tsvetnoy Central Market in Moscow, Russia

E-store: Outnet.com

iSKO Denim Design Team: G-Star Raw

Preciosa Footwear and Accessories Design Team: Gandys

Lycra Future Designer: Lucy Gardner

Best Buying Team: Net-A-Porter.com

Inès De La Fressange Turns Designer For Uniqlo

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FRENCH model and muse Inès de la Fressange is teaming up with Uniqlo to design a collection, launching in November. The womenswear range will incorporate signatures of Parisian style.

"We talked regularly with Inès and exchanged views on a number of subjects including fabrics, design, and fitting," said Uniqlo design director Naoki Takizawa. "Inès's own lifestyle and approach to fashion closely mirror [Uniqlo's], and I am very pleased to be launching the new line that we have created together."

The Japanese high-street chain has also named hip hop producer and the founder of street label A Bathing Ape, Nigo, as the creative director of its UT T-shirts line. Other high-profile names to have worked with Uniqlo include Jil Sander, Celia Birtwell, Lulu Guinness and Orla Kiely.

Collette Dinnigan Closes Luxury Line

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COLLETTE DINNIGAN is closing her premium and bridal lines by the end of the year. She will continue with her Collette by Collette Dinnigan diffusion label and also with her children's range, Collette Dinnigan Enfant.

The Australian designer wants to spend more time with her family, having given birth to her second son, Hunter, in November last year. She also cited a lack of resources as a reason for the decision - in July this year she told us that she was looking for an investor to help expand the brand, although her search proved unproductive. 

Dinnigan will close her three standalone stores in London, Sydney and Melbourne in the New Year, and the brand will also cease to show during Paris Fashion Week. She was prompted to close her luxury line after writing a book, entitled Obsessive Creative, about her 24-year-long fashion career.

"The book is a retrospective of my life and it's made me stop and think about the amazing journey I have had thus far," Dinnigan told WWD. "It [crystalised] my thinking, that I have sacrificed a lot of family time in building and maintaining my business, now I want balance back in my life with my husband, nine-year-old daughter and baby boy."

Collette Dinnigan Closes Luxury Line

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COLLETTE DINNIGAN is closing her premium and bridal lines by the end of the year. She will continue with her Collette by Collette Dinnigan diffusion label and also with her children's range, Collette Dinnigan Enfant.

The Australian designer wants to spend more time with her family, having given birth to her second son, Hunter, in November last year. She also cited a lack of resources as a reason for the decision - in July this year she told us that she was looking for an investor to help expand the brand, although her search proved unproductive. 

Dinnigan will close her three standalone stores in London, Sydney and Melbourne in the New Year, and the brand will also cease to show during Paris Fashion Week. She was prompted to close her luxury line after writing a book, entitled Obsessive Creative, about her 24-year-long fashion career.

"The book is a retrospective of my life and it's made me stop and think about the amazing journey I have had thus far," Dinnigan told WWD. "It [crystalised] my thinking, that I have sacrificed a lot of family time in building and maintaining my business, now I want balance back in my life with my husband, nine-year-old daughter and baby boy."

Collette Dinnigan Closes Luxury Line

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COLLETTE DINNIGAN is closing her premium and bridal lines by the end of the year. She will continue with her Collette by Collette Dinnigan diffusion label and also with her children's range, Collette Dinnigan Enfant.

The Australian designer wants to spend more time with her family, having given birth to her second son, Hunter, in November last year. She also cited a lack of resources as a reason for the decision - in July this year she told us that she was looking for an investor to help expand the brand, although her search proved unproductive. 

Dinnigan will close her three standalone stores in London, Sydney and Melbourne in the New Year, and the brand will also cease to show during Paris Fashion Week. She was prompted to close her luxury line after writing a book, entitled Obsessive Creative, about her 24-year-long fashion career.

"The book is a retrospective of my life and it's made me stop and think about the amazing journey I have had thus far," Dinnigan told WWD. "It [crystalised] my thinking, that I have sacrificed a lot of family time in building and maintaining my business, now I want balance back in my life with my husband, nine-year-old daughter and baby boy."

Collette Dinnigan Closes Luxury Line

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COLLETTE DINNIGAN is closing her premium and bridal lines by the end of the year. She will continue with her Collette by Collette Dinnigan diffusion label and also with her children's range, Collette Dinnigan Enfant.

The Australian designer wants to spend more time with her family, having given birth to her second son, Hunter, in November last year. She also cited a lack of resources as a reason for the decision - in July this year she told us that she was looking for an investor to help expand the brand, although her search proved unproductive. 

Dinnigan will close her three standalone stores in London, Sydney and Melbourne in the New Year, and the brand will also cease to show during Paris Fashion Week. She was prompted to close her luxury line after writing a book, entitled Obsessive Creative, about her 24-year-long fashion career.

"The book is a retrospective of my life and it's made me stop and think about the amazing journey I have had thus far," Dinnigan told WWD. "It [crystalised] my thinking, that I have sacrificed a lot of family time in building and maintaining my business, now I want balance back in my life with my husband, nine-year-old daughter and baby boy."

Why Modelling Makes Doutzen Feel "Guilty"

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VICTORIA'S SECRET model Doutzen Kroes has admitted that it worries her that airbrushing and other photography tricks can create a fashion image that makes women feel insecure.

"Sometimes it makes me feel guilty now that I am in this profession that makes certain girls insecure," Kroes told the New York Post. "I always say, I don't look like the picture. If you put me in bad light with no hair and make-up, it's not good... I wake up sometimes like, this is not what I see when I look at the magazine, who is this visitor in the bathroom?"

Kroes's words echo the sentiments of Vogue's recent school initiative and film, It's A Look - made to show schoolchildren what goes in to the making of a fashion image, highlighting both post- and pre-production image alteration - spearheaded by editor Alexandra Shulman. The initiative aims to protect young people from future feelings of inadequacy by arming them with the knowledge of how fashion images are made.

Kroes is not the first Angel to have her say on the airbrushing debate. Erin Heatherton said last year that she thought it was perfectly acceptable as long as children were aware from school age that the practice was happening: "Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies," she said. "It's just a part of life."