Modeling the world

The annual Seoul Fashion Week F/W 2010 is being held at the Seoul Trade Exhibition Center next to Hangnyeoul Station and Kring in Samseong-dong until Thursday.

The occasion showcases collections from the nation’s leading designers. It consists of the Seoul Collection; aspect the nation’s top-level designers, and Generation Next, featuring 12 up-and-coming designers.

This year’s Fashion Week is probable to draw about 100 foreign buyers from famous fashion labels and some 30 journalists from influential media.

On the sidelines of the event, about 100 fashion labels are presenting Seoul Fashion Fair, double the number of last year thanks to the high number of orders they took then.

A shopping event will be open to community between 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Thursday in the center’s Hall No. 3. Visitors will be able to purchase high-quality yet low-priced clothes contributed by some 50 labels.

The Tokyo Collection division of Japan Fashion Week Autumn-Winter 2010 kicked off on Tuesday March 23 and runs until Friday March 26.

In this short four-day period, 44 brands will hold runway shows representing the wide range of Japanese clothing design – from the old-school Hiroko Koshino to the free-thinking Theatre Products and beyond again to the youthful pop explosion of mercibeaucoup.

Distinct the mega fashion event Tokyo Girls Collection, where 20,000 visitors show up to cheer on the models, JFW is a rather closed-door affair — something like a trade show for magazine editors and boutique buyers.

The good news is that the Internet allows us to get almost real-time sneak peek of the best looks from the show. The official Japan Fashion Week web page posts pictures from the shows a day afterwards.

You can also follow CNNGo contributor Misha Janette on her FashionTubuyaki Twitter, where she provides updates from the collection floor.

In reality, that’s what modeling for Charleston Fashion Week mostly consists of walking and waiting: Walk to the audition, wait for an answer. Walk to the practice, wait to walk and so on. But we do all of this walking and waiting because of what we expect for this coming week.

Charleston Fashion Week, five days of assured fun parties, makeup and fashions, where models rule the runway and you get to be one of those models.

Most of the rehearsals, three of which were necessary, call for all the women to wear heels, of course, so we can learn how to strut in our stilettos. With everyone there, rehearsals were a combination of meet-and-greet moments and runway education.

Many were learning the catwalk basics: don’t swings your arms too much, consider facial expression, don’t bounce too much, but don’t walk like a zombie.

Soon the e-mails of where our casting calls were came filtering in. Models waited weeks, occasionally over a month, to hear back from the designers and stores they auditioned for. But eventually, the making-the-cut satisfaction was well worth the wait. The fittings came next, with clothes to be tried on, and garments to be put together.

This year, models are only wearing one look per designer or store, so casters chose suspiciously when deciding who wore what. But, you’ll have to come to the shows to see how that all crooked out.

Fashion enthusiasts of capital witnessed a scintillating fashion show and can expect more exciting days ahead at Khalidiyah Mall.

Fashion Week 2010 kicked off at the mall this evening with a few of the best brands showcasing season’s best collections. Professional models from UAE & U.K will be walking down the ramp in the central atrium area of the mall.

International fashion brands who have stores in Khalidiyah Mall resembling Adams, Agatha Perfumes, Aldo,  Alcott,  BHS,  Debenhams, Giordano, Lasenza, Mikyajy, Monsoon, Piquadro, Shoe Citi, Souris Mini, Springfield, Tammy, Tape a loeil are displaying  flavors collection for Women, Men and Kids.

Shoppers and guests can have a glance of casual, semi casual, evening and formal wear which will go on sale in various stores soon. The response was exceptional and a large number of shoppers witnessed this vibrant and colorful event.

Gareth Pugh presented a tough, uncompromising silhouette in black, padded leather. Rigid, chevron-striped tunics, were cut in sharp-points, over ridged, bootleg trousers or over-the-knee, wedge-sole boots.

Trench-style and military coats, with trade finish, were high-collared, and tightly-belted. The mood softened, somewhat, when the leather was chevron-striped on georgette, for long and short kaftan-like tunics with triangular hems, or mixed with dark stretch wool.

Faintly softer, but no less witchy-gothic, were black and grey, long, cobweb-crochet cloaks and capes, worn over thin leather jeans.

As a gesture in the way of “party” wear, Pugh delivered a sequence of silver-chain, fringed “cages” over black leather dresses and bootleg trousers. His menswear built-in tight, black leather tunic-jackets or harnesses with floor-sweeping, pleated skirts.

I wonder what Sean P. Diddy Combs, making a front-row comeback after a few seasons “out of the fashion loop”, and here to support his new album Last Train Made to Paris, made of it.