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Many have heard of the fashion shows held and attended by the who’s who of the celebrity and fashion world. One of the main circuits is known as the New York Fashion Week that allows seasoned and rising fashion designers to showcase their pieces. An even more fascinating show is the Pet Fashion Week in New York that is a showing of pet fashion and accessories. Pets have become a part of many people’s lives and as such have become part of the family that also deserves to be treated and pampered occasionally.

The Pet Fashion Week in New York is an annual show that showcases clothes, accessories and pet equipment that will have your pet setting the fashion trend in your neighborhood. This function is one of two being held in the year 2010 with the other show being held in Sao Paolo, Brazil in the month of April. The Pet Fashion Week in New York will be held in the month of August.

When one visits the site of the fashion show and exhibit for pets they will be able to find out about the exhibitors, the schedule of the said event, accommodation options for the animal and human guests and also the sponsors of the show. These sponsors include Pet Elite, Modern Dog, Fido and many other pet companies and magazines. One is able to view the entry rules along with details on other events to be held alongside the Pet Fashion Week in New York, like the parties and animal awareness galas. This is truly an event of its own kind and well worth it for pet owners.

Melbourne Fashion Week is a celebration of style and fashion from all over Australia. Twice a year designers, buyers, media and models gather in Melbourne, Australia. Most recently the spring show was held and included plus size Australian models on the City Square runway in the TS14+ show. Melanie Shwarz, TS14+ marketing manager, said the inclusion of models over size 12 was amazing. The plus size Australian plus size Australian models wore bright colors mixed with basic blacks and whites. Ms. Shwarz says the line takes trendy clothes and adapts them to the plus size figure.

The inclusion of plus size models in the show is nothing new, in 2009 City Chic was the first line of clothing to have their own runway show at Melbourne. Critics have brought up the point that they feel the inclusion of plus size Australian models will have the effect of making the population more obese. This is countered with the opinion that if this was the case, everyone would be stick thin from all of the waifs normally seen on runways. Attitudes like the former are just one of the hurdles plus size models must navigate.

Many designers can’t wrap their minds around the fact that 16 percent of the Australian women wear a size 16 or above. Another example is Myer’s Big is Beautiful show. This show was held to introduce Myer’s new plus size department and was praised as a hit. But as usual, when plus size Australian models are involved there are criticisms about their weight. The object was to show healthy looking models, but some pointed out that some of the models looked overweight. Imagine that, an overweight model in a plus size show. It would seem there is a double standard even in plus size modeling. You can be big, but not too big. The sad thing is, too big is considered over size 18.

Even with the detractors from events like the Melbourne Fashion Week and other major fashion events, the plus size Australian fashion industry has made major headway in recent years. Two major modeling agencies, BMG and Bella are based in Australia. They have under contract some of the most beautiful women in the world, and their models have appeared in shows all over the world and many major international publications. These include Vogue Italia, French Elle, French Vogue and Cosmopolitan Australia. Robyn Lawley is one of the most popular plus size Australia n models today and she has become an advocate for the plus size lifestyle. Kudos to TS+14 for including plus size models, and hats off to the Melbourne Spring Fashion Week; let’s hope more major shows include plus size models in major runway shows.

Gone with the wind, the dreamy, oh-so-lovely creations by Alber Elbaz’s for Lanvin simply took the onlookers breath away. Models dressed in romantic dresses with contemporary look ambled down the ramp. And then it was clear why Alber Elbaz was quoted as saying, “It’s all from dreams, from the soul.”

The Lanvin show had fitted bodices teamed with sinuous flowing skirts in soft colors. But it wasn’t just pallid hues that ruled the ramp, Lanvin dresses later moved to dark colours, like his day-to-night clothes. Shades of jhaki, black, blue, red to pink, name it and he has it. The designer also covered the long and the short of dresses, minimalistic yet exotic.

The response to the collection was overwhelming, International Herald Tribune writes, “Walked a magisterial line between the industrial and the romantic, as though the designer Alber Elbaz were dressing women for the dichotomy that is their modern lives.” The Elbaz’s trademark draping won hearts when the four models in finale parade walked in one-shoulder gowns in warm blue hues and in animal-printed chiffons including robes, halter-necks and trousers made of same fabric taut at the ankle. The fashion drama got complete with butterfly-shaped buckles in belts chokers. In accessories, one couldn’t take off eyes from the brown belts and mini de-glam sling bags.

With swirly, sheer align dresses, tank outfits, loosen long wide-neck shirts teamed with leggings to kaftan inspired gowns, short skirts and sleeveless frocks with metallic embellishments, futuristic bulked-up tops, glamorous monokinis, Lanvin gave a modern woman a reason to dress with his pret-a-porter collection.

That”s why Vogue writes, “One of those dynamic moments where Alber Elbaz has it all lined up: the woman, the dress, the modernity, the gasp-inspiring glamour.”