Posts Tagged ‘fashion industry’

Designer Tom Ford makes a surprisingly successful leap from the fashion industry to the big screen with “A Single Man,” a standout directing debut about a gay college professor who loses his longtime partner. The theme of the search for meaning after a great loss is developed with great sensitivity, thanks to Colin Firth’s moving [...]   Continue Reading

When it comes to swaying the followers of fashion, it’s hard to fill the designer shoes of Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour this year. Wintour has been crowned 2009′s most powerful fashion editor in America in a Forbes magazine ranking, compiled as fashion magazines battle to survive a sharp downturn in magazine advertising and the recession [...]   Continue Reading

Naomi Sims, a black model who opened the white-dominated fashion industry to African Americans in the 1960s, has died, reports said Tuesday. She was 61. Sims, sometimes dubbed the first black supermodel, died of cancer Saturday in Newark, New Jersey, the New York Times and TheFashionInsider.com reported. Born in racially segregated Mississippi in 1948, Sims [...]   Continue Reading