Fashion Staple Valentino Resigns

Just a quick post on recently released news that designer Valentino Garavani has announced his resignation.

VALENTINO has confirmed this afternoon that he will step down from the company he founded in 1960 after just one more ready-to-wear show and one more Haute Couture season.

"My future will be filled with new interests and challenges," he says. "Some may be linked to fashion, as I have a strong desire to create and support institutions to promote the study of fashion design, and to preserve the history of the art of fashion. It will be a marvellous continuation of this amazing adventure that I had the privilege to have. Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life."

Valentino is/was a staple in the fashion community and has dressed some of the world's most glamorous people, including Princess Margaret, Julia Roberts, and Claudia Schiffer.

From his signature color red to his creation of some of the world's most elegant eveningwear, Valentino will be missed. On the eve of Fashion Week in New York, we wish him continued success as he enters a new chapter in his fruitful life.

Thoughts on Valentino: his life, his work, his resignation... his future?

VS Pink Goes Eco-friendly

Apparently green is the new pink! It looks like Victoria's Secret is set to launch an eco-friendly collection.

Victoria’s Secret, which last December agreed to adopt eco-friendly alternatives for its mass-mailing businesses, is about to go one step further come spring... That’s when the brand, along with Victoria’s Secret Pink, a more whimsical line of lingerie and loungewear aimed at the younger set, will further their environmental awareness, launching mini collections of environmentally conscious apparel. Key items will include fleece tees, tanks, and accessories made from organic cottons.

"This is definitely the right next step," a spokesperson for Victoria’s Secret Pink confirmed to The Daily. "Customers love our brand and are very aware of the environment right now. Everyone is conscious of it."

From their cellulite solutions to gorgeous lingerie, Victoria's Secret is always looking for new ways to define 'sexy,' 'innovative,' and now 'eco-friendly' - not unlike what we're doing at BORBA with our revolutionary skin care products!

So what do you think?

Will you be purchasing any organic items from VS?

Versace's Foxy New Hit

Fashion goddess Donatella is set to launch the Versace Red Fox Fur "Hit" Bag during Fashion Week this September in New York.

Mesh leather and fur may seem outlandish by even the most fashion-forward of standards, but not when your house moniker bears the Versace label. The company’s new "Hit" bag for fall—its success seemingly predetermined by its name—is offered in four versions, including mesh metal nappa fur, patent leather, calf lamé and mirror leather, and fox fur, and ranges in price from $2,330 to $5,120.

What do you think? Do you love it, or hate it?

I will be attending (and hopefully blogging from) Fashion Week in September and can't wait to see what else Donatella has in store!