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The Campaign for Wool, of which His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales is a patron, announced the return of WOOL SCHOOL for 2013. Following a hugely successful first year the initiative welcomes Margaret Howell, Topman, Christopher Raeburn, Folk, Barbour, Brora and Albam to the roster of top UK fashion labels for this years campaign which sees fashion, textiles and design students across the country competing to design wool sweaters to be sold in stores nationwide in the Autumn to celebrate Wool Week 2013.

Barbour Head of Womenswear and Menswear

The campaign received over 100 entries from each of the 12 collaborating universities with head designers and creative’s at each retail outlet joining forces to select their winner. Their decision was supported by President of Condé Nast International Nicholas Coleridge, knitwear specialist and tutor at Heriot Watt University, Sheila-Mary Curruthers and Chair of The International Wool Textile Organisation, Peter Ackroyd.

Wool school

For the second year running the project has seen students introduced to a retail partner and given the opportunity to design a wool jumper for their company keeping this year’s theme ‘knitwear traditions of the British Isles’ front of mind along with the retailers brand identity. One student per retailer has been selected and their jumper design will be developed, manufactured and will be available in stores to coincide with UK Wool Week: 14th-20th October 2013.

“With even more retail partners and students taking part, Wool School 2013 has built on the success of its launch last year and is set to again showcase some of the best new designs in wool. Wool is once more a design fibre of choice and we eagerly await this year’s finished Wool School collection”  President of Condé Nast International, Nicholas Coleridge:

The limited edition capsule collection from Vivienne Westwood, draws from the archive right from the early 1970’s to now. For this special ‘Chaos’ collection, the story starts at Worlds End. The original slogan t-shirts are taken from the archive, the ultimate DIY t-shirt, two rectangles roughly sewn together emblazoned with a timely cultural or political slogan. The ‘Cowboy’ and ‘Tits’ print from the late 70’s, are taken from Westwood and McLaren’s incarnation of the Kings Road shop, as ‘SEX’. The politically sloganed ‘Chaos’ print t-shirt from the Vivienne Westwood Gold Label AW08 show entitled ‘Chaos Point’, will be available. The ‘Do it Yourself’ graphic emblazoned t-shirt also features in the limited collection, taken from the SS09 Gold Label show entitled ‘Do it Yourself’ which was the first time Westwood introduced the rectangular t-shirt to the couture catwalk. The ‘Do it Yourself’ show carried the message to stop climate change, cool planet Earth down and get involved in DIY. To the present day, Vivienne’s effortless campaigning for change continues, the Climate Revolution t-shirt from her recent Spring- Summer 2013 collection of the same name, is also part of this collection

“When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla—a rebel. It was a creation that evolved through our shop. When we started to do punk, I think it was the first time people saw clothes like ours, and they could buy them from our little shop. No one was wearing anything like it.” Vivienne Westwood

Following the huge global success of two previous collaborations, footwear brand Converse has once again reunited with fashion highend fashion label Comme des Garçons to create the Comme des Garçons PLAY for Converse Pro Leather collection. The collection with trainers featuring a Playful All-Over Heart Pattern come in four new styles of the iconic Converse Pro Leather sneaker. Comme des Garçons PLAY, a casual, streetwear-influenced line from the avant-garde Japanese label founded by Rei Kawakubo, adds the Pro Leather to its design repertoire, creating a new take on the sneaker that debuted in 1976 as a performance basketball shoe and has since evolved into an iconic lifestyle sneaker. All styles will be available 1^st June 2013 for £95.00 for Ox low top and £100 for the Mid at Dover Street Market’s website www.doverstreetmarket.com

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow was spotted at super exclusive Marks club in Mayfair attending the Goop’s Summer party  wearing a Prabal Gurung ivory baroque print silk charmeuse shirt dress with chiffon sleeves and hand draped skirt detail accessorised with a Zana Bayne for Prabal Garung leather belt from the AW13 collection

GWYNETH PALTROW WEARS PRABAL GURUNG

French fashion house Chloe was represented at the 2013 Cannes Film festival as A- list stars such as Carey Mulligan, Zoe Saldana and Nicole Kidman were spotted rocking pieces from the Fall, Pre fall and Spring Sumer 2013 collections

Zoe Saldana at Cannes wearing a Chloe FW13 polka dot blouse and SS13 white shorts

Zoe Saldana at Cannes wearing a Chloe FW13 polka dot blouse

Carey Mulligan at Cannes wearing Chloe FW13 (image by Getty)

Carey Mulligan at Cannes wearing Chloe FW13 

Nicole Kidman at Cannes wearing Chloe Pre Fall (image by Getty)

Nicole Kidman at Cannes wearing Chloe Pre Fall (image by Getty)

To celebrate the  release of the Baz Luhrmann film, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby leading British Haute Couture house whose clothes were favoured by the late Princess of Wales Catherine Walker & Co has a range of dresses  to reflect the glamour of the 1920s era and this summer’s blockbuster movie of the year  featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan