Milliner set to launch LFW ready-to-wear collection

Milliner Justin Smith is to launch a range of ready-to-wear hats in time for London Fashion Week (LFW).

The Old Compton Street designer plans to release the collection alongside a more affordable offshoot range of main brand J Smith Esquire in February.

This will come as good news for fans of the hat designer, who previously only offered bespoke pieces based on commissions from private clients.

Smith told Womenswear Daily that the ready-to-wear collection of J Smith Esquire hats will be stocked in high-end department stores across the globe, with prices starting at around £300.

All hats will be made alongside the bespoke items at his London studio, with the smaller range from the upcoming Mister Smith line priced from around £60.

The designer also hinted that he is considering a stand-alone shop to sell products from the off-the-peg collection and the diffusion line.

London College of Fashion and Royal College of Art graduate Smith won both the Maria Luisa Award and the i-D Styling Award as part of last year's International Talent Support (ITS) scheme.

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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is to design a range of clothes for fashion house Dolce & Gabbana.

The Brazilian model, currently the face of the label's latest fragrance 'The One', will launch her ready-to-wear collection in spring.

Bundchen by Dolce & Gabbana is expected to appear in selected stores across the globe by March, reports Vogue.

Described as "chic and feminine" the range will be the first design venture for Gisele, who has reportedly considered previous collaborations but waited to work with her two friends.

The model has been a regular fixture at Dolce & Gabbana over recent years, appearing on the catwalk and in print campaigns for the design duo.

Her appearance in the campaign for 'The One' has apparently helped to boost worldwide sales of the fragrance by some £75 million.

Known as the highest-paid model in the world, Gisele revealed recently that she has a strong business acumen, insisting on being paid in euros instead of American dollars due to a recent fall in the US currency's worth.

Okay so we have all seen the fashion shows on TV, or the pictures from them in the magazines and thought about how unbelievably and unnaturally thin the models are. Personally I find it very depressing. I look at these beautiful clothes on these beautiful girls and know that even if I had the money to buy the clothes, they would never look like that on me. I am not a large girl and actually wear a fairly small size, but I still find the fashion industry massively depressing.

This made me wonder for a while about plus size women and their fashion. I mean they must have the same types of thoughts right? Well now they have their own plus size fashion industry. I have seen some of the shows and the models, and these are beautiful women and beautiful clothes. I mean there are beautiful larger women that make their living as models, defying all the stereotypes that society has set about that bigger women aren’t as beautiful as thin women.

-A very thin model walks the runway at the Rosa Cha spring 2007 fashion show, on Sept. 10, 2006, in New York.The British Fashion Council said barring stick-thin models— as fashion weeks in Madrid and Milan have done —“is neither desirable nor enforceable.” This is down right disturbing . Models dramatically under weight,and still on the run way.Under weight models “Thin is not in,6 feet under is where it will take you “

Its amazing, the impact the fashion industry can have on models.The image above is very distasteful.

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