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New York (2/20/1999)  Freddy Galiani reporting from the shows – New York's Fashion Week, which started on the 11th of February, wrapped up yesterday with Calvin Klein's show taking place @ 450 15th St. here.

Randolph Duke, who worked for mythical designer Halston, presented his Autumn/Winter collection yesterday just before the turn of the only Spanish presence at these shows, Custo Barcelona.

Custo's T-shirts, usually a funky mix of cultures and colors, are quite big in the United States.

According to the people who managed the Communications Center at Bryant Park, where members of the press could watch the videos of those shows they had missed, the two most requested ones this week have been John Bartlett, who showed an interesting collection on Saturday February the 13th, followed by that of Philip Treacy (Thursday 16th).

Once New York's Fashion Week has ended it is now London's turn where Fashion Week starts today and will go on until the 25th. We have been informed that Spanish designer Amaya Arzuaga will be presenting the first day.

(2/19/1999) Yesterday we were present at Jill Stuart's show. She presented future-inspired designs alongside others based on the fashion of the 60's. Maybe it was the lyrics of the song that played at the end of her show that best explains her Autumn collection. It said, "The future of the future will still contain the past."

Zang Toi's collection included coats in colors such as chocolate, burgundy and champagne. Other designs sported classic flower prints. Ivanka Trump opened the show with father, Donald, watching from the first row.

At 5 p.m. it was designer Vivienne Tam's. She presented designs inspired on the Qing and Ming Dynasties accompanied many times by a futuristic twist.

(2/18/1999) Anna Sui's show yesterday (see her spring 1999 collection in our International Collections section) was again inspired by the 60's. This time she centered on the decade's Folk singers, and the models - both women and men - walked the runway carrying either acoustic guitars or their cases. The clothes seemed to be a continuation of the groupie-Glam-inspired designs she presented last time. The girls' make-up gave a pale ghost-like shimmer to their complexion.

Talking with Spanish model Eugenia Silva Backstage at the Oscar de la Renta show the day before yesterday, she told us she will be in Spain mid-March for - at least - one of the shows presented by the five Spanish designers that dropped out of the Madrid Cibeles fashion catwalks.

Madrid (2/12/1999) – The Cibeles Madrid Shows ended yesterday. For a full balance of the event check out Special News2 section tomorrow when Pedro Mansilla, one of Spain's best-known fashion journalists, gives us a wrap-up of what this edition has been like.

SHOWS (11/2/1999): (The best shows of the day in one line)
For information on the best shows this day check tomorrow's special edition of News2 with a commentary by Spanish fashion journalist Pedro Mansilla.

SHOWS (10/2/1999): (The best shows of the day in one line)
Victorio & Lucchino - The best show of the day was presented by these two Andalusian designers. This time their designs, albeit - as always - connected to their Seville (Spanish) roots were also accompanied by high tech fabrics (beautiful metallic materials that seemed like moving mercury.) Speaking right after the show with José Victor, one of the designers, he told us, "This collection is to be sold in the year 2000 so we have used high-tech future-inspired fabrics, but done with the craftsmanship and love with which we usually work."

*As far as the Victorio & Lucchino show (2/10/1999) they, who have accustomed us to featuring top names such as Elle MacPherson, Astrid Muñoz and Jasmeen Ghauri, will not be counting with any 'guest appearance' this season. Reason, José Victor, one of the designers, tells us that the proximity of NY Fashion Week has kept more than one of them in the USA. Maybe next time...

SHOWS (9/2/1999): (The best shows of the day in one line)
Javier Larraínzar - Very nice designs with a certain presence of the full range of grays.
Roberto Torretta: Designs based on high-tech fabrics. Fernando Ríus, his PR man and probably one of the most knowledgeable people in Spain as far as fashion goes, told us that there had been a lot of investigation behind the selection of the fabrics.
Joaquím Verdú: The Spanish master of knitwear showed simple-lined designs in colors that ran the gamut from black to lilac and include orange, beige...

MODELS: Among the models present at the Madrid (Spain) shows, we must highlight the internationals Michelle Hicks, Adriana Skleranikova, wife of soccer player Karembeu, and Jelena Ivanovic (she did most, if not all, the recent haute couture shows in Paris);among the Spanish ones, Verónica Blume, Esmeralda, Gurus, Julianne, Ana Chica, Eva Sanz, and Beatriz Cardenal. Vanessa Lorenzo, who we had announced before, will not be present. Her booker tells us she is now in NY.