Claudia Schiffer aims to create lasting fashion brand

PARIS | Wed Jul 6, 2011 2:56pm EDT German supermodel Claudia Schiffer launched her first cashmere collection during Haute Couture fashion week in Paris with the hope of creating a lasting brand that she could pass on to her children. The 40-year-old former Chanel muse said she has been thinking of getting into fashion design for years and had finally decided to start with the kinds of clothes she wore all the time as a working mom such as cashmere dresses and sweate...

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Gaga gives thanks at fashion event

BABE IN BLUE: Lady Gaga arrives at the CFDA Fashion awards at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York. It seems the fashion crowd, especially when fully decked out for the Council of Fashion Designers of America awards, can be pretty intimidating: CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said so, actress Naomi Watts said so, and even Lady Gaga said so. On stage to accept her award as the year's top style icon, a soft-spoken, maybe even teary-eyed Gaga said she was nervous. "All of you made me feel like a star before I was," she told the audience at Lincoln Center that boasted bold-faced names such as Marc Jacobs, Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, Donna Karan and Michael Kors. ...

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