The success of lavish couture brands such as Versace has largely been hinged on celebrities promoting and wearing them.
Celebrities support expensive labels with their access to the media, and both Keira Knightly and Hilary Swank have both been known to promote Versace.
More recently designers such as Ed Hardy are conquering the market by getting celebrities to don their clothing first.
Hardy’s tattoo inspired tops and caps have been seen on celebrities such as Madonna, Fergie, Ludacris, Megan Gale,golf clubs wholesale, and Lara Bingle.
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Fashion designer John Galliano’s company was ordered to pay 200,000 euros in damages to renowned U.S. photographer
William Klein for unauthorized use of his atmospheric imagery in an advertising campaign.
The photographer,Coach Shoes, who lives in France said he was "furious" at Galliano’s use of some of his half-painted photographs of street scenes in advertisements in several fashion magazines.
Klein’s giant versions of contact sheets showing a series of photographs, painted over in colored enamel to highlight particular images,
were a popular feature of a recent exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
If you’re attending Ed Hardy Fashion Week at the end of this month you might get the chance to spy Nicole Richie in the front row.
Behind-the-scene moves by Australian Fashion Week to claim the fashionista as a star import for their front row.
With a number of big name designers confirming they are not showing this year - including star-drawcard Ed Hardy,
Who has previously picked up the bill for the celebrity imports - parade organisers have apparently been left scrambling to up the event’s star power.
