It’s official: London-based designer Marios Schwab is Halston’s newest creative director. Schwab, whose Greek and Austrian heritage is almost as exotic as brand founder Roy Frowick’s Midwestern one, will show his first collection, for Fall 2010, in February. [WWD]
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Is London still the capital of young, feral, and fearless fashion? So far this week, the most visible trend is definitively classic—as in classical Greek design. At Ann-Sofie Back, the models wore dove gray and buttery drapery. Marios Schwab sent legions of models sporting Spartan-inspired minidresses of loosely hanging folds gathered together with thick gold [...]