Women

  • London Calling: AW13 Trends from LFW

    By Emma | Women

    No longer content with being the little brother (or sister, we're all about equal rights here) of the fashion week season, London has, thanks to the investment and support of the British Fashion Council as well as the committment of exciting designer...


  • Elizabeth Dunn: bespoke, transeasonal, hand-made shoes

    By Kate | Women

    Elizabeth Dunn is a London-based shoe designer. Possessing a passion for traditional English shoemaking, she graduated from Cordwainers - London College Of Fashion, trained in producing hand made shoes through both traditional and modern techniques....


  • Designer Spotlight: Sonja den Elzen

    By Meg | Women

    Thieves Boutique offered a carefully curated collection of the most innovative, quality ethical fashion for men and women in Toronto. It was the spring of 2012, when this gem shut its doors as a commitment to practicing values integral to sustainabil...


  • MBFW - Fall 2013 at a glance

    By Staff | Women

    NEW YORK - It's been a crazy week in New York. Whether by luck or by design, the first season that Mercedes Benz Fashion Week offered live-streaming coincided with the first year in memory that the shows and the city were hit with a blizzard so larg...


  • Ananda Pascual - beautiful things, beautifully designed

    By Lori | Women

    Magnifeco’s Lori Webb caught up with the Spanish Designer and her team at their Copenhagen Vision stand during Copenhagen Fashion Week held January 30th - February 3rd. COPENHAGEN FASHION WEEK - Madrid-based, ethical designer, Ananda Pascual b...


  • Spalding dazzles at the Grammys 2013

    By Kate | Women

    She wins again. Not only did Esperanza Spalding win 2 Grammies last night (best vocal jazz album and best instrumental arrangement accompanying vocalist(s)) , but she also added another notch in her ‘best –dressed list’ appearances, showing th...


  • Designer Spotlight: Sydney Brown

    By Kate | Women

    We are absolutely besotted with Sydney Brown -her eponymous (vegan) line offers paired down aesthetic and sculptured lines that completely captivated us in when we first came cross her booth at Capsule in NYC last season. Then we discovered her ethic...


  • Treat Yourself This Valentine's

    By Emma | Women

    As you know, here at Magnifeco we like to buck the trend and do things a little bit differently, and Valentine's Day is no exception. While hearts, pink, chocolate, smooches and more pink are lovely and synonymous with the day of 'lurrrve,' why shoul...


  • Paris: the charity shop with "wow" effect

    By Kamila | Women

    Le Marais, the famous district of Paris, hides dozens of boutiques with the French touch and Parisian style. On a border of the district (near metro Republique) I discovered second-hand clothing gem Bis Boutique Solidaire. The concept resembles Briti...