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Wednesday July 28th, 2010

Vogue Latin America’s Editor-in-Chief Loves Esteban, Budget Clothes and Fashion Blogs
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Vogue Latin America’s Editor-in-Chief Loves Esteban, Budget Clothes and Fashion Blogs

MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA: Eva Hughes, editor in chief of Vogue Latin America, is a woman who can infuse vavavoom into the most androgynous of models (imagine a cross between Carine Roitfeld and Eva Mendes).

Fashionista caught her at the end of Esteban Cortazar’s triumphal show for retailer Exito, which kicked off Colombian Fashion Week 2010 on Monday night. She told us all about the power of budget clothes, Latin American women today and fashion blogs.

What did you think of Esteban’s show?

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The Return of Esteban Cortazar
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The Return of Esteban Cortazar

MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA: A year after the Lindsey Lohan drama, proud Esteban Cortazar, who would rather walk out than compromise his standards, is doing just fine.

On Monday night, his show–a collaboration with local retailer Exito–kicked off Colombian Fashion Week 2010 held in Medellin, a couple of hours away from his natal Bogota.

In the footsteps of Karl Lagerfeld for H&M, or Christopher Kane for Topshop, Cortazar’s democratized fashion presented a range of items from $12 to $200.

And the show certainly didn’t give the price away.

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Wednesday September 9th, 2009

Thursday July 23rd, 2009

Cortazar and Ungaro: It’s Over

After much speculation over the past couple months, designer Esteban Cortazar and Emanuel Ungaro are officially parting ways. As we mentioned earlier, it was thought that Cortazar was upset with the some of the marketing decisions being discussed by CEO Mounir Moufarrige, including possibly using Lindsay Lohan as some sort of creative consultant. No word Read more →

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Published at 8:55 AM

Friday June 5th, 2009

Cortazar Out at Ungaro?

Earlier this week we told you about a rumored rift between designer Esteban Cortezar and the House of Ungaro over the hiring of Lindsay Lohan to take on consulting role at the brand. Well, now it seems things have escalated to the point that the Colombian designer might be leaving his post. WWD reports that Read more →

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Published at 9:21 AM

Sunday March 8th, 2009

Fall 2009 Paris

Ungaro Pops, Doesn’t Break

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Fall 2009 Paris

A Moment with Tanya D.

Tanya D. is laughing really hard backstage at Ungaro because she’s just pulled on her thigh-high Chanel boots post-rehearsal and someone’s telling her to take them off. Why? Because the shoes are breaking, the show starts in seventeen minutes and Esteban Cortazar is freaking out. They tell her the shoe is too big and she Read more →

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Published at 11:43 AM

Wednesday June 25th, 2008

Beauty

Ungaro on Your Face

MAC is teaming up with Ungaro‘s Esteban Cortazar for fall. It’s the second “from the runway” collaboration for the make-up giant, after partnering with Alexander McQueen last year. (They don’t count Heatherette because their make-up wasn’t based on anything runway related.) The Ungaro colors, set to debut this fall, will feature a “softer palette of Read more →

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Published at 12:34 PM