Emma Watson as a fashion designer

After winning the hearts of millions with her role as Hermione Granger in ‘Harry Potter’ films, Emma Watson now wants to cast a spell as a fashion designer. The 21-year-old British actress, who has done modelling for Burberry campaign, is keen to bring out the creativity in her. Watson plans to continue her studies at Oxford and is currently taking fabric-cutting, design and sewing classes. “Emma wants to challenge herself creatively. She’s obsessed with art at the moment”, said a source. ‘She looks up to designers such as Georgina Chapman and Sarah Burton. She has also been studying the work of Joan Miro to inspire her,” he added.

Naomi Campbell turns fashion designer

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has reportedly designed a line of jeans for Fiorucci, an Italian denim wear label, and will showcase her debut collection at the Milan Men’s Fashion Week. The 41-year-old catwalk queen’s choice of denim line is thought to be unusual as she is hardly ever seen wearing jeans. However, on the rare occasions Campbell does decide to wear jeans, she usually relies on her close designer pal Victoria Beckham to get her out of a style rut. "Victoria is amazing, a real sister. When I’m stuck in a rut, she’s always at the other end of the phone to send a pair of jeans," Campbell said. "They work wonders on the legs. I love her designs. I’m always in them. I’ve worked with Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and so many great designers. So I’m proud Victoria is up there too," she added. Fiorucci enjoyed huge success in the 70s and 80s and is now owned by Italian fashion giant Ittierre after financial and legal issues in the 90s.

Kelly Brook to design maternity clothes

Model-actress Kelly Brook is set to design her own range of maternity clothes for British high street chain New Look.Brook, who is currently pregnant with her first child has got her own underwear and swimwear range with the popular store. "A few fun projects have come about because I am pregnant. New Look want me to do a maternity range for them to come out in June and I have been designing some rag dolls for a friend of mine who makes children’s toys."I still work with Reebok, who have been very supportive and are looking forward to seeing me get back in shape in September."

Katie Holmes creating luxury bags

Hollywood actress Katie Holmes has collaborated with Italian design house ‘Valextra’ to create luxury bags. The 32-year-old actress has designed a calfskin tote bag with Valextra, which will be retailed for USD 3,950. "Their quality is exceptional. There’s such integrity in their work – they’re artists," said Holmes. The actress and her ‘Holmes & Yang’ fashion label co-founder Jeanne Yang is expected to launch two versions of the calfskin tote, one in white and navy and the other white and black, which will be retailed for USD 3,950, this July. The design process was completed in just two weeks after Holmes met with the Valextra team when she visited Milan for a Fashion Week in February.

Sammi Giancola to create her jewellery line

'Jersey Shore' star Sammi 'Sweetheart' Giancola is ready to make her mark in the jewellery industry. The reality star, who already has her own perfume line, has collaborated with jewellery brand RichRocks to launch a new collection of bling. The line will reportedly have a ‘sweetheart’ theme - based off of Giancola’s nickname - that will include heart-shaped pendants, crystal bracelets and stone-encrusted hoop earrings. And unlike some high-priced celebrity lines, the 22-year-old’s new collection will appeal to a more affordable market. "I love that the RichRocks brand and my collection retails for just under 100 dollars," said Giancola.

"It was very important for me to keep all of the pieces affordable for my fans so they can purchase more than one piece and add to the collection. I have created some great fun and flirty pieces to wear day into night,” she added.

Katie Holmes designing for working moms

Actress Katie Holmes and her business partner Jeanne Yang have created a fashion range under their banner Holmes & Yang for working mothers. "Sometimes when life gets really busy and you don’t want to have to think about what it is you’re going to wear, and you just want to have certain pieces that you know you can just depend on - what are those pieces? And so that was kind of our challenge," said Yang.

"Both of us are working moms, so we’re pretty busy, and, having a line, being moms and then having our careers is quite a lot. It’s so rare, unfortunately, that I actually know people who are into crafting and doing stuff like that," she added.

Suzanne Khan opens new interior store

Suzanne Khan, the media shy and pretty wife of Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan, has launched another interior store - The Charcoal project. Located in Andheri, it is spread over an area of 14,000 square feet and has a wide spectrum of decor products that range from French antique furniture to modern eclectic furniture to home accessories, dinnerware, table linen, crockery, soft furnishings, installations, artefacts, and limited edition photo-art and accent pieces. Suzanne will showcase her collections as well as creations of Indian and some international designers as well. The store will offer creations of Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla, who apart from designing clothes also come up with home furnishings. British interior designer Andrew Martin’s collection will also be on display. Suzanne has an Associate of Arts Degree in interior design from Brooks College in Long Beach, California. She first started working with the interior firm of her mother Zarine, wife of actor-filmmaker Sanjay Khan.

She is a full-fledged interior designer and owner of Suzanne Roshan’s House of Design. Known for her good work, she was roped in by actresses Rani Mukherji and Priyanka Chopra to do their houses.

Her new store was launched Sunday and Bollywood came in full force - from Aamir Khan, Jaya Bachchan, Shahid kapoor to Katrnia Kaif, Shilpa Shetty, Anil Kapoor and Twinkle Khanna, all were there.

Kellan Lutz turns designer for jeans brand denim

‘Twilight’ star Kellan Lutz is designing a new sub-brand line of jeans alongside denim label Dylan George. The 25-year-old actor will front the Los Angeles based label’s new men’s line when it launches later this year and will design for the brand in collaboration with its founder Daniel Guez. "How cool will that be to create my own line? I grew up wanting to be an inventor. I went to school for chemical engineering. I love to create. I’ve always wanted to get into fashion. I’ve always liked drawing, not Space Age stuff but high fashion," said Lutz, who plays vampire Emmet Cullen in the ‘Twilight’ franchise.

The line will be a sub-brand called Abbot & Main by Dylan George and will also feature men’s T-shirts and cashmere knits as well as jeans.

As a clue to the type of designs which Lutz will be coming up with, the actor said he doesn’t like overly embellished back pockets or baggy jeans as "girls don’t like sagging jeans".

Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher design necklaces

Hollywood couple Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher have designed their own collection of necklaces for Valentine’s Day. The couple, who married in 2005, have worked together with renowned jeweller Jack Vartanian to create the range of necklaces in the shape of handcuffs in order to raise funds for their charity, the Demi and Ashton Foundation. The pair is hoping the handcuffs motif will raise awareness of child sex slavery which their non-profit organization is battling.

The white, yellow, and rose gold designs cost USD 710 to USD 2,140, with 50 percent of each sale going to the charity.

Christina Aguilera to design clothes

Pop singer Christina Aguilera is joining the ranks of the celebrity fashion designers after teaming up with a Brazilian department store to launch her own clothing collection. The ‘Dirrty’ hitmaker announced the deal with C&A bosses at a press conference in Sao Paulo Wednesday. "I am here and very focused on the campaign," she said.

Aguilera follows in the footsteps of her pop peers Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce, who have all entered the fashion industry in recent years with their own designs.

Geri Halliwell enjoys to design swimwear

Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell says she found it easy to design her new swimwear range because she has always created her own clothes. Halliwell, who recently created her own range of swimwear for Britain high street brand Next, admits it was not too difficult for her to get involved because she has been working on her own clothes since she was a child. "I’ve always loved fashion, I’ve always made my own clothes. The first time I was on TV I wore something on GMTV that I’d made myself. The seams were coming undone, but I did design it! I’ve always designed my own clothes from a very young age. It was a very natural thing for me," said Halliwell.

Halliwell hopes she can expand the range, which features bikinis, maxi-dresses and accessories - in the future because she really enjoyed the work. "We’ll see where it goes, it’s been an amazing, amazing experience, so – I’ve really enjoyed it. Music and fashion are all together. All part of the image," she said.

Lara Dutta to launch her designer shoe line

After showing her acting skills, Bollywood hottie Lara Dutta is fast honing her entrepreneurial skills. After the successful launch of her fitness DVD, Lara Dutta is all set to launch her designer shoe line. A source revealed, “After the success of her fitness DVD, Lara is now preparing to launch her own range of shoes. Mahesh is very encouraging and supportive of Lara’s decisions and has been sharing his own business expertise with her. She had shown some designs and samples to him and he encouraged her to take it up on a more serious level and launch her collection.” Adds an insider, “Mahesh is impressed with Lara’s eye for detail and talent. Work is in progress on the shoe launch and Lara is working on it. Lara is planning to launch it at the end of the year.”

The source said further that Lara is taciturn about the details, “It’s still too early to talk about it, but the designer shoes will be a high-end, expensive, limited edition line. It will be all kinds of shoes - from ladies’ casual to formal wear including stilettos and sandals, and sports shoes. Lara is personally looking into the concepts and designs.”

It is believed that Lara Dutta will launch her new business venture in a tie-up with an international footwear brand, “She has been talking to a few brands for the tie-up. Mahesh Bhupathi’s company, Globosport, is marketing it on her behalf and talking to the various shoe brands. Once the shoe brand is locked, they will figure the extent of Lara’s involvement and participation in the whole project. It’s a mutual basis agreement. Lara is very excited about it. It’s always been her dream to launch a fitness DVD and shoe collection one of which has come true and the other is happening too.”

Hilary Swank to launch Athleisure apparel

Actress Hilary Swank is all set to launch her own clothing line. Swank is the latest celeb to step into the design ring. The Academy-Award winner will be working with the DMA Designers Management Agency on a clothing line with ‘an athletic bent’.

The look of the apparel is expected to be ‘Athleisure’, according to branding experts.

Emma Watson turns fashion designer

It seems that Emma Watson is looking for new creative outlets post her Harry Potter stint as the actress has now collaborated with designer Alberta Ferretti for a new clothing line. The 20 year old star will be seen in the first part of the Harry Potter final film ‘Deathly Hallows’, and says her new range will be made from organic materials. "We are doing an organic clothing range. I can’t reveal the name yet but there will be more information about it soon," Watson said. The star said her inspiration behind the line is English actress Jane Birkin, "very classic, 60s Jane Birkin."

Ferretti first contacted Watson after learning about the actress’s People Tree organic clothing line.

"She wrote to me and said, ‘I saw what you did with People Tree and I think it’s a great idea and will you do something with me?’" Watson said.

The actress, who shot to global fame at the age of 10 with her role as Hermione Granger, has already made it clear that acting is not her priority and Harry Potter could be the end of her acting career.

She is already a student of literature at Brown University. The collection will debut before the last Harry Potter is released.

100 Designers of the century who shaped fashion

From Adolfo to Yohji Yamamoto, Women’s Wear Daily has recorded the A to Z of fashion over the last 100 years. There are the suffragettes, flappers, career women in pantsuits and, later, miniskirts. Fashion is an industry that’s always on the hunt for the next big thing. Yet, in researching a new book about a century of style, "WWD 100 Years, 100 Designers," executive editor Bridget Foley found some constants. "So many designers, when they talk about their work talk about women first," Foley says. "There’s an ongoing idea and a belief among the very best designers that you have to push forward, but also that you also always have to consider what women will wear."

For all the declarations of trends, including hemlines, silhouettes and embellishments, Foley finds that most garments - be they skinny jeans or pencil skirts - are consistently available year after year, even when they’re not winning headlines.

And, she adds, however modern and urban we like to think black is, women have been wearing it - regularly - since the 1920s.

The power of buzz has been around even longer.

Some of the designers included in the book were chosen because they literally changed the shape of fashion: Paul Poiret, Claire McCardell and Christian Dior, among them. But someone such as Gabrielle Chanel really created an entire culture around a brand.

A 1965 WWD quote about Chanel: "Chanel is more than a look – it’s an institution – it’s a belief and a way of life - which this clever and very crafty artiste has done. She knows that her ever hungry Fashion Barbies are women and girls who eat and drink and dance - and love."

Winnowing down this list of most influential designers to 100 was harder than it sounds, especially balancing new talent like Jason Wu against Dior and Oscar de la Renta, Foley says.

"Is this all good fashion?" she wonders. "I’m not sure it’s all good fashion, but it’s all representative fashion, and much of it is really good."

Others who made the cut are: Giorgio Armani, Cristobal Balenciaga, Andre Courreges, Francisco Costa, Calvin Klein, Charles James, Norma Kamali, Laura and Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte, Donna Karan, Madeline Vionnet, and both Gianni and Donatella Versace.

Mariah Carey to launch her lifestyle products

Mariah Carey, who has announced that she is expecting her first child with husband Nick Cannon, is all set to launch her own line of lifestyle products and jewelry for the Home Shopping Network. The pop star diva, will be taking to the small screen to hawk her designs starting on Nov 29. Carey said that she is always looking for new ways to express herself creatively and jumped at the chance to develop her own collection of shoes and jewelry and more.

Once she, HSN CEO Mindy Grossman and designer Joan Boyce put their heads together – part of which was a meeting in Carey’s own shoe closet – the ideas for a more complete lifestyle brand started flowing.

Much like the woman who starred in the 2001 film ‘Glitter’, the collection is going to include a lot of sparkle.

Expect pave-set ‘initial’ pendants and limited edition sets of Carey’s fragrances set in Swarovski crystal.

The jewelry will also feature the butterfly, one of the singer’s favorite motifs and the name of her mega platinum-selling 1997 album.

The shoes will be tall but with a nod toward comfort.

"A platform shoe grounds you a little more. I try to make my designs more practical as well as pretty. One of the things I thought about was how I could do affordable, really nice, comfortable shoes that are still flattering to the leg," said Mariah.

The shoes will be priced from about 69.90 dollars to 199.90 dollars, while the jewelry will be available from 39.99 dollars to 199.95 dollars.

Kate Moss to launch her own jewellery line

After reigning the ramp for several years, supermodel Kate Moss has come up with her own jewellery line. The British model has decided to launch the jewellery line which will coincide with her latest and final clothing collection for British high street chain Topshop. Topshop, owned by Kate’s close friend Sir Philip Green said that this would be the first of regular seasonal vintage-inspired jewellery ranges designed by Moss, with semi-precious stones being used.

The 36-year-old model who shares a comfort with the ramp started designing clothes for Green five years ago and would wrap up her work with the billionaire businessman when her autumn/winter collection comes out next month.

However, both decided not to spill the beans regarding their joint project in future.

"I’m still working with Philip. We will do something together in the future," said Moss. Green said that he would team up with the model again for something new.

"It isn’t a split. There are two or three very special projects we have in mind, which we will do as and when. They have to be unique, special and they have to have her stamp on them," he said.

Heidi Klum launches Mom's clothing range

Heidi Klum is launching a new range of ‘mom’ clothes for her New Balance collection. The 37 year old, Klum has designed the clothes, which will be sold exclusively on Amazon. “I definitely design with myself in mind - I always have myself in mind with everything that I do. I think it’s all organic to me,” said the model.

“I shouldn’t have to wrack my brain of what I’m going to do next. It’s what I do with all my business, it always comes out of something I love,” she explained.

Pete Doherty creates jewellery for men

Pete Doherty is creating his own range of jewellery. The 31 year old crooner has collaborated with former Cartier designer Hannah Martin to create ‘Albion Trinketry’, a luxury range of rings, chains, cufflinks and pins for men. “Pete’s been obsessed with antiques and trinkets for years, so he thought this was perfect. He didn’t want to do anything tacky or laughable so he was chuffed when Hannah got on board,” said a close friend of the Doherty.

Another source added: “It’s really great, impressive stuff and I think Pete’s going to surprise people.”

A spokesperson for the collection also confirmed that Doherty is creating jewellery range.

He said: ‘Hannah’s interpretation of Peter’s ideas and her bespoke approach to design has ensure a collection that is both original and timeless. Each piece has a sense of regency and history yet also modernity reflecting the past whilst also giving a nod to the future.”

“Peter and Hannah’s designs encapsulate modern luxury. Their aim during the design process was to create collectables that will last the test of time and be handed down through the generations.”

Katy Perry to create her fashion line

She is known for her risque outfits and now fans of popstar Katy Perry too can wear her trademark fashions as she is launching her own line of clothes. The ‘California Gurls’ singer is currently in talks with fashion giant Steve Madden to design her own range.

Madden, the founder of his eponymous shoe range, has previously teamed with former child stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to make their Olsenboye and Elizabeth and James clothing lines. Perry meanwhile is busy selecting her wedding dress, for her approaching nuptials with British comedian Rusell Brand.

The couple are planning to tie the knot in India later this month in a seven day extravaganza, which will be a mix of Indian traditions and Hollywood glamour.