Mark Fast

>> The ANDAM prize of €220,000 (approx. $279,000) has in the past two years enabled winners Gareth Pugh and Giles Deacon to move their runway shows to Paris Fashion Week and raise their international visibility. Who will be next?

This morning, the ANDAM jury, presided over this year by Carine Roitfeld and including Alber Elbaz, Hilary Alexander, Colette's Sarah Lerfel, Jefferson Hack, and Opening Ceremony's Humberto Leon, named six nominees for the 2010 prize. Among them are: Mark Fast, known for casting "plus-size" models in his body-conscious knit dresses; couturier and Thierry Mugler alum Alexandre Vauthier; Turkish designer Hakaan Tildirim, whose last show attracted Kate Moss and Roitfeld in the audience and Lara Stone and Natalia Vodianova on the runway; Francesco Scognamiglio, whose oversized Fall 2010 fish belt was worn by Anna Dello Russo straight off the runway; Balenciaga and Christian Lacroix alum Bouchra Jarrar; and Calla Haynes, who worked with Olivier Theyskens for five years at Rochas and Nina Ricci.

The 2010 winner will be announced at the end of next month.

Colette X Burberry trenches are pleated, knotted and studded.

More images of Faster by Mark Fast.

Matthew Williamson launches e-commerce.

YSL closes Madison Avenue boutique.

Proenza Schouler's pre-fall collection includes 25 lower-priced items, many of which are under $500.

The Face Hunter book will be released in the U.S. this April.

Martin Scorsese filmed Gaspard Ulliel and Ingrid Schram in Brooklyn for a Chanel commercial.

Take a closer look at the Uniqlo + J spring 2010 collection.

London-based Mark Fast—celebrated maker of body conscious cobweb knitwear—has answered our prayers with a newly released, more affordable collection, called Faster, for spring.

Inspired by the unexpected high demand for pair of tights designed for his runway show goodie bags, Fast manufacturers the less expensive collection using machines in Italy, rather than, say, one person hand-knitting a designer collection piece, which can retail for thousands of dollars.

Prices for the new lineup of form-fitting tube dresses, cropped tops, and leggings, range from $25-$400 wholesale and will be available this spring in New York at Curve and Seven.

Source: Bad Day Magazine

>> INSIDER WIRE —Quickly gaining editorial clout — Mark Fast, the 28-year-old London-based knitwear designer whose web-like knit dresses covered a pregnant Elena Perminova (wife to the owner of the Evening Standard) in the May 2009 British Vogue and Sigrid Agren in the June/July 2009 issue of i-D.  He uses a machine bought at a charity sale, wants to work with Raquel Zimmermann — "she is a dream" — and hopes to make it to Paris.