New York, Jan 29: Beyonce Knowles is planning a new release -- her own fashion collection.
The Destiny`s Child singer has signed a licencing agreement with the Tarrant Apparel group to produce a line of apparel for young women. She named it the House of Dereon
Collection after her grandmother Agnes Dereon, who worked as a seamstress.
The first fashions will be in stores this fall, and the look will be "a mix of vintage things with contemporary things. It`ll be fur with denim, classic with street," Beyonce said.
The collection also will include party dresses, sweaters and even some tailored jackets.
"I have pretty broad taste. I`ve been all over the world -- thank god I`ve had the chance to do that," the 23-year-old told.
Beyonce will design the line with her mother Tina Knowles.
"I think my mother and I both have a good idea of what people who are fashionable like," the singer said. "I love clothes from my grandmother`s generation, my mother`s
generation and contemporary stuff."
Beyonce is already wearing some of the samples. She spoke to the media on phone during a fitting for the dress she`ll wear in the upcoming "cater to you" video.
"It`s a takeoff of sparkle. ... It`s sort of supremes-era," she said. Tina knowles, the stylist for Destiny`s Child, said the mother-daughter design team broadens the audience for the clothing line. "It`ll have a young feel but be practical, too," she said.
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