Hot Summer 2013 Color Collection by Chanel

  There are several fixed dates in the calendar of a Beauty Editor, the arrival of a new collection of Chanel color is labeled one of them.

Inspired by butterfly wings and blue summer sky blue, the latest collection of the brand for a great summer, Butterfly Summer Chanel, we got all shook.

Created by Peter Philips (makeup genius, the Creative Director of Chanel make-up came earlier this year, but luckily for us, always with the French fashion house for their color collections) power purchase mascara and eye pencil shadow and lipstick, shiny and naturally perfect tan flattering nail polish is one of the most sought-after that we have seen so far this year collections.

The idea behind the collection was Chanel Eye color bursting with natural lips.

 Yellow eyelash corresponds with peach and turquoise toe sucking moths Chanel summer.

We would choose a few favorites, starting with her creamy eye pencils pens new soft shadow as liner, color block or a touch of color to be used, for example Chanel. But then we could not decide which color (it was sexy gold Moon River? Bright green jade coast No, the Blue Bay for sure ... or maybe the clumsy fit our cool gold tan for the beach?).

And then we fell in love with the Azure matching nail polish with a flash of neon mascara at Zest - on the ebony mascara worn - not before the pin blue eyes true waterproof pen for each color used sighted single collection simply 'pop '. Sorry, but that's a problem that we can not name.



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Gucci bags, scarves by artisans in New York, the flagship Bloomingdale be adjusted

  The Gucci Artisan Corner, on the website of Gucci as a new retail event aimed to carry craft Florentine leather goods factory directly Gucci boutiques describes choose around the world, install the flagship store Bloomingdale's on 59th Street, the 6 . June

According to WWD, Gucci artisans in the shop assembly handbags, leather bags, monograms and personalization of silk scarves will be stationed. They are some of the most popular brands elements work, including the Flora scarf of Princess Grace and the New Bamboo bags Stirrup flexible and Soho worn.

Francine Klein, executive vice president and general manager of Bloomingdale Fashion Accessories products, WWD said the artisan corner, which began in 2009, will "bring this unique know-how and with customers outside of shopping from home for the first time."

Chanel No. 5 perfume century

  Culture Chanel, the exhibition is a serious attempt to show how Chanel No. 5 perfume is the intersection of art, music, fashion, design and dramatic social changes after 1918.

Started in 1921, it was undoubtedly a radical perfume. On the one hand he was the first synthetic aldehydes. This does not seem romantic, but Chanel shoot the heady androgyny of the Jazz Age, was their first fragrance to smell quite modern. As always, she was ahead of the curve. The Hipster (The Bachelor Girl), Victor Margueritte novel about a young woman discovering her boyfriend was cheating, decides his life under the conditions of living of a man - Cutting multiple fans and hair - caused a stir when it in year was published in 1923. In many ways it could have been written for Coco.

As an androgynous scent that was - at least by the standards of that time. This meant not only that dominate floral notes, musk and no woozy irresistible.

The only way his accomplice Ernest Beaux, dashing out of the pre-revolutionary Moscow and famous "nose", was convinced achieve was with aldehydes, which according to him, allowed him to create a fragrance garden in all its complexity - and what more is a "shadow".

Chanel, who did not want flowers in their own juice, and finally chose the value of a bouquet with jasmine, iris and rose - even 77 ingredients, I urge you to identify - because, true to the promise of beauty, they are again harmonic. It was the fifth version of the beautiful. And No. 5

Or was it a different explanation for the name? Five Chanel was important for many reasons. For a modern woman, she was remarkably attached charms and symbols. Five is important in Hinduism and Buddhism. In addition, Igor Stravinsky, who had come in his house outside Paris, in 1920, more than a year, he composed a collection of short pieces for children called The Five Fingers while he was there.

A good deal of Cubism direct and bold refutation, decorated bottles "feminine" ubiquitous categorically at the time - then there was this minimalist bottle, was a classic. She borrowed the character of leaflets Dadaists producers, black lines and the effect of binding on the label of Bauhaus, Picasso and office proofreading by Marcel Proust, which he did by cutting and pasting passages rewritten on the old. The origin of the box was beige and black, because Coco, beige is the color of nature.

Beige Chanel become white when they realized to keep up with demand for its fragrance in its four branches they have to ensure the production would industrialize. It is ironic that Coco, who's otherwise good time deleted inspiration notebook when they. Onto the hook with a Nazi officer during the Second World War, eventually going into business with a Jewish family But that's what happens when they signed a deal with Paul and Peter Wertheimer 1924, with whom she still one of the founders of the Society of perfume houses perfumes Chanel, the world's most successful.

It was at this time that the plug of an emerald was fed into shape it was robust for distribution abroad just before the start.

Certainly played a big role in the lives of many great personalities of the past 90 years, No. 5.

An enlightened patron who was wearing his favorite poems from her, Coco was a faithful friend of Cocteau, Picasso and Dali. It's a nod to the show in the garden of La Pausa, their villa in the South of France, which recently came on the market for 33 million euros (C $ 44 million suns).

Chanel was a feminist, for example, not a dogma, a proto-Green, an early proponent of world exports and one of the first designers to star in his own ads.

She has also completed a thorough spritzing regime. According to the brochure of the exhibition: "Every morning, a young assistant evaporate No. 5 at the entrance to the building of his kingdom, in the Rue Cambon in Paris, a moment before walking Mademoiselle Chanel, after warning of its impending arrival the doorman at the Ritz . the smell still lingers around the staircase and mirror in her apartment. has sprayed you in his house also # 5 of the embers. "

Each coal No. 5 Now there's a per-ct waiting for a market developed.

Wells Fargo launches Michael Kors (KORS) at Outperform

  Wells Fargo initiated coverage on Michael Kors (NYSE: KORS) with an Outperform rating and a target price of $ 64 - $ 68th

Analyst says: "KORS has consistently market expectations exceeded since the IPO in December 2011 and the stock is up over 100% since this time, but the story is not over yet with significant opportunities in Europe and e-commerce, in addition.. to the strong momentum of the brand in the United States (where it is still double square footage), we believe continued positive surprises than stock outperformance. "

For an analyst ratings summary and historical notes on Michael Kors (NYSE: KORS), click here. More News notes Michael Kors click here.

Michael Kors shares closed at $ 57.09 yesterday, with a 52 week range of $ 65.10 $ 35.50 -.

What can you expect from Michael Kors

  I am naturally suspicious person. So when things go terribly always, I start to wonder what is wrong secretly. For example, Michael Kors is a perfect example of a company that I love and now feel a little worried. Since the actions Kors to 60% in the last 12 months, almost without major setbacks, it's a natural thing for me to worry. The company can seemingly do no wrong, and even when the world seems to collapse around him, it takes up to 40% or more growth in comparable sales. So, with fourth-quarter earnings come out on Wednesday, should seek the attention of investors?

The steep climb to the top
If I say that things are always Kors, I am very picky about my reference. While the stock is around 60% in the last 12 months - easily beat the S & P 500 - it is only 17% in the last six months set in line with the S & P 500 Index. For six months Kors has somehow been overrun, increased sales, but ripping off big gains for investors.

The problem is that the company seems to be the management team to a forced landing many of his assets as possible. Michael Kors himself - the man, the legend - is now less than 3% of the company. While there is an argument to sell the stock, there is little doubt that the sale of the insider of the company harm. The stock was around $ 65 then the day came in February, the company announced its latest "Secondary Offering" - he has not yet recovered.

Two steps forward and one back is always moving you forward
Even with the previous sell-off, Kors is still on a roll. The closest competitor of the company, the coach has lost 3% of its value in the same six months. The company has failed to develop its core business in the United States in the second quarter, which has hammered the stock.

Kors had many pleasant surprises. Over the last five quarters - all quarters that Kors was listed - Kors was a positive surprise in earnings per share. If this system continues, then Kors easily beat the $ 0.37 estimate of the profits. In its latest version, Kors also planned for the middle 20% growth in comparable sales. It also seems likely to be hit, and everything below 30% is surprising to me.

The bottom line
In short, Kors expect better than analysts expected. I would like to see a discussion on the sale of trade, but it's a long shot at best. The only other thing I would be looking for, is a reference to the company's market share in the United States. Coach showed some weaknesses earlier, and when Kors enabled, then it might me to coach bad things for investors across the board.

Michael Kors is one of the hottest brands of high-end fashion today, which resulted in one of the best performing stocks in detail - since its debut on the market at the end of 2011, the share price has more than doubled. But with all this growth, the stock eventually become too expensive, or is it still the remaining space? The report of the premium The Motley Fool on Michael Kors offers investors all the information they need to make the right decision. We cover the most important areas of must-watch, opportunities and risks for the company that investors need to know. To request your copy, click here now for instant access.

Data-Hermes Malaysia launches new VSAT services with MEASA

  Hermes Data Communications and MEASAT Satellite entered into an agreement for the provision of VSAT satellite communications by offshore oil from Malaysia via the MEASAT-3 satellite.

    Under the agreement, Hermes will base its new communications center at MEASAT Teleport and Broadcast Centre. Communication data hub Hermes provide access for the growth of the oil and gas industry from Malaysia VSAT connectivity. The hub is the result of significant investment from Hermes supports a drilling program underway in Malaysian waters.

    "Our new platform offers the use of the optimized bandwidth for efficient and reliable communications with high quality binding for voice, data applications in real time in the oil fields in Malaysia and video support" Mohd Faizal Zainal Amri, CEO of Hermes Malaysia said in a statement.

Lydia Dolezal Hermes

   Lydia Hermes Dolezal, 96, of Sweet Home, died on Sunday, 19 Begin in May 2013.
   It was on 5 Born February 1917 in Yoakum at the end of John V. and Marie Kacir Dolezal.

   Lydia married Eugene Hermes, 5 October 1936 in Yoakum. Lydia and Eugene breeding and near Sweet Home and ranched all of their married life were active parishioners of Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Sweet Home.

   Lydia was a member of Memorial Huth and Yoakum Community Hospital Ladies Auxiliary (Pink Ladies) for many years and made dolls and embroidery for them. She was also a member of the Altar Society of the Queen of Peace, Catholic family fraternal (KJZT) and SPJST.

   As a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, she never forgot a birthday and all of the youngest to the oldest surviving a birthday card included with some money. It was the same thing for Christmas and Easter, when small children get a small personal bag of candy and toys. Since the list included 53 people, it was something very remarkable. She remembered everyone by name, age and who they belonged to. When she graduated, got married and had children, she never lost sight of one of them. An accomplished seamstress, Lydia made quilts and crafts of remembrance for their children and family. She was very humble and keywords does not exist in his vocabulary.

   Lydia is by her daughters, Maria Rita Polansky leather, single mother, Gladys Hermes Koerth, son and daughter-in-law, Leroy and Barbara Hermes Houston and OJ and Karen Hermes Sweet Home, grandchildren and their surviving spouses, Cindy and Kent NewVar Anthony and Bonnie Hermes, Tom and Lisa Hermes, Robert and Terry Hermes, Susan and Kevin Wood, Scott and Leslye Hermes, Linda and Gene Valentino, Roni Cappadonna and Ray, Randy and Michelle Hermes, Hermes Rick and Carl and Elizabeth West, 28 great-grandchildren , his sister Mary Michalec of Helotes, his sister-in-law, Adeline Hermes Victoria.

   She was preceded in death by parents, husband of 63 years, his daughter, Agnes Marie Hermes, son, Marcus Hermes, son-in-law, Jerome Polansky, grandson, Bruce Hermes and Michael Polansky, brothers, Julius Arlitt, George Dolezal James Dolezal and stepmother Mary Pivoda Dolezal.

   Visitation was 6-8 clock Tuesday 21 May at Thiele-Cooper Funeral Home, 1477 Carl Ramert doctor Yoakum.

Rosary 9:30 was followed by a 10 am funeral Mass at Queen of Peace Catholic Church Wednesday 22 May Father Charles Sonnier officiating. Burial at Queen of Peace Cemetery followed.

   The pallbearers were Anthony Hermes, Tom Hermes, Robert Hermes, Hermes Scott, Randy Hermes, Hermes Rick and Carl West. Honorary bearers were grandchildren, great-grandchildren, the nursing staff and rehabilitation Yoakum and Accolade Hospice.

   Memorial contributions may be Texas 77987 or the donor provided on the Queen of Peace Renovation Fund, PO Box 201, Sweet Home.

Gucci bags profits at the expense of luxury LV

  Louis Vuitton is losing ground as the most valuable brand in the world as a luxury competitors such as

Gucci and Prada profits, says a new research report.

The value of the brand Vuitton 12pc a year ago, dropped to $ 22.7 billion (€ 17.5 billion), Millward Brown

has indicated in its 2013 BrandZ.

While bagging owned by LVMH, the balance between exclusivity and affordability, the report of the most

valuable luxury brand for the eighth year in a row remains to better manage competitors.

The value of the Gucci brand PPR jumped 48pc to $ 12.7 billion, the third class in the list of luxury, while

the value of Prada jumped 63pc $ 9.45bn, in fourth place, Millward Brown Optimor said. Hermes remained in

second place with $ 19100000000, unchanged from the previous year.

As consumers, "to make place for the luxury that they feel better by trading against others, it is the

middle-of-the-road brands feel the effects of this bias," Millward Brown said in a statement.

Rolex, Chanel, Cartier, Burberry, Fendi and Coach completed the top 10 most valuable luxury brands study.

The outbreak of Prada was fastest over 13 categories of Millward Brown measured by 95 out of 100 global

brands. Apple has once again estimated at the forefront with its 1pc to $ 185 billion, according to the

study value.

"Prada brand awareness in China, Russia, Brazil and the Middle East continue to grow," Anastasia

Kourovskaia, Vice President EMEA Millward Brown said.

The study, commissioned by WPP in order, was based on interviews with consumers as well as the analysis of

the performance of the company.

Miu Miu opens fifth branch in South Korea

  Miu Miu comes to a new destination in South Korea as the brand opened its' first store in Seongnam - the

fifth largest city in terms of the development of the brand in the country, to Seoul, Busan, Incheon and

Gyeonggi-do.

The store, designed by the architect Roberto Baciocchi is in the prestigious Plaza Bundang AK memory and is

ready-to-wear, leather goods and shoe collections, all displayed on a single plane.

Admission is aesthetically striking with a window and a crystal clear against the light metal screen, like

stage curtains frame the window and section steel light boxes.

The interior features a large mirror, damask walls and iconic furniture shaped gold-covered box to display

the collection.

Window with golden damask thin and elegant lounges complete the environment and create an intimate and

pleasant atmosphere frames.

fashion students create outfits for plus size women

  For their class product development, decided Cornell clothing second year design students Brandon Wen

twenties and Laura, a collection of clothes for plus size women specially developed for their study was to

create a neglected market.

But they faced a barrier beginning: While some clothes are made exclusively for larger women that there is a

lack of full-figured models available, and the few that there are some similar versions of thin women like

Barbie proportions scale. Undeterred, the students built their own form of plus size dress.

Under the direction of Susan Ashdown, Helen G. Canoyer professor in the Department of Fiber Science &

Apparel Design (FSAD) at the College of Human Ecology, they analyzed thousands of 3-D body scans of women, a

prototype body shape and size to define. The team matched a single scan of a pear shape, 24 female body

scanners in 3-D FSAD department and size are used to develop a model for the shape and contours of their

model. Then they used laser cutting machine cut a half inch think foam Ministry pieces and stacked and

bonded layers to their model, a form of dress half scale, the designers develop prototype allows creating

clothes that are then reproduced at full scale.

"This is a wonderful example of the use of innovative technologies to support the design work," Ashdown

said. "Rather than just something designed to enhance the size of a woman, or even think about clothes as

something to hide a body or make it look different than it is a body, the students tried to celebrate than

how it really is. "

In her presentation at the last class on 13 May twenties, Wen and student exchange Abbey Jennings presented

her collection called Women Rubens, after the famous Flemish painter for his illustrations of the full-

figured women. It has four jackets, skirts and trousers designed to complement the curves of larger women.

Wen, the lead designer for the project, said he hopes such a line could alleviate stress many plus size

women when browsing in stores or online, where their purchases often ends in frustration faced in ill-

fitting clothes.

"Many businesses are not plus sizes in the store, so people have to go and find online, and it is difficult

to find online," Wen said. "In addition, many plus size women do not want in regular stores around thin

clients shop is a little self-awareness."

The team has also developed a marketing plan and also negotiated with San Francisco-based manufacturer to

develop a recommended price of their line.

They noticed a huge opportunity to market research has shown that plus size women to buy 28 percent of the

electricity for clothes and accessories that entertain, but spend only 17 percent of purchases by Zwanziger.

"A lot of clothing [for plus size women] are really just small volumetric proportions that fit really

strange," Zwanziger said. "The women feel alienated size of the industry."

Make a line of clothing specifically for larger women is a process very different, but important, Ashdown

said.

"Health issues aside, we all body shapes and proportions of the body," she said. "Everyone deserves to have

clothes designed for them as they are and not as they appear on certain forms of abstract industry in

context."

Interview: Ruth Lawson chats Chanel Scott Johnson Rate

  "This is a personal adventure in many ways rather than co-heads."

Scott Johnson - AKA Rating Chanel - seems to be a very thoughtful person. You can tell that every word he utters, since well thought out and really means something.

And this is to have a valuable function for every musician, because it was on record inspires confidence in the auditors music and lyrics.

I think these are the reasons why, if you have a very honest review of Chanel feeling comes over you, and to hear intact.

Scott, who recently moved to Newcastle back after a stint in Leeds, admits that he is the "new kid" on the music channels Northeast, but with a slit in the development of the emerging case next week, the doors are set for the young man who learned from his ancestors to open his craft.

"I started playing when I was about 13 years," says Scott. "My uncle and my father taught me to play. Earlier we sit around and jam for hours place of my grandfather., I had this old eight tracks and a Christmas present is where I started to record my own music.

"I loved layering things up. Was I insecure about my voice, and I hated how I live sound., I thought, everything sounded better layers than six times with a load of reverb. I remember reading something in a magazine to do about John Lennon and I think I heard a lot of his stuff at the time.

"That's the basis of my registered today."

During his time studying at Leeds, Scott has been successful in a band called Aviary and offers a wealth of concerts and goes a little party to top it off.

But while aviaries are no longer a large part of the musical sensibility developed in this period helped shape again Chanel.

Scott explained .. "We have a lot of things and play inspired the other two guys in the band play some of my shots attempted delivery of the first songs I was released, a kind of song transition was one project to another, as we wrote together.

"I released a collaboration with one of the guys this week, with the divine Jaymz Dean."

After writing more than a month, goodbye Chanel are now starting to build a good reputation locally concerts presented by the back-catalog of songs written.

Scott asked in a cover band to help pack a punch and shows fans offers something different to the original.

He said: "They add a different feel to the songs live, I do not want this to sound like it does on record, when we play live This is different than the main songwriter, a personal adventure in many.. respect rather than spirit of cooperation, I'm not sure which I prefer, but I have many good friends who play an important role in this project. "

Inspired from all directions means that criticism Chanel musically developed since its inception. After starting with a very ambient sound and acoustics, Scott has seen interest in the production side of things, an electronic feeling creep in.

"I think the best songs are yet to come," said Scott. "Many people say I have" a distinctive sound, "but above all, to the beat of his voice and his guitar are perhaps the only things I kept constant. This is something that I try to evolve, white I do not like the idea, limited to a single tone, but we'll see. "

And when asked how the public reacts Northeastern's music, Scott is also honest with his answer.

"OK, I think I think some people know who I am confused., But it should not as long as they love music regardless. I try to keep things focused on the music, but all the other things with him comes.

"I had some very good reviews. I think the lo-fi quality of my recordings can prevent my chances to play on the radio and serious, but it's enough time for that."

Rate the last touches to the EP made Chanel By Night in Paradise, at the end of this month.

The band is in the development of emerging event generator instead of a number of places around Ouseburn Newcastle, Saturday 25 May play

Scott added: "I think emerging Evo is a game-changer in terms of game for people who enjoy my music and even for those who play I try to get a concert every week and an interest in the local. "scene.

Robyn Lawley is super trendy

  Robyn Lawley family always thought she would become a market leader. "I really do not remember a time when I can not cook," she said. "I remember [Climbing] a step ladder to reach our kitchen benches."

Grew grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney, the model enjoyed spending time with her mother when she dinner together every night. "As the youngest, I thought," This is my way [is] attention "So I would continue to cook and I continue to excel .. I made cakes and pastries and cakes from a very young age and give them to my grandmother you. loved lemon meringue pie up so that I only met him about six. "

When she was growing up, Robyn has worked in the kitchens of great restaurants, but he was not sure it was the career for her. "I did not feel the love and passion. This was not the same for me. ... But I continue to cook your passion never dies, it never goes away."

Instead, Lawley and a model for a time was his passion subsided. As a teenager she was deprived of nutrition, exercise fanatics and are difficult to adapt to make samples as a straight size model. She was unhappy. "I had a really thin sister and say," Why can not your body "Also, she said:" I get wish you were my body and face and boom. You would have a mannequin "Then there was the struggle to increase the feeling of guilt."

However, in a nice irony, when it ceased to torture, so that his body back to its healthy natural waist and returned to his passion for food, her modeling career has flourished. Turning 24 this month, the model in many international fashion magazines (including Vogue Australia), appeared landed on the cover of Vogue Italia - as shot by Steven Meisel - and last year it was announced as the face of Ralph Lauren. And she still loves eating.

Lawley is ridiculously beautiful in person. His blue-green eyes with long eyelashes and eyebrows, her honey-colored skin and long brown hair lined artfully thrown. At six feet two inches (188 centimeters) tall and Hollywood goddess curves, it is positively Amazon, though dressed in a black skirt, flats and a t-shirt Psychedelic Josh Goot.

These days, she and her lawyer friend in New York live in a large apartment with a "large kitchen", and despite his success in modeling, is all about his passion. Last year, Random House has signed a report on his popular blog Robyn Lawley tumblr eats book where it collects to create images of delicious food. "Fortunately, as a model that you get to travel the world and eat at the best places."

She spent Christmas in old cookbooks from her mother, her book will be filled with food and nostalgic favorites from childhood. "I grew up with food, cooked food my family around me, the food I found my kitchen in France, the food that I have found in New York that I think is really hip and cool effect. - I'll try all together in recipes "She wants to encourage the cookbook people to get back to the kitchen .. "I'm cooking a traditional, I like a home cooked meal. I think it always tastes best."

And she is also working on a cooking show for Foxtel, in which they in New York to visit popular restaurants, then you create the dishes in your own kitchen.

Earlier this year, Lawley yet realized ambition for fuller figures as long as she launched her own line of swimwear. The seeds of the idea began when the 18-year-old went shopping in France for a flattering swimsuit and fashion - in vain.

"It was impossible, because they are all very small, and I'm so angry," she recalled thinking. "Why do I have in these bikinis that its not the same, these are not flattering and n 't I?"

With its rising profile, she and the agent Chelsea Bonner revisited the idea last year. "[We realized] This is the time when we actually do something to a size that is unfortunately almost forgotten fashion." There were many things that they wanted, so flattering paneling and thick fabric "so you can have lunch and not be ashamed of the stomach."

Celebration Blitz magazine - style bible for 80 Mini-Club

  Eighties fashion has given us many things - batwings, shoulder pads and big hair between them. Then there was the style magazines, publications dedicated to youth and freshness, long before the word "hipster" has entered the mainstream. Three launched in the UK in 1980 alone to life - the face that has been known for a pop approach to fashion and closed in 2004, ID streetstyle specialists still there and recently bought by Vice Media and lightning, a magazine created by two Oxford students, Labovitch Carey and Simon Tesler. From the arty end of the spectrum, he inhabit the poor clubs like London, which documents his name together.

At home, on the moodboard a fashion student, perhaps, but faded into obscurity for most - Since the fold in 1991, Flash has received a cult following. That could change now. The shoots of the magazine were collected in a book, as seen in flash, for the first time, and the ICA in London presents a series of interviews this weekend with, among other things, the designers behind the label BODYMAP Model 80s and Barry Kamen. "It gets pretty messy, I think," said Iain R Webb, who edited the book and held talks. "But that's the best way."

Webb worked as a fashion editor of the magazine from 1982 to 1987, he speaks from experience. The title of the ICA weekend, we are not here to clothes, sums up the approach of the flash mode to sell. "I had carte blanche," he recalls, "children modeling Jasper Conran evening wear, my parents Comme des Garcons." Other notable images include club search Princess Julia bring the blanket she woke, depressed adolescents from smoking and a whole fashion shoot shades instead of clothes. "Was to create personas and clubs," says Webb. "You would have a next Rockabilly Little Bo Peep, along with a existentialist."

The flash moment in the spotlight can be used as part of a wider re-evaluation of 80 living culture of the London club, a book about the dress-up club Kinky Gerlinky seen was recently published and an exhibition titled Club Catwalk coming soon to the V & A. " I think it is a similar moment now, and that's why it resonates, "said Webb. "Thatcherism had begun. We had nothing, so we had nothing to lose." However, Webb said a recovery would not work. "It's like James Dean or Kurt Cobain," he said. "They still have a huge impact, but it would resonate when they were still there today What I hope is to see the seeds of it to inspire a new generation."

fashion retailer H & M and Zara Bangladesh sign security agreement

  Important European fashion retailer H & M and Zara have agreed to sign a legally binding security to improve the working conditions in garment factories in Bangladesh, break down after a day of April building killed at least 1,127 people in Dhaka.

Title of Agreement on fire and building safety in Bangladesh, he was drafted by the International Labour Organisation and other groups. Based in Spain Zara and H & M Sweden joined British Tesco and Primark compliance with this Agreement, provided the BBC with other clothing companies - with the notable absence of major U.S. retailers.

What would such a deal done? Safety checks to be independent and mandatory public reporting upgrades and patches on the plate, USA Today wrote, while the two brands and retailers are obliged, any plant that does not comply with the new rules to be cut.

The horrifying scale clothes factory disaster in Bangladesh has galvanized world opinion and pushed her approach to fashion brands offered cheaper production by the poor Asian nation to change.

For 12 years, workers' Rights Consortium (WRC), an organization of independent control of the work in the United States has been monitoring the working conditions in factories around the world, clothing brands and campaigns to produce improvement. The WRC and other militant groups have welcomed the decision of register H & M, Zara owner Inditex and other groups of European distribution renowned with regard to fire protection and construction for Bangladesh.

Workers and trade unions will also be allowed a say in the security process. The deadline for retailers to sign is set to 15.

Wal-Mart, Sears and JC Penney have not signed the agreement, the Wall Street Journal, adding that the U.S. producers appear on their own security agreement for Bangladesh to work instead.

Gap, the U.S. clothing retailer, said his only objection to the agreement on how disputes will be resolved by the courts. "The landscape is different from litigation in the United States and Europe," Bill Chandler, Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs for Gap, told the Journal.

Faced with an online petition CAP has announced its intention to register if there are legal issues with the security plan solves announced.

"We hope that a broad coalition of signatures for the agreement to work effectively on the ground," said H & M's head of sustainability Helena Helmersson in a statement, according to Reuters.

Bangladesh is the second largest clothing manufacturer in the world, behind China - but the workers are suffering under the relaxed working and safety of a patient hopes the new agreement to address.

RMC estimated the cost of Bangladesh factories to Western standards to a maximum of $ 3 billion euros or less than 3 percent of the $ 95 billion spent should the production of clothing in the next five years. Collapse in a statement issued after the Rana Plaza building, WRC said 10 cents per shirt would be sufficient for the industry to cover these costs.

"This agreement is exactly what it finally put an end to the epidemic and fire disasters construction that took so many lives garment industry in Bangladesh takes," said CEO Scott Nova WRC, according to the Associated Press. "This is a legally binding agreement enforceable under which signatory companies the necessary measures for the lives of workers who make their clothes must be protected."

Asia invests in European fashion brands

  Have acquired no matter combination of factors, Asian investors prestigious, albeit slowly, the European brands for more than a decade, often peps costs for businesses - an appreciation of the cultural heritage, an eye for a bargain, or maybe a bit of both .

One example is Taiwanese entrepreneurs Shaw-Lan Wang, the Alber Elbaz at Lanvin installed after purchase of the French fashion house in 2001 by them. Along the way back to profitability Similarly, acquired South Korea's Kim Sung-joo economy German leather goods company MCM in 2005. Since then it has been vying for a coveted by hip young Asian brand with a monogram to compete with the appointment of Louis Vuitton. Megha Mittal, the Indian steel family, also helped inject a cool glamor Escada after they took over the struggling German fashion label in 2009. In short, the tide is turning in luxury fashion.

Giant Hong Kong's supply chain, the Fung Group, is perhaps the busiest aggregator. In recent years, the group, led by brothers William and Victor Fung, an enviable portfolio of European brands accumulated floors.

Fung Brands, a subsidiary of the investment arm of the Fung family, now holds French fashion house Sonia Rykiel, Belgian Delvaux leather label and in a joint venture, French shoemaker Robert Clergerie.

Date Trinity, the unity of the luxury menswear group last year Gieves & Hawkes, the Savile Row tailors and clothing brand, a team that includes the Paris-based fashion house Cerruti and Kent & Curwen British heritage label.

The thugs and sale of textiles and clothing makers Yangtzekiang manufacture of clothing, which is controlled by the family Chan - Last year, the British brand Aquascutum was acquired distressed luxury fashion of YGM Trading in Hong Kong. YGM was the owner of Guy Laroche for China before the purchase of the company in 2004. And redemption follows a pattern - he also held the regional license for Charles Jourdan before to take the mark of French lifestyle.

Labels YGM lengthen golf and lifestyle brand, Ashworth and trendy Swedish brand J. Lindeberg, and it will soon offer peak performance, another Swedish brand on the continent.

"We need to move forward Aquascutum for global expansion and [more] existing business in the UK intend," says Shirley Chan Suk-ling, CEO of YGM "[as well as the expansion and diversification] product categories such as sports, children's fashion and accessories. "

To open a new flagship store Acquascutum soon, which mark the direction of the strategy more unified global brand label.

There are several reasons for takeovers of European labels by Asian entrepreneurs who want to take advantage of the market for luxury vehicles. First, it is usually easier to revive a grand old name than building from scratch.

"The European brands have a big advantage because they have the quality, heritage, authenticity and especially the history," marketing director David Wong said at Trinity-gay group. "Many American and Asian brands are new to the market and have a single generation in history, while brands from Europe have often exceeded three generations of succession and continuity."

Why fashion people unnecessarily dropped the 'S' from the ground?

  "Let's couple that look with a red shoe", "This will work with pants", "I want to see with a naked lip." What the hell has happened to several fashionable? When is it suddenly a singular sensation?

Those who work in the fashion apparently always had their own island, evolving language that was tasteless and hilarious. But thanks to the success of the reality TV star stylists like Rachel Zoe and Brad Goreski, the general public has become familiar with it, frankly, an embarrassing degree. (Does anyone bother opportunity for those abbreviate "big" to "move"?)

By their nature, fashion is influential, so when the words coined a new garment skirt shorts, jeggings, etc. describe it is not uncommon for there to get absorbed into the lexicon real world. But popularize portmanteaus is one thing, change existing words is another. For some time, the industry is down the "s" in words, turning "jeans" to "John", "lips" to "lip", "pants" to "panties" and more obvious of all - "Pants" in " pants ". (And in all the kinds of "shoe", were the words to "stable", "army", "platform" for short).

And it is not just high fashion. This has trickled down to the mall. The gap is now referring to "short" or "short". I do not know short you. My question is: why?

Rachel Braier The Guardian suggests that there is a "less is more" is:

    Is this the shape while soft curves of the letter S offense these gurus rail-thin style? Will they start with other letters to his place? Maybe K or Z with their bold, angular lines to a fashionable choice.

She is half in jest, but it seems plausible because it there is at least some truth to the idea that the subconscious of some clever way plural "large" and "more" is not as fancy as "small". I know this sounds stupid, but if not, to "pants" as "panties". This is stupid, it is only logical that the etymology is good.

L2 Digital IQ Series press reports, APAC Region, Gucci, Bobbi Brown, Estee Lauder result No. 1 ranking

   Today a number of L2 Digital IQ Index ® reports published on five major APAC markets operate: Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Together, these reports quantify, compare, and provide a detailed analysis of the numerical output of more than 100 brands of local and global prestige in the Asia-Pacific region last year. Written by Scott Galloway, L2 founder and NYU Stern clinical professor of marketing, and a team of researchers L2, these new reports, in tandem with our recent Digital IQ Index ®: The China Study, a comprehensive assessment of current and future digital landscape for the new global epicenter of luxury.

"The focus moves Luxury East, APAC buyers are now the source of much of the growth of the industry. Marketers across industries focused considerable attention on China, sometimes sharply at the expense of other Asian markets affect Chinese preferences and increasingly as shopping destinations for Chinese tourists to serve. "Maureen Mullen, chief of research and consulting firm L2

treason fabulous Great Gatsby Fashion 1920

  Feather Jewelry? Consider. Long strings of pearls? Consider. Brooks Brothers over a meeting of Princeton? Consider. Shoes shows cloche hats and bracelets made of bakelite? Check check, check. The Great Gatsby provides images of 1920s fashion (and a few other times) which we expect to see.

But they did not quite seem as we expect to see. The colors are rich, bespangled dresses, valves and less bold. This is not the Gatsby Gatsby John Held Jr. caricatures or Boardwalk Empire. It's dark, gritty and much more sexy than the priggish Fitzgerald could have imagined. This is a 21 Century Gatsby, set in the 1920s, which paradoxically increases from its connection with the decadent time it shows. If you want historically accurate costumes, you will be better served by PBS. If you want to understand the social and cultural significance of clothing in the 1920s, then this film offers.

Self-proclaimed protector of the novel and your "history buff" neighbors swear Luhrmann's wrong, but there is no "wrong" in an interpretation, old sport. And I know that Camp Luhrmann historical details taken care of, because as an academic who writes about fashion Fitzgerald era, I was in a room with the production designer Catherine Martin Sa asked specific questions about vintage clothing. "Would the tie Gatsby were the tissue or tissue?" She said, pushing samples on the table. "This one, because it is a natural fiber. There were no synthetic until the 1940s." Understanding the history and then decide when and where to use it is different than just ignore it. It is much more important than Luhrmann gets the cultural context of the garment. And it does.

In the film, as in life, socio-economic class defines the dress of a character. In 1920, in New York, the class has been changed. Old money and Tom Buchanan-style lost its grip on the American culture. Gatsby, reaching pushed the limits of "reasonable." Bye bye fractions. Hello tuxedo. Behind the scenes of extravagant parties, Luhrmann mixes the old guard with the new senator from West 10 gallons hat dances with a debutante, Ivy League boys wear white flannel trousers and feel movie stars. Activities no longer flowed, Dr. Veblen. Fashions thrive in the strangest places.

Tom Luhrmann has a kitchen, dark blue, a double-breasted jacket and coat. There remains. Gatsby pink linen suit and sports a modern readers remember in detail because of its connotations with sex. In its cultural context, but the paint was on the class and splendor. Pink striped and paired with a burgundy tie and gold chain bar displays real-time debut Gatsby costume. Tom and Nick on the kind of understatement dress her mother taught her, and she grew on the green quads liable. The contrast between the blue blood and Bootlegger is striking and get moviegoers without multiple references to the exercise Buchanan. If the public wants to get literally, they can hightail it Brooks Brothers. The company, which has the author and his buddies dressed Princeton, has a collection of published Gatsby inspired pants with tapered legs to the Don Draper, certainly not in 1922, but still negotiable.

Women's costumes are more subtle, but equally important for the development of character Luhrmann. Even things that are not clearly 1920 (1950 splitting ridiculous Myrtle Wilson, for example) to display the message: Myrtle does things in bed that your wife does not. Daisy Buchanan is entitled to a social hierarchy matrix connected and believes that "the best thing a girl in this world, a beautiful little fool." True to the text, she wears lavender and lace. The close fit of her dresses 1912 is 1922.

But Jordan Baker is a professional athlete, a party girl. In the book, she lives with her aunt girl a social necessity for a woman of her background. Jordan Luhrmann lives alone and as cut off from the party Gatsby, she screams for Nick to call him. Jordan Fitzgerald wears sports clothes as a sign of his profession and his sensitivity. Jordan Luhrmann is so advanced, it carries species-one in 1930, backless floor length evening dress, a blouse with sleeves wearing a matching cape and pants. Yes, pants. These are not worn as pajamas at night resorts in the late 1920s, the pants. These are palazzo pants, like the ones I wore to my cousin's wedding last summer. Historians should not haggling accuracy. The pants are on site, but the message is about. Daisy wears white cotton dresses. Jordan wears pants.

The main actors are not the only updates Luhrmann. If an Australian film director interprets the social hierarchy of the 1920s in America, everyone gets to go to the party. Public Fitzgerald was white, but the public is not Luhrmann. Expect meaty, black dancers, an Arabian Wolfsheim aspect and see some interracial couples. As usual, Luhrmann steps over the "ideal" body type, or even so closely with the time (: knobby knees and branch-like arms see also) connected. Women thick waist, short, stocky men, and some drag queens make the interpretation of Luhrmann in the 21st Century.

The Costumes of The Great Gatsby not withstand the rigors of academic analysis, but who cares about the story is "real", anyway? The costumes of the film seduce and inspire boater hats, headbands Bejeweled, fringed dresses and all. As part of the magnificent lawn Gatsby Daisy was to win over the bay, Luhrmann pulls a modern audience once more hear a story that they have heard before.

Kate Middleton Sparks new fashion trend with scholarships Dainty

  Kate Middleton has been since her famous was to be a fashion icon, the Issa blue silk jersey dress now at the announcement of her engagement to Prince William in 2010, but it is perhaps his fondness transport small grants will be the attention of the fashion world. The royal enclosure is blamed for the growing trend of producing small purse.

If they are not with flowers, is Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, seen clinging to her favorite accessory, a small clutch. No matter what she wears, even if it is a feature where they committed, should be seen and photographed a public or, there is almost always sure to keep a small handbag.

Her little bags are probably just keep accessories to be idle hands busy while it is in the public eye. It is even possible that it carries empty wallet. But still, the industry is now emulated his lead.

"If she's done something for the handbag, it has small pockets" famous British fashion accessories designer Lulu Guinness told the Telegraph.

"I personally do my small bag next season, so they are more delicate and refined, and that is to do, I think."

Female hand bag look, it's true, but they are not very practical. There is virtually nothing that can fit inside of them, with the exception of car keys and a few bills.

The pregnant wife of Prince William does not have to worry about the mundane details such as memory management, however. As above, Guinness, Kate is "very elegant, but it also got people who are the other things it needs, and maintained a great car."

Meanwhile, his brother, Prince Harry, only revealed the sex of their unborn child. Harry, who is third will be pushed to the fourth line to the British throne after the child is born to William and Kate was so excited that he is going to he had told everyone the news a nephew.

"Harry's been said that everyone is a boy and Kate and how happy he is at the prospect of a nephew to have" a source told the Mirror.