Fashion: Lady Gaga buys a McQueen dress Daphne Guinness Auction

Lady Gaga was among the bidders at the auction at Christie Daphne Guinness in London on Wednesday, taking advantage of the Foundation Isabella Blow. She paid a record sum for a Alexander McQueen dress - $ 133,075 - for an empire-style gown in ivory tulle Guinness Collection, shown here. Much more than the expected $ 160.00 - The auction has raised the equivalent of $ 742 000th (Lady G offers by telephone, in person, since it is in the middle of a tour.) [WWD] Music star Will.i.am is reportedly working with edgy designers Masaomo Yamaji Japanese male in the collection of a few men of the popular co-jackets called Will.i.am Rynshu X (be the name of the main line Yamaji), according to a press release. Refinery29 called his "30" under 30 rising stars in LA - Creative people, politics and others warned, keep in mind. These included Atlanta Cadanet Taylor model, jewelry designer Karla Deras, designers and Lisa Dakota Solt Ziven crybaby of gifts, fashion and art Daily Beast correspondent Isabel Wilkinson, fashion journalist and photographer Matt Sayles Chase Weideman. [Refinery29] Speaking Refinery29 launched the site a platform for shopping, shops R29, where readers browse and purchase clothing brands such as Keds, Norma Kamali, Steven Alan, Rebecca Minkoff, and Dolce Vita. [WWD] Any comparison between his label C and the Wonder of his ex-wife Tory Burch is wrong on Chris Burch in an interview with Gayle King on "CBS This Morning" Thursday. His clothes are so serious, he said, and C. Wonder is less fantasy. [CBS News] Seattle-based retailer Nordstrom has finally chosen a site for his first feature film on the market in New York. But it is not expected to open until 2018. [Fashionista] In the men's shows in Paris, the Band of Outsiders only model in a box-sets his vigil, waiting for a few hours sleep. [The Cut] And during this time point to the project by Yohan Serfaty Y, the model is always started on a hospital bed freshly made in front of them, the vibrating head to the track. [Fashion Ising] Hairdressers finally have a chance, the Oscars, thanks to new rules adopted by the Academy of Arts and Sciences of movies. [LA Times] Below is a page on free beauty stores like Sephora Service Clinic took its products outside of windows and developed an experience, a bar, where customers can try out things at their own pace. [WSJ]

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Louis Vuitton has sailed into a sea of ​​sportswear - as a way to travel with menswear heritage brand to connect again. The numerical wave of the sea in the background and practices were still elevated and clothing, says the designer Kim Jones backstage, a tribute to the outgoing CEO Carcelle Vuitton. He left Paris for Newport, Rhode Iceland, and the America's Cup, which was part of the universe Vuitton. Whatever the origins of light parkas, bathing rationalization, check Damier bags in a navy blue touch and huge backpacks with detachable leather purses, has given this collection a new meaning of the word "Wanderlust". Objects of desire all the accessories available, which was not out bling. Even with a picture as a tattoo print T-shirt or a pair of neon belts, Mr. Jones has managed to produce luxury as deep as the ocean floor. Drag a veil Jolly turned out to be knitted from shredded cotton shirts, which had a wetsuit top half of Kashmir. And denim quilts were created with an old Japanese technique. "Digital and crafts," said Mr. Jones, who may add the two poles of a season in 2013, that it helps to define is. Raf Simons went to the roots of its signature brand in a different way: is his debut at Christian Dior Couture on Monday, seemed to the designers want to prove - through its website in a gallery exhibition of downtown fainting at the Bastille and the boys his history of fashion back in the beginning - that was haute couture are also not change the condition of his men. Mr. Simons has the Boy shorts look who is now an unstoppable trend invented. They were in this powerful and entertaining collection, which looked at the time than boys in the streets of the Belgian designer found, first in the 1990s, exuding sexuality and teenage angst marched schoolboy plentiful. It would have been easy to write to Mr. Simon's immersion in the women sewing soft furnishings that have secretly slipped in. But, said the designer, he thought back to the grunge years, but on a dress was part of a mix of clothes fan of music. A floral was assembled in a single coat, a slight scent of Comme des Garcons. The show was subtly on the basis of the seam, with fine details on the shirts as patches of fabric or embroidery. Light peach, orange and pink colors adds another hint of a sexual fusion of male and female. Mr. Simon has his own perspective on the world of people and this show was strong, beautiful and clean. In some seasons in Paris, the Asian-American designer Philip Lim has raised his game to show the opening of the 3.1 Philip Lim with a pulse energy. "Ready for Action," said the designer, picked up in a neat summary of the modern men's fashion with martial arts as a foundation, Mr. Lim elegantly over the most important trends. High white square baggy, low step knit shorts, injected dye ink, and reflects the gilding. Lists do not meet the eye in order to facilitate the designer to get everything together in a strong and vibrant. Rick Owens works at their own pace - and tapped into a new light on coats, jackets and dresses gauzy monastic. They would have organza or nylon, but somehow they looked classy. Powerful, were also prints - another important trend in the summer - here with a 3-D effect used box rafters. This beautiful sight was important for another reason: his hooves and wool socks. What? No sneakers, which are the staple footwear of the season? Viktor & Rolf have compiled a collection of scenes, designed on the racetrack, it meant that stitching in shades of sand alone, elegant, spiced with a silver tie and sneakers "spiritual elegance." Or creates an iridescent effect with Indian embroidery mirror that was far from the 1970s hippie fashion track. The design duo Viktor and Rolf Snoeren Horsting worked herringbone pattern in the geometry of the track season always present, so apathetic Chevron characterizes a new life. The spirit of Issey Miyake was in tissue paper, inventive, biker jackets and bold Japanese tie-dye stains to show the brand. And the designer was there to greet and meet good friends - via Skype. Design guru Jean-Paul Goude was just talking to an admirer of long-term digital Mr. Miyake, who had worked with his laboratory at the fashion collection of men's clothing. The result was a new energy when the bike models in the showroom. Miyake was the style occurs in geometry, cut square shapes, fat and fatty tissue in the inventions. Jean Paul Gaultier has risen to every activity you could do on the deck of a ship. Its marine theme park was not established that the life of fashion on the ocean wave, but as a calm presentation - or give out a travel theme, the bearded and turbaned Indians and has French embraced Toile de Jouy with drawings miniature remote tribes. The ability to work that goes into the men see wearing Gaultier was the key: the effects of tattoo embroidery in a white shirt on a white or cut low crotch pants waist a pleated satin evening refined. Missing was the sassy, ​​smart way Mr. Gaultier could have shaken the sailor hornpipe on the stage. But will carry his men will be broadcast live in high fashion next week. Thierry Mugler Fashion by Lady Gaga was modeling on the runway revived. But now the brand, like Mugler, the imagination is developed with the Super-stylist Nicola Formichetti and, for men's wear, designer Roman Kremer. The emphasis on the seam, cut slices to show the flesh, an interesting introduction, but ideas like shorts with a flap thigh was looking difficult. But the future of Mugler seems more positive than when it was launched. A designer Christian Lacroix Sacha Walckhoff dutifully continues to rotate collections pleasant, with a print on a T-shirt or a pattern on a layer to give a small suggestion of the founder of the imagination. But as the summer of 2013 was the inspiration of Rio, it was difficult to say how it connected to the heritage of the brand.

Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama together to open in September Pop-Up Shops

  Spots are springing up all over the world this summer, starting seven Louis Vuitton pop-up stores to highlight its collection capsule with Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, are in reports WWD.

The first store is located inside the Louis Vuitton store in New York on 10 Opened in July, two days before the trip Kusama retrospective opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art Then peas - for signing Kusama - is in Asia, the Pacific Place arise in Hong Kong, Singapore and Ngee Ann City, Isetan in Tokyo, Shinjuku branch.

After these introductions, Tokyo, Kusama is also home to the city called, getting a second location in Dover Street Market in Ginza. Then, open to the two largest stores Kusama concept in two department stores: a store of 860 square meters, in the spring in Paris on 23 August 1375 and one-square-foot store in Selfridges in London on 24 The august position of Paris will be centered around fish, while the London store will focus on the famous sculptures Kusama Pumpkin.

The outlets of the pop-up will open for one to two months and has seen a number of trench coats, handbags and other accessories created with the artist for Louis Vuitton. European subsidiaries also offer the exclusive tentacles decorated handbags, two months before its planned launch date in October.

Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs, artistic director has to have it was taken with Kusama, as it is a measure of a bag by Louis Vuitton Ellipse introduced during his first visit to his workshop in 2006, she should get special treatment. Of the three other artists - Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami and Richard Prince - Jacobs chose to partner with the brand, Kusama is the only one with multiple pop-up stores in honor of his line.

Prada, Louis Vuitton on sale for the campaign contributions from Faisal

  While most would look for a little extra money by selling their expensive, designer bags, hoping some locals could sell their luxury goods to bring about political change.

A number of supporters of the independent gubernatorial candidate Faisal Basri Jakarta decided to create a flea market, auction, including a brand name bag, hold to raise money to campaign.

The event, at the Cafe Coffee Cabin in South Jakarta, on Tuesday saw the candidate supporters gathered under the banner of community affairs for women used to sell branded bags, including those Louis Vuitton, Prada and Gucci.

Faisal, an economist at the University of Indonesia, said in a press release made available to the Jakarta Post that the event one of his attempts to engage the public, to raise money was campaign and added that it was "one best way, the to avoid influence of particular interest. "

"We can raise funds in various ways, through donations of art at auction for flea markets," Faisal, who is paired with Biem Benjamin said on Tuesday.

The official campaign began on Sunday and is expected to 7th Last July.

"The most important thing is that the public are willing to contribute their creativity can to this campaign," he added. (ASA / MTQ)

Louis Vuitton opened luxury hotel in St. Tropez: White 1921

  The new trend in the luxury market opens boutique hotels by the designers of luxury. Designers such as Bulgari opened hotels worldwide elite. Follow this wave pattern is Louis Vuitton - Moet Hennessy (LVMH), who recently opened a boutique in St. Tropez on Lices beautiful divine quality of the Square.

Where the resident was former White House, the hostel has been designed to meet the luxury and privileged elite. Consisting of only eight rooms, the hotel was apparently formed by the motto "quality over quantity," as each room and suite offers a unique interior design, although all in accordance with a thriving modern and chic.

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Typically designed and full of imagination, personality, white, 1921, a luxurious bar is available with a range of cocktails and a wine cellar is a wide range of brands of vintage champagne. Sometimes one of Moet Hennessy, it is not surprising that a rare vintage champagne Moet et Chandon in stock, dating all the way back from the year 1921.

Although the hotel will surely meet all your needs of Vuitton luxury, he plays a good old fashioned game of getting to "difficult, because the hostel is only open through October 7 as a seasonal worker, the trip costs and chic -. A night at the hostel costs to $ 1.245, not the cost of your luggage properly formed to mention Louis Vuitton.

wGrooming: fashion faux pas in the streets of Harare

  As a fashion columnist, I must keep my eyes open to what people wear to see that this where I draw most of my inspiration. This article is made by those who inspired me to believe, "Oh my God, why are you that wearing?"

In addition to his work as a writer, I'm a designer, which means that I am over the city and looking for materials and ingredients, so I tend to by the elegant and well dressed to come, well that those who simply are false. Here are some of the fashion faux pas that I've met.

TO HELL MR
Lord wore a shirt too bright with neon green neon green socks to match. To think, he looked in the mirror and I thought: "Yes. I now surpassed" It was a bit too bright for my men, remember that your socks match your pants or. or shoes only. do not match your shirt, tie, shirt or anything else you can imagine.

WHERE ARE YOUR themselves, Miss?
A quick lesson, tights are not leggings. Leggings not walk, so they referred to as leggings, tights while walking and take a look at the bottom. So if you seem a top layer over leggings for some reason, wearing complete. If you wear the same dress on top of tights, it seems that if you lost your money at home or still in the process of association. Tights can be worn with anything short, but only to ensure that its length to avoid half of the thigh, look at the half-dressed beyond.

Peep-Toe TOE does not expose
They are used as peep-toes because your toes to "peep" out of the shoe should, but still in the shoe. So, if your toes overlap means that, your shoe is too small or the back is too wide and the toes are pushed forward. If they do, because the shoe is too small, overlap, the solution is simple, you buy the correct shoe size. If you keep your foot from slipping, you need to invest in some heel cushions. You will do as they say, and give your heel from sliding forward. If you can not afford to find heels to make your own double sided tape or adhesive base. Fold it inside out and stick it on the heel of the shoe, then you wear your shoes. The tape will keep your heel from slipping out of place. He also worked for closed shoes where the heel slips over again.
Fashion is a tool that is used to communicate who you are, it must be, what they wear or how they maintain themselves, so that the right message is brought may be intentional.

Purple-colored eyebrows and nails

I recently went to a counter and beauty of a lady whom I wearing a purple jacket was served and they had the eyebrows that match the jacket. She had shot her eyebrows with a black eyeliner and purple. The shade depends on your jacket? Eyebrows, depending on your jacket? No. Keep it as close to your natural color as possible.

Colorful Nails
Neons are in. colored nail polish is fashionable these days. However, I must warn you that after a certain age, say 27, with three colors of nail polish on the nails of various sends the wrong signal. He said that your style is a minor. High school girls are into it and even my seven year old son think niece, it is elegant. After turning 27, you can still enjoy life and by choosing a bright color to paint in an hour instead of three. Rihanna would would happen to her, but someone like J-Lo is always very stylish find other ways to add color to her outfit, for example, block color.

Lil Wayne focuses on the business, fashion

  LOS ANGELES - With a clothing line and a huge group of artists under one roof, says Lil Wayne tries to stay above the battle.

The rapper said "there is no beef" between him and published Pusha T, despite the comings and goings of diss songs in recent weeks. Conflict between the two brewing for years, if overflowed Pusha T of The Clipse - signed with Kanye West GOOD Music Group - a track targeting Lil Wayne and Young Money Drake published a signatory.

Lil Wayne, who rarely reacts in such cases, quickly gave a brief online song called "macabre", the Pusha T aims "and all who love him."

But in an interview with the Macy's department store from Los Angeles to his skate-inspired clothing line to promote Trukfit said Lil Wayne The Associated Press he did not intend to escalate the conflict Pusha T. It has a business - and fashion - in his mind.

Q: What comes next musically? And what happened in the beef between you and Pusha T?

A:. I just got my recording "I'm not a man II" album to start and we are working on the album Young Money .... It really was not no beef, you know. It was just me. I just reacting. just a reaction, a simple reaction. I do not apologize, because I'm human. But it was just my human reaction. I take it back. But there is no beef. Beef is something completely different .... I'll move on.

Q: Do you consider yourself the most stylish rappers out there? How has your style evolved?

A: I do not consider myself the most stylish rappers out there. I would say if I see someone stylish, taking into account the rapper was out there, I would certainly say that there be a Kanye West or Andre 3000th ... Yes (my style) has changed, because I am one of those guys that "geek chic" It's all here and there .... Now I have a little more was everything I worked for me. I think it's just time.

Q: What do you mean to bring a skateboard, and why do you like?

A: Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you will see that this is not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle. There are so many styles that people appreciate that I bring you news. ... I like challenges. ... It's fun as hell and not to fall slightly, and then finally landed. It's like the quest for a girl that has not already said a hundred times and she finally said yes. This is what it feels like every time.

Q: How are you a fashion line?

A: He was approached by my friends and colleagues. She was like, "Dude, you dress your own way and people follow her. You should probably have your own fashion line." And it was so easy.

Q: You also have a sponsorship deal soda, but not entirely come as a business man like some of your colleagues. Are you aware of it separate from your public persona?

A: When it comes to me, I'm very free spirited, that's what you see, and that is what you get - you know, that in the eyes of the public. But when it comes to business, I believe that companies should not anyway in the eyes of the public. And I think that companies should not be treated in magazines anyway. Companies should in the space below the people you do business with will be treated. And that's how I manage my business. And when I leave this room, I'm back to be who I am. And so I'm not from the business man or something, but at the end of the day, you can always say: "This guy is rising ... camp and no driving force, but him."

Q: Are your business ambitions than their musical ambitions?

A: I can honestly say that my music will always be greater than my business side. Because I am by nature a musician. And I will not be paid, I did not even business. I'm still making music. So it will always be my biggest thing. ... Business is business. And music is life.

Q: What is the presidential campaign season. Do you intend to do politics at all? Are you planning to go out and vote to encourage children?

A: I know. ... And coming of age, and that comes from my holiday at Rikers Iceland (New York prison where Wayne made on time in 2010). Now that I know how important vote and the elections and everything. ... But everyone knows that life is his life, no matter who is president.

Kourtney Kardashian is a Gucci Girl

  Surrounded by security, a very pregnant Kourtney Kardashian, 33, was leaving a Beverly Hills, California Gucci store on Tuesday (June 19), while his partner Scott Disick have been waiting in the car. Kourtney - who is also the mother of his 2 year old little boy Mason - Starbucks was a cool-down after a short visit - and buy - at Fred Segal.

The couple was also grabbing some groceries at Gelson in Woodland Hills, California spotted later that day.

Kourtney said she is careful not to marry her long-term partner after witnessing marital breakdown of his parents down affair, her mother Kris Jenner on her late father Robert Kardashian, saying she never wants to see his children, if she's been through.

"I try to put in his shoes, and I would never do to my family," says Kourtney. "I'm a bit afraid of marriage because of it."

Louis Vuitton loses fight against more than bag-in 'Hangover II'

  MANHATTAN (CN) - Louis Vuitton can not sue Warner Bros. for allegedly using a fake handbag in a brief scene in "The Hangover: Part II", a federal judge ruled.
     Played in the comedy, 2011, the character of Zach Galifianakis Alan door seven sports bags from Louis Vuitton "Monogram Canvas", which consists of intertwined initials of the company.
     At one point in the film, Galifianakis cries when his luggage is sitting a character named Teddy can be moved. Alan "Attention! A Vuitton Lewis, is" crying, pronounced the name wrong brand.
     U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter Jr. dismissed the case on Friday.
     "It is instructive to consider what this business is and what it is not," reads the order of 21 pages. "Louis Vuitton did not believe to the Warner Bros' unauthorized use of trademarks or LVM information on the name of Louis Vuitton in the film. Louis Vuitton is not claiming that Warner Bros. misled the public that has been sponsored or Louis Vuitton connected with the film. Instead, Louis Vuitton claimed that Warner Bros.. impermissible use of third-party bag that allegedly infringed trademarks LVM. "
     In April, Warner Bros. claimed that the process could enjoy freedom of expression, citing a 1989 lawsuit by Hollywood icons Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire filed.
     Judge Carter also referred to his decision in this case.
     "In Rogers v. Grimaldi, the second circuit held that the Lanham Act does not apply" art "as the defendant's use of the mark (1)" artistically relevant "for the work and (2) does not" explicitly misleading as to the latest source or content of the work: ". 'order books states" Louis Vuitton does not dispute that Warner Bros. is not controversial use of the mark commercially, placing them firmly within the jurisdiction of a "work of art" under Rogers. "
     Carter added that reference Vuitton was necessary for the film.
     "Laconian Note Alan Teddy '[his] [c] areful" because their Vuitton bag is a Lewis appears to be a snob just because the public does, Louis Vuitton - in which the bag Diophy seems confusing - with a luxury and a high society lifestyle, "says the order." His comment is so funny because he's French incorrectly pronounce "Louis" as the English "Lewis," and ironically, because he can speak really expensive brand name of one of their properties , additional information to the image of Alan wrong as socially inept character and comic way. This scene also introduces the comic tension between Alan and Teddy, who appears throughout the film. "
     Judge Louis Vuitton aside "expanded vision" of its brand.
     "Here there is no likelihood that viewers believe that the bag is a real Diophy Louis Vuitton bag is not because a fictional character that statement made in the context of a fiction film," says the order. "There is a risk of confusion that this statement would lead viewers to believe that Louis Vuitton has the use of Warner Bros. Diophy approved budget. In a case like this, no amount of discovery tilts the balance in favor of the proprietor at the expense of the public's right to freedom of expression. "

Hottest Sao Paulo Fashion Week, Models on the differences between Sao Paulo and New York

  Last week I had the pleasure of Sao Paulo Fashion Week for the first time, although he is still

in its infancy, it is certainly an event that deserves the recognition for many legitimate

reasons, but I have noticed distinct differences between and SPFW NYFW, I am much more familiar

with. Some examples: everything happens in a place where people dress up a little more relaxed,

which tracks full of swimsuits are in many cases, it seemed more organized and regulated, and it

was strongly encouraged.

No one has seen more sides of the fashion industry as a model. Although we have some of them to

fashion weeks and in major advertising campaigns, many of them can provide all comers to and

spend a large part of the year traveling around the world of fashion a few weeks you can not yet

be announced. They have a unique perspective on everything.

We were in Sao Paulo with M.A.C. and much time spent behind the scenes. Even if we do not already

gorgeous models looked more beautiful by MAC makeup artists, we have attempted to address some of

those who spoke English, mainly because we love to hear about the models, but also because we

wanted to make their Views on Sao Paulo Fashion Week, and to hear how it compared to New York. We

talked briefly with three beautiful daughters, Lida Fox, and Lais Ribeiro Aline Weber, all of

them were some of the most prominent faces SPFW, but also a lot of experience in other fashion

capitals.

Click on the link to see who they are, why you need to know about them, and their thoughts on

SPFW.

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A new face in the fashion world was Hina ass with his fashion brand "Teena" and has sold her designs like hot cakes. Unlike many designers who we have now focused on Hina quality, looks and trends in the design. Daily Times recently took Hina, where she spoke at length about a foot in the fashion industry of Pakistan, huge, his mark "Teena, Queen Rania, and women who reveal too literally!

Q. When did you know you should from your own fashion line?
A. Right after I graduated from the University of Management Sciences in Lahore in September 2010, I was determined to start my own business. I love clothing and follow all the fashion trends, it was the right time for me to start my own clothing line. I started "Teena" my brand in November 2010.

Q. Why the name "Teena" for your clothing line?
R. I think the meaning of the names have an impact on your personality. Teena is my nickname, and a stronger feeling that my name is Hina. Teena has the potential to inspire in people and it was perfect for my personality of the brand.

Q. What is fashion for you?
Mode A. For me it's personal, playful and energetic. Dress up for a strong effect, therefore, make every time you make an appearance, you need to stand out and make a fashion statement. This could be the bright color, cut and chip the ornaments on it.

Q. What do you think mainly focus on when designing your clothes?
A. My goal is visual appeal, quality and price reductions. I support "from the clothes rod," it fits the client's life and it is convenient for the designer as a customized fit can be a bit difficult.

Q. Name the person you want to design.
A. I would like for those women who work for change and act as a symbol of the emancipation of women to design. I am inspired by Queen Rania of Jordan. His work on education and youth in his country and abroad is very impressive. She also carries over to the public.

Q. Tell us about your inspiration for the design and fashion designer who most inspires you most?
A. The appearance that your dress stand out in the crowd though, is the basic thing that drives me to design clothes. Elie Saab is a designer who inspires me the most. His clothes portray femininity, elegance and style.

Q. What women should wear this season, and that no common fashion faux women tend to do?
A. In turn this season is all about bold colors on the face, straight cut, knee-length shirts and. But showing too much skin and clothing are not suitable for their body type is a big step.

Q. What if you work and what's next for you?
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Sherlock stars on the stage, starts when the first men's fashion week UK

 A pack of models suited and booted, wearing bowler hats and umbrellas sport. Skateboards,

neoprene shorts and arty prints. Ronnie Wood in the front row at the top. Actor Benedict

Cumberbatch, take the bridge, clutching a cigar and a glass of whiskey. The first day of the

first week of male British fashion has made a good start on Friday.

Cumberbatch, known for playing in the hit drama Sherlock for the BBC, the British luxury tailor

Spencer Hart, known for dressing some of the best players in the world-known musicians, including

Robbie Williams and Jay-Z turn.

The diversity of this three-day event, which appeared in the established brands and high street

trendsetters on a calendar with an ease, was immediately apparent. Emerging design talent Lou

Dalton City Taxi Driver polished cinematic references including the end of 1970 for his

collection of sports fashion.

Hackett notes show namechecked The Great Gatsby - Calendar tricky, because the sums blockbuster

remake with Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie theaters just before the season are spring / summer

2013 collection hits stores.

Topman Design mixed the work of the artist Basquiat with surf and skate culture of the 1980s.

These three labels stressed the strength of London as a fashion capital, with its unique and

diverse mix. It could not happen here.

Topman show the volume turned up loud with a series of open-air mixture glen classic cut in

modern forms loose folds of the shorts worn with a jacket, for example - mixed with high energy

impressions.

Neoprene shorts appeared in loose grounds short styles, numbered American baseball like tops

cultured parkas patterned silk parachute, laser-cut jackets and pea skateboard backpack young

with additional benefit.

It was an offer of strong and vibrant High Street label. Gordon Richardson, design director,

said, "wanted to take some risks and the timing of the collections in London. Men do just seemed

the right time," that through this collection, they had

Hackett played the show to Britishness that international visitors are expected from more than 20

countries. It began with the sound of the chimes of Big Ben and ended with a parade of models and

well-prepared with umbrellas carry melons.

For Spring / Summer 2013 Human Hackett is dressed in cream-colored suit with a vest, bag, and a

neat touch of seersucker.

As usual, there were lots of colorful pants, sweater fantasy cricket and a handful of summer

scarves.

The first show of the day, Lou Dalton, was a collection of polished and sealed seam sport. She

sent regular suit with mesh sections on jackets, on trends and the odd explosion of neon fat.

Dalton said she wanted this collection as "bright and airy feel with a sport," but added that

there was nothing to do with the Olympics.

wMarc think Jacobs Louis Vuitton Fall / Winter 12 line is magic.

  The fashion house has unveiled plans to promote for the next collection. It was at Paris Fashion Week, presented in March to serve on a train entering the Louvre as the core focus.

The vehicle was restored for the new images, with a dozen models showing off appearance of the line, because they are supported by four beams.

"I think there is a lightness and magic in everything that we showed this season and they are really perfectly captured in these pictures," Marc said in a video posted on Grazia Daily.

The photos were taken by Steven Meisel, Guido, styling hair and make-up Pat McGrath made compulsory.

The models are seen with giant animal print handbags, perched above versions with disc hats on their heads. Turtlenecks and models are also fat with, with jackets, vests, dresses and a line-enlivened by touches of the blindingly statement and solid backhand.

"We wanted to get the luxury travel and soothing to the former, that the collection represented" the designer said in the video for behind the scenes.

"Opulence, cut brocades, sumptuous costumes, and I suppose the romantic magic of distant travel."

Muhammad Ali joined Louis Vuitton Core Values ​​Campaign

  In the footsteps of Angelina Jolie, three times champion of the world heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali was shown that the new star of the campaign "core values" of Louis Vuitton.

Ali, who crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated was in 1999, was photographed by Annie Leibovitz at his home in Arizona, watching one of her little son, who wears a pair of boxing gloves. The slogan is: "Some stars show you the way Muhammad Ali and a rising star in Phoenix, Arizona ..."

Ali, now 70, has all the top heavyweights of his time, which is generally regarded as the golden era of heavyweight boxing champion beaten. He was involved in some of the biggest fights in boxing history, including the "Fight of the Century" against his rival Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden in 1971, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire

1974, when he his title back from George Foreman.

His unorthodox style of boxing - he celebrates as "float [ing] like a butterfly, sting [ing] like a bee" described - has the grace and speed unprecedented in the heavyweight category.

Since his retirement from the sport in 1981, Ali remained an active figure in public, both as a humanist and outspoken political activist, though she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1984.

Read: the image of Angelina Jolie reveals Louis Vuitton campaign

"Muhammad Ali is the embodiment of an unusual personality - a true living legend of boxing and beyond," Carcelle, president and CEO of Louis Vuitton, said in a statement.

"We are honored he has agreed to be photographed basic values ​​of the campaign and are pleased with the way this beautiful portrait of the master and his grandson, the idea of ​​transfer, which is of great importance for Louis Vuitton."

Core Values ​​Vuitton celebrates timeless classic in real situations of "real" people - meaning celebrities instead of models - and in the campaigns of their season "mode."

The images of the campaign have the latest Angelina Jolie lying on a wooden boat in Cambodia - the land, they fell in love, and took from her son Maddox, after filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, it is in 2000.

U2 singer Bono and his wife Ali Hewson in Africa, where the couple has long campaigned for the fight against extreme poverty, and the actor Sean Connery photographed on a beach near his home in the Bahamas.

Previous including "Faces" campaign preferred Vuitton Sofia Coppola and her father Francis Ford Coppola is sitting on the landing in Buenos Aires, Rolling Stone Keith Richards in a hotel suite with a Louis Vuitton guitar case, the U2 singer Bono and his wife Ali Hewson in Africa, where the couple long for the fight against extreme poverty has been struggling actor Sean Connery photographed on a beach near his home in the Bahamas, and the former Soviet president and winner of Nobel Prize, Mikhail Gorbachev, at the back of a limousine the remaining part of the Berlin Wall.

Mon women admits peddling fake handbags

 ST. LOUIS (AP) - A woman in St. Louis pleaded guilty to selling hundreds of thousands of dollars of

counterfeit luxury handbags.

The prosecutor said the U.S. 34-year-old Jeannine Buford led an Internet home business selling fake Hermes

(FSD mehz) bags are imported from China. The FBI says Buford defrauded nearly 100 customers worldwide,

including one who at the agency after he complained almost $ 16,000 for a Hermes Birkin bag wrong.

Buford pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to one count of trafficking in counterfeit goods. She

agreed to waive a Chevrolet Camaro, a Porsche Cayenne and other goods. A judge set sentencing for 20th

September.

The prosecutor said Buford ran the business from January 2006 to October last year. They believe that net

more than $ 500,000 from March 2010 to April 2011 alone.

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rewritten or redistributed.

Hermes package brings 500 stores in the UK

  Parcel service Hermes UK has launched a network of 500 stores in the UK of packets to life and provides alternative collection and sampling points on the high street.

The company said that the network offers to its retail customers, more flexible ways to combine its customers access, and plans to expand to 1,000 locations by 2012.

First, allow package store consumer to select items that require the fall to return, but Leeds said based Hermes, that the plans are to expand the capabilities of the network so that consumers be able to make a local package store as a collection point for the appointment of home delivery .

Marked with Hermes online portal myHermes packages are package store in local convenience stores, including the spa, Nisa, the Prime Minister and Co-op networks, as well as independents.

The first sites are to be delivered by package store in large urban areas with high population density and demand for home chosen.

Each store offers hours of 8.00 bis 08.00 clock, with packages delivered by mail to PaketShop followed within two days to complete one.
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Carole Woodhead, Chief Executive Hermes UK, said: "This launch reinforces our position today as one of the leading service provider with the British multi-channel and a unique product offering.

"Last year we successfully introduced a number of important improvements to our service in response to the changing needs of retailers, all of which give our retail customers a competitive advantage."

Hermes UK is part of Hermes, which is huge by the Distance Selling German Otto Group. Its sister companies already operate package stores in Germany, Austria and Russia.

The company said the introduction of the UK model on discussions with key retail customers, especially the back, the difficulty of providing services to online shoppers have emphasized rested.

French-owned Redcats mail-order sign is the first company, the service returns over PaketShop myHermes.

Jonathan Bennett, head of marcoms for myhermes.co.uk, said: "This is a very flexible and convenient service for consumers and small businesses such as eBay, Amazon PowerSeller market traders and other niche retailers who may decide to take their packages to sooner or later Package Store and have a shorter delivery time and enjoy the convenience of a collection from a local courier service. "

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high-end style in the tropics of the Caribbean Fashion Week

   Thursday was the kick-off day for the Caribbean Fashion Week and the event was attended by many international stars, to ensure that the celebration this year of the current fashion in mind anything else.

The first event was held at the Palais des Sports Indoor Centre in Kingston, Jamaica National Park instead. The bright colors and flowing fabrics were was on the track and the long list of designers at the show presented huge. Debra Hill, Locstafari, Earl Turner, womenswear Biggy, Ashley Martin of attitude, Tracey Rhonda China Doll, Brigid and Jason Lawson Swimwear fungus Keneea Linton and Shaun Griffith Raang, most designers from Haiti, Trinidad, the Dominican Republic, the United States, Europe and Africa are all gathered for the first show on Thursday evening.

This officially marked the 11th Year in the Caribbean Fashion Week is a showcase for the Caribbean and international fashion designers, models and even music artists provided. The massive demonstration was a magnet for the media as the major networks around the world were present on the night of prime minister.

UK Vogue, Fashion TV Paris, The Associated Press, Black Entertainment Television (BET) Funny Women (WE TV), The New York Times, BBC and more all showed up to an overview of the latest fashion trends to get International.

In addition to the major networks and fashion designers, list of celebrities was also very extensive. Actress Nia Long was with singer Kelly Rowland, rapper Eve, actress Vanessa Williams, and reggae music producer Lee Scratch Perry.

The show was produced by Pulse Investments Ltd., an entertainment company that has spent over 30 years in fashion, music and modeling industries.

The show was the first in a unique break-through for the winner of the Pulse Caribbean Model Search, Oraine Barrett. The young beauty of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica is now modeled for the brand Ralph Lauren.

Grammy Estelle was thrilled to appear on the Fashion Week is an international reputation. "Since I see and read about [the event] in SHE Caribbean, I have come to be part of fashion in the Caribbean was," Estelle tweeted in anticipation of the event.

11th June will be the last night of Fashion Week Caribbean.

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UWS council wants Fashion Week Out, Out, Out

 Anna Wintour better watch out, people are excited! Had passed since the last Fashion Week to End neighbors went near Lincoln Center, very loudly concerned about their dissatisfaction with the bi-annual event, Damrosch Park, the area behind the Lincoln Center, where FW after leaving Bryant Park moved in 2010th Yesterday, it raised the ante. DNAinfo reported that Community Board 7 voted 33-4 yesterday evening, "Mayor Michael Bloomberg press and Parks Department, a new permanent site for Fashion Week to find and consult the Lincoln Center board on future agreement on its use."

The core of the issue of neighbor is the way the park is the time for all too short, when the Fashion Week tents and other events that are not present which, within CB7 member Elizabeth Starkey "looks after a blow to the bomb." Making matters worse is the fact that the 56 trees will be torn down in the park, including the Department of Parks in 2010 still missing, making it an unpleasant place, if you want some shade.

Of course, the vote of the council does not really seem important here, but the pressure has never killed anyone. The 2.44-acre green space was at Lincoln Center in 2010 as part of a 10-year contract that allows them rented for private events subletting. And the modalities of these events, although they are in public, not easy to find. But for a sense of money: According to Geoffrey Croft of NYC Park lawyers, fashion week alone pay $ 17.2 million over five years to use the park.

"There is absolutely no reason why the city should this agreement to manage the park have entered," said Croft. "Under the Charter of the City parks should be managed by the Parks Department." Regarding yesterday's vote, he added, "We are very pleased that the CB has finally taken this action. It was a long way and we hope that now the city is a good place for these events is available commercially."

Contribute in view of the fact that Fashion Week is estimated to 865 million U.S. dollars of economic activity each year, we are very pleased to doubt it is anywhere at any time. But at least the neighbors disappoint her feelings be known and let off some steam?

The mayor's office to respond immediately to a request for comment on the resolution of the council.

The Strange Tale Of A Stolen Gucci Bag In China Has People Freaking Out Online

  I’ve been following this bizarre case involving a stolen Gucci bag for the past few days. It’s a great combination of unsupported online rumor mongering, accusations of impropriety against a famous foreign brand, and just a whiff of nationalism.

For what is essentially a non-story, this is a great one, and if you’re a multinational with a famous brand doing business in China, your reaction to this should be “Thank God it wasn’t me.”

Here are the “facts”:

Beijing police have so far opted not to investigate the alleged theft of a Gucci bag because the stolen item “is not expensive enough,” the Beijing News reported May 30.

An internet user posted on their Sina Weibo microblog on May 23 that the manager at a Gucci store inside the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store in the capital called the police about a stolen bag. The police wouldn’t take the case as the bag was only worth a few hundred dollars. The netizen complained that the actual cost of the bag is significantly lower than retail price, chiding Gucci for making astronomical profits.

The reason I put “facts” in sneer quotes (hey, I did it again) is that this entire story got started by some guy posting on Sina Weibo (we’ll call him Weibot for brevity’s sake). After Weibot posted his observations, a lot of other folks chimed in, many outraged that Gucci would have the temerity to sell a bag for thousands of RMB whose value was only a few hundred.

The comments are entertaining and some are outlandish. If your Chinese is good enough, check it out here. The story metastasized like cancer, finding its way onto many other online fora. The theories included:

1. The bag was fake (this explains the low value), and the Gucci store was selling it as authentic “Made in Italy” merchandise.

2. The retail store staff that went to the police were inexperienced and gave the cops incorrect price information.

3. The store isn’t really under the control of Gucci at all but a loose cannon licensee (also probably selling fakes).

These are all completely without evidentiary support of course, but apparently the bad press was enough to get Gucci’s PR squad out of bed and onto their typewriters. Well, maybe laptops. And here’s the result (if it isn’t quite legible or if you don’t get images, go to the Sina page and scroll down until you see some English):

Feel free to disagree, but in my opinion, that’s a really lame press release. That’s not exactly relevant here, but damn. I guess the strategy was to come across as cagey as possible and deny everything except that a bag was stolen. Needless to say, this press release has not won over the hearts and minds here in the Middle Kingdom.

Since my knowledge of the Criminal Law is limited, I’m not going to bother with any sort of legal discussion about the reference price used by the police. We don’t even know, by the way, what the real status of this case is or what sort of pricing information was given to the authorities. I figure that the actual cost of the bag before markup is irrelevant for the purposes of a criminal investigation, but again, I’m no expert on that sort of thing.

What we do know is that Weibot and many of his online compadres think that Gucci is making a ginormous profit here in China, and they are not happy about that at all. There was even a Global Times editorial on the subject:

Prices of luxury goods in China are “too high” and the authorities should take measures to make the prices fairer, experts told the Global Times Thursday, after a stolen Gucci purse was reportedly too cheap to be qualified for filing a case with the police. “Some luxury goods makers set much higher prices in China compared to those in other countries, earning huge profits,”said  Cai Sujian, head of the China Luxury Institute, noting that such a situation calls for authorities’ supervision on both product quality and pricing.

There’s that hint of nationalism I mentioned previously, or at least victimization. I don’t know about you, but if prices of luxury goods in China are too high, why are so many filthy rich folks here buying all that crap? Last I heard, Gucci is loving the hell out of China these days, along with all the other luxury brands out there. I’m surprised they haven’t jacked up the prices even more.

China’s Price Law and Unfair Competition Law do prohibit certain kinds of market activities, and China does maintain price controls for certain products. Correct me if I’m wrong here, but I think Gucci can charge an obscene amount of money for a bag if they want to unless the products are shoddy or if the company is misrepresenting something. Whether that markup is 50% or 100% is kind of immaterial, isn’t it?

Look, I’m a guy, so I think anyone who pays thousands of RMB for a bag is a sucker, its production cost notwithstanding. I’m not sure if Weibot et al understand the luxury industry all that well. You take an item that costs X to produce, you slap on a famous brand, and you charge X+an obscene amount. Granted, some luxury products include high quality materials and design work, and these companies will try to convince you that their customers are paying for the “brand experience,” but let’s get real here. At the end of the day, these are some really high profit margins, particularly for those products that are now manufactured here in China.

It’s all about the branding, baby. And I’m not being critical of the industry; it’s a great racket. Too bad some people don’t understand that.

Suffice it to say that I’m not at all sympathetic to the complaints made by Weibot and the rest of the online J’accuse crew. Let’s see some proof next time before throwing around charges like this. Maybe by then, Gucci can hire someone to write a decent press release.

Royals celebrate with British fashion

 The Duchess of Cambridge has gone from high-end to high street, wearing Whistles for the Diamond Jubilee concert.

Kate wowed the crowds during the Thames river pageant in a vibrant Alexander McQueen number, which drew rapturous applause from the fashion pack.

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She continued the British theme for the concert, but this time opted for a dress by a more universal brand.

The duchess has been photographed wearing Whistles on various occasions and has become something of an ambassador for the label.

She matched her patterned blue and purple dress with a McQueen blazer.

As one of the most scrutinised women in the world, Kate has won much applause for her ability to combine off-the-peg purchases with items by top couturiers.

She is known to favour high street clothing lines such as Whistles, Reiss and Topshop.

But her prestige was cemented in fashion circles when she chose Sarah Burton, of McQueen, to design her wedding gown.

Princess Eugenie appeared to have taken a style leaf out of the Duchess of Cambridge's book, opting for a bright red dress.

Eugenie teamed her outfit with some rather more outlandish Gina shoes - adorned with the Union flag.

It is the second time the young royal has displayed such patriotism over the jubilee weekend.

She appeared at the Epsom Derby on Saturday with Union flags painted on her fingernails.

Her sister Beatrice went for one of Kate's go-to designers, stepping out in a peacock blue Erdem dress and Ferragamo blue wedges.

Red, white and blue have become something of a theme for the royals during the jubilee celebrations.

The Queen has been no exception, going for a white and silver Angela Kelly dress and hat during the boating extravaganza and picking blue for the races.

Beatrice and Eugenie also gave a nod to their grandmother, picking hats inspired by her wardrobe around the time of her coronation.
Insiders said the flash of pink in Eugenie's headwear was been inspired by the shade of "coronation pink" created in 1953.

Holland warm up in stellar fashion

  Ronaldo misses penalty as Portugal lose to Turkey

 Robin van Persie and Ibrahim Afellay scored two goals apiece on Saturday to inspire Netherlands to a 6-0 thrashing of Northern Ireland in their final Euro 2012 warm-up friendly.

Fielding a team that is likely to be coach Bert van Marwijk's starting line-up in Ukraine and Poland, apart from the injured Joris Mathijsen, the Dutch took the Irish apart.

Van Persie opened the scoring after 11 minutes with a near-post header and added his second from the penalty spot after Wesley Sneijder had doubled the lead with a curling freekick.

Afellay, who has been out for most of the season with a bad knee injury, finished off a fine move involving Van Persie and Arjen Robben to make it 4-0 by halftime.

The Dutch added a fifth through Afellay in the 51st minute before central defender Ron Vlaar completed the rout with a close-range header 12 minutes from time.

“I'm satisfied with the execution of our tactical plan today but the score means little to me as they were very poor opponents,” Van Marwijk told reporters.

Portugal stunned

Portugal missed several chances, including a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty, and were whistled off the pitch after losing 3-1 at home to Turkey on Saturday in their last friendly before Euro.

The hosts started aggressively, pressed high up the pitch and seemed to be in control of the match until the defence was caught napping by Turkey winger Sercan Sararer who set up Umut Bulut for a tap-in after 35 minutes.

The Turks, who failed to qualify for the Euros, were hardly brilliant but did at least take their chances.

Bulut added salt to Portugal's wounds by drilling in the second goal in the 52nd minute after taking advantage of a careless ball from Miguel Veloso.

Portugal pulled one back five minutes later after a flowing move ended in a a fine finish from Nani and captain Ronaldo then missed from the spot in the 65th minute following a foul on right-back Miguel Lopes.

The defeat means Portugal will start Euro after a run of three matches without a win.

Poland win

Poland wrapped up preparations for Euro 2012 with a 4-0 romp over Andorra, one of the weakest international teams, on Saturday.

The Poles will lean heavily on their Borussia Dortmund trio -- striker Robert Lew-andowski, captain Jakub Blaszczykowski and defender Lukasz Piszczek -- in the Euros and all three started against Andorra.

Ludovic Obraniak opened the scoring in the 13th minute and Lewandowski made it 2-0 nine minutes before halftime.