Versace is the latest company to announce cooperation with the giant H&M. A limited edition collection will be launched on Nov. 17 in 300 stores worldwide, as well as online. The line will include women’s and men’s wear as well as, for the first time in a designer collaboration, some homeware. The collection will be based on heritage Versace designs, particularly the Miami print made famous by the late Gianni Versace ( http://bit.ly/k0WEWg)
This collaboration follows other designers like Carl Langerfeld, Jimmy Choo, Alber Elbaz for Lanvin, and Stella Mac’Cartney. This past collaborations mainly proved to be a win-win situation for the designers, the retailer and the customers. They create a buzz, and allow younger, less affluent clientele to experiece these top designers.
Tags: fashion collaborations, fashion on line, H&M, Versace
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May 25th, 2011 by Annusha
I am a big fan of actress Pene’lope Cruz, especially in her early movies, like all about mother. But I never considered a fashion icon, or especially good looking.
I had to change my mind after looking at the cover of June’s Vogue. Look at the photos and you’ll see what I mean: she has never looked so pretty, sweet and fresh!
Tags: fashion, penelope cruz
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Feb 20th, 2011 by Annusha
I love cars, especially if they are a little different. Well, this cuttie from Citroen is definitely different. The DS3 is designed by Orla Kiely, an Irish designer located in London. Kiely usually designs cloths, bags, hats and products for the home. Her unusual collection for Citroen includes four different designs http://bit.ly/hHbBgf (source: Stylebubble )
Not only the exterior is cute, but the interior too.
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Feb 15th, 2011 by Annusha
I was introduced to Carrie Chau’s art by a local friend on one of my visits to Hong Kong. I was immediately taken with Chau’s paintings. At first glance they look colorful, happy, somewhat naive. At second glance you find irony and sadness. Her creatures are not human, but own human characteristics and evoke your curiosity.
At the moment I have three of Chau’s posters in my yoga room and I love looking at them. So If you need to make a change in a room in your home or office, try using some of her stuff. If nothing else, it is different.
Chau was born in Hong Kong, and is painting since she was four years old. Her exhibition “Black Sheep” was on in 2007, and “An Indigo Child” was on in 2009.
Her illustrations appear also on clothing, notebooks and other items, but it’s the paintings that create the special effect.
Tags: carrie chau, children's rooms, decorating rooms
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Feb 12th, 2011 by Annusha
From the currently on-going New York Fashion Week, I love Rag & Bone collection. Their use of very light colors (mainly winter white and light gray) is beautiful. The layered look with lots of padded thigh-high socks is young, fresh and fun. http://bit.ly/e8gA3F
Tags: New York fashion week, Rag & Bone, young fashion
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Feb 11th, 2011 by Annusha
Rachel Zoe, the stylist to the celebs, presented her Fall 2011 ready -to-wear line. Surprisingly, it is not very bohemian or sexy, but very wearable and quite practical. Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom, and others gathered to inspect the goods. See for yourself ether Zoe made it from stylist to designer.
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If you ever stepped into Tommy Hilfiger’s flag store on 5th Avenue, you know what a preppy collection looks like. But what the designer, who built a $1.9 billion empire on preppy clothing, has discovered, is that his style got popular globally and is being interpreted differently in Europe and Asia. It gets a bold and colorful interpretation in Italy and a more sophisticated look in France. The Japanese are adopting preppy in a big way and they go for the really colorful looks such as big argyles and bright madras. It’s kind of amusing to think that what we always regarded as a very American look, is no longer that.
The new capsule collection
The new capsule collection
Understanding that, Hilfiger created “Prep World”, a capsule collection for women and men. The collection will be sold exclusively in Hilfiger’s retail stores and on tommy.com, as well as in branded Prep World drop-in shops inspired by an East Hampton beach house. An actual traveling beach cottage, which measures 800 square feet, will first open in Manhattan April 28, before spending a week each in two other U.S. cities, as well as Paris; London; Amsterdam; Milan; Stockholm; Madrid; Sylt, Germany; Knokke, Belgium, and Tokyo throughout the summer. The company has received permits to set up the beach cottage in highly trafficked areas in the various cities.
Prep World drop-in shop
To completer the look, Hilfiger designed also accessories and sport equipment in the same style. (Source: WWD)
Tags: capsule collection, One World collection, preppy style, Tommy Hilfiger
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I was not thrilled with most of the 2011 SAG Awards dresses, but here are the ones that I liked (source: www.harpersbazzar.com)
Claire Danes in Louis Vuitton
Mila Kunis in Alexander Mc'Queen
Julianna Margulies in Yves Saint Lauren
Dianna Agron in Chanel Haute Couture
Tags: best dresses, SAG awards 2011
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Jan 30th, 2011 by Annusha
If you are an enthusiastic yogi like I am, you are always looking for the perfect yoga pant, the one that is most comfortable yet looks good and fits the type of yoga you do.
I first came across LuluLemon products a couple of years ago, when they had a tiny store on the second floor somewhere on Boylston street in Boston. The selection was limited and I was not impressed. But at the moment I am completely addicted to the big, beautiful store in the Prudential Center. Just the sight of some twenty different pairs of yoga pants displayed on the walls is enough to make me happy. I found exactly the styles that are good for my practice and got quite a few. I was so enthusiastic about the shop I even did my Christmas shopping there. LuluLemon also has beautiful yoga/gym begs and lovely exercise tops and jackets for both men and women.
The Canadian company was founded in Vancouver BC in 1998. The first lululemon shared its retail space with a yoga studio. The founder of Lulu, Chip Wilson, who is an expert on technical athletic fabrics, started practicing yoga and realized that existing yoga clothing was completely inappropriate. He used yoga instructors as testers and developed the products according to their feedback. At present, LuluLemon has over 100 stores across Canada, the U.S., Australia and Hong Kong.
LuluLemon is a green company. No paper bags whatsoever! Instead they use delightful recycled plastic bags.
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Tags: excercise wear, green company, gym begs, lululemon, yoga wear
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Jan 16th, 2011 by Annusha
L. and I have a lovely tradition of spending New Year’s Eve at the Metropolitan Opera. This year we enjoyed Verdi’s “La Traviata”.
If you are a die-hard fan of the Met Opera, like me, you will enjoy everything: the music, the voices, the atmosphere, the staging. But even for the less enthusiastic opera goers – this production offers something special. The Financial Times describes it as an involving and theatrically daring production. Director Willy Decker and designer Wolfgang Gussmann stripped the stage bare, made almost everything white or black and updated the period to the present. The stark stage symbolized the emptiness of Violetta’s life, which is filled with people who do not care about here. Violetta’s so-called friends are all portrayed as a unisex mob, both men and women dressed alike in black. A few sofas serve as decor. A man in dark cloths (Dr. Grenvil) is present at every scene as an omen of death. A huge clock reminded the heroine that time was running out.
On the background of all this black and white, in comes Violetta (the lovely Maria Poplavskaya), wearing a red hot mini dress and red Stilettos. She is sexy, daring and charismatic. Then in Act III she is tearful, lonely and regretful. The beauty of her voice and personalty and the strength of the staging both hit you hard in the gut.
I don’t know whether this is the best staging of “Traviata” I have ever seen, but it is a great experiment in combining a very traditional opera with modern design ideas. And it is very much like the current Met to take a risk like this. It is especially interesting for those who remember the previous production of “Traviata” at the Met, a 1998 Franco Zeffirelli production that which ended last year. The staging was so “grand” with ich costumes, palace rooms and chandeliers that you couldn’t find the singers. If nothing else, this 2011 Met production is surprising and different.
Tags: Design, Franco Zeffirelli, La Traviatta, Maria Poplavskaya, metropolitan opera, nyc, opera in NYC, verdi, what to do in new york, Willy Decker, Wolfgang Gussmann
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