The collections on the spring/summer catwalks featured a number of rebellious influences this year and chief among these were the punk-inspired pieces. Designers have taken the more palatable elements of punk and incorporated them into sleeker, chicer designs for the spring/summer 2011 season. While punk takes its own influence from some of the trends that [...]
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Key Trends for Spring 2011 – Punk-Inspired Pieces
Posted by on March 2, 2011
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Legends of the Fashion Industry
Know where you come from, know where you’re going. Any aspiring fashionistas or designers have got to pay homage to the people who laid the way for them. These are some of the fashion industry’s biggest names with the longest histories. These designers have all had massive contributions to the fashion industry in the 20th [...]
Posted by on February 23, 2011
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Improving Your Customer Relationships
Every business needs to be concerned with what its customers think about things like the quality of the products, the usefulness of the services, and the effectiveness of the customer service. When a business knows what customers have thought about past experiences, it can use that information in order to grow and shape the future [...]
Posted by on February 23, 2011
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Why Stars Love Asian Fashion
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Hong Kong is the most trendiest place in South East Asia. The combination of traditional Chinese and the Modern western fashion has created an unusually trendy fashion. The Chinese traditional fashion expresses elegance and outward beauty. It also has the sense of expressing the inward symbolism. Using this as [...]
Posted by on February 20, 2011
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Quick Look: Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta, Vivienne Westwood, Carolina Herrera
The fashion world can be hugely intimidated if you’re not intimately familiar with it. So many styles, runway shows, models, magazines, and an overwhelming wealth of fashion designers. This article will give you a quick look at some of today’s designers. Givenchy: Givenchy made waves in the Paris fashion industry before many of today’s designers [...]
Posted by on February 16, 2011
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Quick Look: Diane von Furstenberg, Betsey Johnson, and Zac Posen
Are you new to the world of fashion, or did you just hear of a new designer that you’re unfamiliar with? Have you always been curious about the aesthetics of certain designers? This article will give you a quick sketch of three famous designers: Zac Posen, Diane von Furstenberg, and Betsey Johnson. Diane von Furstenberg: [...]
Posted by on February 10, 2011
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Modern Subculture Trends: How to Dress Like a Pin-up
Modern culture has experienced a variety of counterculture responses to modern fashion. In the seventies, teens from the psychedelic rock subculture rejected the glitz and glam of disco and disco fashion. In modern times, we’ve seen counter-trends like punk rock, gothic, steampunk, and grunge as fashion styles. However, you may not have heard about another [...]
Posted by on February 8, 2011
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Balance is the key to wearing fine jewelry
When it comes to the items we wear, some people have a philosophy of doubles for the nicer things. The philosophy of doubles starts like this: You get something nice, like an expensive pair of shoes. It looks nice and it wears well, but if you scuff it or something bad happens to either of [...]
Posted by on February 4, 2011
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Shop Vintage, Stay Current
There’s no reason not to embrace thrift stores for all of your fashion needs. In addition to providing cheap staples like jeans, blouses, or sweaters, you can find budget-friendly accent pieces for a steal. Sometimes a fun vintage belt or scarf is all an outfit needs to spice it up. Thrift or vintage shops will [...]
Posted by on February 3, 2011
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Fashion Trends: The 70′s Come Again
While the 50′s and 60′s-esque retro trends are still hitting the runways (think the fun pin-up designs of Betsey Johnson’s recent collection), other designers have aged a bit for 2011. Several designers, perhaps most notably Marc Jacobs, are sending full-on seventies glamour down the runways. Think earth tones, glittery metallics, over-sized accessories, and wide leg [...]
Posted by on February 1, 2011
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