Pre-Fall fashion collection 2010 of Roberto Cavalli at London fashion show

Pre-Fall fashion collection 2010 of Roberto Cavalli at London fashion show: With high-necked lace blouses, jet beading, and funereal black capelets on one hand, and tight little tailored jackets, ribbed leggings, and knee-high boots on the other, Roberto Cavalli’s pre-fall collection felt like an unholy union of Queen Victoria and Pat Benatar.

Unlikely as it sounds, the collection worked best when the two sides met in the same outfit, as they did with a big bat-wing poncho in black cashmere draped with a sable capelet dripping jet (and worn with leggings and ankle boots). The animal prints and the artisanal leatherwork (combined with marmot, astrakhan, and mink in one jacket) echoed the vulgar zest of vintage Cavalli, but it was actually the prim sobriety of vintage Victoriana that left the lasting impression. A strange and somber tack for Cavalli to take.

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What Women’s Swimwear 2011 Men Like Best

What Women’s Swimwear 2011 Men Like Best: It is common truth that men and women are different, and so are our choices and preferences. Therefore, if you’ve selected something to wear and want to look great in it you better ask for your boyfriend’s opinion as he will tell you what most other men will think of your attire. Speaking about swimwear this truth also works, and that’s why I decided to tell you what women’s swimwear men like best. Don’t we all want guys to admire us on the beach?Marie Claire magazine asked 100 random men about some of the most popular trends of nowadays. And as it turned out some of our favorite pieces do not seems attractive to guys. Surprised? I was, too.

It’s not a secret that we, girls, often try to find a swimsuit that looks special but facts show that men prefer more conservative styles. Standard two-piece bikini is said to be guy’s most favored suit. 91 percent of men said it looks great. It is sexy and still provides good coverage. And someone even noted that bikini resembles a bra and panties, items that make us look oh-so-tempting. Only 9 percent didn’t like the cut.

The String Bikini comes next. Women tend to believe that the more flesh is exposed the more seductive they look. It isn’t always true according to the poll discussed. 26 percent of men said string bikini is too revealing and leaves little to imagination. So, do they want mystery??? 74 percent of respondednts confessed they were fans of the triangles-and-string ensemble.

I was really amazed to know that one-piece swimsuit seems very flattering to men, 65 percent prefer the look and only 35 percent don’t. However, statictics shows that very few women wear such style of swimwear.

The Tankini is great to cover the problem areas all of us tend to have from time to time. Introduced in the late ’90s, the tankini grew in popularity because of its combination of the modesty of a one-piece with the convenience and style of a two-piece. And now 53 percent of men say they like the look while 47 percent don’t.

The Monokini which is the hottest trend of modernity in swim fashion is not very popular with men. Actually just 22 percent liked the look. The other 78 percent commented: “I don’t get it.”

The High-Fashion Bikini that is the one with studs, grommets and beaded detailing is liked by 17 percent of guys. Others say they don’t really like the innovations of such kind.
Well, girls, we should know this. And next time when packing your beach bag think about who you want to please more: guys or other women.

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Bar Refaeli Graces Agua Bendita Swimwear 2011 at Ad Campaign

Bar Refaeli Graces Agua Bendita Swimwear 2011 at Ad Campaign: Bar Refaeli isn’t my favorite model but I cannot deny the fact she looks brilliant posing for Agua Bendita Swimwear Ad Campaign. The 25 year-old Refaeli shows off her sexy bikini body in a number of cute frilly bathing suits from Agua Bendita, some of which do not really look like pieces you can swim in.Photographed at the Stahl House in the Hollywood Hills in April this year Bar Refaeli looks tanned and incredibly fit. As for Agua Bendita swimwear, it is beautiful and very girlie. The colors are bright and designs are pretty and seem to be rather comfy to wear.

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Pre-Fall fashion collection 2010 of Alberta Ferretti at New York fashion show

Pre-Fall fashion collection 2010 of Alberta Ferretti at New York fashion show: Alberta Ferretti may be the go-to designer for pretty chiffon gowns, but she injected some edge into her signature feminine silhouettes in her new pre-fall collection. A strong Helmut Newton girl—that perennial fashion inspiration—was the starting point, evident in a dark, moody palette that included black leather skirts, jackets, and body-hugging dresses. Ferretti even played with chains, stringing them like tassels across the shoulders of merino sweaters and a ruched jersey number. When a sheer blouse did pop up, it was paired with a structured charcoal wool pencil skirt. Ironically, fashion as a whole may be moving away from the hard-edged look, but in Ferretti’s case, the juxtaposition of soft and strong gave her latest effort a welcome depth. We can’t all be actresses with red-carpet appearances every night.

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Fall fashion collection 2010 of Versace at Milan fashion show

Fall fashion collection 2010 of Versace at Milan fashion show: Donatella Versace’s Fall collection took a very different route from the pastel-colored goddess drapery that looked so pitch-perfect and confident in last Spring’s drop-dead glorious incarnation. This time, maybe in reaction to general fashion talk about discretion, minimalism, pragmatic daywear, and longer lengths, she switched to dealing with tailoring.

In the house of Versace, that’s a trickier proposition, and now that body-con feels like it’s on the way out, she committed herself to a tough task.

Her solution? Slicing and dicing fabric in geometric, asymmetric planes; zippering the pieces together; and coming up with half-short, half-long skirt lengths. It had the feel of an experiment only half realized, because before we were very far into the show, Versace had switched to pants in biker mode, and then into the familiar house territory of short-and-tight dresses. Along the way, there were great jackets and even a camel coat. Nevertheless, those aren’t really the kind of visuals to get the adrenaline pumping at Versace. Even in times when all the fashion chat is about calming down and pulling back, there’s still plenty of room for designers whose natural instinct is to fly in the opposite direction.

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Fall fashion 2010 collection’s Chanel at Paris fashion shows

Fall fashion 2010 collection’s Chanel at Paris fashion shows: Freja Beha Erichsen and three bears on an ice floe. This was the arctic scene at Chanel, where giant chunks of bona fide iceberg, specially transported from Scandinavia, formed the frozen landscape around which models solemnly splashed through a sea of ‘berg-melt in shaggy snow boots with ice-block heels.

The Karl conceit of the season, no surprises, was an in-every-way extravagant play on Coco in cold weather. Using more fur than he’d even flung at Fendi—the twist being that here the fur was fake—Lagerfeld steered this collection nearer to couture than ready-to-wear than ever. Fur was woven into brown tweeds; formed deep pelmets on the lower half of leather jackets; became almost igloo-shaped capes, bonnets, even—for goodness’ sake—furry trousers. Meanwhile, the suit and coat combinations also had a level of lavish elaboration usually reserved for haute eveningwear. Fur-fringed embroideries and ice jewelry conspired to create intensely worked ruffled and beaded silhouettes that glinted with rock-crystal neckpieces and fistfuls of rings. Somewhere in there, a flash of translucent silver seemed to be a clutch in which the quilting of the CC classic bag had been frozen into the likeness of a refrigerator ice cube tray.
It was a lucky stroke that the weather outside had kindly assisted Chanel in whipping subzero winds around the Grand Palais while this display was going on. Since humans are suggestible, it took only the merest suspension of disbelief to imagine this collection hitting the mark next fall, despite the fact that it will start to be delivered in July—and who knows in which century we’ll have another winter like this one? Nevertheless, putting global warming and the melting of ice caps both center stage and on the back burner (as it were), this show swept the audience along as they were treated to such amusements as seeing Karl Lagerfeld’s favorite, Baptiste Giabiconi, swagger out of an ice cave in a full-length polar bear coat.

It wasn’t all played for laughs. Within the context of a season of innovative knitwear, Chanel’s was some of the most outstanding. A group of three short angora sweater dresses, tinted iceberg blue in the center, was an amazing follow-up from something Lagerfeld did with dégradé pastel embroidery in couture. One gray and black cardigan coat was knitted in a bubbly grid to mimic a down-filled puffer. And the finale was given to a wedding dress knitted in silk tulle ribbon to resemble Chanel’s bouclé tweed, forming a tight-fitting sweater in the body and then sweeping away in flounces in back. The bride—Freja, again—dangled an ice-block purse on a fur-woven Chanel chain.

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Coupled Fashion of The Kooples 2010

Coupled Fashion of The Kooples 2010: His-and-hers hipster style rocks up in Britain, thanks to the French brand The Kooples.

If I was 10 years younger and a good stone and a half lighter there’s one place I’d be shopping quite a lot of right now: The Kooples, a French brand that has just opened its first three stand-alone stores in Britain (with more on the way, I’m told).

It is a young label in more ways than one. A massive hit across the Channel with snake-hipped rock ‘n’ roll types, and their groovy girl/boyfriends/civil partners/whatever, it has been going all of two years. Not that you’d necessarily know it, going by its confident swagger and the sheer number of branches and concessions in Paris and other French cities these days.

This Kooples mini explosion has much to do with the fact that the founders – three brothers called Alexander, Laurent and Raphael – are the sons of the people behind the Comptoir des Cotonniers womenswear chain, which female friends of mine rave about, and so have retail in their blood. It also owes a lot to a very clever advertising campaign, which you might have spotted on the sides of taxis and buses if you happen to live in London, featuring real-life couples looking drop-dead cool in their Kooples gear.

But the overriding reason, I think, for its success is what concerns us customers most – those clothes: skinny trousers and jeans, sharp blazers with narrow revers, pointy boots, and lots of dandyish little details. I am loving it all and, as I say, just wishing I was 28 (years and waist size).

As for prices: think high-end high street. Scroll through the images above and you’ll get a much better idea of the whole aesthetic.

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Irina Shayk Modeling Luli Fama 2011 Swimwear

Irina Shayk Modeling Luli Fama 2011 Swimwear: Irina Shayk looks absolutely fabulous wearing a number of Luli Fama 2011 swimsuits. Some pieces look pretty ordinary but there are ones that are cute or chic, or incredibly sexy. You can choose the effect you like!

It’s snowing behind my window and my mood is getting worse and worse. Just to make me feel better I looked through Luli Fama 2011 Swimwear collection modeled by gorgeous Irina Shayk (who is currently suing GQ for publishing her nude retouched photos). And you know, those brightly colored swimsuits reminded me of a sunny summer day! I Am feeling better now!!!

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Lauren Conrad Is Serious… Or Is She?

Reality-star-turned-fashion-icon Lauren Conrad appeared in Teen Vogue this month to discuss her upcoming clothing line (not the one she made specially for Kohl’s), and to say that that she’s worked really hard to get where she is. Normally I wouldn’t be inclined to believe her, but since she never turns up on the gossip mill for anything but looking fierce — despite being a reality TV star — she must be doing something to keep herself busy. Plus she released a pretty hilarious PSA today, about the dangers of dressing poorly.

Pretty dead-on, in my opinion, though I wish she’d mentioned what I consider the Antichrist of fashion: The drop-crotch pants.

Remember these? So do I, unfortunately. If I never see another pair of these things it will be too soon. Worst. Ever.

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