Paweł Lewandowski
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This summer fashion is all about bold bright colours and well matched accessories. There are loads of things to choose from across all brands which promises to make your summer look fresh and trendy.
This year has seen some great new additions to the fashion accessory market. One of them being, bold and colourful watches which bring a completely different vibe to your attire! Most brands have recently burst onto the scene using contemporary materials and vibrant colours to create a selection of trend setting watches. Their range is right on point for summer fashion; bold bright colours that create a wild statement. A close look at the ‘Summer Collection’ across brands will tell you whatever your favorite colour you will find them.
To accompany this year’s preppy colorful look, trend experts say that watches are not required to be in formal colors anymore. This trend is picked up not only by casual designs but by classic designs too. “In” thing are bright leather straps in red, yellow, and even orange. Electric blue is hot color for dials. These new colorful watches will surely catch the eye and leave everyone with an opportunity to add a dash of color in rather neutral look.
Radiant, fresh and stylize in bright and happy colours, DKNY’s latest range of watches - “Spring into Color” promises to adds a dash of youthfulness to your wardrobe while adorning your wrist gracefully. The delightful range of watches, full of color and joy, is made from patent leather straps and are inspired directly from the city in bloom. DKNY also has another funky piece in its collection “Jelly Strap Watches” that’s not just smart to wear but eye catching with its transparent straps in bright hues like green, blue, pink & orange, crystal studs on the rim of the dial all make for a fantastic appearance
Bittersweet orange & the cool blue are the latest timepieces that Fossil SS’10 collection gives to you this season. This collection is all about rich vintage leathers combined with classic colors to create watches that define not only style, but a lifestyle – that’s authentic. A distinctive sport collection featuring both analog and digital movements is crafted with a soft-touch polyurethane bracelet that’s both versatile and easy to wear.
According to Hollywood actor, Megan Fox, corsets should return to the fashion world. The comment was passed when she wore a corset to play the role of gun-wielding Lilah in her new movie, Jonah Hex.
As per Fox the corset is one of the best garments that can mould an individual’s figure in the most unexpected manner.
Fox also believes that the fashion industry does have a place for corsets and therefore, they should come back. But, although she wants to reappear in the fashion world, she did admit that it was a difficult apparel to be worn as it was extremely tight fitting.
Fox avers that, during her action scenes, the corset, which was otherwise small of only about 18 inches, had to be loosened, as everyone on the set believed that Fox might just pass out, owing to lack of oxygen. It was so tight that, she was left with rib pains by the time she completed her shoot.
It's said that New York knows the business, Milan makes the workmanship.
In Galleria Vittorio Emanuele Ⅱyou can find more than 80 world-famous brands.
Models present creations of Venezuelan designer Carolina Herrera's 2010 Spring Collection during a fashion show in Panama City, capital of Panama, June 16, 2010. Herrera was in Panama on invitation by Panamanian first lady Marta Linares de Martinelli, to present her spring 2010 collection to raise funds for the cancer hospital.
The Cambodian garment industry has been hit hard by the current global economic crisis due to its heavy reliance on exports and foreign direct investment. As the industry is suffering loss of 10% of its jobs since the crisis, in April 2010, The International Labour Organization (ILO) released its survey findings based on information collected from 66 factory managers at the end of 2009.
Salvatore Ferragamo is doing extensive marketing on the Chinese mainland. However, a brand's success goes far beyond good marketing. "Every brand should have its own DNA," CEO Norsa said, and it is this DNA that counts.
The out-going CEO talked about shoes and celebrities as the brand's DNA, suggesting that not only do celebrities provide an iconic blueprint for the "look" that consumers buy (into), but also that each is as unique as our DNA "fingerprint".
Part of this iconic celebrity "genome" is Italian. The company started and gained considerable repute by making shoes, which are said to be 100 percent manufactured in Italy, a policy and tradition Norsa said his company is going to uphold as long as the brand lives.
The rich and famous have played a notable role in endearing the brand to the world. Stars like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe were numbered among the aficionadas of Ferragamo fashion. Now the brand is prepared to flirt with Chinese stars, who, Norsa said, are going to help the Chinese consumer remember the brand.
Although the track may have shifted to the East, the race, Morsa suggests, is still to the swift and the strong. To have one's own strength is important for any luxury brand, said Norsa. "We admire LV. We'd like to benchmark with other brands globally, but the most important thing for us is to stay among the top group of luxury brands," Norsa said, explaining that people are not buying just one brand, but rather a number of brands - a trait that may ensure a China niche for SF, e.g., buying clothes at ZARA, shoes at SF and handbags at LV.
Being different is not enough: addressing differences is equally important, Norsa notes. Effective marketing in an alien culture also depends on how adept a company is at taking care of the cultural differences. In Norsa's eyes, Chinese consumers are wiser than their US or Japanese peers when they are spending money on luxury items in that the Chinese are always looking for a good combination of quality, price and design.
He added that the Chinese mainland is a huge market with different needs, and that his company is well-positioned to meet those different needs because Ferragamo has both expensive and affordable items made for both men and women.
As CEO of one of the most expensive luxury brands, Norsa has made one thing clear: "Consumers have learned to buy value... If there is one thing we have learned, it is that quality comes first, ahead of everything else."
Angela Ahrendts, the boss of fashion group Burberry, banked more than £6m last year as the company managed to steer a successful course through the recession to report record profits.
US-born Ahrendts, 50, took over the chief executive role at Burberry in 2006 and has continued the revival of the brand that began under her predecessor, another American, Rose Marie Bravo.
Her salary was held at £910,000, but she earned her maximum bonus of £1.8m and was given another £387,000 in "allowances", which includes a clothing allowance. A spokesman said she is expected to pay for her Burberry wardrobe.
In addition, the company contributed another £273,000 to her pension and she made £2.8m from cashing in share options.
The spokesman noted that the company's share price had risen by 131% during the period and that she had met all of her targets. "There is a lot of momentum in the business and she is delivering for shareholders," he said.
In May, the company reported profits of £215m, up 23% on the previous year, while sales were 7% higher, reaching £1.28bn. The business signed up Harry Potter star Emma Watson to feature in its advertising campaigns, the latest in a string of high-profile actors and models to promote the brand.
The firm intends to open a further 20 to 30 stores this year, focusing expansion on emerging markets including Brazil, Mexico and India as well as pushing its online sales. It is also developing a chain of casualwear stores called Burberry Brit and will open a second in New York this year. A Burberry Brit store is expected to follow in London.
The one blip has been in Spain, where Burberry has suffered a sharp decline in sales, prompting it to announce in February that it would close the loss-making business.
Before joining Burberry, Ahrendts had worked at the American fashion group Liz Claiborne.
Known as the fragrance Oscard, FIFA awards boast of a history of over 40 years. It is organized by Fragrance Foundation which aims to develop educational programs about the importance and pleasures of fragrance for American Public. Recently, winners of 2010 FIFA Awards are released. Let's check them out.
Women’s Luxe
Lola Marc Jacobs – Coty Prestige
Men’s Luxe
Tom Ford Grey Vetiver – The Estée Lauder Companies
Women’s Popular Appeal
Halle by Halle Berry – Coty
Men’s Popular Appeal
Seduction in Black, Antonio Banderas – Puig USA, Inc
Love Rocks of Victoria’s Secret and Patrick Dempsey 2 of Avon Products, Inc. share the Women's Private Label/Direct and Men’s Sell Private Label/Direct Sell respectively.
More information about 2010 FIFA Awards please visit
According to an expert, the producers of camel wool clothing in Bolivia need to import raw materials from Peru, as the country does not have the specialized facilities to process the raw camel wool.
This statement was seconded by the Vice-President of Textile Conglomerate Boliviano (Cotexbo), Veronica Valencia, who also repeated that there is no textile mill in Bolivia to process camelids.
According to Luis Pardo, the expert, it was necessary to develop the production chain of textile production that includes camelids, lama, alpaca and vicuña in order to increase export volumes.
He added by saying that between Bolivia and Peru there are 3 million llamas, alpaca and vicuna and quite a big portion of the fibre enters Bolivia from Peru and that the current machinery used by the manufacturers was obsolete.
He was of the opinion that, camel based wool clothing has a high demand in markets such as Europe, Argentina, Brazil and the US and that a camel wool jacket could command a price of US $200-300 against $40-50 for cotton based one.
Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, results across the clothing and retail sectors have demonstrated how exposed the apparel industry is to the economic turmoil gripping the world. The author has tracked its impact on the industry and, as this briefing shows, made sense of an unprecedented time.
This collection of articles from just-style's team of leading researchers, analysts and commentators puts the complex events of the last year and their impact on the manufacturing, sourcing and retailing of apparel into focus, whilst laying out the challenges that still lie ahead.
