About Pandora Bracelets

Every single Pandora bracelet is handmade which is reflected in their superior quality and design. As you have the ability to customize the bracelets with a range of different charms, clips, spacers and chains, it's very is to create something to suit your own individual style and look. There is also a range of bracelets for you to choose from including gold, silver and leather designs. Due to its versatility and the sheer choice available, Pandora has become one of the most popular women's jewellery brands on a global scale and is now considered to be a must have for every women's jewellery box. The amount of money you invest here should take into account the amount of wear the finished item will have. Spend to the higher end of your budget if it will be worn most days. There are a few types of fastener types you can chose from as well. The traditional Pandora clasp when fastened looks just like one of the beads, but you also have the option of a lobster claw clasp. From all the accounts, the Pandora clasp requires fingernails and some skill to open. If you are concerned about breaking a nail, don't worry, there is a clasp opener available to help get the clasp open without risking your manicure.

There are several beautiful designs to choose from. The two bead dividers on each chain are there to allow you to place and space your beads and keep them in place. These screw into place - a very ingenious idea. In addition to these clips, you can also purchase spacers which are designed to enable you to separate different styles of beads and again, help you create your own look. The Pandora collection features superb craftsmanship and proper design by utilizing precious gems and metals which are cut properly and shaped to nicely fit in the jewellery. With their dedication to product quality they have built up a strong name and reputation within the industry. You can choose from a wide range of different charms which are brought out to help represent the season. During the summer there is a wide range of bright and vibrant colours schemes available to choose from within the charms range. In the autumn there is a range of crisp golden colours, including oranges and greens, while in the winter there is a collection of deep and rich colours such as navy and royal blues.

With their years of experience in jewellery business, each year they introduce a huge collection of excellent jewelleries which are modern and fashionable in design. Truly all Pandora jewellery is fabulous which is adored by every woman. With the increase in demand of these bracelets, today they are also available in many online stores. The best thing about the online stores is that they offer these bracelets at affordable rates. If you have a theme in mind you are bound to find just the right beads for to start your collection. Of course if you just can't decide, you could always have several Pandora jewelry pieces! If you are searching for a unique and modern bracelet then look through the Pandora bracelets collection. So, look for the modern and fashionable unique bracelets from Pandora and add some extra stars to your look.

Glamorous Fashion Show

Fashion shows are always thought of a glamorous event, mostly for women. Honestly, the only men's fashion shows are stereotypically more for the brands names than the customers, unless you count celebrities. The Average Joe has no need for a fashion show, right?The Vegas 2011 Magic show is meant for everyone, which is important for men-we men don't often have a reason, or get a chance to have a reason, to go to a fancy-shmancy fashion show, because, again, it's often for high end female celebs. The Magic show in Vegas this year is targeting a large spectrum of fashion, and so businesses are even encouraged to come, like textile technology importers and exporters, general garment manufacturers, embroiderers, and businesses revolving around accessories, textile materials, trimmings, and laundries.

In one of the previews given to the public via blogs is a sneak peek into the upcoming shoe collection meant just for men, with brands ranging from Puma, a more Everyman kind of a brand, to Lacoste, a brand for the more accomplished men with just as much extra spending money as an eye for style.Though there were different types of athletic shoes, the apparel was basically the same across sports and included nothing to get too excited about. Workout clothing, especially apparel designed for women, has since become an art form. The different styles, colours, and patterns create nearly endless combinations. Each new line of clothing seems to be more attractive than the last, providing women with many choices.

The colour scheme varies by season so women can feel fashionable all year. Fall colours include browns, greens, and oranges while spring and summer gear contains bright colours like yellow, lime green, and electric pink. Each season usually has clothing in a certain shade of blue because this is the colour of balance and calming.This clothing is both comfortable and durable. These items may cost a bit more than their synthetic alternatives, but the price is worth it for women who are environmentally conscious.This would also give you an idea of how to decorate the venue. Basing your school fashion show on a season can help you unleash your creativity and make your brain cells work. How can you balance the freedom of creativity with the confinement of the theme? This will definitely help you improve your skills.

Clothing fashions in Europe

The beginnings of the habit in Europe of continual and increasingly rapid change in clothing styles can be fairly reliably dated to the middle of the 14th century, to which historians including James Laver and Fernand Braudel date the start of Western fashion in clothing. The most dramatic manifestation was a sudden drastic shortening and tightening of the male over-garment, from calf-length to barely covering the buttocks, sometimes accompanied with stuffing on the chest to look bigger. This created the distinctive Western male outline of a tailored top worn over leggings or trousers.
The pace of change accelerated considerably in the following century, and women and men's fashion, especially in the dressing and adorning of the hair, became equally complex and changing. Art historians are therefore able to use fashion in dating images with increasing confidence and precision, often within five years in the case of 15th century images. Initially changes in fashion led to a fragmentation of what had previously been very similar styles of dressing across the upper classes of Europe, and the development of distinctive national styles. These remained very different until a counter-movement in the 17th to 18th centuries imposed similar styles once again, mostly originating from Ancien Régime France.Though the rich usually led fashion, the increasing affluence of early modern Europe led to the bourgeoisie and even peasants following trends at a distance sometimes uncomfortably close for the elites—a factor Braudel regards as one of the main motors of changing fashion.　　
Ten 16th century portraits of German or Italian gentlemen may show ten entirely different hats, and at this period national differences were at their most pronounced, as Albrecht Dürer recorded in his actual or composite contrast of Nuremberg and Venetian fashions at the close of the 15th century (illustration, right). The "Spanish style" of the end of the century began the move back to synchronicity among upper-class Europeans, and after a struggle in the mid 17th century, French styles decisively took over leadership, a process completed in the 18th century.
Though colors and patterns of textiles changed from year to year, the cut of a gentleman's coat and the length of his waistcoat, or the pattern to which a lady's dress was cut changed more slowly. Men's fashions largely derived from military models, and changes in a European male silhouette are galvanized in theatres of European war, where gentleman officers had opportunities to make notes of foreign styles: an example is the "Steinkirk" cravat or necktie.
The pace of change picked up in the 1780s with the increased publication of French engravings that showed the latest Paris styles; though there had been distribution of dressed dolls from France as patterns since the 16th century, and Abraham Bosse had produced engravings of fashion from the 1620s. By 1800, all Western Europeans were dressing alike (or thought they were): local variation became first a sign of provincial culture, and then a badge of the conservative peasant.

Shoe fashion

　　
        Shoe fashion is a mode of expressing yourself through footwear. Shoes often represent a particular style or era and every year footwear designers try to add and create new trends that can represent the present time of the year and hopefully make a mark in history forever.
　　There are many shoe styles through, which we recollect a period of time. Those styles still live because they were extremely successful and often in a classic way which always was and will be eternal.
　　There are many of us who want to wear shoes that are in fashion at any cost; not only in the present year but every single season: spring, summer, fall and winter. However, there is one thing we do not stop to consider: does the shoe style suit us?
　　　Your height and weight will determine whether you should choose shoe style that will emphasize a feature in your body, mainly your legs. For example, shoes with higher heels are always flattering and elogate the leg - perfect for those with short legs. But if you are tall, perhaps you want to de-emphasize your legs. If you are very thin, you might not want to wear the fashionable big chunky shoe styles which might end up looking like bricks dangling of the bottom of your very thin legs.
　　Also remember, if you wear uncomfortable shoes, others will know! How fashionable can you look when your shoes are hurting your feet and you are limping. Or if your shoes are too looses and your feet are coming out of them! Yes, comfort has to be part of your shoe fashion style because style encompasses your entire body - including what your face is expressing. So pick stylish shoes that are also comfortable for you to wear.
　　It is important you be your own critic and friend in order to be able to choose the best shoe styles that will put your best foot foward and thus, give you your moneys worth. What good does it do to wear footwear that is the latest fashion but does not suit your style and personality?
　　Shoes should only be picked because you look good in them and not because they are the latest rave. Also always remember, if you cannot wear the latest shoe design because you find them to be ridiculous, you can always wear something classic as it is always in style and it suits everyone without exception. If you do not know what color shoes to buy or wear for an important fashion meeting, always stick with black as they are classic and always in style! When you want to get a little bolder, try a brighter color like red. Why not try to make sneakers fashionable? Instead of the traditional white, sport a pair of red or metallic color sneakers. Style is not only for dress and casual shoes by any means!
　　In conclusion, here are some tips to make sure you choose the right shoe fashion style: make sure your fashion is comfortable, think about your body features and how your shoes might accentuate them and make a statement with color. Finally, when in doubt wear black!

A Fashion Identity

    When it comes to stereotypes, some are definitely harder to shake than others.
    Since the 1960s, the world has had a rather skewed but enduring image of fashion from Brazil: body-conscious beachwear, Havaianas sandals and diaphanous tunics resplendent with tropical prints.
Today, the country’s assortment of sultry swimsuits and effervescent resort wear continues to sell spectacularly well, both domestically and abroad — but that perennial success often seems to overshadow the rest of Brazil’s buoyant luxury fashion industry, including ready-to-wear, shoes, accessories and jewelry.
    What’s more, it has perpetuated the myth that Brazilian style can be reduced to its most pedestrian, predictable and patronizing cliché: “Life’s a beach,” where Brazilian designers are interested in dressing only the scan
  “This intensely repeated image is often accompanied by preconceptions and prejudices that do tend to level everyone — but it is also, clearly, very annoying,” says Graça Cabral, chief of institutional relations and strategic partnerships at Luminosidade, the company that organizes the country’s two main fashion events, São Paulo Fashion Week and Fashion Rio. “We are not happy all the time; we are not dancing all the time; we are not sunny all the time; we are not all on the beach having caipirinhas and showing off our marvelous sculptural tanned bodies.”
    Although São Paulo Fashion Week has made notable progress in positioning Brazil’s largest city as the world’s fifth most important fashion capital in just 15 years, following Paris, Milan, New York and London. And while it has nutured an exceptionally diverse club of designers with a range of signature styles, aesthetics and approaches, the message of design diversity has been slow to reach those whose opinions often matter most: international consumers and less well-informed tastemakers, some of whom wield great power and influence in the global fashion industry.
tily clad whose feet seldom leave the sand.

Retail Site Raids a Big Closet

Since its debut in February, Moda Operandi, the online retailer that sells designer clothes right off the runway, has become a surprise competitor on the lucrative trunk-show circuit. During the September fashion shows, for example, the average transaction on the site reached $1,800, and one customer, on a single visit, spent $42,000 on clothes that won’t be available in other stores until spring.

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　　Taylor Tomasi Hill, now at Moda Operandi.

Now the site is becoming a competitor to traditional department stores and magazines for personnel, as well. Roopal Patel, a longtime executive in the fashion offices of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, will join Moda Operandi this month as its fashion director. And Taylor Tomasi Hill, formerly the style and accessories director of Marie Claire, will become its artistic director.
“We want to continue to build our relationships with major brands,” said Aslaug Magnusdottir, a former Gilt Groupe executive who founded Moda Operandi with Lauren Santo Domingo, a contributing editor at Vogue, who is the creative director of the site. “We plan to increase the number of trunk shows we will show on the site, with more ready-to-wear, accessories and jewelry.”

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　　Roopal Patel.

Ms. Patel and Ms. Tomasi Hill are among the industry insiders who have become broadly known through popular blogs that obsessively track their style. Ms. Patel, who was most recently the senior women’s accessories editor of Neiman Marcus, will oversee merchandising. Ms. Tomasi Hill will focus on the editorial components.
Moda Operandi has been growing rapidly, Ms. Magnusdottir said, and more so since September, when Condé Nast invested in the company, a move that coincided with its deal with Vogue to link some of its sales to runway images on Vogue.com. An increasing number of designers are making their collections available there, making it a further threat to stores like Bergdorf and Barneys. Designers like Diane Von Furstenberg, Derek Lam and Proenza Schouler were among those available this season.
Ms. Magnusdottir said that as the business grows, there will be more magazine-like displays to guide customers, “to identify the items they absolutely can’t miss.”

Beauty Spots

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Singer Christina Aguilera presents the fragrance ‘Royal Desire’.
These days, if you sing on television, you must also have a scent. Just ask Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry or any of the following pop stars who introduced new perfumes this fall.
Beauty Spots
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COUNTRY STRONG The country pop singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has partnered with Elizabeth Arden for her first fragrance, Wonderstruck (starts at $49.50). Its name was taken from one of her songs, “Enchanted,” and its notes include freesia, apple blossom and vanilla.
BERRY DANCING The Colombian-born, belly-dancing chanteuse Shakira has come out with S by Shakira Eau Florale (starts at $17; sold at mass retailers and drugstores nationwide). “It’s similar to the process you go through when writing a melody: certain chord combinations inspire different feelings in the listener,” Shakira said in a press statement of her involvement in its creation. Notes are floral (jasmine, heliotrope) and fruity (blackberry, raspberry and blueberry).
CHARMED, WE’RE SURE She’s performed with Cher on the silver screen, she’s been a judge on “The Voice,” and now she wants to treat you like royalty … for a commoner’s price. Christina Aguilera Royal Desire (starts at $37) features floral notes like lily, honeysuckle, rose and iris. Each bottle comes with a silver charm that can be worn on a necklace or bracelet. Available at Kohl’s.

My Picks For Fashion and Beauty Items That Will Support the Cause

　　So, let me make my standpoint on Breast Cancer Awareness month now. The reason this was delayed to the very end (as in, the last day) is because I’ve really been thinking about this initiative. While the month of October serves to bring awareness to this horrible disease, I’d like to stress that we support the cause ALL YEAR. As in, awareness of this issue should be highlighted every single month because awareness, education, support and financing is the only way we can detect and stop the progression of this issue that has taken the lives of women around the world for decades.
Some of these items were brought to my attention by the companies themselves, others through collectives such as the Accessories Council. At any rate, these are my choices for the cause, items that stylish and do much to support this worthwhile initiative:

　　Ralph Lauren Pink Pony Long-Sleeved Tee. Image courtesy of Ralph Lauren.
Ralph Lauren is one of the staunchest supporters of cancer awareness and treatment, especially for those in medically underserved areas of the world. From his Cancer Center initiatives here in NYC to the funds raised from the Pink Pony collection which go around the world, Lauren is dedicated in his efforts to help educate and serve those suffering from the disease everywhere. Two personal favorites from the collection? The Long-Sleeved Hope Tee (seen above)…

　　Ralph Lauren Pink Pony Scented Candle. Image courtesy of Ralph Lauren.
and the item burning in my house as we speak, the Pink Pony Scented Candle.

　　Citizen Eco-Drive Watch for Breast Cancer Awareness. Image courtesy of Citizen.
Citizens Eco-Drive Watch – The amazing watch company has created two of their Eco-Drive watches to go toward their pledge of $100,000 to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. Both watches sport a delicate pink dial, diamonds, sapphire glass, and a stainless steel bracelet as well as Citizen’s Eco-Drive technology, powered by light (so they’ll never need a battery.)

　　ChicBoom Keychain Speaker Ball. Image courtesy of ChicBuds.