Globalization of fashion – just think about it.

   Now a day’s almost everyone cares a lot about their appearances and dressing. But in depth, today’s fashion is definitely becoming homogeneous (simply westernizing). This may be partially due to the impact of media ... TV, movies, and the internet. And also because of western societies colonizing a lot of far places and spreading all over the world. And people blindly love their way of dressing and fashion trends, with thinking about their climatic conditions, money value, regional tradition etc...

   Fashion is evolving, but not in varieties of trends... just the opposite. It's becoming one big planet, with everyone dressing pretty much unique. Perhaps it takes time till the trends arrive here, but I observed that the clothes sold in stores were very similar to the one I saw in the other continents... and on the streets, the same. It was even alarming; you know the whole globalization phenomenon is out there; think of how the world's becoming trendy uniform.

  Rebecca Taylor a fashion designer - “We used to design for each market, but now what's popular in the US is popular in Asia.”

  The globalization of fashion diminishes individual style and dressing trend. Anyone can just wear the latest trends, it takes nearly no style or imagination to do that... I think that, if it continues in such way, where everyone is dressing so much alike all over the world, there will be a big influx of very unique personal style and after two centuries, people can’t figure out their region’s trend, dressing style; just everything will be unique (western).

  Please try to be unique of your own style and create your own trend which adapts your climate, some what your regions traditions etc...

Stolen style! Can you steal style?

Hi, in this fashion world, everyone try to be stylish. But are they carrying their own style? I think very few have their own unique style, and the rest copy their style.

It is quite common; you can find school friends, co workers, neighbors stealing your way of dressing, makeup etc...

This may make most to feel sad, I had saw it with my friends too,

Words of my friend,

"I had a friend who completely stole my style. It sucks. It was something that really ruined our friendship... I didn't belief being around her anymore... seriously. I'd wear something new, and the first thing that would come to my mind was "she's going to copy it too".

From my point, just be cool and don't worry about these things. I am not saying it correct, but the real thing is,

There is no such thing as a purely original style in this world, the style one who own might have the impact of far away regions culture, or it might be used at 60's or 80's. Fashion and style are been mostly reconstructed.

 But, I personally believe "be a first rate version of yourself than a second rate version of anyone else".

I have came across people who are very fashionable actually but have no personal style...copying magazine or from friends.

For few in the world it never hurts, as they take it as complement and disguise themselves as trendsetter.

Here I come to conclusion,

To me, style is personal expressions of who you are...we each have our own style that is a reflection of how we see ourselves and how we wish to be seen...

Ti is not just clothes and accessories, but also how we express ourselves like way of walking, speaking etc...

Anyone can steal others style, but they can ever succeed in expressing, comforting it completely.

What to wear when you're at 30’s – a fashion statement.

Have you ever thought about it, what looks stylish and what doesn’t when you cross the 30’s.

I don’t signify there’s something like "rules" but I think there are things that -even if you have a nice body to pull them off, it begin to look kinda when you grow up.

I came across the comments like “long hair looks bad over 30”, but I really don’t think so... It is odd how opinion changes. When you’re 20 you are sure what a 30 something shouldn’t wear, but when you are there you begin to wonder, as you don’t see yourself really different, but everybody’s insight about you really does.

I personally believe in,

“Someone who accepts their age is more appealing than someone who tries to dress younger.”

In a magazine I noted some thing related to this,

Early 30's need not to bother about it so much. But......after the age of 34 (this seems to be THE year where it all starts) you need to actually take a look at yourself. Liz Hurley could pull off what she wore in her early 30's but now she’s 39........she just cant in the way she used to, it looks sort of wannabe young again even though its only a few years difference.

And I finally go with the words of my friend, in fact you may too agree with it,

 “You look younger it’s a rather pitiful compliment.
   You look great! That’s a great one...” (In the sense of dressing)

Thank you.

Tom Ford's spring/summer 2012 collection

 Tom Ford's fashion shows are 'invite only' events, which means it's perfectly feasible that the only names on the guest list are a few stuffed toys whose lack of live-blogging capabilities means the designer has another two months to actually get his collection finished. Obviously that would never happen though, never.

So, two months after fashion week, Tom Ford has debuted his spring summer 2012 collection on Vogue.com. In the best possible way, it's exactly what we expected, which makes all the cloak and dagger business a bit pointless. We've got ultra-lux form-fitting dressed with clinched waists, bondage-esque corsets, satin suits in his trademark purple, which frankly we're surprised Cadburys hasn't tried to trademark.

Talking about the collection, Ford said:

"I want to do classic clothes. I don’t want to do trendy collections that swing around from season to season. I want to do things that will stay in a woman’s wardrobe a long time—quite ‘forever’ pieces. So I’m looking for consistency."

Quite. We think Ford is at his best when he's putting Nicholas Hoult in an angora sweater for A Single Man. Let's hope there's some truth in the rumour that he could be doing an H&M collaboration then.

Probably a must stuff for high heel users.

Squeezing your feet into damaging fashion footwear can prove to be extremely detrimental in the long run.
A quarter of all the bones in the human body are found in our feet and on average we walk around 1,00,000 miles in our entire lifetime, which is equivalent of four times around the Equator, a media report said. 

However Dr Tariq Khan, a consultant podiatrist at a leading hospital in London, has offered some simple techniques and solutions that will allow you to wear your favorite heels without causing long-lasting damage.
If you have a wobble-board, practise for an hour or so in the week before you wear them to strengthen your ankles and reduce the risk of sprains. 

Alternatively if you own a pair of MBT-style exercise shoes wear them to and from work.
Don’t overdo it though as Dr Khan says wearing these too often can throw out your posture. 


He has suggested that on the night before a party give your feet a spa-style pampering by soaking in warm, salty water and then removing dry skin and massaging with moisturiser. 

“Make sure nails are short so they don’t press into the toes in narrow shoes,” said Dr Khan.
Slip into fold-up pumps for the journey home after your party but do make sure they have a sturdy sole.
Once you are back home after the party, soak your feet in salty water for 10 minutes to reduce any swelling or inflammation.

Something for fashion lover's this winter.

 I think it would be their fashion trend for this winter. I don’t know what to call these but I've seen them at many fashion shows so far...Nearly a thick scarf or muff around the neck that more or less looks like it's holding their head up...

 This new interpretation of the circle scarves would appear everywhere this winter. And it looks dead luxurious and endulgent! The closest thing to this would be American apparel circle scarf...The fur versions are definitely more eye catching though.

What I adore about a muff is that you can wear them as a neck accessory. There is a fine line between a muff and a short scarf. It all depends on how it is used.

Successful fashion models with imperfect teeth and teeth fashion trends.

Fashion and beauty are not constant one. They vary on each individual’s vision; a fashion liked by one might not be liked by others. So, here I put my thought,

I actually find models (and people in general) with imperfect teeth, but they really look sexy. It gives them personality and character. I can think of a few models like Lara Stone, Lauren, Hutton, Romina lanaro, Adriana Lima, Louise P and many more. And I think they did not make any measures to make it perfect. They deserves for what they worked. It gives unique identity for them.

And in Japan it is called yaeba. Women are paying dentist to craft their teeth crooked. They take it as a fashion trend. There are few famous fashion models with crooked teeth in Japan.  

I personally believe crooked teeth might look very sexy if they are in harmony with the face. And it seems, teeth might not be a worrying thing for a anyone to think about modeling career.

A look at Selena Gomez's street fashion.

Celebrities are the much focused people all around the world. When it comes to actress it takes more sense. Their outfits,fashion trends are noted globally. Selena Gomez, young American actress, singer, and businesswoman. She looks cool with her way of dressing. Here are some of her street fashion styles.

 

For the Spring/Summer 2012 season, Porsche Design is featuring color in the Women's Fashion Collection. The dominant colors are striking Sulphur and fresh Raspberry. The product range has also been considerably extended, including not only leather jackets and exclusive Premium Jeans but also fashionable silk scarves and silk blouses.

Introduced in Autumn/Winter 2011, the innovative RawTec Line has been advanced and embodies the maxims of Porsche Design perfectly in a timeless and purist manner. Thanks to the use of full-grain lambskin leather, with nappa finish on the inside, these leather jackets need no lining at all. Visually impressive as a result, they are also particularly comfortable to wear especially in the summer months. The secret lies in the top-quality workmanship and the exceptionally fine finish, clear proof of the importance of the smallest detail in the manufacturing philosophy, avoiding any doubling of the material. The leather is laid seam on seam, stitched with a zig zag finish, and then welded with a tape, creating a unique lightness as well as the purist look. For women, the new Summer Collection not only has the P'1140 RawTec Blazer to offer, but also the leather coat-skirt combination, the P'1150 RawTec Coat, and the leather P'1150 Hoody, a real eye-catcher in the feminine raspberry colour tone.

Having marched in New York during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week with his new collection Spring / Summer 2012 of pret a porter inspired by the philosophy of jungle-street, Custo Barcelona continues its ascent and makes possible trying to conquer new markets expansion such as Poland, where he participated with great success, in these days to the sixth edition of the Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland.

Housed in the city of Lodz October 26 to 30 last year, has seen not only remove a lot of interesting names of international fashion scene, but has also been able to attract the attention of the large international press such as Elle and Cosmopolitan names that have made important writers to follow one of the emerging European fashion week around which revolves around a business that increases considerably from year to year.

Why you can safely ignore most trends in Fashion Magazines

The pointy-toe shoe. In, out, shake it all about? Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

Many titles cover fashion with a level-of-intelligence that would give a brick a superiority complex. Are pointy-toe-shoes in? Is anything?

By Hadley Freeman

guardian.co.uk

I see in a magazine that pointed-toe shoes are "back". What does this mean?

Geraldine, by email

What this means, Geraldine, is that a hapless work experiencer came into the office one day and, instead of being alternately ignored and sent-out for the coffee run, an overstressed fashion assistant told her to ring round every shoe designer she could think of and ask them to send over whatever pointed shoes they had in the store room because they'd look good on a double-page spread. And that, boys and girls, is how fashion journalism works.

Look, I would never knock fashion per se, so calm down. But there is no doubt-that a lot of magazines cover fashion with a level of intelligence that would give a brick a superiority complex. Are pointy-toe-shoes in? Is anything? As has been advanced-before on this very page, yes, there are spikes in popularity of a certain trend or look, and occasionally there is even the seismic, nay, cosmic coincidence of two major advertisers-I-mean-designers doing the same thing in one season. But in the main, fashion consists of a lot of people-making a lot of different kinds of clothes in the hope that as many people as possible will forget about the recession and spend money. That is how fashion – as opposed to fashion journalism  works.

And isn't that marvellous? It means that, contrary to popular perception, fashion designers do not hate the majority of the female race and-only want attenuated zombies to wear their clothes. They love you (or at least, your money) and they throw as many clothes as possible at you in the-hope of tempting you. Yes, the fact that they put the clothes on attenuated zombies in their fashion shows is confusing, but a large part of the blame for that can be laid at the stilettoed feet of . .  magazines.

Someone, somewhere, a long-time ago, decided that fashion looks best on skinny women in magazines. The repeated defence of this is that it "hangs better". But this argument is clearly more subjective than the defenders like to think. With just the tiniest bit of magical thinking, one can imagine a world in which-plumpness was venerated and fashion-magazine editors were challenged on their use of impossibly chubby models: "I understand your concern but the clothes just cling better when the models are plumptious," the rotund Edna Mode would say airily.

Quite why so many-fashion magazines do such a disservice to the subject they are covering – making it sound like something only for anorexics who insist on trying to talk as if they're 16 even if they're closer to 46  is one of the great mysteries of life. In fact, what-seems to have happened is that fashion journalism has painted itself into a corner, desperately claiming from week to week that there are new "essential" trends. No one ever says in Empire, "OMG! Sci-fi is totes in this week! You gotta see sci-fi and only sci-fi!" And as far as I know, there are never articles in the LRB mocking their readers if they like to recline on the sofa instead of in the garden when-they peruse their novels. So here's what I'd like to see in a magazine: "Look, here's some-pretty clothes. Don't be scared of feeling 'out of it' or what have you. Just pick and choose what you like-and get on with your day. The end.

Lady Gaga in Thierry Mugler Paris Fashion Week

On the Thierry Mugler's show for Paris Fashion Week, Lady Gaga was seen not as an artist but as a model. Lady Gaga strutted on the runway twice. At first, she was wearing a black outfit and a white sheer turtleneck over a corset paired with a long body-hugging skirt at the end of the show.



See some of the looks from the Thierry Mugler Fall 2011 fashion show.







Photo Source: InStyle

Daria Werbowy fringed

And you thought exposed midriff couldn't be elegant... well, you were wrong. It's not just for trash-glam teens, pool parties, and aerobic workouts. If nothing else, Daria Werbowy proves that the humble tie-front shirt can be sophisticated enough to take you to day, night, office, wherever, you name it.

In fact this whole pictorial from Vogue US is about simple elegance, with refined pieces like tailored man-style pants, classic trench coats, and sporty-casual slouch tops. Daria's long hair is matched with a fringe; a look we're not accustomed to, though of course she looks great as usual.

Related Pictures: Daria Werbowy: Vogue US May 2010

Daria Werbowy fringed

And you thought exposed midriff couldn't be elegant... well, you were wrong. It's not just for trash-glam teens, pool parties, and aerobic workouts. If nothing else, Daria Werbowy proves that the humble tie-front shirt can be sophisticated enough to take you to day, night, office, wherever, you name it.

In fact this whole pictorial from Vogue US is about simple elegance, with refined pieces like tailored man-style pants, classic trench coats, and sporty-casual slouch tops. Daria's long hair is matched with a fringe; a look we're not accustomed to, though of course she looks great as usual.

Related Pictures: Daria Werbowy: Vogue US May 2010

Daria Werbowy fringed

And you thought exposed midriff couldn't be elegant... well, you were wrong. It's not just for trash-glam teens, pool parties, and aerobic workouts. If nothing else, Daria Werbowy proves that the humble tie-front shirt can be sophisticated enough to take you to day, night, office, wherever, you name it.

In fact this whole pictorial from Vogue US is about simple elegance, with refined pieces like tailored man-style pants, classic trench coats, and sporty-casual slouch tops. Daria's long hair is matched with a fringe; a look we're not accustomed to, though of course she looks great as usual.

Related Pictures: Daria Werbowy: Vogue US May 2010