Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Paris Men Fashion Week: Louis Vuitton

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Menswear designer Paul Helvers paid homage to the bike messenger, sending out models in generously cut single-button jackets and cuffed shorts toting across-the-chest messenger bags in nubby leather.

Models in dress shoes with heels capped in fluorescent rubber trod across a catwalk covered in black gravel that sparkled like asphalt.

"This season I was really into pushing the boundaries of what is sportswear and what is elegance, what is chic," Helvers told The Associated Press in a backstage interview.

The impeccably cut suits had sportswear touches like zippered hoodies and ventilation flaps. Often the suits, in eye-popping oranges and yellows or muted moss and mauve tones, were topped with flowing microfiber windbreakers or light trenches.

Models wore plastic sunglasses with yellow-glazed lenses and jewelry meant to resemble bicycle chains.

Source: Sify News

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Monday, June 29, 2009

Jessica Alba in a cute dress

Britney And Jason Going Strong

Britney Spears goes back to the dark side. Atleast she looks happy with new boyfriend Jason Trawick as they go shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond.

Paris Fashion Week: Men Wearing Pink


Paris - French label Thierry Mugler was channelling Miami Vice with a vibrant, '80's-inspired show on Friday aimed at men with attitude enough to wear pink.

Designer Rosemary Rodriguez delivered what she called a "bad boy in pastel colours", serving up slim, lightweight pantsuits in citron, lime and bubblegum shades for the label's spring-summer 2010 collection.

"It's about classics with a twist, preppy basics with pimpy touch, Miami Vice with an edge," she said in a pre-show interview.

Rodriguez, who was presenting her third menswear show for Mugler, paired sheer dress shirts in pastel polka dots with mix-matched linen and cotton separates. All looked crisp and eminently wearable.

Rodriguez's Mugler man was also sporty, clomping down the catwalk in oversized white basketball shoes with extra-tall tongues embellished with the brand's star logo.

Mugler, a mythic name in the 1980s, has struggled to find its footing since the departure of its founder and the subsequent closure and re-launch of the label.

The brand's managing director, Juan Penuela Vallejos, said he was confident in Mugler's ability to rise from the ashes - even given the current dismal outlook for retail fashion.

"The brand is coming back, slowly but surely," he said in a pre-show interview.

Source: News 24

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Friday, June 26, 2009

YSL Short Film for Paris Men Show

yves saint laurentStefano Pilati, the Yves Saint Laurent designer, usually eases us into Paris men’s fashion week with a quiet presentation and a short film. This time around, the latter was courtesy of the filmmaker Samuel Benchetrit, who directed his 11-year-old son, Jules, in an idiosyncratic, eight-minute black and white film. The on-screen style pointers were subtle: always stay young at heart, and push up your sleeves if you’re wearing a blazer. But even without the fashion component, the film — about an inquisitive young boy who finds himself in a suite at the Bristol Hotel after finding the keys on the sidewalk — stands on its own; and, we’re definitely predicting a bright acting future for young Jules.

Click here to watch YSL Short Film

Source: The Moment


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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Emma Watson Fashion Line Rumors Not True

Emma Watson - SexyEmma Waston has rubbished reports she's designing her own clothing range.

The Harry Potter actress and style icon was reportedly in talks to launch her own fashion line for teenagers, with proceeds going to children's charity UNICEF, according to Britain's News of the World tabloid.

But the 19 year old - who was unveiled as the new face of British fashion house Burberry earlier this month (Jun09) and has modelled for French couture brand Chanel - insists rumours Chanel's director Karl Lagerfeld has advised her to create her on line are completely fabricated.

A spokesperson tells People.com the reports are "not true"

Source: Female First

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Milan Fashion On The Roll!

milan fashion week - gucciMilan Fashion Week has kicked off with the boys leading the way. The men’s pret-a-porter shows included Gucci designer Frida Gianni who used white to express a feeling of optimism. Casual clothes were apparently inspired by the idea of a yacht club. Her evening suits featured fine knitted tops instead of shirts and ties.

Gianfranco Ferre’s designers described their show as being clothes for a “French James Bond”. The collection received mixed reactions from fashion writers. The company is shortly launching a jewellery line in an effort to shake off the doldrums.

At Georgio Armani however, his famed elegance,classic styling and sheer good tailoring were to the fore. The designer received an extra warm welcome having missed several recent personal appearances due to ill health.

Source: Euronews

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Monday, June 22, 2009

Christian Lacroix Speaks Up

christian lacroix"What really hurts," says Christian Lacroix slowly, "is that my name, which I have now lost, is the name of my family. Whoever does take over the business can use it and abuse it as they like, but it's my father's name, and my grandfather's name – men who brought me up to have a very rigid moral backbone; men who taught me never to have any debts."

Were his father alive today, the 58-year-old designer admits, he would be agonised to learn that his son's celebrated couture house – currently owned by the US-based Falic Group – went into voluntary receivership last week as a consequence of 10 million euro losses. And with 125 jobs at stake (including Lacroix's) unless a new investor is found in the next fortnight, the future looks bleak for the many workers who have stayed loyal to Lacroix since the company started trading 22 years ago.

"I'm fighting," he smiles, setting off those Machiavellian eyebrows. "Don't tell anyone, because I'm not allowed to do this, but we absolutely are going to have a show in mid-July, during Fashion Week – and it won't be a funeral: it'll be a fightback." That there is not enough money to pay the seamstresses, fabric suppliers, models or even the stationers printing the invitations is something Lacroix is striving to overcome. "It can't cost us a single euro to put this show on, because I'm not having my workers lose a penny from their pockets, but so far, it looks like thanks to other people's kindness – friends and suppliers working for free – it might happen.

"I can't stand the idea that people think I am to blame," he adds, despondent for a moment. "But to a certain extent I am paying for not having done what everyone else did, with their logos and It-bags. I never went down that route."

Sitting in his fuchsia-painted couture studio above a quiet courtyard off the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in jeans and one of his own tricolour jackets worn over a pig-motif Comme des Garçons jumper, Lacroix looks anything but defeated. There is, however, an element of tempered hysteria to his defiance, a yearning for levity in his frequent, gurgling fits of laughter.

"The recession was a gift to the management, really, because they could blame everything on that, but it was only partly responsible. Do you know that I haven't been paid for a year and a half?"

This sets him off again. "I'm owed one million two hundred thousand euros." Has he shed a tear, I ask? He rattles off a quick succession of Gallic tuts. "No, no, no: I am too angry to cry."

These statements – as theatrical as the taffeta, lace and embroidered creations hanging behind him – are part of the reason why Lacroix quickly became a part of modern fashion folklore. Who else would, in laughable fashionese during one Nineties catwalk show, describe a garment as "a 'cold-dawn' shot razimir spiral sheath dress with 'apricot' and 'melon' kick pleat"?

To many, I tell him, haute couture is so baffling that they consider it natural it should lose its place in today's world. "But fashion isn't something dead," he says. "Fashion needs to be worn. People are wrong when they see it as being disconnected from reality: every morning, before I sit down to draw, I read all the papers, listen to the radio and find out what is going on in Iran – all that influences me. Besides, in periods of crisis, people need to see beautiful things around them."

As a child growing up in Arles to an engineer father and a fashion-loving mother ("Even as the sirens went off during the blitz, she would put on her best shoes"), Lacroix remembers being intoxicated by the coquetries of women. "My mother and her friends would wear these wonderful big 1950s puffball skirts and I would crawl around underneath them, breathing in their strong perfumes."

After a history of art degree taken largely "to reassure his parents", Lacroix moved to Paris where he dreamt of working as a curator in the Louvre. It wasn't until a few years later, after a spell at Hermès, that – influenced by the gipsy and Provencal traditions he grew up with – Lacroix started designing the opulent corseted and crinolined dresses that were to make him famous.

"My extended family were very embarrassed," he giggles. " 'Why don't you make things like Yves Saint Laurent?' they'd ask. 'Because my name is Christian Lacroix,' I told them."

These baroque tendencies meant that Lacroix was soon designing costumes for the theatre, ballet and opera, and accruing a celebrity clientele. Madonna, Nicole Kidman and the Princess of Wales, with whom he became close, were dedicated admirers of his.

"I still have all Diana's letters," he smiles. "And they tell me what I could see for myself during all the years that I knew her: that she was morphing from a blushing, shy girl into a woman."

At that time, a running joke in the TV series, Absolutely Fabulous, was helping to make him a household name in Britain. "It was the best introduction I could have had in England," he says, "where you guys all think French designers are brainless frogs."

It's a stereotype that Lacroix is far from realising. Throughout the interview his opinionated outbursts are peppered with cultural references and lightened by a rare, very un-French ability to send himself up. He is surprisingly optimistic about the effects the recession will have on his industry ("If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes – the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War – they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play") and loves the British for being "stylistically free; not bound up like we are", but is saddened by the new puritanism he sees in young people "which makes me feel like an old pervert".

Today's size zero culture, which recently provoked Alexandra Shulman, the editor of British Vogue, to send a letter to all major designers asking them to make larger sizes, is another cause for concern. "She was right to do that. Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes. What I cannot stomach, because it evokes the war to me, is when you can see a woman's kneecap protruding in its entirety, skinny elbows, or a woman's chest bones. I won't tell you who they are because it would be hurtful, but there are certain models I cancelled jobs with because they were too thin. It's a terribly sad cloning of young women today which actually means that there is no room for anything to stand out – except bones."

As a "Mediterranean lover of women", Lacroix feels that the primary female attraction is their capacity to seduce. "That said, I've always been bisexual," he volunteers. "But I could never live with a man – too similar." Off goes that great runaway laugh again, the kind of laugh that would have been cut short by a parent as a child. "And my wife, whom I married in 1974, still fascinates me, still touches me, still makes me want to weep with joy in the mornings. She makes me laugh, I think she's beautiful, she's like my child and my lover – all at once."

As he walks me out, confiding a propos of nothing that he has given up chocolate and Bordeaux, he has an epiphany. "Actually losing a few pounds and having this battle to fight makes me feel that I am undergoing a renaissance," he declares.

I quote a line from a – perhaps premature – fashion obituary in a British paper last week, intrigued to know what he makes of it. The worry is that "there just aren't enough Beluga-eating, stunningly beautiful, moneyed women in this world to keep Christian Lacroix's fantasy alive."

"Probably true," he deadpans. Then bursts out laughing.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

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Monday, June 15, 2009

Fashion Designers: "Small is Beautiful"

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Catwalk sample size items are rarely understood outside the world of fashion. Partly because they are an average two to four in British sizing and not many of us would be able to squeeze into them.

Fitted directly on to models who are chosen by the designers or casting scouts, they are generally slimmer — and younger — than those featured in glossy fashion magazines.

This is partly because designers believe that slimmer frames show off their clothes in a better light and make a bigger impact when the catwalk images are reproduced.

Another reason is that less established designers are also limited to the models they can use.

Without the production budgets of the big labels they are restricted to less experienced girls or what is known in the industry as “new faces”. These younger girls, often in their early teens, are not physically fully developed.

While brands such as Dior, Prada and Armani can afford to make several different sample collections, up-and-coming designers can produce only one — which is shown on the catwalk.

And this is where sizing issues occur. Unlike newspapers, which work to short lead times and can shoot clothes in larger sizes from the boutiques, magazines shoot with a three or four-month lead time and are restricted to using the catwalk samples as the designs have yet to go into production.

Magazines also have to dress celebrities who may be a healthy size ten but are nothing like the “size ten” samples the designers send in.

It is also frustrating for fashion publications as they have a responsibility to uphold to their readers. Not only must they be careful to use models with attainable bodies but they need “to sell” what the model is wearing. This is why some magazines alter the finished images to make the models look a little fuller in the figure.

With the current trend for reinventing supermodels or using older models, designers may well have to rethink how they go about sizing their collections.

Source: Times Online

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Friday, June 12, 2009

Summer Fashion Walkthrough For Men and Women

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puma summer fashion styleHere's help. From zany colours, smart silhouettes to comfy fabrics, we bring you the latest fashion statements for men and women. Fashion experts tell you how to dress up this summer to make sure you stay tuned with the latest fashion
trends.

For Women:

There are countless style statements. Designer duo Hemant Lalwani & Nandita Raipurani underlines the hot picks...

1. Go for a full sequin shift dress either in black or a bright colour that is perfect for a summer night party. To complete the look, accessorise with a trendy clutch and slip into your chunky platforms.

2. A dress in a vibrant colour is must for summer. It can either be an easy, comfortable silhouette for the day or a trendy one for the evening.

3. A cool summer jacket teamed either with shorts/Bermudas is another great style for summer. It can be teamed up with chappals for a day look or worn with high heels during the evening. A big bag like a ‘jhola’ goes perfectly with this kind of a look.

4. Floral/nature prints/hand-painted look is cool for summer. This kind of a print can be on dresses or cool, open jackets.

5. In terms of silhouettes- jumpsuits and dhoti pants are hot trends. Celebrate this look with a great pair of high heels and a trendy bag.

For Men:

Designer duo Parvesh & Jai tell you the style mantra for an uber cool look...

1. For men's formal wear: Opt for suits which seem like they barely leave you room to breath. English suits with a slim, military look are in. Broad shoulders slim waisted, double breasted suits teamed with narrow trousers are in.

2. There is return of three-piece meaning that the waist coat has to be conservative and thus in the same fabric as the suit's other two pieces. Go for classic patterns like hounds tooth, herring bone, glenurguhart, pinstripe or rope-strip. Double breasted suits in Autumn colours made from sheer fabrics, printed with French patterns are hot this season.

3. The V-neck trend will not be just confined to the tee. V-neck kurtas, pullovers and shirts are hot. Bermudas, fitted linen trousers and capris in pastel shades are a must have.

4. The colour palette is a mix of metallic blues, shades of yellow, whites and purples. Gradient colours in a single outfit is also must have. As for fabrics, opt for tweed, cambric, poplene, chiffons, georgetts, khadi and raw silks.

5. Moving to accessories, the cinch belt is a real must have. Aviator gradient shades with colorful frames are a necessity.

Source: The Times of India

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Eco-Friendly Collection Of YSL


New York - With conservation and recycling the ultimate power trend, fashion designers across the globe are stepping up to do their part. On Monday, Yves Saint Laurent unveiled "New Vintage," an eco-friendly collection that is made up entirely of remnant fabric from past collections.

The new look features pieces that have been adapted to fit the French fashion house's classic silhouettes and looks. The collection features dip-dyed bustier dresses, embroidered trench coats, separates made in plasticized cotton, a Downtown bag and a sandal.

The limited edition and numbered collection will be sold exclusively at luxury retailer Barney's New York.

Source: AHN

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Monday, June 8, 2009

Polo Classic Rebirth!

The "New" Lacoste Red! Label from the Spring/Summer 2009 collection of the legendary French brand that invented the polo shirt.

Designed by creative director Christophe Lemaire, this relatively younger fashion statement focuses on slim-fit cuts that are inspired by 1960s London.

“Think of the Mods-meet-Mary Quant, with a dash of street golf with funky Warhol pop colours and musical references from the 1960s and early ’80s hip-hop,” said Lemaire.
For the guys, the classic polo shirt gets revamped with a smaller collar, a narrower placket with two buttons and an extended tail, as well as slim-fit shirts in gingham checks worn under a cardigan in pique jersey.

For the girls, the polo is recast as a boyfriend fit in tangy colours with contrasting ribbing on collar, sleeve and breast pocket. There is also a nylon blouson in window-pane checks that you can fold into a grab-and-go bag. A range of quilted nylon sports bags with matching sneakers complements this new segment from Lacoste.

The slimmer fit and colourful combinations inspired by the ’60s style of this capsule line generate a fresher and younger look in comparison with its mainstream collection. The classic polo is given a new lease of life with narrower shoulders and a trendier fit that will please the fashion-alert Lacoste fan. It’s a great way to wear uncomplicated classic styles with a fashionable twist.

Source: New Straits Times

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Friday, June 5, 2009

Price Hike On Luxury Goods

The luxury-goods sector is going out of fashion. Aquascutum, whose customers included Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, has threatened mass redundancies just days after renowned French fashion house Christian Lacroix went into administration. Yet the luxury-goods sector continues to trade at a glitzy premium to the wider market.

In the past that premium reflected an assumption the sector's super-rich target customers would be immune to an economic downturn. But this recession has proved that theory wrong. Sales are falling across the sector as even big spenders have cut back, influenced as much by the idea it's no longer fashionable to flaunt wealth as by waning incomes.

Yet since the stock market rally began in March, luxury goods have outperformed the wider market despite a raft of bad news and no sign that extravagant spending is back in vogue. While the larger groups with diversified products, such as LVMH and PPR, are better placed to weather the downturn than individual fashion houses such as Lacroix, their premiums are nonetheless starting to look overdone.

A few months ago Burberry traded at a 10% premium to the European market, now that's more than doubled to 25% while LVMH now trades at a 33% premium to the market compared to 27% at the end of March. Even the premiums of those companies, such as PPR, which trades below Burberry and LVMH due to its less iconic brands, have risen. But trading conditions have shown no signs of improvement.

Granted the demise of Lacroix doesn't come as a huge surprise. The designer never turned a profit in 22 years as his flamboyant haute couture struggled to make the transition to ready-to-wear collections. But it was the decision by major stockists such as Saks and Neiman Marcus to reduce orders for the fall collection that was the final straw.

As the top-end department stores struggle, they are likely to cut back still further on orders which will hit the whole sector. In that context, the trading multiples of the luxury-goods sector are starting to look as highly priced as the haute couture they represent.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

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Thursday, June 4, 2009

French Movie "Totally Spies" feat. Karl Lagerfeld

PARIS - Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld is to lend his voice to an animated feature film for the first time in the French movie "Totally Spies."

Lagerfeld, head designer at French fashion brand Chanel, will feature as bad guy Fabu in the animated action film based on the long-running hit TV series about three high school girls who become secret agents, producer Marathon Media said on Wednesday.

The movie will open in France in July..

As a fashion line, Chanel has been ubiquitous on the big screen recently in the movies "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" and "Coco Before Chanel" starring Audrey Tautou.

Source: Reuters

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Dior Legendary Couture Masterpiece

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Dior will be taken it's legendary couture pieces away from the usual Rodin Museum tent to inside it's own store for next month's Paris Couture Fashion Week.

The French label will host their show inside the iconic Dior salon at 30 Avenue Montaigne in a bid to return to its brand heritage and history, reports Elle.

Sidney Toledano from Dior told WWD: "I want to do it in this house again to feel at Dior. We really want to transport the spirit."

Source: Female First

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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

French Fashion House Lacroix Wants To Fight Back

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french fashion designer christian lacroix design - 2Paris - French fashion king Christian Lacroix has pledged to fight to the hilt to maintain his prestigious couture house, declared insolvent this week after falling foul of the global crisis.

In a letter penned by Lacroix to the firm`s 125 staff that was read to AFP by a company source on Friday, the designer said:

"I don`t know what tomorrow will be made of, if indeed there is a tomorrow, but I will do everything to ensure we remain a couture house 200 percent, and to safeguard a knowhow without which the lungs and heart of this house would not exist."

He said he had been designing for free for the last months and that Christian Lacroix SNC owed him 1.2 million euros.

He also slammed the "shareholders` strange management," later in the note dubbing it "catastrophic."

Acquired from the world`s leading luxury giant LVMH in 2005 by US duty free giant Falic, Christian Lacroix SNC said in a statement Thursday that it had declared insolvency before a Paris court due to "the sharp downturn of the luxury market."

The company "has filed a voluntary petition with the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris to put itself under the protection of the courts" but intends "to present a continuation plan" and "to maintain its business operations throughout the proceedings."

Declaring insolvency is a first step towards bankruptcy protection.

A company spokesperson said the court would hand down a decision within a week. Lacroix, 58, was unavailable for comment.

Celebrated for his exuberant swathes of lace and embroidery, and patchworks of fabrics in vibrant colours, Lacroix hit the catwalks over 20 years ago with dramatic designs inspired by the costumes of his native Arles in the south of France, and the Camargue, with its gypsies and bullfighters.

But sales have failed to match the excitement generated by each of his collections and Thursday`s announcement is a strong setback for the couture house.

After the 2005 buy-out, the company launched "an ambitious and costly restructuring plan to reposition the brand offering to higher end collections," including the opening of two US stores, one in Las Vegas, one in New York.

"Unfortunately, this longterm strategy for repositioning of the brand was dramatically hindered by the current and ongoing world financial and economic crisis which severely hit the luxury sector," the company said.

Source: Spicezee

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Monday, June 1, 2009

Fashion Transformation

A truly trendy outfit often requires one bold statement piece: this can come in the form of an eye-popping color, a bold print, an interesting fabric, or a daring accessory. By keeping most of your ensemble basic yet stylish, this original accessory will be able to stand out and give your outfit the perfect balance of chic and vogue. Too many statements in one outfit can put you further at risk of entering potential ensemble clashes, so save your best pieces for different outfits. You don’t need to wear them all at once. With this in mind, lets talk about the bold statements of this season:

Oversized Necklaces. From the editorials of every magazine to the collection of every runway, big costume jewelry is one of the most popular strands. No doubt, a timeless strand of pearls modeled after French fashion designer Coco Chanel is always a classic twist to a simple dress or preppy blazer, but this season, the fashion world wants gigantic jewels and heavy metals. Long pendant necklaces and strands of metallic chains can add a great element to your outfit, but to truly make a statement, try bib necklaces (hate the name, love the necklace) that sit perfectly over the neckline, piled with massive gemstones. Neutral combinations of silver, black, grey and bronze can be year round pieces, but avoid solid colored plastic pieces. Designers from the likes of Lanvin, Erickson Beamon, Badgley Mischka, and Louis Vuitton have crafted these necklaces to perfection, but their cost can be anywhere upwards of $1,000. Fortunately, retailers like Banana Republic and J.Crew are currently stocked with great bold pieces at a much more wallet-friendly price. Simple dresses pair well with these necklaces, often by adding a contrast that perfectly offsets the dress, but even the most casual white tee can become an instant couture look when topped with a bold statement such as this.

Scarves. After a little more than a month in Paris, I now know why French women are known for their scarves. What might quite possibly be the most practical accessory, here, scarves are used for much more than just cold weather. One might even say that it is an unwritten rule of Paris to wear a scarf with every outfit, no matter the season. Though we have almost shed all of our winter wear, I encourage everyone to hold on to the scarf. Granted, in 80° weather, an extra layer of heavy wool is hardly spring fashion, but light fabrics can be just as much a part of spring as a pair of gladiator sandals. To stay classic, a small printed silk-like scarf tied in a triangle around the neck, or simply knotted into a big loop like a loose necklace can add a great touch to any outfit. The other option is to wrap a big linen scarf like a cuff around the neck. These linen or pashmina type scarves can be worn in soft greys and browns, but if the scarf recently designed for Louis Vuitton’s Stephen Sprouse Spring 2009 collection in hot pink linen with pop-art rose print is any indication, scarves of bright colors and light-weight fabrics are perfectly acceptable for spring weather.

Hot Pink. With Louis Vuitton’s scarf also comes this season’s theme color: hot pink. If it is any sign of this bold hue’s popularity, hot pink has made its mark on the Spring 2009 runways of designers like Marc Jacobs, Badgley Mischka, and Matthew Williamson. Williamson, most recently acclaimed for the H&M collaboration that flew out of his stores April 23, outfitted Heidi Klum in a hot pink satin suit for the season finale of Project Runway. One piece in a bright shade of pink is enough to make your outfit stand out – neon-pink flats are the ‘must-have’ here in Paris.

A good closet needs basics, but once the essentials have been assembled, it is time to look for the accents. Have fun experimenting with bright colors, patterns, fabrics, and bold accessories; as long as the rest of your outfit is basic enough, the possibilities are endless and few pieces are too bold.

Source: The News

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