Fashion Trends & Tours in Italy

Milan Fashion Week is to kick off.

From January 14 through Thursday January 18, the Men’s Fall/Winter collections 2007/2008 will be featuring in several venues across the city.
More than 160 among catwalks and presentations are being scheduled for this event.

Below, the

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An very weird and unique idea by an Italian fashion designer specialising in wedding dresses.

Giovanna Sbiroli, from Putignano, town in nearby Bari, created a handbag which an be easily converted into wedding dress.
The designer presented her creation at Palazzo Rospigliosi Pallavicini Sforza, in Rome, during a show included in ‘Puglia in tour’, event planned to promote the fashion from Apulia region.

A very original idea. Very cool. But useful?
May be for women who plan to get married just a while after they met their love. May be while vacationing.
A ready-to-use wedding dress for the husband-chasers who have no time to visit a wedding couturier. It could be included among the travel accessories.

Men who are tired of wearing classic clothes, will have more chances by choosing among new fashion styles, without renouncing to the formal style.
The Newsweek article - “Fashion: Formal But Funky”, introduces a few new labels that have contributed to launch such new trend in men’s fashion. Among them, Barker Black that defined its brand’s style as: “sophisticated, with a touch of subversiveness”

Barker Black Ltd is at the forefront of a new trend in men’s fashion—making formal style hip again, from slimmer suits to sportier dress shoes. Barker Black launched last year in New York, aimed at the man who is tired of the classic Brooks Brothers look but too tough for Prada. The label recently became available in Dubai and Tokyo, and will make its exclusive London debut at Harrods in May.

“We’re taking dresswear, once an uncomfortable necessity, and making it something guys want to wear,” says Miller, creative director at Barker Black Ltd.[...]

The ties, handmade in Italy from English silk, run from $95 to $135.[...]
As for shoes, the most popular model is the two-tone Spectator ($775; barkerbrown.com). But if the shoes on the rack don’t jump out at you, try the made-to-order service, where you pick from more than 30 leathers and colors—then wait 16 weeks.

I add, you could try a customized fashion tour in Italy, to get made-to-order shoes, apparel, and fashion accessories at considerably cheaper than those above listed. An Italian tour operator, will help you to locate in Italy, the many craftsmen manufacturing hand made fashion items; it is real made in Italy and you can get it at bargain prices.

The money you save worth a trip; also you can choose among several more options. For details on how to arrange a customized fashion tour in Italy, contact us

After saying goodbye to low-rise jeans, women had hoped in a new and more comfortable trend.
It seems they will have to suffer for a while more.

After “straight-leg jeans”, followed with narrower versions as “cigarette leg” and “pencil leg”, fashion designers are introducing a still slimmer version the “super skinny” jeans.

Designers such as Dolce & Gabbana and celebrities as Kate Moss, Nicole Kidman and Keira Knightley are helping to drive the trend.
Also women want jeans that won’t hide the their expensive footwear.

In order to achieve that goal, millions of women can also choose to feel physical pain.
However millions of other women are hoping skinny jeans will not be the only style they find.
Browse Designer Jeans

Increasingly women are preferring designer or high street dresses to the traditional wedding dresses; it seems to be the new trend for modern brides.

Liz Savage, editor of Brides magazine, says:

“There are a lot of women who don’t want to wear a traditional wedding dress. Designers such as Valentino, Elie Saab and Christian Lacroix including dresses that are perfect for modern brides in their ready-to-wear collections.”

After choosing the wedding dress, here you are a few bridal beauty tips:

• Don’t have intensive beauty treatments the day before, as skin can react to, and is more sensitive in, the heat. Have a skin microdermabrasion facial about a month beforehand - then pedicures and manicures the day before.

 

• Well-groomed eyebrows are essential. Invest in a professional to shape them - done properly they can transform your face.

 

• Keep it natural. Daylight can be

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With Spring approaching, a new style of jeans, called midrise, is replacing the low-rise cut which has dominated the scene in the last years.

The new cut, ends about two fingers below the navel and has a waistband that rests two thirds of the way between the hip and the smallest part of the waist.

After a period of 5/6 years, marked by the trend “the lower the better”, most of women, not comfortable wearing low-rise cut, welcome the new style.
The author of the story Jeans Rising, wonders:

” Why did the style endure so long? It’s a mystery.
Low-rise jeans aren’t very comfortable, and it’s tricky to find a pair that fits. Doctors warned women not to wear them too tight—a Canadian medical journal reported that patients actually sustained nerve damage from wearing overconstricting hip-huggers.
School administrators were not amused: low-rise jeans are banned from scores of high schools. “

Manufacturers and stylists know not everyone looks good in low-rises, so by introducing more-wearable styles they are hoping to reignite sales.