Archive for February, 2009
Current Fashion Trends
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What’s in your closet? Ah, don’t want to go there? Well, this may be because you’re not up to date on the current fashion trends. What is it with fashion anyway? People seem to conform to the rules like puppets. Okay, well maybe not all people. You may be one of the few who step outside the norm and dress however you like. Maybe you’re sporting those 80’s tapered pants, or that ever-cool mullet that was all the rage back in the day. If this is the case, then you’ve probably pretty much been ostracized by the world as a whole, but no worries. When it comes to fashion, it’s a nonstop universe of change. Although some trends are deemed ridiculous and out of date, many others re-emerge with flying colors. Whether you like it or not, it’s likely going to continue this way.
Are you up on the current fashion trends? This subject confuses me to say the least. I was a small child back in the 80s, and I have to say I remember it rather well. I saw the whole decade. From the pegged pant legs, to the jelly bracelets, to the big hair, and finally to the ripped-up jeans. Well, now it’s the new millennium and so much of these things seem to be coming back full force. Huh? Isn’t it too soon or something? Young girls are actually wearing the leggings under their mini-skirts again, and the shirts that hang off of one shoulder. I loved Flashdance as much as the next guy, but come on. It appears that the current fashion trends are simply to have no trend at all. Everything is back in circulation. The torn jeans are in every clothing store. It’s virtually all you can find. Is the big hair coming back next?
When it comes to the current fashion trends, you can’t just observe the apparel and accessories. You have to take a serious gander at the hair styles. They sort of go together if you know what I mean. Judging from the modern male, I would have to assume that 70s dew is back in style. Why else would anyone purposely resort to that floppy retro mess? Come on, you’ve seen it. However, if you’re not in tune with the current fashion trends, you can always take a stroll through cyberspace. Of course I mean with your eyes, not your feet. While this business of fashion moves forward as strong as ever, you may want to get a load of all the current fashion trends before actually deciding on a wardrobe.
Keeping up on current fashion trends is almost a full time job. It requires a lot of commitment to keep up on the latest look, but it is worth it. Anyone can wear t shirts and jeans every day, but to really look fashionable and attractive all the time is something that few can do. You need money and you need a good sense of style.
The hardest thing about current fashion trends is the fact that something that looks good one minute won’t look good to people the next. Remember those MC Hammer pants that everyone was wearing for a few months or so? If you even went out in those today, people would probably be laughing in your face. To take a more current example, sagging your pants may be a current fashion trend, but who knows how it will look to people in another year. It might just make you look like a slob who doesn’t know how to wear clothes that fit right!
That is why, no matter how into fashion styles you are, you need some evergreen clothes. What I mean by “evergreen” is clothing that will always look okay. Even someone like me who is obsessed with the current fashion trends also has some good, well-tailored designer jeans that will always look good with a plain t shirt. I can use fashion accessories to update the look to whatever is going on at the time, but I don’t have to replace the jeans themselves, because they won’t go out of style. It saves me a lot of money to have some basic clothing, while still allowing me to look good.
Half of the fun of current fashion trends is trying to figure out what they will think of next. Everyone knows that trends start with runway models dressed in strange and daring outfits that no one would actually wear out on the street. These sort of outfits are bold, and they are made to showcase a new idea in fashion and see how far the designer can take it. Even if they are not actually very practical, they are still fun to read about in fashion magazines.
I’ve even thought about being a fashion designer once or twice. I suspect that pretty much anyone into looking good and feeling great has this thought at one point. Just keeping up with current fashion trends involves such an element of really making your own look that it is tempting to want to take it to the next level. If I ever do that, I think I’ll move to London. Right now, it seems to be the best place for my favorite international fashions.
Breast Awareness at Work – Rethink Breast Cancer
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Bring Breast Awareness back to the Workplace. Fun 1960’s video uses office inappropriateness to spark discussion about this sensitive topic.
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DIED 2008 – IN MEMORY OF SOME GREAT PEOPLE
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Prominent people, died 2008.
People I liked, respected or even adored.
R.I.P.
Herbert Bötticher (german actor)
Pinkas Braun (swiss actor)
Freddy Breck (german singer)
Hans Caninenberg (german actor/author)
Michael Crichton (american author and director)
Dieter Eppler (german actor)
Mel Ferrer (american actor)
Bobby Fischer (american chess world champion)
Estelle Getty (american actress)
Sigi Harreis (german moderator)
Gert Haucke (german actor)
Charlton Heston (american actor)
Sir Edmund Hillary (New Zealand mountaineer)
Michael Hinz (german actor)
Horst Jüssen (german actor)
Eartha Kitt (american singer and actress)
Heath Ledger (australian actor)
Alexander May (german actor)
Rudi Michel (german sport journalist and reporter)
Paul Newman (american actor)
Benny Neyman (dutch singer)
Emily Perry (britsh actress)
Eva Pflug (german actress)
Ivan Rebroff (german singer)
Brad Renfro (american actor)
Hans Richter (german actor)
Yves Saint Laurent (French fashion designer)
Tana Schanzara (german actress)
Roy Scheider (american actor)
Günter Schubert (german actor)
Peter Steiner (german actor)
Horst Tappert (german actor)
Kurt Weinzierl (austrian actor)
Richard Widmark (american actor)
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Coca-Cola Light Zambia Fashion Week 2007
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Coca-Cola Light Zambia Fashion Week 2007 at Alliance Française in Lusaka from October 22-27 (Independence Week).
The show — now in its third year — will showcase the talents of ten of Zambia’s top fashion designers including Coretta Arnold, Dodo Wear Designers, Verona Gordon, Faith Kabende, Mary Kaira, Trudy Kaumba, Angela Mulenga, Charity Mwakilima, Nada, Veronica Sampa.
The show is a fresh, funky and fun platform to highlight Zambia’s creativity. It takes its inspiration from similar fashion weeks in London, Cape Town and Paris, but with a full-on Zambian flavour. Entry is free.
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Ovechkin’s amazing goal vs. Montreal in HD (2/18/09)
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Ovechkin plays a backhanded pass off the boards to himself while doing a 360, then scores while seated and sliding through Carey Price’s crease.
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What would you do with the birthplace of the 1960s hippie movement?
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BETHEL, N.Y. – The famous farm near the alfalfa field that drew 400,000 people to Woodstock for three days of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is up for sale.
The asking price: $8 million
Roy Howard, the current owner, is packing it in after years of tangling with local officials over permits for reunion gatherings to mark the 1969, three-day Woodstock music festival that helped ignite a generation.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070808/ap_on_en_mu/yasgur_s_farm
Maybe we should buy it and turn it into a nuclear testing site?
Or how about the new HQ for some corporate behemoth, say Wal Mart? Or a new factory for a military defense contractor, wouldn't that be cool?
Or perhaps, we should just build a memorial to all the social destruction wrought by the counterculture – all the drug addicts who's lives were shattered, the current STD epidemic ("free love"), 2 million slaughtered in S.E. Asia, terrible music/fashion, and a legacy of homegrown anti-Americanism that continues to this day intent on undermining the greatest civilization in the history of Earth from within?
Did i mention that I hate hippies?
A fitting testament to the now intellectually befuddled, cellularly deteriorated, Trotsky reciting afterbirth of the '60s would be to create a federal facility in order to imprison those convicted of anti-American behavior.
Erect a ten foot statue of McCarthy in front.
I too am disgusted by today's neo-hippies. If I could, I'd strike their lineage from our history.
I'm looking for the perfect fitting jeans. Distressed, faded. As long as they're not skinny leg (skinny leg jeans are for women or rock stars)!!!!! Melbourne is the mecca for Australian fashion and do you think I can find a decent pair of jeans. I'd spend up to a thousand dollars for a pair, if only I could find some.
Go into town and try on hundreds of jeans and buy whichever one looks the best. You might want to bring a friend for their opinion.
Top Fashion Design Schools..?
Posted by: | CommentsWhat are the top fashion design schools?? are there any good fashion design schools in charlotte or atlanta that are like really good?? also..what schools did all the famous fashion designers go to??
The Top fashion design schools would probably be Parsons the new school for design and also Fashion Institute of Technology. There are looking for very hard workers that are very determined. But it's not necessary to go to the best fashion design schools to be a famous fashion designer. For example, Vera Wang went to Sarah Lawrence and that wasn't such a "big" fashion design school. But it would be nice to get into one of the best design schools in america. Look in New York City.
For shcool…so i really need help on this. Thanks
Tommy Hilfiger
How should I decorate a room to give a REAL fashion environment?
Posted by: | CommentsI don't know how to put this in a better sentence.
What I want to do is actually trying to decorate a small room, not mine, and the room is actually temporary, it's for a big event, but what kind of stuff/decorations can I put inside to give it a fashion look?
Like, if you've been backstage in a runway show, what can you see?
Or in a fashion designing room, what can you see?
I want it to have a REAL fashion environment. Thanks!
Maybe like mannequins even though they are expensive. You can put like a sewing kit on a desk and maybe a ruler to "measure". Put clothes on a rack and not in a closet. A couch. Although it's kind of expensive if it wll last a long time its worth it. Also a birhtday or holiday can work to get everything.