Fashion

Fashion holds a mirror to the epoch. Though trite, it's true. We can most accurately determine the epoch, with all its political, philosophical, cultural and other implications, by its headwear, the presence or absence of lace, length and shape of a women's skirt or a men's waistcoat. Every age generates its own aesthetic image, forges its characteristic beauty standards, expressed through art, architecture, and costume design (in proportions, shapes, volume, details, material, color, hairstyles, makeup, and accessories).

Coco Chanel once said, «Fashions pass, style remains». This maxim is one of the fashion's most famous for a reason - it's true. And it has never been more so in case of Spanish fashion. Spanish fashion is a wondrous medley of beauty, style, lines, cuts and silhouettes in myriads of colors and bold striking prints. Spanish style is the style of outwardly reserved and inwardly passionate Donnas and Dons which can be best defined by the word «gorgeous» as in «gorgeous designs by Cristobal Balenciaga». His dresses are timeless, and as good wine, they only get better with age. Balenciaga was not only a fashion designer, but an engineer and an architect, as he once said, «A couturier must be: an architect for design, a sculptor for safe, a painter for color, a musician for harmony and philosopher for temperance».

The catwalk shows and presents incredibly beautiful and elegant attires and ensembles that selection or match of wear items to create the fascinating image may seem easy. The only thing is to observe and make solutions. Party dresses are still demanded for many functions and events and every single woman should consider the choice of luxury dress for evening wear thoroughly and deliberately. The party dresses for this winter season are performed in classic style. They are tightly-fitted, complemented with long evening gloves of gorgeous shades of rigorous blue, red and vinous colors.

Currently women are willing to look stylish and trendy not only in their everyday life but at the wedding part either. They long for the color wedding dress that should create a commotion immediately a bride appears in the public, color wedding gowns have replaced snow-white classic wedding ensembles for the last decade. The traditional monochrome image is likely to turn into the rare ensemble in several seasons, as it seems now when the designers prefer the vivid embroidery and new color shades, pastel pink, yellow or green colors to the white dresses.

The coming spring and summer trends include the skirts in the new vision. Yet, the trousers with high waistline so trendy and demanded throughout the previous seasons, outdate this year. Fashionmongers will enjoy the skirts of various styles and design, tailoring and length, and a range of skirts will make any girl stylish and fashionable.

Along with the items from leather, the knitted clothes became one of the key elements of the winter wardrobe in the coming season. The winter collection offers a variety of cardigans of different type and design. There are long cardigans that go well with leggings and cardigans roughly-knitted, bright office cardigans and one with unusual neck.

There are many alternatives for the classic wedding dress with long and white fluffy skirt. And one of them is the wedding dandy suit which may appear more preferable than the traditional gown. The wedding suit is the unique way and unusual option to dresses for less formal wedding event or the vision of the wedding by the mature woman who is willing to have something more appropriate for such a solemn function than a classic puffy wedding gown.

Lingerie fashion trends change as quickly as clothing trends. Inspired by the haute couture collections, lingerie designers offer for 2010 a variety of hot and extremely flattering styles in the fetish vein, and have a new take on the vintage style, which, as we know, is never getting old.

Last year, designers went on a true crusade against mediocrity. They have put so many trusting hyper-fashionistas on heavy-heeled Cinderella clogs (Stella McCartney), fancy-heeled shoes with flower printed counters (Prada, Miu Miu) or intricately shaped triangular chunky heels which sway precariously when you try to make a move (Nina Ricci, Missoni, DSquared). This year, the trends are even more shocking as the runway hits seem to be utterly unwearable.

Miss Sixty is one of the most successful lines of clothing of the Sixty Group brand, created in the early 1990s. The brand quickly gained international attention and popularity with the fair sex. The first collection was launched in 1991, and its first branch was established in the United States in 1992. However, it took until 1999 before the Miss Sixty monobrand store was opened in London and was quite a success.

Trousers are basic and essential item of any man's wardrobe. A gentleman, regardless of his style and age, should always have a choice of trousers, either in one style, or in a variety of styles to match various occasions which are appropriate for his lifestyle, career or leisure. Trousers trends are less changeable than trends for female clothing items, which are always more prone to transformation and change. Whatever trousers style a man chose, he must make sure that they fit perfectly, because there is nothing more ridiculous and absurd than a gentleman in baggy or tight trousers.  They totally ruin the overall impression and deprive a woman of a chance to see the Prince Charming hidden under this absurd garment.

A philosopher once said that history moves in circles. Another philosopher added that it moves in a spiral: one always returns to the preceding position, but on a higher level. Men's coats trends prove this assumption. If you watched The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, you remember the cape coat, donned by Mr. Holmes. Now, it's back! And a belted trench coat that Arthur Hastings wore ever so gracefully (Hugh Frazier)? It's back, too. What about the traditional gentleman's coat with a fur collar, preferred by Hercules Poirot (David Suchet)? It's in again.