Fashion

The name «brocade» comes from the Italian broccato which means «embossed cloth». There is a legend about an Emperor who fell in love with a poor common girl. The girl was purposeful and she demanded that the Emperor learned some handiwork and the Emperor learned weaving to win the heart of the beauty. He gained skills in weaving royal brocade. In the nearest future the skill of him saved his life.

Most of us can hardly imagine a man dressed in a classic business suit with a bag in his hand - we used to see them with a brief case. Such things were manufactured before under the name «luxury bags for men». Today, the consumer market has dramatically changed, now the liberal style of young jetsetters comes to the front line and the leading fashion houses have to adapt to their demands, creating new democratic youth-inspired collections or mixing classics with the modern style.

A wedding is a sacred ceremonial and unforgettable thing in the life of any woman. A bride at the event looks like a princess from fairy tales though all brides look like each other in their traditional full-length white wedding gowns. In spite of this widely spread tradition, there's an interesting trend in wedding dresses.  Evidently it's the reinvention of a trend from the 1950's!

Once again, uniqueness along with creative solutions is in vogue in regards to anything, especially of garments. And wedding dresses is not an exception. Every young lady wishes to look as a princess at her wedding party though some women are good to look as princesses while others are vamp winning. Many women, many styles and currently designers offer solutions for the brides to find a wedding gown matching their image or create other new extraordinary styles for them.

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The best-known type of silk is obtained from cocoons made by the larvae of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori reared in captivity. Manually it is not possible to make. We are able to touch and perceive its texture only.

Preliminary down parka was designed exclusively to protect from severe frosts in Canada. This outwear is very comfortable and utilitarian. Though fashion sets new trends at a time and this practical outwear is now marketed in a range of colors and shades. Now they vary in design, style and they are not designed for practical purposes. They are trendy, they protect from frost and rain, and they have water- and wind-resistance quality. And designers endeavor to create stylish and striking models of parka. This is also ideal outwear for both young generation and adults.  Look through winter collections of celebrated designers and you'll find any kind of anoraks and parkas.

Recently men come to be concerned with the way they look and fashion on the whole, and they do it with the same passion as women. It turned out that men need fashionable wear since they also tend to look striking and sexual. They want to be wanted.

Trees are green, all trees are green, we've seen so many green trees that we forgot that the trees can be pink, too, but if the tress were pink, I would show you a green tree. People used to believe that poppies have no smell. The strange flower with high and fleshy stem and scarlet petals that will not endure a touch or caress has no aroma... It used to be true before the emergence of the Flower by Kenzo, the perfume as famous as it is unusual.

Fur and leather are so common and close to heart of human beings from the very beginning of civilization. First people were in great need of clothes and fur and leather was running and flying round them in abundance. And they cannot opt to choose various fabrics, if even any. Time was creeping and humans were on the path of evaluation. First, clothes from leather was a shift due to unavailability of other material. Far back in the Middle Ages the leather clothing was the outfit of the nobles only. The times of democracy also preferred this fabric since it is comfortable, long-lasting and long-lived.

Mistaken are those who believe that bikini was invented by women at the peak of sexual revolution, feminism and struggle for women's rights. Bikini was invented in the middle of '40s by the designers Jacques Heim and Louis Reard. And Paris again appeared to be titled as a pace-setter in fashion. This bathing suit was named after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean where atomic bombs were tested. Though everyone when reading or hearing a word ‘bikini' recollects microscopic bathing suits but not nuclear warheads.

Unlike other fur garments, mink fur coat has never been assigned to warm only in severe frosty weather. Mink coat shows your social status, it is luxury, beauty which shows that you belong to the elite. When mink coat came first in vogue it was worn by aristocrats, movie stars or spouses of significant political persons. Over the years the mink coat is affordable to many people annoying those who could wear it due to their exclusivity. And now many people can be delighted with their fur coats similar to ones of Hollywood celebrities.

When Napoleon Bonaparte became Emperor in 1804, he indented to make France the leader and trendsetter of fashion and innovator of design and craft skills. Within the French Revolution period, the French textile industry did not develop to the extent as that in England, for example. Thus, Napoleon banned to import English textile and made all attempts to revive Valenciennes lace industry. He made the curious policy in fashion when with the commercial and business reasons he set the trend to wear a dress for one event and change it for another. The fashion forced women purchase more fabric. Regency fashion really touched the heart of the people. That was the epoch of romance and sensitiveness.