When purchasing watches, no one is questioned with how to wear watches, actually. This appears to be logical and rational. Nevertheless, the simplest things happen to be complicated sometimes. Everything is made from details and details sometimes mean far more than the whole. People who really wander how to wear watches properly exist and they are really concerned in this issue.
The Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a revolutionary Che Gevara, politicians Winston Churchill and Bill Clinton, writers Somerset Maugham and Mark Twain, the actor and the political figure Arnold Schwarzenegger – these names are well-known and these figures are best known to the world for their political, social, literary and other achievements. Moreover, the abovementioned people highly esteem cigar smoking and, thus, they come as people who own the greatest number of tools and accessories so requisite for this leisurely process and among others there are cigar lighters.
In the light of a variety and availability of glass items, glass ware is still appreciated by plenty people, especially when it comes to cut glass. The cut glass produces a long, lingering and musical tune when you put your finger at the cut-glass edge. So, in Japan the craftsmen make unique musical instruments. A crystal violin, completely transparent, is estimated for fifty thousand USD. Crystal glass tableware is not so much expensive though it is able to produce the charming, unique and so brittle music providing it is properly cared.
Difficult and responsible
is the role of an oligarch in the modern Russia. It is necessary to keep an eye
on everything - on economy, politics and public sentiments. You should watch
lest they would strike there and if they would behave themselves correctly
here, make agreements with everybody in time and wouldn't offend anybody. At
the same time you must keep looking at neighboring countries. Oh, how unwise
they are! They aim at acting in their own way. Who has permitted? Who has
ordered? You have hit upon this idea yourselves? It is all for nothing... One
must not think oneself; there are bright heads of oligarchs meant for it. They
have already decided for everyone.
Success stories come in different forms. For some people it is a romantic and beautiful love affair while for other ones it is a fairy tale. Others write their history in ancient chronicles. But such a soaring story like Fawaz Gruosi's one none truly ever had. The businessman, jeweler and designer is not afraid to take risks, and go there where no one has even risked to take a step. It does not matter to him what it is: jewellery, watches or life. For that, only exclusive and luxury items are produced under the De Grisogono brand name.
Persia is a
country that has a several thousand year history. From fairy tales we remember
the caravans of camels, almighty padishahs and beautiful princesses, the
unforgettable beauty of gardens of Persian sultans and, of course, the
surprisingly bright and almost lively Persian carpets. The name «Persian carpet»
is used nowadays to refer to the carpets made in present Iran whose territory
used to be a part of ancient Persia. Today Iran manufactures a big quantity of
carpets than all the other carpet-weaving centers do together. The overwhelming
majority of carpets produced here are handmade.
Indian theme is not as completely new as it may seem at
first glance. It has been a popular theme from
olden times and up to this day. Bright and motley coloring of Indian interior
with strange objects and gold embroidery appeal to generous and full of zest
European nature.
Perhaps coral is among the very few
precious stones that have been associated with numerous myths and connotations
through ages and round the globe. It is the earliest gem to be used as a
jewelry medium and coral jewelry and inlays have been found even from the Iron
Age. People from the ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire and the Etruscans used to revere coral very highly and
it is one among the seven treasures in the Buddhist scriptures. It also found
its way as a sacred jewelry in India and China. Besides, coral has a long
history of religious as well as cultural significance - it was esteemed as a
talisman against evil, to be a harbinger of health and prosperity, a ward of
hurricane and even as a panacea.
The significance of jewelry is proverbial
and primordial. Human's affinity towards adorning the body is innate and even
before man discovered metals, they used wooden and other naturally available
materials to embellish themselves. Jewelry has been with its distinctive place
as well as value in all the cultures and when it's in the Indian society, it's
something very precious in terms of its social, cultural, traditional and
economic magnitude.
Modern person is hard to take by surprise: Bold designer solutions, shocking imagination tendencies in fashion, mad fantasies of modern art trendsetters... We have become accustomed to it all and take each new event in the world of design as a part of natural process. However, among those splashes of creativity pictured on glossy covers and liquid-crystal screens, one can reveal numerous examples of ideas inspired by the past.
Once the Indian state of Rajasthan was consisted of twenty two separate principalities. On arrival here, one gets an impression of being back in the past: in the times, when luxury and splendor attested to rulers' authority. Nowadays maharajas' palaces accomodate luxurious hotels.
The incomparable Marilyn Monroe believed that diamonds were the best friends of a girl. However, she did not talk with contempt about other precious stones, like many other beautiful girls who adore glamour. Treasures have always attracted people. Adventurers and pirates sought them, the rich misers languished by them. They inspired eminent couturiers.
During the days of watches, Ulysse Nardin could be regarded both as a luxury item, which is due to its high prices and limited series, and as a very complex, accurate and exclusive mechanism. Jaquemart Minute Repeater model was unable to be reproduced in any other watch company as well as the Hour Striker San Harco model bearing the figure of a hammerer on the dial striking the hour.
The history of Cambodia is very sad. The prosperity of ancient Khmer civilization of VIII - XII centuries was followed by centuries of endless wars and deep misery. The calamity reached its apogee in the XX century during the Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot when every forth citizen of Cambodia died from execution or starvation.
In 1662 Protopope Avvakum having sailed in a boat across the lake, described his trip in his "Life" as follows: "So many snowy-white geese and swans swim in the sea. A lot of fish is there: sturgeons, taimens, sterlets, omuls, whitefish and other species. Its water is fresh, and there are many rabbits and eared seals in the lake, which I haven't seen in the sea or ocean."
Luxury-hotel or a love place? Cotton mattress or duvet? Traditional or ultra-modern? Hotels of the capital of Japan are so varied, that they themselves can be a reason for travelling. "Tokyo - is a kind of insanity, in spite of the fact that we have never been there", - says Bill Kaulitz, Tokio Hotel band soloist.
A student or a
business man, shirts are found in the wardrobe of any men living a social life.
Anyone following fashion tendencies owns a pair of slim fit shirts for any
occasions to distinguish against other common shirts. This kind of shirts is
less trendy for mature men since the design of shirts requires fit and athletic
torso which is rarely available with men over 45. Men’s slim fit shirts are
good to fit with any suits, in loose manner, tightly fit in trousers.
Lingerie for women was just the plain underwear until the 20th century when it became the mean self-expression, as the subject of esthetic admiration. A piece of lingerie seen in between the women wear looked quite shocking to be shame and no one thought of designing luxury items based on lingerie, leaving alone works of art. Today every woman dreams of having a pair, or even more, of luxury and high quality lingerie to associate with sexuality, sensibility and attraction with male.
Lancome brand is appreciated globally as one of the most recognizable manufacturer of perfume and body care cosmetic products. Lancome is the brand to boast with the assortment of scents appraised by lots of women from all over the world. That is not the triumph for a day. That is the niche the brand keeps as the manufacturer of classic fragrances. So, Tresor launched in the 50s, the legendary and so romantic Poeme, and delicate Attraction that is demanded beyond the time. In the year 2008 that Lancome house presented another fragrance, Lancome Magnifique.
Florence Nightingale, also known as Elizabeth Arden globally, became the real revolution-maker in the cosmetic industry. The brand Elizabeth Arden estabvlished by Graham, was the one of the first companies that produced natural and high quality cosmetic products, indeed, acknowledged by the royal persons. Moreover, the decorative cosmetics are at last accepted in the political society thanks to the brand founder.
