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.
Wealthy persons are mostly known for their fortune only. However, despite they make billions, these people possess some personal features that attract people when estimating them. While Warren shovels up money, he has to do with quite conflicting image he created: he is known to be the proved miser and at the same time he privately donates huge amounts for charity purposes.
Shoulder Pads - Actual Trend for Fall-Winter 2009/2010
Thursday, 19 November 2009
In the '80s
shoulder pads were used with almost everything in the wardrobe, from jackets
and blazers to evening dresses and casual tops. Some time later high shoulders
were successfully forgotten and outdated, though this fall they are the actual
trend to serve for a trendy and a powerful woman of today. That trendy item
became actual thanks to Christophe Decarnin, the Creative Manager to the French
House of Balmain. It was Decarnin who reincarnated such a recognizable element of
the '80s when he launched collections for Spring-Summer 2009 with a line of
military-styled jackets and dresses with shoulder pads.
The passion for Balmain
that the fashion world was seized with was productive to the extent that in the
beginning of this year the other designers followed Balmain and presented
Fall-Winter'09-10 ensembles styled '80s, from Donna Karan and Louis Vuitton to Julien
Macdonald and Jean Paul Gaultier. The trend is believed to origin from the '80s
though the true prototype of the style was that of the post-war epoch. After
the World War II, when all women had to quit from conventional women roles they
functioned as men. Respectively, the fashion changed and after the elegant
femininity of the '20s and '30s the new vision of women was practiced in abstemious
costumes with square-styled skirts and shoulder pads.
High
shoulders apparently specified authority and aggressiveness though at the same
time they make the silhouette slimmer. But high shoulders are not that
fashionable thing to suit everyone; for some women this item works, like Posh
or singer Rihanna who look nice and attractive wearing shoulder pads. Shoulder
pads can be tremendously risky to the self-esteem and image of those women who
wear them wrongly or with the wrong styles.
Victoria Beckham and Rihanna are probably two of the most bright examples in
this sense. Posh used the shoulder pads to highlight and make her slender
figure harsher for an astonishing example of power dressing, while Rihanna is
doing it as a statement that, where style and boldness are apprehended, she has
no match. Other celebrities have already used shoulder-pad clothes.
Thanks to
the appearance of New Look, the legendary collection by Christian Dior, the
trend that was the pre-image of the style of the coming '80s in the second half
of the forties was smoothed by femininity and stylishness of works by the
French designer. The image of a powerful woman was recollected some time later,
in the year 1975, when flowery prints and loose flying silhouettes of blouses
were in the great fame. Soon after, the founder of the fashionable brand Biba, the
designer Barbara
Hulanicki, launched fur coats with high shoulders. She was followed by Ossie Clark and Bill
Gibb who used shoulder pads to add some distinctness to their romantic chiffon
ensembles in the end of seventies. The other «forefather» of high shoulders is
the celebrated French couturier Yves Saint Laurent. In 1966 the designer opened
his iconic Le Smoking, a manly smoking only for women. Owing to Saint Laurent the
pantsuit became far more sexual for women for the accented thin waist matched
with high shoulders. Later on, Bianca Jagger contributed to popularization of
such pantsuits and when she married to Mick Jager in 1980, she wore a white
smoking with shoulder pads, and then she regularly appeared in similar jackets
in public.
The beginning of the eighties is memorable for the appearance of
Margaret Thatcher, the «Iron Lady» of Britain, the first female Premier
Minister. Opposing to men-conservatives, Thatcher managed to make
women-politicians be considered and her thoroughly designed image played a noteworthy
role in it. High shoulders worn by Margaret Thatcher symbolized a powerful and
strong woman, and even a string of pearls or a brooch worn to add some classic
femininity could not deceive and fade the image.
In the middle of the eighties many women imitated the figure of the
character played by Melanie Griffith in «Business woman» movie or actresses
from the legendary soap opera «Dynasty». As for men, they were not aside of the
fashion and they liked the image created by the legendary Pop King Michael
Jackson when he set trend for a military-styled jackets with shoulder pads. At
the end of the day, it was Michael Jackson who made high shoulders come back in
fashion. His favorite military-styled jackets were the source of inspiration
for Christophe Decarnin from Balmain followed by other designers.
Today a jacket with high shoulders is an absolute must-have for this
fall; and more and more Hollywood celebrities try
on shoulder-pads with decorative epaulets encrusted with Swarovski crystals.
And the largest fashion brands showed the example to cheaper retailers, from Topshop
to New Look with collections launching really elegant jackets with high
shoulders.
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.
Today the knitwear is presented in so many styles and
it is so popular that no single autumn and spring collections can do without
hosiery. Knit
women's coats are offered in classic, sporty, romantic, vintage, casual and
ethnic styles. The demand for knit coats
grows in line with the more increasing range of color and texture of woolen
yarn as merino wool, angora, alpaca, Kashmir. Globally known brands launch knit
coats for women in their latest collections and most celebrities today appear
wearing knitwear for many occasions and that's hard to picture that some time
back it was something different.
First established in 1980, the brand by Carolina Herrera is one of the well-known fashion brands; collections by Carolina Herrera make a conquest for the public love and demand due to elegance and delicacy of the fashion wear models. The collections were successful, though Carolina Herrera opened its perfume line first in 1988 presenting Carolina Herrera for Women. Carolina Herrera 212 is known to be the bestseller first launched in 1997, and today this fragrance takes its niche among the most recognized perfumes of the world.
First established in 1860, Chopard is one of the reputed watch and jewelry houses producing incredibly beautiful, fascinating jewelry items and watches of dream. The house also launched a number of celebrated fragrances as Casmir, Wish, Madness and Infiniment. Despite the long and solid history of the brand, it appeared only recently in the market of fragrances with the first fragrance Chopard launched only in 1992. Six years later, in 1996, the Chopard House presented its Mira-Bai, the fragrance which is still in favor among women keen on oriental scents. Mira-Bai shows no intentions to compete with such a fashion-setter in the sphere of oriental compositions as Guerlain Shalimar, though the fragrance by Chopard takes its niche among the classic perfumes in the market of oriental perfume.
