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Even more casual is the sneaker design that Lanvin popularized a couple of seasons back with their brightly colored patent high-cut shoes. In fact, any lace-less design – which is often seen as the more casual version of the leather shoe – gets an instant style upgrade from the added shine. And you can’t deny that patent really is eye-catching, no matter what you do.

But you can move beyond the realm of the black tie affair yet still remain on-trend. They’re great for adding life to even your plainest and oldest jeans-and-tee combo. Now every brand from Gucci to YSL has come up with its own version of this hot must-have item.

It doesn’t stop at black either; colors from fire engine red to midnight blue have been seen down the runways. If you want to get on with this trend, you’d better get on with the program soon. People seem to be picking up on new fashion movements rather quickly nowadays, so your patent shoes could be more ‘has-been’ than ‘haute’ in just a couple of months.

As in the real season and not the fashion season, is fast approaching once again. It’s time to put those Wellingtons back into warm weather hibernation and put your best leather-clad foot forward. When combined with less formal designs like loafers, patent leather could either modernize a formal look or jazz up a more casual one.

Of course, patent leather shoes are the quintessential gentleman’s accessories for formal evenings and black-tie events. And for 2009, the best shoes to wear for that activity would be the shiniest ones you could get your hands on. A long-time staple in the formalwear repertoire, the new in thing is to mix up high-shine shoes with more casual clothing pieces.

Designs like this patent black Ferragamo laceup are classics in any collection of men’s shoes. Patent or shiny shoes are by no means a revolutionary new trend. They’ve already made their rounds in the women’s shoes section a couple of years back, and have now crossed the sex boundary into the male domain.

I think tatoo became the people’s cheak topic and very popular since the Prison Break came up on TV. Of course it is a very good show. The tatoo of Michael is so beatuful that nearly of us love it. Not to say it is so useful! So, let’s have a look at this especial fashion! New it has a new way, it dosenot hurt a bit! Fashion has a needle-free solution. Tattoo-inspired designs are showing up everywhere, from the arm-climbing Erik Halley bracelets gracing Freja Beha in the new Karl Lagerfeld campaign to Kate Moss’ tattoo-print maxi dress for Topshop to the range of ink-themed bags recently launched by Coach.

I am afraid you won’t want one, like, right after the design has been inked into your arm forever and for all time? Now I want to talk about the tatoo on the bags or things like that. Much of the credit for this trend must go to Gucci, which debuted its tattooed Babouska bag for Spring ‘09 and then adapted the concept for its successful Tattoo Heart collection benefiting UNICEF.

There are some big events of this new fashion styles, some of the good ones are listed below. The London-based designer landed on the fashion map in 2000 with a debut collection that included nude-toned boots, bags, and stilettos with tattoo designs hand-printed onto the leather. The designer goes on to say that she’s considering bringing back the original tattoo accessories next year, in celebration of her brand’s tenth anniversary. “Tattoos are back in fashion, on the street, and designers are absorbing what they see around them.” Even though the Prison Break has come to its end, but it will stay for quite a while on our heart! One way to check how long it will stay is to see how long could the tatoo fashion remain hot!

I have a black silk camisole with a smocked waistband that I bought at Corso Como on my first trip to Milan in 2000 that I think I’ll be putting back into rotation this summer. When my fashion friends compliment me on it, like they always did back when I wore it with my Earl Jeans and Jutta Neumann sandals—we can be sad together.

The news that Veronique Branquinho is liquidating really got to me. I’ve been reviewing her collections in Paris for several years now, and season after season, sitting at her gritty Garage Turenne shows in the third surrounded by European stylists and Japanese buyers, I’m amazed all over again that she’s as underappreciated here as she is.

Branquinho is based in Antwerp, but there’s always been a realistic edge to her Belgian romanticism that jibes with my no-nonsense approach to dressing. It’s doubly frustrating considering that her Fall collection was one of her strongest in a while, showcasing as it did her signature tailoring—the sexy smoking jacket in look 37 particularly speaks to me—in an optimistic palette of white and ivory.

Are you ready for this luxury fashion style news? Come on, it does not matter whether you buy them or not, enjoy them is your damn right. I interviewed Chlo? Sevigny last week since she’s been chosen as a Woman of Fashion for our brother site. The infallibly stylish (in my opinion) actress told me she’d certainly love to do another collection with Opening Ceremony, but also mentioned that she’s open to other collabs.

“I’d like to do something with a high-end company,” said Sevigny. “You know, the way that Sofia Coppola did with Louis Vuitton. I thought it was very cool. There were no labels on anything. I like that. I prefer it.” Earlier last week, the Big Love star told WWD that her dream collab would be with Hermès. Considering that her Opening Ceremony collection is the result of a casual mention to the press, I think Sevigny might be trying to tell the world of luxury that her designer door is open.

So who might it be? Louis Vuitton is certainly the über-collaborator (Kanye, Murakami, Sprouse), but a project with Sevigny might be too similar to Coppola’s. Hermès? Hmm, this kind of thing doesn’t seem their speed. Maybe Tod’s? They do have a thing for actresses. Who do you think Sevigny should collaborate with next?

As you know, I am not really a fan of photos of celebs taken when they are doing private things. But in Madonna’s case her life is like a breadcrumb trail in anticipation of her next great event. I love her knee-length single-breasted topper, particularly since there was an unseasonable chill in the air this weekend. Shorten the coat to a menswear blazer and you have a perfect summer outfit! Seen leaving Saturday Kabbalah Services in New York this weekend, Madonna was spotted wearing an exceptional menswear look in traditional Kabbalah white.

The subtle nuance of a variety of almost-white while the play of textures like nubby, smooth, and linen keep it all interesting and flattering without the flat glare of an all-white ensemble than can look rather tacky. Too much of a fashionably good thing can be difficult to pull off. Both menswear can be tricky to wear without looking like a dragking and all white can be difficult to manage without looking like Nurse Ratchet, but Madonna knows how to get it right– timing and style should really be her middle name.

The key to wearing head-to-toe white is to mix in different textures and shades of white like cream, ivory, bone, chalk, dust, and alabaster. Madonna’s beige tribly hat, with its brim turned up just a bit, atop some big square? Rectangular tortoise frame sunglasses add instant chic and softness to a menswear. Unfussed hair is always a more stylish choice when wearing structured hats. All in all, the look is tailored, classic, and very modern.

The usual body style is the high-waisted jean. We haven’t seen it for a while, but it’s coming back in reaction to all the low-cut jeans. So, if you want to focus on your legs, and you have naturally skinny legs, it looks wonderful. It sits on your true waist, which is much higher then you’re all accustomed to. Then it can either taper all the way down or flare a bit. But largely, it’s determined by where it sits on your waist.

High-waisted jeans are good for women with small waists and hips because it emphasizes your narrowest point. It makes the eye focus on your thin waist while deemphasizing your fuller areas. Styling is where denim gets really fun. Styling happens in back pocket treatments, in whether you get rigid or stretch denim. The wonderful thing about denim is that you can treat it in many ways.

Stretch denim is awesome because it’s the equivalent of wearing a knit T-shirt or a sweater. It allows for many sizes. You don’t have to be so fit-specific with stretch, because it will make allowances for you.I think it’s very important to know that you don’t have to spend a lot of money on jeans. I also think you should keep your jeans for a long time. Jeans should last. They should grow old with you.

Another tip is to “wash your jeans in cold water and turn them inside out. This will make the color last longer,” DiCarlo adds. Once you’ve found a pair in the perfect cut and color, you can keep them in pristine shape by following DiCarlo’s tips. Since jeans have a tendency to lose their shape after a couple of wearings, DiCarlo suggests “if your jeans have stretched, try throwing them in the dryer; they get right back into their original shape and hug your figure again.”

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When I have something to say or to share with all of you, I alway do. I won’t hold back my feelings. So excuse me for a moment while I gush a bit. It’s a black hobo with just enough personality to be stylish and interesting, and the patent trim is unique enough that people will notice it without being so gaudy that it makes the bag look cheap. Also, it avoids a pitfall that a lot of bags with flashy trim unfortunately don’t – the main leather on the bag doesn’t look like an afterthought.

Black hobos are largely boring. Take a general-use bag shape, combine it with a neutral color and expected material, and usually you get something without much personality or style. One of the hardest things to do in fashion is to take a basic and make it even the least bit extraordinary, and I think that that may be what the Gucci Bradbury Hobo is.

Just like many of the other brand handbags. It’s smooth, soft-looking, and looks like it would be nice enough to carry a bag without any fun extras. But in this bag, you get the best of both worlds, and you also get a neutral bag with lots of personality – a rare find indeed. I felt that, in the fashion world, like investment, if you do not move on, you will be discard, and you have to make a great offer before you come back.

Hi, friends! It’s time for me to state the obvious: it’s summer. And for fashion people, that means magazines are getting thinner, store shelves are getting barer, and there won’t be much to sustain us until approximately August or September, if you’re counting in magazine months. So what bathing suit have you been wearing this summer, or do you still have your eye on several?

Pre-Fall stuff is trickling in from a few brands, but overall, there’s not a lot to talk about in the handbag world that most of you guys haven’t already seen. My initial reaction was “Psssh, those aren’t handbags,” but then I figured, why not? He might be on to something. So I spent a little bit of time looking around the Internet today for my favorite bathing suit, and I decided that I loved the J.Crew Regal Paisley Bikini.

I was talking about this to a guy friend earlier today, and his response was, “Well, bathing suits are summery. Why don’t you just write about those?” The bold, retro pattern will cover any wear-and-tear that occurs from lazing around the pool or ocean and the slightly more substantial top will give the necessary lift and added security to a girl with a larger-than-average chest.