new style haircuts 2011

Buyers from top U.S. firms Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus had jolted London Fashion Week by skipping it this year on grounds that the recession concerns and a strong pound had made Britain's designers too expensive.

Graeme Black, who unveils his autumn-winter collection on Friday, caters for the Russian elite who think nothing of a shopping trip abroad and have made their country the world's fastest growing emerging market for luxury goods.

"In Russia there is an amazing excitement, a euphoria for things that are new," Black said in an interview with Reuters.

"They don't mind spending money but want something very special and unique. There's no price resistance," said Black.

 

 

Bikin fashion,

, gai xinh, Fashion Designers

The Mr Big Award Now that Karl is skinny and Gianfranco Ferré is dead, fashion’s new Mr Big is Harvey Weinstein. The godfather of Miramax is pulling strings behind Marchesa and the soon-to-be-relaunched Halston.

RIP:thigh-high socks on all but the nubile; ludicrously dimensioned handbags; fake tans; plastic bags; WAG style; Ugly Betty(can there be any clichés left?); body con (we’re conscious enough of our bodies, thank you); going knickerless (so passé); lip gloss (come on, we can kick this if we really try; all we have to do is look in the mirror and see how porn-star “chic” worked its way into our make-up bags).

"Sometimes people come to a place and don't expect to get the message," Combs said. "This generation, they come for entertainment ... then they realize, 'oh man, this movie is really touching. It's making me really appreciate my family."'

Combs has acted before. He had a small but key role in the 2001 movie "Monster's Ball" and his Broadway run in "Raisin" earned him respectable reviews and won over audiences.

Yet Combs admitted to a case of nerves before his debut at Sundance, the top U.S. festival for independent film that has a history of launching TV movies like "Raisin" with a social conscience.

Last year, the AIDS-related HBO film "Life Support," starring Queen Latifah, opened here.

FAREWELL, BROADWAY

Combs said his stage experience helped train him for the film co-starring Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald, who also starred in the 2004 stage version and earned Broadway's top honors, Tony awards, for their work.

The Let’s Think of a Number and Stick It on the Price Ticket Award

Chanel’s alligator and diamond 2.55 bag, £130,000; Louis Vuitton’s Tribute bag, £28,000; Balenciaga’s Robot Shoe, £635. As the economy heated up, heels got higher, bags got bigger, jewellery got extreme. Are quieter times ahead?

The Back From the Dead Award Jaeger London, as designed by Karen Boyd (one half of the Eighties design duo Boyd and Storey) and as distinct from plain old Jaeger . . . We wrote about the Lazarus-like resurrection of this British brand back in April. With Russell Marsh on board as the casting director for its first catwalk show next February, even greater things are expected for 2008. And thank heaven for Simon Fuller. The unlikely saviour safely delivered our beloved Roland Mouret back to fashion’s fold, and with him another smash hit, the Moon Dress, now being ripped off by a high street chain near you.

The Looky-Likey Award A tough category this, in the year that Katie Holmes cut her hair to look like daughter Suri (we know it was the year of the fringe, but this is frightening), Agyness Deyn stalked the catwalks as an incarnation of the Eighties model Jenny Howarth, Kate Bosworth looked like Diane Kruger, who looked like Charlize Theron, who looked like Heidi Klum, who looks like Lindsay Lohan and Mischa Barton and Avril Lavigne now that they’ve all gone blonde. Dannii Minogue has completed her transformation into an oil slick; Natalia Vodianova resembled a pipe cleaner three weeks after giving birth, Chanel’s entire complement of models turned up with Amy Winehouse hairdos for its Paris-Londres show. But narrowly beating them all is Roberto Cavalli, who dressed up as Karl Lagerfeld in October.

Bikin fashion, Beauty girl, Girl Beauty, Bikini girl, gai xinh, Fashion Designers