How do I get the look of Gatsby

  The image of Jay Gatsby dressed in a tuxedo, classic cut champagne in hand, watching the festivities sweet around him, it is the most famous male fashion moment in the new film adaptation of the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

However, for typical avant-garde, it can be difficult to understand that chic tops and more frivolity of the 1920s was just for jackets, known high-waisted pants, tweed jackets and two-tone shoes.

This may be more like the wardrobe of your average citizen important that everyone with an authentic style. But after I sound The Great Gatsby, you are probably wondering what hidden treasures you can raid the closet great-great-grandfather.

Of course, remaking Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann took some artistic freedom with fashion. For example, pants, loose leg high waist will be replaced by a version of the skinny leg. But it just goes to show that patterns that emerged from this seminal period in men's fashion are simply reinvented so that modern men can have a look of the 1920s-esque simply adding some elements of choice for what is already available in their wardrobe.
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"The great thing about men's fashion in the 1920s is that most species are fairly classic, so you can truly enjoy the costume with some great accessories," says Nicole Jenkins, owner of Circa Vintage Clothing in Melbourne CBD.

Add a bow tie or tie a silk dress, or a combination of wingtip brogues with braces, maybe even a eight parts Gatsby Flat Cap fedora or classic, Jenkins says, anyone can give man what a true classic in 1920 without making it look as if he over the top is to look away.

Murray Crane, owner of Sydney contemporary menswear shop Crane brothers, agrees. He said contemporising bold look of the 1920s, is best done with subtlety. "I think it's just about the right balance, with elements of it and do not overdo it."

For a more subtle look, many people may choose to discuss the ostentatious Gatsby (which at one point in the film is a pink suit with a stripe of white pine) in addition to the protagonist and narrator Nick Carraway look, this is the most beautiful in a series of tweed jackets and vests rafters dressed.

For Crane, a tweed jacket is a quality item men should seriously consider.

"Tweed has become very fashionable again, and usually there is a genuine revised some of these traditional English cloth mills Dugdale, Fox Brothers and Holland & Sherry, which are the fabric of traditional tweed," says target, Crane, who also owns the Men's Clothing Stores in Auckland and Wellington in New Zealand.

"We have customers come and buy fabric factories that were in the 1920s, and in fact, a large number of mills we deal with those who provide services wardrobe for many films."

While men can go to stores like brothers swuch Crane, choose their own fabric and have a tailored tweed jacket, a much cheaper option is to check the second hand market.

"You can easily get tweed jackets, because it is one of those things where supply exceeds demand, so you can at op shops and markets well received," says Jenkins.

"Tweed is a solid, clothing such as hangman, but it still has a lot of glamor. Things are beautiful, and they. The biggest problem with vintage long jackets is that they have short sleeves, tend, because they made for shorter people. "

Of course, no real attempt would not be complete without a look of 1920 a pair of wingtip brogues. And for the more adventurous type, speak no more than the period of the two-color variety of shoes - with black and cream, mahogany and white, mahogany and white or beige and burgundy are some of the most popular color combinations.

Crane says the recovery in many traditional english tissue was accompanied by traditional English manufacturers of shoes.

"John Lobb, Cheaney, Church, Crockett and Jones shoes produce all beautifully handcrafted with the finest leather," says Crane.

In fact, Crane asks if the height of the popularity of some of the male modes 1920s and schedule remake is purely coincidental.

"Maybe the directors and producers are waiting until the atmosphere is good to make a movie like The Great Gatsby, because they believe that people understand., It is certainly interesting that the cyclical nature of fashion."

Lure your inner goddess bearing beautiful Chanel

  Summer is here and look pulled together in sultry South Florida can be a challenge. The staff at the Chanel counter at Neiman Marcus in Boca Raton hosts wonderful Camp Sunday, 2 Sunday June 9, June

This camp sewing for adults offer facials, make-up and what every guy or girl needs this summer - samples of sunscreen. When you spend $ 85 Cosmetics June 2 to 9, you get a dead man was scratched and beauty samples.

If you spend $ 150 or more, at Chanel, you will receive a free gift which includes four additional samples Travel Chanel. On 6 June for a luxury facial Sublimage Chanel at Neiman Marcus in Boca Raton register 10.00 bis 18.00 clock clock and at noon Friday, 7 June, Chanel makeup Johanis regional Castellanos give you tips on how to watch a smokey eye create infallible.

Coach, Inc. (COH), Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (KORS) and some hot stocks luxury considerable upside

  Could predict that the luxury retail will emerge from the recession of 2008-09 at an accelerated rate?

According to BrandZ, the largest database of brand in the world, the value of luxury brands in the world has risen by an average of 6% over the previous year. BrandZ measures the perceived value associated with a specific consumption, in addition to the visible factors such as market capitalization brand. The increase to a level of 6% in brand value in 2012 was followed by an impressive 15% in 2011, driven by growth in emerging markets.

Manufacturers of luxury goods seem well positioned on a fundamental basis. Monetary policy in the world by the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan has now led to excess liquidity in the market, favored wealthy investors, the assets such as stocks and real estate. The wealth of these people has increased dramatically in the stock market and housing prices return to their pre-crisis peak.

Moreover, luxury brands experience further growth of the middle class in the BRIC countries, particularly China and India, continued to grow in the next decade. Changes in population and income provided that these countries could be citizens of the middle class than the entire population of the United States.

Here are three well-known manufacturers of luxury goods, whose fundamentals are solid, if you believe in the story of the long-term growth. Two of the companies are preparing the quarterly earnings report, while a company already provided a fantastic report.

Coach

Coach, Inc. (NYSE: COH) markets accessories and gifts for women and men under his eponymous fine. American society is growing in China and the reach of his men.

On 23 April reported the trainer Q3 results better than expected. Earnings per share amounted to $ 0.84 to $ 1.19 billion in revenue, compared with $ 0.81 and $ 1.18 billion consensus. The positive report came as a surprise, as investors line in the face of increased competition in the U.S. from the likes of Michael Kors Holdings Ltd., a quarter (NYSE: KORS) is expected, and other luxury brands.

Coach, Inc. (NYSE: COH) Coach, Inc. (NYSE: COH) announced that its Board of Directors has increased the dividend by 13%, bringing the annual profit to $ 1.35 per share, compared with a previous $ 1.20. On a foundation, management planning activities of his men will grow more than 50% this year to more than $ 600 million in revenue. For comparison, total sales exceeded 5000000000 dollars in fiscal year 2012.

In addition to the collection for men, Coach, Inc. (NYSE: COH) has released its forecast for sales in China for a whole year of $ 425 million from a previous $ 400 million raised. Asian Investment firm CLSA believes history of international growth positively coaches and upgraded the stock to "buy" with a price target $ 71. The management has expressed its intention to increase the area of ​​China 35% compared to fiscal 2013, while the North America region is expected to increase to 10%.

I continue to coach, Inc. (NYSE: COH) see positive and believe that the actions provide growth at an attractive price.

Michael Kors Wednesday 29 May before the market; EPS $ 0.39 / 544 700 Revenue $ 000

Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: KORS) continue to attract the preferences of men and women for their fashionable goods, leather jackets, watches and shoes on a global basis. After a very successful launch in December 2011 excellent, Kors has completed a secondary offering at $ 61.50 per share in February 2013, more than three times higher than the IPO price of $ 20 in less than two years.

Investor appetite for Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: KORS) can be justified that the company be experienced positive comparable sales in every quarter for the last six and a half years. Sales rose by a whopping 69% in the last 12 months, while net profit rose 229%, based on the profitability of the industry leader. Kors has an operating profit of 28% against an average of 15% for the luxury goods industry, while the net profit margin in the long term 17%, significantly higher than the industry average of 10%.

In view of the upcoming 4th Quarter, investors fear that Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: KORS) s' same-store sales may finally begin to slow down, because the brand can reach saturation in North America during the quarter ahead. However, rival Coach, Inc. (NYSE: COH) reported a strong quarter on 23 April and raised its dividend, which pessimism of investors Kors Fall.

Uganda: a case bold fashion

  It was a glamorous affair to handle and warehouse in Sparks Bugolobi industrial area on Friday night, when the store owner Janet BOLD Mugume, Nunu Mugyenyi and fishing Kalisa, got together 11 designers to showcase their best.

After 8:30 it was full house and XP Apparel Africa were the first to show their fashion line, a nice blend of African and modern clothing designs.

Next Biika was inspired accessories with African scholarship domestic Kitenge the fly, suspenders, and handkerchiefs made of fabric and East African prints made.

Africa was then define their casual wear Twist leave Lilian Mbabazi musicians, celebrities Sue Ochola on the podium. Their reach to include Siima Sabbiti, Navio and Mun G, but they were a no show.

Africa was Kiroto next to do with the Ugandan recycled material thing I want to mention stunning African print clothing and accessories. Kunda fashion house gave his best with Charity Karisimbi as the main model.

Lillian Agasha collection was beautiful with rich African textures.

Kwesh then went through with coats and high necklines and button less coats and body hugging dresses with geometric shapes and clothes of a few men.

Other fashion houses contain Namia Couture, Clare Tendo and Qulture with T-shirts.

Jewelry Umuringa seduces with plus size models dressed in black public as jewelry wearing jewelry beads and elastic metal plate.

Gloria Wavamunno crowned with its collections of drawings for heavy-old woman tomboy all stressed the evening with an African touch clothing.

The show was interrupted with many shows Lillian Mbabazi Ekky, Pinky and other services.

banned celebrity fashion

  The co-founders headlines cult brand Sydney, Ksubi was banned by the management company after an investigation by ASIC.

The Australian Securities and Investment (ASIC) has signed a three-year ban on individual designers Dan, and asks if the listed company insolvent.

Ksubi, a streetwear brand in Sydney, the relation of the global glory of the past decade, following requests from companies went into voluntary administration in spring 2010 mismangement.

According to The Australian, unique and founders of Ksubi have George Gorrow co-director, now with a $ 3 million claim for trade while insolvent been made.

Simple, famous for its lifestyle and high-profile recent commitment to an Australian model has been set for directors or management companies blacklisted.

The ban was made on the basis of this single was a director of several companies that have folded up and was not able to repay the creditors.

Ksubi and its subsidiaries have collapsed in January 2010, while 9 million, after a series of extravagant parades and openings abroad.

The company was acquired by the group Bleach has and still trading under the same name, and has spent the last two years, the opening of new branches in places like Chapel Street and Paddington in Sydney.

Bleach group not to be contacted in retail a preview of the label and indigenous women, Something Else.

Ksubi has many stores throughout Australia and overseas stored in several cities such as New York, and in large chains such as General Pants Co.

Simple and her fiance model Bambi Northwood-Blyth, just out of fashion brands to small-time, together with the general pants this year.

According to The Australian, the only secured creditor Westpac has recovered some of its debt to the government $ 2,010 4,820,000th

The department store chain David Jones, has ended his relationship with Ksubi end of last year due to poor sales.

"While David Jones had chosen a great collaboration with Ksubi for many years, we, our relationship with the brand because of declining sales is the end," said Donna player David Jones Group Executive of goods at the time.

"From a business perspective, we focus on maximizing our output per square meter of sales area and sales Ksubi were unfortunately on a downward path for a number of seasons.

Ksubi cut its extreme pricetags times to about 200 $. For a pair of jeans in recent years, in line with the general trend in the denim market

Gorrow left the company in late 2012, the company announced it is working on the diffusion line for children with the chain of discount department stores, Target.

Pig on the loose in West Seneca? This is Coco Chanel '

  No one knows where "Coco Chanel" is coming, but the hog in a residential area of ​​West Seneca Police caught now made himself at home at the SPCA Serving Erie County, in the town of Tonawanda.

Agents were held Wednesday morning Garry Drive on a report of a loose pig people chase sent. The use of a snare pole, caught officials thought the pig, as they have the them.She a young Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, weighing 35 to 40 pounds approached.

SPCA manager Sheila M. Foss started the pig Coco Chanel name, after his cocoa like coloring. The pig looks very healthy and is "very social," Foss said. "She is very good here."

A pet is used primarily for food, has Hängebauchschwein joined the ranks of the pets in the last decades. Municipal zoning dictate where they are welcome.

"You are a wonderful animal farm. Several people have in their homes," said Foss But their size. - You can weigh 100 to 150 pounds when fully grown -. Household and soil can make this option less attractive "Ideally," Foss said, "We find that the farmhouse works best."

Pot-bellied pigs are known to be very capable of learning - to the point with a litter box.

The status of the pig at the ASPCA is a typical parasite. Anyone with information about the swine or who is interested in adoption should call 875-7360.

brothers earn the highest rank of the Boy Scout movement in St. Peter Chanel

  Brothers Matthew and Joseph Hill has earned the rank of Eagle Scout in Troop 1134, sponsored by St. Peter Chanel Church, Roswell. It is Boy Scout rank high. You are the son of Jeffrey and Anna Hill.

Joseph, 13, is an eighth-grade students at Queen of Angels School, Roswell. He is the first student in his school, this award and the youngest scout in his troop to receive this award to receive. Joseph plans to Holy Trinity High School, Roswell, to visit this fall.

Matthew Hill organized the production of those 500 people who are homeless through the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Atlanta received hygiene kits served. Deacon Bill Payne, right, met to identify the elements of the Department of Sanctuary needed.

For his service project, Joseph has a working team that coordinates a website prepared bank at Trinity slopes Happy background. It extends the track, built a retaining wall and install a redwood bench. Under his leadership, Scouts and adult volunteers completed the project, which took more than 80 hours. He received the rank 25 April.

Matthew, a freshman at Roswell High School, earned his Eagle Scout price in December last year. He realizes his plan to help the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in downtown Atlanta. He raised funds, collected toiletries and remain assembled 500 hygiene kits for the night shelter for men who are homeless and safely with the help of his band.

Chanel No5 smell a century

  Coco Chanel was onto something when they concocted his now famous perfume. A new exhibition in Paris

explores the cultural significance of the legendary designer and his enduringly popular perfume

A fragrance that embodies every great movement of the avant-garde since the Second World War?

This is a high demand, nor that a new exhibition, which opened in Paris is happy to do earlier this month.

Titled Culture Chanel (I know, only in France), the exhibition is really to show a fairly serious attempt

like Chanel No5, the fragrant intersection of art, music, fashion, design and change social drama that took

place after 1918.

Launched in 1921, Chanel No5 was undoubtedly a radical perfume. On the one hand he was the first synthetic

aldehydes. This does not seem romantic, but Coco Chanel, the shooter intoxicating androgyny of the Jazz Age,

was their first fragrance to smell quite modern. As always, she was ahead of the curve. The hipster, Victor

Margueritte novel about a young woman who was her boyfriend cheating on her discover chooses to live his

life under the conditions of a man - Several fans and hair cut - has caused a stir when it was published in

1923. In many ways it could have been written for Coco.

So it was an androgynous scent, at least by the standards of that time. This meant not only that dominate

floral notes, musk and no woozy irresistible.

The only way accomplice Chanel Ernest Beaux (a dashing native pre-revolutionary Moscow and famous "nose")

was convinced to achieve was with aldehydes, which he claimed allowed him to create a fragrance garden in

all its complexity - and what is more as "in the shadows."

Chanel, who did not want flowers in their own juice, and finally chose the value of a bouquet with jasmine,

iris and rose - even 77 ingredients, I urge you to identify the true promise of beauty, they are mixed

transparent. It was the fifth version fine, so 5

Or is there another explanation for the name? "Five" is significant at Chanel for many reasons. For a modern

woman, she was remarkably attached charms and symbols. Five is important in Hinduism and Buddhism. In

addition, Igor Stravinsky had, she had received at her home outside Paris in 1920 for over a year, a

collection of short pieces written for children, while he was there, called the Five Fingers.

A good deal of Cubism direct and bold refutation, decorated bottles "feminine" ubiquitous categorically at

the time - then there was this minimalist bottle, was a classic. Chanel borrowed the character of leaflets

Dadaists produced at the time, the black lines and the effect of binding on the label of Bauhaus, Picasso

and office proofreading by Marcel Proust, which he did in cutting and pasting passages rewritten the old

one. The origin of the box was beige and black, because for Chanel, is the beige color of nature.

Beige turned white when she realized that to keep up with demand for its fragrance in its four branches they

have to ensure the production would industrialize. It is ironic that Chanel, the inspiration notebook

deleted otherwise great time when she hooked with a Nazi officer during the Second World War, eventually

going into business with a Jewish family. But that's what happens when they signed a deal with Paul and

Peter Wertheimer, 1924, with whom she still one of the founders of the Society of perfume houses perfumes

Chanel, the world's most successful. It was at this time that the plug of an emerald was fed into shape it

was robust for distribution abroad just before the start.

So, yes, if the exposure is a clever piece of marketing, it also works as a social history.

If you happen to go in Paris and, do not forget to book a session on the floor of the workshop. You need the

booklet - the windows, as casually as glass with the bottle and minimalist in its observations. But you have

enough time to go to - it is open from noon to midnight.

The opening was packed. It seems the more we move from Chanel life, the more draws. Certainly played a big

role in the lives of many great personalities of the past 90 years, No. 5.

An enlightened patron who was wearing his favorite poems around, Chanel was a true friend of Cocteau,

Picasso and Dali. It's a nod to the show in the garden of La Pausa, their villa in the South of France,

which recently came on the market for € 33 million ($ 52 million) to bask.

I hope to buy Wertheimer, even if only to avoid, does not transform skin into a seedy night club for

billionaires lizard.

It is that Chanel had a thing for millionaires, but she was also a feminist, for example, not a dogma, a

proto-Green, an early proponent of world exports, and one of the first designers to star in his own ads. It

also has the most careful I met spray regime completed.

According to the brochure of the exhibition: "Every morning, a young assistant evaporate No. 5 at the

entrance to the building of his empire in the Rue Cambon in Paris, a moment before walking Mademoiselle

Chanel, after he warned his imminent arrival by the doorman at the Ritz. The smell still lingers around the

staircase and mirror in her apartment. No5 They also sprayed in breathing in his house. "

Each coal No5. Now there is a product waiting for a start developed.

Richemont chief leaves way

  Swiss luxury goods giant Richemont said a top executive resigned amid expectations of the group, Cartier,

Piaget and Montblanc brands sell power possesses.

Marty Wikstrom, who led the division and fashion accessories since 2009, will step down "with immediate

effect", the second largest group of luxury goods in the world is when it is his position on the chessboard

Richemont retained until the next Annual General Meeting of 12 September.

The group has, however, not explain the resignation of Ms Wikstrom or say that could replace it.

Richemont raking in more than three-quarters of its sales brands of jewelry and watches, but also in the

fields of leather goods and fashion brands such as Alfred Dunhill and Lancel Azzedine Alaia and Chloe.

The Group has no detailed results for this segment, but said that if he had not increased submitted results

for the fiscal year 2012-2013 and its functioning extra income for the period as much as the previous year.

"Fashion and accessories houses increased in the mid single digits, reflecting the difficult conditions in

its key markets," acknowledged the company chairman Johann Rupert in the report results.

All dressed up: luxury labels head to Southeast Asia

  Rany Moran is the kind of high expenditures, the fashion brands to make luxury European dishes to the

customer.

The Indonesian businesswoman based in Singapore operates a television station, conducts the business of real

estate development family and a social calendar, which requires a large closet full of ball gowns and

costumes smart brand Dior.

"There is always hope that something new and a style where people have not seen you in. This is of course

wearing an expensive activity.

"Unfortunately, with the largest selection, you only get to wear two or three times before the company

begins for wearing something you love to judge."

She did not keep track of how much they spend, but believes that his collection of handbags and prom dresses

worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

What is important about Ms. Moran, apart from its purchasing power, where it is - or rather no.

It does not come from China - which has seen tremendous growth in recent years - but the South-East Asia,

where it expects sales growth of luxury goods to the fastest in the world this year.
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Take for example Singapore. With the most millionaires per capita household in the world, designers take

this city once sober much more serious.

Celebrity-packed show of the cruise collection of luxury brand Chanel, saw the opening of the annual fashion

festival in the city, on the island, the most famous designers descend on its shores in a week in May than

ever before.

A Scottish castle, the Palace of Versailles and other exotic locations parameters were extravagant shows of

Chanel Karl Lagerfeld in the past, but the decision to keep to Singapore was a calculated, according to

Bruno Pavlovsky, president of Chanel fashion.

"We're seeing double-digit growth in this region, which is why we decided to organize this major event, our

first event of this level in Southeast Asia."
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Carolina Herrera collection of dresses and vintage-inspired open Audi Fashion Festival this year, an event

where famous names such as Zac Posen and Roberto Cavalli showed their designs in the past.

"This is my first trip to Singapore. I was invited to this celebration of fashion, but also to open my shop.

"Asia has always been in my head," she told BBC News. "I think it is very important for us."

The range of limited edition handbags embroidered orchid specially for the Singapore shop and cost about $

2,000, made virtually exhausted one evening.

For the British designer hand bag, Anya Hindmarch, who was here to promote his product, Singapore is a major

gateway to the rest of the region, including the emerging markets of Malaysia and Indonesia.

"In Singapore, you have this incredible hub, this heavy financial city," she said. "It's on the water, this

is a great place, an escape and a large customer base. There are not many cities like this."

It is expected that the Southeast Asia region to increase growth in the luxury market in Asia this year.

Analysts at Bain & Co predicts that sales of luxury goods is expected to grow 20% in 2013.
"Dusty old Europe"

In contrast to the growth in Greater China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), a powerful but less tangy, 6%

this year.

Luxury conglomerate LVMH, PPR and Richemont recorded sluggish growth in China in recent months. This was

made mainly on the Chinese government's crackdown on corruption spend luxury gifts and slower economic

growth.

"The South-East Asia is on the rise," says Lorna room WGSN, a consulting firm that advises retailers of

fashion.

"Many economies grow, and that is the catalyst for many companies in these markets look and think what is

there for us What are we planning? They have a long-term view of the market."

It's great timing for European fashion houses whose home market is flat.

"Europe is to do a little less, but we do very well ... Asia", said Bruno Pavlovsky Chanel.

"We develop all of these countries, so that we have some of what we do in Europe, everything balanced these

new countries."

Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld summed up the feeling of the area, a little more elegant.

"This place is important for everyone., The future of the world is here in the dusty old Europe."

Collette Dinnigan dresses in Asia in Singapore Audi Fashion Festival

  COLLETTE Dinnigan debuted on Asian catwalks this week, presented its first show in the lucrative area.

Australian designer, who regularly shows his wares in Paris, unveiled his latest collection at the Audi Fashion Festival Singapore 1100 guests on Thursday from South Korea, Japan, Malaysia and China.

Dinnigan said the show was "a great success."

"It's like a huge growing population of consumers in Asia, including Singapore. This is fantastic, lots of shops have approached us after the show want the product in stock," she said.

The designer was of international labels Peter Pilotto, Carolina Herrera and Hussein Chalayan at the festival, which is now in its fifth year and has joined many brands of international designers.

fashion retailers feel the cold of death

  In this week's edition, we present a number of local fashion retailers feel the cold of winter, with in-depth analysis of a remarkable brand for women are facing an uncertain future after it. Administration in this month

There is more positive news for other retailers, however, to see a large electronics chain time to better results than expected, and a network of supermarkets seem on the road to recovery for some time less stellar.

Perth is also the new honor this month after several major global fashion players entering the booming city.

Two other global retailers, both in the area of ​​sport, as well as new things in Australia.

We have a retail shop in Stratford cover study tour, courtesy of this year, our editor, Carla Pont, which is around the world-rays for an expansive tour (and apparently exhausting!) The world's largest retailer.

Another submitter underway, Jon Bird, has coverage of the study period and one retailer colummist singling car as "new Apple".

This is a big enough demand, we know, but it has to save the property.

House plus size mode

  It is a little less than 20 years, began the journey to Rosenthal one of the fashion schools in South Africa to develop. Which led to the ambitious project, which recently completed a home for LISOF. The three storey building is located in a residential area of ​​Blairgowrie Johannesburg, and is surrounded by a park Rosenthal praised the community in exchange for park maintenance.

Rosenthal, 47, the fashion in Natal Technikon studied in one of the great educators of fashion in South Africa, Alyce Defty, now has more than 700 students. Big names in the South African industry, including Tiaan Nagel, Thula Sindi and Suzann Heyns have gone through the school.

'' We started small in a basement in Boston campus, "she said.

'' We moved to Norwood, then the Design District in Rosebank before the lease expired. "

With their time more Rosebank, Rosenthal and his students and staff agreed that creative space, was essential to the creativity of teachers, administrators and students.

Architects and Fiona Garson Nina Cohen, who designed Wits Art Museum, were responsible for the renovation of the newly acquired buildings Rosenthal.

'' We are in urban and suburban generation and we like renovations, "says Garson.

'' The inept, boring, isolated areas of the building not do not scare us. "

'' We loved the short, "says Cohen.

'' He called clean rooms connected, the major use of the fact that the building is to make aspects used both in the north and south. "

Their vision was to use existing parts of the building, where possible, improve the quality and reimagining bit sketchy.

'' We opened the front with lots of glass and ramps. We have a transparent mezzanine overlooking the park outside, but also allows outsiders to see the building, "says Cohen.

Original elements of the original building have been preserved intact, as the round windows on the lower level, the. Two rows of square windows on the second and third floor and small arches in the lower level The crown of the building freestanding sign LISOF on top.

'' It was a Shana element points out, "Cohen said,'' And it really works.

'' Shana took a leap of faith with this building. It is uplifting the industry, but "at the same time exalting the area in which the school operates.

The park is maintained by the school for the benefit of the surrounding communities - they speak with the markets, festivals and fashion shows there, and Rosenthal hope restaurants, cafes and shops in the area.

'' It is an educational institution, youth, creativity and culture helps in the region, "Garson said.

Marks & Spencer launches fashion was smooth, but what matters is what customers think base

  It is perhaps ironic Marks & Spencer chose former Church of fashion to start. Bosses are certainly pray it will be a success.

Because it was unable to start any fashion, it was a launch of M & S, with a lot depending on the success.

CEO Marc Bolland has tried to minimize its importance, but the event was less exposed to the clothes and more about what it meant for the company in the future.

M & S is a two-class society. The car in the food, while the arm of the clothing has backed down.

It is not surprising that the man who led the fight back to the food, John Dixon, is now responsible for so-called general merchandise and clothing.

In order to help it to take former Debenhams Bigwig Belinda Earl on the side of fashion things - at least part-time.

Dixon is easier than Bolland - with their chatter marketing - where M & S has gone wrong.

As in eating, he took his eye of the ball and was punished, he said.

But it is honest, who is its main market, and how he neglected in the past.

It is a revealing fact: 75% of customers in the chain are 45 and older. And more than half are over 55

Yes, young women for their lingerie shop, and others for food, clothing, but in general it is the older category.

To younger buyers, Dixon said: "We are not Topshop, Forever 21, we are not."

A word that has often arisen and improve quality.

But after Bolland, this does not mean quality levels slipped (I think there are many people who disagree).

Improving the quality does not mean higher prices for the same exact items, insists M & S.

This means driving a hard bargain with suppliers and thin their numbers by 10%.

The channel is also a redesign of the collections, including Per Una and Indigo.

And this is the introduction of a new set of best British made with all the dresses here.

The chain already has 20 UK suppliers - but I would not say how many jobs are worth - and aims to increase this number.

partly through the introduction of the Fashion Parade was a parade of some of the new elements in the autumn-winter range.

But the proof of the pudding is not what clothes like supermodels saw in a beautiful place, with all the hype.

What really matters is what customers think of when base camp is in stores from July and in stores that have been criticized as irrelevant for too long.

As Dixon said, you can not turn a behemoth like M & S tower at night.

The start could be the beginning of the return of fight or a new chapter in the long history of disruptive companies.

End of trends can stop H & M and Topshop, the seasons dictate fashion?

  Browse the most fashion magazines and sooner or later you will get an article on trends. How to wear blue, how to go ethnic, Sport Luxury key as the season it looks deconstructed and returned.

But the fashion landscape is changing and the concept of the trends that might define a season is not so important for buyers than in the past. The seasons merge and quick manner, if at all, speed.

Trends traditionally located in the Haute Couture, replied talented designers like Marc Jacobs and Kim Jones is unique in the world around them - and then translate those answers

playful attitude in our collections. "As a response to the buyer more fashion-savvy, fashion took over the world.

Designers now produce between four and six collections per year and high street stores are "drops" of new products ever. Last week, for example Topshop Unique launched its first pre-fall collection: a narrow selection of beautifully designed, elegant evening wear separates. A number of resort is due Topshop stores and national web hit more this year.

While all this happens, the design is informed by a new global market, while online retailers such as my-wardrobe.com find Cust monomers from all corners of the world. The public understands customers abroad as well as Brits abroad. "We have a holiday shop all year round, find useful our Australian customers," Borgonovo my-wardrobe.com said. "But it's not just the difference in climate, we need to consider, it is also regional flavor. Bright colors, for example extremely well in the Middle East.

"All designers know how to appeal to a global customer base. Tissue weight were the most significant change. Knits and outerwear can now be found in the collections of the year."

Case in point: last month designer Richard Nicoll has created a capsule collection for games. Plain shirts with collars, leather tunics, dresses angora shirt and pleat skirts provided a perfect trans-seasonal collection - every customer country lived in.

"The concept of the seasons changing," says communications director Jess Christie games. "These are clothes you want to buy now and layer with temperature., You can wear them all year.

And you could, how you want to wear. What characterizes the three collections - from & Other Stories, Richard Nicoll and Topshop Unique - is their simple aesthetic, lean and flexible. These dresses are designed to mix and accessorized to create the look you want. The idea of ​​evolution is not unimportant, but it is less important - so that the concept of personal style is more important.

"People are very different today," says Hsu. "You are to follow trends, but not necessarily. Previously there were high fashion and there was a big street. Fashion editors tell you what to do and have followed thee. Now a blogger can become a fashion icon and people start to think. " Oh, I can do it too "

"Trends to create topics, something they speak for the people," says Hsu. "But people are now available from many sources. Inspired" The result is a new world that flourishes in the personal style. We can not wait to see what you have to do.

Sean Lowe buying Louis Vuitton Bag for the Anniversary of Catherine Giudici

  By Kerri Sheehan

Dancing with the Stars stud, treated Sean Lowe fiancee Catherine Giudici a Louis Vuitton handbag and a good dinner for his 27th Birthday. "We had a big party to celebrate with family and friends last night and tonight, we'll just go for a nice dinner and just a little more," says Lowe UsMagazine.com. Lowe clear how Giudici, to Los Angeles during his Dancing With the Stars Relay move sacrificed and wanted a little spoiled on her special day.

How do you dress your partner?

Cupid tips:

Anniversary of a loved one is always a very special time to show them that you care. How do you show your partner how much they mean to you? Cupid has a few suggestions:

1 Keep it specific: Does your other half something tied it like? Is there a restaurant that stimulates their imagination? Perhaps a popular author does a book signing in the vicinity? You can never go wrong with a gift from the heart that shows you are listening to their taste.

2 Destruction: A birthday is a day of the year should be all about your partner. Pull out all the stops to make this day, that they are sure to remember! There is a relationship to be there for the other person and show them how much you care. Your birthday is the perfect opportunity to show, dass

3 Do something out of the ordinary: This trick is especially useful for those who are in a long-term relationship. Keep the voltage live something totally crazy that your partner does not expect. Parachuting, paragliding, or even a surprise party are all in the realm of possibility.