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Best of Haute Couture Fall 2010 – The Glamour, The Fantasy, The Allure

As we prepare for the Spring 11 Fashion Weeks, we reflect the unimaginable beauty of what was Haute Couture Fall 2010 Naveed Hussain has spent some time digesting the magnificence of all that is available for only a privileged few. Haute Couture has been a tireless subject of debate. While many like to continually point out it's weak sales across the board and diminishing relevance in society. Although that may be the case, wasn't it always? Isn't couture about that unattainable and highly elusive luxury item we all like to dream of having? Hasn't globalism made "luxury" too readily attainable? The nine designers who showed for Haute Couture Fall 2010 clearly understand the craft beautifully. However, there were four contributions

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Fashion, Italian Style. Fernanda Gattinoni Couture from Sexpots of the 50’s and 60’s

Fernanda Gattinoni dresses from 1950's -1960's for Italian screen legend Anna Magnani, who was known for her smoldering sexuality and ability to be "real;" I could even forgive Magnani's hairy armpits. You know your guy friend is playing for the other team when he is as excited about these old movie star dresses as you! If I could live in any other time, I would have to say it would be in the 1950's to 1960 in Rome, on the via Veneto. Fernanda Gattinoni for Kim Novak I would be an a hourglass vixen, with heavy eyeliner, a hot temper and smoldering sexuality in a Maserati convertible with a death-defyingly sexy man by my side. Marcello Mastroianni would be on

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Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week- Backstage at Franck Sorbier

With all the pomp and circumstance of Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, we can all use some artistic whimsy Real couture, not of the juicy variety, is all about the mastery, the fabulousness, the uniqueness of its garments that are worn by a select few hundred women across the world who can afford the luxury. Or, the lucky brand ambassador actress who gets to strut a couture gown on the red carpet for the occasion. French fashion designer Franck Sorbier presented more of an avant garde art piece for his Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2010-2011 collection, and we just love it! We would love to see Katy Perry wearing this paper and clothespin design before Lady Gaga crumbles up a newspaper

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Looking Like Your Dog Is So Chic in Paris

A mademoiselle and her pooch in Paris Only in Paris when you look like your dog, it will be chic! I know I will get an argument by dog lovers from other places (particularly from Sharon and her love of French poodles), but I say no one loves their dogs more than Parisians. I back up my statement with the fact that dogs are allowed almost anywhere in Paris- at the butcher, the baker, restaurants, the metro, parks, art galleries, food shops, boutiques, and dog grooming salons. >> SHOP: Need to be discreet? Check out our Cute Pet Carriers Want immediate attention and better service in a restaurant or cafe? Just park your dog on the chair next to you

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How to Look Chic, Not Cheap. Paris Hilton in a Hot Pink Bikini OR When Paris Isn’t Always Chic

Two blondes, two Chanel classic flap bags, two red carpets, two cities... what in carnation went wrong?! Cardinal Fashion Rule #1: Just because you are wearing expensive things does not mean that you cannot look cheap I am the first to admit that we kinda love Paris Hilton for being the modern day Charo when it comes to hoochie-coochie styleŚ someone needs to be kooky colorful on the red carpet and it may as well be her. But as a fashion plate? Not so much. For all you label queens out there, sorry to report that looking chic is not always in the bag, no matter how luxurious that handbag may be. Marie-Josee Croze in Paris looks stunning and chic

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Acne – Menswear

ACNE MENSWEAR by Jonny Johansson Fashion Show Photos / First International Menswear Showing Spring / Summer 2011 Paris Fashion Week - Menswear "I had a moment of clarity for this collection with my design team at a place called Tango in Paris," Jonny Johansson >> SHOP Acne Menswear at farfetch   Click on each picture for an enlarged view. In their words... ACNE MENSWEAR COLLECTION SPRING/SUMMER 2011 "I had a moment of clarity for this collection with my design team at a place called Tango in Paris. It was just a good night out actually, and that dance hall with all of its styled up, dueting couples and slow routines, reminded me of a school dance. For me it also

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Get the Clean Chic Look from the Paris Fall 2010 Runways

WHERE IT NOW: Streamlined, timeless, and elegant style that works so well in this economy Look ahead to your future shopping and back in your closet for the pared down and simple classic looks that paraded the Paris fall runways. Clean chic and minimalistic stylings that are unfussy, easy to wear, and most important timeless yet modern. If that's not recession-proof fashion, we don't know what is. Celine Fall / Winter 2010 There is a seasonless aesthetic to palette-cleansing Clean Chic simplicity that works so well in this economy. The luxury of the pureness of the designs is what always looks right and never dated. It's all about perfectly stripped down and high style silhouettes that endure time and make

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Humor Chic

Witty, cheeky, brilliant, and VERY fashionable It's funny how the fashion flock can sometimes take themselves so seriously. Add some tongue-in-cheek insider observations and it's Humor Chic! Karl Lagerfeld and Vivienne Westwood aleXsandro Palombo (yes, the a is small, the X is a capital as is the P to represent the Latin symbols for Pax Christi) likes to think of himself as the father of fashion satire. He has just the right amount of wit and whimsy to poke a very manicured finger right back at the fashion industry and have them smile all the better for it with Humor Chic, the world's first Daily Society Portrait blog. Palombo is a global foot soldier (Prada or Dior Homme, I wonder)

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Printemps Paris Alice in Wonderland store windows salute fashion and whimsy

Printemps Paris Alice in Wonderland store windows Alice in Wonderland mania has taken Paris by storm! Printemps is lighting up the dreary, gray winter with their delightfully whimsical and chic Alice in Wonderland windows. The department store is celebrating the release of the new Tim Burton version of "Alice in Wonderland," starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, with a very French fashion touch. Free rein was given to a group of top international designers to use their imagination to create their own Alice dress. Alice in Wonderland theme in the Printemps Paris windows Haider Ackermann, Manish Arora, Chloé, Ann Demeulemeester, Christopher Kane, Nicholas Kirkwood, Maison Martin Margiela, Bernhard Willhelm, and the late

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Sexpert Chic Valentine’s Day: How to pull off a convincing burlesque strip tease

Tonight's the night! In honor of Valentine's Day please revisit our Best of Sexpert Chic series, a new post every day until V-Day! Sexy Fridays, Valentine’s Day series…''Vintage glamour, French lingerie, and burlesque strip tease go hand in hand. How to fling, flutter, and take it all off with these Burlesque Seduction Tips from Gentry Lane, artistic director of Gentry de Paris Burlesque Revue Part Four of a Weekly Four Part series French lingerie, seductive silk, and tips to tease More often than not, what you don't see is more exciting than what you do see. Why? Because your imagination is always racier than reality. Which is why slipping into one of our 1930s-style nuisettes is so utterly sexy. Because

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