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Bodum is the best known for its ‘’FrenchPress” and for its tea and coffee making accessories. The award-winning Danish design company also has creates top-quality tableware and kitchen utensils. Equally known as a French press or a plunge pot, these coffeemakers are fixtures in many European homes. Stylish and operative, this is the brewing method of choice for many coffee connoisseurs.

The company Bodum was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1944 by Joergen Bodum. Peter Bodum managed to wholesale a very commonplace variety of housewares products by Danish manufacturers. After the war Peter Bodum got an import license for caboose and tabletop products; he travelled all over Europe and ended up importing kitchen and housewares to Denmark. As in the balance of Europe in those days, a lack of products in Denmark meant a market existed for almost anything to be sold. He specialized in glassware from Eastern Europe. In the ’50s Peter Bodum started developing his own products. He collaborated with the Danish author Kaas Klaeson for a range of coffeemakers The first Bodum product to hit the market in 1958 was the Santos coffeemaker–based on a vacuum coffee brewing system.

In 1979, when he took over the public limited company, Joergen Bodum decided to move to Switzerland in order to be more centrally located in Europe. He chose the Lucerne locality, where Bodum’s head office has been located since the early ’80s. Many more shops in many more cities all over the world followed: Paris, Copenhagen, Zurich, Lucerne, Tokyo, New York, Dallas, Okinawa, Auckland, and many more. To this day there are 52 Bodum stores worldwide. Since 1974 Bodum has produced over 50 million French presses, enchanted the leap from “coffee” to “kitchen,” and developed and produced a large variety of beautiful household and tabletop designs. Today Bodum offers its customers everything from the latest coffee- and tea-making products to tabletop, Nautical galley, storage, textiles, bathroom, and home office products. Some stores also have a café where Bodum’s own selection of coffees and teas are served. In 2004 the Bodum Chambord coffee steam received the American Culinary Institute’s award for best French press coffeemaker.

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Better known as one of London’s top cult clothing designers, Passarella Death Squad’s music is a diverse combination of contemporary electronica and haunting beautiful songs. They are best known for their T-Shirts which combine iconic prints with provocative imagery. Established in London, 2004, by  the duo Danny Broddle and Emilie Albisser, and having launched a successful debut ‘ready to wear’ range, Passarella Death Squad have given us an exclusive look at their t-shirt designs, which continue in their famed risqué style. Inspired by the druggy, Balearic sounds of early ’90s dance music, each design is loosely based around an anthemic track of the time, PKA’s ‘Temperature Rising‘, N Joi’s ‘Anthem‘ and Todd Terry’s seminal ‘Can You Feel It‘. As usual, their high quality t-shirts are produced in the UK using the finest Japanese fabrics and are available from The End and Selfridges (UK), Loveless (Japan), Seven (New York) and Oki-Ni from mid-March.

Passarella Death Squad’s music unrelentingly penetrate and awaken our deepest, darkest sexual psyche with knee grinding bass driven throbs and French vocalist Emilie Albisser’s vocals that makes one think of a 21st century Marlene Dietrich. The songs sound like the intoxicating feeling of breathtaking desire tightly laced with tension for seriously addictive music that slips deeper into your mind with every listen. With a live act being prepared, and an another amazing inaugural EP and LP due engineered by Death in Vegas man Tim Holmes, it’s no wonder Passarella Death Squad are enjoying support from the likes of James Holden, Tiga, Optimo, Chloé and Trevor Jackson. On Thursday (September 9th) 2010 G-Shock announced their collaborative DW-6900FS with Passarella Death Squad to the world. It seems like Passarella Death Squad have taken over a corner of the store, decking it out as a display for the watch, a few tees and their newly released album which you can listen to from an iPod (very swarve!). A massive art piece hangs above the tees featuring a stunning naked woman underneath a Union Jack in true Passarella Death Squad style.

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Acne AW2010

Acne is a Swedish Lifestyle brand founded in Stockholm in 1996 by Jonny Johansson a his creative team. Acne’s ambition was to create and develop a lifestyle brand through desirable products, as well as helping other people to build their brands. The products designed by Acne Jeans follow a very minimalistic style which also characterizes other Scandinavian fashions designers such as Filippa K.  This ambition led to diverse assignments in advertising, graphic design, Internet games and TV production. The denim offshoot began in 1997 when ACNE designed 100 pairs of jeans to distribute among friends, family and clients of the company. Before long a public request for these raw denim jeans with red stitching appeared and the following year (1998) Acne Jeans released its first collection. Ever since Acne Jeans has released two yearly collections every spring and autumn. Acne Jeans is known to do things their own way. Acne was one of the first brands to see the space in the market for denim and used this forward thinking to create 100 pairs of unisex jeans. They were featured in Swedish Elle magazine and soon, Sweden’s leading boutiques wanted to carry the characteristic jeans with bright-red stitching. These are the foundations of Acne. During the first six years the collections produced by Acne Jeans were distributed to various clothing stores mainly in Scandinavia

However, In 2003 Acne Jeans opened its first own concept store in the Stockholm shopping mall PK huset. Today Acne Jeans has more than ten stores situated not only in Scandinavia but also in Australia. Austria, France, Germany, the UK and The United States

 Acne Jeans abstains from advertising in any fashion magazine, instead they have published their own fashion magazine Acne Paper twice each year since 2005. The label has teamed up with London’s Liberty to design a capsule collection of denim-based pieces for the home – and the timing, if we may say so, is spot on, having just opened its first London store and they participated in the last Fashion Week in London.

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Anita is name of the lady who grew up in a small village in Sweden back in the 1970’s. Inspired from this girl wearing coloured clogs it was in 2006 when founders Emy and Cilla discovered 300 pairs of red, white and black clogs in the basement of an old Swedish clog factory. From there on many people shared their love for Anita’s wooden shoes and they started to be Swedish Hasbeens.

There are various types of clog. Traditional clogs are shoes or sandals made predominantly out of wood, and are associated with the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Galicia, Lithuania and Sweden. They can also be a type of heavy boot or shoe with sides, uppers and typically thick wooden soles, and may have steel toecaps and/or steel reinforcing inserts in the undersides of the soles. A clog can also be a special kind of shoe worn while clog-dancing (clogging). They are similar to tap shoes, but the taps are free to click against each other, therefore producing a different sound than tap shoes. Clogs became popular fashion accessories in the 1970s and 1980s for both sexes. They were usually worn without socks and were considered suitable attire for the avant-garde man. In 2010, clogs returned to the fashion world, and were featured on the likes of Chanel’s and Louis Vuitton’s Spring / Summer 2010 catwalks. Traditional clogs are made out of many different species of wood (willow, poplar, birch, beech, alder wood). Swedish Hasbeens they are still handmade with respect for people and the environment in the same small Swedish factory since the 1970′s. Our production methods and material are kind to nature and people. Happy toffels make happy people. The Hasbeens toffels, bags and belts are based on original 70’s models and are made of ecologically prepared natural grain leather since it’s the most beautiful and the highest quality at the same time as it’s environmentally friendly. Swedish Hasbeens’ main product is modern clogs and accessories, but also produce product categories like bags and belts. The company’s sales has more than doubled every year since 2007. By December 2007 Swedish Hasbeens’ had sold 12.000 clogs world-wide. By 2008 they had sold over 30.000 shoes.

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Vintage fashion has made a huge comeback, is the must have for your new wardrobe. Over the past years designers has developed a passion for vintage fashion thanks to the likes of Kate Moss, Sienna Miller and Sex and the City stylists who’ve whetted our appetite for a variety of vintage fashion. Designers often look to the past for inspiration and many times you can see the influence staring right at you from the runway. Why spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a designer’s interpretation of the past when you can own your own piece of it? As ever, Vintage clothing and associated items are enjoying enormous popularity for those seeking something different and more individual than what is being offered on the High Street. And with our need to be sustainably aware more than ever before, vintage clothing is often found to be of better quality. Vintage styles have always posed as one of the richest sources of inspiration for fashion designers, enabling them to give “life” to some of the most incredible fashion collections. The fall 2010 vintage fashion trends enable women to emphasize their beauty and style in the most amazing manner as there are a variety of fashionable outfits to choose from. For vintage shoppers looking for something collectable and extra special,  to everyday wearable fashions and also many bargains  to be found for those ‘strapped for cash’. Its going to be an exciting – don’t come too late as you do not want to miss out on that ‘must have’ piece. When choosing an outfit it is imperative to pay attention to several details such as personality, style, body type, as all these details can have a great influence over your look. These details can underline your individuality and style, allowing you to make a statement and be unique in the way you dress. The trends are absolutely exquisite as variety dominates the runways of this season. This diversity allows women to select the right fashion pieces for them, creating endless mixing and matching possibilities. Accessories play a major role when it comes to fashion and they too can transform the look of any outfit style in seconds.

Here are a few original piece of Priestley’s Vintage Store: it is inspirational, original and loved by all those who discover it. The brand is a truly charming. Elegant 1930s bags, 1940s cardigans and silk gloves are sold, as well as some pretty 1950s gingham dresses, cashmere jumpers and Victorian nightdresses, and once they even had a gorgeous 1950s swimsuit. For men, there are some very stylish 1950s suits and some maybe not-so-stylish 1970s trousers! There are also lots of ties and shirts.

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louis-vuitton AW10

A genuine Louis Vuitton purse. Louis Vuitton is one of the most counterfeited brands in the fashion world due to its image as a status symbol. The Louis Vuitton Brand and the famous LV monogram are among the world’s most valuable brands. Only a small fraction of products bearing the LV initials in the general population are authentic. Ironically, the signature Monogram Canvas was created to prevent counterfeiting. Louis Vuitton first started in Paris, in the year of 1854 — and of course we all know since the start this company has become one of the world’s most famous makers of high quality luxury goods. When Louis Vuitton first started he made mostly luggage, and large trunks — he also made handbags mostly made out of leather. Many of the company’s products utilize the signature brown Damier and Monogram Canvas materials, both of which were first used in the late 19th century. All of the company’s products exhibit the eponymous LV initials. The company markets its product through its own stores located throughout the world, which allows it to control product quality and pricing. It also allows LV to prevent counterfeit products entering its distribution channels. Louis Vuitton has no discount sales nor does it have any duty-free stores. In addition, the company distributes its products through LouisVuitton.com.
The Louis Vuitton company carefully cultivates a celebrity following and has used famous models and actresses such as Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lopez and most recently Madonna, in its marketing campaigns. Breaking from their usual traditions of employing supermodels and celebrities to advertise their products on August 2, 2007, the company announced that the former USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev would appear in an ad campaign along with Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi, and Catherine Deneuve.  Many rappers, most notably Kanye West, have mentioned the company in certain songs Louis Vuitton’s latest campaign was launched with Edun co-founders Bono U2 and his wife Ali Hewson. They wear their own Edun label apparel in the ad, which reflects a new partnership between the line and the LMVH group. The photo was taken by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz and will appear in several magazines and newspapers this fall.Bono and Ali did not receive payment for appearing in the ads — they donated their fees to the Chernobyl Children’s Project International, Conservation Cotton Initiative and TechnoServe, which fosters enterprise in the developing world.On November 19, 2007 Louis Vuitton, in further efforts to prevent counterfeiting, successfully sued Britney Spears for violating counterfeiting laws. A part of the music video for the song “Do Somethin’” shows fingers tapping on the dashboard of a hot pink Hummer with what looks like Louis Vuitton’s “Cherry Blossom” design bearing the LV logo. Britney Spears herself was not found guilty, but a civil court in Paris has ordered Sony BMG and MTV Online to stop showing the video. They were also fined €80,000 to each group. An anonymous spokesperson for LVMH stated that the video constituted an “attack” on Louis Vuitton’s brands and its luxury image. According to a Millward Brown 2010 study, Louis Vuitton is the world’s 29th most valuable brand, right after Wells Fargo and before Gillette . The brand itself is estimated to be worth USD 19.781 billion

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Louis Vuitton AW8

Louis Vuitton AW8

Burberry AW2010

Burberry is a British luxury fashion house, manufacturing clothing, fragrance, and fashion accessories. Its distinctive tartan pattern has become one of its most widely copied trademarks in 1856. Thomas Burberry (27 August 1835 – 4 April 1926) was the founder of Burberry, and is now one of the United Kingdom’s largest branded clothing businesses. Thomas Burberry opened his first shop in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England and little over a decade later he invented gabardine, a breathable, weather and tear proof fabric which he used for a collection of coats and shirts.   In April 1905, a fire started in the Basingstoke store in Winchester Street. The shop was completely gutted, causing £30,000 worth of damage. Burberry rebuilt the store on the same site. In later life Burberry lived in Hook, and rode by horseback to Basingstoke every day, even when he was well past 70. One day he fell from his horse and was found in a ditch, from that day on he had to find another form of transport. Thomas Burberry died in 1926 at the age of 91. During the first world war, British officers were equipped with Burberry trench coats which made them highly popular. When Humphrey Bogart wore the famous coat in the movie “Casablanca” in 1942, the brand became a huge international success. Over the years, the collection has stamped that unmistakeably English style, street savvy versus immaculate elegance, on a generation of fashion forward women. HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Prince of Wales have granted the company Royal Warrants. Burberry’s trademark products are its handbags and fragrances. The Chief Creative Officer is Christopher Bailey. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Burberry was an independent company until 1955, when it was taken over by Great Universal Stores (GUS). In 2001 Christopher Bailey became Burberry`s Creative Director and is also responsible for the high end line Burberry Prorsum. His vision has a playfulness that`s still rooted in Burberry`s classic heritage. Burberry Group plc was initially floated on the London Stock Exchange in July 2002.[4] GUS divested its remaining interest in Burberry in December 2005. In 2006 Rose Marie Bravo, who as Chief Executive had led Burberry to mass market success, retired. She was replaced by current CEO Angela Ahrendts.

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The collection Bolongaro Trevor is the brainchild created by British designer couple Kait Bolongaro and Stuart Trevor- original founders and former designers behind the cult retail store All Saints Retail. Original, unique and commercial ,the new collection comprises contemporary handmade pieces inspired by vintage finds amassed over the past 20 years, creating a modern and sharp sculptured  aesthetic with dark moody edge. Bolongaro Trevor is one of the hottest labels of the moment. Widely influenced by British niches and subcultures, Bolongaro Trevor cleverly combines these influences with traditional, vintage garments for a modern, sharp and vibrant aesthetic that flatters the figure and always looks styled and sculptured. Heavily involved in the London music scene, Stuart Trevor was behind the recent relaunch of The Blitz club at The Tabernacle in Shoreditch, further cementing Bolongaro Trevor as a lifestyle brand and not just a label. The designer couple studied at Ravensbourne and the Royal College of Art. Kait met Stuart (her business partner and now husband) in 1994, six months after he launched ‘All Saints’. They started working together immediately. They then launched womenswear in 1996. Their career highlights are: Winning the Fashion and Textiles award.

The Jackets are made from reconstituted Union Jack flages,which appear as linings and prints on T-shirt,shirts,knits,scares and dresses. Available in over 100 stores worldwide including Selfridges, Atrium New York, IT Hong Kong,Beams,Nano Universe abd Journal Standard Japan. Bolongaro Trevor is currently the fastest growing brand in men’s contemporary in Selfridges London. Recent collaborations include The Who for their Feb 2010 Superbowl gig USA abd uber-cool bands Kasabaian and Kings of Leon for the front cover of music bible NME.

At the core of all collections is a heavy rock n’ roll sensibility and a moody darkness reminiscent of Victorian London, making the label a hit with the edgy East End crowd and celebrities such as Agyness Deyn, Daisy Lowe, Peaches Geldof, Liam Gallagher, Pete Doherty, Drew McConnell (Babyshambles), Depeche Mode,Josh Hubbard (Paddingtons), The Rakes and The Cazals amongst others.

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Anna Sui epitomizes bohemian chic. She is known for her vivid, colourful and cheerful designs. Mixing vintage styles with her current cultural obsessions, she effortlessly makes hip and original clothes. The New York artist has taken a serious approach by combining her creative ideas with a eccentric touch. Her style has evolved into her signature collection known for its high fashion edge mixed with vintage sensibility. Anna Sui has been making her very own fashion statement since dressing herself, her dolls and her toy soldiers when she was a child.

Sui was born on August 4, 1964 in Detroit, Michigan .At age four, Anna decided she wanted to become a designer and this quest led her to start making her own clothes before pursuing a degree at Parson’s School of Design and launching her own company in 1980. Fall is a master class in neo-folk. Expect an eclectic vision of stunning printed faux-fur coats alongside beautifully embellished silk separates and feather trimmed dresses. To this very day, she continues to refer to these “genius files”. After graduating from high school in Detroit, Michigan, Sui moved to New York City to attend Parsons School of Design. While at Parsons, Sui found a collaborator and close friend in Steven Meisel, today one of the world’s top fashion photographers. Her early days as a stylist for Meisel’s shoots included editorial for the Italian fashion magazine LEI. After leaving Parsons, Sui worked at a variety of junior sportswear companies. In 1980, Sui presented six original pieces at the Boutique Show and immediately received an order from Macy’s, who featured one of her designs in a New York Times advertisement. That same year, Anna Sui launched her own business that operated out of her apartment throughout the 1980′s. With the encouragement of friends Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista, Sui launched her first runway show in 1991.”That those professional beauties were then at the height of their fame helped stoke the reception Sui got from buyers and the news media,” and also insured industry embrace of a talented niche designer. Following this incredible reception she opened a retail location at 113 Greene Street in New York City’s Soho District. This shop, with its lavender walls, red floors, antique black furniture, and signature dolly head mannequins has become a staple of SOHO fashion and synonymous with the Anna Sui brand. In 2010, she featured her collection on the runway finale of the 14th cycle of America’s Next Top Model.

Her celebrity clients are: Paris Hilton, Blake Lively, Patricia Arquette, Mischa Barton, Christina Ricci, Cher, Naomi Campbell, Sofia Coppola, Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff, Maria Sharapova, Nicole Richie, Liv Tyler, Courtney Love, and James Iha. Her brand retails globally in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Her clothing, fragrance, cosmetic, and accessories lines sell through her stores in over 50 countries and are also widely available in leading department stores worldwide.

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With her first show at London Fashion Week, Charlotte Eskildsen is one of Denmark’s most celebrated fashion designers; Designers Remix Collection is a sexy, edgy label full of Scandinavian flair. Designers Remix collection has a sense of unpredictability, is intended to compliment the wearer. The overall impression of the style is seductive, mysterious and definitely sophisticated, with avant-garde coats and jackets and perfectly tailored dresses making Designers Remix Collection label of choice for confident, sexy dressing style. The brand is fast becoming the go-to brand for directional cocktail cool. Must-buys are the beautiful Kyoto blossom prints and kimono-inspired silhouettes. Designers Remix Collection continues on the path between femininity and androgynous tailoring creating the ambiguous atmosphere, which is characteristic of the designer Charlotte Eskildsen.

After graduating as a designer from the Design Management School in Kolding, Denmark, Charlotte was chosen as a “Rising Star” by the Danish business magazine, Berlinske Tidendes Nyhedsmagasin, alongside other talented individuals under age 30 representing a comprehensive range of categories from business to astrophysics. In year 2007 Charlotte Eskildsen received the most prestigious design award you can get in Denmark, Guldknappen, from the Danish fashion magazine Alt for Damerne, and in year 2008 Charlotte was nominated as the “Best Danish Designer” by 400 fashion professionals in the first Dansk Fashion Award ever given. In year 2009 Charlotte Eskildsen worked as an ambassador for the Danish Red Cross as a member of Club 10 comitted to raising money for the benefits of the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. On behalf of Designers Remix Collection, she managed to raise almost 57,000 Euros – the largest donation of the Club 10 in 2009 and the 3rd largest in the history of Club 10.

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