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WUNDERKIND is Wolfgang Joob’s personal vision of what a contemporary, sophisticated and independent fashion line. WUNDERKIND ‘s signature style is defined by a subtle play between structure, tailored, masculine pieces and soft, fluid feminine shapes in sensual, luxurious fabrics often enhances by unexpected treatments. It is an intimate and an emotional expression of the designers ‘taste, one that explores the contradictions and dualities inherent in each woman. WUNDERKIND celebrates a sense of freedom, which defies sartorial conventions and offers a unique take on modern elegance. The line focused on the highest level of craftsmanship in exceptional detailing. It is the designer’s ability to project couture techniques into the world of prêt-a-porter fashion, which makes the collection affordable.
WUNDERKIND was founded by Wolfgang Joob in 2004. He first presented WUNDERKIND with the Fall/Winter collection 2004 in Berlin to an audience of press and retail guests. WUNDERKIND had its international debut in September 2004 when WUNDERKIND was invited by the CFDA to premier the collection at New York Fashion week before repositioning the label and moving to show in Paris in 2006.

WUNDERKIND is being sold in over 80 selected and most exclusive stores in over 24 countries around the world. Beside the main collection a luxurious collection of handmade accessories has been launched with the SS2008 and WUNDERKIND eyewear was introduced with the AW2008 collection.

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House of Harlow 1960 is the jewellery line of style icon Nicole Richie. The line is  named after her daughter and inspired by Nicole’s love of the 60′s and 70′s the cult collection is the perfect mix of bohemian and with a twist of vintage the collection consists of statement necklaces, stackable rings , Aztec bangles and of course, that iconic head piece.

Described by Vogue as the “Queen of summer dressing”, Nicole Richie’s House of Harlow collections capture her unique mix of free-spirited style and glamour. Expect statement jewellery pieces like oversized bracelets and sunburst rings in an array of materials and stones including gold plate, leather, resin and cabochon, with Aztec influences running throughout the collection.

House of Harlow 1960 is in collaboration between Mouawad and Nicole Richie. The collection of jewellery, it is an affordable, stylish product introduced to the jewellery industry, which is distinctive and extremely wearable.  She designed a 50-piece jewellery collection and materials used include fabrics, feathers and gold plated pieces. The range combines edgy and bold and modern mixed with native. Also using leather, silk strings, chains, gold plated metals and a beautiful range of jewel-tone colours to decorate the array of pieces, Nicole explores every theme true to the bohemian look; from gypsy to tribal, flower child to edgy street wear. Each piece bares the quality stamp of Mouawad, with every detail from hand set leather instead of stones, to intricately pressed peacock feathers wrapped around a cuff.

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The Contemporary Home is an embodiment of all that they are impressed and inspired by in the world of interior design. Their products are all hand-picked and large variety of outstanding items. Whether you’re looking for of minimalist chic, a follower of funky retro style or traditionalist who loves their home comforts, everybody can find some great products whether or for those who are just seeking new inspirations.

Contemporary living is creating a simplified and clutter-free retreat with our living space. With clean, crisp lines and subtle colour tones, convert living room into a warm and inviting sanctuary. A style, or theme, is a consistent idea used throughout a room to create a feeling of completeness. Styles are not to be confused with design concepts, or the higher-level party, which involve a deeper understanding of the architectural context, the socio-cultural and the programmatic requirements of the client. These themes often follow period styles. Examples of this are Louis XV, Louis XVI, Victorian, Islamic, Feng Shui, International, Mid-Century Modern, Minimalist, English Georgian, Gothic, Indian Mughal, Art Deco, and many more. Each element should contribute to form, function, or both and maintain a consistent standard of quality and combine to create the desired design. A designer develops a home architecture and interior design for a customer that has a style and theme that the prospective owner likes and mentally connects to.

As they say, ‘home is where the heart is’ at the Contemporary Home. They believe that our homes make a real statement about our personalities, so it stands to reason that we should want to spend as much time and energy on perfecting them as we do on our personal appearances – our hair, clothes, shoes or make-up.

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David and Goliath, is a brand that produces clothing, posters and other merchandise featuring a variety of slogans. Their original T-shirt line quickly expanded into hundreds of products including sleepwear, fashion accessories, and stationary. They make fashion apparel that is mixed with a unique blend of attitude and a quirky sense of humour.

The company David and Goliath was founded by Todd Goldman in 2000. In early life Todd Goldman began painting in high school, and he attended art school. Instead, Goldman attended the University of Florida where he graduated with a degree in accounting. He then worked as a CPA and found out he hated it and after a friend introduced him to the apparel industry Goldman decided to give it a shot.

For the launch of company he borrowed money from his father. Goldman launched D&G, in Clearwater, Florida. Primarily a clothing company, D&G also produces sleepwear with various designs, books, bags, and other accessories. Most of the art used on their merchandise is traced, often from clipart or other artists’ work. Goldman achieved some notoriety for printing merchandise containing “boy-bashing” slogans, including “Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!”, “Boys are smelly”, “Boys have cooties”, etc. These are featured on t-shirts, bumper stickers, and other accessories. ‘David and Goliath’ was the original idea came from that Kelly guy which one of his artists had seen. They changed it to “Please God Make All my Friends Fat,” and they painted two images from it. 5 months later it was hanging in this gallery and someone saw it and the rest is history.
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Cashmere wool is a soft luxury fibre appreciated for its warm, soft, and beautiful sweaters, scarves, and dresses. Cashmere is said to be the finest and lightest wool in the world. Cashmere is known for its diversity and adaptability and usually comes in three different natural colours including gray, brown and white.
 100% pure Cashmere only comes from the Cashmere goat. These goats can be found in the high plateau regions of Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China. Few, however, still live in the Cashmere region of India where their name originated from. To ensure that you are getting real Cashmere when shopping for a sweater or jacket, make sure that the label states that the item is made from 100% pure Cashmere. To get the cashmere wool from under the goat’s outer hair, you can comb it out, gently, during the two times a year when the goat is shedding. Each goat produces less than three ounces of this wool in a year, so it takes three goats to make even a small scarf and thirty or more to make a blanket. A sweater requires the fleece of 4 – 6 goats; an overcoat uses that of 30 – 40.

This wool can be spun into either fine yarn or thick yard and it can be woven into light weight fabric or heavy weight fabric. Cashmere also has a high moisture content which allows its insulating strength to adjust according to the relative humidity of its environment. This makes it a great material for just about any climate. If you live in an area that gets very cold then Cashmere makes a great layering material as even lightweight materials made from Cashmere can keep you warm.

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Levi’s is known worldwide for its denim jeans. The American blue jean was invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873. Jeans, originally designed for work, became popular among teenagers starting in the 1950s. Levi’s is one of the historic brands who invented jeans in various types, for example, skinny jeans, boot cut, or flare. Jeans are now a very popular form of casual dress around the world, and have been so for decades. They come in many styles and colors; however, “blue jeans” are particularly identified with American culture, especially the American Old West.

The word “jeans” comes from the French phrase bleu de Gênes, literally the blue of Genoa. Merchant Levi Strauss was selling blue jeans under the “Levi’s” brand to the mining communities of California in the 1850s. One of Strauss’ customers was Jacob Davis, a tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co. wholesale house. The blue denim fabric of jeans were simply sturdy trousers worn by workers, especially in the factories during World War II. During this period, men’s jeans had the zipper down the front, whereas women’s jeans had the zipper down the right side. By the 1960s, both men’s and women’s jeans had the zipper down the front. In the 1950s and 1960s, Levi’s jeans became popular among a wide range of youth subcultures, including greasers, mods, rockers, hippies and skinheads. Levi’s popular shrink-to-fit 501s were sold in a unique sizing arrangement; the indicated size referred to the size of the jeans prior to shrinking, and the shrinkage was substantial. The company still produces these unshrunk, uniquely sized jeans, and they are still Levi’s number one selling product.

Based on the latest design Levi’s Curve ID the shape is important and not size, Levi’s studied more than 60,000 body shapes of women and identify them in three Levi’s Curve ID curve types – Slight, Demi and Bold. These three curve types are designed to fit more than 80% of women, and much more effectively than the typical waist size measurements that are designed with a ‘standard’ shaped body in mind.

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3.1 Phillip Lim SS 2011

Phillip Lim’s design is known for its effortlessly chic and youthful elegance and has seen immense commercial success with stores in L.A. New York, Seoul, Tokyo. Phillip Lim’s signature style is a seamless blend of evening attire sophistication and street-wear sensibility  that worked like magic to get him in 3.1 Phillip Lim. Discovered at New York Fashion Week in 2005, he was immediately deemed into VIP. He is now one of the world’s hottest designers in the fashion scene. Phillip Lim’s designs do the improbable when it comes to the pocketbook too: They look expensive and exclusive, yet remain very affordable.

Phillip Lim launched his collection with start-up cash from friend and fabric supplier Wen Zhou in 2004. Almost overnight, his line became both a critical and commercial darling. Designer Phillip Lim has given to the fashion conscious woman exactly what she wants and nothing else. Lim has the ability to re-invent the purest silhouettes through his intricate hand finished details.

Phillip Lim born 1973 in Thailand is a Cambodian-American fashion designer of Chinese ancestry. He was awarded the 2007 Council of Fashion Designers of America Emerging Talent in Womenswear award for his work as creative director of 3.1 Phillip Lim. He worked at the label Development from 2000 to 2004, and has been the head of 3.1 Phillip Lim which launched in the fall of 2005 to present. Headbands splashed with Swarovski crystals and shift dresses adorned with pearls exemplify his burgeoning arty side and were rewarded with a CFDA award in 2007.
Celebrity fans are like: Kate Hudson, Kate Bosworth, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley, David Neville, Amanda Brooks, Debra Messing, Camilla Belle

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Quiksilver designs, produces surfwear, accessories and related products for young-minded people and represents a casual lifestyle. The brand is aimed at those who enjoy coastal and mountain-based sports and lifestyles. Quiksilver’s products are sold throughout the world, primarily in surf shops, skate shops and other specialty stores that provide authentic retail experience for our customers. The company also produces a line of apparel for young women, under the brand Roxy. In addition to apparel, it now also produces accessories, homewares, hard goods (snow and surf), wetsuits, footwear, books, and perfumes. It has sub-brands for its children’s ranges, named Teenie Wahine.

The company is based in Huntington Beach, California, is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of surfwear and other boardsport-related equipment. Its logo consists of two copies of the Quiksilver logo, one reflected, forming a heart, designed by the company founder Alan Green. Quiksilver operates over 600 stand-alone stores in major cities across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Africa.

In 2005, the company launched The Quiksilver Foundation, a charitable foundation which works to provide environmental, educational, health and youth-related projects to boardriding communities around the world. The company now offers snow and surf travel packages to exotic locations such as Samoa, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru and Costa Rica.

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balmain SS 2011

The slogan of the latest Balmain collection is: Rocker meets glamour girl with super-tight legging pants made from patent leather, ankle-high fringe half boots, cool asymmetry tops, sexy short bendeau dresses, and masculine tuxedo blazers certainly makes a very unique collection.

Balmain is known as a very traditional couture house which was established in Paris by Pierre Balmain in 1945. With glamorous cloths Balmain made his name, dressing film stars like Brigitte Bardot, Katherine Hepburn. Pierre Balmain founded his Parisian fashion powerhouse in 1945, and dressed such style icons as Ava Gardner and Brigitte Bardot. After his death in 1982, a slew of designers including Oscar de la Renta took the helm, and the label is now under the creative leadership of Christophe Decarnin. The master of tough luxe, Balmain is the cool girl’s destination for ornately embellished outerwear and spray-on leather pants. Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain (b. Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, May 18, 1914 – Paris, France, June 29, 1982) was a French fashion designer. Known for sophistication and elegance, he once said that “dressmaking is the architecture of movement.”

After Balmain’s death, the company continued to exist. In 1992, Oscar De La Renta took the role as Creative Director, a position which he would hold for 10 years. His last collection for Balmain was Haute Couture Fall 2002. In Nov 2001, Laurent Mercier was hired to design the ready-to-wear collection for Balmain. He debuted in Paris during the Fall 2002 ready-to-wear fashion season and received rave reviews from fashion editors. The Swiss-born Mercier debuted at Paris Haute Couture Show during the Spring 2003 season with mixed reviews. Mercier stayed with Balmain for just over a year, resigning from his post on June, 2003. Two months later, on Aug 1, French designer Christophe Lebourg assumed the top creative post in Balmain. He made his debut during Paris Spring 2004 season. The company hit troubled times during 2004, lasting for two years wherein during that time it was forced to file bankruptcy. After two years of hiatus from the catwalk, Balmain came back during the Fall 2006 Paris ready-to-wear season (Feb 2006) under a new Creative Director Christophe Decarnin.

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The Wellington boot, also known as rubber-boots, wellies, topboots, gumboots, barnboots, muckboots or rainboots are a type of boot based upon leather Hessian boots. The range of wellies  has expanded in a variety of colours including the traditional green, navy, black and chocolate, and colourful red, fuchsia pink, violet and many other colourful prints.  Red, pink, purple and turquoise boots. Wellington boots are waterproof and are most often made from rubber or a synthetic equivalent. They are usually worn when walking on very wet or muddy ground, or to protect the wearer from industrial chemicals and they are traditionally knee-height.

The Welly made it’s first appearance in 1817. At this time men’s fashion was going through significant changes as gentlemen swapped their knee breeches in favour of trousers. This, however, led to a problem finding comfortable footwear. The previously popular Hessian boot, worn with breeches was styled with a curvy turned-down top and heavy metallic braid – totally unsuitable for wearing under trousers. To this end, Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington instructed his shoemaker, Hoby of St. James Street London, to modify this 18th century boot.  They designed a new boot in soft calfskin leather, removed the trim and made the cut closer around the leg. It was hard wearing for battle, yet comfortable for wearing in the evening. The Iron Duke didn’t know what he’d started – the boot was dubbed the ‘wellington’ and the name has stuck ever since.

Wellington boots quickly caught on with patriotic British gentlemen eager to emulate their war hero. Considered fashionable and foppish in the best circles, they remained the main fashion for men through the 1840′s. In the 1850′s they were more commonly made in the calf high version and in the 1860′s they were both superseded by the ankle boot, except for when riding. Production of the Wellington boot was dramatically boosted with the advent of World War I and a requirement for footwear suitable for the conditions in Europe’s flooded trenches. The North British Rubber Company (now Hunter Boot Ltd) was asked by the War Office to construct a boot suitable for such conditions. The mills ran day and night to produce immense quantities of these trench boots. In total, 1,185,036 pairs were made to meet the British Army’s demands.

So far these boots were made of leather, however in America, where there was more experimentation in shoemaking, producers were beginning to manufacture with rubber. One such entrepreneur, Mr. Henry Lee Norris, moved to Scotland in search of a suitable site to produce rubber footwear-and this is how started Hunter’s story as well. Production of the Wellington boot was dramatically boosted with the advent of World War I due to the demand for a sturdy boot suitable for the conditions in flooded trenches. Making the wellington boot a functional necessity. They are usually worn when walking on very wet or muddy ground, or to protect the wearer from industrial chemicals and they are traditionally knee-height.

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