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L.A.M.B. is the clothing line by Gwen Stefani, the lead singer of the rock band No Doubt. L.A.M.B.’s chic and aesthetic taste certainly is reflecting Gwen’s impeccable rock chic flair, thanks to their perfectly balanced mix of fashion-house style credentials and celebrity style-icon coolness. The line manufactures apparel and fashion accessories. The fashion line manufactures accessories like shoes, watches, bags and a fragrance called “L” as well.

The line is influenced by a variety of fashions cultures, including Guatemalan, Japanese, Indian and Jamaican styles. Stefani came from a line of seamstresses. This further inspired her to launch her own fashion line. The line achieved popularity among celebrities and is worn by stars such as Teri Hatcher, Nicole Kidman, Paris Hilton and Stefani herself.

The line was founded in 2003 but made its runway debut the following year in 2004. Stefani first came face to face with designing clothes when she and her mother would sew clothes for themselves when she was young. Stefani comes from a long line of seamstresses, as even her great – grandmother would sew clothes. Stefani made most of the things she wore onstage during concerts herself. When she became successful and began to tour constantly, she felt she lost her way. Then she met the stylist Andrea Lieberman. Lieberman introduced her to haute couture clothing. Later Lieberman became her creative consultant and Zaldy Goco took over as the head designer. Goco later parted ways with L.A.M.B. L.A.M.B. started out as a collaboration with LeSportsac in 2003. The name L.A.M.B. is an acronym which stands for Love. Angel. Music.  Baby., which is also the name of Stefani’s first solo album.

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Mary Katrantzou is Greek-born designer who is based in London. Her first two collections have already gained a lot of press attention and her vivid prints earned her the coveted Swiss Textiles award.

She creates dresses with flirty chiffon trains, boned lampshade skirts garnished with flippant tassels, and textural, strong-shouldered jackets. Or from her latest collection, sophisticated silhouettes worked with her intricate, candy prints, which were inspired by the interiors of Helmut Newton’s photographs, to create a surreal visual symphony of form, graphics and color. For the past two seasons Mary Katrantzou has grown from a brilliant print-maker into a truly innovative designer.

Mary was born in Athens has no vivid memories of fashion as a child, other than meeting Pierre Cardin, who she thought was an interior designer. Her mother was an interior designer and a father who trained as a textile designer. Her interest only grew with age, and, before moving to London to study textiles for interiors at Central Saint Martins, Katrantzou was an architecture student at the Rhode Island School of Design.  Mary has graduated of Central Saint Martins, who shows her collection under the Topshop-sponsored NewGen.

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Rumors say that Alexander McQueen‘s Designer, Sarah Burton, is designing Kate Middleton’s wedding dress. If news true, that Sarah Burton is designing Kate’s dress. It is an exciting fashion choice of brilliantly talented designer.

British fashion house Alexander McQueen designer Sarah Burton is one of the fevered speculation that the wedding dress would be designed by her. Buckingham Palace has been desperately trying to keep secret any details about Kate’s dress ever since her engagement to Prince William in November, to ensure maximum impact when she steps into Westminster Abbey on April 29. A media team has reported that Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen arrived at the Goring Hotel. The woman scuttling into the Goring Hotel, the Middleton family HQ, in London on Thursday hid her long blonde hair under a fur ‘trapper’ hat in an attempt to avoid being ‘spotted’ by swarms of photographers and television crews.”If this is true it’s the best news the fashion industry has had in a long time,” said Hilary Alexander, fashion director of The Daily Telegraph.

Details of the Royal Wedding are starting to be confirmed, but the official dress designer is still a mystery. Kate Middleton must have already selected her bridal designer of choice, but the rest of the world just continues to speculate. Names thrown around already include Sarah Burton, Alice Temperley  Bruce Oldfield, Jasper Conran, and Julien Macdonald.

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Men have now become equally conscious about what they wear and how they accessorize themselves. From, men’s fashion week, everybody expect to see lots of men’s suits, shirts with little change in cuts. Men are now equally interested in fashion weeks held at the four major destinations Milan, Paris, London and New York.

Military Look

The Second World War uniforms are the inspiration for this style. Clothes were full-cut again, with double-breasted, longer jackets and wider trousers. Shirts and coats came in a range of colors and hand-painted silk ties ran the range from elegant to be exotic. In 2011, menswear fashion houses like Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Brioni, Priestley’s Vintage and Yohji Yamamoto are turning back time.

Motorcycle Trend

The motorcycle jacket is the key statement piece for the motorcycle / biker fashion trend. Naturally, not any motorcycle jacket will do. The biker jacket trend is the focus of a number of designers like for example Burberry, Balmain and Rick Owens, the main element of trend this trend is the motorcycle jacket. Of course, just because the biker chic trend is about more than Brando jackets and black motorcycle jackets doesn’t mean to say that the trend is completely devoid of both styles. And so it goes that it’s not merely about an overused cut and simple black colour. In fact, many a colour will suit and you can find new colour leather trends.

Printed T-Shirt

Screen printed t-shirts and band t-shirts have also skyrocketed in popularity in recent years, becoming appropriate attire for teens as well as for adults. Popular brands and designers such as Diesel, Alexander McQueen, Balmain offer a variety of cool screen printed shirts – the prevailing fashion suggestion being to choose high-contrast colors for wear during the evening or during summer months.

Suits

The trends for the suits are something between the 1930s and 1970s. With its obvious appeal, the cuts are double breasted as seen by Tom Ford Spring 2011 men’s collection. The suits are in eye-catching pink or purple blazers teamed with black pants or the bright purple magenta suit looks trendy and hip. The classic suits are taking a few elements from the Victorian era, or from the savoir faire of the 1930s and others from the skinny detailing of the 1960s) and apply them to a modern silhouette. As seen by Ann Demeulemeester FW 2011 collection.

Jeans

Not a lot of men like to wear narrowed men’s jeans, because consider them too eccentric, unsuitable for a serious young man which sticks to traditional style in clothes. All well-known brands as Levi’s, Humor, PRPS, Diesel and many other designed the collections of jeans for an autumn and winter 2010 and 2011 by best traditions. The jeans now can come in different colors and shades. It has different types of wash. Dark jeans can be worn as a minimalist take of the interpretation of jeans. This can also be worn with a sports jacket. Light color types and distressed jeans are only limited to casual wear. The materials of jeans are modified from plain sateen to coarse threadbare tissues.

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A manicure has become a fashion accessory just like as a sparkling necklace or a purse. Welcome the lovely springtime in sparkling metallic, sleek nude and creamy pastels. These nail colors usually pop up during the blossoming season, but they’ve been spotted in couture fashion shows of Marc Jacobs at the New York fashion week. You can even catch of glimpse of them on the nail beds of Rihanna and Victoria Beckham. Boldly breezing into the collections of Mac Cosmetics with Wonder Women, Dior, Estee Lauder and Chanel these colors are definite must-haves for any nail junkie. We spotted four eye-catching trends that really nail it.

Nature Nudes

Neutral nails maintained the au natural spring-like feel, nude-as-naked nails look refreshingly demure, yet sexy. Natural skin tone colors like greyish, brown, and beige which was popular by Chanel on the runways. It can be lighter or darker or perhaps have hues of lilac or mauve. This group of nail polishes can dignify every nail shape as well as skin tone. Make sure your polish comes in a high-gloss formula so you don’t end up looking like you have mannequin hands.

Metallics & Gold

The flash of metal got an updated, gritty twist for spring 2011. Manicurists are layering an iridescent top coat over a dark gray seen at 3.1 Phillip Lim fashion show. Metallic nail colors came back straight from 80’s nail polish fashion. It is an absolute trend right now. For those who hesitate in any way over choosing right metallic hue should opt for lighter nail polish tones.

Red Nail Color

This class of nail polishes is extremely irreplaceable when you desire to accentuate your ladylike charm. All the red color hues, from blood red to pastel tones are absolutely compatible virtually with every look starting from retro as well as burlesque or vintage ones.

Pop Art Nails

Don’t take this trend too serious and play with the visual effect of these pop nail art designs. With this trend you make your nails real accessories and change the design to sport a versatile and brand new nail style each time you attend a special event. Here you can choose from the stylish dots or flirty floral nail art, plaid patterns as well as flags and even skulls if you crave for a dapper twist in your look. Look through the stylish selection of nail designs and spot the ones that suit your preferences as well as nail art skills.

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Loulou Loves You, are handmade, luxurious, flirty and adorable silk lingerie. Loulou Loves You is a brand that began as a simple accessories company that produced satin bows to clip in your hair or pin as a brooch and expanded, quickly, to a luxury lingerie boutique brand. The brand was born out of girls personal love affair with lingerie. All items are lovingly designed and handmade by Loulou in her London studio.

Her pieces typically include dramatic ruffles and oversized bows, which are slightly reminiscent of a little girl’s attire.  From playsuits to camisoles and ruffle bras, there’s plenty to choose from.  There are even headbands, floral wreaths for your hair and feather necklaces from the Loulou accessories line.

Loulou Loves You was created in the UK in 2007 from the original talents of designer Loulou Androlia Loulou is part of this new wave of young avant-garde London designers putting their stamp on the fashion world. She is the genius behind LouLou Loves You, a range of beautiful luxury lingerie and dashing accessories.  In her other time she is training to be a Massage Therapist, goes to Psychic School, enjoys making piles of books on her bed, climbing trees and drawing portraits of babes.

It’s being said that she eve sometimes is modeling the pieces herself and as well Sleeping beauty, Alice (in Wonderland), Mary Poppins, Katy Perry, Karen Elson, Sailor Moon would make the prefect models for her cute collection.

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Angelika Taschen the book publishers has turned the sexy and subversive Taschen Books into a global powerhouse. She is a proud publisher of the greatest artists of our time who have inspired millions of people around the globe.

Angelika Taschen was born in June 14  1959 in Homberg and is a German  dancer , Ph.D. art historian and publisher. She is the daughter of a bookseller couple Manfred and Ute Herbert (Witsch + Behrendt) in Bonn. She received training as a classical ballet dancer at Carole Maré in Bonn-Bad Godesberg in 1978 and was graduated from Nicolaus Cusanus Gymnasium in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. In 1978 she got an engagement in the musical Sweet Charity in the Little Theater in Bonn-Bad Godesberg with actor Chris Roberts . In 1979 she married Stefan Muthesius, great grandson of Hermann Muthesius , they have a daughter Anna. From 1979 to 1985 she studied Germanic and Art History in Heidelberg . In 1986, she was with the thesis about “stage and visual arts in futurism. Ballo Giacomo , Enrico Prampolini , Fortunato Depero doctorate. ‘’

In 1986 she began working in the publishing of her future second husband, Benedikt Taschen , 1996 they married. From 1990 to 2010 she was chief editor and Publisher of the publisher’s pockets. Since 1987 she has written and edited by Taschen publishing numerous books on architecture , photography , design and contemporary art. Together the two made ??”pocket” with inexpensive art books for a mass audience to the world mark and sold 20 million books annually.

2010 she organized the exhibition “Pop a Boner” with furniture by Rick Owens in the Berlin apartment. 2011 she founded “Angelika Publishers’ and bought the former Royal Hofbaudepot in Berlin, which they by the star architect David Adjaye can be rebuilt.

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The Anglomania line, is a collaboration between the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and denim giant Lee. The line takes its inspiration from the Westwood archive, referencing her collections from the 70’s and 80’s whilst using some of the cuts that made her popular in the first place.

Created in 1997, the wearable line channels Westwood’s punk roots and references some of her early designs and prints. Vivienne Westwood is considered to be one of Britain’s greatest fashion exports and Anglomania serves as the ideal entry point for those wishing to get into the unique Westwood style aesthetic.

Vivienne believes that fashion is a combination and exchange of ideas between France and England. On the English side they have tailoring and an easy charm, on the French side that solidity of design and proportion that comes from never being satisfied because something can always be done to make it better, more refined.

For the Anglomania collection SS/2011, the pieces that were integrated into the collection were like denim jackets and waistcoats painted in metallic iridescent rainbow colors. There were brightly colored bondage shorts that had been re-worked in vibrant denims and harked back to the Punk years, along with jeans that were smeared with paint or shredded.

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Clare Tough is a designer of high-quality, wearable knitwear. The label creates each piece exquisitely hand crafted with a uniquely feminine sensibility. Her oversized hand-knits, inserted with chiffon or leather and lace are easy to team up with any other look. As well she is combining various knitting techniques (hand, machine and crochet), Clare Tough has developed a new method – knitting chain within yarn.

Clare Tough has studied at London’s renowned Central St Martins before starting her eponymous label in 2006. After completing her MA with a distinction in 2004, knitwear designer Clare Tough has enjoyed rapid recognition. Her graduate collection, described by Vogue as “the future of British fashion,” was spotlighted by Browns. She also stocks in Liberty. Launching an independent label is incredibly difficult; it often boils down to survival of the fittest. Luckily, Tough (by name and by nature!) is in a strong position as she already sells within the UK.

Oversized jumpers and tight vests are embellished with lengths of Chanel inspired gold chains. Flashy details like this add a European sensibility to her work. Essentially, this is a collection of ‘sexed-up’ knitwear. Lurex circles are stitched around the bust and horizontal panels are combined to create corseted effects.

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Ames Bros are a graphic designs and outfits from the US who produce some cool t-shirt prints.The brand is the brain child of Coby Schultz and Barry Ament. The artists have remained true to generating the majority of their designs by hand. Ames Bros have created artwork for MTV, Nike, Nissan and K2 Snowboards. They created t-shirts for the likes of Neil Young, Radiohead, Coldplay, Snoop Dog, Foo Fighters and The Strokes. They even won a Grammy Nomination for the design of Pearl Jam’s ‘’Yield’’ album cover.

Ames Bros’s Story goes back to ’95, in Montana native Barry Ament (brother of Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament) teamed up with other Montana native Coby Schultz to form Ames Bros. Carrying with them scores of famous rock bands, hundreds of screen printed rock posters, snowboard companies, super bowl logos, and Rambo-esque survival tactics, this two man wrecking crew enters your closet and underwear drawers offering you only the finest of anything there is out there to offer. These vintage t-shirts were built to satisfy the needs of the neediest mountain man and the most ferocious urban hood rat. Next time you consider buying the best, think Ames Bros Quality Gear of the Great Northwest.

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