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Finally is getting towards summer holidays.  Before you hurry excitedly to the beach off to the beach in all your carefree summer glory, make sure you pack beach chic essentials. Here’s your guide to a fashionable fun in the sun.

Easy wear pants

A pair of easy wear trousers or jeans .Take some thin or zip-off pants and a sarong, just increase you go anywhere that you can’t show your legs or arms (some cathedrals, and such). This season’s fashionable cropped pants are perfect holiday daywear or if you don’t want to be parted from your jeans then you can always opt for summer white (highly impractical, but great for a vacation) or a colourful pair of skinny pants. As you are traveling, keep them loose fitting and comfortable, rather than sausage-skin tight.

Play suit

Jumpsuits or playsuits, are versatile and comfortable and they are great for sightseeing in, or at least some kind of short that’s cool but won’t chafe and rub if you get sweaty during sightseeing. Other than that, take a hat for the sunshine, maybe some cooler long sleeves if you burn easily (really thin cotton or linen is great).

Footwear

Really sturdy footwear (good running shoes or something like that for traveling. Don’t forget good breathable socks, underwear, and bras, and something cool to sleep in. Avoid taking ten pairs of shoes that only match particular outfits or those which are likely to be uncomfortable, as your feet expand in the heat. Take 1 pair of sexy high-heels, to instantly change the look of your outfits; a pair of comfortable flats and some strappy summer sandals.

Summer dresses

A lightweight print sundress and a evening skirt or special dress. This can be cotton for a day dress and chiffon, silk, or some other elegant fabric, for eveningwear. Choose another little black dress, a stylish print, or a fashionable and elegant maxi.

Beachwear

Choose two swimsuits a one-piece or bikini and a kraftan type cover-up. Whether you prefer and don’t forget sunglasses and a sunhat to protect your head from the heat. Your beach cover-up can be the versatile sarong, or a cool kaftan, which is right on-trend at the moment. A kaftan has more possibilities in terms of where you can wear it, as it can also double as a tunic top or as a dress.

Hand luggage

Make sure all your essential travel documents are in your hand luggage, and put them right at the top. You need your passport, tickets debit card, and extra money. Weigh it before! Most airlines allow one piece of luggage to be checked in, up to a maximum of 20kg for international travel.

Sunglasses

Don’t forget the sunglasses. Sunglasses trends for the summer 2012 are coming in many different styles, vibrant plastics and a variety of shapes to match your mood. Whether you are looking for, a casual dynamic style, a Hollywood icon look or a timeless geek chic there plenty styles to choose from

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The Planet Blue and Foam Magazine are showcasing the latest Coachella lookbook. The lookbook is packed with festival inspiration and features the model Gillian Zinser.

Consider the climate, the Coachella catalog offers  boho styles that are popular during this festival. The lookbook features denim shorts, tank tops to billow, maxi dresses, floppy hats and a youthful and carefree feel.

The boho festival look, which owed much to the hippie styles that developed in the middle to late 1960s, became especially popular after Sienna Miller‘s appearance at the Glastonbury Festival in 2004.

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, is an annual event held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival were founded with England’s Glastonbury and both are known for its unstable weather conditions.

Record-low temperatures, high winds and rain are not unusual, ponchos and hoodies replacing bikinis and body paint becomes a fashion accessories.

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House of Laurel introduced its SS 2012 collection and showcasing a dynamic ‘’Athletenique’’ sportswear lookbook. The lookbook was modeled by Petra Dvorakova and captured by photographer BJ Pascua.

House of Laurel’s focus for its summer 2012 collection is on vibrant and energetic colors with functional designs which make it an extremely wearable line.

House of Laurel was founded by Rajo” Teves Laurel who is a fashion designer in Manila, Philippines. He began his professional career in 1993, holding his first international exhibition the following year.

In 2000 Rajo Laurel founded House of Laurel with his sister. A winner of a number of national and international awards over the course of his career, Laurel is best known as a television personality as a judge on Project Runway Philippines.

With Athletenique, House of Laurel introduces a sportswear -oriented line in jersey, suede, mesh, and funky  prints. Athletenique is the philosophy of the brands, “Fitness is fashion’’ which is lifestyle transformed into fashion.

The name Athletenique is a combination of the words “athletic” and “ethnic,” a fusion of the abstract aspects of ethnic prints and the spirit of sportswear .

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Kate Moss was photographed by fashion photographer Tim Walker at the Ritz Paris for the Vogue cover for the April 2012 issue.

Kate Moss is posing as a modern Marie Antoinette and casts some the most extravagant dresses from designers such as; Alexander McQueen, Dior, Giambattista Valli and Chanel among others.

Kate Moss was photographed by fashion photographer Steven Klein for the two W covers of their March issue called the spring Fashion Bible.

Kate Moss who is known for her waifish figure and popularising the heroin chic look in the 1990s. Moss then went on to become the “anti-supermodel” in contrast to the “supermodels” of the moment such as Cindy Crawford, Elle Macpherson, Claudia Schiffer, and Naomi Campbell, who were known for their curvaceous and tall figures.

The editorial was shot at the Ritz Paris. The Hotel Ritz is a grand palatial hotel in the heart of Paris, the 1st arrondissement. It overlooks the octagonal border of the Place Vendôme at number 15.

The hotel is ranked highly among the most prestigious and luxurious hotels in the world and is a member of “The Leading Hotels of the World”. When Kate Moss was with Johnny Depp they stayed always in Ritz.

Tim Walker who was the photographer, is British. His photographs have appeared in Vogue, month by month, for over a decade. Extravagant staging and romantic motifs characterise his style. At the age of 25, he shot his first fashion story for Vogue, and has photographed for the British, Italian, and American editions ever since.

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Mary Katrantzou is Greek-born designer who is based in London. Her vivid prints gain a lot of press attention at the London Fashion Week.

Mary Katrantzou has grown from a brilliant print-maker into a truly innovative designer. Mary Katrantzou AW 2012-13 collection features another set of a surreal visual symphony of, graphic prints. Her signature structured lampshade-shaped dresses and stiff, tailored coats with spoons, phone dials prints, typewriter keys, luggage tassels, clothes hangers  and one dress even was even embroidered with real yellow pencils.

Mary Katrantzou 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.

Mary Katrantzou‘s work has been featured in publications including Vogue, Dazed & Confused, and Grazia. In 2010, she was awarded the coveted Swiss Textiles award, succeeding Alexander Wang who won the award in 2009. She is one of the designers of Città dell’arte Fashion. Hannah Holman is one of the better known models who recently walked in one of Katrantzou‘s shows.

Her collections are now available worldwide in over 60 high end fashion shops. A collection for Topshop launched for  London Fashion Week. autumn/winter 2010 and was available in shops in February 2011.

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Maison Martin Margiela presented in Paris the menswear collection for FW 2012-2013.

The highlights of the collection are fur, leather, puffy long coats, camel suit, double-breasted jackets, patent leather turtlenecks and camel trench and with all focus as usual on beautiful tailoring.

Margiela, the mysterious Belgian designer, who has never been photographed, remains, to this day, one of fashion’s most enigmatic figures. He graduated in 1980 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, studying alongside the avant-garde fashion collective, the “Antwerp Six”. After various freelance roles, as well as being the design assistant to Jean Paul Gaultier, Margiela presented his first collection under his own name in 1989.

Throughout his career, Martin Margiela has maintained an extremely low profile. All media contact is dealt with via fax. Rumours said that the designer had left the company when the Maison Martin Margiela label was acquired by the Diesel brand in 2002. In 2009, Renzo Rosso, MMM’s majority stakeholder, was quoted as saying: “Martin has not been there for a long time. He is here but not here. We have a new fresh design team on board. We are focusing on young, realistic energy for the future; this is really Margiela for the year 2015.”

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Rick Owens has presented his menswear FW 2012-2013 collection in Paris. The theme for his new collection is mountain.

There are modern ski-wear with contrasting black and white leather jackets with a neck draped scarves. Owens has introduced lighter hue colours which broke up his traditional monochromatic black line. This collection is masculine and quite chic and still cultivates Rick Owens’s avant-garde reputation.

Rick Owens was born in California in 1962. Owens studied fine arts at Otis/Parsons (now known as Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles Owens and New York for two years before a pattern-making class led him to drop out and work for some local companies that produced sportswear and inexpensive imitations of designer clothing.

His own label, he created in 1994 found a following, selling exclusively to Charles Gallay, a pioneering Los Angeles retailer who kept Owens in business for several years. It was in 2002, when he won the CFDA’s New Talent award and moved to Paris, that the label well and truly exploded onto the fashion scene.

Rick Owens also creates contemporary, hyper modern furniture; he is using luxurious materials such as translucent Spanish alabaster to carve a striking headboard, positioned near a wood, bronze, and alabaster day bed in a room draped with mink curtains.

Rick Owens recently had exhibition called “Magic Mountain,” which was held in the Chesa Planta Museum, in Samedan, Switzerland, near Saint Moritz. These include two wooden chairs each adorned with a stag antler and a black plywood daybed replete with a cowhide mattress. Also on display will be a limited-edition window curtain of ivory-colored mink and smaller objects such as ashtrays, vases and cups.

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Ann Demeulemeester has presented her men’s collection AW 2012 at the Paris Fashion Week.

Ann Demeulemeesteras born 1959, Waregem, Belgium and is a fashion designer whose eponymous label ‘Ann Demeulemeester’ is mainly showcased at the annual Paris Fashion Week.

Ann Demeulemeester’s punk-rock androgynies style get a little more Celtic next season, T-shirt dresses which were needled gauzy wool and cotton together. Long knit sweaters were also present throughout the whole show. The knit has also Celtic origins, and was made popular by the Aran jumper (sweater), also referred to as a fishermen sweater. The jumper takes it name from the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, where the local fisherman would wear the thick jumpers to keep warm, and the cable design was thought to bring good fortune.

Ann Demeulemeesteris a vanguard fashion designer, who’s sometimes punk or sometimes romantic, this anti-conformist designer expresses her style in her own way. Her biker leather jacket have become her signature classic style, fitted vests, large pants tucked in boots, dresses worn on top of jeans, mao collar sweaters.

Ann Demeulemeestercollection has made it to all major catwalks. Her 70?s rock style tailoring and leather wear draw inspiration from strong female icons of music such as Patti Smith or Janis Joplin. She is a master of cobweb knitwear or oversize masculine slouch suits. Ann Demeulemeester designs clothes “with attitude”.

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The Prada spring- summer 2012 ad campaign is inspired by the iconic American 50s.The campaign was shot by photographer Steven Meisel and features the  models Kati Nescher, Meghan Collison, Natasha Poly, Elise Crombez, Ymre Stiekema and Kathryn Kruger.

Bathed in the glamour of the 50s and the American dream the campaign is a collection of iconographic impressions of pop and style culture. The campaign features models Kati Nescher, Meghan Collison, Natasha Poly, Elise Crombez, Ymre Stiekema and Kathryn Kruger on a gas station.

Natasha Poly is a Russian model who began modeling locally in 2000,She appeared in seven advertisement campaigns through the fall/winter 2008-2009 season (Nina Ricci, Jil Sander, Blumarine, Balmain. Poly is featured in the 2011 Pirelli Calendar photographed by Karl Lagerfeld.

Steven Meisel was the photographer of the campaign; he creates Prada’s campaign each season. He is now considered one of the most successful fashion photographers in the industry, shooting regularly for both US and Italian Vogue, and lately W (also published by Condé Nast). Meisel has also shot campaigns for Versace, Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana and Calvin Klein (for whom his campaigns were very controversial).

Kati Nescher is a Russian-born, German-raised model. She walked for: Marni SS- 2012, Prada and Jil Sander in Milan, in Paris from Alexander McQueen to Givenchy to Louis Vuitton to Yves Saint Laurent.

Meghan Collison is a Canadian fashion model. Collison was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and was discovered at a local mall model search. She has since done shows and advertisements for Dolce & Gabbana, Marc Jacobs, Prada, Anna Sui, H&M, Topshop, Swarovski, Valentino, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton and other prominent fashion designers.

Élise Crombez is a Belgian fashion model. She was discovered in 1999 when she decided to enter a fashion contest (Miss Mannequin) with a friend of hers. The contest was held in the Belgian town of Roeselaere. She worked for Prada, H&M, Versace, Armani, Nina Ricci, Gianfranco Ferre, Lacoste, Eres, GAP, Jil Sander, Ralph Lauren, Escada, Pollini, and Valentino.

Ymre Stiekema is a Dutch model. She has also modeled for Jason Wu, Dior, and Donna Karan, and appeared in editorials for Vogue. Model Agency: VDM Model Management

Kathryn Kruger is a new face from Y Models in Cape Town and she also did the modeling for the Prada Resort lookbook.

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Christopher Guy Harrison is a British luxury furniture designer who is well known for his elegant curves and for fusing classic with modern designs.

Christopher Guy was born in Britain and raised in Spain and France. His international background allows him to fuse design influences from around the world, creating furniture that transcends national boundaries.

Christopher Guy is the founder and head designer of the international furnishings brand Christopher Guy.  Originally known for a wide-range of decorative mirrors, the Christopher Guy brand grew into a collection of upholstery, chairs, dining tables, sofas, headboards and office furniture. Christopher’s signature design includes the patented Chris-X (pronounced kris-krôs) leg design.

In 1993, Christopher Guy formed Harrison & Gil. The company then expanded by offering a complete lifestyle and luxury furniture collection in 2005. It re-launched under the brand name Christopher Guy.

In 1999, Christopher designed and built a one million square foot workshop complex in Java in order to accommodate the 1,400 carvers, woodcarvers and specialist finishers that craft his designs.

Christopher Guy Design Lounge in Beverly Hills[edit] USA Flagship Design LoungeIn October 2009, Christopher Guy opened his 2,400-square-foot (220 m2) USA Flagship Design Lounge in Beverly Hills. The lounge, complete with plasma TV’s mounted on the walls for interactive viewing, showcases his newest collection of the year.

The British Interior Design Association awarded Christopher Guy the Outstanding Design award in 2004. The World Market Center Las Vegas and Las Vegas Design Center recognized Christopher Guy as the 2011 Design Icon on 27 January 2011. The Design Icon award celebrates modern-day design legends and gives them a platform to share their stories and inspire others. Past Design Icon recipients include Juan Montoya, Vicente Wolf, Roger Thomas, Vladimir Kagan and Larry Laslo.

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