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Giorgio Armani fashion Tips

December 4th 2007 00:09

Giorgio Armani talks Travel

Giorgio Armani

An enticing article titled, “Heaven and Hell: Celebrities talk about their best and worst Holidays” appeared in this weekend’s Telegraph.co.uk. Amongst the famous and not so famous faces to talk travel was the iconic Giorgio Armani.

Leading a privileged life forever synonymous with style, elegance and class it is refreshing to read Armani’s thoughts on what meets his high standards of excellence in an arena outside of clothing.

Armani in Tokyo

While most of us may never attain anywhere near the level of notoriety or finances that facilitate a globe trotting lifestyle, there are always lessons to be gleaned from listening to a seasoned jet setter. Someone for whom the superficial allure of hotel living and room service luxury lost its appeal, replaced with more customised requirements.

Though he lists his favourite holiday destination as his "boat moored off Mariu", (Not very practical advise for us commoners who will never get an invite) other answers are much more helpful.

When quizzed about his biggest packing mistake Giorgio’s answer is much more in synch with the everyday. He says “Forgetting my sunglasses when going to a sunny destination. And forgetting my swimming trunks when going to stay in a city hotel where there is a swimming pool.”

So what is the megastar of the fashion worlds favourite hotel to stay in? “There are so many that it is difficult to pick just one….” The Italian Designer continues “From 2008 I look forward to staying at my first Armani hotel. It will be in Dubai, and I am currently finalising the interior design".

Shots of the Armani Hotel in Dubai

When asked “What's your best piece of travel advice?” Armani replies, “Pack a capsule wardrobe that is versatile enough for different events - you never know what you may end up doing. So at least one smart jacket or suit and a white shirt, as well as your holiday T-shirts and jeans.”

Please visit telegraph.co.uk to read the full article and discover some of the things he hates. Plus why his next journey will possibly be a return to the land of Koalas and Kangaroos

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A Strange, New World of Accessories

September 9th 2007 07:07

I don't know when it happened, but the humble accessory, once an interesting pair of earrings, has morphed into strange objects of vogue. I blame this on the co-habitation of the Consumer Culture and the Technological Age. Their love child is Consume-Tech, the dirty beast that requires people to have things, not out of interest or appreciation, but because everyone else has it. You know when someone says, "I'm going to the shops. Would you like anything?", and you feel the urge to make a request, but you can't actually imagine an object in your mind? That is a symptom of the cultural atmosphere of today: you simply must have something, anything at all.

One object that people feel the need to update update UPDATE is the mobile phone. Apparently, for one to be stylish, one must purchase an updated version of these gadgets every two months. I am therefore a total dag, as you can't even get a new battery for my phone and it was only released two years ago. Today's phones hold a microcosm of your world: your address book, your camera, your photo gallery, your video camera and associated home movies, your mp3 player, a radio, navigator systems, mirrors and they may even make phone calls too. It can't be singularly planed either - it has to flip, slide or rotate. Call me Aunty Mable, but I just don't get why something that is hidden most of the time is considered more desirable than a pair of Christian Louboutin's

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Posted By: the-mothball-cardigan - Category: Accessories, Celebrities, Fashion Tips, Random, Street Chic, Trends

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Stop Staring!

August 29th 2007 03:40

Website name: www.stopstaringclothing.com
Location: LA, California, US
Category: Retro clothing reproductions

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Posted By: Chic Critique - Category: Clothes, Fashion Tips, History, Random

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Confessions of the cloth

August 27th 2007 13:02

How long did it take you to get dressed today? I had planned what to wear today well in advance of tucking myself into bed last night. Of course, nothing ever goes to plan. I had chosen a Kinki Gerlinki tent dress with puff sleeves, made of alternating thin stripes of red and blue wool. It has Impressionist style tapestry flowers over it. Oh man, I love it. I usually wear it with a black cardigan, as the dress is enough on its own, but today I was just not content with said cardigan. I then spent the next half an hour trying to figure out what to cover my arms and their goosebumps with (I eventually settled for a black fitted spencer underneath). Trying to sleep through the wardrobe bangs and groans of despair, my boyfriend was witness to my little "episode". He was also witness to a much more panicked, and altogether (with the benefit of hindsight, of course) pathetic case of 'I have nothing to wear' a week earlier. This one lasted an hour, and as a result, I was late to university. Yes, readers, I was freaking out about what to wear to university.

When I admitted to a friend the shames of my shallow life, she confided that she too has days where she feels so uncomfortable she wants to "get off the train and go home". Her self-conscientiousness is also a result of the perils of attending a city university (but to be fair, she goes to a university dedicated to art theory, history and practice

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Posted By: the-mothball-cardigan - Category: Accessories, Dresses, Fashion Tips, Random, Street Chic, Trends

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Allyn Scura - Vintage Eyewear

August 21st 2007 03:52

Website name: www.allynscura.com
Location: California, USA
Category: Eyewear

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Posted By: Chic Critique - Category: Accessories, Fashion Tips, History, Random, Balenciaga, Chanel

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Mums, muttons and lambs

August 20th 2007 12:31

In my dinner shifts as a bistro waitress, I come across a great deal of good and bad outfit decisions. For content purposes, I will refer only to dinner shifts only, as the lunching crowd are somewhat less inclined to look as they dress.

As part of the bourgeoisie crowd, most women aren’t really pushing my style buttons, but most put in some effort. To begin, there are dress codes before entering the venue, such as no hats, no soiled uniforms, no bare feet and no swimwear. However, the lady out for a night on the suburban town with the girls, ladies, man, kids, family or myriad of families is unlikely to be wearing any of the aforementioned outfits, even in the steamiest of Australian summers. I appreciate this modesty and thought. What I don’t appreciate is the severe decline in any form of style and adherence to rules of taste, cut and colour, and sharp increase in the ‘Mumsy’ look

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Posted By: the-mothball-cardigan - Category: Fashion Tips, Random, Trends

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Hair, not the musical

August 19th 2007 10:31

I arrived at work last night to see my manager with her hair down. She has straight dark blonde hair with distinct highlights (read: looks like a half skinned zucchini but in different colours), and I thought it looked very becoming. She thought it looked “messy, like yours”, then did some mime about my hair always being the same messy look. Other colleagues have called it “stylishly unconsidered” and “don’t take this the wrong way, but I really like your messy hair”. Ok, cool. So where and how does hair go from being relaxed to the follicular version of my brother’s room?

My mum and I whittled the discourse on hair down to not what you think is fashion, but how much you epitomise the look of your surrounding culture. If I looked at my manager, she lives in and around people who are in an eternal 2002. Other workmates hang out with Oprah during the day (ah, not actually), and on my recent days off, I have noticed that the hair stylist on Oprah is touting the uncoutured couture look

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Zodee

August 19th 2007 08:18

Website name: www.zodee.com.au
Location: Australia
Category: Lingerie, Swimwear, Sleepwear, Hosiery

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Posted By: Chic Critique - Category: Accessories, Summer, Fashion Tips, Random

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Girls Made This

August 16th 2007 13:56

Website Name: www.girlsmadethis.com
Location: Queensland, Australia
Category: Hand-made Jewellery

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Posted By: Chic Critique - Category: Accessories, Fashion Tips, Random

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Fashion in Film: Amélie

August 2nd 2007 03:32

The doe-eyed innocence of Audrey Tautou captured our hearts in 2001 with the Jean-Pierre Jeunet film "Amélie" (aka Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amélie Poulain). With her child like ways and admirable intent on improving the world around her, we were drawn in to her secret world of magic and mystery.

Audrey Tautou as the idealistic Amélie

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Posted By: Chic Critique - Category: Fashion Tips, Random

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Prada: progenitor of postmodern pastiche

June 14th 2007 00:44

In my habitual internet trawlings I came across quite a feat on the Prada website. Admittedly I didn’t much like this season’s collection but the means by which it is represented is a true cultural document. Prada demonstrates wit, self-reflexivity and pastiche in a way that many other ‘postmodernists’ should envy. As a European luxury brand, descended from a grand tradition to a commercial reality, Prada is a modern day icon but the self-representation offers an entirely new perspective on the brand.

From Prada.com

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Posted By: Fashion - Category: Accessories, Clothes, Dresses, Fashion Tips, Handbags, Models, Photos, Random, Shoes, Prada

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It's all in the curve

May 18th 2007 03:55

One the most complex conundrums of autumn/winter 2007 is the fine distinction between cocoon and bubble skirts, a difference to elucidated below with pictorial and linguistic explication.

The important difference between cocoon skirts and bubble skirts is that one is attractive, flattering and altogether desirable while the other is not. Bubble skirts are like this

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Posted By: Fashion - Category: Autumn, Winter, Clothes, Fashion Tips, Random, Trends

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No Sweat - the Campaign Against Sweatshop Labour

April 28th 2006 11:52

Last night, while dressmaker Alex Perry's new collection was paraded down the runway at Mercedes Australian Fashion Week, I attended a very different fashion event: Fashionanarchy. The night will be covered in a post next week, but for the time being, I'd like to focus on the underlying social cause - proceeds from the event were directed to Oxfam Australia and the International Women's Development Agency in support of campaigns to improve working conditions for sweatshop workers here and overseas.

The anti-sweatshop movement is a relatively unknown but nonetheless ongoing global campaign against sweatshop labour, where workers, sometimes children and slaves, are unethically employed for the production of clothes, shoes, and other fashion products. Often they work in undersized, overcrowded conditions for meager salaries.
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