Sunday, October 3, 2010
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High end fashion was born and raised in Italy from fashion gurus such as Versace, Prada, and Gucci, not to mention Christian Dior and Chanel.
Thank God in the in the 1970s America broke on the scene introducing names like Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, and then again in the 1980s with Donna Karen.
So who's gaining control of the fashion market now?
If names such as Tsumori Chisato and Issey Miyake are absolutely worthless to you, you may suffer from lack of Asian fashion design knowledge.
And while the Asian fashion market is currently growing, there are more names to grasp on to so take notes.
Miyake is no stranger to the fashion industry having worked for Givenchy in Paris (1968), and Geoffery Beene in New York (1969-70) after graduating from Tama Art University in Tokyo.
His timeless collections, signature for his original fabrics, have been in museums as well as on the runways.
Miyake's pioneering has led to the success of many up and coming Asian fashion designers, including his protégé Tsumori Chisato, a well known Tokyo designer distinguished by her eccentric flowing fabrics and colorful needlework.
These and other names of Asian designers are quickly hitting the streets of fashionable cities such as New York.
Is it any surprise that these designers are making a name for themselves in the Big Apple?
Of course not.
If Italy is our fashion motif, then there is no doubt that New York is our fashion capital.
Bringing your style to New York is the best marketing strategy when it comes to selling fashion ideas as Chinese designer Peter Som found out.
This Sacramento designer launched his women's collection in 1999, some of which was introduced on HBO's hit series Sex and the City.
Sex and the City?!?!-a designer's dream come true.
Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) parading around the streets of Manhattan in your collection is a walking resume.
Out of 50 women, she was Vogue's number seven best dressed for 2004.
And to prove how well Parker does for your collection, Som's fashions have become a favorite among celebrities and high end fashion junkies.
And it doesn't stop there. From 2001 to 2005 Asian designers have been making their way to the top of the fashion "food chain" becoming popular with elite fashion gurus and their audiences.
With a little less than a glamorous studio in Jersey, Doo-Ri Chung broke on the scene in 2001 with her sleek elegant collection.
She has those dresses that fit your body to perfection no matter what size you are. Amazing!
Now that Dior, Lauren, Klein, and Louis Vuitton are becoming household names, maybe we can step away from what we know, and taste something different.
Speaking of every woman's best friend Louis Vuitton, Takashi Murakami, well known Japanese artist, did wonders for Vuitton's line.
Murakami's line of colorful cartoon print bags sold out EVERYWHERE.
But is this just the beginning of Asian fashion, or will it soon end like every other trend we love than hate?
Only time will tell, but for now get it while it's hot! Other names to look out for: Jeffrey Chow, Thakoon Panichgul, and Derek Lam.
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
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Fashion - almost as beauty - is a terrible power. People subjected to its influence, can make something about themselves to make everybody around think: "Is this person crazy or what?" Fashion throws us from one extreme to another. But its main tendency remains - it returns. Where? It returns into a well-forgotten past.
Retro style follows designers as an obsession. And because of the fact that present day fashion is a kind of Rubicon among beauty and frivolity, accessories help us to control ourselves. But these accessories should also be functional.
For instance, let us take a watch. White metal watches in the style of 80-es are now in fashion again. The simplest watch on a big strap becomes a stylish and even extravagant thing if taking into consideration uneasy fashion conditions.
Nowadays a watch means not just a possibility to know the time, because there are a lot of other ways for this. For instance, your cell phone, time service or clocks on the street can substitute a watch. But to help you really enjoy the process of time-reading there are stylish wristwatches.
An interesting fact is that for the last 15 years wrist watches designers have begun to follow more and more changeable clothing fashion. Now a fashion person has great number of various wristwatches to match all his/her fashion clothes and shoes. And if for women a watch is a small addition to everything else, for men who stick to strict style in clothing - a watch is a single chance (except a tie) to be different from all others.
Wristwatches designers create collections of all the necessary accessories chasing the main fashion trends. They elaborate watch design for all clothing styles and for all life events.
There are no doubts that wrist watches design will continue following the latest fashion trends.
As for the main watch fashion trends, it's a serious matter because it concerns wide layers of population. There is fashion for children's, male, female, and teenager's watches. The age of a buyer is also important. The matter is that nowadays there's no technological revolution in the world of watches that's why they just change watch design and materials in watch production.
Today watches serve as a fashion accessory - you can change it depending on what you put on -jeans or a suit. One of popular colors is gold in combination with steal.
Watches have to match your suit style - one of dress code rules tells. That's why when black and white colors have been substituted for bright colors, a real revolution has happened in the watch world and the majority of watch producers have taken part in it.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab produces perfume oils unlike anything else on the market. Aiming for a "dark, romantic Gothic tone" the Alchemy Lab carries scents inspired by religions, literature, cities of the world, fairy tales and inside jokes. The general catalog contains hundreds of different perfumes, and limited edition scents are frequently provided. Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is referred to as BPAL or the Lab by customers. These perfumes are unlike any other commercially produced scents.
The sheer volume can be overwhelming for a new customer. Fortunately BPAL offers Imp's Ears, samples of most general catalog scents. Samples are not available for limited editions and a few general catalog scents. Imps are standard 1/32oz perfume vials. They are $3 individually, and $16 for a half dozen. BPAL oils are packaged in small glass bottles with screw tops. These bottles are usually cobalt blue, though sometimes amber bottles are used. General catalog scents have simple black and white labels, but the limited edition labels are often elaborate and colorful. 5ml and 10ml bottles of scents cost from $12.50 to $25. Considering the perfume oil content of each blend is 85 to 100%, these prices make BPAL one of the most affordable perfume lines around. BPAL oils are 85 to 100% perfume oil, as compared to straight perfume (15-25%), eaudeparfum (8-15%) or eaude cologne (2-5%). No animal products are used in any BPAL fragrances. Elements such as civet are composites created from carefully mixed bouquets.
The general catalog is broken down into the following categories: Bewitching Brews, Funeral Oils, Dark Elements, Sin & Salvation, Love potions, Diabolus, Mad Tea Party, Illyria, Wanderlust, ArsDraconis, Rappaccini's Garden, The Salon, Excolo, Voodoo Blends, Tarot Oils, Sephiroth, The Chakras, Panacea, and Somnium. Some categories, such as the Tarot and Chakras are straightforward. ArsDraconis includes several scents using dragon's blood as a base. Illyria contains scents inspired by Shakespeare, and Mad Tea Party is a line influenced by Lewis Carroll's work. Wanderlust showcases perfumes named for cities and places both real and legendary. Many scents in the catalog are inspired by famous and obscure works of fiction or art. Dorian is a hugely popular scent named after Wilde's famous dandy. There's a scent named for Wilde as well. Many scents reference poetry, legends and religious myth. There are scents for gluttony, wrath, envy, sloth, greed, lust and pride in the Sin & Salvation category. It is often surprising to experience how well the perfumes suit their names and descriptions.
Limited edition scents are usually just placed in the Limited category. BPAL has a limited edition series titled "A Little Lunacy" that appears each month on the full moon. Lunacy scents are created around various names for full moons, such as Harvest Moon, Flower Moon, Snow Moon, Hungry Ghost Moon, and Honey Moon. Lunacy scents are only available for 24 hours on the day of the full moon. Other limited scents are often created for the season, such as the Halloween and Yule creations. Sometimes the Lab creates an entire line of limited edition scents available for a few months at a time. One of the first was Springtime in Arkham, a tribute to HP Lovecraft. The second was CarnavalNoir, an intriguing line of scents inspired by a suggestion regarding summer carnival food on the customer forum. one of BPAL's most popular scents ever was Midway, a sugary tribute to fried and sweet foods. Other limited edition lines A Demon in My View and Maelstrom. These limited edition lines allowed the Lab to create complex olfactory tributes to Edgar Allen Poe's short stories and poems.
An enormously popular limited edition offering was Chaos Theory. Each bottle of Chaos Theory was unique and untitled except for a roman numeral. Every single bottle was a different blend. The only rule to the edition was that there was no way to choose which bottle arrived. Chaos Theory was so popular it is now in its third round. in the third round, oils containing common allergens such as nuts were removed so that no bottles would cause any unexpected reactions.
Because scents are not transmitted through the internet, the BPAL customer forum is an essential tool for a shopper when selecting a scent. Most perfumes have a brief description o the major notes or inspiration for the oil. Because BPAL oils are mostly perfume oil and complex, they often react in different ways to the skin chemistry of different people. What smells like a bounty of lily and musk to one person may turn plastic and sour on another. The forum contains reviews written by customers about the oils. It is an excellent resource to use while learning which scents work best with one's personal preferences and body chemistry. Customers of the Lab learn to train a discriminating nose, and many reviews are elaborate affairs with complex analysis of the stages of the perfumes.
When BPAL scents don't work out, there is a lively secondhand market for imps and bottles. The customer forum has a subsection devoted to swapping and selling scents that just didn't work out. this softens the blow for any customer disappointed with their purchase, as it is quite easy to trade and sell on the forum. Moderators make an effort to address any issues with members who don't follow through with swaps, a practice known as "swap-lifting." There are also limits on the forum to prevent the prices of discontinued oils from spiking too high. eBay is another source for secondhand BPAL scents, with more freedom for pricing. However bidding wars for discontinued or limited edition scents can push the price up dramatically.
The Black Phoenix Trading Post (BPTP) is also affiliated with the Lab. Here one finds shirts, scent lockets and statues inspired by and for BPAL. Each month the Trading Post offers a shirt to correspond with the Lunacy update. Unlike the Lunacy blends, BPTP shirts usually stay up for sale for one week. There are several regular catalog shirts, as well as several heavy silver scent lockets designed by the Lab. BPTP plans to continue expanding their offerings over the coming year. Orders for BPTP products cannot be combined with orders from BPAL because they are separate entities.
BPAL is a small business, and has experienced a number of growing pains over the past few years. The wait time for shipments climbed dramatically, sometimes topping out at six to eight weeks. In 2006, shipping times have shortened and are now only a few weeks. On the customer forum, one of the most heavily trafficked threads chronicles the shipping notices received by customers. The Lab prides itself on excellent customer service and works quickly correct any problems. Because they are a small business, Lab staff have an unusually personal and friendly relationship with large chunks of their fan base. Lab staff are frequent contributors to the customer forum. Some offhand jokes in the forum have mushroomed into inspiration for BPAL blends, most notably the CarnavalNoir line in 2005, and the limited edition Enraged Orangutan Musk.
For scents to compliment lifestyles from the gothic to the geeky, the Black Phoenix Alchemy lab supplies quality perfumes. Few other companies can provide such nuanced and beautiful creations for such an inexpensive price. With a reasonable price for samples and an active secondhand market, it is easy to become hooked on BPAL oils.
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