Además del Google Wave, ir al Dentista, el Estrecho de Gibraltar, Mad Men y un celular de acero la página, la página Style.com opina que están de moda los zapatos blancos, con estampados locos y perforados. Como NUNCA queremos perdernos los zapatos de moda, veamos:

1. Christian Louboutin. Plataforma de satén. 2. Roger Vivier. Sandalia de gamuza con flecos. 3. Jimmy Choo. Sandalia de charol con taco luminoso. 4. Givenchy. Plataforma con estampado óptico. 5. Manolo Blahnik. Sandalia de corazón. 6. Christian Louboutin. Bota rayada multicolor de lona altura de la rodilla. 7. Balmain. Sandalia tribal. 8. Balenciaga. Sandalia de cuero estampado. 9. Ralph Lauren. Plataforma cowboy. 10. Nicholas Kirkwood. Sandalia ochentera. 11. Viktor & Rolf. Bota/Sandalia alambrada. 12. Prada. Sandalia de Plástico con aplicaciones. 13. Pierre Hardy. Sandalia con joya. 14. Manolo Blahnik. Botín boquita de pescado. 15. Marni. Bota perforada.

… que nós AMAAAAAAAAAAMOS a Givenchy.


SÓ COISA MARAVILHOOOOSA!!!

I’m sure most women often get blasted by remarks on why we buy so many handbags when we probably only need a few.  Well my answer to you is that “we can, we like, so we buy”.  A luxurious handbag, one that nestly sits at least above $250, is a superb gift for any girl to receive; under stretching your wallet when purchasing will only exemplify a man’s lack of understanding on women and also that they’re cheap.  Cheap is the number 1 no-no in the girls guide to dating 101!  Anyways handbags are a daily essential for women; let’s see, we carry our couture wallet, mirror, lip gloss, make up case, keys, etc…. Men, on the other hand, seem to get away with carrying a little clutter in that little pocket behind their butt.   

If you are a man reading this your brain is probably still looped in a knot. I myself am an enthusiast on understanding gender differences in an effort to scale down any ugly unconscious ignorant behavior.  So to be fair, let me kindly provide the gents with a more testosterone driven example to understand our obsession over luxurious ($250+) handbags.  On an apple to apple basis, women value handbags just the way men value their cars.  A dowdy handbag is like a bad hair cut that will add 10 years to a girl in her prime years.   Using the same, but reversed, analogy, an aging 50-year-old dude driving a Ferrari 458 Italia will attract girls up to a century younger than his age! 

So very much like cars, handbags are a status symbol in society; the more luxurious “it” handbag we carry the higher the rank in enviable-ability and desirability we’re perceived by others.  Similarly, a guy racing down the street in a prestigious fast car will probably be overwhelmed with a rush of cocky adrenaline.   Like women buying expensive handbags to flaunt, I do believe a lot of men buy cars to make other men jealous.  Some may view this behavior as insecurity but you can’t deny the reality that beauty always over wins the beast.  Elegance and quality does come with a price and expensive handbags and cars are priced at that latitude for a reason. 

Both designer handbags and cars have a resell value.  With that said I would go as far as saying that unlike cars, handbags do not depreciate in value as poorly.  An uber luxurious handbag will rarely depreciate at all in value and will actually appreciate in value like a piece of  Picasso painting. For example, if I can get my hands on a limited edition designer handbag, like the Chanel “Diamond forever” Classic bag, it will be an $261,000 investment that will only incrementally grow in value year over year.   Only thirteen of these pricey Chanel bags were created with only five available stateside. The alligator-skin bags featured clasps set with 334 diamonds (3.56 carat) in the shape of Chanel’s trademark double-C logo. Eighteen carat white gold was used to fashion both the clasp and the bag’s long shoulder strap.  I admit $261,000 may be a bit off the chart pricey but there are many other limited edition handbags with a long wait list that are potential profitable winners in the near future. Now compare this to the no name brand $20 Walmart handbag and you will have lost more than your $20,nonetheless the lack ability to make money on it!

Again much like cars the definition of ‘luxury handbags do have sub-categories; there is the upper-echelon luxury handbags, the mid luxury handbags, and the budget luxury handbags.  I am by far no car aficionado but let me just provide you a comparable gist of the similarity between cars and handbags

UPPER-ECHELON LUXURY

Examples of upper-echelon luxury handbags includes Chanel, Givenchy, and Hermes

MID-LUXURY

Examples of mid-luxury handbags includes Botkier, KALE, and EKatrina New York

BUDGET LUXURY

Examples of budget luxury handbags includes Trace by KALE and Tres by Treesje 

Despite categories, all handbags preempted luxurious are all of quality and class and just might be worth spending your next pay check on.  All in all handbags are just one of these designer products that makes the female population go crazy over.  So women can be a bit irrationally crazy at times, but what’s new right!?  So boyfriends/husbands out there, tis the season of giving so go out and buy your girl a luxury handbag, preferably in the upper-echelon sector for me please!

jacob is represented by ford model managment.
he appears editorially for the japanese mens style publication, huge.
outfitted completely in givenchy’s autumn/fall collection, its all perfect.
very minimal, very chic- very much everything i love about style.
the way things are presented editorially is almost obsessively clean.
photographic credit for this spread to satoshi saikusa.
styling executed by tsuyoshi noguchi.

imagesource | tfs

Si  hay alguien que picará cono el sol de las doce, esa es Natalia Vodianova. La cotizada modelo rusa modela protagonizará varias campañas de Primavera-Verano 2010, que incluye Calvin Klein,Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Stella McCartney, Guerlain, Etam lingerie.

Nada mal para alguien que está en retiro.

I’ve been on a ’60s kick lately (even though I’ve been absent from the blog for a bit) and now comes the news of an auction of clothes largely from that decade from the wardrobe of the incomparable Audrey Hepburn. The big numbers are from Givenchy, her lifelong designer and friend, like the silk cloqué dress above from his autumn-winter 1966 collection that’s a most distinctive shade of blue. Seriously, the woman could even make a pastel look sophisticated. And as the catalogue notes, she ordered the dress (no loaners for Miss Hepburn!) for her publicity tour for Two For The Road, one of my all-time favorite movies.

Of course the auction includes loads of little black dresses, her trademark, and the story behind it is pretty rich. In 1951, Audrey, then 21, met Tanja Starr-Busmann, the 15-year-old daughter of a Dutch diplomat, in London where their families were neighbors. It was the start of a life-long friendship, and periodically Audrey would load up a big box with her haute couture cast-offs and send them off to Tanja. It really was a different world – Busmann even gave one of the Givenchy gowns to the nanny! Now all these years later, Kerry Taylor Auctions in London has acquired “the collection” and it’s set to go under the hammer on December 8, with half of the proceeds going to Unicef and the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund. Experts expect the sale to net north of $150,000, but authenticated Audrey pieces rarely come on the market and, after last week’s Yves St. Laurent sale where his old pots and pans went for $22,000, I think it’s anybody’s guess. I mean it’s Audrey Hepburn!

And then there is her wedding dress – for the marriage that never was. While she was filming the star-making Roman Holiday in 1952 in Rome, she sought out out the Fontana Sisters – renowned in postwar Italy for their full-skirted romantic gowns – to create her wedding dress. But as she finished the movie she called off her engagement to an Englishman and implored the sisters to give the dress away,”to the most beautiful, poor Italian girl you can find – someone who couldn’t ever afford a dress like mine.” (An impoverished farm girl, Amabile Altobella, wore it, stayed happily married and said the dress brought her luck.) Could you die?

Speaking of weddings, Audrey Hepburn also wore a lot of Valentino in the ’60s, and from his legendary Spring 1968 all-white couture collection there is a lacy vanilla mini, a version of the dress that Jackie O chose for her Skorpios ceremony with Ari. Val-hollah!

¿Quieres asistir a un concierto exclusivo de Russian Red?

Givenchy Play,la nueva fragancia masculina de Givenchy te da la oportunidad. Para ello ha lanzado un concurso exclusivo a través de varios blogs musicales que consiste simplemente en contestar a una pregunta: ¿qué te sugiere la nueva fragancia masculina de Givenchy, PLAY? Las respuetas más originales podrán asistir al concierto privado que Russian Red ofrecerá el próximo 1 de diciembre a las 21:00 h. en el Skynight Bar (ático del Hotel puerta América de Madrid).

La fragancia está ligada desde el primer momento con el mundo de la música, no solo por su diseño (que recuerda a un reproductor de MP3) o por su nombre, Play, sino por la forma de promoción elegida: a través de blogs musicales y con un concierto de uno de los nuevos talentos nacionales, Russian Red.

Animaos a participar ya que esta promoción, como ya he dicho, es exclusiva para unos cuantos blogs musicales, por lo que las opciones de llevarse el premio aumentan considerablemente. Además se que los lectores de subelamusica.com son muy originales y seguro que se les ocurren respuestas muy ingeniosas 

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Haz click aquí para participar en el concurso de Givenchy Play y consigue tu entrada para ver a Russian Red en un conceirto privado.

Daos prisa, ¡el concurso acaba este viernes 27 de Noviembre!
¡Mucha suerte!

Daria minha vida por essa tiara maravilhosa! E os sapatos? OMG os sapatos….

Horrible sandalia, pero para continuar con la moda de cebra, esta vez en Givenchy, con aplicaciones y brillantes en una tira cruzada que pasa por el tobillo y mas allá, con 11 centímetros de taco, en oferta en Barneys.

Givenchy fashion house has created a make-up collection by the 19^th century Dandies – with a rock n’ roll twist. The product is designed in limited edition style pocket watches. The traditional silver pocket watch design is in collaboration with Givenchy Couture which opens up a Sweet Dandy pink highlighter giving the lips a glossy sheen and/or the cheeks or if you want that radiant glow use the highlighter on your shoulders and chest.

Ladylike

While I would never condone a closet full of frills and pink lace, a little bit is a good thing.

Starting from the top: Dolce & Gabbana Miss Sicily bag, Smythson Nancy weekender, Dires Van Noten leather tote, Givenchy textured white bag, Chanel Coco country bag, Valextra leather Tip Top bag, Hermes Spectator sandals

Calvin Klein metallic sandal with lacquered heel, Alexandra Neel satin chantilly sandal, Fendi suede sandal with tulle

Amadeirado energético, para homens sonhadores, expressivos e modernos. Suas notas combinam flor de laranjeira, tangerina, alecrim, baunilha e manjericão.

Esse perfume é muito bom e tem ótima fixação. Vale lembrar que mesmo sendo um perfume masculino, sua fragrância encanta muitas mulheres, por mais de dois anos eu usei e abusei do PI, “acho que não é por acaso que o seu nome PI (Π), seja um presente dos deuses gregos para nós, simples mortais”.

http://www.parfumsgivenchy.com

It has just come to my attention that my father recently stumbled across my blog, and when I say “stumbled” I mean actively searched for it after I threatened to burn our home down should he ever so much as google my name. While I do feel somewhat hindered, I will try with every fiber of my being to maintain the increasingly high quality of this blog despite knowing that my own father will be reading every stupid entry.

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Christmas List '09 - "Maison Martin Margiela: 20 Years The Exhibition"

I suppose when one decides to major in fashion design and attempt to maintain a “fashion” blog, they open themselves up to a variety of expectations and stereotypes. This past Thursday evening, I was both cattily and sarcastically referred to as a “fashion expert” by a gay idiot at a bad party who just happened to be wearing a pair of purple jeans.

Most mildly retarded people wouldn’t even joke about me considering myself to be a fashion expert. I am more than aware of the fact that I have less than five actual “outfits” and I still manage to get profoundly confused and frustrated when I dress myself every day. Having an appreciation and interest in design is a little different from having an opinion on what people actually wear on a daily basis. Even though I might think colored denim and Hitler Youth haircuts are a little “2000 and Late“, I could honestly give two shits about what people actually choose to adorn their disgusting bodies with.

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Christmas List '09 - "Pi by Givenchy"

I’ve recently realized how important a persons scent is. I’d have to say that smell is capable of attracting me to a person more than their looks or personality, so I try and remember make an effort and use some kind of fragrance.

Lately I’ve been using “Diagonal” by Gareth Pugh but I’ve been trying not to get attached and preserve it for special occasions since it’s limited edition.

I think my recent interest in the scents of myself and others was caused by my friend Anni when she informed me that I am “one of those kids that always smells like detergent”. Detergent smells nice enough, but I’m not particularly interested in reminding people of their freshly cleaned panties.