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Being in fashion is a necessity for many people and it’s a daily consideration that takes up a large part of their day. People spend time on hairstyles that are trendy and unique with the focal point on acceptance. Trendy clothing has been a mainstay for centuries with trend setting going to those who sit in the higher classes of society. Fashion sense is nothing new and it can be dated back to the dawn of civilization. So it’s no wonder that we remain transfixed on fashion just as deeply as we did centuries ago.

Some people focus on accessories like tungsten rings to help them separate themselves from others in the dating scene. The perfect catch needs to be able to find you on that dance floor and the right amount of fashion can do the trick. It’s vital to show who you are in your look because the first stages of attraction are almost always non-verbal. Therefore, fashion plays an important role in relationship building.  Once the attraction is established you can use your charm to reel them in but if you are not fashionable for the scene you are into then you’ll have a very hard time connecting with anyone.

The world of business usually has the same high standards on fashion as your private world. If your hair is messy and your cloths tattered and torn you will surely have trouble bringing in new clients or closing the deal. The worlds most successful business people dress with an eye on what is fashionable for their business. If you work in high finance you’ll mostly likely be wearing a costly high-end suit.  If you are working in the fashion industry you’ll likely be more on the eccentric side and you’ll accessories nicely with those tungsten rings mentioned earlier.

Even if you’re counter culture and you avoid all things fashionable you’ll likely find yourself subscribing to the fashion of the counter culture in which you identify yourself. It may seem like a vicious circle but it’s a fact of life that everyone identifies with a specific group of people and usually you’ll work to fit in and fashion plays a big part of comfortably fitting in. As you get older your fashion will change but if you take note you’ll notice that your circle of relationships has changed and you are not working to comply with their fashion needs.

Kimberly Green
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My sisters and I used to watch a video of three or four young boys in a fashion show. They randomly start dancing and it is hillarious. We think two of there names are damien and xavier. PLEASE HELP FIND THIS!

surf FTV.com and look for Girbaud shows, or Romeo Gigli shows

Hip-hop fashion is a distinctive style of dress originating with African-American youth in The 5 Boroughs (New York City), and later influenced by the hip-hop scenes of Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), Detroit, and The Dirty South among others. But hip-hop fashion wouldn’t be the fashion known today without the helping hand of a man called “The Shiny Suit Man”.

The rise of hip-pop in the late-1990s, primarily the work of Sean “Diddy” Combs, known locally around New York at that time as the “Shiny Suit Man” brought elements such as loud, flashy PVC aviator inspired suits and platinum jewelry to the forefront of hip hop in an effort to add a new vivid dimension of color and flash to the videos produced as a marketing tool.

Combs, who started his own sean john clothing line, and clothing manufacturers such as Karl Kani and FUBU brought hip hop fashion to the mainstream, resulting in a multi-million dollar hip hop fashion industry. But who is Sean John Combs? And what was his contribution to the ever growing hip-hop fashion?

Sean John Combs

Sean John Combs, also known by his stage names such as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, and now known as Diddy, is an American rapper, record producer, actor, dancer, entrepreneur, and men’s fashion designer. His popularity in the industry brought him three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards.

Combs was also the founder of the every growing recording company, Bad Boy Records that produced famous hip-hop artists and personalities including The Notorious B.I.G, Craig Mack, Dream, Carl Thomas, Faith Evans, Father MC, 112 and Total. As well as producing for Jodeci, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil’ Kim, TLC, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, SWV, Aretha Franklin, and others, and forming The Hitmen, an in-house production team.

In 1997, Combs recorded his first commercial vocal as a rapper under the name “Puff Daddy.” His debut single, “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” spent six weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. His debut album, No Way Out was a #1 album and won the 1998 Grammy Award for best rap album.

In 2002, he was featured on Fortune magazine’s “40 Richest People Under 40″ list and was placed number one in the list of the top ten richest people in hip-hop.

Business Ventures and Sean John

His business interests under the umbrella of Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide include Bad Boy Records, the clothing lines sean john and Sean by Sean Combs, a movie production company, and two restaurants.

In 1998, Combs started a clothing line, sean john. It was nominated for the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Award for Menswear Designer of the Year in 2000, and another in 2004. Sean John is a clothing founded by hip-hop mogul Sean John Combs in which the name was taken from Combs’ first and middle given names.

Part of what made sean john clothing popular in the streets of the urban community is the people that represents the brand. These people includes rappers such as T.I., Fabolous, The Game, Daddy Yankee, basketball stars including Dwayne Wade and Tristan Sooklal, plus models Tyson Beckford and Kevin Navayne, and Combs himself.

“I always had the idea that I would start my own apparel line, but I wanted to make sure the timing was right and that I had the time to devote to it,” said Combs in an interview. Since its launch, Sean John has recieved critical and commercial success. Through the support of both the fashion community and retailers, sean john has quickly grown from an urban label to an international brand.

Sean John has often appeared at the award ceremony for the Council of Fashion Designers of America held annually in New York. For five consecutive years since 2000, Sean John has been nominated for its excellence in design. In 2004, Sean John was awarded the CFDA Men’s Designer of the Year award.

In November 2008, Combs launched his latest men’s perfume under the Sean John brand called “I Am King.” On November 24th, 2008, he unveiled a new Times Square billboard for the “I Am King,” line to replace his iconic Sean John ad. The giant billboard is currently the largest print ad in Times Square.

In addition to his clothing line, Combs owns an upscale restaurant chain called Justin’s, named after his son. The current restaurant is in Atlanta; the original New York location was closed in September 2007. Combs is also the designer of the green Dallas Mavericks alternate jersey.

Controversies Within the Sean John

The clothing line became controversial in 2003 when it was discovered that factories producing the clothing in Honduras were violating Honduran labor law. Among the accusations put forth were that workers were subjected to body searches and paid sweatshop wages. Charles Kernaghan of the National Labor Committee, who first exposed the factory, is quoted in the New York Times as saying, “Sean Puff Daddy obviously has a lot of clout, he can literally do a lot overnight to help these workers.”

In late 2006, MSNBC reported, “Macy’s has pulled from its shelves and its Web site two styles of Sean John hooded jackets, originally advertised as featuring faux fur, after an investigation by the nation’s largest animal protection organization concluded that the garments were actually made from an animal called a “raccoon dog”.

Combs said he had been unaware of the material, but as soon as he knew about it, he had his clothing line stop using the material. In 2008 he appeared in a Macy’s commercial.

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It has become so dull. The only Designers that are actually ‘fashion’are Rodarte, Alexander Mcqueen and viktor and rolf.
What are your opinions?
It also seems that every one wants to be in the fashion industry because of those asinine fashion shows on Bravo, MTV and Lifetime.

Slowly, reality TV shows will act like a toxic cancer within the industry of focus. It happened with the food industry first: Every kid that saw Bobby Flay, Emerill, etc…. wanted to BAM their way into fame and success. No one told them that even if they went to culinary school, they would still have to start for $8 an hour chopping onions and tomatoes.

The other thing that is happening in fashion is something that took place in film not too long ago: The creative types and designers who once ran the business of fashion have been marginalized and replaced with number crunchers and business folk. The hope is that they can be more profit minded and have more success. Its counter intuitive sometimes…the decisions on a business that’s product is the result of a creative process and they are ill-equipped to do so….hence the failure. They wont take responsibility for the decline in profit, they will blame the creative types and budgets will be cut, R & D will get slashed, junkets will be stopped, travel will be impeded. Fashion is not the industry where a company will do better in the end by tightening the noose or penny pinching.

So everyone wants to be a designer and a model now and its life, Its metamorphosis and there isn’t anything one can do to change it….or is there? Perhaps now is the time for true, hard core innovation and street level marketing with guerrilla style marketing and exposure tactics? And by the way, street level these days means, Facebook, Twitter and any other social media avenue that can be navigated and mapped for business and "buzz"

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Fashion is always changing and you sometimes end up not being able to catch up with it. How many times have you bought a new outfit and ended up just wearing it once because it was no longer in fashion? Were there times that you bought a lot of stuff that ended up at the back of your closet, never to see daylight again? Don’t you just cringe when you remember what you wore it once just because it was the “trend”?

With the way fashion changes in an instant, it becomes really difficult to distinguish which is fad and which is true fashion. You most probably end up buying tons of stuff that you never get to wear the next year or worse, the next week, and thus, were not worth the money that you paid for them. Here are some tips to help you all along.

Know the Trend, Know Yourself

It is actually very easy to know what the next trend is going to be. You get a hint of this when you watch popular television shows and observe famous actors and actresses. Celebrities are usually the ones who promotes a new trend and if you don’t really like gossiping about their lives, then think that this is one way of finding out what the next fashion is going to be.

Finding what’s popular now is actually very easy. You will see images in magazines, designs copied in stores and the most telling part is when somebody you know is wearing them. The important question to ask yourself is, “Can I wear them?” and “Will I have the opportunity to wear it?”

Don’t just buy something because it is the new trend without being sure yourself that you can wear it. Don’t just stash it in the far corners of your closet thinking that you could probably put it to good use someday. There is really no point in buying something that you are not sure you could wear.

Keep Up with Fashion, Ignore the Fad

It is very tempting to buy the latest skinny jeans or indulge in a pair of espadrilles but you should stock up on the basics and classic pieces first. Classic pieces like the little black dress, black slacks, white button down shirt, jeans and a black pencil skirt are fashion pieces that never go out of style.

For example, leopard prints are the latest trend and you want to try the look out. Instead of buying every article of clothing that has a leopard print in it, why not buy a few accessory pieces or two just to satisfy your curiosity and give you that updated, new fashion look? You can buy headbands with leopard prints or pumps with leopard prints and pair those up with classic pieces like a pair of jeans and a white button down shirt.

Don’t get caught up in fashion to the point that you don’t get to decide yourself if you look good or not. Know yourself, know your body and decide to wear what you like and what looks great. Sometimes, fashion is just all about common sense.

Benedict Smythe
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French fashion have done far into the world of fashion worldwide. And of course into the major continent of it which is in Europe. When we talk about French fashion, how far do French fashion already got. The uniqueness of French fashion was brought zest to the French fashion trends. Through the intuition of French, Paris is became the fashion capital of the world. In this matter, the French fashion are totally blooming up for an artistic way to cultured up the French Fashion culture in Europe. Though there are some fashion capital already in Europe such as the city of Madrid, Milan, and Rome. This is because of the wide accommodation of the networks of well-known designer companies which are known owned by most French designers and other foreign designers. The elegant and luxury fashion trends are depict by French fashion through the concept and designs of the world class designers such as Louis Vuitton, Charles Frederick Worth, Coco Chanel, Lucien Lelong, Elsa Schiaparelli, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent. These are the French designers that brought the culture of French Fashion all over Europe. Because of there featured luxury fashion products, they are successful in maintaining the fashion culture of French in Europe and all over the world.

The effect of French fashion in Europe are very important when it comes to the fashion lifestyle there. The French fashion dwells on the high standard living in Europe as they produce an intimate luxury in style, quality of material, magnificent design, and elegant outlook of every designer clothes or clothing products that they produce. French Fashion network is important also in the economy of France as well as all over Europe. Because of millions of people who are embrace the luxurious concept of French fashion. It really contributes percentage of per capita in the economy through the clothing industry in Europe. French are not just done on clothing line. As far as Fashion is concern, they conquer also lifestyle fashion such as in food fashions, interior home designs, and fashionable furniture industries. That’s why French fashion networks are burst all over Europe.

In Europe, French Fashion is the major source of latest and hottest fashions from time to time. They are always on the major bulletin for them to incorporate the fashion culture that contribute by French in Europe. Even in major fashion destinations worldwide, when we talk on French fashion, no wonder for all customers that they want to have it. French fashion is already a signature trend of Fashion. Designer clothes are very important when it comes to French fashion because it serves as one the quality products that dwells on the elegance and luxuries of life in Europe. For people who are having those products are worth and valuable for them. And that ‘s the culture of French fashion which really embrace by many fashionista around Europe and all over the world. That is the great impact of French fashion which already blends on the taste of every European Fashionistas.

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I just wondered how fashion designers etc do this. I am curious as I hear about it all the time but wanted more information.

they are the ones who create the fashion, they design the trends. it’s high street brands and people in advertising who do the forecasting, based on what the lovely designers give them.

they normally design a two seasons ahead. but they only come out on the catwalks one season before.

so the spring/summer collection will come out in winter. but the designers will be on the next autumn/winter collection.

Perhaps it’s time to be on the lookout for a fun and constructive hobby. One that will allow a young girl to stretch her imagination, and at the same time, provide hours and hours of fun. If you find yourself getting bored, and having lots of extra time on your hands and you don’t really know what to do with your time, maybe you can start looking at fashion games and dress up games.

Fashion games.

Let’s start by taking a closer look at fashion games. In a way, both types of games are rather similar. But when you play fashion games, you have to be more aware of the latest fashion trends. This is not mandatory but having that knowledge will certainly allow you to have more fun with fashion games.

So before you start on these games, go do a little homework. Find out what is the latest fashion trend. What is in, and what is out. How does the latest winter collection look like? This is a rather fun process. You can source for inspiration online, or from magazines lying around the house.

Once you have a good idea of fashion trends, start up your computer and start searching for fashion games. There are hundreds of such games available on the Internet, and the best part is, they are free. You can play these games as many times as you want. Usually, such games involve dressing up virtual dolls or celebrities with the latest fashion wear. Now that you already have a good idea of the latest fashion trends, these challenges will be a piece of cake for you!

Dress up games.

In a way, fashion games are also dress up games. You get the opportunity to create the model that you’ve always wanted. You do this by choosing from a wide variety of apparel, which you can use to dress your virtual model (a doll or a celebrity) from head to toe. You can choose fanciful hats, stunning coats, dazzling shoes, and more. For some games, you can even choose the make up for your model.

As you mix and match, whatever is in your imagination seems to come to life in the game. This is how you can stretch your imagination. There are literally hundreds of different combinations you can choose from. The possibilities are endless, and the sky is the limit.

Of course, to have more fun with dress up or fashion games, it’s always good to choose a model that you are familiar with. For example, you can choose to dress up Barbie doll, or you can choose to dress up your favorite pop idol. Sometimes, the combination may even come out all wrong, and this can be hilarious!

So now you know what you can do with all that spare time of yours. Try out some dress up or fashion games. They are highly addictive!

Gen Wright
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The school of Italian language for foreigners Leonardo da Vinci in Milan dedicates to all the guys who are fans of fashion but most of all of “made in Italy”, a really unique and special course in a class by itself: Fashion Show.

For the first time in Italy, in fact, a school for foreigners suggests to guys a peculiar way to learn Italian, especially Italian for fashion.

Yes, because thanks to the course Fashion Show, the guys will find themselves in close contact with one of the most important aspects of our culture, that is fashion, learning in this way to know in detail the characteristics that make the ‘made in Italy’ products the center of international fashion.

They will study the history of Italian fashion, but most of all they will learn the use of Italian language in the field of fashion. The course Fashion Show in the school of Milan has a duration of 3 weeks and the next one will take place from 16th February to 7th March, even if further dates are in the works for 2009.

In the first part of the course, (two weeks) students will attend 4 daily lessons of Professional Italian, dwelling especially upon fashion terminology, plus one day of lessons thought by professional operators in the field of fashion.

Therefore, these two weeks will give students the necessary instruments to enjoy the last week of the course, which represents just the heart of Fashion Show, that is the visits to showrooms and runways of the great fashion fairs which will take place in Milan just in that period, “Milano Moda Uomo”, “Milano Moda Donna”, “Moda Prima”.

The course in Fashion Show is therefore an interesting and particular way for learning Italian language, especially if you are studying or you are fans of fashion.

Fashion is one of the main elements of Italian culture, which boasts of really ancient traditions and still today after many years, it has not lost its prestige and high quality.

So guys, if you like the country of Italy, and you would like to deepen your knowledge of Italian language in a constructive and exciting way, the course of Fashion Show is perfect for you! For dates and prices, and all the information about the courses of the Italian school Leonardo da Vinci, consult our website.

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