Archive for August, 2010

The Business of Fashion

August 26th, 2010

When the first human being, in Eden or on earth, covered his body with leaves, or later with an animal skin, the fashion industry was founded at that time. Terra Cotta figurines of the oldest Harappan Age show interesting headdresses that can be compared with any modern hairstyle with a heavy look. The Dancing Girl of Mohenjo Daro with bangles in her arms is not behind any fashion sculpt of any age. While no one can deny the allure and glamour of Cleopatra; a woman with great political skills and a long nose, who crafted many fashion styles from jewelry to outfits of the great Egyptian Empire of Scissors.

But fashion is not only associated to women always! In ancient times of Cleopatra, Scissors always wore clothes that were royal, expensive, stylistic, attractive and special. While in the Western part of the globe, the Greeks and Romans not only marked high standards in Art, Architecture, and Warfare, but their unique and intricate concepts of a perfect and godlike human body, especially of males, supported the appealing army uniforms and court-wears.

The supernatural characters of illustrious Greek, Egyptian and Indian Mythologies did provide extraordinary range of apparel; well preserved in the form of painting and sculpture.

These ancient models are still the greatest sources of inspiration for modern day fashion designers and the origins of the evolved form of cultural trends prevailed through continents from Australia to America and from Asia to Africa.

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Be a Fashion Icon, Can You

August 26th, 2010

People follow fashion trend blindly thinking that others will notice them but when everyone is following same trend then how can you separate yourself from them? The answer is by creating and innovating your own fashion, your own style. Here are some helping notes for you to become fashion epitome for others-

1. Always keep on experimenting with your looks. People will start noticing you. For some weeks have ethnic look,for next few weeks have rock looks and you can also go for funky looks. This will show diversity in your personality. This advice is specially for young bachelors.

2. For married people more sophisticated fashion should be adopted. This will enhance their personality. Extra accessory with ethnic looks very garish. One can go for any dress but everything should be in balanced way. If you are going for heavy dress then make up and accessory should be light so as to give a perfect look.

3. If any of the above points doesn’t suits you then don’t worry there is another way to become a fashion icon.You can be creative with your hair.This will make you vivacious and people will start noticing your hairstyle.

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Why Are So Many People Caught Up In Celebrity Fashion Trends?

August 26th, 2010

Many people follow certain celebrities and pay close attention to the fashion choices they make. In addition to wanting to know who they are dating and where they are traveling to many people also want to know what their favorite celeb is wearing as well. Some people will go as far as to try to dress just like the celebrities.

People who fall into this category of wanting to copy their favorite celebrities fashion choices have a variety of reasons for doing so. In the remainder of the article below we will go over some of the reasons that people give for this practice.

The definition of celebrity suggests that one is well known and popular and in actuality many of these people can’t even lead a normal life because they can’t go anywhere without being mobbed by both fans and paparazzi. If you asked them there are many celebrities who would like to change this so that they could have some semblance of a normal life. On the other side of the coin there are people who crave attention and think that if they dress like a celebrity that maybe they will get some of that attention as well although in the vast majority of cases this just isn’t true.

When you see celebrities on television talk shows you see that they get many compliments on their fashion choices and in fact in a lot of cases you will see a lot of people copying their style after an appearance on a show. Since most normal people who have average lives and jobs don’t get complimented in this way some actually crave it. This is why many people will watch TV fashion channels and subscribe to fashion magazines to keep up with the trends in celebrity fashion.

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