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Menswear collections for the 2011 spring/summer season feature soft but risque lines that appeal to anyone with an eye for luxury; to those with pronounced tendencies towards exhibitionism; to those who can carry off a disdainful pose.

The latest men’s collections, heralding the 2011 spring/summer season, revolve around a central theme of luxury: a look set aside for quite a few seasons. This time around, luxury assumes many forms: a look total of “negation”; a disdainful attitude (see Prada’s wide-leg calfskin knickerbockers) with its wildly mismatched sportswear, demolished refugee shoes with rolled-down socks; the look of luxury as exhibitionism,interpreted by Tom Ford for Gucci: rhinestone-studded underwear, gold watches, crocodile shoes worn with imposing, wide-shoulder suits (something of a parody of the ’80s). The models sport a feathering of gray at the temples: a human touch, lending realism and intelligence to the overall effect.

Tradition and distinction
Used clothes, hand-me-downs: the stuff of tradition and likewise the sole means to escape the conforming masses and recover a personal aura of uniqueness (Benjamin). The key is to sort through the sheer quantity of offers, and the clones to discover a distinctive self. Read the rest of this entry »

New collection 2011 Belle and Bunty wedding dresses Art Deco-inspired hanging modern jewelry and a few textures thrown into the mix. Clearly, both Ana and Alicia have a real passion for the decade of 1920-30s costume. Only the best and purest silk used to these clothes that not only looks but feels great when you put one on. The lap of one of these custom made beauties is 6-8 weeks.

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It has become almost as commonplace as to get a haircut. In recent years, the fashion of tattooing has invaded France. With its good and its bad and its unavoidable. This is the case of Tintin Paris salon in Paris in the Pigalle district. A place where you have to wait several months before an appointment, and move the hands and the hands of Tintin, the tattoos of stars. In France, there were 30 studios tattoo 10 years ago, there are now 2000. Even in the remotest corners. In the Eure, in his small village of 5000 inhabitants, Patricia, 55 years found an artist to record on his shoulder, the portrait of her little dog disappeared Yorkshire last August…

What is Montpellier France champion Flair, a discipline that came from the United States is to do the show while composing cocktails. Nicolas juggling bottles, waltzed shakers, playing with fire. A performance and a highly paid profession. Read the rest of this entry »

Inaugurated during the week of Haute Couture in Paris, the exhibition focuses on artists who have consciously or not redefines the canons of female beauty. Visual culture among the shared world, the cliches have become fashion portraiture in itself, specific to the advertising and fashion magazines..

Better to drink a few glasses of wine daily, with 15 beers on the fly to a corner bar on Saturday night. That might be the conclusion of a study that reveals the Inserm hazards to health of increased consumption of alcohol but occasionally excessive and fast. Saturday drinkers are particularly targeted.

About 10% of cardiovascular disease are attributable to alcohol worldwide. As such, scientists are trying to establish tolerable thresholds of consumption. A study of nearly 10,000 consumers in France and Ireland, however, concludes that the way to drink would have more impact on the cardiovascular system as the amount of alcohol consumed. Watered the evenings of the weekend double the risk of myocardial infarction compared with the same amount of alcohol consumed throughout the week. Read the rest of this entry »