I have been wanting to redo my bedroom. I’m really into the hollywood new york fashion type thing. What could i do to make my bedroom have that kinda style?
Just like new york stuff…modern maybe? Idk..but please help!!!!

http://teensthemes.com

http://girlsthemebedrooms.com

When I saw her appear as a guest in America’s Next Top Model and she was teaching the girls how to do swimsuit photo shoots, that seemed glamour modeling(men’s magazines) instead of High Fashion(fashion magazines). But isn’t this show about fashion and not glamour. I was so jealous.

she is most often referred to as a supermodel these days

many models do a variety of different work in their careers, Marisa Miller is no exception to that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisa_Miller

Retro styling – these days the term is being applied to everything from clothing to furnishing the home. The name retro comes from the Latin meaning ‘backwards’. This article is concerned with retro lingerie, or to be more specific retro shapewear.

Although most of the comments that follow describe the sleek chic girdles from the fifties and sixties, they can equally apply to today’s girdles that are based on the original designs.

The war years were years of austerity and women on both sides of the channel dressed for comfort, to help the war effort. Women, eager to attract partners at the end of the war, so fashions reflected this desire. Couture house Christian Dior came up with styling needing a sleek, chic silhouettes. Now girdles, corsets or corselets became essential. Suddenly all women wore girdles, and not just women either – all the shapewear manufacturers targeted not just women but teens as well. A variety of girdles for the young adult were produced. Probably the teen girdle that gained the maximum coverage, in more than one sense, was the panty girdle – a tight-fitting cross between a girdle that held the tummy in and one that protected the wearer from advances, whether unwelcome of otherwise!

The girdle had several functions – to give that sleek chic silhouette to the wearer and to hold up the nylon stockings. Girdles generally had a minimum of two pairs of garter clips. There are two at the front and two garter clips, usually slightly offset from the rear. The garters are offset so that when the girdle wearer sits down they do not have to sit directly on the clips! The open bottom girdles usually have the garter clips on elastic straps, which is useful in keeping the nylon stockings taught as the wearer moves about, sitting and standing. The nylon stockings from the fifties did not have spandex or lycra and were non-stretch; without the elastic of the garter strap the stocking would ‘bag’ as the wearer stood up.

The panty girdle, and particularly the long-leg panty girdle often has the garter tab attached directly to the girdle itself. The long-leg panty girdle legs usually completely overlap and cover the stocking-welt, losing the gap of bare thigh above the stocking top. Men usually find the flash of bare thigh and garter strap exciting; however, a long leg panty girdle, although practical, hides all this and has consequently been described (along with pantyhose) as a “passion killer”.

Girdle materials Modern and retro girdles usually feature spandex or Lycra for elasticity, but the original girdles dating from around the 1930s usually used rubber to give stretch. The introduction of rubber was a major step in corsetry – the ultra-rigid corset had suddenly become more flexible. In parallel with its introduction the terms associated with such items of clothing also metamorphosed: from the original corset, the term roll-on came into vogue, particularly in the USA, then came the step-in and the corselette, often known as the ‘all in one’.

Indeed for a while Playtex marketed a girdle molded from pure latex – these have become quite the collectors item these days, partly because of rarity value. Pure latex deteriorates over time and the garment then perishes, so few remain in good condition. It is interesting to know whether the common latex allergy affected wearers, but whatever the reason, these girdles are no longer manufactured by Playtex.

Retro shapewear share the same objective as vintage shapewear did, namely to sculpt the shape of the body. Elasticity can help to hold and control figures but for more rigid control a variety of ‘bones’ have been used over the years. The original whalebone corset did actually use whale baleen – which are the cartilage-like “teeth” which whales use to filter plankton. Each baleen is enormous, around ten inches wide and ten to twelve feet long. It proved an ideal material for corset makers because it consisted of parallel fibres that could be relatively easily split into thin strips; these strips could be shaped by heating them over steam and when they cooled they held their shape. Of course the demise of the whale population led to the supply becoming an issue. Fortunately other alternatives proved suitable – manmade plastics like celluloid, and even flattened steel springs!

Historic background to the corset The forerunner of the girdle was the corset, and that had its origins further back still in ladies stays. Indeed there is archaelogical evidence going back to 3000BC showing women with waists cinched in tightly by a garment that appears ribbed. It was around the fourteenth century that women started wearing a stiffened linen undergarment garment, laced in at the front or back, and by the fifteenth century these ‘stays’ were relatively common; the probable derivation of the English corset from bodice (‘bodies’) to the French translation of this ‘corps’ which transmuted back to corset. The original corsets were made by stitching together two layers of linen with a paste in the middle of the ‘sandwich’ to provide stiffening. By the 16th century corset makers had turned to using whalebone (actually more correctly called baleen) to offer the stiffening. This provided more rigidity than the earlier paste corsets.

By 1940, in both America and Europe, the corset had given way to the girdle, worn in conjunction with a bra.

After the fifties came the swinging sixties, when women were exhorted to burn their bras and stop wearing such restrictive underwear. But as with all fashion, girdle wearing has now gone full circle. Burlesque artists have made the ‘art of tease’ in which girdles, basques and corsets are on show, into popular entertainment. Wonderbra have enticed the burlesque star Dita von Teese to design, model and market a range of retro girdles and bras based on fifties designs.

The burlesque art form is now burgeoning and the esteemed Royal Festival Hall held the worlds largest burlesque lesson in January 2009, evidencing how mainstream this art has become. Original fifties girdles, corsets and basques are found in specialist online lingerie boutiques or vintage stores, but to satisfy the demand all sorts of outlets have now sprung up to satisfy the demands of burlesque. These shops and online stores invariably turn to the forties and fifties for styling inspiration for their retro shapewear – and the biggest item that seems to be in demand is the corset. Fashion really has returned to its roots.

Debbie Mendoza
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-and-family-articles/retro-shapewear-a-fashion-revival-720214.html

In Italy there are prestigious fashion and design academies which are attended by students coming from every corner of the world, who chose to build their future with fashion and creativity.

The Italian Language Schools for foreigners Leonardo da Vinci located in Florence and Milan, decided to create some new courses to help all those guys whose desire is to attend a fashion and design academy in Italy like NABA, Domus Academy, Istituto Marangoni, Polimoda, Scuola Politecnico di Design, Fashion School Carlo Secoli, UptoDate Fashion Academy, Istituto Europeo di Design, etc.

The “Preparatory Course for Fashion and Design Academies” can have a duration which varies between 4 and 28 weeks, and its main goal is to prepare students for the entrance test of the Academy they have chosen, by helping them to hone and improve their skills thanks to the attention and the support of a qualified and experienced teaching staff.

During the first 24 weeks of the course, students will learn and improve their knowledge of Italian language, whereas the last 4 weeks will be dedicated to the study of Italian for fashion and design.

In fact the course is open also to students who have a low-level Italian language knowledge, and students will have the opportunity to establish their starting level and the resulting course duration with a self-evaluation test to determine their Italian knowledge.

In the end of the course, students will obtain all the necessary instruments to face the entrance test of the academies with satisfying results.

The first session of the “Preparatory Courses for Fashion and Design Academies” will start on 9th February 2009, in our schools of Milan and Florence.

So guys, if your passion is design and fashion, and you would like also to learn Italian and enter in a fashion and design academy in our country, then the “Preparatory Course for Fashion and Design Academies” is just right for you!

For all the information about Dates and Prices, consult the School Leonardo da Vinci’s website.

Scuola Leonardo da Vinci
http://www.articlesbase.com/languages-articles/before-entering-an-italian-fashion-academy-prepare-yourself-with-preparatory-courses-in-italy-740526.html

A few years ago, a digital camera is luxury that only a small number of “get rich first” can enjoy because its complicated operation and high prices. In particular the “professional” of it made many entry-level users confused. However, this situation has been reversed recently, more and more fashion-oriented consumer-level DC, to allow consumers more choice But this type of DC’s upgrade is also very rapid, high-pixel, large-screen … … It makes a lot of consumption confused, how to choose a good digital camera? Depends on what?

Can high-pixel screen bring clear image?

For a long time, the point that judges a digital camera by pixel has been misleading a lot of consumers. A few years ago, 3 million pixels has been the standard to judge whether a DC good or not, but after 2004, 8 million DC has been launched at the market, and more and more manufacturers preach the advantages of high-pixel by advertisement: a more precise picture, higher performance … but, in fact, whether the image is precise or not has nothing to do with pixels. Actually, the CCD, which is part of a DC, 8 million pixels is the same with 5 million pixel, just integrate more sensitive point in the same size, it is bound to increase the screen noise, actually reduces the image quality. As home using, 3 million pixels remains the most suitable, if you have a large print of painting need, 5 million pixels is enough to meet the requirements.

Ultra-thin, lithium battery, big screen, whether it’s good or not?

It seems that it’s fashion to have an ultra-thin DC. However, as a digital camera, electronic capability is as important as optical properties, so its dimension can not be reduced endlessly, or else it will seriously affect the imaging results. For example, some ultra-light DC must adopt periscope lens, that is, they reduce the dimension as possible as they can, at the expense of quality, penny wise and pound foolish.

Is high zoom the most convenient?

In addition to the pixel, the zoom capability is also the focus that preached by manufactures. 6 times, 8 times, 10 or even 12 times optical zoom DC appear in front of consumers, and many people are still popular, they think high-zoom can bring greater freedom to shoot.
Yes, some optical zoom make for shooting and composition, but while you enlarge the screen, you also enlarged the shake hands so that it’s hard to take a clear photo. On the other hand, high-zoom lens is a complex structure, they are bound to a certain extent affect the imaging. Proverbially 3x optical zoom has been proven to be the most suitable for the home.

John
http://www.articlesbase.com/electronics-articles/beware-the-high-capability-multi-function-trap-when-purchase-digital-camera-704050.html