Party & Day Dress

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Model - Laura Roldan

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H&M sales increased with 18%

For the first three months of the financial year, fashion retailer Hennes & Maurits published its sales increase of 18%. The profit of the company came down to €21 billion (SEK19,74 billion, excluding VAT), compared to €17,8 billion for last year. The first quarter of 2008 ended on 29th February 2008.The net profit of the Swedish fashion retailer ended on €313 million. This is an increase of 28% in comparison to the net profit in 2007 (€245 million). The sales developments are mainly the result of the higher quality of the collections, and the increased internet- and catalogue sales. Due to the dollar price, the low wholesale and transport...

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Model - Alessandra Ambrosio

Model - Alessandra Ambro...

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Shoes

There are nearly 1300 pairs of shoes in the Fashion Museum collection, from a pair of red velvet embroidered mules dating to about 1700 to a pair of flat brown distressed leather brogues from 2004 by Japanese designer Junya Wattanabe.These shoes are both from the 1950s. The gold sandal is by Fortnum and Mason and the extraordinary ‘heel-less’ black suede shoe by an unknown Italian designer. These are hardly warn, which comes as no surprise really.Other shoe names in the collection include Hellstern, N Greco, Ferragamo, Chelsea Cobbler, Oliver Sweeney, Emma Hope, Patrick Cox and Manolo Blahnik.A selection of shoes from the collection is on display...

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2008 Prom Dress Themes

Months before prom night, young ladies begin looking for that perfect prom dress. One popular trend is to buy 2008 prom dresses according to prom themes. Fashion trends are always changing, and some ladies prefer to go for the latest and the best though of course this is not within the budget or even preference of every girl going to the prom that year. From following celebrities, fashion magazines, and other trend indicators, there are many choices that a girl may look at when deciding on her prom dress. Now such a decision is made with hours of consultations with friends and an exchange of ideas and suggestions from many sources. Prom themes...

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Dress of the Year 2000

How does a museum of historic dress keep up with modern fashion? At the Fashion Museum we have a unique scheme called the Dress of the Year.Each year since 1963, when the museum was founded in Bath, we have asked a fashion expert to select a dress or outfit for the museum’s collection to represent the most important new ideas in contemporary fashion. The chosen designers or manufacturers have always very generously given the clothes to the Fashion Museum and the firm of Adel Rootstein donates an up-to-date mannequin for the display.Dress of the Year choices from 1963 to 2005 are listed on the left. Source: http://www.fashionmuseum.co...

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19th Century Fashion

This is one of the richest areas of the Fashion Museum collections with examples from the slender white muslin dresses of the early 19th century to more colourful and voluminous dresses, such as the bright blue silk day dress worn with a cage crinoline from the 1860s, seen below.To see more nineteenth century fashion, see the Collection search.Source: http://www.fashionmuseum.co....

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British Fashion

Stitched wool mix dress by John Bates at Jean VaronPhotograph by Barry Lategan, Vogue August 1971. Copyright The Conde Nast Publications LtdBritish fashion is known throughout the world for it tradition and iconoclasm. The Fashion Museum has important collections of the work of many British designers, many of whom are less well-known than the big names who feature regularly in histories of 20th century fashion, but who have made equally significant contributions to British fashion.Work by different British fashion designer will be featured from time to time in the Fashion Museum galleries. The designers currently featured all worked in the 1970s...

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18th Century Fashion

The Fashion Museum has a good collection of 18th century dress for both men and women. Highlights include a sizeable group of men’s embroidered waistcoats and this gown from 1742. The silk was designed by Anna Maria Garthwaite.Source:http://www.fashionmuseum.co...

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Raima Sen

Raima Sen - The sexy siren. This 1979 born Indian actress is the grand daughter of the much acclaimed and legendary actress of yester years of Tollywood, Suchitra Sen and daughter of the popular actress Moonmoon Sen. Her first movie was ‘Godmother’ which was released in 1999. The film was directed by Vinay Shukla and had the national award winning actress Shabana Azmi in the lead and portraying the title role. This movie was critically acclaimed.In ‘Daman’ in 2001, Raima Sen appeared as Raveena’s daughter. She had a small but important role in this film and was highly appreciated. The film ‘Choker Bali’, directed by the famous film maker Rituparno...

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About Indian Fashion

When we draw our attention towards fashion trend, the first thought that strikes our mind is dressing oneself in trendy fashion style clothing. Indian fashion is not just about attiring latest fashion clothes but much more. It believes in grooming your entire personality, thus moulding your physical makeup keeping in mind your mental makeup.It is a term, which encompasses not just wardrobe, but the kind of shoes, accessories, hairstyle and jewelry that you choose to wear. There is a wide range of accessories consisting of huge variety right from wallets and fashion handbags to contact lenses, eyeglasses, belts, watches, perfumes, hairclips, broaches, scarves and ties.Jewelry is woman's best friend. It brings out her beauty in the most elegant manner. She may have a large gamut of earrings,...

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