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Archive for June, 2009

What’s New in Sunglasses

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

A pair of sunglasses plays important role in deciding your look and glamorous image which keeps you apart from crowd. Trends in sunglasses changes every year, currently the trend is to wear special sunglasses with special outfits, just like changing other fashion accessories matching to your costumes. They are beneficial as well as stylish. Sunglasses offer diversity of styles and attributes to suit your personality needs.

Gone are the days of sporting with sunglasses having only polarized, photo chromic or gradient lenses. These days’ people want them along with the name of a prominent brand. We can see the changes in trends of sunglasses in terms of all three things frame’s colour, lens color and type, and frame’s shape.

The choices for frame’s colour is highly unpredictable. Black is a universal choice for frame’s colour irrespective of any trend, along with that, this year neon and shamelessly bright frames in shades of yellow, mango, and ultramarine are in demand. During spring-08 colorful frames are being presented by different sunglass designers. This is an invasive trend in the making. Deep Red and other shades of Red are also popular this season.

For sunglasses dark colored lenses or lens with dark shades or gradients are always in demand due to nature and use of sunglasses. Black shades are no longer in demand by fashion enthusiasts as earlier days. Lenses these days acquire the full-colour behavior, from a gradient lens which is actually a blend of more than one color with different effects. Mirror-coated lenses also knows as a flash lens, termed as ghost lens if coating is of silver is again in demand. These ghose lenses are among best-sellers, one can find them in blue, green, purple and pink as well.

Frame’s Color and Shape are not from a single colour or shape. Hot trends currentlt are large rectangular or square plastic frames in white, pink, purple, orange or yellow and blue or green. Oversized sunglasses are popular due to their sporty looks and extra benefit of maximum security from sunlight, pollution and strong winds.

Fashion Trends

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Today, the world has completely different future, since forecasted. After years of negligence the history again emerged with wider acceptance. People again started appreciating the core values, old traditions, ceremonies and hold them as a treasure for us. They look back to the past, searching for our origins, something significant to have. All this affected our lives, our preferences and our selections to reposition ourselves. This is also happens in fashion too.

Old Fashion – Back In Rhythm
People are thriving to get equilibrium point in a wavering world. Here, history is only our inspiration. The fashion industry is surged with look-alikes that were present in the market even before the originals, which empowers to a few designers. It is time mull over the situation, as the fashion industry paused instead moving ahead in creating new innovation. It is going diving deeper into the past to bring out contemporary version than the fast trends and buildups. Alike politics, ideology for ethics, values, regulation, category and style is apparently noticeable in fashion industry too.

Bouncing Back of Historic Echoes – Repeating History
History rolls out our own tradition. In fashion industry, the journey starts from ancient Europe. People value and re-organize treasures, diving deep into the times of past European clothing fashions till great designs of embroideries and laces of great grand mothers. People are witnessing the coming back of old fashion and retro-trends.

Class Fashion
Attraction, high-class and stylishness are keys for to-be trends. Designers inspired from the old members of the aristocracy, at present it is the high society. The sophisticated lady is now dressing like a queen, princess or an empress. The present high class is circumspect and less lavish, in contrast to the show-off fashion trends.

Classic styles
Due to change in preferences, all the inspiration sources (like Couture classics, British classics, and masculine weaving classics), are embedded with elegance, turn into feminine fashion.


Styles from pioneers and plains
The journey of historic fashion crosses all borders of the different countries, fashion from Britain, France, Russia etc… to the country life, gypsy and folk fashion styles. People can find the routes of fashion inspiration from the initial European emigrants to the America.

Ethnic Styles
The influence of Eastern countries over fashion industry is declining; however, their economy is becoming a real competitive dilemma to the Western World. Albeit, there is considerable cultural influence of African Muslim countries with their exotic jewelry and embroidery designs.

It is confusing that nothing is clear for future. People would only witness influence of above all…

Natural Preference
After a long time with extreme elegance, glitter, shine, mad design, print and pattern mixes, people are moving towards natural harmony. The originals from the Mother Nature, natural textures and shining, the zigzag, allure us. Now, people want to go for endurance and quality of a fabric, the luxury, and the exotic designs.

People are tired of fast fashion trends and the hip hops, now they wish long lasting and timeless comfortable clothing fashions. Keeping distance from ‘low cost’ clothing, with appearance unveiling high standard of living. People desire all these extravagances for low price.

Conclusion
People will prefer smart and stunning matches, which are the major keys for fashion blends for various motives, materials, and prints all in single outfit. At haphazard mixing, mix-and-match fashion, blended patch works and intense style odds are talk of past.