Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Great Fashion Designer: Who were they before

A fashion designer is a person who create dresses, suits, shoes, other clothing designs and accessories being purchased by the consumers. But the question is, how do great fashion designer attain the place where they are right now? Of course it wouldn't be as easy as what you would think because for sure they have gone through different challenges.

Let us consider Giorgio Armani, an Italian fashion designer that is known for his menswear. He is consider the most successful designer for he has an annual turnover $1.691 billion and a personal fortune of $5 billion. That was truly amazing!, but how did he became famous? Well, Armani born in Piecenza, he studied medicine and photography before completing military service. He first worked as an assistant designer in a well-known fashion house, but he did not stayed there for which he left the fashion house to pursue freelance work. By the year 1974, with the help of his partner Sergio Galeotti, he was able to established “Armani” with a menswear label. Following that year, he introduced womenswear. In the year 1980, Armani achieved his international breakthrough by tailoring for many Hollywood names such as Richard Gere. By 2001, he was named as the most successful Italian designer by Forbes.

One great designer also to consider is Ralph Lauren, an American fashion designer who is known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand. Lauren from a young age have started working after school in order for him to have money to buy suits he wants. He also used to sell ties to his fellow classmates. He went to Baruch School of Business and Civic Administration in New York City where he actually studied business, but after two years he drop out from school. He did not attended any fashion school but he was able to worked for Brooks Brothers as a salesman. In the year 1967, with the financial helped of Norman Hilton, Lauren opened a necktie store where he also sold ties of his own design, under the label “Polo”. Later on he bought the name from Hilton.

Another great fashion designer from America is Marc Jacobs, the head designer of Marc Jacobs. For all we know he was the creative director of the reputable French design house Louis Vuitton. Jacob went to High School of Art and Design in New York City and graduated by the year 1981. At the age of fifteen, he already worked as a stockboy at Charivari one of the clothing boutique in New York City. Then he entered Parsons, the new School in Design and during his tenured he was able to won Perry Ellis Gold Thimble Award. In the same year, Jacob was also awarded as Chester Weinberg Gold Thimble Award and the Design Student of the year. Moreover, Jacob is known for working with many famous artists for his Louis Vuitton collections. As of this year, Jacobs remains the Creative Director for Louis Vuitton.



Along with that, these 3 designers became famous because they do work hard for the reason that at a very young age they was able to work already. In order for you to become successful in the field that you have chosen you must be patient and be determined.

Fashion brands featured on movies

When we heard of the word “fashion” we mean styles, most of the time it is being used to personifies the qualities of designed clothes. Fashion changes constantly, it is consider a way in which will satisfy the wants of everyone to have and explore new things. One of the important aspect in fashion is the so called “fashion journalism”. Article, news and commentary about fashion can be found in magazines, newspapers, Internet and televisions. As years past, fashion experts think of the best way in which they would able to show up the latest and most commented fashion brands. One of the common way to do it aside from the fashion website is that to feature it in movies.

Two of the most featured brands in movies are Omega watches and Armani suit. Omega watches featured in Casino Royale. As we all know, Omega SA is one of the high -end watch company based in Biel/Bienne Switzerland and it is currently owned by the Swatch Group. Omega watch has been featured in James Bond movies since 1995 where Pierce Brosnan wear Omega Seamaster Quartz Professional. With current James Bond movies Daniel Craig also wears the Omega Seamaster: the Seamaster Planet Ocean for the first and the latter part of the movie. Every now and then Omega watches has been a part of the James Bond movie.

Another one is the Armani suit in Dark Knight. We all knew that Armani is one of a good and successful designer. All of his designs are being look up to because of his invincible aesthetic skills when it comes in designing. I wouldn't be shocked if the personnels have chosen Armani suit to be wear by the character in the Dark Knight movie for it was truly one of a kind.

Along with this, people are consider the major influences in fashion for the reason that designer would not have any inspiration to create beautiful and best designs ever.

Songs that mention fashion brands in their song lyrics

Nowadays, there are lots of way in which fashion brands can be advertised to the public and one of the best way is that true media advertising. That could be through magazines, newspapers, television and Internet.

Today, some of the fashion brands can be heard in a song. Song writers have included in the lyrics of the song some of those fashion brands especially if that was very famous. An example of that were Gucci, Ralph Lauren, Prada, Dulce and Gabbana, Abercrombie, YSL, DKNY, and Guess.

Gucci is actually known as iconic Italian fashion and leather goods label. Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer and business executive. He is most notable for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand. Prada is an Italian fashion label specializing in luxury goods for men and women (ready-to-wear, leather accessories, shoes, and luggage and hats), founded by Mario Prada. Dulce and Gabbana is an Italian luxury fashion brand. Abercrombie is a clothing store with authentic quality gear for over 100 years. That was being included in a song lyric because it was always been desire by everyone due to its high-quality and being famous. YSL or Yves Saint Laurent is a luxury fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge. Today,its chief designer is Stefano Pilati. Guess is an American name-brand clothing line. It is known for its sexualized advertising campaigns, which have featured explicit black-and-white photographs of fashion models and actresses.

Here are the lists of songs for which you can find the fashion brands that have been mentioned above:


Keep your hands off my girl - http://www.lyricsmine.com/lyrics/37023/


Designer Love - http://dooballoh.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=40747

DKNY - http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/thestampeders11.shtml


You would probably ask this question, Is there a need for a writer to ask first the permission of a company or else the owner of the fashion brand before they would able to include it in their song lyrics? Well, of course the company or the owner of that fashion brand would like to protect its reputation but I guess there is no need for a writer to ask permission first for as long as he would not be doing anything that is not favorably for the fashion brand.

Fashion brand being mention in a song lyrics is of big help also to the company or the owner of the fashion brand. It could possibly brings up the percentage of clients of that particular fashion brand.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Formal Wear for Females


Formal wear is being used in a formal social events. In addition, when you are wearing formal attire you have also formal attitude, formal behavior and formal talks, meaning formal wear brings out an individuals formal personality.

There are lots of clothing brand that you can choose from such as Ralph Lauren. Choosing for the right formal attire would take much time especially if there are lot of choices being presented to you. There are tips to consider when buying for a formal attire and these are the following:

*Budget for the purchased: It is very important for you to know first if you have enough budget for the formal attire you want. Always keep in mind also that all formal wear are of higher price than the other type of clothing for most of the time the material being used for such clothing is of high quality.

*Be mindful of your body type: Of course, the formal wear you would have to choose is the one that best fit to your body, for we have different body types. You have to be very sure.

Moreover, when we talk about formal wear for females it is not always a top being partner with any slacks. Try to mix and match so that you would able to come up with a simple yet beautiful formal wear. And be able to wear different formal attire everyday.

Additional knowing with regards to formal wear, would you believe that having a right formal attire can get you the promotion you have been angling for. But how so? Well, the way a person dress up affects the people around them because it gives them a view of what type of person you are.

So, if you want to get a job with a higher pay and better office dress up accordingly.