London ranked the top fashion capital 2011

August 20th, 2011

International Fashion Capital 2011, it’s the efforts of Kate Middleton and Alexander McQueen that London is now ranked no.1 as the fashion capital where New York occupied the top position for five consecutive years before then interrupted by Milan, who became the no. 1 fashion capital in 2009.
This ranking was a big surprise after New York being ranked as 1st in the former years, with London being ranked 3rd in 2010 following Hong Kong which was in second position in 2010. According to a survey by the Global Language Monitor, a company that analyzes trends in word usage and London was ranked the new fashion capital of the world based on what impact the city had on fashion through the media.
Here is the list for top 25 ranked by the Global Language Monitor survey.

1.London 9.Tokyo 17.Melbourne
2.New York 10.Berlin 18.Moscow
3.Paris 11. Sydney 19.Amsterdam
4.Milan 12.Madrid 20.Buenos Aires
5.Los Angeles 13.Rome 21.Bali
6.Hong Kong 14.Shanghai 22.Mexico City
7.Barcelona 15.Monaco 23.Rio de Janeiro
8.Singapore 16.Las Vegas 24.Mumbai
25.Sao Paulo

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On the street – coloured chino/ khakis pants

August 19th, 2011

Chino is a Spanish word. The term chinos, synonymous with khakis. These are cotton pants and were initially used as military uniforms in US and UK, imported from China. The fabric used in it was durable, very light and suitable for warm conditions.

  It was in 19th century khaki colour was famous and well accepted in US as it blended with the sand colour. Soon it became the staple for militants. As military uniforms they were straight fit, no pleats, tapered towards the bottom with buttons in front.
In 20th century American began to wear chinos, for semi-informal gatherings. Boys wore them to schools and colleges. By  1940s   it became associated with the preppy look. It was in 1950s chino banged up the market. The decline came by 1960 when jeans were preferred and more of casual style dressing took up the market. Still people did not stop wearing chino, though it became rare. Today its back in vogue, in a more stylized form worn informally. With brighter colours , pleats and other small detailing both for men and women. It need not be in 100% cotton, it has a little more of blended fabric for latest styling and fabric is not compulsorily from china. Basically it’s only the style as imitative of military uniform, rest all is modified.

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GO GREEN WITH US ON YOUR WEDDING –THE ECO FRIENDLY e BOUTIQUE

August 10th, 2011

  Today all are looking around for ways to save the environment. All of us want to save the earth, but we lack down in our efforts due to availability of resources, there is no way go… SHOP TO BE GREEN an online retailer of high quality green and eco-friendly products and has been selected by the Green Bride guide. The Green Bride Guide is the most comprehensive and credible green wedding resource online. The Directory is like Yellow Pages for green weddings that provides a centralized resource.

The green bride helps the customers and has recently concluded that around 50% of couples today are looking forward to have a green wedding. So they list down the portfolios of the go green retailers and provide the details to customers. According to their results SHOP TO BE GREEN has received 5 leaf lets recently from Green Bride Guide.

The spokesperson at SHOP TO BE GREEN aims to provide its customers with really beautiful and the best quality products. Hoping to make the special day for the couple a memorable one, they should remember their wedding for the décor and where they shopped the décor from. As today the eco friendly movement is increasing we look forward to provide more options for our customers. Most of the items we sell are homemade form small families in US.

“We could reduce [global warming pollution] 20% tomorrow with technology that is already available at no cost if we just changed the way we do things.” – President William Jefferson Clinton

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