Posts with tag spain

Rossy de Palma Presents Louis Vuitton Hand Fan Collection

Email thisPosted Mar 31st 2009 at 3:00PM by Kristen Seymour

We all want designer accessories -- don't try to deny it. And if you're ready to make the splurge, it can be tough to decide what you want. Will it be a handbag? Shoes? Sunglasses? A hand fan?

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Tags: designer, expire-images:2010-3-26, fan, hand fan, HandFan, louis vuitton, LouisVuitton, madrid, rossy de palma, RossyDePalma, spain

Gap loses spot as world's largest clothing retailer to Zara

Email thisPosted Aug 13th 2008 at 9:00AM by Josh Loposer

Filed under: Style in the News, Clothing, Jeans

Thanks to boring styles, plummeting consumer spending, and a tendency to leave their employees with Post Retail Folding Disorder, the Gap has finally been overtaken by as the world's largest clothing retailer. All hail the new #1: Spain's mega fashion retailer Zara, who we've really never even heard of. The chain, based in A Coruña, Spain, has apparently been a dominating force in Europe and Latin America -- but has only a handful of stores in the US.

Zara's parent company Inditex has managed to spread its successful chain of stores far and wide by some kind of weird business model that involves keeping up with the latest trends in fashion -- something that the Gap probably should have been focusing on. Zara's unique model includes in-house design teams and encourages staff members to point out any new trends to keep the designers up to date. Not only that, but Zara apparently spends very little on advertising. Instead, they use their stores as a means of drawing attention to their brands.

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Tags: A Coruna, ACoruna, clothing retailer, ClothingRetailer, Europe, HM, number one, NumberOne, Spain, The Gap, TheGap, Zara

Prostitutes in Spain put on fashion show

Email thisPosted Jul 1st 2008 at 10:42AM by Kyle Hepp

Filed under: Runway Trends

(Click on the image to see more photos from the show)

Fashion shows are always interesting and cultural experiences -- especially when they're put on by prostitutes. In Spain, where prostitution is not legal, but largely tolerated, the ladies of the night put on a little runway show in order to draw attention to their quest for rights.

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Tags: expire-images2009-7-1, fashion, prostitution, runway, show, spain, video

Now women can smell like Antonio Banderas

Email thisPosted Jun 15th 2008 at 2:34PM by Josh Loposer

Filed under: Fragrance, Celebrities with Style

Move over fragrance experts with your fancy Italian names, it seems that people can't get enough of fragrances by Queen Latifah, Avril Lavigne, Derek Jeter, and eve Tim McGraw. Antonio Banderas has apparently been such a successful name in the fragrance business, that he's teamed up with Puig Beauty USA to debut his first fragrance for women called Blue Seduction. We were pretty surprised to find that this will be the 5th fragrance to bear the Banderas name.

According to market analysts, celebrity fragrances are the hottest way to merge mass with class -- and Antonio Banderas' image is a near perfect sales rep. Antonio's Latin lover persona is apparently something that dudes want to emulate and women want to get with. If his success with men's cologne is any indicator, Blue Seduction should be a top 10 seller and the big chain stores. We remember when Michael Jordan's fragrance debuted in the 90's, it seemed really confusing and not so classy. We thought: who wants to smell like sweat and Gatorade? We were wrong.

[via Jezebel]

Tags: Antonio Banderas, AntonioBanderas, Avril Lavigne, AvrilLavigne, Blue Seduction, BlueSeduction, celebrity perfume, CelebrityPerfume, Derek Jeter, DerekJeter, Desperado, El Mariachi, ElMariachi, Gatorade, latin lover, LatinLover, mens cologne, MensCologne, Michael Jordan, MichaelJordan, Puig Beauty and Fashion, PuigBeautyAndFashion, Queen Latifah, QueenLatifah, Spain, Tim McGraw, TimMcgraw

Top 10 most stylish cities

Email thisPosted May 21st 2008 at 2:27PM by Jonathon Morgan

Filed under: Events: On the Scene

Do you see better fashion on the ride to work than you do in Vogue magazine -- or are you stuck with JC Penny's, and dreaming about H&M? While it's certainly possible to be stylish anywhere, the fashion-forward tend to flock to a few choice locations around the globe. But where?

Forbes magazine has recently ranked the "World's Most Stylish Cities," and while some of them -- like New York, London and Paris -- are obvious, there's a few on the list that might surprise you. Here's the top 10 -- did you city make the cut?

Gallery: Top 10 Stylish Cities

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Tags: amsterdam, australia, barcelona, cities, england, featured, france, holland, london, madrid, melbourne, netherlands, new york, NewYork, paris, spain, sydney, united states, UnitedStates

Quick Picks: Penelope Cruz at the Elegy premiere

Email thisPosted Apr 17th 2008 at 9:06PM by Kyle Hepp

Filed under: Celebrities with Style

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Tags: Elegy, expire-images2009-4-17, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, PenelopeCruz, Spain

Spain to redo their sizing for women's clothes

Email thisPosted Feb 29th 2008 at 3:32PM by Kyle Hepp

Filed under: Style for a Cause

One of my biggest pet peeves is the variation in women's sizing from store to store. It's hard to just walk right in and buy a pair of jeans if I have to try on every pair in the size 4 to 10 range to see whether that particular brand runs a. tiny b. a little small c. just right d. too big e. holy crap, tone down the vanity sizing!

But, the entire country of Spain is working to change all that, so I suppose I'll just have to move there if I want to make my shopping experiences easier. Health authorities there did a laser mapping of 10,000 different women's bodies from the ages of 12-70. They found that most women fit into 1 of 3 categories: "cylinder (similar measurements for bust, waist and hips), diábolo (or hourglass), and bell (pear-shaped)."

The new method for sizing will also include bust, waist and hip measurements and possibly height as well.

Hallelujah! I can't wait for the Spaniards to develop and perfect this new system and then send it on over to the United States! I've got nothing but love for the country of Spain, seeing as how it's already given us paella and Enrique Iglesias. If they give us standard sizing for women, well, then you can look for me parading up and down the streets with a red and yellow flag screaming, "Viva Espana!"

Via Diet Blog.

Tags: fashion, sizing, spain, standard, women's clothing

Dress of the Day: MNG Pinaford Dress

Email thisPosted Dec 2nd 2007 at 2:02PM by Sarah J. Gim

Filed under: Clothing, Dresses, Must Haves

We've a confession to make. We haven't been totally honest. We've been hiding something and we feel a little guilty about it.

H&M, we've been cheating on you.

We've been falling for Mango, the latest "high-end low-end" clothing store. We're particularly fond of the Pinaford Dress, which happens to come from the collection designed by Penelope and Monica Cruz. The short sleeve dress made of a broad plaid fabric is so short that it could technically be called a "top," but with a pair of opaque tights and the right pair of shoes, works for the mid-Autumn. We're thinking dark tights a pair of navy blue patent leather Mary Janes. If you can find them, that is.

The dress is available from Mango, both online and in the store for $89.

Tags: h and m, high end, low end, mango, mng, mng by mango, monica cruz, penelope cruz, spain, zara

Spain cracks down on anorexia

Email thisPosted Jan 24th 2007 at 10:18AM by Anne Metz

Filed under: Runway Trends, Events: On the Scene

Two weeks ago, the CFDA announced a new set of guidelines to discourage eating disorders in the fashion industry. Wimpy at best, grossly inadequate at worst, CFDA's regulations seemed to tread almost too lightly on the controversial relationship between fashion and public health.

Across the pond in Spain, the game plan for curbing the tide of eating disorders is much more aggressive. On Tuesday, the government, the textile industry and a group of prominent fashion designers released a comprehensive agreement to promote healthy bodies and body images. According to the new agreement, size 46 (U.S. equivalent size 14) clothes will no longer be considered plus-sized. Models in Spain will also be required to wear at least a size 36 (US size 4) in order to participate in runway shows.

The only thing that seems a little unclear about these regulations is how the rules will be practically enforced. Will there be officials from a governing body? Is it self-regulation?

Other than that, however, I think this is a step in the right direction. You'd be hard pressed to find a model on the runway that is any bigger than a size 34, so if the sample sizes grow to size 36, presumably the models will eventually follow suit. If the designers are on board with the agreement, I don't think there is any reason to suspect that this won't be a successful measure.

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Tags: anorexia, eating disorders, EatingDisorders, fashion week, FashionWeek, runway, spain

Illegals make a Fashion Week debut in Spain

Email thisPosted Jan 19th 2007 at 4:18PM by Anne Metz

Filed under: Runway Trends

When Jean-Paul Gaultier put a size 20 model on the catwalk, we gasped. And when Ashley Paige put a young girl in bathing suit on the runway, we balked. But big-boned models and tween catwalkers pale in comparison to the controversial men Antonio Miro sent down the runway during Barcelona's Fashion Week. For his fall/winter 2008 collection, Miro used eight illegal immigrants as models.

In exchange for their participation in the show, Miro arranged for the models to be photographed with Samuel Eto'o, a Cameroonian soccer player who attended the event. This is not Miro's first use of unusual models. Last year, he famously paraded eight inmates from a Barcelona jail down the catwalk.

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Tags: Antonio Miro, AntonioMiro, Barcelona, models, spain

British film documents extreme dieting

Email thisPosted Sep 29th 2006 at 7:11PM by Sarah J. Gim

Filed under: Style in the News

In the wake of BMI-based bans on dangerously thin models first in Spain, then in Milan, a British television station has plans to show Super-Skinny Me: The Race to Size Zero, a documentary that will follow the efforts of a group of female journalists to drop down to a British size 2 (US size 00). The documentary will be aired some time early next year.

Recent studies in the UK have found that the average dress size of a woman is 14, equivalent to a US size 10. However, according to a spokesperson for the television station, "the super-skinny American fad is spreading to the U.K. and question whether it is spawning an extreme, collective eating disorder." The goal of the documentary is to "highlight the dangers of aiming for a super-skinny look, and expose the serious health risks of extreme weight-loss methods."

Though there are plans to have medical support and expert guidance through every stage of filming the documentary, Britain's Eating Disorder Association is worried about the potential health effects on the journalists who will be participating.

Yep, I am pretty certain that there will be negative effects on the women who drop to a size 00.

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Tags: BMI, dieting, documentaries, eating disorders, fad diets, milan, spain, television, tv, weight loss, weight management

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Strapless dresses on 13-year-olds
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Did Calvin Klein respond to public's outcry?
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