Saturday, February 25, 2012

Online Fashion Magazine, Fashion Design, Nyc

Online fashion, boutique, art magazine Gravure, shoots Michelle Buswell... Bask in the subtle eroticism! Created exclusively for Gravure.

Do you consider yourself as a fashion or style trendsetter? Do you love glamour and want to keep up with the latest fad in American fashion? Then flipping through a Gravure Mag is the best way to fill in your cravings. GRAVURE is the new American fashion journal, published semiannually in limited edition and online in unlimited edition. And yes, you heard it right! The fashion publication is readily available online! With that being said, I think its best to touch on briefly about the evolution of the so-called e-magazines.

As computers, technology and the Internet are continually redefining the way people think, buy, eat, listen to musicetc, it is no wonder why reading is also starting to be greatly influenced by the internet. From cars to travel to women's lifestyle, digital magazines now exist for every subject area. Why is this so? Its because nowadays, people have this tendency to spend most of their time in front of the computer, they can hardly get the chance to stretch and grab a reading material to their favorite library, magazine stand or store. Therefore, leading magazine publications such as Vogue, Elle, and Glamour to mention a few have popped out of their shelves and made their presence online.

E-magazines had taken reading to a whole new level. In general, these digital magazines are just replicas of their printed counterpart, but the difference is defined by the text and designs that had been transformed into digital format. The crisp news and editorials are accentuated with real time imagery in the form of video and audio presentation as well as live links that will lead you to discover more than what you are reading. And here's the good news, if you are someone who loves to crease the ears of a printed magazine of publication as a bookmark, you can do it online, too! You just have to save it on your bookmarks tab and voila! You still keep the spirit of the familiar feeling of "creasing' your magazine intact.

Now back to GRAVURE. The online publication was launched by the creative minds behind GRAVURE Projects in 2007 and its printed version is available on top boutiques and bookstores in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. You can also grab it via their online store. Encompassing clothing, art, music, photography, advertising and brand awareness, reading GRAVURE e-magazine can become one of your favorite ways to pass time online.

Visit to be the first to know about the latest video, art and photoshoots at Gravure.


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Friday, February 24, 2012

Four Holiday Fashion Mistakes You Don't Want to Make

It's time to celebrate the holiday season and for many people this means a whirlwind of parties and social events. You want to look your best at these affairs which means knowing what to wear. Sometimes wearing the most trendy, eye catching outfit in your closet isn't the best move. Here are holiday party fashion mistakes many women make:

Holiday Party Fashion Mistake: Overdressing

This is a very common fashion faux pas. Instead of being understatedly elegant, some women pull out all the stops for a party by wearing the most flamboyant outfit in their closet. You don't want to look conspicuous by being the most overdressed person at the party. When in doubt, opt for a stylish black suit or a black or neutral shade of dress and keep some glitzy accessories in your pocketbook you can put on at a moment's notice. It's generally more tasteful to be a bit understated.

Holiday Party Fashion Mistake: Dressing uncomfortably

Some parties are going to active with lots of lively music and dancing. If you're wearing six inch stiletto heels with a narrow pointed toe which you can barely walk in, you're not going to be able to dance or enjoy the party. You may end up spending the evening on the sidelines nursing your aching feet. Of course you want to look stylish but opt for clothes and shoes that at least allow you to participate in the activities.

Holiday Party Fashion Mistake: Revealing too much skin

Particularly at an office or work related party, you don't want to reveal your hidden assets. This is not the time to pull that bustier that's been gathering dust in the back of your closet out to wear to your company party. Neither is it the time for your micro miniskirt with the fishnet stockings and six inch heels. You'll attract more positive attention and draw more compliments if you're tastefully clothed in more elegant party attire.

Holiday Party Fashion Mistake: Overplaying the glitz

Some women use a party as an excuse to pull out their sequined dresses and metallic pants. While a bit of glitter and glitz has its place, too much can be overwhelming. When you combine a glitzy outfit with large, shiny accessories and heavy party makeup, you can end up creating an impression you don't want to make. Try the more tasteful approach of dressing simply and adding glitz with your accessory choices. A dramatic crystal necklace and eye catching earrings can add drama to even the simples of dresses.

By choosing your holiday fashion attire appropriately, you'll create a positive impression with your friends and coworkers and can still enjoy all of the fun holiday events.


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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Stylish Adidas Watches The New Fashion Statement

Adidas is the most recommended and adorable sports brand which is globally established with their royal class quality products. Adidas not only deals in sporty stuffs but also gets flourish in the fast-fashion market and has now become the trademark of sports as well as casual approach. This brand is followed by all the fashion conscious and sports celebrities whether its Adidas casual outfits, sport shoes & socks, belts, sport or travel bags, watches & wrist bands and number of other products. Watches which earlier considered just as a need, now has become the significant element of fashion accessories. With the time designs and style changed and men have got the new approaches and fashion expressions. In this chain of practice, Adidas comes with completely new and spanking designer sports watches.

Adidas watches are designed for rough and tough daily purpose in order to improve your sports performance through their creative list of options. These watches are cool collection of N' number of features like, time/day/month, stop watch operation, digital and analogue configuration, alarm option, water challenging, chronograph, interval timer, 100 lap memory, heartbeat monitor and fitness control option with stylish & comfortable wrist bands. Some special functions like heartbeat counter/monitor and fitness control are so useful and handy operations for true sporty souls. Whereas other features provide you a real definition of fashion and give more than your expectations.

Adidas watches are fabricated with long-lasting and non-allergic stainless steel and polyurethane materials. Each piece is molded elegantly which could be the attractive part during any official meeting, club, gym, party or anywhere you want. Its collection is open to both the genders, all age group, for every profession and place. Like Adidas Candy assortment comes with stunning and playful colors and spunky designs which is the attraction point of all children and teenagers, Adistar and Cambridge range for the enthusiastic youths and adults. In the vast range of Adidas watches you will find simple to multifarious, functional to useable, sporty to spunky and trendy watches having great list of genius features.

Adidas watch collection perfectly suits to your personality and reflects your image gracefully. What else, the price.pretty affordable. Yup, the all new arrival of Adidas sleek watches loaded with innovative and creative features which are available at very reasonable and new price. The most convening and popular brand is now approachable to every class people. You can express your sense of fashion and treat your desires with Adidas watches and other sporty and casual fashion things.


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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Crochet Fun Fashion Flip Flop Sandals

Summer sun is upon us once again, and trips to the beach and pool are on our schedule. Women and girls love to wear stylish flip-flop sandals when they head out in the hot weather. Stores carry a wide variety of flip-flops with beads, sequins, and different fabrics. However, if you want something truly unique, try making these super easy crochet fashion flip flop sandals.

Materials Needed for Fashion Flip Flops

In order to create these fun crochet fashion flip flop sandals, you first need a pair of plain flip-flops. You can use the ones with a plastic strap or a fabric strap.

The tools you need to complete these summer sandals are a medium size crochet hook, and a scissor. You might like to use some clear-drying craft glue to secure the yarn ends.

You also need a skein of a specialty yarn such as mohair, fringe, or eyelash yarn. Yarn with a lot of fuzzy pieces sticking out is preferable.

Crochet the Fashion Flip Flops

To actually crochet the fun fashion flip flop sandals, you are simply going to be covering the straps that go across the top of your foot with the novelty yarn. Start at one end by tying the yarn securely around the strap. You can use a dot of clear drying glue to hold it in place.

Begin crocheting by pushing your crochet hook under the strap and catching the yarn from the top side. Then, pull the yarn under the strap and catch the yarn from the top again. Pull the loop through the first loop of yarn. You are essentially making a single crochet with the yarn around the strap of the flip-flop sandal.

Continuing with the single crochet method all the way across the strap of the flip-flop. Do not cover the piece that goes between the toes, as this may make it too wide for comfort. Knot the yarn at the end, secure with glue, and tuck the trailing end back into the stitching. Repeat these steps with the other flip flop sandal.

The final step in making these crochet fashion flip flop sandals is making sure that they eyelashes or fringe of the yarn is displayed properly. Use a small brush or your fingers to gently pull the fringe out and around the flip-flop strap.

These fun crochet flip-flop sandals can be made with many types of specialty yarn. You can make them in any color combination that you like. Since plain flip flop sandals can be purchased for so little, you will be able to make enough crochet fashion flip flops to match every outfit in your Summer wardrobe.


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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

10 Great Winter Fashion Trends This Season

It's that time of the year again with snowflakes falling, yuletide cheer and Christmas shopping, hot cups of coco and cozy warm fireplace with sizzling embers of coal crackling away. But what's heating up the fashion scene this winter, a closer look reveals some interesting insights on the latest winter fashions.

This seasons winter colours

True to the season, soft snowy white shades seem to be a good choice for clothes that blend in with the winter theme. Another popular colour to helps produce a sharp contrast is Black and various shades of bright black; while dull and muted greys give a nice warm and fuzzy touch and hues of rich red right through to mellow maroon are reflective of the season.

For women, earthy colours ranging from the deep shades of olive, maroon, brown, deep blue's to chocolate brown are colours set to form the trend. While for men, muted shades of pink, lavender, brick red, grey, deep shades of purple and black are whats going to be setting the stage for fashion.

Hair

Choosing the right hair style to go with the fashion and season can be a daunting task. You don't want to be seen in last year's styles and certainly not something thats not the hottest rage at the moment. So if you're trying to figure out the hairdo that's the pick of the season by stylists and fashion models; it's time to let you in on that little secret, apparently for women wearing your hair in the all so classic 'Bob Cut' seems to be the favoured trend this season.

Men on the other to make the cut will have to aim to get their hair into the bushy straight yet carefully dishevelled look that gets tucked away into the tops of their mufflers.

Hats

If you like hats you're in luck, this season hoods, hats and caps are the rage. Large knitted beanies or those furry oversized Moroccan hats all in this winter. The styles in vogue are hats that are either huge and puffy or tiny and pointed. Fur lined hoods blended into the garment are also turning heads this winter.

Coats

This season coats come with a nice thick mantle like look that feature tousled sleeves and funnelled collars. Other patterns included coats with widely placed collars and a rich furry texture.

Fabrics

The prevailing tendencies for fabrics this season are fabrics that are over-worked with several different effects across their surfaces. The fabrics are very solid or concrete with a sort of untamed natural feel blended with soft lustres. Prints around the winter theme are almost subtle while the focus in on rich exterior of the fabric.

Lightweight wool or reworked cottons are the base for designs that will debut this winter.

Effects

Complementing the feel and textures of fabrics the designs around these effects that are set to make the stage this winter, range from, long pleats, to subtle wrinkles and clearly visible overstitches, to the blistered and tangled effects.

Cashmere worked in with regular wool and mohair is blended to give the fabrics a light yet visibly textured look. While some of the other fabrics are roughly cut to give a thatched heavily threaded effect. Most knits are made with heavily emphasised gages to draw out the raw protective feel against the winter chill.

Denim is one of those fabrics that will probably be around forever, this winter, the theme is a slight gleam in the denim with an oxidised look. In fact this seasons going to have you seeing a lot of ultra cool effects.

Scarves

This season, trade in your old winter muffler for those large woollen scarves that can be draped over your shoulders like a stole. Embodied with various prints on dulled wool the scarf lends a casual yet protective loo to the wearer be it a man or a woman.

Footwear

Ankle length shoes in shades of silver and grey are this winters winner. They shriek elegance and comfort in a very casual sort of way. For women transparent slippers laced with silver give an almost Cinderella effect.

Jewellery

Jewellery designs highlighting the winter season are marvellous add ons silver snowflake pendants and large broaches like a sprig of holly or mistletoe make some really eye catching accessories. Chunky silver bracelets and large but light earrings that dangle add to the effect.

So, make sure you watch out for these lovely trends that are bound to take the country by storm. And honestly, you really do not have to own expensive designer wear to make a statement. Even your local stores will stock up on some of these new designs. This winter season ensure you treat yourself to some of these trendy fashions and go paint the town red!


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Monday, February 20, 2012

Being A Fashion Writer Who Hates Fashion

Theres a demand for fashion writing. Every time there is a job ad for fashion writing, my first reaction is to get excited and then disappointed. Just like almost every freelancing ad, you are required to send samples. I dont have any. I adore clothes and shopping and I love reading Cosmo. And Vogue and InStyle and Glamor. It is just so much fun to check out the clothes, shoes and accessories. There is the stuff you cant afford and then there is the stuff you can. But I actually hate the whole concept of fashion. Come again? did you say? Let me explain.

I guess it comes with the territory of being a girl: I have more shoes and clothes than I can fit into my wardrobe and there are possibly millions of combinations of style that I havent even thought of. So, yeah I love clothes and looking good. Knowing my body with its pros and cons, I became an expert at what to show and what to hide. But I dont have a single clue about whats fashionable. Well, I can find out by going out and browsing a couple of universally hit and somewhat affordable shops like Mango.

So? Arent we always advised to write about stuff we like? What if I want to write about what looks good and is affordable? What if I want to write about being stylish for women who dont want to fashion victims? Well, nothing is impossible, right? So maybe I can write for womens lifestyle magazine without turning into Sarah Jessica Parkers Carrie in Sex and The City? While I like the show and her character, her designer shoe addiction borders on pathetic. I remember an episode when she needed money for living arrangements and seemed financially broke. But when you look at her closet, there are hundreds of pairs of shoes,

each worth about $400. Thats nuts. Maybe I should start my own magazine. How to be Stylish without Giving into Fashions Every Whim. How does that sound?


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