Top 5 Fashion Designers of 2011

2011
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This year, fashion’s top designers are a younger, hipper set of professionals–the fashion world has traditionally been ruled by older, established designers. While there are always going to be masters who’ve paid their dues, this year’s hottest designers seem to have come out of nowhere with some fantastic silhouettes. They each have their own aesthetics, and every last one of them has something exciting to offer. So here’s a look at some truly talented designers who have something to say.

Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters

When some men look for clothing on eBay, they want to find an outfit that combines softness and edginess. However, not many designers can pull off the juxtaposition of these two contrasting styles. Enter Gabier and Peters. These two are great at bringing both of these elements into an easy harmony.  With their geometric patterns and soft fabrics, this fusion is carried out seamlessly.

Michael Van Der Ham

A lot of designers go with singular fabrics, resulting in clothing that’s a little too plain. Michael Van Der Ham goes in the opposite direction, making a mockery of single fabrics and dull patterns. His pieces look like homemade collage work with a very informed design aesthetic. He keeps his styles together masterfully in spite of all the differing elements.

Felicity Brown

Felicity Brown’s clothes are the talk of fashion. They’re sophisticated and well suited for any occasion. Few designers can keep this many ideas together, but Felicity Brown strikes a balance flawlessly.

Emilio de la Morena

One recent fashion trend is known as body con, and it basically means that one should dress in outfits that best suit their body type. Emilio de la Morena is one of the masters of body con because he has an instinctive appreciation for how clothes should fit.  His clothing speaks of a great love of tailored fashions.

There are a lot of young talented designers at work nowadays in the fashion world. In fact, most of the hottest designers are under 30 years old. The trendiest silhouettes are coming from those who know how a body should be adorned. You can only imagine what these young powerhouses are going to develop as they get older and gain more experience.

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Best night-out spots in Sydney

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Sydney has plenty of action through out the year. Sydney believes in working hard and playing harder. That’s why it has an active night-life. If you are in Sydney with your partner, night is the best time to get out and have some fun.

Night-life is a very integral part of life of Sydney. This is the time of the day, when the sun sets, and people want to un-wind. The following are some night-out places to visit in Sydney.

Dames in tanks

This one is best enjoyed by bachelors. If the men have open-minded partners, this should not be a problem. Dames in tanks is a bar. Drinks are served by bikini-clad women. This makes drinking more pleasurable. When visiting Dames in tanks people are advised to be sane. Don’t drink silly and be spoilt beyond control with the bikini-women.

Sand Pit

Sand Pit is a place on the loose. Like its name the place offers people a sandy time, even if there is no Sun. There’s a mechanical bull that rocks in one corner, and the whole bar is floored with sand. A nice way to feel like being on the beach, and chugging along.

The Lord Nelson

Probably one of Sydney’s oldest bars, the Lord Nelson is a frequent haunt amongst international travelers. Beautifully crafted with sandstone, most places have scenic views to the outside. A restaurant at the venue serves the best food from amongst various food styles. The Lord Nelson bar is known for serving home-made beer.

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How to Optimize Your Man Cave Power: Getting the RIGHT Electronics

2011
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Having your own man cave complete with a Little Rascals-inspired “Heman Woman Haters Club” sign on the door is the dream of many men who never quite grew up. Judging from all the fun full-grown boys tend to have, it’s easy to see why the fantasy is there. Whoever said you have to spend half your time slaving away at work, and the other half cleaning or hanging out in front of the TV?

You may not go to the extremes these guys did, but you can still build yourself a very respectable man cave. Your cave is your place to contemplate life, work on your ride—if you can call that working—and most importantly get away from the frilly, effeminate world where an innocent compliment can turn into a lawsuit. Let’s check out a few ways you can turn an average room into an all-out man cave through the use of superior technology like direct TV.

TV

No man cave is ever complete without a TV. Nothing is more crucial to the experience of a man’s domain than being able to order up a movie on DirecTV or Hulu and just relax. Even Batman had an impressively large TV in his cave.

While you might not have Bruce Wayne’s budget, the rule is still “a TV as big as you can fit on the wall and afford.” Also make sure your TV has a crisp monitor on it. The whole idea is to create a fantasy place. Unless your fantasies involve a lot of squinting and having to wear glasses a few years from now, spend a little more on a great TV.

Sound System

It’s all about the music, men. Whether you get down to classical music, old school rock ‘n roll or hardcore metal, in this cave you don’t just want to hear the music. You want to feel the music vibrating through every cell of your body.

You want to have to grasp your beer with both hands so it doesn’t vibrate out of your grip and end up on the floor. For a great sound system, you want massive speakers with a never-ending stream of music. You can run your cave concert off of iTunes, your personal music collection or even stream it from an online radio station.

Power Tools


It wouldn’t be a man cave without some tools on hand. You just never know when you’ll need to tighten, loosen, fasten or break something. If your ride needs a tune-up, you just read “some assembly required” or you’ve got a great idea for a piece of furniture, this is your place to make it happen. Some of the most awesome power tools out there will let you do pretty much everything short of raising the dead.

While most of the time you have to limit yourself to what’s portable, in your cave you can have it all. Go ahead and splurge on a 5hp table saw, and a planter with enough clearance to shave an oak tree. In your cave, you can be the consummate builder.

Video Games and Pinball Machines

Arcade games are one of the quintessential parts of being a kid at heart. If you dropped enough quarters into your game of choice back in the day to finance a college degree, your cave needs its own cabinet. If you don’t want to clutter up your space with a hundred games, you can actually build your own cabinet and use an emulator like MAME to run thousands of older games. The best part is now you don’t have to blow your quarters.

If you’re a pinball player by nature, you can find all kinds of sweet classic machines on eBay. With a little bit of polishing up every so often, you can have both a lot of fun and a great little investment to leave your grandkids. The only bad thing about having your own pinball machine is that it’s easy to be the entire high score list and think you’re hot stuff when you’re nothing compared to the pros.

Seating

What’s your perfect chair? Some guys love a good rustic chair made out of tree branches they hauled home in classic lumberjack style. Other guys are great with something a bit more civilized and seriously plush. Still other guys see their throne as much as a work of art as just something to sit on during a movie or the game.

Your chair choices are incredibly vast. There’s even a chair that vibrates in tune to your music, so you can feel it even without cranking your speakers. Remember that relaxation and exhilaration are the only things you should ever experience in your man cave throne. This is the seat of your dominion, and you should probably even get one with a remote holster so you don’t have to keep a bulky table next to it.

Eats

There are three very important components of the eats you take into your man cave: they don’t have to be healthy if they’re delicious, you shouldn’t have to leave your cave to enjoy them, and having the fire department called on your grilling technique is a badge of honor.

If you love popcorn, get a retro-style popper and turn every day into a day at Coney Island. If you’ve got a favorite food, keep a fridge dedicated exclusively to it right on hand. Some of the best man caves actually have two fridges: one for food, and one for beer.

If you’re not a big drinker, that’s fine. You can set up a soda bar where you make root beer floats instead. There’s no taste combination quite like jalapeno nachos with a root beer float.

IN CONCLUSION

Your man cave is obviously up to your rules. If you don’t want it, it isn’t so. But when you do set up your man cave, make sure you’ve got the best you can find of everything you love. Your man cave is your temple to the joy of raw, unfiltered masculinity, and everything therein should reflect this pure grown-man boyish spirit.

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You should be your woman’s accessory

2011
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Women love accessories. They are serial accessorizers. So it is not surprising that they want their boyfriends or husbands to be an accessory. They want well-groomed, neat, and tidy partners. They should look preened and petite all the time. Not for once should they have a speck on their eye-corners, or a crumpled shirt, or a piece of hair on their chin.

Women who prefer men to be an accessory tend to put a lot of pressure on men. Men of such women spend a lot of time at the spa, gym, shopping mall, and what not. They are in the continuous race to look good at all times. They want to smell good always. Somehow, they don’t want their women to upgrade to better models!

If you want to woo a woman who is hot, sexy, and with lots of oomph, then you gotta be like a pick from the shelf. You should be like this ready-made mix. The woman can just pick you up and walk down with you with lots of self-esteem.

The secret of a full-on-energy relationship is to be your woman’s accessory. Love comes later. Wear clothes that accentuate your personality. Work-out at the gym. Work on your skin. Get flawless skin for a change. Shave of facial hair. If you might, then don’t keep any chest hair too! But stop at that!

Smell well. Buy a perfume that suits you. Smell sexy always. But don’t smell like a dressing room. You might nauseate her!

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Dressing ethics for women at work

2011
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Women love clothes. There is no doubt about that. Working women want to look their best at work. They sometimes bring a lot of fashion sense in the office. In an office full of badly dressed men, the arrival of one well-dressed woman can even change the way how men dress!

Women bring a lot of prettiness to the office. They make an office fun by bringing in elements of having fun at work, dressing well, and displaying camaraderie amongst colleagues. Women have to keep in mind certain things when dressing to work. Here are these.

Gaudy outfits are a big no-no. Low necklines, boob-showing outfits, low-waist jeans are some of them. Women should not wear to office what they’d wear for a Saturday night outing.

Women may feel that this could make them attractive at office, and change the way people react to her. But this can only ”characterize” women. They may make people perceive them in a certain way which may not be healthy.

An office is often not a place to look sexy. Unless it is an advertising company, or a fashion house, or an organization where looking sexy is fine. But looking sexy in an information technology company might distract the geeks!

Employers of fortune 500 companies have dressing rules. Many companies do not. Women working in such companies often do not understand what to wear to work.

The best way to understand what to wear to work is to wear something that looks attractive and not distractive!

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Resort Wear for Men

2011
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When you think of resort wear, you may conjure up in your head images of ladies lounging beside a tropical pool in giant hats and sarongs. Well, you wouldn’t be wrong in thinking that, but resort wear isn’t just for the ladies! There is a large range of resort wear available for men on the market today.

So just what is resort wear? It is basically a term used describe the kind of clothes you would wear on a vacation to a warmer climate. When you think to yourself, “what will I wear on vacation?” the images you get in your head, such as shorts and t-shirts is what resort wear refers to.

Shirts

Most resort wear collections for men contain any number of polo shirts. These are a staple vacation item for many men. They come in all colors and sizes; some even have fun prints on them. Polo shirts can easily go from poolside lounging to lunch at a nice restaurant. The versatility makes them very popular amongst male vacationers.

Shorts

Men’s resort wear shorts are great these days, as they come in many different styles and colors. Different lengths are also available as are different materials. Most men will wear swim shorts throughout the day so they can easily dip in and out of the swimming pool. Denim and cargo shorts are also popular and versatile.

Shoes

Although the trusty boat shoe is still popular amongst men’s resort wear lines, there are many other options available. Flip flops are very popular and perfect for lounging by the pool. For something modern, try a slip on canvas shoe.

 

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Summer 2011 Accessories

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Summer accessories are all about fun, color and of course the beach! Here are some of the hottest trends in accessories for the 2011 summer season.

Shoes

For many, platform shoes are precarious, but for many others they mean fun and of course summer! Platform shoes seem to be becoming a staple in a fashionistas summer wardrobe. This summer they have evolved into the ‘flatform’, a sort of hybrid between a flat shoe and a platform. These give you the height that traditional platforms do, but with the added comfort of what a flat shoe offers.

Handbags

Colorful handbags are popular again this summer. The oversized bag trend is still current, so choose something in a bright shade such as orange, yellow or blue for a hot summer accessory. White is also big this summer and will nicely offset all of those bright colors you will be wearing.

Head Gear

Scarves are making a comeback for summer. Wrap a bright neon scarf around the back and tie them in the front just on your hairline for a cute 50s inspired look, or tie them at the side with ends flowing for a glamorous 70s inspired look. Scarves are great as anyone can wear them and they cover up a bad hair day!

Jewelry

Chunky is the word for jewelry this summer. There are some great pieces of costume jewelry available in brass and copper with vibrant stones. Statement pieces such as oversized and individual necklaces are also popular for completing a more simple summer outfit. Leave the delicate jewelry at home this summer!

 

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Clothes Shopping Tips for Men

2011
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Most men will agree that shopping for clothes isn’t a task they readily enjoy. For most, it is a matter of getting in and out of the store as quickly as possible. This can often result in the purchasing of items that are not needed or that do not fit properly. Here are some tips to make the shopping experience a little less painful for you.

Prepare

Before you hit the shops, make a list of what you need. Going clothes shopping and not knowing what you need or want is the quickest road to frustration. Indecisiveness often leads to you either purchasing something you didn’t want or not purchasing anything at all!

Budget

If you can, do some research by looking through catalogues or online before you go shopping. Take note of what you like or want and note down the prices of them. From this you can then form a budget as to how much you can spend. This way, you will not only get what you need, but you won’t end up spending money you don’t have.

Plan

If you know where you are going, then plan which shops you will visit. It may sound like over-kill, but planning where you will shop will keep you focused and prevent any frustrations that may come from aimlessly wandering around the mall. Most malls have websites with maps of where stores are located within the building. This is a great way to plan your shopping journey, and to get the job done efficiently.

Although shopping doesn’t come naturally for a lot of men it can be a painless process.

 

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Versatile Urban Fashion

2011
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Once upon a time, if you had varied interests in areas like skateboarding, surfing, and hip hop and wanted a clothing style that reflected who and what you were, you could go into sudden fashion schizophrenia just trying to combine the different genres.

Luckily, two Californians with varied interests in hip hop and fashion, decided that a clothes label combining all of urban and pop culture with style and ease would be a dream come true to most fashion conscious American males, as well as the rest of the world.

In 1999, Jonas Bevacqua and MC Robert Wright met through mutual friends in the music business and discovered they had similar ideas for a fashion line that could synergize the world of urban style into a more eclectic and stunning concept. Their ideas and genius turned into one of the hottest fashion brands in the world: LRG Clothes.

Since that time, LRG has evolved into a line that can give you everything in the most comfortable and casual styles, but also have the versatility to mix well with the hottest in evening wear. LRG clothing has attracted celebrity acclaim and can be seen at many red carpet events as a testimony to the line’s popularity and appeal.

Today, LRG clothing can be found at the office or at home, in the best of nightclubs and at those very special occasions. The versatility of LGR extends from pants and jeans to shirts, hoodies, pull-overs, and the coolest in accessories.

So, if you are a man of many interests and want a style that reflects your personality, LRG is definitely the brand for you.

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Shopping Tips: How to Get More for Your Money

2011
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When heading to the store, do you do anything beforehand to prepare, or do you just go? If you aren’t preparing ahead of time then you’re spending money that you could be saving. Here are some tips to get more for your money.

Price Match

Pretty much any store nowadays will match the prices of its competitors. These ads must be print ads that you’ve received either in the mail or inside your newspaper. You can’t price match with online competitors. Before you head to the store, look through ads for the products you’re in the market for and find the best prices. Bring the ad with you so that you can show the cashier the advertised price granting you a discount before you pay with your reach prepaid card.

Coupons

There are many products that have coupons available for use. Some of these coupons are store coupons found in ads sent out in the mail and some are manufacturer coupons. Even if you don’t receive the Sunday paper, which traditionally contains a lot of coupons, there are coupons that can easily be printed. You’ll find these coupons from many sources including the product’s Facebook profile page, the manufacturer’s website, and dedicated coupon sites.

Buy During Sales

If you keep track of products that you buy frequently and their sales, you’ll find trends for when certain products are cheaper. During this time, be sure to stock up on these products. For items that last a long time, it might even help to buy enough of the item to last the whole year till it goes on sale once again.

 

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