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Calvin Klein is undeniably the most popular brand around. Why? Because it keeps coming up with interesting concepts on how to make the brand’s products interesting. CK, as the brand is also known, hires or rather takes celebrities as spokesperson. As a result, CK has managed to have high-profile celebrities such as Beyonce and Scarlett Johansson star in their ads and represent their perfumes.
Now let’s talk about men perfume.

Whether you agree or not, we think men’s perfume are the best. They smell just wonderful, probably what heaven smells like. Fragrances by Calvin Klein for men are one of the best. It reflects masculinity on men who wear it and brings out an interesting feel.

Enough about the men now, let’s focus more on the ladies. Fragrances for ladies are varied. The reason why women have a whole array of choice when it comes to perfumes is because women have different taste and are not afraid to project it. Calvin Klein perfumes for women are simply astounding. This is the reason why Calvin Klein Perfumes is the connection between a man and a woman.

Don’t you just hate it when these celebs (most of them are famous for nothing) show off the latest handbag in their outings. Specially the handbags that you have been eyeing all season and been saving up for it. Well, enough of those celebrities hating, we are going to show them some love by explaining who wore what.

Let’s get started on the Dolce & Gabbana’s Miss Sicily bag. This beauty has been seen in the arms of Victoria Beckham, Madonna and Eva Mendes. The Miss Sicily bag is currently sold at a whopping €1300. It is considered to be a very elegant bag by many and this bag comes in black or white patent leather, embossed croc and colourful leopard prints.

Next comes the Alexander Wang Diego bag. Actress Kate Bosworth always carries bags from this brand around, most probably because it has a casual look. It has the bucket look and comes with a short or long strap. The bag is available from Topshop for €34.

This season’s color of the lips are all saturated colors which are mostly beige and red. Designers like Christian Lacroix, Moschino, Emporio Armani, Vivienne Westwood, Zac Posen, Gucci and others presented bright lip colors in their collections.

The perfect shade for this season is red which looks good on everybody not to mention even with different face tone but stylists recommend choosing the shade of the lipstick based on the attire and accessories you wear.

However, people who have pale skin might also try out all the colors they want since there’s no restrictions. Then, people who have light pink skin can try out rich pink, coral, carmine or any other color lipsticks that will revitalize their complexion. Olive skin people should pay attention to warm colors such as red-brown, brick or crimson colors to add up some color to the face. Other than that, dark and tanned skin people should avoid the pale pink or other lipsticks color that are generously diluted with white but should wear colors like fuchsia, purple, burgundy.

Hats has been the ‘a la une’ in Tokyo markets this last month. The new fashion trend for girls in Tokyo is hats, but mind you not all types of hats, it’s the boater or “bota” or “kankanbo”, as it is known in Japanese which is the latest trend right now in Tokyo.

What’s the difference between this “bota” and normal hats? The “bota” is ‘made of straw and has a stiff or soft flat crown and brim, in general tied with a ribbon around the crown”. However some variations may exist, instead of using straw, materials especially colorful ones with bright flower patterns are used. And some of these hats have more decorations than a simple ribbon, for ie there can also be flowers attached to them.

If you are visiting Tokyo right now, wherever you will go, in almost all shops; this is what you will find the “botas”, hottest fashion trend for Japanese girls which definitely you can also adopt as they are trendy, pleasant and fashionable.

These clothes we were referring to earlier were designed by a young man, Tae-Young Ko. Ko’s designs are very popular over there as some of them are cheap. It’s a matter of fact that his cheap designs caught the eye of Chun from Idiel who plans on launching Ko’s items in New York along with many affordable Korean goods.

We spotted nice handbags in the show that didn’t cost much. They looked made for all occasions. You know the Koreans, they would wear any bag for any occasions, no rules here. Obviously, most items here don’t cost that much if you were to shop for them at malls. On top of that, their items are always the recent ones with no passé stuffs on display. After the shows, we decided to do a little snooping around the malls to see what we can get. After all, it’s been a long time since we last were here.

After attending a few fashion shows earlier this year, we came across an invitation for the Korean Fashion Show so here we are now, reporting on the Korean Fashion Show. Let us first explain how Asian fashion works. When we first stepped into Japan several years ago, we found the fashion there a bit queer. Fashion there evolves fast, as fast as their trains. We thought high heels shoes were funny back then and whoops, a couple of years later, it’s a world fashion statement. We would say designers draw inspiration from these fast developing Asian countries.

Here we are again at the Korean Fashion Week, looking forward to some new trends and good food. As the show started, we found ourselves staring at some strange clothes. There was a whole array of male models with lipstick wearing clothes that was passé and present. A mixture of everything including glittering sleep masks, three-piece banker’s suits, diamond-studded teddy jackets and cartoon sweaters and “I Dream of Jeanie” pants. These are enough to send us in a spin.

At a recent fashion show, we witnessed a couple of handbags on the ramp. We have been talking about handbags since forever here on UM. This time in Milan, Fendi introduced their new line of bags. The new line consists of maxi pochette, the clutch hard, shoppers, the handbag and the peek-a-boo, quite a variety. The peek-a-boo will be available this winter in yellow and with a new leather striped.

We are aware of the fact that Fendi’s products are not that popular but people in fashion are aware of their shoes and bags. The new line which will make an appearance in winter comes in a different color scheme but black mainly takes the cake. There’s a bit of yellow, brown, caramel color with some blue. Fendi does produce some nice bags for every occasion. With their handbags, you get a whole package where each of us have our own preferred bag.

Let’s face it, whether or not, we can afford the next Dolce & Gabbana, there are those who can and they are called celebrities! Celebrities wait for the next Dolce & Gabbana more than we do because, you know, they can afford it. Well, let’s not proceed ahead by hating the celebrities on this, some people have all the luck.

With every season, Dolce & Gabbana shows us their new releases whether it’s an accessory or a dress. And for that season, that particular product would be a ‘must-have’ for the season. For this season, the specialty is the Dolce & Gabbana’s Miss Sicily Spring 2010 bag. The bag comes in leather, patent leather, embossed croc and various colorful leopard prints. Celebrities that we spoke about earlier such as Madonna, Victoria Beckham, Dita von Teese and Ashley Greene have been spotted carrying their black crochet ‘Miss Sicily’ bag. For those who want this bag, you can purchase it from Luisa via Roma.

Looking around today, we came across this nice site that takes the pain in finding the best auction price for its readers. What are auction sites? Sites such as eBay and Amazon have really made a name for themselves with their high profile auctions. We love auctions too, a great way to find great items at an affordable price.

Designer-watches.org finds the best auction on the web for you. All you need to do is go on their site and bid on the item that you want. We all know the prices of designer watches so find it at a price that we can buy is really helpful. They also pick out the cheapest designer watches and update their list daily. A particular cheap designer watch that we found is the D&G Watch for Men but by the time you will read this, the watch will be gone. If you cannot afford a designer watch that is not on sale at your local store then you should definitely head over to this site to start bidding on your favorite designer watches.

This is what the fashionistas are reporting. Lara Stone might have gotten lucky again and this time by Calvin Klein. The famous Dutch model who has been in the news for all the right reason has been claimed by sources to be the new face of well known fashion house, CK. We recently reported that Lara Stone was bagging all the big offers in the fashion industry including taking over Madonna’s place for a certain famous fashion house.

This girl seems to be everywhere these days. And this time, she is set to represent Calvin Klein in campaigns for their jeans and cosmetics. Also this time, she will replacing star Jac Jablonski who was the face of the Calvin Klein collection for the past couple of seasons. Lara Stone landing herself this campaign will be huge in the modeling world or rather, is considered huge from where she comes from.

We can’t help but notice that she’s getting popular now that she’s has been declared as the fiancée of comedian, David Walliams.