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The only piece of jewelry men actually love wearing are their timepieces. It is imperative for a man to exhibit a leading watch on his empty hand because it presents his robust and powerful personality. Fewer accessories, the classier you look. Just a show of watch makes a man look aristocratic therefore men have been watch enthusiasts since ages. Mens watches have been an object displaying their style and personality. Leading designers and watch moguls have spent their life articulating and honing their skills in making watches for men.

Fine watches make a man:
Practicality is audible and translucent in a man rather than a woman. Men do not like to be confined and rigid while they work. When a woman comes to work she’ll be draped not only with clothes but also with heavy accessories that demand her attention from time to time making her helpless. Men enchant the opposite sex with their few pieces of adornments like ring, probably wedding ring, bracelet and definitely a sleek watch. Watches for men are a necessity rather than a want because they help him upkeep his deadline.

Mens watches are categorized into sports, lifestyle and classic divisions. A lifestyle watch mostly caters to his professional life, a classic watch is for special occasions and sports watch is used for the obvious reason, athletic activities. Men will always opt for functionality in their gadgets over design unlike women who opt for vice versa. Watches for men are designed based on this belief, therefore you will notice a lot of thought isput into mens watches pertaining to applications like calendar settings, pressure meter, thermometer, Bluetooth facility and so on. It is their prerogative if they want to own multiple watches or an all-in-one watch. Digital watches have been in the market since their conception and have endured various alterations, even today improvements are being made. It is just because a man cannot get enough of a digital watch. Its counterpart that is the analogue watch is also being developed to get adjusted to the changing world.

Common features of masculinity:
There is a monotonous look given to mens watches. In order to break from that monotony men prefer digital sports timepieces, because they present newness and color. An average dial of a man’s watch would be large because it complements his masculine look. A very important characteristic that is incorporated in mens watches is the glow-in-the-dark feature. This feature seems insignificant to a woman but it takes a lot to be a man. Furthermore, the resistance to water element is an earmark when discussing about watches for men. There seems rationality when a man chooses a watch with this quality because there are accidents wherein watches get soaked in water during rains or for other causes. Besides determining the water level and withstanding the pressure is indeed a good feature to be embedded in a watch.

Strap you up:
Men are usually conscious about their appearance. There is a reason behind why they hanker for polishes shoes, un-creased clothes and a good watch for all occasions etc. They are talented in dressing up with practicality, nobody can beat them to this. For a formal celebration they would prefer a classic analogue styled watch with silver, gold or stainless steel strap. For a casual outing or a sporting event they would definitely go for a rubber or leather strap. And for that that extra bling display a designer watch is a must.

Mens watches speak what men are. Watches for men may seem boring and dull but remember they are gadgets for the intelligent.

Breaking out of the Project Runway title, Christian Siriano’s Fall 2011 collection at Lincoln Center during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week was an ode to petals, flower petals that is. A dark collection, some beautiful colors mixed in. Jackets, trousers, beautiful dresses and romantic prom gowns were super impressed. Today we would like to focus on prom dresses of this fantasy show.

Fantasy Prom Dresses

The collection was reminiscent of a dream, filled with floaty fabrics and feathered edges. The talented designer did not disappoint with his collection that was at once dark, moody, elegant and fierce all at once. Christian Siriano fall 2011 prom dressing were dreamy and lady like. It included a moody-hued orchid-print organza cocktail dress with a pretty swirling drape that ended in a rosette on one shoulder, a flowing green printed strapless gown and a long-sleeved, embellished mini. There was everything a fashionista can ask for like jackets, skirts, pants, as well as beautiful dresses and fantasy gowns. Confections of orchids ornately adorned short prom dress while the same theme carried on throughout the second half of the collection in a multi-tier one shoulder gown with sheer chiffon connection connecting two ruffle orchid hemlines, one at the knee and the other grazing the floor, his finale was a pink petal ball skirt paired with a sheer grey chiffon top.

Ruffled and Tulled Ball Gowns

As always, black was the main color used and the silhouettes were powerful and feminine. The palette was mostly black but anything but boring on account of the incredible detail, impeccable fit, fabulous fabrics and amazing textures used in each look, from tailored modern takes on the suit to jaw dropping ball gowns. Looks like a long tulip skirt with a lean black turtleneck, suit with a portrait collar and awkward ruffled skirt, massive petal-pink ball skirt paired with a simple gray silk tee looked chic. Christian upped the ante with some ruffles and tulle showed up inth ball gowns.

Stylish Cocktail Dresses

Aside from the over the fantasy gowns, Siriano sent out beautiful cocktail dresses in moss greens, blacks and a subdued honeysuckle pink color. He also sent out a some suits and coats appropriate for daytime, showing that he can create both out of this world fantasy gowns and everyday pieces for the woman who wants to have it all.

What do you think of this collection? Do you like this show as I do? Hopefully you could find insipration from it.

What do you think is fashion? Some people consider it as a suit of branded clothes. As far as I am concerned, people can still be fashionable without branded clothes. As long as you wear the most suitable clothes and then leave a deep impression on others, you catch up with the trend.

To begin with, not all of us can afford branded or designer clothes, but we can become members of the vogue group, if we dress ourselves suitably. It all depends on our characters, figures and molds. Some people are shy and quiet, and they need clothes of lady style. On the other hand, some are active and outgoing, so wild and cool style fits them. A true fashion fan will not pursue branded or luxurious clothes blindly. Instead, they will pick carefully what most fits them.

Secondly, good dressing is important, and fitness of the dressing makes others comfortable. For example, the coat and the trousers should be coordinate in styles and colors. Branded clothes show the fashion trend which we can refer to. Fashion weeks in Paris, Milan and New York have attracted many fashion followers. Magazines or websites about vogue are also reference sources from which we can know how to dress in a harmonious style. With the knowledge of such “dressing code”, non-branded clothes can also lead the vogue.

In addition, fashion is various. Clothes from the same brand or designer are always of similar styles. Their symbol designs and patterns are easily recognized. Thus, variety is what those brands lack. Women are especially fond of various clothes. For them, wearing similar or the same clothes with others will make them embarrassed when they hang out. Therefore, branded clothes can not meet their need all the time.

Last but not least, fashion means creativity. At present, clothes from some unknown designers have been very popular. Such designers insist on making their own clothes which are usually unique and creative. It turns out that their works are warmly welcomed. There is no doubt that most people want to dress differently from others with favorable prices and special designs.

No matter what the definition of fashion is in your dictionary, fashion is not restricted to branded clothes only. It can be anything that is wonderful.

Kurta pajama far from being a necessary item of mens clothing has now become an essential attire to flaunt your taste for fashion and style. Kurtas pajama despite been in place from times immemorial and still worn by men and young boys alike with the same zeal and fervor.

Not only in India, this essential men’s wear has now gained popularity in countries across the world with latest mens kurtas designs. This widespread appeal and popularity of kurta pajama thus owes a lot to the number of designs and patterns that one can find in this versatile item of clothing.

A lot of designers from both India and many foreign countries are putting in a lot of effort in incorporating new patterns and designs to churn out latest Mens Kurta Designs by making every piece unique and one of its kind. Moreover Kurta Pajamas other than being an item of fashion and style clothing is one of the most comfortable wear for all kinds of men and occasions.

Mens kurta designs today are available in a lot of patterns, colors and sizes and fashion designers come up with a completely new and ravishing range after every few months which keep the interest of the wearer always alive.

At gravity fashion, you would find that our designers have very artistically fused different materials with one another in creating unique, eye-catching designs to bring out a wonderful range of latest mens kurta designs. These Kurta Pajamas are developed from superior quality fabric and available in matchless designs.

Being a prominent name in the industry, we also offer tailor made kurtas to our customers. From a vast variety of mens kurtas designs available at gravity fashion, you can easily buy latest kurta for men at just the click of your finger. Thus available in a wide array of designs and a plethora of color schemes, the stylish range of Mens Kurta Designs at gravity fashion is designed to suit all special occasions.

Designed to complement different personalities, our range posses unique designs and patterns with fine texture made from fabrics such as silk, raw cotton, organza, brocade etc. to give you a royal look and rich feel of the garment.

Moreover, our unique range of mens kurta pajamas is tested for color fastness and shrinkage before their dispatch. So whether you are placed in India or abroad, you can buy latest kurta for men, from the stylish and high quality range of kurta pajamas available online and create your style statement wherever you go wearing this unique and classy ensemble.

by: Geoff Ficke

The Nearly Forgotten Fashion Pioneer Who Changed the Way Women Dressed

Mention the name Chanel and virtually every woman, and most men immediately have a mental picture of the famous logo, eponymous boutiques, couture fashion and famous Fragrances created several generations ago by the fashion doyen Coco Chanel. Ms. Chanel’s professional and personal life has been well-documented in books and movies. Though she has been deceased for many years the Chanel Brand has been protected, nurtured and managed to ever greater heights and is considered one of the most successful luxury goods franchises in history.

Christian Dior and Coco Chanel alone among their contemporaries from the first half of the 20th century remain household names. There was another creative fashion artist however who was considered by the connoisseurs of that time to have been their superior in talent, vision and success. Her name was Elsa Schiaparelli and for all of her fame and accolades she is largely forgotten today.

Elsa Schiaparelli was born to an aristocratic Roman family in 1890. Her world as a child was full of books, music, the arts and rich, successful people. As a young Philosophy student at the University of Rome she wrote a fairly scandalous book of erotic poems that enraged her conservative family and they shipped her off to a convent where she promptly went on a hunger strike. She left the convent and undertook a lifestyle change by attempting to leave behind the luxury she had always enjoyed and becoming a Bohemian. Her goal was to be an artist and she delved deeply into Surrealism.

After living a simple life devoted to art and study in New York City and London, young Elsa finally moved to Paris. There she was invited to attend a ball but had nothing to wear. She simply bought some fabric and made a type of wrap dress for herself. She became close to Modernist artists Man Roy and Marcel Duchamp. They, along with the most famous French Couturier of the early 20th century, Paul Poiret, encouraged her to start to design clothes.

Ms. Schiaparelli started her first couture house but it quickly failed by 1926. In 1927 she tried again and launched a collection featuring trompe l’oeil images on sweaters that became the rage. She was featured in Vogue. Her business exploded with the introduction of -pour le sport- line including spectacular linen dresses, bathing suits and ski wear. In 1931 she opened the Schiap Shop on the Place Vendome. The same year the tennis player Lili de Alvarez created a sensation when she played Wimbledon wearing Elsa Schiaparelli’s -divided skirt, the forerunner of shorts. The new shop included an Evening Wear department that became famous and added greatly the House success.

Elsa Schiaparelli is credited with many firsts in the fashion world. These include:

Graphic Knitwear
Color Coordinated Zippers
Whimsical Brooch-like Buttons
Culottes
Arab Breeches
Embroidered Shirts
Wrapped Turbans
PomPom Ribbed Hats
Barbaric Belts
Wedge Espadrille Shoes
Mix-and-Match Sportswear
The Runway Show
Androgynous Fashion Models

Her work was heavily influenced by the famous Modernist artists of the day including Dada, Fini, Cocteau, Oppenheim and Giacometti. It was the wild Catalan Surrealist sensation Salvador Dali that would exert the most vivid effects on Elsa Schiaparelli’s work. This effect can be easily seen in her Lamb Cutlet hat and the 1936 suit with pockets simulating a chest of drawers. The famous Lobster Dress, Tear Dress, Shoe Hat and Skeleton Dress were classic pieces that included trend setting fabric, tailoring cues, effects and surrealistic images that made the wearer appear to be dressed in artwork.

The House of Schiaparelli produced garments and accessories that were considered more than Couture Fashion, but unique pieces of wearable art. The House was retained to design costumes for movie productions including Topaze (1933), Moulin Rouge (1952) and for Mae West in Every Day Is a Holiday (1937).

The bodice figure of Mae West is the silhouette that Schiaparelli used to create the flacon for her signature Perfume Shocking. The -Shocking Pink- used to dress the Fragrances unit carton became so famous and distinctive that it is known to this day as -shocking pink- in pantone books. Through the 1930′s and 1940′s the House of Schiaparelli introduced a number of successful Fragrance Collections for men and women.

In 1934 Time Magazine placed Madame Schiaparelli at the top of the fashion world. Of her great rival Coco Chanel Time stated, -Chanel has assembled a fortune estimated at $15 million in the United States while being not at present in the most dominant influence in fashion-. Time went on to note that every little garment house on 7th Avenue was making replica versions of every collection that Elsa Schiaparelli produced.

Chanel was a traditionalist. Owing to the influences of Modern and Surreal art Schiaparelli was an experimentalist. She was the first to experiment with acrylic, rayon jersey, cellophane and a new fiber called Fildifer. This was the first use of synthetics in Couture.

In the 1970′s Diane von Furstenburg burst onto the fashion scene with her iconic wrap dress. Schiaparelli had created the wrap dress 50 years earlier, the same for Issey Miyake’s pleats and wrinkles skirts which she had first designed in the 1930′s.

The introduction of the Runway Fashion Show alone would have cemented Elsa Schiaparelli’s place at the pinnacle of Haute Couture history. The Branding and Marketing Strategies that this pioneer created are still used by leading Fashion Houses to this day. The inclusion of whimsy, anything goes and the co-mingling of a variety of colors, shapes and fabrics in her stunning pieces were revolutionary and have never been matched.

By the end of World War II the fashion scene had changed significantly. The clientele that had made Elsa Schiaparelli rich, famous and a trend setter had changed as well. The world had experienced a terrible trauma. The sort of energy and imagination that was inspired by Modernism and Surrealism was not highly valued. Practical became a cornerstone of Fashion in the 1950′s. The House of Schiaparelli closed in 1954 and Ms. Schiaparelli spent the last 20 years of her life in Paris and her seaside mansion in Tunisia.

Coco Chanel famously despised Elsa Schiaparelli. Ms. Chanel once said that Schiaparelli made art, not clothes. She disparagingly referred to her as that -Italian Artiste-. Elsa Schiaparelli, born to aristocracy and luxury, never took the bait. If she had negative thoughts about her rival they were well hidden.

Any student researching the history of the development of Couture Fashion in the 20th century will recognize the design breakthroughs that were created by Elsa Schiaparelli and are present everywhere in today’s female clothing scene. This creative body of work changed the world of fashion forever. Though largely forgotten today, this pioneer has left an amazing artistic and inventive legacy.