Sunday, May 19, 2013

Topshop festival has launched a music festival style collection with Kate Bosworth


Working with the Topshop design team, Bosworth created items that extend the actress’s style and work hand in hand with the Topshop brand. The special 21-piece collection consists of signature pieces ranging from neon printed shorts, fur lined vests, gladiator sandals and even feathered wings. And before you click through to our gallery of all the Topshop Festival items—you may have already seen them: Bosworth wore many of the items at this year’s Coachella festival.
Just in time for this summer’s music festival season, Topshop is launching an interactive campaign called Topshop Festival. Inspired by the energy of the ever-growing popularity of British music festivals and its fashion, the campaign includes music, movies and, of course, must-have products. Even better, Topshop turned to Kate Bosworth—a Coachella devotee who’s always embraced the festival fashion trend—to help create some items for the collection. It’s not a collaboration, per say, but more of a Bosworth-approved edit of the Topshop Festival collection.

Friday, May 17, 2013

A celebrity is a person who has a prominent profile and commands, Lily of the valley print is having a celebrity moment


celebrity is a person who has a prominent profile and commands some degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media. The term is often synonymous with wealth (commonly denoted as a person with fame and fortune), implied with great popular appeal, prominence in a particular field, and is easily recognized by the general public.

A favourite flower of Christian Dior – the designer wore a sprig of it in his buttonhole and sewed it into the lining of dresses before they were worn on the catwalk – lily of the valley is currently enjoying another moment in the spotlight. Or, rather, on the red carpet.

A print using the pretty, bell-shaped white flower is in Dolce & Gabbana's spring collection, and, made into trousers, tops, dresses and even kimonos, it's been adopted by celebrities in a big way. Penny Lancaster wore a shift with the print on it last week, while Kylie Minogue donned a pyjama-style blouse and printed pants for a premiere of The Great Gatsby at the weekend. Helen Mirren has worn her version – a pleated knee-length number – to three different events since last December.

Why is it so popular, and why now? The print appeared in only one look for the brand's spring/summer show but it was used in around 15 designs in the commercial collection, which is traditionally more wearable.

Do you know why choosing the right perfume is so important


I was remembering the scent of Aquamanda. You must rememberAquamanda? We used to marinade ourselves in it during the early 70s. Everything I owned was saturated with the scent of orange blossom. How odd that I should remember a smell without actually smelling it. Then again, is there anything more evocative of time and place than a perfume? I bet Daisy Buchanan wasn't so much moved to tears by the sight of Gatsby's "beautiful shirts" as by the memories stirred by the scent of them – and him.
You know when there is a "something" that hovers just out of reach and you can't quite put your finger on it? While I was watching The Joy of the Single (a documentary about 45rpm records, not marital status), there was a snippet, a mere 10 seconds, of a young and svelte Roy Wood, shimmering in blue sequins, warbling Blackberry Way, and something stirred. I had a vivid recollection of my beloved sequinned Biba tank top, but that wasn't it. It was something more … sensory. A smell. It took me a whole 24 hours to finally nail it: the scent of the Biba tank top when I put it on.
Since the 70s I've worked my way from Revlon's Charlie to YSL Rive Gauche by way of Chanel Allure and a brief infatuation with Armani Acqua di Gioia – and thence to Chanel No 5 – which my daughters still call "Mummy Smell". I can't honestly recall it, but I know my own mum favoured Worth's Je Reviens. My nan sprayed everything (and everybody) with lavender water or 4711 eau de cologne. I've learned that although I adore the scent of roses I cannot abide tuberose and that, for some reason, Nina Ricci's L'Air du Temps brings me out in spots. I'm not fickle with my perfumes – it turns out that I am one of those people who remains loyal to a handful of favourites and in my case those are currently Chanel No 5,