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5/28/2010
The First Lady has been collecting and sharing stories in Mexico
Thank you for accepting me their stories, Aboriginal lady Michelle Obama told the dozen heads use apprentices he built into an ellipsoid large table. Thursday morning was a wonderful place of the accident, 16 Century to the Spanish Treasury, warning of the colonial era of this country.
Each of the adoption has been a personal adventure, to present the love of Mrs. Obama. The six men and six women, of disturbed sites in the country, were the best in the U.S. Embassy in Mexico to attend the basis for discussion at the round table. Words of a State Department translator sitting next to Mrs. Obama as a translator in English about the inclusion of allowances (at a table surrounded by the glass whispered) Mrs. Obama angered the Spaniards, no one had heard of transmission parts.
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Mrs. Obama understand Capital beliefs of these activists fun - it means things done in Mexico today - as is his participation in the new young platform crafts, either in areas such as the overall national studies available, including the address of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, George Washington University and the Anacostia High School, an allocation of low-income Washington.
Oscar ukemi, Mrs. Obama said Bautista Mu帽oz for his attempt to adapt their indigenous Huichol community, is not lost in creating a website for language and the ability. Jimena Canales Sofia Albarran, medical student, told his bow bare and ruined to buy the memberships of $ 10,000 for orphans and food for the doctor in Vietnam.
Olivetti Draw Paredes, founded the center in a kindergarten and workshops on the freezing of the exploitation of young animals and took in the ability of art media, Mrs. Obama directly: I accept your apparent ball over the Internet, on TV, you and your man By the way, I tell you a couple doing wonderful. I still accept, the picture in my bow that day ... dancing on the admiral was inaugurated. anecdote is not an allowance Obama Axial ethos. promotion of human to share their faith is a device that the organizer of the Association of Youth, Barack Obama, situated in the South Side of Chicago. Obama himself Admiral foreign apples in abundance on a summer night in Boston in 2004, he said to his people.
I have the angle that my adventure really about the award in the history of the United States, which have seen a debt, all those who came before me and no country in the world, my adventure is still possible, Obama said in his principal residence, welcomed the Democratic National Convention.
Set the allocation of people, their faith was a key piece of the surface to attack Obama's fantastic efforts. In the device detected over flower tribulation, to improve the bill, said the man learn to accept short stories to the allocation of the aggregate change was the awarding of bases targeted attack by Democrats and their allies.
Well, Mrs. Obama is also the belief of the membership, the movement forward with his agenda. The accident on the farm has never been a comprehensive debate, but had just enough time to declare the anniversary of 12 to get their projects. Mrs. Obama lavished praise.
You are the chorus of inspiration, he said. We have no Bill Gates [Microsoft architect and philanthropist] or Michelle Obama, but sometimes it is good. Teens in humans in their communities are the way to you. In summary, a young man accumulate in the doctrine acceptable in their work - and not only defeated, if the change will not be shown quickly. Is destroyed when I came to Haiti, the question that you understand that the problem only occurs in a record, he said.
This accident has the support agent available to Aboriginal Mrs. Obama was left covering the entire swing, on Tuesday with a visit to Haiti without prior notice, which began in anger, in comics for months. Mrs. Obama said in an accumulation of six journalists anon bleu capital Wednesday to after the shot before 12 January go.
Oh, you know, the moment of misfortune struck struck with the seizure, is looking for a fixed payment of its assets and is considering, What can I do? I invite can go. But the thought alfa again: I am the Virgin of the Aborigines, and I'm all over the country rose by traveling there. So we agreed, saying always to know whether this is to get a good time. And I my team, my team, we all agree that the time was acceptable it is expected that sharing music sharing the blow is coming. Mrs. Obama currently used Tuesday night from Haiti and spent 40 hours in Mexico before it ever to clock 12.01 San Diego appear to be fighting an accident highlighting their efforts to combat childhood fat.
At the Benito Juarez All-embracing Airport here, Mrs. Obama was formerly of cat and mouse raising of children is a serenade aboard his plane.
The singer, recovering American flags and Mexico, have argued that members of the choir Christel House, the Polyphonic Choir. Delivery of ragweed wore uniforms - killed bridges and killed Tan-shirts for girls shooting shirts without sleeves, pants and shirts for children Tan. Christel House was founded in order for the children in the event of bankruptcy care.
Mrs Cruise appears to favor Obama. The advantage of Mexico and the United States created - and so far it is the destruction of the wings can be seen as. The decision, the interviews with the United States abandoned each anniversary of grant available at the corner of Mexico City pitting Mrs. Obama's top news.
The closing message affidavit Thursday in Mexico City and El Universal Millennium featured pictures of Mrs. Obama on stage before the adoption of the Grammar School in the courtyard of the Academy. Page Chronicle used a report on his performance with a close-focus University. The inside pages were photos of her with the Lady Indians of Mexico Margarita Zavala at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mrs. Obama went on the speed of Wednesday morning.
5/20/2010
Nicole Richie makes a comedy of herself in Willy Wonka appearance Chanel sunglasses
Nicole Richie fabricated a comedy of herself as she popped out for a burger in Hollywood.
The 28-year-old wore a brace of white Chanel sunglasses, which with their blubbery frames seemed to be aggressive by those beat by Johnny Depp's actualization in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
The anew bistered absoluteness TV brilliant angry her hair up in a apart chignon as she chock-full for a cafeteria break.
The adopted babe of Lionel Richie has two accouchement with admirer Joel Madden - a babe called Harlow who turns two in January and son Sparrow who was built-in in September of endure year.
She is currently advancing to kickstart her acting career as the brilliant of a new TV sitcom.
Having ahead appeared in absoluteness alternation The Simple Life, Nicole will acknowledgment to the baby awning for a half-hour show, which she pitched to administration at U.S. approach ABC beforehand this year.
The mother-of-two will aswell aftermath the series, in which she stars as a alive woman bamboozlement her ancestors and adulation life.
Hard-working Nicole, who has her own actualization line, aswell makes an actualization in the new alternation of U.S. actualization Project Runway.
People annual letters that Richie will be a bedfellow adjudicator in the aboriginal adventure of the show, fronted by supermodel Heidi Klum.
The show's controlling ambassador Sara Rea accepted Richie's addition to the panel.
'Nicole is a aces bedfellow judge,' she said. 'She has able opinions and gives bright and specific effective criticism to the designers. Also, she isn't abashed to disagree with the added judges.'
The 28-year-old wore a brace of white Chanel sunglasses, which with their blubbery frames seemed to be aggressive by those beat by Johnny Depp's actualization in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
The anew bistered absoluteness TV brilliant angry her hair up in a apart chignon as she chock-full for a cafeteria break.
The adopted babe of Lionel Richie has two accouchement with admirer Joel Madden - a babe called Harlow who turns two in January and son Sparrow who was built-in in September of endure year.
She is currently advancing to kickstart her acting career as the brilliant of a new TV sitcom.
Having ahead appeared in absoluteness alternation The Simple Life, Nicole will acknowledgment to the baby awning for a half-hour show, which she pitched to administration at U.S. approach ABC beforehand this year.
The mother-of-two will aswell aftermath the series, in which she stars as a alive woman bamboozlement her ancestors and adulation life.
Hard-working Nicole, who has her own actualization line, aswell makes an actualization in the new alternation of U.S. actualization Project Runway.
People annual letters that Richie will be a bedfellow adjudicator in the aboriginal adventure of the show, fronted by supermodel Heidi Klum.
The show's controlling ambassador Sara Rea accepted Richie's addition to the panel.
'Nicole is a aces bedfellow judge,' she said. 'She has able opinions and gives bright and specific effective criticism to the designers. Also, she isn't abashed to disagree with the added judges.'
5/14/2010
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5/10/2010
Fashion stories: The story of Louis Vuitton
FOR Christine's mother, it started in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Wilshire in Los Angeles, aka the Pretty Woman hotel, when she watched a guest checking in accompanied by an entire trolley teetering with Louis Vuitton luggage. From that moment, she vowed to save up for a handbag.
Mother's obsession was passed on to daughter, and today Christine has "around 30" handbags from one of the world's most successful luxury brands, famous for its travel luggage, accessories and ready-to-wear clothes, and which this year is celebrating 125 years in the UK. "I have shoes and scarves too. It's the exclusivity, the craftmanship and the history that I love," she says, sitting in the Edinburgh store, in Multrees Walk. "I buy around six items a year, but that includes presents for my family. Once you have an LV bag, there's no going back. There are entry-level bags and then going all the way. My most expensive bag was around £3,700," she adds.
With bags ranging from £500 upwards, it's an expensive passion. "That depends how you define expensive. If it's beautifully crafted and can be passed down to the next generation, it's not expensive. Louis Vuitton is popular because it's classic, and I like to have a classic brand. It's also understated. A Louis Vuitton bag is a piece of art," says Christine, a dean at a Scottish university, who wishes to withold her surname, having been burgled in the past.
"When I get a new piece, she sits on the sideboard being admired for a week and I send a picture of her to my husband if he's away. I have a walk-in cupboard for my handbags and photos of each one on the box."
She? "Yes, they're all shes and have a personality. They can change your personality too. One of my evening bags – a tiny gold lambskin clutch, with a gold chain and silk on the inside – is very elegant and she makes me much more elegant too."
Christine's favourite is a Marilyn multi-colour with purple alligator panels, but she is careful to rotate her bags, today carrying a thick black leather Mahina. "I try to change my handbags every couple of days, otherwise the others get jealous," she says.
It's said that to travel is to arrive, and if your accompanying luggage involves a large collection of the distinctively monogrammed Louis Vuitton cases and bags, you can pack away your passport and crack open the Moët because you have very definitely arrived. It presents an image of luggage met by men in hats holding signs; that is gently placed in the boots of limousines and accompanies A-listers and those who only ever turn left on boarding a plane. At the same time, it's lusted after by those of us who travel cattle class and can only aspire to picking up a fake when we're abroad.
Since the 'It Bag' boom of the 1990s, Louis Vuitton has been one of the must-have brands and can be seen swinging on the arms of celebs from Paris Hilton to Rihanna, who was papped recently leaving London's hip Met Bar sporting a pink LV bumbag. One of the world's oldest fashion brands, 156 years old and with 426 stores in 60 countries, it remains one of the most successful. Since Monsieur Vuitton opened a shop selling packing cases in Paris in 1854, his name has been synonymous with style and luxury, born in an age when travel was revolutionised and the elite wasted no time in jumping aboard steamers and trains to explore a world that was opening up for them. Movie stars and maharajas don't travel light. and when Louis's son George joined the business, he provided them with cases for stately steamer travel, moving on to light bags when air travel came in for the jet set of the 1950s.
Since 1987, the brand has been part of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world's largest and most prestigious luxury goods group, and its advertising campaigns have featured the likes of Madonna, Naomi Campbell, Jennifer Lopez, Mikhail Gorbachev, Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi, invariably shot against a desert or Caribbean backdrop by the likes of Annie Leibovitz. So what is the secret to its success? The firm's chairman and chief executive Yves Carcelle puts it down to respecting the history of the brand, estimated to be worth 19.781 billion. Along with safeguarding the heritage – the trunks are still hand-made in the original workshops and the bulk of manufacturing is done in France – tight controls are kept on quality and the brand itself.Louis Vuitton handbags are only available in the company's own stores or online, and the name is never used on other products or promotions, despite persistent rumours that it is to move into hotels. Britney Spears fell foul of counterfeiting laws when what looked like a Louis Vuitton design featured in one of her videos, and courts ordered broadcasters to stop showing it.
Most importantly, the firm never discounts items. From design to manufacture and distribution, Louis Vuitton does it all itself. It also subscribes to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mantra and sticks with its original designs, the classic chequerboard canvas and the famous monogram, invented in 1896 by Louis's son as a tribute to his father. Those famous initials are still what draws customers in, from the Champs Elysées to Tokyo's Roppongi Hills, particularly Asian customers – Japan accounts for a third of the company's international sales and China is its third-largest market
But tradition is not enough to sustain a luxury label, and in 1997 it was given a shot of adrenalin with the arrival of designer Marc Jacobs, who created the company's first women's and men's ready-to-wear line. Like Gucci, Louis Vuitton wanted to move on from luxury goods, and while accessories make money, clothes generate catwalk press to keep a brand in the public eye.
Along with the introduction of shoes, watches and jewellery, Jacobs brought flair and innovation to add lustre to the traditional elements of quality, tradition and craftsmanship. He also introduced glamour and edginess by collaborating with popular artists such as Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami (Japan's answer to Andy Warhol), Richard Prince and rapper Kanye West, who designed a line of trainers last year.
So while Louis Vuitton continues with a dozen or so iconic bags, it introduces a couple of show bags or collaborations each season. Murakami's hugely popular Multicolour 2003 range became some of the most counterfeited fashion products in the world, annoying for the brand but providing a good gauge of public hunger for a product. The Stephen Sprouse 2001 graffiti and rose collection was also hugely successful and kept the brand in the public eye with an edgy glamour that prevents it from seeming passé. "Marc Jacobs is very clever in getting the collaborations because if it's down with the kids, you will get everyone up to 90 years old buying it," says Beca Lipscombe, a fashion and textiles course coordinator at Glasgow School of Art. "He has managed to make it contemporary, which it has to be to make money and continue to be successful. It's an enduring brand and deserves respect for that. The problem is if you have a classic that's built to last, how do you get people to buy more? You have to introduce variations," she says, "different colourways, limited editions and celebrity collaborations to keep them addicted, which Marc Jacobs understands."
And it seems there are plenty of people still addicted, despite the global economic crisis. Elite brands such as Louis Vuitton appear to be somewhat recession-proof. Jacobs explains why the French powerhouse is doing so well despite the downturn. "Obviously there are a lot of people suffering out there, but our sales are up."
Neil Stewart, manager of the Edinburgh branch, agrees. "We are increasing our market share. In Edinburgh we have a lot of local return customers as well as a million tourists a year in the city, many of whom see the store as a destination."
Indeed, the shop is such a big attraction that yesterday it had to be shut due to the volume of Taiwanese tourists. Today, a Saturday, it's full of locals and visitors happily spending away. The new maison, opening on 28 May in New Bond Street, London, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of LV in the UK, is also expected to be a hit, selling the entire range of travel goods, bags, watches, jewellery and clothes, with a library selling limited-edition books and a private Very Important Clients floor.
It seems that by sticking with quality materials and craftsmen, Louis Vuitton has managed to weather the financial storm. Its shoes come from Italy, its watches from Switzerland and its cashmere is produced in Scotland. But what is the importance of the brand in Scotland and to the country's economy? "The important thing about LV from a Scottish point of view is that it uses textiles produced here, and there are only a few mills left, so it's helping to keep a dying industry going," says Lipscombe. "For them it's about quality, and the mills we have left produce cloth that maintains this quality. Scottish cashmere gets better the more you wear it."
But no matter how you dress it up, is the luggage not just waterproof canvas with a leather trim? And does anyone really believe in the glamour of voyaging to distant lands, especially after recent events? The cachet of travel, personified by an elegant Audrey Hepburn with her LV luggage (her adoption of the Skippy has made it one of the brand's best-sellers), has been replaced by images of hordes of tourists bedding down in airports, using counterfeit LV Papillons as pillows. Is the brand a victim of its own success? Like Burberry, its status has seen it copied so much that most of the time we assume it's fake. It's one of the most counterfeited labels in the fashion world, and only a fraction of products bearing the LV initials are authentic.
In 2004, Louis Vuitton fakes accounted for 18 per cent of counterfeit accessories seized in the European Union, and the company has a team of 60 working on the issue. "Anything that's in demand will of course get copied," says Stewart. "It's such a sought-after brand, but no-one can replicate the quality and know-how. We make everything by hand in a workshop where there is 150 years of skills passed down from grandfather to grandson."
Shoppers are paying for the whole experience, and buying a bag in Multrees Walk, with its white limestone floors, nude rugs and blonde wood, is a long way from haggling for a fake in Marmaris. I watch a beautiful 20-something girl researching which handbag she would like her boyfriend to buy for her next week. Will it be a Galliera GM in monogrammed canvas at £925, or will she settle for an £800 version?
The classics are all here, the Monogram Vernis patent leather beauties, from £640, the Speedys, from £265 for one just big enough for your keys and lippy, plus this season's bright Cosmic Blossom collection from Takashi Murakami, at around £765. Everything is highly polished, from the bags, to the shoes to the customers. What recession?
Just as I'm wondering which of my children I could sell in order to purchase a shiny patent bag that's just shy of £1,200, Michelle Stewart, from Edinburgh, drops in to buy a present, wearing an eye-catching LV limited-edition Graffiti scarf. "I have a couple of bags and scarves, a small black leather evening bag and a messenger bag I bought for my husband. I like the quality and the history of it. They last for years and are classic pieces that never go out of fashion. They're timeless. I also like the whole shopping experience of Multrees Walk. It's a beautiful shop," she says.
Meanwhile, Beth Baird, from Dalgety Bay, is treating herself to a bag, having just emerged from the legal wrangling that followed the death of her husband. "I'm treating myself. I always say a shroud has no pockets. I've had a few fakes, never the real thing, but now I have a winter and a summer one. They're stylish and classic and will be heirlooms – I have three daughters." One of them, Yvonne, stands beside her, beaming.
Mother's obsession was passed on to daughter, and today Christine has "around 30" handbags from one of the world's most successful luxury brands, famous for its travel luggage, accessories and ready-to-wear clothes, and which this year is celebrating 125 years in the UK. "I have shoes and scarves too. It's the exclusivity, the craftmanship and the history that I love," she says, sitting in the Edinburgh store, in Multrees Walk. "I buy around six items a year, but that includes presents for my family. Once you have an LV bag, there's no going back. There are entry-level bags and then going all the way. My most expensive bag was around £3,700," she adds.
With bags ranging from £500 upwards, it's an expensive passion. "That depends how you define expensive. If it's beautifully crafted and can be passed down to the next generation, it's not expensive. Louis Vuitton is popular because it's classic, and I like to have a classic brand. It's also understated. A Louis Vuitton bag is a piece of art," says Christine, a dean at a Scottish university, who wishes to withold her surname, having been burgled in the past.
"When I get a new piece, she sits on the sideboard being admired for a week and I send a picture of her to my husband if he's away. I have a walk-in cupboard for my handbags and photos of each one on the box."
She? "Yes, they're all shes and have a personality. They can change your personality too. One of my evening bags – a tiny gold lambskin clutch, with a gold chain and silk on the inside – is very elegant and she makes me much more elegant too."
Christine's favourite is a Marilyn multi-colour with purple alligator panels, but she is careful to rotate her bags, today carrying a thick black leather Mahina. "I try to change my handbags every couple of days, otherwise the others get jealous," she says.
It's said that to travel is to arrive, and if your accompanying luggage involves a large collection of the distinctively monogrammed Louis Vuitton cases and bags, you can pack away your passport and crack open the Moët because you have very definitely arrived. It presents an image of luggage met by men in hats holding signs; that is gently placed in the boots of limousines and accompanies A-listers and those who only ever turn left on boarding a plane. At the same time, it's lusted after by those of us who travel cattle class and can only aspire to picking up a fake when we're abroad.
Since the 'It Bag' boom of the 1990s, Louis Vuitton has been one of the must-have brands and can be seen swinging on the arms of celebs from Paris Hilton to Rihanna, who was papped recently leaving London's hip Met Bar sporting a pink LV bumbag. One of the world's oldest fashion brands, 156 years old and with 426 stores in 60 countries, it remains one of the most successful. Since Monsieur Vuitton opened a shop selling packing cases in Paris in 1854, his name has been synonymous with style and luxury, born in an age when travel was revolutionised and the elite wasted no time in jumping aboard steamers and trains to explore a world that was opening up for them. Movie stars and maharajas don't travel light. and when Louis's son George joined the business, he provided them with cases for stately steamer travel, moving on to light bags when air travel came in for the jet set of the 1950s.
Since 1987, the brand has been part of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world's largest and most prestigious luxury goods group, and its advertising campaigns have featured the likes of Madonna, Naomi Campbell, Jennifer Lopez, Mikhail Gorbachev, Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi, invariably shot against a desert or Caribbean backdrop by the likes of Annie Leibovitz. So what is the secret to its success? The firm's chairman and chief executive Yves Carcelle puts it down to respecting the history of the brand, estimated to be worth 19.781 billion. Along with safeguarding the heritage – the trunks are still hand-made in the original workshops and the bulk of manufacturing is done in France – tight controls are kept on quality and the brand itself.Louis Vuitton handbags are only available in the company's own stores or online, and the name is never used on other products or promotions, despite persistent rumours that it is to move into hotels. Britney Spears fell foul of counterfeiting laws when what looked like a Louis Vuitton design featured in one of her videos, and courts ordered broadcasters to stop showing it.
Most importantly, the firm never discounts items. From design to manufacture and distribution, Louis Vuitton does it all itself. It also subscribes to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mantra and sticks with its original designs, the classic chequerboard canvas and the famous monogram, invented in 1896 by Louis's son as a tribute to his father. Those famous initials are still what draws customers in, from the Champs Elysées to Tokyo's Roppongi Hills, particularly Asian customers – Japan accounts for a third of the company's international sales and China is its third-largest market
But tradition is not enough to sustain a luxury label, and in 1997 it was given a shot of adrenalin with the arrival of designer Marc Jacobs, who created the company's first women's and men's ready-to-wear line. Like Gucci, Louis Vuitton wanted to move on from luxury goods, and while accessories make money, clothes generate catwalk press to keep a brand in the public eye.
Along with the introduction of shoes, watches and jewellery, Jacobs brought flair and innovation to add lustre to the traditional elements of quality, tradition and craftsmanship. He also introduced glamour and edginess by collaborating with popular artists such as Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami (Japan's answer to Andy Warhol), Richard Prince and rapper Kanye West, who designed a line of trainers last year.
So while Louis Vuitton continues with a dozen or so iconic bags, it introduces a couple of show bags or collaborations each season. Murakami's hugely popular Multicolour 2003 range became some of the most counterfeited fashion products in the world, annoying for the brand but providing a good gauge of public hunger for a product. The Stephen Sprouse 2001 graffiti and rose collection was also hugely successful and kept the brand in the public eye with an edgy glamour that prevents it from seeming passé. "Marc Jacobs is very clever in getting the collaborations because if it's down with the kids, you will get everyone up to 90 years old buying it," says Beca Lipscombe, a fashion and textiles course coordinator at Glasgow School of Art. "He has managed to make it contemporary, which it has to be to make money and continue to be successful. It's an enduring brand and deserves respect for that. The problem is if you have a classic that's built to last, how do you get people to buy more? You have to introduce variations," she says, "different colourways, limited editions and celebrity collaborations to keep them addicted, which Marc Jacobs understands."
And it seems there are plenty of people still addicted, despite the global economic crisis. Elite brands such as Louis Vuitton appear to be somewhat recession-proof. Jacobs explains why the French powerhouse is doing so well despite the downturn. "Obviously there are a lot of people suffering out there, but our sales are up."
Neil Stewart, manager of the Edinburgh branch, agrees. "We are increasing our market share. In Edinburgh we have a lot of local return customers as well as a million tourists a year in the city, many of whom see the store as a destination."
Indeed, the shop is such a big attraction that yesterday it had to be shut due to the volume of Taiwanese tourists. Today, a Saturday, it's full of locals and visitors happily spending away. The new maison, opening on 28 May in New Bond Street, London, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of LV in the UK, is also expected to be a hit, selling the entire range of travel goods, bags, watches, jewellery and clothes, with a library selling limited-edition books and a private Very Important Clients floor.
It seems that by sticking with quality materials and craftsmen, Louis Vuitton has managed to weather the financial storm. Its shoes come from Italy, its watches from Switzerland and its cashmere is produced in Scotland. But what is the importance of the brand in Scotland and to the country's economy? "The important thing about LV from a Scottish point of view is that it uses textiles produced here, and there are only a few mills left, so it's helping to keep a dying industry going," says Lipscombe. "For them it's about quality, and the mills we have left produce cloth that maintains this quality. Scottish cashmere gets better the more you wear it."
But no matter how you dress it up, is the luggage not just waterproof canvas with a leather trim? And does anyone really believe in the glamour of voyaging to distant lands, especially after recent events? The cachet of travel, personified by an elegant Audrey Hepburn with her LV luggage (her adoption of the Skippy has made it one of the brand's best-sellers), has been replaced by images of hordes of tourists bedding down in airports, using counterfeit LV Papillons as pillows. Is the brand a victim of its own success? Like Burberry, its status has seen it copied so much that most of the time we assume it's fake. It's one of the most counterfeited labels in the fashion world, and only a fraction of products bearing the LV initials are authentic.
In 2004, Louis Vuitton fakes accounted for 18 per cent of counterfeit accessories seized in the European Union, and the company has a team of 60 working on the issue. "Anything that's in demand will of course get copied," says Stewart. "It's such a sought-after brand, but no-one can replicate the quality and know-how. We make everything by hand in a workshop where there is 150 years of skills passed down from grandfather to grandson."
Shoppers are paying for the whole experience, and buying a bag in Multrees Walk, with its white limestone floors, nude rugs and blonde wood, is a long way from haggling for a fake in Marmaris. I watch a beautiful 20-something girl researching which handbag she would like her boyfriend to buy for her next week. Will it be a Galliera GM in monogrammed canvas at £925, or will she settle for an £800 version?
The classics are all here, the Monogram Vernis patent leather beauties, from £640, the Speedys, from £265 for one just big enough for your keys and lippy, plus this season's bright Cosmic Blossom collection from Takashi Murakami, at around £765. Everything is highly polished, from the bags, to the shoes to the customers. What recession?
Just as I'm wondering which of my children I could sell in order to purchase a shiny patent bag that's just shy of £1,200, Michelle Stewart, from Edinburgh, drops in to buy a present, wearing an eye-catching LV limited-edition Graffiti scarf. "I have a couple of bags and scarves, a small black leather evening bag and a messenger bag I bought for my husband. I like the quality and the history of it. They last for years and are classic pieces that never go out of fashion. They're timeless. I also like the whole shopping experience of Multrees Walk. It's a beautiful shop," she says.
Meanwhile, Beth Baird, from Dalgety Bay, is treating herself to a bag, having just emerged from the legal wrangling that followed the death of her husband. "I'm treating myself. I always say a shroud has no pockets. I've had a few fakes, never the real thing, but now I have a winter and a summer one. They're stylish and classic and will be heirlooms – I have three daughters." One of them, Yvonne, stands beside her, beaming.
5/06/2010
Muscle strength training with barefoot running
No amount how abundant a agent you are, you’re traveling to accept to yield some time to let your physique acclimatize to active about in Vibram Five Fingers, even added so if absolutely barefoot. The allowances of acquirements to run in the barefoot appearance are appealing substantial, but the abeyant risks of abutting this endeavor abominably are appropriately significant. You’ll never ability your ability goals if you are bedfast by injuries, and minimalist active will advice you with that – but, alone if you access it conscientiously.
If you are new to the minimalist active trend, again you will accept to appear to grips with the actuality that you can’t anon run the aforementioned affectionate of ambit that you are acclimated to accomplishing in vibram five fingers shoes. Well, you could, but again you will acceptable absorb the blow of the anniversary laid up in bed with beef tears. In fact, your able-bodied authentic runners anatomy are still one of the better roadblocks appear extensive your barefoot breadth goals.
You see, there are about 20 anatomy aural our bottom and 12 anatomy from our leg that attach to our foot. According to Dr. Michael Nirenberg and Dr. Benno Nigg, while walking in vibram shoes, alone the tibialis antecedent (a shin muscle) and triceps surae (calf) anatomy are needed. That’s right, alone a brace altered anatomy are bare to facilitate animal locomotion while cutting absorptive shoes. What do you anticipate all of those added anatomy are accomplishing in the beggarly time? Well, if they aren’t anytime acclimated they physique lets them compress to aerate efficiency. And, if you accept animated heels beneath your feet, your dogie anatomy will abbreviate in breadth as well.
So, what can you do? Your best bet is to access this like a weightlifter would access a backbone training regimen. Don’t try to do too abundant too soon, and get able blow so that your anatomy accept time to adapt. One of the a lot of accessible signs that you are accomplishing too abundant ambit aboriginal on is that your dogie anatomy are abundantly bound and sore. You will be application those beasts abundant added now, so amusement them able-bodied or you’ll accident developing afraid shin splints.
The anatomy and tendons surrounding the basic on the top of your anxiety will aswell advance tendinitis and abscess if you do too much. The bottom no best has a cage of abutment and aegis about it, and is affected to act as the interface amid your physique and the ground. The torque generated from blame about several hundred pounds of weight at acceleration and top alliteration is a lot to ask of your anew alive feet.
Just bethink to pay absorption to your body’s signals and be reasonable if it seems that it is cogent you to yield it easy. For many, affliction is an acrimony to be abandoned or pushed aside. However, if it’s just a training run, maybe accede accomplishing yourself a favor and alert to your body.
5/02/2010
fashion designer for Christian Louboutin
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