Fashion

Gucci – is Florence, Italy, design clothing and leather accessories fashion brand founded in 1921 by Guccio Gucci.

Gucci Fashion House started as little family leather and clothing biz. Being a smart guy Guccio quickly won reputation by hiring the best stuff for his property shops and using the beat materials he could get.

1938 saw the opening of Gucci’s first boutique in Rome. And in 1947 Guccio Gucci presented company’s first trademark – famous bamboo gripsack. In the 1950-c Gucci patented the original stripy canvas patter of girth. The next fashion world received so called “gucci shoes” –metal decorated sued moccasins.

Guccio Gucci had six children. His sons Vasco, Aldo, Ugo, and Rodolfo played a leading role in the company. Besides the professional success fashion house was famed by the endless family squabbles which ruined Gucci fashion empire. Read More »

October 28-31 Latvian capital is to stage its biennial fashion festival. Organized by the Baltic fashion federation, the Riga Fashion Week October 2009 (RFW) made Riga fashion capital of the Baltic region.

Now in its sixth year it provides an excellent platform for promoting fashion trends by Baltic designers and international brands for spring-summer 2010. The event includes usual fashion catwalk shows, exhibitions and parties, to entertain visitors.

In this edition the RFW is to present the famous world fashion designers. New collections were presented on 29 October in Reval Hotel Ridzene by SALT (Latvia), CristinaEffe (Italy) and Diana Denissova (Estonia). Read More »

In 2009 Belstaff are celebrating their 85th anniversary and to quote designer Manuele Malenotti, “There is no innovation without tradition.”  This could be read as a real slogan of the fashion house but also matches Autumn 2009 collection motto. Accordingly you’ll find vintage Belstaff with a subtle twist.

Manuele Malenotti compares Belstaff fashion house with good vine that by years becomes only better. As he said it Belstaff is look better after 10 years. Which for anyone who’s owned the brand will know is not far off the mark.

Back in the history of Belstaff clothing, in 1924, Harry Grosberg and his father in law, Eli Belovitch, pooled their talents to produce, a cozy collection of waterproofs that all the foggy Albion inhabitances needed. Sturdily constructed and cleverly designed to combat the worst of the British weather, these prototypes of today’s wide range fashion collection soon caught the popular imagination.

Basing in Stoke-on-Trent, England, they started with capes and top quality waterproof clothing for men and women, not forgetting leggings, haversacks and rucksacks as well as. As long as motorcycle sport stepped out Harry and Eli’s family business orientated on famous motorcycle clothing manufacturing them from a double texture material. Read More »

Biopic ‘Amelia‘ USA premiere took place at October 23, 2009. The film is a look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic  Ocean.

As one of the most celebrated female faces of her time, Earhart set various records and wrote best-selling novels that described her flying adventures.

Some time after Earhart reached celebrity status, she helped design and publicize a line for “the woman who lives actively”. Her legacy continues to endure because of her

mysterious disappearance over the Pacific in 1937 for an attempt to make a flight around the world. Read More »