Mawi of London gets “Pretty Tough” (video)

While the much-awaited “Minnie Mawi” collection seems to be in the epicenter of the famous jewelry brand’s activities this season, designer Mawi Keivom presents her equally gorgeous collections “Pretty Tough” and “Femme Fatale”, which are already available to buy online on www.mawi.co.uk (1st video is full interview in english, 2nd video tells the story in greek, with few interview exctracts subtitled in greek) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0bFfqujTJs[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4W8ZdqcHPA[/youtube]…

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Princess Catherine’s wedding dress displayed in Buckingham Palace

The wedding dress in which “Kate” took the leap from Catherine Middleton to Princess Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, will be displayed in Buckingham Palace from 23rd July to 3rd October. The first ones to visit the exhibition today, are Queen Elizabeth and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Except from the legendary dress designed by Sarah Burton, creative director of Alexander McQueen, the wedding shoes and jewellery…

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Want a pair of hand-painted ballerina flats? Read on!

Fani Valassi shows her work on hand-painted shoes as part of the “Summer Creative” exhibition in Chili Art Gallery, Demophontos 13-15, Thission, Athens, tel. 0030-2107292564 – 0030-6936755550. During the exhibition, you can buy from a selection of hand-painted shoes and other marvellous pieces of applied art by a selection of artists, accompanied by certificates of authenticity and in special prices valid…

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“The single most beautiful object in gold on the planet” – ancient Greek Queens’ and Princesses’ fashion in Oxford

This is the phrase in which historian Robin Lane Fox describes one of the exhibits at the “Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the age of Democracy”exhibition. Referring to one of the queens’ necklaces displayed since Thursday at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Robin Lane Fox named it “the single most beautiful object in gold on the…

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Akong London presents “Conquistadora” at London Fashion Week

Akong London will be showing the brand’s new collection, “Conquistadora”, in the Lower Embankment Galleries during the London Fashion Week starting this Friday 18th February. Here is a preview of some of the most exciting pieces from the A/W 2011-12 collection which will be following the current “Midas Touch” S/S 2011 collection. Nicole Akong went for bold ethnic colors and warm materials instead of…

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