Montblanc Launches Signature for Good "Children's Wishes for Children" - A nationwide holiday initiative to benefit UNICEF

Montblanc is inviting children and families around USA to join its efforts to spread words of peace and hope for the holiday season, raising funds for UNICEF in the process. When visiting one of the participating Montblanc boutiques, children will be asked to draw or write a special wish for a child in need on a uniquely designed silver wish ornament.

The wishes will be displayed on garlands in the boutiques for all to read and enjoy. Each ornament can be purchased for a $1 donation to UNICEF, with Montblanc matching the total dollar generated from this activity.

The most-elegant Bulgarians for 2009 were chosen

Tsvetelina Borislavova and Miro are the most elegant Bulgarians - they received the prize "BG FASHION ICON 2009" by the 30 members of the commission, comprising of fashion journalists, selected by the popular online edition "Fashion Lifestyle Magazine" with editor-in-chief prof. Lubomir Stoykov.

Diana Lubenova and Dimitar Berbatov are the prize winners from the online voting of the readers of "Fashion Lifestyle Magazine". Juliana Doncheva is "BG FASHION ICON 2009" in the category "editorial award". Fashion.bg was a member of the jury. Special awards to the "icons" were given by many sponsors.

Atelier Simon was the official designer of the world contest Best Model of the World 2009

Atelier Simon was the official designer of the world contest Best Model of the World 2009, which was held on 11.12.2009 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Designer Gergana Simeonova made a photo session with the winner in the contest Аicha Dicko from Mali, who is most probably the next Naomi Campbel.

XVI-th Ball of Top Models

On 12 December in Sheraton Sofia hotel was held the XVI-th Ball of Top Models. The entrance was with invitations and prices between 95 and 175 euro. Among the guests was the 86 year-old Julia Bul (Julia Hristova), who draw everybody's attantion with her toilet in scintillate blue and gold, in contrast with all ladies, wearing classic black and white.

Missis Bulgaria 2009 Universe Elena Karakoleva was wearing a toilet of My Lady. She arrived with the owner of the Bridal Fashion boutique Anelia Petkova, who represents the brand My Lady in Bulgaria, in a 12 meter Hammer.

Underwear for the New Year's night

The New Year's night is the most important in the whole year, that's why you should look and feel comfortable. It is very important how we look like under the clothes.

By tradition the red underwear on the New Year's day will bring you luck next year. Even if you don't trust superstitions the red colour dominates for Christmas. In spite of this, there are other possibilities and everyone can choose what suits perfect to him.

The fashion for ladies underwear is influenced by every trend and elements of our clothes. For example, extremely sexy lace, animal prints, sequins are in fashion for winter.

Fantasy, magic, fashion! Sonia Rykiel pour H&M

Kate Bosworth, Eva Herzigova and Nadja Auermann partied together with fashionistas in a magical world in Paris to celebrate the launch of Sonia Rykiel pour H&M.

The Grand Palais, one of the city's most famous buildings, was transformed into a Parisian fantasy land for around 2,000 guests. Among them were stars such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Ellen von Unwerth and Emanuelle Béart, who walked through an enchanted forest before arriving at a recreation of Saint Germain, the spiritual home of Sonia Rykiel.

Merilin Monroe and Barack Obama portraits made of jewels

The British mosaic artists and jewel cutters spend weeks carefully recreating photos using a selection of diamonds and precious gemstones.

Each 0.25 carat diamond and stone has a round brilliant cut finish and is hand-set into silver, gold or platinum of the customer's choice.

Portraits start from around 20cm x 20cm and contain at least 2600 stones such as sapphires, amethysts and peridots.

Buy an elegant coat online

VIEMA is established in 1995 as a designer brand and manufacturer of outerwear. The strong classic appeal of the brand has earned broad appreciation and popularity and has long become a fixture in the wardrobe of the people with affinity to smart wear.

The company manages its own manufacturing site in the city of Pleven (North Central Bulgaria). Its adaptable size makes possible a flexible planning process and better quality control to ensure outstanding final product.

Collection 2010 of Atelier Simon - combination of retro aristocratism and contemporary youthful style

Atelier SIMON made a photo session 2010 with the model Iva Yankulova from Ivet Fashion. The photographer Dilyana Florentin succeeded to catch the artistic look of designer Gergana Simeonova and to bring us in the atmosphere of retro aristocratism, skillfully combined with contemporary youthful style.

The models look like taken from the movie "Titanic" bring us in the exquisite and mysterious world of the past times.

A Porsche collection of watches at auction

49 clocks from the personal collection of Professor Ferdinand Porsche will be offered for sale by auction house Bonhams.

The proposed collection has watchmaking articles by Eterna, Porsche Design, Rolex, Panerai, Jaeger LeCoultre, Breitling, Chronoswiss, Omega and others.

The experts advised to pay particular attention to the unique models of Eterna and Porsche Design, which were created especially for the famous family.

British Queen created a furor by appearing at an official reception in a bold dress

Real sensation in the fashion world has made the British Queen Elizabeth II, who appeared at an official reception during his state visit to Trinidad and Tobago live in a long snow-white lace dress embroidered with exotic birds and flowers. Dress of the British monarch designer Angela Kelly.

Elizabeth II is on the island nation, where the summit of the Commonwealth. In his work involved the Heads of State and Government of 53 countries which have close historical ties with Britain.

Witnesses say that the leaders of many countries were shocked when the last Friday in the hall, which hosted the gala dinner, became Queen Elizabeth II in an unusual dress of the monarch. The hem of her snow-white lace dress adorned with two bright birds – ibis, symbols of Trinidad and Tobago.

Bulgaria native Marina Nikolaeva Popska presented her Spring 2010 Collection at Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week

Marina was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her love of art and design began at an early age and was encouraged by her mother who was a professor of textile and fashion design.

Before entering the Master Degree program at Academy of Art University, Marina studied textile design at the School of Applied Arts and received a BFA and MFA degree from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria.

For this collection, she was inspired by nature, humanity and the ‘chaos’ of color and texture. Marina’s knitwear is a combination of various knitting techniques and yarn arrangements resulting in rich textures and the illusion of depth in her garments.

Top Models have been nominated for Woman of the Year

The supermodels of "Visage" Stanimira Koleva and Christiana Vucheva , proved as one of the most talented and successful Bulgarian models outside the country, grabbed nominations for "Woman of the Year” for 2009 in one of the main categories of the competition - "Fashion-faces".

As winners of the "Visages Models 2000", Stanimira Koleva gets the chance to work with the best world fashion agencies and to become one of the leading models in Europe and America.
Christiana's star rises on the Elite model look - Bulgaria 2007 competition where she won the right to represent our country in the world finals in Prague.

Eva Mendes remains a face of Calvin Klein

The american actress Eva Mendes and Irish model Jamie Dornan will be the faces of the new Calvin Klein campaign for Spring / Summer 2010.

The re-election of Eva and Jamie is due to the great success that they had in the last campaign Fall / Winter 2009.

Steven Klein will be again a photographer in the photos.

Impressive fashion show of Venice costumes and masks in the Archaeological museum

Venice ... The city of love, romance and carnival. With a lot of imagination and after several months' work on Friday the Venice spirit was brought in the Archaeological museum in Sofia by the show "The secret of masks", in which 20 Bulgarian stars passed in couples dressed in Venice costumes and extravagant masks.

The main organizer of the show was Katalina Jeliazkova, manager of the company "Party house".

"Keep and Love" The new capsule SS10 collection

Inspired by loved objects, treasured jewellery and most importantly by falling in love, shoe designer Hetty Rose has created her latest collection of shoes for Spring/Summer 2010.

Designer Hetty Rose, known for her use of amazing vintage kimono fabrics feels that this new collection is a progressive change in her work. In keeping with the ethos of reusing and reworking vintage fabrics, Hetty Rose has taken shoe embellishment to a new level.

Hetty's latest collection has been adorned with special trinkets and fabrics found on her travels to flea markets, vintage fairs and exotic locations. Some of the artifacts have even been living in Hetty's special treasure chest for years, waiting for their chance to be used.

The supermodel Helena Christensen shows images of climate changes

The supermodel Helena Christensen urged world leaders to take action to combat climate changes.

When opening an exhibition of her works, Christensen said that the conference on climate changes in December provides a real opportunity to change course in the world.

She recently visited Peru with the charity "Oxfam" to see firsthand the effects of global warming. The resulting documentary photography of the visit reflects the reality of everyday life of the Peruvian province.

Dimana competes Marilyn Monroe with sexuality... and curls

The Bulgarian pop-folk singer Dimana has a new ultra sexy hair style.

The singer of "You almost got me to" competes with more curls the sex symbol of all times, Marilyn Monroe.

The effect of the singer is not он пурпосе, she just feels more comfortable and different.

Canadian Beauty Exposes Life in Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechnya

As reality television begins to dominate the airwaves, fashion fiends, young professionals and hip urbanites around the globe are hungry for an uncensored look at today's hottest celebrities, the places they've gone and the people they've seen.

Fashion model Chrystal Callahan is feeding the media frenzy by giving them all that and more with the release of a limited edition coffee table book titled "Diary of a Fashion Model in Chechnya."

Toronto-born Callahan has been in the public eye for years - first as one of the world's most beautiful women among the faces of Vogue magazine, and, more recently, as a television presenter on Chechnya’s state-run "Grozny TV" after an invitation from Minister of Press and Information Shamsail Saraliev.

Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has become a face of Dolce & Gabbana

After the actress Scarlett Johansson has become a face of brands such as Revlon and Avon, the Hollywood star was hired for the Christmas campaign of the Italians Dolce & Gabbana, which will be presented the third line of perfume "L'eau The One".

In the advertising "The one trilogy", which began in September, the actress presented two other product - "Rose The One" and "The One".

Large bags remain modern next spring

Large bags with metal accessories, buckles and handles long continue to rule the catwalks and fashion lines of established designers such as Chanel. Luxurious materials will complement the richness of the season, shiny, patent leather, suede models in different colors and patterns from the extravagant wave of Dolce & Gabbana. For the night, a suitable accessory to the outfit are small bags with sequins and crystals that complement the style and add elegance. All decorations, including buckles and feathers are covered with fashion trends.

Fashion Online - a new trend

Fashion Online is a new hot trend. We are facing an absolute boom in online fashion. We can find everything we need in the network without the need to go out and lose time to walk around stores.

New online stores appear every day. What characterizes the new era of online shopping is that a lot of stores operate only online. Many designers are afraid to sell their models on the web, but there are many sites where you can find designer clothes at unbelievable prices. In short, if you are tired of looking at the shops you can find quality designer clothing at low prices in the online shops.

Secrets de Rose by Les Parfums de Rosine

Les Parfums de Rosine will present the new feminine fragrance, named Secrets de Rose. It is created of floral notes and amber and inspired by rare flower - black rose.

The perfume incorporates plum, orange, rose, saffron, liquorice, magnolia, ylang ylang, rose absolute, jasmine, cumin, sandalwood, amber, labdanum, musk and moss.

This fragrance will be available as 50 and 100ml edp.

MTV Europe Music Awards 2009

Beyoncé was the major winner of the night, walking away with a total of three trophies – for Best Female, Best Song ("Halo") and Best Video with her ubiquitous instant classic "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)".

She also electrified with her upbeat performance of "Sweet Dreams", while her hubby Jay-Z took us all into an "Empire State of Mind" and won the award for Best Urban.

The show opened with an electrifying number from Green Day, who was also the winner for Best Rock, and was followed by Katy Perry’s irreverent mash-up of the five Best Song contenders.

Burberry turned barbed wire in a stylish piece of jewelry

Burberry turned the barbed wire in a stylish jewelery and watches.

The new collection of the British brand included series of watches and a bracelet, which reminds a simple barbed wire, but ... made of gold.

Decorative studs on the bracelet are far less dangerous than the ordinary spiked barbed wire. They make the accessories unique.

The price of each one of them is around 475 pounds.

Miss Bulgaria 2009 Antonia Petrova went to Miss World 2009

At the beginning of the year, with a magnificent ceremony on the stage of Rainbow Plaza, Antonia Petrova was chosen as the most beautiful Bulgarian woman for 2009.

Antonia is 25 years old from the town of Pernik. Speaks fluent English and Russian and has two higher educations in the field of international economic relations.

On December 12, Antonia will be able to demonstrate her intelligence and ravishing charm in the world's biggest beauty competition Miss World '09.

Balmain Madrigal Chrono Lady Oval Watch For Miss Switzerland

Worn by Miss Switzerland, the Balmain Madrigal Chrono Lady Oval watch is a good looker with other attractive qualities. Price and convenience being among them. Many women can benefit from changing watch straps often. This not only dramatically enhances the look of the watch, but also helps keep the design fresh. However, changing a strap is not always easy, and can often require small tools, and patience. So Balmain gave the Madrigal line of watches a nice quick release system making it easy to change the watch straps at your whim. When getting the watch, it comes with three watch straps (white and black leather, as well as the steel bracelet).

Marie Antoanette's romantic style inspires Teleno's new collection

Teleno's new Spring/Summer collection 2010 is without any doubt influenced by Marie Antoanette's romantic style and her time, e.i. the 18th century. Her own gorgeous style takes care of every detail, in particular of embroideries and endings of each item. The historic figurehead crowned as the absolute queen of fashion at that period influences now women's underwear. Laces, brocates rigid materials and corsets with suggestive low necked are the common denominator of the collection. Pastel colours highlight the sweetest side of women triggering both her femininity and her sensuality.

The best models of Bulgaria 2009 were chosen

The prestigious title was given to Blagovest Anev top model of ЕS line Models and Svetoslav Manolov from the city of Sandanski.
The best models of Bulgaria 2009 Women became Nina Angelova from Yoanna Art agency and Diana Ivancheva from Expose models.

Bulgaria will be hosting the 22-nd edition of the world contest for professional models Best Model of the World 2009 and has the right to present two models on 11 December 2009 in the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, hall 3.

Stella McCartney's fun glasses

Stella McCartney thinks women need two pairs of sunglasses.
The designer has launched her own collection of eyewear in a collaboration with Luxottica and believes it is important for the accessory to give off a sense of fun.

She said: "Women have two sets: a classic pair they'll have forever, and a more playful pair. We've added that fun element to the line.

My mum had this mad pair with Christmas trees on them that I loved when I was little.

Oi Fashion Rocks arrived in Brazil

Full of originality, Oi Fashion Rocks arrived in Brazil and brought international and national fashion and music shows in an unheard of arena in Jockey Club of Rio de Janeiro.

The Brazilian edition was the first one held in Latin America and the only one promoted in 2009. Oi sponsored the event, which besides gathering the best in music and fashion is ruled by its social concern.

In Brazil, Oi Fashion Rocks counted on famous brands dictating trends such as Marc Jacobs, Versace, Givenchy and Calvin Klein and several attractions of the national and international music scene, among them Mariah Carey and Puff Daddy.

Christal 42mm Automatic Watch by Dior

Dior lovers can enjoy the new Christal watch.

The Christal 42mm Automatic by Dior is designed to be modern with an "Art deco" vibe yet sporty at the same time and it is crawling with jewels. The bracelet has black sapphires or you can get the other version that has a total of 190 diamonds that equates to 1.47 carats.

The dial is made of black lacquer and there are Arabic numerals with markers in between and the sapphire crystal caseback window reveals the Swiss ETA 2824-2 automatic movement.

Bulgarian pop-folk singer Galena with attractive visions in a photosession

Bulgarian pop-folk singer Galena provokes again with interesting and original visions. She recently made a photo session for the November issue of "Kosa i krasota" magazine (Hair and Beauty).

The hair dressing is made by the coiffure Joro Petkov, the make-up - by Slav and the photographs are shot by Kostadin Krastev.

The photo session is a part of the returning of Galena on the music scene after she gave birth to her son Stefan.

Ivanka Trump has become a married woman

The daughter of the American multi-millionaire Donald Trump got marred with her friend Jared Kushner on Sunday afternoon, October 25.

Jared works as the publisher of the New York Observer, since 2007.

The ceremony took place on the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey in front of 500 family and friends. Ivanka worn a Vera Wang dress, inspired by Grace Kelly.

Among the VIP guests were Regis Philbin, Russell Crowe, Natalie Portman, Rudy Giuliani, Barbara Walters.

Celebrations at Cinecittà for the 40th anniversary of the collections dedicated to children,with a historic exhibition and a fashion show

The Benetton child celebrates its fortieth birthday in Rome, at Teatro 10 in Cinecittà, with an event narrating the identity of a brand that introduced children to a new way of dressing, and which, like them, continues to grow and look to the future.

The history of the Benetton children’s label, from the first creations by Giuliana Benetton in 1969 to the present day, is narrated in an exhibition which brings together the best known ads, images and editorials published in leading magazines, and iconic products that have contributed to radically changing the idea of apparel for children.

Stella Contemporary Fashion Award 2009 on 12 November in Zurich

On 12 November 2009, the Swiss Textile Federation will be presenting its international fashion prize, the Swiss Textiles Award, for the 10th time at the Schiffbau in Zurich on the occasion of the Stella Contemporary Fashion Award event.

Stella Contemporary Fashion Award 2009
The Swiss Textile Federation will be presenting the Swiss Textiles Award for the 10th time on 12 November 2009 at the Schiffbau in Zurich.This is one of the world’s best endowed fashion prizes for young designers. The prize is worth 100,000 euros to the competition winner. The prize has given a career boost to former winners, many of whom now enjoy an international reputation.

Sonia Rykiel fashion house presented collection during Art Week Style.uz 2009

On 12 October in Tashkent, Uzbekistan started the Art Week Style.uz 2009 - annual wide-scale culture, arts and fashion event, which will continue until 17 Ostober .

Art Week Style.uz – is a crossroad of arts, traditions and modernity. For four years now the Week impresses with its scale and dynamics, versatility of its events and attracts more and more attention of the world most famous figures. The format of ‘the Week of Art’ has been initially set as a concept of Style.Uz by the project’s main initiator and leader – Gulnara Karimova, the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Forum of culture and arts of Uzbekistan Foundation (the Fund Forum)

Megan Fox has replaced Victoria Beckham as the new face of Emporio Armani Underwear

The 'Transformers' beauty has stripped off for a series of raunchy photo shoots for the Italian fashion house, with the black and white adverts out in January in time for their Spring/Summer 10 worldwide campaign. The news comes just days after it was revealed former Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer Victoria and her soccer star husband David Beckham had decided not to renew their contracts with Armani.

Colourful mood with the new collection of Akropol

The new collection of the fashion company Akropol will seize every woman's attention and will boost her mood with the many colours and shades in the models.

In the company shops you can find the hot colours for the season - gray, bordo, jeans and lilac in all their shades. The classic style of the clothes underlines femininity in an elegant and natural way.

Julia Jurevich, Miss Bulgaria 2007, will present our country at the world fashion exhibition in Geneva

During the new photo session Julia was dressed in amazing knitted bridal dress. It is designed by Evgeni Petkov, who will present Bulgaria at the Eco Chic forum – a world fashion exhibition, which will be held in Geneva. 43 fashion designers will take part in this forum. Among them will be the famous designers Rick Owens and Diane von Furstenberg.

Evgeni Petkov's models are inspired by Bulgarian folklore. The dress, which he will present, was specially made by 100% natural fabrics. The knitting dress is unique because it was made by natural wool with linen lining. It is arranged with Eco-cotton tracery from Germany.

Castilla y Leon fashion week - second day

During the second day from Castilla y Leon fashion week the spectators had the pleasure to view underwear and swimsuit collections as well as formal women's fashion. Collections evening and cocktail dresses for Spring/Summer 2010 presented Angel Iglecias, Eulalia Mateos, Fely Campo and Esther Noriega.

Underwear and swim suits presented ORY, Teleno, Intima Farae, Lizetta and Evelyn. Beside plain models, the trendy patterns are stripes, dots and animal prints.

Prada's shoes symbolize the end of recession

The new shoes collection of Prada shown on Milan Fashion Week symbolizes the end of recession, according to many fashion experts.

In the new Miuccia Prada's shoes collection consist plenty of magnificence- glittered stones and crystals decorate the clothes and shoes.

The shoes for spring-summer 2010 are with semi-transparent hills which lighting in every step.

Louis Vuitton's Spring/Summer 10 collection was inspired by "hippie punks"

Creative director Marc Jacobs showed the line at Paris Fashion Week on 07.10.09, and revealed his theme was the New Age clothes popular in the 80s and 90s.

He said: "Street clothes, embracing the hippie-cyber, tribal-punk world."

Models wore huge, brightly-coloured Afro wigs and pranced down the catwalk to music by British girl band The Saturdays.

Lindsay Lohan's mother Dina is launching a shoe range.

Dina will collaborate with Long Island-based company I Love My Shoes for the line, which she has called Shoe-han.

I Love My Shoes founder and president, Robert Yeganeh, said: "She will do a radio and TV commercial and she will sit in on the casting call to find two or three hot girls we need for the commercial.

"Although she won't be the designer of the line, she'll definitely have a major influence in which direction it will go."

Vanessa Williams is worried her face will be "frozen" by Botox.

The 'Ugly Betty' actress, who admits having the skin-smoothing injections, works hard to maintain her appearance but is keen to ensure she still looks natural.

She told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper: "Look, I'm 46 years old, but I'm still in the game. I work hard at it. I need to look good. But I asked a lot of questions first about Botox. I told the dermatologist that I don't want to be frozen. As an actress I need to have expression in my face. But it doesn't hurt."

Castilla y Leon Fashion Week began

In Spain started Castilya y Leon Fashion Week.

Various collections of ladies', teen's and kid's fashion, shoes and accessories, wedding dresses for season spring-summer 2010 were shown by Trasluz, Rojatex, Nalia, Rosalita MacGee, Rosalita Senoritas, Andrea Milan shoes, Rocio Mozo, by Imelda, Pamela, Marta Valdespino, Ladybug, Di De Sant, Raquel Tomillo, Charo Peres, Concha Ceballos, Javier Vicente.

Claudia Schiffer no longer wants to do catwalk modelling

The supermodel is giving up appearing on the runway and wants to concentrate on other aspects of modelling.

The mother-of-two said: "I'm finished with the runway. I won't miss it. I am still modelling and enjoy that a lot but no more runways."

Claudia added she gets more enjoyment from watching fashion shows as a spectator rather than taking part.

The 39-year-old beauty told Britain's Telegraph newspaper: "I can sit on the side and view the outfits and see all the details and that suits me fine. It's very enjoyable. I like my viewpoint."

Bridal collections 2010 in the new issue of Svatba magazine

In the autumn issue of the Bulgarian magazine Svatba (Wedding) the future brides can see the latest trends in bridal fashion. Leading Bulgarian and world designers present their collections on the pages of the luxury edition.

One of them is the chief designer of the Spanish company PRONOVIAS Manuel Mota, who offers for 2010 elegant models from natural silk and specially made laces and absolutely new line, which accents the waist.

Denyl Fashion house celebrates 18-th Birthday

his autumn Denyl Fashion house will celebrate its 18-th birthday.

Denyl was founded in 1991 in Sofia. It is Bulgarian 100% privately owned company. From the very beginning the company is managed and controlled by Emil and Mladen Arabadjiev.

At first the house was specialized in men's shirts manufacturing. Later the company started manufacturing everything about men's clothes. In 2008 is the first promotion of Denyl's women collection. Denyl is the first Bulgarian brand that made their own internet fashion magazine.

ROMANTIKA FASHION center was opened officially

op designer Sofia Borisova opened officially ROMANTIKA FASHION center.

It includes two parts. First of them is the VIP showroom. There you can find luxury clothes of the world famous designer Eddy K and boutique toilets of Romantika fashion house.
The second part of new fashion center will offer bridal collections of Alyce Design and Madeline Gardner.