All Styles.

A fashion show is an event put on by a fashion designer to showcase his or her upcoming line of clothing during Fashion Week. Fashion shows debut every season, particularly the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter seasons. This is where the latest fashion trends are made. The most influential fashion week is Paris fashion week, which showcases twice a year.
In a typical fashion show, models walk the catwalk dressed in the clothing created by the designer. Occasionally, fashion shows take the form of installations, where the models are static, standing or sitting in a constructed environment. The order in which each model walks out wearing a specific outfit is usually planned in accordance to the statement that the designer wants to make about his or her collection. It is then up to the audience to not only try to understand what the designer is trying to say by the way the collection is being presented, but to also visually deconstruct each outfit and try to appreciate the detail and craftsmanship of every single piece. A wide range of contemporary designers tend to produce their shows as theatrical productions with elaborate sets and added elements such as live music or a variety of technological

Entitled "All Styles for All Students," 33 male and female students from the high school modeled the latest casual wear, sports wear and formal attire on a lit runway during a 90-minute, choreographed show that drew rave reviews, local television news coverage and applause from a packed audience.

Award-winning designer Betsey Johnson, who has been at the forefront of the fashion industry for 45 years, had her store at The Shops at Riverside outfit 10 models in her trademark cutting-edge and whimsical dresses.
Mensch, who produced the show with teacher-advisor Nicole Mattina, was the emcee for the night and opened the show wearing new designs and accessories from American Eagle. She changed during an intermission into a flowing, Betsey Johnson pink cocktail dress that set the stage for the show's formal wear that featured students modeling the latest prom styles .

Posh Hair Salon in donated its services and did the female models' hair and makeup to add to the professional feel of the show.
Two Guys Pizza donated dinner for all of the students who modeled and worked backstage. Audience members won gift certificates throughout the night from a dozen local businesses.
"It was wonderful for our students to see their hard work pay off," said Mattina. "Not only did they have fun, they helped raise funds and awareness for a very worthy cause."

"We're thrilled by the huge turnout and support we received from the community," said Fashion Club President Rebecca Mensch, a senior and aspiring designer who will be attending the fashion design program at Philadelphia University after her graduation in June. "We wanted to put on a professional show and have fun with it. To have everyone wear major designer clothing was amazing."
American Eagle Outfitters, an industry leader in on-trend clothing for 15 to 25 year old girls and guys, arranged for their store at the Garden State Plaza to provide more than 50 pieces of the latest casual wear styles.

It wasn't "Project Runway," but students at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center held a different kind of fashion show Tuesday in celebration of Earth Day, which is Friday.
Students in the Interactive Multimedia program at MCCTC teamed up with the Mahoning County Green Team for the fourth annual Trash Bash. The event mixed creativity, fashion and trash for the one-of-a-kind fashion show.
To prepare for the fashion show, juniors in the Interactive Multimedia program work in teams to design original outfits using items that are destined for the trash or recycling bin. Whether it's a dress made from old phone books or an outfit created with pop bottle lids, students were challenged to think creatively and reinvent uses for recyclable items in a fashion-forward way.

How to use dichroic glass in art glass and fused glass jewelry.

The word "dichroic", pronounced Dye-Cro-Ick, is derived from two Greek roots, "di" for two and "chroma" for color. So "dichroic" literally means "two-colored."
You may hear dichroic glass referred to as "dichro" for short or even very rarely as "chameleon glass". You may also hear it incorrectly referred to as dichronic, dichrotic, dicroic, dicromic, diachronic and dichryllic just to name a few. Another misconception is that dichroic glass is the same as fused glass or refers to the entire fused glass movement. Though fused glass or warm glass may incorporate dichroic glass elements; doing so is not a requirement. Dichroic glass can be used as an element in glass blowing, bead making and of course glass fusing.
The most distinctive feature of dichroic glass is that it seems to have more than one color, especially when viewed from different angles. For example, a particular formulation will appear blue, but shift the dichroic glass slightly and the color will transition to green.

Dichroic glass adds flash and pizazz, it adds sparkle and intrigue, but too much can be overwhelming and gaudy. For example, subtle gold highlights throughout your house can create a sense of luxury and class. Now imagine every lighting fixture, plumbing fixture, wall and switch plate in gold and you get the idea. Stacking dichro on top of black glass is easy and can look good, but one can quickly transform a unique design into something you can find almost anywhere else. It is easy to fall into the trap of depending almost entirely on dichroic glass especially in glass jewelry. However; dichroic glass can never make up for a lack of design, quality, technique and artistic effort. Artists who explore the interplay of color between the broad color palette of art glass and dichroic glass will be richly rewarded with an incredible spectrum of possibilities. Making dichroic glass is rocket science, exploring its endless possibilities, that's art!

Adding to its complex optical properties, dichroic glass when fused as part of a glass object or piece of jewelry will change characteristics yet again with the new colors shifting towards the blue end of the spectrum.
The manufacture of dichroic glass is not a DIY project. The equipment and effort required to make dichroic glass is expensive meaning that a sheet of dichroic glass is itself expensive costing up to hundreds of dollars wholesale.

The deposited oxides have no intrinsic color themselves, instead it is the physical properties of the metallic oxides in the dichroic glass that cause different wavelengths of light to either reflect or transmit more than others. These properties cause certain light waves to be reflected while others travel through the glass along slightly different paths thus causing the color shift we observe. Most dichroic glass uses both transmission and reflection of light to achieve the desired effect so that as you rotate a piece of dichroic glass, even slightly, you'll see shifting rainbow of colors. The physical properties that determine the final effect include the type of oxide (like silicon, titanium or magnesium), the number of oxides used, the order, number and thickness of layers, and the pattern (like hearts, dots, squares, etc.). With so many variables, dichroic glass presents an incredibly rich and varied palette of colors and patterns for glass artists to work with.

Dichroic glass requires complex processes which have been mastered by a handful of manufacturers. The limited supply is partially due to the requirement for very high-tech equipment. Dichroic glass is created by vaporizing various metallic oxides in a vacuum chamber, using a high-voltage electron beam, and allowing the molecules to be deposited onto the surface of a blank sheet of usually clear or black glass. Careful control (using computers) of time and temperature determines the thickness of the oxide deposited on the glass. The complete process may require from 15 to 50 distinct layers (steps) of alternating metallic and silicon oxides. The total thickness of the oxide layers may total no more than 70 nanometers (700 angstroms). To put things in perspective, a human hair is 70 microns, or 1000 times thicker than the total oxide layer in dichroic glass. For further perspective, the wavelength of visible light ranges from 400 nanometers (the color violet), to 700 nanometers (the color red). The dichroic coating creates an optical filter that transmits (passes) certain wavelengths of light and reflects (blocks) others.

Dichroic glass adds flash and pizazz, it adds sparkle and intrigue, but too much can be overwhelming and gaudy. For example, subtle gold highlights throughout your house can create a sense of luxury and class. Now imagine every lighting fixture, plumbing fixture, wall and switch plate in gold and you get the idea. Stacking dichro on top of black glass is easy and can look good, but one can quickly transform a unique design into something you can find almost anywhere else. It is easy to fall into the trap of depending almost entirely on dichroic glass especially in glass jewelry. However; dichroic glass can never make up for a lack of design, quality, technique and artistic effort. Artists who explore the interplay of color between the broad color palette of art glass and dichroic glass will be richly rewarded with an incredible spectrum of possibilities. Making dichroic glass is rocket science, exploring its endless possibilities, that's art!

Every women want to be stylish and outstanding.

 Most of the women have great fascination towards footwear. They shell out cash to buy stylish, trendy and elegant shoes. Women feel good and beautiful wearing expensive shoes. Designer shoes make you stand out in a crowd. These shoes make heads turn not because of their color and design, it’s because of the brand you are wearing.
Wearing designer shoes gives you pride and enhances your outlook towards your work and other people. Many brands do research on upcoming fashions and styles and then they create and design latest shoes. Now who doesn’t want to wear the seasons first and most stylish shoe?

This shoes is the most expensive shoes from Stuart Weitzman and surely the most creative and delicate one. Rita Hayworth Heels is dazzling with sapphires, rubies and diamonds to make the heels perfect.

Stuart Weitzman joined with Le Vian to realize this $2,000,000 Tanzanite Heels. These amazing shoes decorate with 28 carats of diamonds and well-cut 185 carats of quality tanzanite. The most spectacular part of the shoes is the 4½ inch heels that encrusted with 595 carats of Kwiatplatinum diamonds.

This Ruby Slippers decorate With 642 oval and round rubies in its possession. Stuart Weitzman designed this shoes to make the user on top of the rich pride. The rubies shine in pureplatinum combination. This stilettos cost $1,600,000, an amount to pay for pride of the rich.

Another shoes by the well renowned Stuart Weitzman. He designed the shoes to dusty gold high heels as in the 1940s. This Retro Rose features its special elegant embellishment. The perfect design combined with dazzles from 100 carat of 1,800 Kwiat diamonds. Diablo Cody had selected to set the red carpet of the 2008 Oscar worn this one million dollar perfect shoes.

Decorate With bugle beads, glass rhinestones and three large silver red glass jewels, this Ruby slippers matches with exclusive designer outfit. By wearing these ruby slippers your presence will be well respected in highly luxurious event or parties. It was sold in auction for $666,000 in 2000.

EXPENSIVE Perfect COLLECTION.

The 66th Annual Golden Globes was very classic. Lots of traditional elegantly classic dresses. Not too many outrageous dresses. Fabulous garbs from Oscar de la Renta, Dior, J.Mendel and Amani Prive. Surprise designer—Ralph Lauren. This year there was an unbelievable amount of women that donned Stewart Weitzman shoes. Lots of bouffant, tons of floral patterns, bold electric blues, white and one arm strap dresses. This is really your one stop for dresses at the Golden Globes this year.The 66th Annual Golden Globes was very classic. Lots of traditional elegantly classic dresses. Not too many outrageous dresses. Fabulous garbs from Oscar de la Renta, Dior, J.Mendel and Amani Prive. Surprise designer—Ralph Lauren. This year there was an unbelievable amount of women that donned Stewart Weitzman shoes. Lots of bouffant, tons of floral patterns, bold electric blues, white and one arm strap dresses. This is really your one stop for dresses at the Golden Globes this yeaWhat little Ms. Beckham wants, she gets!  Vera Wang designed Victoria’s dress which we bet cost an arm and a leg.  This dress was one of the most replicated by brides after Posh wore it.  Obviously not all designed by V. Wang. In at number 7 we have Catherine Zeta-Jones who along with Michael Douglas spent over $1.5 million on their big day.   We’re not sure of exact costs, but we are sure this Christian Lacroix made up a large part of that budget.Celebrity expensive clothes and celebrity most expensive dresses Jessica Alba clothes and dresses trends in new year of 2008 and 2009

Most Expensive Watches.

Having an expensive watch is an age old status symbol. Not content with simply having a a time keeper strapped to his arm, mankind has strived to make the most complicated mechanical wonders designed to make jaws drop. Complications, (additional extras to you and me) are the curreny of the high class watch, the more it has, the better it is. If you want to tread the route of the gentlemans collectors watch expect to spend well in excess of $200,000. Until you’ve pulled in that kind of money you might as well stick with your trusty casio.
Forget the endless, needless and confusing world of complications and spend your hard earned monies on the Chopard Super Ice Cube for that special lady in your life. The vital statistics: 66.16 carats of diamonds which includes 1,897 brilliants, 288 trapeze-cuts, and a center case set with 16 squares. No matter how much money this thing costs, it’s still ugly. Ugly and over a million dollars, a combination rarely seen.

$1,130,620

The Blancpain 1735

The 1735 has half-a-dozen complications, two more than a watch needs to qualify as a “grand complication”. It has an ultra-slim, 42 mm platinum case, a perpetual calendar (meaning it never gets the date wrong), a split-second chronograph, a minute repeater, a tourbillon and a moon phase minder. It takes steady Swiss hands eight-to-ten months to piece together all 740 components and only 18 out of a limited run of 30 watches have been assembled to date.  Click on the images below to get a real good look inside this $1,000,000 masterpiece.

$1,000,000

The Vacheron Constantin minute repeater

Vacheron Constantin started making watches in 1755 which gains them the title of oldest watch manufacturer in the world. In over 250 years in the watch-making game Vacheron Constantin have ammassed only 15 boutiques worldwide that sell their product. The plain vanilla faced minute repeater has a mesmerising mechanism that will chime back the time to you as and when you please. Housed in a 18K gold case the minute repeater was designed by Vacheron Constantin for Napoleon to help the tiny man to tell the time on the battlefield without getting shot. A minute repeater is a mechanical device that chimes out the time with two different bell sounds, so that at the pull of a lever you can hear exactly what time it is. All that history for the walk away price of $340,000! If you’re still not convinced that the mechanical wonder of a minute repeater is worth it then take a look at it in action.

$340,000

Audemars Piguet Tourbillon Minute Repeater

Considering the money you’d need to spend to get you hands on this piece of surgical engineering, it’s a mighty ugly watch. It looks like something you can pick up on the nightmarkets of Far East Asia but under the hood lie more complications than you’ll know what to do with. It comes with a tourbillon, a device invented in 1795 by French watchmaker  to counter the effect gravity has on your watch as it moves around on your wrist. It’s a negates the effects of gravity on your time telling mechanism within a tiny confined space yet somehow it was invented 200 years ago by a Frenchman?
Oh, not only does it have a tourbillon, it also has a minute repeater, so even if you were to climb Everest you could still tell the time perfectly without having to look at it. The minute repeater flexes it’s tiny mechanical muscles in the video below.

$297,500

Breguet double tourbillon

This watch qualifies as a “grande complication” - namely because it’s needlessly complicated. Mankind was born with two kidneys and it’s well known we can get by just fine with just one. Tourbillons are similar to kidneys and yet here, echoing the mystery of mankind, we see a watch sporting two of the complicated little numbers. They work independently of each other and hand over the task of running the watch to the other tourbillon every 12 hours like a miniture mechanical relay marathon. Not only does this watch hit the tourbillon market for all it’s worth, it also has a 44mm platinum case with front and back sapphire crystals and 540 moving parts. Your laptop has less moving parts than that, and this is just a watch, and it’s only $329,000.

$329,000

Girard-Perregaux Opera One

This platinum timepiece has an alligator band, enough to get the activists backs up straight off the bat, and features a Westminster minute repeater and tourbillon with three gold bridges.
Unlike your standard run of the mill minute repeaters, the Girard-Perregaux’s Opera One sounds passing hours not with a stanard bell sound but a real life tune. $495,000 is all you’ll need to be allowed within arms length of this watch, failing that you can always just look at our nice picture..

$495,000

Grande Complication Blancpain

If Tom Cruise, Tommy Hilfiger, Gilette and Ralph Lauren had a love child, that thing (whatever it might be) would wear this watch. It costs a small fortune but for your dollar you get a minute repeater, a split-second chronograph, a tourbillon, a perpetual calendar, an automatic winding mechanism and if you’re into your astronomy it can even tell you how our lunar friend is doing in his monthly cycle. If you saved $2 every day it would only take you 1000 years to get your hands on this beauty.

$730,000

Vacheron Constantin Tour de l’Ile

Its that oldest of old watch manufacturer again. Vacheron Constantin claim this is the most complicated watch in the world, and because of that fact they only decided to put the time in to make seven of them. It’s estimated that the Tour de l’Ile took 10,000 man hours to make including the research and development needed to allow a watch this complicated to even exist. It has a list of sixteen complications including a minute repeater, sunset time, perpetual calendar, second time zone, a tourbillon device, the equation of time and the representation of the night sky, second time zone, moon phases, age of the moon,  a celestial chart, and a 58 hour power reserve. If it’s bells and whistles you like, this is the watch for you. With only seven of them ever being made the price of these rare birds is going up and up with some estimations sitting at around the $6,000,000 mark. If you’d jumped the queue when they first were announced you might well have got one much cheaper.

$1,500,000

The most expensive watch ever bought

The most expensive watch ever made was the result of a long lasting feud between two American financiers. During a time when most of the United States didn’t have two sticks to rub together the two businessmen, New York financier Henry Graves Jr. and Ohio automobile engineer James Ward Packard, duked it out in a game of “who can have the most ridiculous watch”.
Packard commissioned 13 complicated watches from Patek Philippe between 1900 and 1927 with complications including a perpetual calendar with phases and age of the moon, indication of sunrise and sunset, and a celestial chart depicting the constellations of stars in the sky over Packard’s home in Ohio.
Graves Jr. wasn’t going to roll over that easily, over a similar time period he comissioned complicated watched from the same guy who probably couldn’t believe his luck. To have two businessmen throwing money at you in the hope that you eventually roll over and say “this is as complicated as it gets” is surely a stroll up dream street for watch manufacturers.
The process eventually ended with a watch comissioned by Graves Jr. that boasted 24 complications. It took three years to design and five years to produce. The 24 carrat gold time piece was finished in 1933, had a different horological function for each hour of the day and included a chart of the night sky over Graves’ home in New York.
Triumphant in his victory, Graves died in 1953 leaving the watch to people lucky enough to be written into his will who sold the watch to the Time Museum in Rockford, Illinois. In 1999 the museum closed and their collection of watches was sold off at a Sotheby’s auction.  With a pre-sale estimate of $3 million, the Graves watch eventually sold for $11,003,500 to an anonymous collector.
That’s around half a million dollars for every complication in the watch and whoever bought it will be lucky enough to know how bright it is at the home of its original owner.

$11,003,500