JANUARY 12 TO 16: THE boys show us how it's done, as the designers showcase their autumn/winter 2008-9 collections in Milan.

JANUARY 17 TO 20: MENSWEAR moves on to Paris.

JANUARY 21 TO 24: PARIS remains the focus of the fashion world, showcasing the most beautiful dresses ever as the haute couture shows dominate the catwalks.

JANUARY 28: TOPSHOP unveils the latest designer capsule collections, from the studios of Christopher Kane, Marios Schwab, Todd Lynn and Richard Nicoll.

FEBRUARY 1 TO 8: NEW YORK kicks off the womens ready-to-wear shows. Scottish wunderkind Jonathan Saunders will show in the Big Apple for the first time, while Halston will make its long-awaited 21st Century debut.

FEBRUARY 6: GUCCI throws a star-studded party - co-chaired by the likes of Madonna, Frida Giannini, Drew Barrymore, Selma Hayek and Sarah Jessica Parker - in New York to celebrate the opening of its new flagship store.

FEBRUARY 7 TO 17: THE 58th Berlin International Film Festival will see Australian supermodel Gemma Ward take to the red carpet for the premiere of her new film, The Black Balloon, in which she plays a character helping her boyfriend come to terms with his brother's autism.

FEBRUARY 10 TO 16: LONDON FASHION WEEK takes centre stage. Ones to watch? Krystof Strozyna and MeadhamKirchhoff, the two labels receiving TopShop's New Generation sponsorship for the first time.

FEBRUARY 18 TO 24: MILAN FASHION WEEK, where all eyes will be on the first collection for Valentino by Alessandra Facchinetti.

FEBRUARY 26 TO MARCH 4: THE final - and arguably chicest - leg of the fashion world tour takes place in Paris.

FEBRUARY 28: THE crиme de la crиme of the worlds of fashion and film converge in LA for the 80th annual Academy Awards ceremony, aka the Oscars - and one of the most glamorous evenings of the year.

backstage and afterparty

Dress - eason pearson

Ring with the one stone - Kara Ross

The other one - Pipa Small

Shades - Persol vintage

Sandales - Rupert Sanderson

Dress - Tory Burch

Necklace - R

Sandles - Jimmy Choo

Shades - Chloe

The "democratisation" of luxury, was cited as "the single most important marketing phenomenon in modern times" (Twitchell 2002:29), and was a direct result of the market economy and democratic political system. Market segmentation based on socio-demographic information was rendered as oboslete "commodified minimilieus" developed with shared stylistic tastes based on "status goods, and the drive for self-expression though consumption" (Prada and the Art of Patronage")

Four dimensions of luxury goods:

Haute Couture

Boutique Luxury

Diffusion Line

High-Street Brand Designer Collaboration

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In the Fall of 2005, Prada's strategy of store expansion semed to have taken an unexpected direction in terms of choice of location for its latest outpost. The desolated and unpopulated ranching land of the  West Texas desert  did not fulfill the usual creteria of a prime retail site.  Local newspapers reported how passers-by were counfounded by the juxtoposition of high-end boutique and iconic wilderness[...].

Was Prada Marfa  [the name of the place] a critique of consumer culture or did the reconceptualization of a Prada store as art endow the brand with the authority  thta it would otherwise not have had?  The multiple and complex readings of this work would be accessible to an art-savvy taste community equally able to appreciate Prada's luxury clothing and Elmgren and Dragset's cutting-edge contemporary art...   

Fashion Theory, The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, Issue 1, March 2007, p 9.  Nicky Ryan Prada and the Art of Patronage 

shoes - miu miu

tights - missoni

cuff - erikson beamon

bag - marni

coat  - vince

t-shirt dress - mint jodi arnold

Yoshitomo Nara

Takashi Murakami

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boots - bottega

satchel bag &leather jacket - chloe

shades - ray ban vintage available at cutler and gross

ring pipa small

dress vintage chanel 1920s

еще vintage

Hat -gulia piersanti, trench - burberry, boots - uggs, t-shirt - blondie, ring lydia courteille, bag balenciaga

Porcelain - Gien collection Millefleures

Books - amazon.com and ozone.ru

candle -voluspa

Boots Bottega

Dress Stella McCartney

Coat Alexander McQueen

Bag Chloe

Book - Pourquoi pas, Browns fashion magazine, ring - yves saint laurant, sunglasses -cutler&gross vintage, scarf - ann demeulemeester

all stones are precious, Rodkin, Courteille, Grateau

Dress Topshop by Kate Moss

Cardi Oscar De La Renta

Tights Missoni

Boots Chloe

Bag Bottega Veneta

 t-shirt I love NY

Jeans 18th Amendment

Boots Chloe

Tuxedo Jacket Helmut Lang

 

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