Attention all you closet stylists out there! In case you haven't already heard, New York City's temple of luxury Bergdorf Goodman (aka my spiritual home) has a challenge for you. They would like you to try your hand at styling Linda Fargo, their uber-stylish fashion director.
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As previously mentioned, I attended the Club e-Luxe Breakfast Seminar in Paris on January 13, 2011. The theme of the seminar was borderless technology and included presentations by both luxury brand executives with experience in implementing digital strategies and representatives of technology giants including Cisco Systems and Microsoft, followed by a panel discussion.
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You know you've met a kindred spirit when you set out to conduct a one hour telephone interview and you end up chatting for well over two hours. This is precisely what happened when Tracy Graham of Bijoux Heart, a tiny British luxury brand based in Yorkshire which crafts exquisite vintage-inspired costume jewelry, graciously accepted to submit to The Luxe Chronicles' questions.
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Sometimes serendipity intervenes and creates a happy set of circumstances. While I was in Florence attending the Luisa Via Roma 10th anniversary celebrations a few weeks ago, I received out of the blue an e-mail message from Carolina Neri. Carolina, who with her friend and business partner Bérengère Lux form the duo behind the promising new costume jewelry brand called "CA&LOU", had read on The Luxe Chronicles that I would be attending the events in question and suggested I check out some of the pieces from CA&LOU carried by Luisa Via Roma. Unbeknownst to her, their gorgeous designs had already caught my eye. In fact, I had selected their lovely snake bracelet for one of the looks I was styling (see the image above).
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As I mentioned last week, I was invited to the Luisa Via Roma celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of its transformation from a strictly bricks and mortar fashion multi-brand boutique to online fashion emporium. The celebrations entitled Firenze4Ever took place in Florence and included among other things, a Styling Lab where bloggers were given access to the latest Fall/Winter 2010-11 collections (many pieces straight off the runway), a professional make-up artist, models, a photographer and some of the most beautiful settings across Florence to stage a photo shoot.
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Ab Fab For Alexis Bittar? Well Why Not Sweetie?!
I love that rather than enlisting a celebrity to front her ad campaign, New York-based accessories designer Alexis Bittar has chosen the beloved Ab Fab characters "Edie" and "Patsy" in all their obnoxious, politically incorrect, drunken fabulousness to do the job. I love the statement it makes about the Alexis Bittar brand even more: Humour. Most brands have too little of it. Kudos to you for taking the risk Ms. Bittar!
Sincerely,
The Luxe Chronicles
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