Archive for October, 2009
Poppy—New Born Baby of Coach

Nowadays, the bags market is saturated with too many fashion brands. And Coach is always focusing on designing both functional and fashionable bags for the customer, especially for ladies, bringing the high qualified bags to them. However, according to the latest published budget, luxury goods in retail trade has been named worse. Therefore, Coach began to explore a new consumer group—the young and the graduate.

Poppy, emerged as the situation requires and as the name tells us, Poppy would be a much more stylish and youthful brand. And its branches would be much wider in digging more fields, like shoes, bags, or other accessories related with them. If you ask what is the most outstanding part of this brand, the answer is nothing but cheap.

Moreover, Poppy has provided an attitude different from the others—that is the spirit of youth. The Executive Creative Director Reed Krakoff said “The characteristic of our brand is to mix more fun or interesting patterns and materials together, and to create a brand new fashion sense.”

Like most of Coach bags, there are many familiar elements in its goods, which include bubble gum pattern, metallic, black, white and etc colors, even omnipresent signs or marks in our daily life. Doodle scarfs, flowery rings, hairlaces…any piece of them will recall our memories about the 80’s. Besides, out of question, the Poppy Bags are likely to draw the customer from 16 to 25, what a huge consumer group!!! Coach seems to have hit the jackpot…LoL…
1 commentGucci Icon-Temporary Party

As long as the first person who has eaten the crab appears, there would be more persons followed by him or her. This principle also works in fashion world. As we all know, Louis Vuitton has invited the pop singer Kanye West for cooperation on designing shoes, which has gained a lot of warm welcome and reputation. So recently, the creative director of Gucci Frida Glanini has contacted with DJ Mark Ronson for the designing issues as well.
Actually, Ronson is more talented than what we know, for that he not only is he engaged in music producer and DJ, but also awarded Grammy. Having a result quite in shoes especially in sneakers, he enjoys a higher profile and reputation both on the music and fashion scene.
Therefore, a limited edition collection of Gucci Ronson sneakers will be released in December, additionally the gucci purses will move from New York to Miami, and he will select one of the cities in Europe and Asia such as London, Berlin, Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo as his first shop designing.
And Gucci Icon-Temporary Store in New York has held a grand party to celebrate the opening. Although it rained that day, there are still many celebrities attending this party, including the main designer this time—Mark Ronson and Frida Glanini herself. Really looking forward to this series of limited edition. It should be another knockout in the fashion world.
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The top fashion house—Chloe, is famous for its dazzling beauty, avant-garde fashion, terse decency and cool sense. The latest new member of Chloe—Shelby, is full of modern feeling of fashion city lives. But in shape design, it’s developed from the classic Britain suitcase, which is also a perfect example of retro-modern combinations.

Yep, it’s totally expensive and luxurious for a bag cost more than 2000 dollars, but it’s still worthy of purchasing it. Crafted by the nice calfskin leather, it has applied gold tone hardware gleams to make a color contrasting to show the chic beauty against the nutmeg tan shade of the whole body. There is also two strap tabs on both sides with studs, which look like two small hands hugging the front flap from the behind. Moreover, besides the hugging straps, the bottom also is designed with protective metal feet to enhance the security. Well, it reminds me of the Secret Code series. The interior is spacious enough to hold anything you need, extended more room by the interior zip pocket.
All in all, this piece is beyond any similar designer handbags. I like the shape very much: square and still, but sending out the extravagant temperament. Vital but vintage, it’s the must have bag for business women. If you have the problems on dress combination, you can learn from those pics of celebrities with this fabulous bag for reference…

DIY Your Own Fendi Bag

I know most foreign countries are fond of making everything all by themselves. And you can find many products about DIY. But have you thought about one day, you can make your designer bags also by yourself? Aha, Fendi is gonna realize your dream straight away…
So what you are going to have include a canvas bag, a needle and thread, which is exactly the new released Fendi Baguette Mezzo Punto. And “Mezzo punto” is an Italian phrase which means “half stitch”. That’s the concept hidden in this set of DIY Fendi Bag Carton. Really a nice try, I bet most of the customer are willing to add their own originality into the brand bags, therefore the inception of this DIY of course can satisfy the developing require from the brand lovers.

And—what’s more considerate, the diagrams and illustrations are also attached within the colorful carton, which would guide the green hands to start their first stitching experience. For myself, I hope more and more fashion houses could follow suit—to provide more DIY products for us. That would be very much appreciated. As the old saying tells us: The stage of your life is as large as your heart. It equals to the fashion field as well. Just give free rein to your imagination, and design your own Fendi Bags.
More Backgroud Information:
“Fendi is a creativity factory that supports talent without boundaries. In these challenging” times in which the world is changing rapidly, we wanted to exalt pure creativity by putting attention on traditional materials and low technology techniques.
We wanted to rediscover the power and the beauty of ‘Fatto a Mano’ (Hand-Craft)” Fendi Accesories Creative Director Silvia Venturini Fendi said.
“Fendistrongly believes that creativity and the flow of ideas are the Fuel for the Future. Forever.”
1 comment“I’m Beyond…”Bags

Do you remember the cottage bag “Karl? Who?” of our fashionable hierarch Karl Lagerfeld a while ago? Maybe suffering the influence by it, recently Beyond Yoga, a company that’s known for its super-soft workout wear, could not blow its cool anymore, therefore extending its branch into the handbag field. This series “I am beyond…” are designed by designers Jodi Guber and Andre Charles, which are also created in limited edition.
Don’t think this may be the spur-of-the-moment thing by the designers for economy struggles to utmost making money, as a matter of fact, those bags are the great efforts to support the charitable program from Art of Elysium, which is a non-profit organization to help the disabled children. And 30% of the profits the bags have produced will donate to this organization. Oh, there is a thing I must mention is that The Art of Elysium particularly aims to call the actors, artists and musicians as the sustaining pocketbook. So you can see many familiar celebrities like Cameron Diaz, Reese Witherspoon, Anne Hathaway, and Drew Barrymore have carried those bags to advertise for them.
I really adore these colorful printed letters on the front, so remarkable and stunning. What’s better, the words are selected culturedly, which all refer to the good things, e.g. grateful, happy, loved, lucky and etc. It seems that once you carry any piece of this series, you’ll get a good mood. Since more and more people are inspired by such a kind of optimism, and how about you? Which beyond belongs to you?

“Shanghai 2009 Limited Edition” Fendi Peekaboo Handbag


At the time our Chinese people were celebrating the country’s 60th anniversary, Fendi has also designed “Shanghai 2009 Limited Edition” Peekaboo Handbag for its Asian falgship store at Shanghai Plaza. The art director Silvia Fendi who has singlehandedly created this latest classic Peekaboo bag said, invented in a new simple way, its minimalist design reveals with pithy luxury sense. And due to its exquisite expensive inner material, it makes a strong contrast against the plain outside.
Let’s have a closer look for the details. Applied with soft gorgeous black suede as the surface, while the interior lining is using Chinese imperial red and valued Fendi golden beads interlaced with each other to form the classic Fendi FF logo, which produce a contrasting beauty between implicitness and floridiness. What’s more unique is the a-side-hanging-open all the time that others can see the bland interior easily but on condition that you have nothing too expensive inside. Either the quality or the appearance has successfully caught the balanced charm form both Chinese trend and Italian style.
Available at 29,800 RMB, this seires of Peekaboo handbags are limited to 20 pieces worldwide to prove its uniqueness. Besides, they also come with a limited edition B.FENDIPAVE, a ruby red genuine alligator strap to show the chic glamour of this whole series. Also available in Shanghai only.
No commentsProtect Your Secret With Gucci Bags

How charming on earth are Gucci handbags? Well, let the Asian female stars to tell you. Recently Gucci has released a wide range of chic handbags in its Fall/Winter 2009 Collection. Full of graceful and cool feelings, their various versions are designed for women of different temperaments. So since the debute they has become the new favorite of many female celebrities. The South Korea’s first beauty Kim Hee-sun, Hong Kong supermodel Chi Chi, “Ah SA” Charlene Choi, Chinese famous actress Fan Bingbing all favor to this series of gorgeous bags.

Crafted in nice canvas on the main body and luxurious crocodile leather with kinda exotic beauty on the center, this series of bags are perfect combination of the two which can avoid the plain design of only canvas or only leather. What’s more, the lock detail on the center of the front flap is the finishing touch which expresses the name vividly as well as add some shiny light to the overall look. Also attached with golden metallic hardware, they can be carried by double handles, light and handy. And the zip closure on top aids the lock detail to delivery the “secret” meaning to the customer, which seems to tell you to protect your “secret”, so the bottom is also designed with protective bottom feet. And for all the Gucci fans, the only sad thing is the price tag, which is likely to beyond your imagination.
No commentsJulie & Leonardo Join Gucci

Having directed the films The Duellists, Alien and Blade Runner, the genius director Ridley Scott is going to move the uncanny homicide case of Gucci on to the movie screen. And the name of the film had just been decided as Gucci. In recent days he is inviting Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio who although has not yet responsed to paly the part of this film.
This movie focuses on the story of the third generation Maurizio Gucci, who was Gucci founder Guccio’s grandson. In 1995, he was murdered by a young man in front of his Milan apartment, however, the most strange thing was that his wife Patricia Gucci was sentenced to 29 years in jail for plotting the murder. Angelina Jolie is playing the role of this femmes fatale Patrizia Reggiani, which continues her former line in her past films. And this is the first time for Julie to cooperate with charmer Leonardo, I can’t not wait to see their wonderful performances.
No commentsMulberry For Apple
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Do you have such kind of experoence that every time when you go out for a trip, the personal computer is always the biggest problem. It’s difficult and exhausted to carry it with you all the time. However, since the series of bags Mulberry X Apple Collection has released recently, your problem is OK be readily solved.
This time the bags Mulberry has designed specially for Apple’s goods, not only did it assist the best sellings of Apple with the related accessories, but even more considerate, Mulberry has designed twpo series for men’s and women’s, which can provide the best and most comprehensive care for your Ipod and Macbook. The nine pieces which includes bags, laptops sleeves, mini iPhone cross-body bags will be sold in next month.
The picture as following is the one of the nine-piece collection, shining with gorgeous silver metallic luster, it can be worn like a bag, so when you carry your personal computer, this bag serves as an essential holder as well as a packing bag for the Apple computer, functional and stylish.

Shanghai Dragon Bag

To celebrate the opening of the new Gucci flagship in Shanghai, the creative director of Gucci, Frida Giannini has designed the “Shanghai Dragon bag” specially as a gift for the good start. Followed after the series of “Sloaney” for London, “Gucci?NY” for New York, and “Gucci’s 1950s Postcard”, this “Shanghai Dragon bag” is made exactly for the new shop of Gucci in Shanghai Golden Eagle Department Store.
The limited edition of this Shanghai Dragon Bag has applied the popular Gucci Boston Bag as the original version, which is injected the new elements as well, taking on a brand new appearance.
It features a classic bread shaped bag crafted by white canvas with significant GG prints. Patterned with the bright red stripes and classic handwriting signed Gucci logo, the overall cut is natural and simple. But the bold red graphic and intricate dragons acrossing on the front is too remarkable to ignore their existences, which are full of Chinese traditional characteristics. It’s obvious that Frida has borrowed this bag to show her respect for Chinese ancient culture. And this limited edition is really too limited, which have only 200 pieces available right now. So, if you are right the Gucci’s lover who are also interested in Chinese distinct culture, this bag should definitely be collected in your bag list.
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