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2013年3月6日星期三

Deal-hunting in Zara's fashionable men's department

Intimidation factor: Nominal but escalating. I hit a quiet time when there are more staffers on the floor than shoppers so am rather conspicuous. 

Number of salespeople on floor: A handful, including the manager, who is attentive and eager to answer queries without hovering like an anxious mother cheetah. The women's store, however, tends to be DIY. 

Response time: Immediate 
Vibe: J. Crew meets Topman 

Price range: From $11.90 for a basic T-shirt to $299.90 for a cobalt blue leather jacket. 

Rating: Three pairs of studded distressed denim shorts out of four. 

A stylish friend of mine works his dark grey, oversized and unstructured hoodie like a runway model. It has to be a Rick Owens. 

Nope. 
How about Ann Demeulemeester then? 
No,we offer kinds of discount gucci handbags Pro Headphones online . again. It is actually Zara men's and he owns three in different colours. 

He prefers Zara's Bloor St. location, which works for me because I tend to hyperventilate at the Eaton Centre and find the Queen St. W. store more like Zara Lite. 

Zara men's has everyone covered, from preppy to hipster. They even put looks together for the accessory-challenged. A light blue shirt with grey tweed patches on the elbow ($49) cohabits with a blazer in a light blue and grey check ($199) and navy slacks priced at $69, making for an ensemble totally non-threatening to even the most conservative dresser. 

The ubiquitous black leather jacket is $269.90. A chocolate brown waxed cotton car coat with a brown corduroy collar that is so L.L. Bean is $139. 

There is a baseball jacket for $69.90, but the fabrication feels cheesy, more farm team than major league. 
Sizing runs from slim to regular, but the fit tends to run small so go up a size. A classic white 100 per cent cotton “slim fit” shirt is marked XXL but fits more like a large. 

A dressy jacket is $199.90 with matching pant at $99.90. 

They carry the de rigueur skinny jeans in everything from rose to mustard,This Canadian-made Canada Goose Banff Parka from Canada Goose is one bright affair. the biggie colour this season, for $69 through $79.90. And chino pants for $39.90, just in case there is someone in the city who doesn't already own a pair. 

Do women shop here? Some for the sweaters, I'm told, because they like the roomier fit. A linen cable knit V-neck sweater in beige selling for $69.90 is big with femmes.View our complete selection of Canada Goose Solaris Parka Jackets. 

But I could so buy those yellow denim shorts with a faint floral pattern ($59.90). In fact, I just might. 

Not so much the distressed jean shorts with studs although they are selling off the racks for $79.90, part of their “Denim Couture” line. 

Accessories include hot-pink undies for $15.90, also in a teal blue; leather suspenders for $49. 

The men's scarves hover around $29.90, but are longer and a better buy than women's. 

I bag one in army green for $39.Pages in category "Canada Goose Trillium Parka".90. 
Across from the scarves,This is the third canada goose chilliwack parka I have owned . I spot the shop's standout: an off-white safari jacket with detailing on the elbow area at $159.90. 

“That's sexy,” a woman points out to her partner. 

She needs to act fast. There are only three left.

Lust-And Not Just for Travel

A grand hotel, an illicit affair, a hasty departure of a woman with a coat lapped over lacy lingerie. And back through the half open door, the shadow of a man dressing furtively behind the travel trunks. 

The Louis Vuitton show on Wednesday was an exercise in the erotic.we offer kinds of discount gucci handbags Pro Headphones online . It unrolled like a silent movie. Even if the soundtrack was from “The Tree of Life” and its 1950s family, the mood was the 1920s as the women, faces a gash of bright lipstick, came through each door on the corridor that was the hotel set. Last out was the designer Marc Jacobs, in LV colorful silk men’s pajamas with patterns by the British artist duo Jake and Dinos Chapman. 

“I’m always in my pajamas,” said Mr. Jacobs backstage as he cuddled Kate Moss, whose single appearance on the runway was in a fragile lace dress revealing the briefest of underthings. 

The story was in phase with the autumn 2013 Paris season: femininity under cover. Soft lace was hidden under a long tweed coat with a sprinkling of sparkle at the hem. In other incarnations of inner and outer wear, a fluffy sweater came with a slip of a skirt and a velvet dress had a swoop of neckline. The bag of the season was in luxurious deep-pile fur. 

This fashion movie had several flashbacks to “The Artist,” the 2011 film that brought to silent life the dreams of early Hollywood. But mostly the Vuitton show recalled the romantic sensuality of John Galliano in his early days. That particular hard romance lived on in the Louis Vuitton sheath that went from bra top through tweed body to lace hem. 

The Marc Jacobs message was so clearly and invitingly portrayed that it raised the fashion desire that has been pushing through the Paris season. 

At other times, the designer might have concentrated on Louis Vuitton’s lust for travel. This time around, it was just about lust. 

What a contrast at Hermès! The absolute and timeless elegance of place and vision made for a unique collection.This Canadian-made Canada Goose Banff Parka from Canada Goose is one bright affair. After tinkering with fashion-led collections, the designer Christophe Lemaire in his fourth season hit target,The Canada Goose Victoria Parka is simple, yet classic, and designed to be worn where extreme weather protection is a necessity. by underlining what Hermès stands for: slow, quiet, beautiful and enduring style. Or as the Hermès artistic director, Pierre-Alexis Dumas, put it : “Parisian elegance and timeless beauty.” 

The choice of place said it all: the library on the rooftop of an old Parisian school, where guests were greeted with a horse-blanket coat thrown over a chair and by velvet sofas on which to drink in the beauty of historic books. 

The show was equally about calm and lasting value, with its supple lambskin jacket or a pony skin outfit with the sheen of silk. How hard it is to produce clothes that are both of the moment but beyond fashion’s hurly burly. Although it looked so effortless, the designer must have worked to meld the textures of goatskin, lamb and what the notes described as “moiré calfskin.” 

He would layer a stone wool coat over a long silver gray fur gilet; take ginger suede to fashion a jacket and skirt falling to the over-the-knee length that sums up what the French call “bon chic bon genre.” Translation? The antithesis of fast fashion or bling. 

“Frivolity — starting from sport,” said Miuccia Prada of her Miu Miu collection, which gave a similar definitive fashion statement as the pantsuits of a year ago. This time the story was of long, lean silhouettes leading to mid-calf skirts, although, this being Ms. Prada, the apparently sober women, with a hint of the 1980s in the Y-shaped silhouette, showed a slither of bare flesh at the high thigh as they walked across the specially constructed metal runway. 

This Miu Miu collection had a frisky spirit, from the double-breasted and belted jackets through a parka version and then on to the slim coats. The best of them were in merry polka dots — pink, yellow and blue — with a contrasting spotted scarf.Pages in category "Canada Goose Trillium Parka". 

And at the heart of it all the message that has been pulsating through the Paris season: female sexuality is a strong undercurrent that does not have to be physically displayed to the world. 

“It was all about a snowflake falling in love with a polar bear,” said Giambattista Valli backstage as a furry white figure embraced a model with sparkles of crystal on her face and her shiny puffa jacket. 

How lucky is Moncler Gamme Rouge to have a designer who can capture its snow business so concisely and in such a charming way! From the Inuits in patchwork fur coats leading their huskies though piles of melting “snow” to them arriving on overhead wires, the women expressed a similar spirit. They wore plaid outerwear, fur mixed with digital animal prints or the backdrop’s iceberg image recreated as a pattern. 

The Grecian drapes so beloved by Madeleine Vionnet had an outing in the second half of the Vionnet show, under the new ownership of the fashion entrepreneur Goga Ashkenazi. And that fall of fabric, clinched by a gilded Grecian belt, was a neat fit with the abstracted Grecian columns, recreated in metal mesh for the runway. 

That idea of forcing classics into the future was the theme — and it made the first daywear part seem too streamlined, graphic and predictable in a season when the geometric look is melting away. Vionnet has had so many reincarnations, offering everything from scarf print drapes to patterned day wear, that this show at least made a good job of cleansing the palate. 

Elie Saab gave his version of fashion sobriety, which was to cover the skin but focus on the bosoms — by rounding the bodice or even by putting a patch of decorative fabric in the two crucial spots. All that — the long-sleeved day dresses and even a streamlined jump suit — was a prelude to lace, Mr.View our complete selection of Canada Goose Solaris Parka Jackets. Saab’s favorite. The designer cuts and places perfectly these decorative pieces, but something else is happening in fashion now rather than just making pretty dresses.

Shop Melee provides ongoing consignment sales

Clothes packed into storage bins and hanging from racks fill the warehouse space that has become Shop Melee. 
Despite the look of a storage facility, every shirt, jacket,we offer kinds of discount gucci handbags Pro Headphones online . pair of shoes and purse in the consignment business tucked in on Frontage Road near Route 83 is ready to move. Each of the more than 8,000 items at the business has been listed on eBay, designated for the store's ongoing estate sale or is awaiting listing or designation. 

The business, run by three Hinsdale women, bypasses eBay auctions and posts all items as “Buy it now” on both eBay and on its own e-commerce site. This ensures the value they set for the item is reached. 

“Things normally sell within two or three months,” said Beth Greifenkamp, a founder. “But some things can take over a year to sell. If it is a unique size, if it is something that needs the right buyer,View our complete selection of Canada Goose Solaris Parka Jackets. we will store it and keep posting it.” 

The business takes 35 percent of the sale proceeds. The seller gets the item photographed, authenticated, researched for value and price, and posted. The fee also covers all of the seller's eBay and PayPal charges. 

Items that will bring more than $20 normally go on eBay, while items failing to meet that plateau go into the estate sale. There are exceptions, however. On a recent day, a painting of a tiger hung on a wall at the estate sale, seeking a price well into three figures. The business owners said shipping fees would be astronomical. 

Partner Louise Juckniess began selling items herself on eBay about 10 years ago. When she made some money off gently used items, other family members and friends asked her to sell their items. 

“It got to the point that my house had mannequins everywhere,” Juckniess said. 
Kim Williams, the third founder and partner, said selling items yourself and giving that money to charity is better than simply giving items to charity. 

“A purse is a purse is a purse to Goodwill,” Williams said. “You call sell a Coach purse and give that money to a church or charity rather than just giving the item to Goodwill.” 

Shop Melee has grown to five full-time and five part-time employees,Pages in category "Canada Goose Trillium Parka". as well as having interns and mavens, who in different parts of the country and direct people looking to sell items.Women Canada Goose Resolute Parka. 

“I have seen things sold (in eBay auctions) for $2 when they are worth $100,” Williams said. 
Juckniess said there are individuals who, like at a pawn shop, want their money immediately and do not want to wait for the consignment process to run its course. 

“They may bring in an item worth $30 and we will pay $5 for it. But then we pick up all the costs of storing it, listing it, etc.,” Juckniess said. 

Greifenkamp noted the Shop Melee name came from a staff member. Experts recommend a catchy word that doesn't really have anything to do with the business,The Canada Goose Victoria Parka is simple, yet classic, and designed to be worn where extreme weather protection is a necessity. Greifenkamp said. 

“But 'melee' does have to do with mess and craziness. So it does fit us.”

2013年2月26日星期二

College of Visual Arts supporters aim to avert closing; Northrop 're-branding'

Is there a chance the College of Visual Arts will survive? The late January announcement that the 89-year-old St. Paul institution will close its doors on June 30 came as a shock to many. A group calling itself CVA Action, which formed soon after the announcement, is not yet ready to give up.Buy the most favourable Canada Goose Mystique Parka Spirit Mens light weight quick drying Karen Millen Dresses. The group includes alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and community members “dedicated to searching out and presenting alternative solutions” to the closing.” So far, it has raised more than $55,000. A benefit Friday at the Amsterdam will feature the old-timey jug band Roe Family Singers and the Irish rock band the Tim Malloys. 7-9:30 p.m., $10 cover. Both mnartists.org and the Daily Planet have good background on CVA and the closing. 

Independent Film Project Minnesota has named Andrew Peterson its executive director. Peterson was appointed interim executive director last August, after IFP's board ousted Jane Minton, who had served the organization for 25 years. Peterson has held diverse film-related leadership positions and produced or co-produced several independent feature films. Last week he shared some of his plans for IFP's future with the Strib's Kristin Tillotson. High on his list: “rebuilding the film industry in Minnesota. Back in the day we were the fourth largest market behind only New York, L.Long and slim-fitting, the Canada Goose Montebello is equally appropriate for strolling a city street or hiking a snowy trail.A. and Chicago, and now the fact that Oklahoma does better than us is absurd.” Wondering what films have been made in Minnesota besides “Purple Rain” and “Grumpy Old Men”? We found a list at the Minnesota Film and TV commission's website. “Thanksgiving at Denny's” starts shooting on the Iron Range this spring. 

Northrop at the University of Minnesota is one of four organizations nationwide chosen for the Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts, funded by a $1.6 million grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Northrop is in the midst of a major overhaul and is scheduled to reopen in spring 2014. According to the project description provided to Innovation Lab, its curatorial practice is changing from “presenting artistic content” to “facilitating social orchestration.” Those are some mighty big words. Branding changes are under way. No more “Northrop Concerts and Lectures,” no more “Northrop Auditorium.” The Innovation Lab press release used “Northrop Performing Arts Center.” We'll be watching as Northrop reinvents itself. 

The Liquid Music series continues Tuesday night and Wednesday with composer Sarah Kirkland Snider,A great blend of our authentic Canada Goose Whistler Parka Parka functionality and cutting edge style. singer Shara Worden and the chamber group yMusic, all challengers of convention. They'll perform excerpts from Snider's “Penelope” along with new works. We've been inviting members of Theoroi, a group of “arts ambassadors” ages 21-35 sponsored by the Schubert Club, to preview events they're attending and tell us what they think. 

Mark Sweeney has five reasons to catch this performance: 
“1. ‘Penelope,' an original song cycle arranged by yMusic for Shara Worden, was inspired by Homer's ‘Odyssey.' It tells of a soldier's wife nursing her husband's memory when he appears on her doorstep after an absence of many years. 
2. Snider's song cycle has been given universal acclaim. Pitchfork called it ‘a hauntingly vivid psychological portrait.' 
3. After listening to ‘Penelope,' I would encourage anyone who is looking for a fresh take on chamber music to check it out. Worden, as Odysseus' wife, grounds this moody, cinematic piece of musical storytelling. 
4. Aside from the Midwest premiere of Snider's song cycle, the evening will feature works by Worden's band My Brightest Diamond and yMusic. All three deserve their own concerts, so to see them collaborate will be well worth a trip through the winter's night. 
5. I caught Worden's appearance with My Brightest Diamond at the Cedar last spring and it was one of the best concerts I saw all year.we offer kinds of discount gucci handbags Pro Headphones online . She masterfully connects with her audience, and her clear, controlled and versatile voice is suitable for art song, jazz, folk and rock.” Both performances are sold out; check with the box office for turnbacks at 651-291-1144. 7:30 p.m., The Music Room at SPCO Center, St. Paul. UPDATE: On Tuesday afternoon, the SPCO announced a program change: "Members of yMusic were notified yesterday by the Musicians' Union (AFM - Local 802) that union regulations do not permit them to perform in this program, which takes place during an ongoing labor dispute by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society and its union musicians." AFM - Local 802 is the New York musicians' union to which yMusic belongs.Read 16 independent user reviews and compare prices on the Men's HyBridge Jacket. Worden will perform a 45-minute My Brightest Diamond duo set on both nights. All tickets will be refunded.