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]]> Sun, 31 May 2009 22:03:45 +0100 A new experience http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2009/03/16/a-new-experience http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2009/03/16/a-new-experience On the spring saluting fashion show in Prague, we got richer by many experiences. Onto the proposal of one of my acquaintances we bought a microbus because the much scenery, dresses take up much space. I followed away Peter to the carmarket and I helped it for him, because than said it, he needs my aesthetic sense. I decided it beside a beautiful emerald bus. I did not take it for my eyes, when I noticed it, that how much registration tax, taxa auto 2009 are needed for him to pay... I asked it, that this wants to be a joke?
I was surprised because I do not move in these circles really and I behaved in that manner, than a rural goose. I did not can even on the motorway to talk about like this, onto what egg proposed to, that let us talk about the current vernal fashion rather!:))tavaszi_trend_400.jpg

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]]> Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:01:18 +0100 Spring Fashion Forecast 2009 http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2009/02/28/spring-fashion-forecast-2009 http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2009/02/28/spring-fashion-forecast-2009 Spring 2009

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:31:06 +0100 Winter fashion in Japan http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2009/01/31/winter-fashion-in-japan http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2009/01/31/winter-fashion-in-japan 18japan2.jpg

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]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:12:44 +0100 Let's go to Wien! http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/12/31/lets-go-to-wien http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/12/31/lets-go-to-wien Before Christmas we went with my friends to Wien.Naturally we travelled by car. This was a test drive in order for us to test it our friend Corvett.He gained this car, had to pay the tax, taxa auto for him only.Than it lightened up, this sum of that size, that we could take an other car from him. But we do not grudge it him because he desired a good car for a long time and he drives really safely.

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]]> Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:20:07 +0100 Új hobbi http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/11/23/uj-hobbi http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/11/23/uj-hobbi A Budapesten megrendezésre került divatbemutató keretében újabb kollekciómat mutathattam be. A legnagyobb sikert a koktélruhák kategóriában arattam. Neves fotóriporterek is jelen voltak, hamarosan piacra kerül az új katalógusom is! Csodálatosan élénk színek, valósággal eleven ruhadarabok jellemzik majd a magazint. Jó választás volt a részemről, hogy a japán Kyocera márka mellett döntöttem képeim elkészítésénél. Néhány próbafelvétel már a birtokomban van, egyszerűen pazar színvilág. Otthonra beszereztem egy multifunkcionális nyomtatógépet, ami természetesen szintén a közkedvelt japán minőség, még a nyomtatáshoz szükséges patron is eredeti kyocera toner, így bármikor készíthetek én is másolatokat a legkedvesebb ruhadarabjaimról!kyocera toner

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]]> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:20:24 +0100 Divat és sportautó http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/10/23/divat-es-sportauto http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/10/23/divat-es-sportauto Az 1920-as években a sportkocsik egyre népszerűbbek lettek, és eladásuk olyan ütemben nőtt, ahogy méretük, űrtartalmuk és áruk csökkent. Pedig azokban az időkben szó sem volt autó hitel, vagy autófinanszírozási módokról. Nagy valószínűséggel ezek a fogalmak ismeretlenek voltak. A legtöbb versenyt megnyerő kreációkat az angol Bentley, a francia Amilcar, Chenard-Waallcker, Salmson és Delage, a brit Alvis, Invicta, GN és Frazer Nash, az olasz Alfa Romeo és Lancia gyártotta.Csodálatos, "sportos" évtized volt ez, amely örök időkre megszabta a sportkocsik fejlődési irányát. Az I. világháború előtt már az Aston Martin alfa_romeo_6c_2500_competizione.jpgis kint volt az utakon, de csak 1921-től árusították.

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]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:59:27 +0100 Fashion-show in Paris http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/09/07/fashion-show-in-paris http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/09/07/fashion-show-in-paris I experienced a superb experience on a last week. Into Paris called in one of my clients, onto a high-level international fashion show.The best trade they were represented, wonderful designers' fascinating dress collections, beautiful models. My opportunity opened newest evening dress onto the presentation of my collection, which had a beyond expectations success.Following the program an standing onto receiving called in, where a food beverage is luxurious with supply we were waited for. I may have got richer by a newer experience because we were taken with a special masiniMasini (car) a huge limousine onto the social evening.

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]]> Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:11:28 +0100 My Japanese collection http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/08/08/my-japanese-collection http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/08/08/my-japanese-collection I got an invitation for a Japanese fashion show on a last week where renowned fashion designers presented his dresses. I admit it, a moderate, more subtle taste which is conflicting with the western fashion world for me was slightly unusual world.Number celebrity appeared on the fashion show, actors, politicians, authors, rich entrepreneurs. I learned a lot from a vocational viewpoint, I was richer with many ideas. I had an opportunity for the presentation of my own collection, I had a unique success which is big for my style duly.The kyoceraKyocera one of a company's clerks invited, that let me plan cocktail dresses onto the corporate party. I said a yes gladly naturally.

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]]> Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:44:18 +0100 The most ludicrous fashion-Fads and formality at Court http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/07/18/the-most-ludicrous-fashion-fads-and-formality-at-court http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/07/18/the-most-ludicrous-fashion-fads-and-formality-at-court In the Court, with its finely structured hierarchy, the forces of fashion as described by such theorists as Georg Simmel, Herbert Spencer and the economist Thorstein Veblen, arose from competitiveness and the need to maintain a rigid class structure. 'Fashion is basically an emulation of prestige groups,' claims Simmel or, as William Hazlitt put it, ' Gentility fleeing from vulgarity.' Court etiquette could be decidedly contradictory and you had to know the rules-to imitate or not to imitate, that was the question. When Luis XIV shaved off his moustache in 1680, it was expected that those gentlemen at Court, who wore moustaches, would follow the King's lead. Similarly, when Marie Antoinette lost her hair after her confinement, Fashion

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]]> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:46:49 +0100 Seventh Avenue and mass production http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/06/09/seventh-avenue-and-mass-production http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/06/09/seventh-avenue-and-mass-production One of the most important aspects of modern fashion is that of demand, supply and distribution, by wholesale dress manufacturers, from copies made from haute couture designs. Haute couture is, as we know, a luxury product designed by a handful of men and women for an exclusive clientele. But of course it doesn't end there, for couture styles,and copies based an original designs, are available to everyone, and at modest prices when compared to the cost of the original garment.
The mass production of ready-to-wear fashion became a reality only after World War I,and occurred through a number of influences.The first of these was the simplification of dress styles pioneered by Poiret's straight-line, tailored suits and tunic dresses in 1910, and by the gradual emergence of sportswear. These changes led to such innovations as the coat-frock, a long-sleeved, one-piece versatile garment sold in a variety of basic styles.

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]]> Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:43:22 +0100 The Best Dressed List-The women who were fashion http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/05/01/the-best-dressed-list-the-women-who-were-fashion http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/05/01/the-best-dressed-list-the-women-who-were-fashion Couture houses survived by cut-backs and staff reductions, by getting credit from textile manufactures and using capital accrued during the rich years of the Twenties, and because of the faithful patronage of the 'Best Dressed List'. This list was, to borrow a phrase of Ernestine Carter's, a 'tongue-in-the -chic' poll, taken by the leading couturiers in the Twenties, to decide which of their distinguished clients were the most elegant. Said The New York Times,'A candidate must do more than invest the sum of $50,000 with the Paris dressmaking trade. She must have brains, poise and vivacity.' Fashion journalist Brigid Keenan, writing in 1977 in The Women We Wanted To Look Like, said that couturiers in those days designed for 'a handful of rich Society women who rivalled each other in smartness, snobbery and wealth. These women were fashion. Every bow or bead they wore was reported in the papers, and the loveliest among them were in constant demand as the subjects for glossy magazine photographs.'fashion

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]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 22:48:16 +0100 The eye of the beholder-Fashion and the media http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/04/28/the-eye-of-the-beholder-fashion-and-the-media http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/04/28/the-eye-of-the-beholder-fashion-and-the-media Schiaparelli and Poiret were two of the great entertainers of fashion, and, along with Patou and Dior, laid the foundations of our modern fashion scene-the razzmatazz style of presentation, the catwalk capers, the media hype. The media has had a profound influence on the way that fashions are marketed, and the fashion artists, editors and photographers have played a major role in shaping public attitudes.Right from the first popular fashion plates of the late 18th century, the aim of the artist has been simple: to show the dress in detail and at the same time create an appealing image ( usually impossibly slim-waisted), a reflection of the feminine and masculine ideal.
The fashion artist, as we understand and recognize him today, began when Lucien Vogel founded the delightful magazine La Gazette du Bon Ton in 1912. Vogel gathered a coterie of avant-garde illustrators such as Paul Iribe, André Marty, and Georges Lepape, who were encouraged by Poiret and did much to popularize the Poiret style. By the 1920s, fashion fashoinreporting had become a branch of journalism in its own right, and artists created an entirely new style of graphic art, enhancing the pages of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Femina and Jardin des Modes.

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]]> Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:56:21 +0100 In a couture house http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/04/28/in-a-couture-house http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/04/28/in-a-couture-house Poiret had shown how it should be done, with his beige coloured Torpedo Renault and matching chauffeur. Patou owned Hispano-Suiza sports autosFashion, and so did Molyneux, but if they raced each other down the Rue de Rivoli it isn't recorded.
The American mannequin Lillian Farley, who modelled as Dinarzade, remembers those un repeatable, far-off days in her memoirs: 'A Hispano-Suiza was sent to fetch us...A footman opened the door and led us upstairs to a dressing-room. Palatial was the word for this. The walls were inlaid with minute squares of gold mosaic...a dozen heavy crystal and gold perfume bottles, graduating in size, stood on the dressing table. In the hall Patou's butler was shaking cocktails, and the others were already in the library talking to Madam Lucile.'This was not Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon, but Patou's premier, the top-ranking dressmaker in a couture house who translates a couturier's ideas into reality.

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]]> Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:23:35 +0100 Patou and the 'New Style' http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/04/19/patou-and-the-new-style http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/04/19/patou-and-the-new-style Patou came from a comfortable, bourgeois background. His family were tanners, but himself became first a furrier, then a dressmaker and finally in 1911, a tailor, so he had a solid grounding for couture. Indeed, such was the quality of his workmanship that his clothes, like those of Chanel, wore well even after being well worn. His style was of rigorous simplicity and neatness, and a clean-lined, almost geometric elegance. It was very much in the Cubist, Art Deco manner of symmetrical design broken by oblique seams; the style was very pervasive in the Twenties, when even patisserie was decorated in what was called the 'New Style'. Patou used Cubist motifs on bathing costumes, on beautifully tailored day dresses, sweaters, blouses, skirts and jackets, some bearing, as part of the intrinsic design, his monogram,JP.Fashion
In his immaculate, dark suits, spats and grey Homburg hat, Patou was the acme of masculine elegance, a playboy par excellence and according to his close friend and associate,the Society columnist Elsa Maxwell, a passionate gambler.

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]]> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:32:42 +0100 Tango fever http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/04/03/tango-fever http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/04/03/tango-fever Fashion is perpetually sensitive to the kaleidoscopic patterns registered by the shifts, changes and caprices of everyday life, exploiting the latest fads to its own purpose.In the decade before World War I, America was dancing the Boston Two-Step, the Turkey Trot, the Bunny Hug and exciting new dance called the Tango, which inspired the shoe industry to produce suitable footwear-the cuban heel of 1904, and the tango shoe of 1913 with its louis heel and laces around the ankles.The average woman-if the ever was such a person-bought her dresses from department stores-with tango shoes to match.Fashion

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]]> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:10:00 +0100 Dior style http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/03/28/dior-style http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/03/28/dior-style fashionFrom the end of the seventeenth century shows the development from the trained mantua through the various robes, and the chemise dress, to the bellshaped crilonine, the back-fullness bustle, and finally the tubular or linear style that, give or take a few brief departures such as DIOR's New Look of the late 1940s, is still with us today.

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]]> Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:10:16 +0100 The passion for fashion http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/03/28/the-passion-for-fashion http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/03/28/the-passion-for-fashion FashionThe spell cast by fashion has remained undiminished, from the excesses of Marie Antoinette two centuries ago, to the lady who recently admitted to owning over two hundred pairs of shoes with matching handbags, and wardrobes crammed with suits and dresses, many of which had never been worn, nor were likely to be since she bought, on average, one complete outfit every week! Fashion is one of the more rewarding expressions of a vigorous consumer society, that is, a society that demands and find stimulus in variety and constant change.Fashion in clothes, as in autos, electronics, household appliances, and other goods, reflects economic growth and social progress.

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]]> Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:55:30 +0100 About fashion http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/03/24/about-fashion http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/03/24/about-fashion FashionThe clothes that we wear, our shoes, our hats and other accessories, indicate our class and nationality, and can date us to within a decade or sometimes to within a year or even a brief season, such is the rapid rate of change in dress.Most people follow the styles of contemporary fashions either because they wish to avoid being singled out...What is it all about? What is the purpose or meaning of fashion, if anything?

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]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:05:17 +0100 Fashion goes straight http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/03/24/fashion-goes-straight http://ilonaszerb.nireblog.com/post/2008/03/24/fashion-goes-straight The 1920s heralded the age of functional fashion, as opposed to the rather Grande Dame styles of the previous decades, and the extravagant, theatrical designs of that great individualist Poiret.His decline and fall occured because he was unable to adapt to the post-war mood and its demand for simplicity.Women wanted easy-to-wear clothes, and responded to the tomboy look exemplified by that other great individualist who practised what she preached-Coco Chanel.Fashion

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