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Kendra Scott Design is commemorating the 10th anniversary of the day Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer and declared himself a survivor by designing a new fine jewelry wristband.
Based on the popular LIVESTRONG yellow wristband, the limited-edition wristband was created by Kendra Scott Design with the goal of raising millions of dollars to support the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF).
Kendra Scott, founder and president of Kendra Scott Design, a jewelry design company based in Austin, Texas, is undertaking this effort to honor the memory of her stepfather, Robert Ricks III, who lost his battle with cancer one year and a day before Lance Armstrong began his own fight against the disease.
The limited-edition band, crafter in either 18K white or yellow gold, is engraved with the LIVESTRONG brand featuring a yellow diamond set in the "O" and highlighted with subtle beveled edge detailing.
The men's band is a cuff designed to slip easily on the wrist, while the women's band is an oval-shaped bangle with a clasp.
Both versions are inscribed inside with the LAF's slogan, "Unity is Strength."
As there will be only 10,296 total produced, each cuff and bangle will also be numbered and comes with a custom designed black obsidian display base with glass cover nestled in yellow satin inside a beautiful gift box wrapped with
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Having made an impressive debut in fashion circles in 2003, Ingeo fiber has already threaded its way into some winning outfits produced by designers from across the globe.
And, looking at the new Spring/Summer 2007 collections, Ingeo fiber can certainly expect to celebrate even greater success in the year to come.
Just three years after its worldwide launch, Ingeo fiber held a high-impact, global event - Earth Month 2006 - celebrating Ingeo fiber products and highlighting worldwide issues of sustainability.
The event had the support of more than 50 companies which for the first time included both home furnishing and personal hygiene companies. No small feat for such a young fiber!
Last year, Ingeo fiber enjoyed positioning within more than fifty retail outlets. This year the number has expanded to more than 600 stores worldwide-a number that continues to grow.
Today, three young designers are launching new Ingeo fiber products in their Spring 2007 Collections during Olympus Fashion Week in New York City.
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There is an exquisite irony to the idea that the 1980s are being revisited as the latest fashion inspiration.
For that giddy, glitzy fashion era was labeled - first with enthusiasm and later with distaste - "the designer decade."
It did, indeed, give birth to a roster of names that are now imprinted on the public consciousness.
Jean Paul Gaultier, who celebrates 30 fashion years during this Paris season, came to fame and glory in the 1980s.
The same is true for Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein in the United States, and for an A to Z of Italian designers from Armani to Versace.
The decade also spawned the "alternative" designers, especially the Japanese and later the Belgians.
Almost everything that happened in the 1990s grew from roots in the flamboyant '80s.
So, who's next? Make that "Who's Next?" - the name of an ongoing project in Italy to find new talent.
That search is being replicated across the world from Fashion Fringe in London to the "You're In! You're Out!" of "Project Runway," the U.S. reality TV show.
The answer to that burning question for the fashion world is this: No one.
The current state of the industry and a cultural state of mind makes it virtually impossible for any new designer to brand-build in the way that the 1980s seedlings flowered into mighty trees.
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Thanks to technological advancements, the practices of fashion and architecture have never been so intertwined: pleating, seaming, folding, and draping are now part of the architectural vocabulary and garments of conceptual sophistication and structural complexity are making their way down the runways and onto the streets.
Designed to protect, shelter, and allow self expression, these two creative principles have been, and continue to be driving forces in our society.
From November 19, 2006 to March 5, 2007, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) presents the first major museum exhibition devoted to the extensive and telling similarities between architecture and fashion design.
Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture will be on view at the museum's Arata Isozaki designed building at MOCA Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles.
The exhibition occupies the entire museum in an installation designed by New-York based architects Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown.
Over 40 members of the fashion and design community have contributed to the exhibit making it the most extensive fashion related exhibition ever to be presented on the West coast.
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Italian designer Frida Giannini energetically revisited the 1960s for Gucci, while Antonio Marras' otherworldly romance had a timeless quality.
Upbeat optimism shone through at Gucci which has very short black A-line dresses, pepped up with criss-crossing bands of red and fuchsia silk, in store for spring-summer 2007.
Indeed, the designer even allowed the vivid colours, in both matte and gloss, to run along the legs of straight black pants, even to outline the waist or the pockets on short black skirts.
Wide belts with a triple buckle added emphasis.
But for softer embellishment, Giannini covered embroidered flowers in pink, red and brick over the front and back of trousers, or as the shirt front of a short-sleeved mini-dress.
The allure of high-shine also held its own for a white patent coat, cut short and straight, adorned with a belt of tiny mirrors, or a trapeze dress embroidered with pearls and gold.
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