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The Birkin bag is a handbag by Hermès, handmade in leather and named after actress and singerJane Birkin. The bag is a symbol of wealth due to its high price and usage by celebrities.


Its prices range from £4,800 to £100,000 ($7,400 to $150,000). Costs escalate according to the type of materials. The bags are distributed to Hermès boutiques on unpredictable schedules and in limited quantities, creating scarcity and, intended or unintended, exclusivity.

Jane Birkin, singer

In 1981, Hermès chief executiveJean Louis Dumas was seated next to Jane Birkin on a flight from Paris to London. She had just placed her straw bag in the overhead compartment of her seat, but the contents fell to the deck, leaving her to scramble to replace them. Birkin explained to Dumas that it had been difficult to find a leather weekend bag she liked. In 1984, he created a black supple leather bag for her, based on an 1892 design. She used the bag for herself then later changed her mind because she was carrying too many things in it: “What’s the use of having a second one?” she laughs. “You only need one and that busts your arm; they’re bloody heavy. I’m going to have to have an operation for tendonitis in the shoulder.”  Nevertheless, the bag has since become an icon.

Birkin bags are sold in a range of sizes. Each one may be made to order with different customer-chosen hides, color, and hardware fixtures. There are other individual options, such as diamond-encrusting.

The bag also has a variety of hides such as calf leather,ostrich, crocodile, and lizzard. One of the most expensive is saltwater-crocodile skin. Bags with smaller scales cost more than those with larger scales. The bag is lined with goat-skin. The color of the interior matches the exterior. Prices for the Birkin bag depend on the color, hardware fixtures, and skin

Birkin bag made from dyed pink calf leather

Pink Birkin bag

Hermès Ostrich Birkin bag.

Although the Birkin bag is free of logos, it is one of the most recognized bags in the fashion industry and by the public.


It is highly coveted and, for several years, was reputed for having a waiting list of up to 6 years – the longest wait for any bag in history.As a result of the strong demand, the Birkin bag has a high reselling value in many countries, especially in Asia. In April 2010, Hermès announced that the waiting list would no longer exist, implying that it is potentially available to all.

Attractive "Cat"

Kindergarten is phase of education for children in which teachers teach early educative lessons for your sweethearts. Manner of teaching in kindergarten generally are still many consisting of fun and games for sharpening child creativity.

It is the reason a kindergarten in Karlsruhe, Germany, built a school in the shape of a cat. The modern architecture of the building itself more with the motif of the boxes and the use of glass with with and silver walls.

In the back of the building there is a slide that connect from the inside of the building, which is the exit of the students. If it is viewed as a whole, these slides are part of the cat's tail.

This unique school also has various facilities to learn and play. On the first floor there is a waiting room for parents. Whereas in the second floor there is a spacious learning space for students and a storage for bags, and the wall that adorned with pictures drawn by kindergarten pupils.

Stay 21 Forever

The chain, originally known as Fashion 21, was intended at first for mostly kids and teens. The store was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1984 by Do Won Chang (Hangul: 장도원) and his wife Jin Sook Chang (Hangul: 장진숙).
Forever 21 increased its presence by expanding the average size to 5,000 square feet (460 m2) per store. Since then, Forever 21 has been running specialty stores in major mall locations nationwide. In 1995, the chain opened its first location outside of California, which was at Mall of the Americas in Miami, Florida. Adding new stores every six months, Forever 21 had reached a total of 40 stores by 1997.

As what we can see from the shoes beside, Forever 21 boots more leads to the design that come to the taste of mostly teenagers or young adults nowadays.

On the other hand, the designs themself, indeed, were mostly made from leather as their main materials for their products.
















In addition, good news for you, Forever 21 comes with good designs, not only for shoes but they also got dresses and accessories, with affordable prices.

A for Aigner

Étienne Aigner (1904–2000) was the founder of Etienne Aigner US and Etienne Aigner AG, two presently separate high fashion houses, based respectively in New York City and Munich, Germany. Both companies produce luxury goods including handbags, luggage, belts, wallets, leather accessories and more

 

Their excess is on the 'A' shape design of most of their products, for instance: bags and watches. However, for some people, these designs seems monotonous for the reason they look almost alike.The material that is usually used for Aigner products is leather. They usually use leather to make handbags, wallets, belts and also accessories. Aigner products have the classy timeless design. However, even though Aigner usually have a classy design for their products, some of its products also have a little bit combination with modern design so they can be known also as classy yet modern products nowadays.

Classic & Unique Carlo Rino

Carlo Rino was established in 1986, It is a division of Bonia Group, the world's leading brand in making high fashion goods and accessories from the finest materials. As one of the fastest growing brands, Carlo Rino is set to take the fashion scene to another level with its exciting and unique range of products that are classic, yet fashionable and contemporary.
Carlo Rino's style is all about femininity and functionality. It is stylish yet practical with perfect contemporary and versatility combination that can easily transform your style from day to night, from casual to formal, a must go-to brand amongst young cosmopolitan ladies.

Carlo Rino have many types of bags and wallets. From handbag to sling bag they have quite a unique pattern that are designed and adapted from a theme. They also have a different types of wallet that can be used for different occassions without getting bored from the same wallet's type.

Cute & Mature Yet Sophisticated Look

Samantha Thavasa is a Japanese fashion company, known primarily for its handbags popular among twenty-something women. Other accessory lines such as Samantha Thavasa Deluxe, Samantha Vega, Samantha Thavasa New York were created to meet different markets.
The company was founded in 1994 by Kazumasa Terada, the current CEO and president. The company has over 130 retail stores in Japan. In late 2006 Samantha Thavasa opened its first U.S. store in New York City.

 Samantha Thavasa bags design have a really cute feel when we look at them. Sometimes there are flowery pattern on the bag and almost all the bags have a doll as a decoration. The design make that it's suit for teenagers and young adults. Even though there're dolls decoration on the bags, they don't look childish because of the right combination and proportion between the bag and the doll's size. Not only they don't have a childish look but they also have a really sophisticated design that attract consumer to buy them. As for the colour of the bags, they usually just have one colour for the whole bag including the decoration. I think it's because they won't look too eccentric because of the different colour crash.

Hush.... Puppies

Hush Puppies uses a Basset Hound as its logo.

Hush Puppies is an international brand of contemporary, casual footwear for men, women and children. The shoes have been described as "the classic American brushed-suede shoes with the lightweight crepe sole". A division of Wolverine Worldwide, Hush Puppies is headquartered in Rockford, Michigan. Wolverine markets or licenses the Hush Puppies name for footwear in over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition, the Hush Puppies name is licensed for non-footwear fashion categories, including clothing, eyewear and plush toys.

Unlike other shoes design that have a unique characteristic such as Louboutin, Jimmy Choo, etc, the shoes design for hush puppies doesn't seem to change towards modernization. The shoes classic design remain untarnished. The shoes usually have a classic colour especially brown. Hush Puppies had produced many types of shoes such as boots, wedges, pump shoes, and many types more. Hush Puppies also had a collaboration with many famous designer for its shoes. One of them is Anna Sui. We can see the result of the collaboration from the pictures below.

The Most Advanced Watch in The World

Richard Mille is a French businessman and owner of a Swiss luxury watchmaker of the same name. The watch making company, founded in 2001, is based in Les Breuleux, in the Canton of Jura, Switzerland.

The Brand's most famous models are the Tourbillon RM 008 (chronograph tourbillon) and the sapphire split seconds (chronograph tourbillon) RM 056. The RM 008 combines a toubillon movement with manual winding, a chronograph split-seconds, a torque indicator, and a power reserve indicator. Claimed to be one of the most advanced watchers in the word, it is priced from 500,000 euro and upwards. The RM 056 split seconds( chronograph toubillon ) is distinguished for its three-part all-sapphire case skeletal from sapphire, with a limited edition 5 pieces of the Richard Mille RM 056 Felipe Massa Sapphire price US$1.7 million. The RM 056 went on to win the SIAR October 2012 award for the best watch of the year.

RM 008

The inside of RM 008

RM 056

And of course, i do believe that pricey thing offers the best quality of its products. As you can see, Richard Mille's watches design, has a very complicated yet advanced structure that make them the most advanced watch.

Sporty Yet Fashionable Skechers Shoes

Skechers is an American shoe company headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California, founded by CEO Robert Greenberg and his son Michael in 1992 right after Robert left LA Gear, which he had founded in 1983. Michael was a distributor for Doc Marten. Importing knock-off Doc Martens boots ended in a legal battle between Skechers and Doc Martens. Skechers' early products were utility-style boots and skate shoes; the company has since diversified to include thousands of athletic, casual and dress styles for men, women, and children.

These are some pictures of the skechers shoes:

 There're shoes that are design for sports, there're also fashionable casual and sakte shoes that we can wear to just take a walk and also boots shoes. Usually the shoes have a combination of fashionable sporty style. We can see the combination by seeing fashionable shoes body and the soles that are usually used for sports shoes. The similarities between the shoes is that all of the skechers shoes have a very lightweight so that it's easier to run or to just walk.

The Elegance Chanel

As if we are talking about Coco Chanel, there is always never ending compliment of her masterpieces that has never dissappointed any of its wearers.
We are talking about her first collection of classic flap handbags, the Chanel 2.55
In the 1920s, Coco Chanel became tired of having to carry her handbags in her arms and decided to design a handbag that freed up her hands. Inspired by the straps found on soldiers' bags she added thin straps and introduce the resulting design to the market in 1929.
After her successful comeback to the fashion industry in 1954, Chanel decided to update her handbag, for the modern woman. The resulting design was called 2.55 after the date of creation, February 1955.

As for the commermoration of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the original, on February 2005, Chanel released an exact copy through the name " Reissure 2.55 " 

It is one of my favourite handbags, not only the design that i like, i also like the good quality and elegant feels that Chanel has always provides.

Kiehl's Shop Design

Kiehl's is an American cosmetics brand retailer that specializes in making premium skin, hair, and body care products. Founded as a single pharmacy in New York City's East Village in 1851, Kiehl's was purchased by the L'Oreal Group  in 2000 and currently has more than 250 retail stores worldwide, and over 1000 points of sale supplemented by sales in high-end department stores, select airport locations, as well as independent stockists.

There're so many cosmetics pharmacy that can be found worldwide. But, there's a way to tell the difference between others with Kiehl's and that is the Kiehl's trademark. The trademark is a dress-up skeleton that can be found in every single Kiehl's shop.

Not only of the skeleton but also there's also a consistency in all of the shop design. Unlike others, we hardly find inconsistency in the shops design. If you see the pictures below, we can see that all the shops have wooden flooring. They also have the same feel when we see see all of the shops' pictures, the neat and the calm feeling. It's one of my favourite shop because not only the design that I like, I also satisfied with the products.

The Never-ending Classic Chanel

Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (mostly famous with Coco Chanel), was a French fashion designer, and the founder of Chanel brand. Her design aesthetic was realized in jewelries, handbags, and fragrances. Her signature scent , Chanel no.5 has become an iconic product.

-Design of the bottle-

Chanel envisioned a design that would be an antidote for the over-elaborate, precious fussiness of the crystal fragrance bottles then in fashion popularized by Lalique and Baccarat. Her bottle would be "pure transparency, and invisible bottle". It is generally considered that the bottle design was inspired by the rectangular beveled lines of the Charvet toiletry bottles, which, outfitted in a leather traveling case, were favored by her lover, Arthur " Boy" Capel. Some say it was the whiskey decanter he used that she admired and wished to reproduce in "exquisite, expensive, delicate glass".

The first bottle produced in 1919 differed from the Chanel No.5 bottle known today. The original container had small, delicate, rounded shoulders and was sold only in Chanel boutiques to select clients. In 1924, when " Parfums Chanel " incoporated, the glass proved too thin to sustain shipping and distribution. This is the point in time when the only significant design change took place. The bottle was modified with square, faceted corners.

Sophisticated yet timeless and truly wearable rings

Ays Yuva - as founder of AYS ( Art Youth Society), a young yet very creative woman that has a desire to create rings that are whimsical and shophisticated yet timeless and truly wearable.

 AYS Yuva, on New York Fashion Week (13/9/6)

Occupation : Designer of Art Youth Society

Clothes : Cos top, Topshop pants

Bag : Janvier London

Jewelry : Art Youth Society

Shoes : Zara

AYS jewelries are more reffering to 14K of gold, that's why most of its jewelries give us the luxurious and glamourous look. It can be wear for any occasion, like we can see from the founder herself, she was wearing her jewelries for attending the New York Fashion Week last 6th September 2013. 

Here are some of her newest ear studs collection: 

The first is DIAMOND

This edgy diamond design ear stud that beckons to be seen is not only a girl's best friend, it's the only statement-making touch you need to shine bright! This brilliant piece is hand crafted from 14k solid rose gold and will give your current look a glamorous edge, making it all the more dramatic. Get one for yourself or surprise a stylish friend.

The second is ILLUMINATI

Wearable modern art is making waves on every catwalk from here to Tokyo, so put your style on display! Your jewelry is an expression of yourself, and what better way to enlighten onlookers about the many aspects of you than with this striking illuminati ear stud? Crafted out of 14k solid rose gold, it makes a great conversation piece while creating an intriguing accent to your outfit.