Franca Sozzani UN ambassador for fashion

Francesca Sozzani is the first UN ambassador for fashion in the world. To be precise, the first Goodwill Ambassador. Last night, September 19th was an important official recognition in New York at the opening of the 65th Session of the United Nations, in the presence of Heads of State and First Ladies from around the world, the universe of fashion, diplomacy and the media. To choose the editor of Italian Vogue has not failed to Mode 4 Development, a partner in the operation of the United Nations (UN), through fashion, has the ambitious goal of implementing strategies for independence and assertiveness of women.

 Italian Style confirming its dominance in the world? I would say much more. It is not only to bring a foreign style, elegance, adapting all Italian, but to make sense of an industry that in the popular imagination is purely superfluous and ephemeral. It is not just a matter of exclusive parties, launches flagship missions or with numbers zero to eight. The prize was awarded to the person who could never, in recent years, through fashion, promoting the sustainability of projects and implement creative strategies for the economic independence of women. This is the aim of Mode 4 development found in the person of Franca the full expression of its purpose. And then the most sincere congratulations to you, that events like the Night of the Vogue Fashion or mode of exhibition in Italy showed that the mode is not the only concern of the chosen few, but a valuable resource for all. Now that's missing is the answer to a fundamental question: how will you be dressed for the occasion? And Anna Wintour will be considered?

Pure, the heart beauty shot of the week

This is a "new" come into the world of beauty, a mark that is already talk about it in terms to say the least flattering. Pure is the new born labs that market already BioDerm, Esthederm, a sign of confidence when you know these two brands whose quality has been proven. So what's new at Pure? Well two concepts interesting to note that the first thing to know, the brand of cosmetics called biomimetic, if the term means nothing to you explains the principle further. The second thing to note is the concept A + B, Pure offers two major product families, the pure active on one side, meaning that a high concentration of active treatment that heals on its merits, and care "basic "on the other, that moisturize, matifient, rebalance, protect, ...

The Pantene Pro-V Hair Spa Tour in Germany

You come straight out of the summer, be relaxed and nicely browned, but your hair from sun and salt water is taken pretty? Then I have just the thing for you! The Pantene Pro-V Hair Spa currently touring through Germany. In Hair Spa is located beside the wellness treatment for which you can book an appointment, any visitor to a short hair analysis is a very individual counseling. Professional hair experts explain how the 3-Pantene Pro-V Step-care system and can implement easily at home.

Skin on skin for winter 2012

After several years on the run, except on boots and jackets, and here he appears literally invade the wardrobes of winter 2011-2012. This is the black leather, a trend most 'in vogue for the current heating season. Processed by the designers of the fashion house more 'important, we saw her pull out the Fashion Weeks in London, Milan, Paris and New York, winning the attention of every woman, because it is a versatile material that lends itself to be heads sports-style outfits to more 'rock, and it is suitable for evening wear than those in the disco.

 Top designers, the likes of Gareth Pugh and DSquared2, have entered the skin in their winter lines, divided into an infinite spectrum of models. For those who always feels a bit 'dark lady, this year will really make an immoderate use of the skin, casually dressed in overalls, leggings with shiny high heels that accentuate the female figure, or full-featured tight at times a little 'fetish. Instead acquires a character much more 'full of sober jacket and trousers, suits and trench coats on long, and much more' gritty, when we find it on ugg boots worn by bikers, for example under a denim stretch and matched to a hobo also strictly of skin. Clearly, in all this, it certainly could not miss the return of two heads of the great tendency of almost considered "evergreen": the leather jacket and the nail, which like so much that it is day or less in the evening.

 The skin leaves you the possibility to choose freely: you can safely exceed, by opting for outfits "strong", or remain shrouded in a veil of sobriety chic. What is certain is that the woman of autumn-winter 2011/2012 is a woman who should not ever ask!

Super Sexy Halloween Costumes by Victoria's Secret

Photo: Victoria's Secret
We can always say: It's a shame that Victoria's Secret is still not in Germany. It's a branch in England planned, but still. For now, there are some news from the cult lingerie label, that is super, super sexy Halloween costume.

Whether it shines as a sexy angel, Kitten, Cowgirl, Spanish senorita, maid, bride, wife naughty Christmas, stewardess or sweet ballerina, so every costume, sexy but still very stylish to be. Just as in the perfectly staged around the world brand Victoria's Secret supermodel Rosie Huntington Whiteley, Candice Swanepoel, Miranda Kerr, Alessandra Ambrosio, Selita Ebanks and Co. fits everything together here:

Playful accessories like hair bows, Federpuschel, bridal veil, etc. complement each costume perfect. And not only for Halloween ... The U.S. boys pretty lucky that their wives can therefore be surprised at home. If there were Victoria's Secret here, would probably not only the German men are very, very much.

In the local sex shops, it is often difficult to find stylish and not too expensive here for sexy costumes - but unfortunately they often act unintentionally funny. We are amazed at the sight of the magnificent Victoria's Secret continues costumes and eagerly await it that VS finally comes to Europe.

Dream, spirit BD according to the shelf design Dripta

Lovers of comics have dreamed, Dripta design team has done. This shelf-shaped bubble of BD is much larger than its sister Speech Bubble which I have already spoken on the blog, by cons I'm not totally convinced of the practicality of the thing: Not easy to store on the BD rounded shape of the bubble ...

Michelangelo and Raphael in Rome, a history of the Renaissance

The Palazzo Sciarra holds up to 12 February shows a real-event: The Renaissance in Rome. In a sign of Michelangelo and Raphael. The Rome Foundation Museum has curated an exhibition of very wide range, which traces the evolution of the Italian artistic production of the sixteenth century, still soaked from the Renaissance humanist elements of the new religious tension of the century, taking as a reference guide the work of two great pillars of this path in the scenario of the Eternal City. Open as early as the entrance of the exhibit three works, the Apollo-David by Michelangelo on one side and the Self-Portrait and Portrait of Fedra Inghirami by Raphael, in a symbolic way to introduce the great exhibition, divided into seven sections.The first, for the celebration of the beginning of the century, with the pontificates of Julius II della Rovere and Leo X, offers portraits of Raphael from the Capodimonte Museum and Michelangelo's preparatory drawings lent by the Uffizi. The second is dedicated to the worship and study of the Ancient by artists of the time, and also includes the beautiful drawing by Raphael in the Pantheon. A series of portraits to illustrate the comparison, in the next step, the way in which art addresses the key characters of a burial of an era, one that follows the Sack of Rome in 1527.The third section focuses on the time of the pontificate of Pope Paul III Farnese, between 1534 and 1549, the renaissance of the city, culminating with the creation of the fresco of the Sistine Chapel. The proposed time frame also coincides with the evolution of an important architectural project: the reconstruction of the Basilica of St. Peter, to whom is dedicated the fifth section. Shows a close the window on the first mannerist, imitators and followers of the two masters, and decorative objects of daily use of the time that over the years have been invested themselves of considerable artistic aura.