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Giles Deacon's 'My Mickey Ears'

I think roughness comes into play in the fashion world since we hit the Rock & Roll era, and it sure impact us big time.  Now even with Mickey’s ears!!  Seems like everyone needs to be rough in order to be loved.  So today I’ll show you some tough love  and give you the new roughest trend of Fall/Winter 09/10.  Just one small advise, don’t go over-the-top by being too rough from head to toe, you’ll scare people away on the streets.

Alexander McQueen Fur-Trim Biker Jacket & Lace-Up Military Trousers

Black Halo One Shoulder Ruffle Dress in Black

It’s wedding season again!!  Other then doing make-up for all the pretty brides and their bridesmaids, sisters, in-laws…I have a couple to attend myself (other then just applying the make-up.)  I’ve been quite frustrated when I couldn’t find dresses to attend the weddings, I mean I could wear the dress again, iff (if and only if) they are from different groups of people.

So I’ve been checking out at the stores and online stores for some dresses.  There are a couple of them that I would recommend for those of you who are in the situations.

Margaret Howell

ZOZOTOWN in Japan has been doing very well in their distribution network, they’ve always offer good stuff from the international designers other than just the local Japanese designers.  I always keep my eye on the ZOZOTOWN website for these updated trends and new brands that are entering the company.  British designer Margaret Howell will launch her line at ZOZOTOWN on Monday, 22nd June.

It might still be a little early to talk about FW collection as we’re just in the middle of  SS, but we’re always ahead in the fashion industry.  In fact, the FW 2009 collection of most brands had already been previewed, and I’m gonna start with Cheap Monday.

If you look at the SS 2009 collection of Cheap Monday, you’ll notice that the brand has been pretty comprehensive, they have a large selection of unisex jeans, coloured skinnies, tees, shorts and skirts.  Is it gonna be the same in FW 2009?  Probably.  If you look at the F/W 2009 catalog that’s been released on 5th Feb, 2009, you’ll get the basic idea of the collection.

From a make-up artist point of view, the packaging of product doesn’t help to make someone prettier, good products with good application do.  However, from a consumer’s perspective, packaging makes a huge difference, they actually got us quite addicted in collecting them.  Simply looking at Anna Sui and Paul & Joe cosmetics, both of these lines are very successful in packaging their products, their make-up accessories have also becoming very popular in the past couple of years.  Notice that these cosmetic lines were inspired by their own clothing line, so as Jill Stuart Beauty.  Jill started the beauty line licensing with Kosé Corporation, a Japanese cosmetic company and launched in 2005.  Since then it has becoming extremely popular in Japan because of its “princess crowned jewel packaging”, and promoting as “innocent, sexy, elegant, fun and savvy.”