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Designer Fashion Back to the Future
Everybody who’s anybody in the fashion industry has been talking about the overwhelming interest in retro styles this year. This fall, we can expect to see many trends from previous decades come back into style, with a vengeance. For some reason, (this year especially) consumers have shown more interest in past styles than they do for new, innovative styles created by the designers themselves.
For the most part, the popular styles expected for fall are synonymous with those of the 1970′s and 1980′s. There are mixed opinions regarding the recent interest in these styles; some people love the retro look and others detest it. For those of you who are unaware of the styles I’m referring to, take a look below:

Skinny Jeans Skinny jeans, you know the ones your mom still loves to wear the ones you’ve been begging her for the past 10 years to get rid of? Well, they’re officially back in style. The tighter the bottom, the better the look and they can be paired with just about anything. Long shirts that fall just below the bottom of your behind seem to be the ideal match to skinny jeans. Likewise, celebrities like Sienna Miller and Jessica Alba have shown significant interest in the skinny jeans with knee-high boots overtop look, which consumers have grown to love as well.
Headbands, Bandanas and Other Retro Accessories Thick headbands, patterned bandanas and knee-high socks are the accessories of the fall. Think Jackie O and Audrey Hepburn if you’re having a hard time envisioning the trend. Or, for those of you who can better relate to today’s celebrities, think Nicole Richie and Jessica Simpson. Headbands are far more popular than most of the other accessories and could become the single biggest trend of the year.
Leggings One trend I never thought would come back into style is leggings, but clearly I was wrong. Legging, also known as tights or spandex, have re-appeared on the fashion scene and have become focal points in many of the designer collections this year. Originally, leggings were worn under skirts, capris and even shorts but Hollywood has made of trend of wearing leggings on their own. Lindsay Lohan and Mary-Kate Olsen are prime examples of celebrities who have participated in this trend.

I think it’s safe to say that some trends will never go out of style. They may disappear for a short period of time, but they’ll be back eventually. So don’t throw away your tasseled t-shirt and bell-bottom pants by 2015, you’ll be wishing you kept them.

We are enraptured by the sense and styles that the actresses all wear. A designer bag can make or break an outfit; the bag is just as important as any other accessory you put on your body. Just watch any celebrity on the T.V screen you can see most reporters will talk about whose designer bag are they sporting. But whether we want to admit it or not designer bags are the one of the most expensive item you can purchase. We are just like any other person out there as we like to watch which celebrity is sporting the newest designer bag trend or style. Of course, we too, would like to own one ourselves. The question is which bags are celebrities are buying and wearing now and days? Here are a a few of the brands some of the celebrities are wearing this season or buying.

Prada Gauffre Antik handbag – Designed by Prada, its popular amongst such celebrities as Ashley Simpson, Beyonce and Victoria Beckham. The Gauffre Antik bag is richly trimmed, with lots of room to insert items for day and travel.

Yves Saint Larent Muse handbag – This little number is in the consent pages of glamor mags. You’ll find celeb’s like Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Alba sporting the bag. This bag is roomy and sturdy with its heavy stitching.

The Balenciaga Boston Handbag – Elegance with well blended color schemes. It dons the shoulders of Jessica Parker, Cameron Diaz and Anna Kournikova. The boston handbag has rich tones and top not stitching.

Jimmy Choo Mahala handbag – This bag hits top score with the likes of celebs such as Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, Jessica Simpson and Eva Mandes. Easy to tote with zippers galore, this bag is quite the style icon in its own right.

Christian Dior Gaucho handbag – This nifty little handbag sports details that accent the bag perfectly. Celebs such as Jessica Alba, Ashley Olsen, Kate moss, and Keria Knightly enjoy its extra features like a cell phone holder. It comes with many pockets so you can stuff your heart out. Plus it comes in many styles and colors to boot too.

These are just a few of what the celebrities are wearing over their shoulders. You can still sport a designer bag but you just have to shop around for the best affordable price in the store.

Mary Frances Handbags

The Mary Frances handbag company was created by Mary Frances Schaffer in her apartment in Los Angeles in 1990 as a hobby. In just 19 years  Mary Frances handbags and purses have become extremely popular fashion accessories for Hollywood celebrities such as Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Shania Twain, Sheryl Crow, Kate Hudson, Eva Longoria, Jennifer Aniston, and many more.

Mary Frances handbags may not yet be as well-known as the big name handbag makers, such as Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Gucci, Coach, Hermes, Chanel etc… but Mary Frances’ unique personality only makes her handbags more innovative and unusual. They are slightly quirky, with a liberal use of beads, stones and color which renders Mary Frances bags very colorful, vibrant and exciting.

All Mary Frances bags are unique one-off designs that it is unlikely you will see even closely resembling handbags from other manufacturers. They are in fact collected by some people just as works of art in their own right, or even investments, although others wear them just for their ability to turn heads and attract admiring glances!

Mary Frances leaves her own very special imprint on her handbag and accessory designs, which act as a showcase for her own lively and enthusiastic personality.

She started designing as a hobby, but soon found that her designs were much in demand and over the years have received numerous accolades including “Accessory Designer of the Year at the 2004 Dallas Fashion Awards”.

Mary Frances bags are known and appreciated for their mixture of style, avant-garde, elegance, vivacity and their quality, while still being offered for reasonable prices. 

Five collections are produced each year and they are always extravagantly ornamented, not to say slightly unusual. Each bag is made by hand by artisans with extreme attention to detail and quality, so if you are looking for a designer bag that is a little bit different then they may be the bag for you !

Jessica Simpson is a fan favorite with her oversized and slouchy style handbags. Often seen sporting the same bag in a variety of colors, a Jessica Simpson style hand bag often has many pockets and zippers and is large enough for all of your daily essentials and then some. What’s great about the handbags Jessica wears is that you can often get a designer inspired version at a discount off the retail price. Popular celebrity styles handbags are often available in replica versions and offer the same great designer detailing of those celebrity handbags, but are available at much cheaper prices. While Jessica may have paid over $1,000 for her designer handbag, you can get a cheap celebrity inspired version for under $100.

Another big trend in popular celebrity styles handbags at the moment is patent leather. From shoes to bags, anything shiny and patent is hot! Jessica Simpson and Lindsay Lohan are fans of this trend and have been spotted all over Hollywood carrying stylish patent style handbags. Patent works better in large and oversized celebrity handbag styles, but you can also find it in bags as small as an elegant clutch hand bag.

Victoria Beckham is another celebrity fashionista who has a simple and elegant style envied by women the world over. For cheap celebrity handbags inspired by this Spice Girl turned fashion guru, look for handbags that are simple and elegant in design. Clean lines are essential, and the fewer fancy details, like chains and zippers, the better. Victoria Beckham’s popular celebrity styles handbags cost well into the thousands of dollars, but you can find many knock off versions for just a fraction of the price. Keep your cheap celebrity handbags inspired by Victoria simple and in a neutral palette to go with anything in your wardrobe.

Don’t settle for paying thousands of dollars for popular celebrity styles handbags and purses; with a little know-how and a drive to find cheap celebrity handbags, you can own trendy, celebrity handbags at a mere fraction of the cost of the authentic designer versions.

Today all we see splashed all over the internet, magazines and television are visions of famous people like Paris, Britney, and Lindsay carrying the hottest designer bags and wearing the best clothes and shoes. While Paris and Britney and Lindsay probably get a lot of their clothing, handbags and shoes for free from the designers just so they’ll wear them (there isn’t any better advertising for a designer),you and I have to pay $1000 for that BE&D handbag that they carry, and those Tag jeans worn by Jessica Simpson will cost you at least $200.

If you desire to carry a designer handbag but can’t handle the cost the place for you to visit is Bag, Borrow or Steal. They have wide array of designer handbags which they rent out monthly, or for however long you want. You can choose handbags from dozens of top designers such as Dooney & Bourke, Perlina, Salvatore Ferragamo, Louis Vuitton and Chanel. These bags are guaranteed to arrive to you in like new condition, and you decide how long you carry it. Just like Lindsay and Paris and Britney you can carry the designer bag of your dreams. Imagine how envious your friends will be when they see you carrying a Fendi bag one month and a Yves Saint Laurent bag the next.

Another thing to remember is that there are plenty of clothing options out there that are reasonably priced and just as fashionable as their high-priced designer label counterparts. If you have the pocketbook to shop at eluxury that’s a wonderful thing, but if you don’t there are lots of alternatives for you.

Stores such as Carabella, Lew Magram, Avenue and Monterey Bay have wonderful women’s fashions for a fraction of the cost of high-end designers. A fairly recent arrival on the fashion scene is the House of Dereon. The fashions from the House of Dereon are classic and multi-generational. Their fashions would look good on any 20-something, 30-something, 40-something and even on a fashionable 50-something.

A ladyâ??s bag tells the story of her fabulous self. It is only proper to say that the previous statement stands for why and how a bag is chosen and what is that particular reason, making a certain lady pick a certain bag from a world full of bag choices.

But how did the bags become style definition signatures? From the very early designers that made a name for themselves introducing in the world of fashion a creative new trend, the handbags became more than a mere accessory and turned into a way of putting a stylish punch line to the entire outfit a lady wears. [Fashion trends]

That â??IT â?? factor that defined all the fashionable haute couture collections developed a predilection for handbags and turned out to be a cocktail of features like style, representation, association and marketing techniques that make the designer handbags be likable and desirable by their feminine audience.

So â?¦getting down to business the idea of putting together a just scale of top handbags on the market seems a bit too much without the proper setting.

I am sure most ladies wondered looking over the womenâ??s magazines all over the world what does motivate the price and the name of a designerâ??s bag. The answer is somewhere in the idea that stands behind that particular bag.

All these said, letâ??s direct our attention over the most famous designer handbags that have hit and are still hitting the fashion boutiques and find out what was that certain â??ITâ? that made them stand out and become craved items of style.

10. YSL Muse- The Straight Liner

Wellâ?¦when a bag has fans like Jessica Alba and Katie Holmes, one can only be sure that that bag is here to stay. Stars like Naomi Watts, J. Lo and Linsay Lohan are posing with this bag on their arm while toting the streets on star business.

It happens that this bag was created for a glamorous woman, simple but smart, organized and into details. The Muse can be found in a variation of colors from white ,to blue and grey, the latest release â??Anthracite  giving  a sassy note  to any outfit it is wore with.

It is the ideal bag for a business meeting or for a Sunday brunch with the girlfriends.

9. Prada Gauffre â?? The Elegant

My, oh, myâ?¦we love Prada! The Gauffre creation made of Nappa leather was born in the Prada autumn collection 2006-2007 and turned out to be a keeper. Since then appeared on the arm of stars like Madonna, Beyonce and Posh Spice â??Victoria Beckham.

The most wearable version comes in brown and has populated the Hollywood streets assorted to all kinds of outfits.

Jessica Simpson wore it with jeans and T-shirt and Halle Berry with a cute white dress. The Prada Gauffre fits a sport stylish look for a casual afternoon walk.

Like all Prada bags is designed to fit a practical but elegant women ready to go hunting for the latest Prada shoes or simply take her child for a walk in the park and looking fabulous while doing it.

Living for the power of example this Prada is the example how an ordinary â??liver bagâ? can be glue-able to a fashion icon statement.

8. Louis Vuitton Monogram Speedy 30 â?? The Urban

The everyday bag of stars is large, smartly designed to fit the need of a cosmopolite lady on her travels through the city. Born in 1993 out of the idea of creating the perfect luxurious city bag was brought back in black in 2003 with the famous multicolor monogram.

Louis Vuitton Monogram Speedy 30 is the ultimate shopping bag designed to fit everything from a make-up kit to a brake-up kit with a small Chihuahua in between if the wearer should feel compiled to take her pet for a walk in the city.

This comfortable but stylish hand bag is the favorite of stars like Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Britney Spears and of course Paris Hilton.

7. Fendi Spy â?? The Sexy

How about a gorgeous but nevertheless sexy bag of every womanâ??s dream? So popular because itâ??s mentioning in the â??Sex and the Cityâ? TV show, this fabulous Fendi is seen on the arm of fresh beauties like Ashley Simpson and Kim Kardashian.

This queen of purses released in 2006 comes in banana shape, with short handles, in the every hip color from black to red and even crocodile, fitting both the hot slender dress and the skinny jeans. In short the Fendi is the â??ITâ? item for a hot presence that spices up the city.

6. Fendi Bag de Jour â?? The Sassy

Another fabulous Fendi , this time carrying a logo moves on to the top. Cool lining and bold color is the definition of this bag. Relatively new on the top of the most craved â??ITâ? bags has brought hysteria after being seen the â??Sex and the City â??The movie â??- on the arm of Samantha.

Every girl was astonished reading after in â??Whatâ??s Hauteâ? magazine that this particular Fendi is considered to be the sassiest on the market.

It was seen wore by Kim Kardashian, Beyonce and Lady Gaga. The bag comes in many colors but red is always the most spectacular in combination with red shoes of course.

5. Alexander McQueen Novak- The Classy

Originally released in the fall of 2005, the Novak by Alexander McQueen brought into the â??ITâ? handbag world the bitter-sweet memory of Alfred Hitchcockâ??s thrillers and the classic elegance of his leading lady Kim Novak.

The low number of releases made this classic handbag to be a treasure hunt for all the feminine collectors. It was seen wore by Christina Aguilera and Pink but also many more other stars.

The twister of weaved leather details is its distinctive marker and turns this handbag in a logical choice for a business meeting of an afternoon cocktail. It goes with trench coats but also with a Jackie O style outfit.

4. Hermes Birkin- The Fabulous

So very popular in â??Sex and the Cityâ? (remember Samantha going crazy to buy one) the handbag of the ladies that adore being bold and on top of fashion trends, this Hermes is the voice of every fashionista into a sassy/elegant look.

It is the star handbag among starts, the Rolls Royce of purses, soliciting the pocket, the nerves and the patience of anyone who craves it. On the market are over 8000 models in colors like green, orange, purple, black or white, made of regular leather or crocodile skin with gold or diamonds locket.

The Birkin is on the list of the 50 things you have to buy before you die; it is the ultimate â??ITâ? and promises to stay on top for a very long time.

3. Balenciaga â??Cityâ?? Motorcycle â??the Universal

You can say this bag goes with everything and saying this you should mean it. Black, or auburn, grey or pretty pink the bag is spotted on the streets accompanying trainers, ballet shoes, flip flops, louboutins, sandals and boots.

This â??ITâ? bag goes perfectly with colorful dresses, skinny jeans, shirts and tunics and the list can go on. It seems to be preferred by Sarah Jessica Parker, Olsen twins, Mandy Moore and many more as design stands out through paralleled studs, bottom buckles and ultra long straps.

It is the perfect bag for your favorite presentation but also for hunting your favorite pair of boots.

2. Louis Vuitton Satin Plisse Matelasse

Strong new entry in the top of most wanted â??ITâ? purses part of the fall collection 2009, this elegant purse is on the â??lipsâ? of all the fashion forums.

All of us know that Fergie was given one after presenting it and that Paris Hilton called the Vuitton house trying to buy one before it became available.

These are valuable proofs that this bag is going to stay with the â??ITâ? wave for a very long time.

1. Chloe Paddington â??The Boho-Chic

With the handles fixed by teardrop pieces, a cinched key and side buckles this 2005 smart handbag stands out by itâ??s multitude of choice assortments. It is a bag with personality named by Vogue as the leader of the top five, elegant yet freedom style, practical yet chic. Halle Barry prefers it and so does Mischa Barton.

Chloe Paddington is the â??ITâ? bag for a romantic lady but also the perfect handbag for a stylish star like look. The colors are many but the most lovable is the whiskey.

The number one wearer, Sienna Miller wears it on the street, while shopping and dining and even while eating ice cream. The bag fits perfectly a bohemian romantic style.

In the end what does make a bag be the â??ITâ??

It seems the rightful owner of this privilege is the feminine sense of style and also the considerable amount of time and money solicited for the â??ITâ?-s acquisition.

Long story short, the larger the previously underlined features, the stronger the â??ITâ? factor.

Designer labels and its consumption are considered by marketers as part of Lifestyle niche markets. Humans are inevitably drawn to names, brands, labels and such.

Society after all puts a price tag on nearly everything. Pets nowadays are recipients of their master’s fascination and label consumption. There are tons of designer pet accessories.

The concept Marks & Spencer have adapted is into the whole pet designer label. Availability of clothing apparel, home needs, beddings, toiletries, outdoors, toys, gadgets, travel and the likes are easily within paws reach.

Pets with a flair for function meets fashion will simply enjoy the creations pet designers have to offer. Trendy pet boutiques are popping out of the woodwork to provide such pet needs while catering for their humans as well.

Celebrities have been known to splurge on their pets with various designer accessories; Jessica Simpson touted around her shit-zu in a monogrammed Louie Vuitton carrier.

Paris Hilton accessorized her dogs, cats, and monkeys with designer labels to keep them up to date with her own fashion and add extra paparazzi photo opportunities. Up and coming starlets lead their pooches in Burberry fashion.

Unless of course you are famous to begin with purchasing designer pet accessories will not get you publicized in magazines or you and your pet’s face plastered all over the internet.

The best thing about designer pet accessories is that the price tag comes with the assurance that all products you purchase are of the best quality.

Style is obviously one of the perks for choosing a designer pet product as the greater aspect of in items marketability lies on how appealing the product is to you.

An effective promotion will immediately catch your attention, if you walk away from the purchase the nagging thought of why you didn’t snatch it up will be a tell tale sign that certifies you fell for the promotion hook line and sinker.

As aforementioned the good thing about designer pet anything is that you get your money’s worth and the guarantee that your pets get the comfort they deserve.

Comfort should be the key to picking out anything for your pet as they don’t care for color, style or price. All your pet will think about is how fun or how good it feels to be using what “Mom” or “Dad” got me.