Jeffrey Campbell Play - Fresh to Death Spring 2012 Collection

Jeffrey Campbell's JC Play spring 2012 shoe collection is all about variety bringing to the fashion scene sporty as well as high heel shoe designs that will complete your style in an instant. Take a peek at the Fresh to Death collection and pick your new season must haves!

The new season is full of excitement when it comes to accessories and Jeffrey Campbell's spring 2012 shoe collection is all about bringing variety to the fashion scene. Model Jessica Mercedes rocks the new JC Play Fresh to Death collection for the camera lens of Claire Oring, showing off the uniqueness of each and every shoe design included in the collection.

A girl can never have enough shoes, so if you're a true 'shoeaholic', you're going to have a difficult time staying away from the collection as it features various shoe designs that are meant to combine style with comfort and style with edginess, characteristics that have a certain uniqueness that makes heads turn.

Apparently, the designer doesn't aim to bring to the fashion scene the latest trends in shoe design, but rad shoes that will turn you into a trendsetter. These designs have a certain 'je ne sais quoi' that go from day to evening and that can match women with various personalities and styles. Bringing the perfect balance of super-chic sneakers and edgy high heels, JC Play's Fresh of Death spring 2012 collection is definitely worth all of your attention, whether you're all about casual or ladylike styles.

The sneakers signed by JC have a certain deluxe allure attached given not only through the shape of the designs but through the colors and fabrics used in the manufacturing process. Juxtaposing vintage with contemporary details, the designer managed to achieve various super stylish sneakers to suit women from day to evening. From the Flavia metallic sneakers to the Homgicon($80), the Billie Vin, the Teramo sneakericon($206) and the bright Venice sneakericon($214) in turquoise or pink combo, each design has something special that makes it attract attention, making every shoe a perfect choice for 'style & comfort-junkies'.

Thrill-seekers have the opportunity to experiment with JC Play's super fab high heel sandals that are sexy yet casual-chic and that will surely make heads turn. The interesting, edgy color choice and sole design of the Zumba and Fonda heels are perfectly balanced by the vintage chicness of the Smoosh sandals, so explore the new collection and pick your new JC favorites!

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The Kardashian Kollection Goes Nautical for Spring Summer 2012

The new season has inspired the Kardashian sisters to create an entirely new collection. Nautical seems to be the theme behind the new Kardashian Kollection for spring summer 2012, so check out the new designs and pick your new season favorites!

The Kardashian sisters are making sure the new season is packed with stylish elements as they have just revealed their new Kardashian Kollection for the spring summer 2012 season, a collection which features a playful, nautical theme. The new nautical style Kardashian Kollection brings fun colors center stage this upcoming season as the beauty of stylish colors and pretty stripe prints can never be overlooked.

With an empire on the rise, the Kardashian sisters have transposed their penchant for fashion into the design field for Sears, and it seems that the trio's ideas are thriving. Bringing stylish and wearable designs at an affordable price, the Kardashian Kollection available for sale at Sears seems to be making its way to success.

Fashion is constantly bringing new elements to the surface, as constant changes help maintain a fresh vibe that will never cease to make heads turn. For the spring summer 2012 season, the Kardashian Kollection spring summer 2012 collection brings both casual and vintage details to the fashion scene, so you can mix and match various items to create a chic up-to-date look.

Featuring amazing bright colored details, the Kardashian Nautical Kollection comes with lovely maxi dresses, feminine blouses, stylish boyfriend T-shirts, cute stripe tanks as well as vintage style wide leg-high waist pants. The designs have been created to allow versatility to dominate, meaning the pieces can be mixed and patched and paired with heels or flats depending on the look you're going for. Keep things casual or add a bit more elegance to your look by accessorizing the items as desired and you're surely going to make heads turn this spring summer 2012 season.

The colors used in the creation process are in perfect sync with the nautical theme of the collection, so prepare to be dominated by red, navy, black and white colors, monochrome or mixed to create an eye catching, color clashing effect. Sailor-up with the new Kardashian Nautical Kollection already available for purchase and get a bit of that Kardashian chicness that seems to hypnotize from first glimpse.

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Norton Museum’s ‘Cocktail Culture’ exhibit shows how fashion, style coalesced in high society years

Up front in the Norton Museum of Art’s new "Cocktail Culture" exhibit is a video clip of William Powell in full alcoholic splendor in 1934′s The Thin Man, a movie in which Powell might be completely sober for perhaps 10 minutes.

Those were the days.

Nobody got swozzled better than Powell – he made it look desirable. (I shudder to think of the vast number of alcoholics created by people trying to emulate the debonair drunks of 1930s movies.)

The film clips and objects in the Norton exhibit both precede and post-date Powell, but they don’t surpass him – nothing could.

The earliest parts of the exhibit are an orgy of Moderne – cocktail shakers, Cartier ashtrays, cigarette holders that Auntie Mame would kill for, cologne from the Stork Club and a real keeper: a champagne bucket in the shape of a top hat.

It’s a symphony of silver in designs both minimalist and maximalist, remnants of an era awash in post-Prohibition alcohol ardor.

There’s even a dress by MGM studio costumer Adrian – not a photograph, or design, but the actual dress. There’s also a cocktail table by Donald Deskey, who designed the interior of Radio City Music Hall.

The show moves through the eras from the Moderne to the modern, and it’s interesting to see how the unified style of the late 1920s and 1930s give way to a far more diversified and – let’s be honest – less interesting variety of designs as we edge closer to the present day.

"You can look through Vogue and see a mix of things," says curator Michelle Finamore, "but it’s true that fashion was particularly well unified in that era. Many of the things that were produced had a distinctive aesthetic that was very streamlined and Moderne."

Some of the material derives from museums and such – the Tiffany archives contribute particularly luscious pieces, including jewelry that belonged to Lady Slim Keith – but much of the material derives from private collectors, which made Finamore’s job that much more challenging. (The collecting of Moderne objects picked up speed about 30 years ago, as the people who had bought the material originally began dying off and their estates were dispersed.)

"The process depends on the collector," says Finamore. "Jimmy Raye, who lent his handbags and hats, had never done it before. He was happy to do it, but I spent a lot of time at his house going over things."

Raye, a private collector, was a sign that the show was meant to happen, because it turned out that he lived literally around the corner from Finamore in Salem, Mass s.

"Overall, the reason I accessed so many private collections was time. I only had about six months to pull the show together. Working at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston helped with material they had, but if you go to other museums cold, it usually takes about a year to go through the permissions process."

The show is all about that most nebulous of things, style, which is far more important than utility when it comes to matters of fashion, although even reputable purveyors can veer far off line. There’s a Tiffany’s/Elsa Perretti mesh bra from 1980 in the show, which certainly represents a lapse of taste, and probably of comfort as well.

By the 1960s, the culture had begun the process of fragmentation that continues today, although Finamore still managed to showcase some pieces that are timeless, such as an Yves St. Laurent women’s tux from 1966 that could fit seamlessly into any period from 1930 on. Ditto a drawing of Gloria Guinness in Palm Beach, looking as much like Audrey Hepburn as possible.

"Youth culture and street style had a big impact in that period," says Finamore. "There was still a formality in some of the photography and the way ladies dressed if they were of a certain age. But at the same time, there was the metal miniskirt."

Finamore was able to get a lot of pieces she didn’t think she’d get, but there was one piece that got away.

"I wanted to use a pair of shoes by Andrea Pfister that looked like a martini. It’s a cocktail glass on a heel with a slice of lemon. They were so cute. I came close to finding a pair in a French shoe museum, but it didn’t have the lemon slice, so it didn’t look like a martini glass."


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