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Why wear sandals?  This question comes up on so many occasions.  It is like there are rules to the etiquette of sandal wear.  Can you wear socks with sandals? Dress wear and sandals? Can you golf in sandals?  Many people have their interpretation of when sandal wear is appropriate.  In many countries and especially where there is a beach culture, sandals are the footwear of choice year-round.

The benefits of wearing sandals on your feet vary to the activities that you are interested in.  Sandals obviously do not suffice for any activity that requires proper foot protection. Flip flops are great for using in public areas and can protect your feet from fungal infections, warts, and lacerations. They are great for wearing indoor as well and takes only seconds to put on or take off.

Sandals are stylish. At the beach, at parties or even at business meetings, there is a wide range of sandals that are available. From bright colored flip flops, to the strappy high heel, to casual wedge-style platforms, there are enough styles out there to suit any occasion.

There are many types of sandals on the market today that not only look good, they keep your feet happy with good ventilation and foot circulation.  Sandals are even making winter appearances in cooler climate areas. Name brands such as O’Neill and Sanuk are beginning to produce sandals with quilted flannel and fleece attached to straps, or stitched wool socks lined in polo fleece for the die-hard sandal wearer.

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Miuccia sent out a new breed of patrician, a class of high priestess, with clothes so revolutionary that they predicted a new era. Her collection contained genuinely new clothes, cut and fabrications yet they carried scores of cultural, historical and semiotic messages that referred to religious ceremonial gear, ecological motifs, authoritative dressing. Her fall 2008 collection was like a great novel - albeit one staged in less than 15 minutes - precisely because it was packed so much visual information, daring and novelty that you could see it ten times and still get something new out of all the ideas.

Her choice of fabrics, the key one being Swiss guipure, was revealing. Guipure is the world’s toughest lace, which can be used as ceremonial attire, yet also as suggestive fashion. Shown without slips, but with waist tutus and breastplates, the lace dresses, jackets and skirts each suggested sensuality. On a recent visit to the regal town of St. Gallen this critic could see for himself that Swiss lace has no competition in the world but certainly is a hard-to-maneuver fabric to base an entire collection on, like Miuccia did.

“Our financial controller is breathing down my neck as people normally order 20 or 30 meters. But I ordered 700 meters. We had them working all night in Switzerland,” an ebullient Miuccia told FWD backstage.

The collection also swam brilliantly against the stream. At a moment when designers in Milan have more or less banished a generation of late 20s models, Miuccia mixed in a gang of “veterans” including Guinevere van Seenus and Angela Lindvall, adding to the collection’s credibility and proving again that nobody has better casting than Prada.

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 Gucci’s Frida Giannini thinks of her outfits as a performance, while Roberto Cavalli says his are like paintings, the designers told Reuters.

Giannini, whose womenswear show for winter 2008-09 put military overtones on a bohemian, hippy look, said she was inspired by the style of east European ?gr?to Paris and Vienna in the 1920s.

“They mixed, and they created something very new, something very theatrical,” she told Reuters after the show.

Her outfits mixed brass buttons and belts with soft chiffon and velvet, with ample amounts of jewelry and ornament.

“I really like the idea of a performance … each single look has the feeling of a performance because I used more than 10 prints, I used more than 20 different patterns,” she said.

Models at the show wore tight black trousers tucked into high leather boots that covered the knee with hipster belts in brass chainlink or studded leather.

A rich, velvet patchwork of burgundy, black and jade was fine pleated into a short skirt that swung very much to a Russian tune

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There’s always that feeling of change in the new year. Magazines are plastering ‘New Year, New You’ all over their covers and celebs are shoving out exercise DVDs left, right and centre. This can be brilliant - a new wardrobe, hairdo or fitness regime can boost your confidence and help you start the new year afresh…but it can also be the road to ruin. Don’t forget you wore all that stuff last year because you liked it, and there might not be any need to change (just revamp a bit). Just because you made a resolution to be a bit more daring does not mean it’s time to try high-waisted gold hotpants or floor length pistachio organza. Instead, I suggest you follow these simple rules for a stylish 2008.

1. Don’t buy stuff that doesn’t suit you just because it’s fashionable
You will regret it when the photos are put on Facebook, trust me.

2. Don’t buy stuff in the sales just because it’s cheap
Particularly if it’s a size too small for you and you’re convinced you’ll slim into it. This is the reason I’ve had the same pair of ill-fitting designer jeans rammed in the back of my wardrobe for 18 months.

3. Listen to others, but trust yourself more.
Friends quite often say you look nice in everything just because they love you. Then you look in the mirror at home and realise you look like a hooker 4. Don’t listen to boys
They know nothing. Except maybe Tom Ford, I might trust him. A bit.

5. If in doubt, wear a dress
Then you don’t have to worry about coordination.

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Giorgio Armani took inspiration from gypsies and Japan for his womenswear collection for winter 2008-09 on Monday, wrapping many of his outfits in shawls of velvet or lace and using floral print silks for evening.

The designer continued his passion for velvet this season, using black and chocolate shades for billowing short skirts or high-waist, loose-legged trousers.

A pale grey velvet was embossed for a swinging cape jacket worn with a grey wool short dress, while a soft, grey fur wrap coat had rainbow-sparkle shoes and bag to brighten it.

Feet were elsewhere slipped into pixie-like flat pumps with pointy toes and slingbacks.

Armani, known for his classic black and grey palette, played with colors, letting sky blue lining peep out from a chocolate fur-look cape, or using a band of multicolored embroidery to jazz up the back of a black tailored jacket.

“I have a respect and love for ethnic peoples. … I’ve always said these women are very beautiful,” Armani told reporters after the show.

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One of the biggest makeup challenges is choosing the right lip color. Some women vary their lipstick in accordance with their wardrobe—a big no-no, since your lipstick is supposed to complement your skin tones!

It’s not hard to choose lipstick colors once you know one simple fact. All you need to know is whether your skin tones are “warm” or “cool”. It’s not about how dark or light you are, or even about your hair or eye color, but what the undertone of your skin is—is it bluish (cool) or yellowish (warm)? Everyone is either warm or cool and it’s all about your facial coloring: blondes, brunettes and redheads can be either one.

So how can you tell if you aren’t sure? Dig through your makeup bag and find just two shades of any kind of makeup—lip color, eye shadow or blush. Find one color that is orange or rust and another that is pink or lavender. Rub one color on the apple of your cheek and the other color on the apple of the other cheek and then compare. Does one look more “right” than the other? Does one look garish or just wrong? The color that works will show you your skin tone. If the orange color looks right, you have warm tones; if the pink color looks right, you are cool.

Now that you know your skin tone, you are free to choose any lip color in that color family. But that doesn’t mean you’ll only wear one lipstick shade: you still have plenty to choose from! Take a look at this list of potential lip shades for either coloring:

Warm Colors
Coral, Peachy, Russet, Rust, Amber, Brown, Brick Red, Melon, Salmon, Orange, Sandalwood, Red with yellow undertone, Taupe

Cool Colors
Pink, Raspberry, Cherry, Mulberry, Lavender, Plum, Rose, Strawberry, Crimson, Amethyst, Lilac, Red with blue undertone, Mauve

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