The charity group C.H.I.P.S (Colleagues Helpers in Philanthropic Service) were personally shown by Alberta Ferretti her new Alberta Ferretti collection at their annual charity lunch. Celebrities such as Nicky Hilton, Marisa Tomei, Rose McGowan were there!
On photo we see Angie Harmon in a black fringed Alberta Ferretti dress with the designer herself.
Purple was the colour of last winter but is still top fashion, in fact on the international catwalks purple was one of the leading colours! This Spring and Summer our top designer’s have decided to combine many different shades and tones of purple like; lilac, lavender, violet and plum.
Of course purple is suitable even together with other colours, in fact another trend of the year is exactly the mixing of strong colours. A third way to combine purple is with gold or silver accessories. Which creates a really mysterious and seductive look perfect for a glamorous summer night party!
For example Alberta Ferretti’s S/S collection has a couple of amazing purple creations. Long dresses as well as shirts with soft flounces. For example this plum coloured drape chiffon dress seen in the middle on the photo above. Or purple Alberta Ferretti trousers also seen on the photo above…
Ermanno Scervino chooses a brighter tone of purple, like this lilac criss-cross jersey dress…
Cesare Paciotti goes for the eye-catching purple, as clutch as well as stilettos, amazing accessories this S/S or should I rather say an absolute must have this season! For a slightly more delicate taste the Paciotti jacket is an alternative!
How ever it doesn’t really matter where or how you wear it as long as purple actually has tinted your body!
Drew Barrymore in Alberta Ferretti at Grey Gardens HBO films lookin perfectly chic and retro!
The famous actress strikes the public when she shows up in a champagne coloured Alberta Ferretti dress in smooth silk. Looking like she has travelled in time with her perfect look from the 30’s. Red lipstick, Roger Vivier shoes and a perfectly retro hair style… A classic but still very original look. Great job Drew!
An other trend to pay attention to this spring/summer is the fringed trend! Extremely on top and high fashion this season! It’s rather impossible to miss this dazzling new trend which filled the s/s catwalks!
The fringed trend is very original and exiting to experiment with. Available mostly as dresses and blouses but of course there’s as well beautiful skirts and similar clothing with thousands of suspending threads that wags pleasantly back and forward when moved…Like this fabulously elegant red Alberta Ferretti skirt seen on the left.
Alberta Ferretti’s s/s collection is full of beautiful fringed creations in a lot of different models. This black long fringed evening dress is a perfect example of the Alberta Ferretti’s delicate and feminine style. The fringes combined with the subtle embroidery on the front makes it exceptionally soft and romantic.
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An absolute Must Have this spring and summer 2009 is the Grecian-Romanesque inspired dress frequently seen on the catwalks this year!
This S/S it’s definitely a trend and a secure wardrobe investment to guarantee a chic and feminine summer!
This new Grecian goddess fashion is an evolution from the subtle one-shoulder dress even this one very trendy this spring and summer… Brands with especially beautiful dresses are Alberta Ferretti, Moschino, Valentino and many more.
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The goddess draped dresses are a real success 2009 and exists long and short as tight and large. In different colours and fabrics like see trough, organza, silk. It’s simply for you to choose after taste!
Red is a colour that always remains on the catwalks, in the boutiques, on the streets, well red is somehow always present… Because red is a particular and mostly a classic colour.
It’s not only classic and a splendid beauty it’s as well the most eye catching colour of them all. That’s why it’s perfect for evening activities and elegant parties! This spring and summer collection Alberta Ferretti, Ice Berg, Valentino yes almost all of the big designers have some amazing red dresses, shirts, blouses or bags! Like this stunning red Valentino dress made in light see -trough fabric.
This year as well the shoes and bags are red. Perfect to combine with jeans and neutral colours for a city day as well with a mixture of other colours! To create an explosion of colours matching this S/S fashion.
Like these Christian Dior high healed sandals.
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Or this red Roger Vivier bag.
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The Milan Fashion Week brought lots of enthusiasm as usual, and we carry on entertaining you with two glamorous designers and their 2009 spring summer collections: Giorgio Armani and Alberta Ferretti.
For next 2009 spring summer, the ideal woman of Giorgio Armani has to be elegant and accurate in style. She doesn’t have to show off her sensuality, in fact, it has to pass through smooth shapes. Perfect dresses, light dresses, perfect jackets, Bermuda and trousers for this splendid Armani woman. His colours are soft, shaded sometimes, lots of grey and pastel nuances, an elegance beyond times.
For Alberta Ferretti, in fact, next summer is going to be a revival of the magical 20ees. She is going to enchant us with fringed dresses, laces and lovely applications. Cuts of dresses are asymmetrical and colours are light with evanescent tones, like silver, beige, turquoise, and stronger colours as orange, purple, blue and red, in an explosion of fantasy and freshness.
Here we go… Summer is not over yet and we are already up to what next 2009 summer fashion will be like. On the 20th of September the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana is going to get started the Milan Woman Fashion Week, an awaited event worldwide.
For one week, up to the 27th of September, I am going to witness for you the main designers collections and their suggestions for next summer. The calendar is full of your favourite names, like Frankie Morello, Roberto Cavalli, Giorgio Armani, Alberta Ferretti, Prada, Gucci, Fendi, Versace.
Today, I am going to show you some of the shots from Moschino Cheap&Chic 2009 summer collection. Moschino collections have always been known for their use of colours and light lines for a young woman with a strong self being and freedom seeking attitude. Dresses remind of dawns and sunsets, gently caressing shapes and picturing summery fantasies with flowery and rocky patterns. Free beach party style dresses, balloon style loose jackets for funny and relaxed time. Colours are those of summer, yellow, pink, light blue, white. As for me, the seventies taste of this collection is absolutely irresistible, and now…let’s images do the talking!!
At the end of the Venezia film Festival and with a spectacular Mickey Rourke, winner with his “Wrestler”, we can resume the best of the red carpet and its elegant guests..
Alberta Ferretti
Total black Alberta Ferretti dress for the red carpet of the “Premio Diamanti al cinema” for Andrea Osvart.
Gucci
For Carolina Crescentini at the premier of “Valentino the last Emperor”
Versace
For Charlize Theron with a one shoulder Versace grey dress for the movie “The burning Plain”
Gucci
For Nicole Grimaldo in a Gucci multicolour printed dress for the photo call of the movie “Un giono perfetto”.
Giorgio Armani
For Claudia Cardinale at the opening of the 65th edition of the Venezia Film Festival
Roberto Cavalli
Claudia Gerini in a total black Roberto Cavalli look
Gucci suite
For Elio Germano, winner of “The Diamante al cinema night”, featuring in the movie “Mio fratello è figlio unico”
Valentino
For Eva Herzigova at the premier of “Valentino the last Emperor”
Roberto Cavalli
Dressed Violante Placido with a Cavalli lace pattern dress. The actress won the “Diamanti al Cinema award” with the movie “Lezioni di cioccolato”
Roberto Cavalli
For Isabella Ragonese, winner of the best young actress for the “Diamanti al Cinema” night. On this occasion she wore a floral Roberto Cavalli dress
Gucci
For Charlize Theron at the Vogue and Vanity Fair party for Valentino
Alberta Ferretti
For Tilda Swinton wearing an Alberta Ferretti Olimpo style dress on the red carpet of the movie “Burn after reading”
This is all from the 65th edition of the Venezia Film Festival….keep this magic movie star dust with you till next time…
Venezia film festival officially opened on the 27th of august, and here I am checking some of the most important and representative stars and their outfit.
Let’s start with actress Tilda Swinton, co star with George Clooney and Brad Pitt of the movie “Burn after reading”. She picked a Christian Dior dress for the press conference; it was a particular yellow dress enriched with coloured details and orange and turquois appliqués.
In fact, she wore an Alberta Ferretti long pleated mustard dress for the red carpet; Claudia Schiffer too chose an Alberta Ferretti dress, an elegant pearl grey one shoulder dress for the premier.
Well, the Cannes Film Festival is at its end, but the beautiful images of the stunning dresses, worn by the most glamorous celebrities, will stick in our minds and on the internet, forever. I would say that the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was a great success, not only in reference to the new films, but also with the trends that were set by these great celebs and the designers who dressed them.
First we take a look at the red carpet for the premier of the new Woody Alen film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, staring Rebecca Hall, Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson. Rebecca Hall, one of the leading actresses arrived on the red carpet, in a beautiful grey, one shoulder gown in chiffon by Alberta Ferretti. For the press conference she chose a lovely pale pink cocktail dress, again by Alberta Ferretti.
Aishwarva Rai appeared on the red carpet with her husband in a gorgeous bright pink satin dress by Roberto Cavalli.
The beautiful Elsa Zilberstein, who never goes wrong in her choices of what to wear on the red carpet, floated along in a total white look by Dior, absolutely fabulous.
In the occasion for the premier of Gomorra, the new film by Reberto Saviano, Rula Jebreal wore a white chiffon dress from the 2008 spring summer collection of Alberta Ferretti. She really looked like a Grecian goddess with the white dress on her flawless bronzed skin.
The second premier took off with the new Dreamworks animation film, Kung Fu Panda, staring the voices of American actors like Dustin Hoffman, Jack Black and a very pregnant Angelina Jolie. Once again most of the attention went to what the celebrities were wearing of corse.
Lucy Lui made her appearance like a vision in a stunning pale pinkish-white coloured dress by Roberto Cavalli, enhanced with little flower embroidery and a low v-cut chest. The tiny actress stood out from the crowd in this number. In the pictures below we can see her with Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman and Jack Black.
As always, Eva Longoria looked stunning and showed us all why she is one of the best red carpet stars. This time she chose to wear a dress suited for a princess by Versace from his 2008 spring summer collection. This ivory coloured fairy-tale dress is made with one shoulder and has silver beeded accents ending in a big fish-tale of tulle. A definite yes for the red carpet.
Natalie Imbruglia was also present at the premier looking calm and gorgeous in a beautiful maroon coloured dress by Alberta Ferretti.
This Indian Beauty has really taken our breath away over the corse of the Cannes Festival in her choices of dresses for the red carpet. This time Aishwarya Rai chose a luxurious beaded creation by Giorgio Armani.
In occasion for the opening ceremony of the the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival stars and celebrities went the full nine yards with only one idea, the Red Carpet. For the premier of the new Film Blindness, that took place on the 14 May 2008, the red carpet was painted with beauty and luxury from the dress worn by some of the most famous actresses.
First we take a look at the stunning terquoise dress, shown off by the lovely Eva Longoria, from the 2008 Spring Summer collection by Versace, while model Bar Rafaeli wore a custom made dress by Alberta Ferretti and Chopard. The lavender creation was decorated with over 2000 carats worth of Chopard jems.
Other sparkling looks included Cate Blanchett who chose a dress from the Giorgio Armani Prive collection. The dress is made like a organza in pale pink silk, the fabric is created to overlap and therefore has a petal-like effect, the material is gathered on the one shoulder to created a organza bouquet.
Mischa Barton in a dark indigo coloured dress and model Devon Aoki wore a sparkling body-huging dress both by Alberta Ferretti.
Aishwarya Rai, shown in the picture below, appeared in a beautiful black Roberto Cavalli gown and holding a white beaded clutch. There is nothing like that black dress that fits like a glove.
The Wedge-heeled shoes are high in fashion for the summer of 2008. Not only do they give you a bit of extra hight but they are also unbelievably comfortable. This week we have chosen the shoes by Alberta Ferretti to take firts place.
These shoes have high wooden wedges with a bit of a ’kink’ like they are in the shape of a 2, it is this curve in the heel that sets it apart from the others. The leather ankle-strap follows through to form the detail on the foot, also available in other colours, which is then attached to the sole of the shoe with little golden straps. They keep with theme of the rest of the collection making you feel like a goddess in the time of ancient Greece. These are great for the summer as most of the foot is exposed so your feet can feel free.
The footwear collection by Alberta Ferretti for the summer is light and are shoes that can be worn to every occasion.
This German site, also available in English, was launched in 2005 and is dedicated to the online sales of designer clothes and accessories. The creation of this site was born from the idea of Mario Eimuth, fashion entrepreneur and owner of the fashion shop Sarago, which one can find in Munich of Bavaria.
This site is divided into a fashion review and a personal shopping virtual, it covers everything from the “look” of the most famous celebrities to the latest and up-and-coming trends.
Brands: Valentino, Mochino Cheap&chic, Roberto Cavalli, Blumarine, Blazer, Burberry Prorsum, Burberry London, Catherine Malandrino, Calvin Klein, Alberta Ferretti, Juicy Couture and many more…
Stock: There is an endless amout of products, and the availability in the different labels are really noteworthy.
Reliability: They do all their shipping with DHL, and takes 24 hours apon payment, this also counts for international addresses. And like every other online shop that is serious, if the clients are not 100% satisfied they can return the product within 14 days of purchase.
Website features: The site is constructed in a fun and original way, it is really different to other online sites, which makes it refreshing. The home page always represents the “look” of a celebrity and they help you to find or match up that look with the clothes that they have in this online shop. Other departments fall under “Look of the week”, new arrivals, top five, designers, shoes& bags boutique, beauty and the jeans docter.
Strengths: The range of clothes and accessories is vast and the sections like “look of the week” and “jeans docter” makes the site really fun to use. The clothes are also guarenteed to be of the best quality and authenticity.
Weaknesses: The expenses for the shipping from Germany against that of Italy will be much highr.
This American company, owned by Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton (lvmh), was launched in 2000 and is dedicated to the online sales of clothes and accessories by the most presige designers.
Brands: eLuxury’s prestigous line-up includes designers like: Louis Vuitton, Alberta Ferretti, Blumarine, Celine, Derek Iam, Dior, D&G Dolce & Gabbana, Emilio Pucci, Fendi, Jean Pual Gaultier, Marc Jacobs, Roberto Cavalli, Versace and many more.
Stock: There is a big variety of clothes, shoes and accessories to choose from that is displayed on the site.
Website features: The site is basic and easy to use. You can shop under the type of garment or designers of you choice. There are a lot of aspects for example: there are nine departments to choose from, everything from women’s apparel, shoes, handbags, beauty to accessories, men, gifts, kids and an exclusive Louis Vuitton boutique. They also have a sales section with up to 25% off some of the goods displayed. The photo’s of the products are really well-structured and one can see the details of the products clearly. In some aspects the site looks like a school project.
Reliability: eLuxury guarentees that the products are absolutely of the best quality and are the real garments of the the designers mentioned. They also have a 100% satisfaction and fruad protection guarentee.
Strength: eLuxury have a policy of free shipping if the amount is more than $150.
Weaknesses: They only do shippings to the 48 U.S. states and Alaska and Hawaii.
It’s the famous departments stores’ web site that also sells online. Luxury home’s items and exclusive beauty products are on sale as well as designer clothes and accessories. This chain of shops is very popular in the United States.
Brands: Armani, Gucci, Dior, Alberta Ferretti, Emilio Pucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Jimmy Choo, Valentino, Dolce&Gabbana, Oscar De la Renta, Fendi and many others.
Reliability: absolute! The goods are all returnable if not similar to the order or defective. In addition to the online sale there is an online help service by a personal shopper.
Stock: the range of the products, as well as the choice of labels, is very large. You can find most of the clothes collections of the best designer and the up-and-coming ones.
Surfing: the items can be searched by category or designer. Also there are two sections dedicated to the most popular items and new arrivals. The prices are in dollars. Only English language available.
Strength: The authenticity of goods, as well as the security terms are sure because of the prestige of the company itself. The web site is well constructed.
Weakness: International shipping is not available to every destination. The prices of Italian made product could be unfavourable. International orders often require longer waits and higher charges.
