Archive for the ‘Fashion’ Category
All that glistens
Tue 18 Jun 2013 -The recent Cannes jewellery heists highlight the risks of exhibiting precious gems. (source: Lloyd’s of London)
The Cannes film festival in May this year was hit by two high-profile jewellery heists. In the first, Swiss jeweller Chopard had gems reportedly worth $1.4m stolen from...
June 18th, 2013 | Accessories, Fashion, Insurance and Reinsurance | Read More
The Sea-factor in fashion
The Liberty’s Father’s Day display
The shipping industry greatly influences the world of fashion and let’s face it: the rag trade owes to a greater extent its success to the sea-factor in fashion. “Britannia Rules the Waves”, is not by chance the cliché for the Great Britain!
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June 9th, 2013 | Charity, Fashion | Read More
Everything is coming up roses for the unique contribution to French perfumery from Bulgaria’s Rose Valley
Everything is coming up roses for the unique contribution to French perfumery from Bulgaria’s Rose Valley, By James Brewer
It is a commodity that is worth more than its weight in gold. Rose oil generally sells at a price per ounce well above that of gold – and perhaps has been fetching relatively...
May 30th, 2013 | Accessories, Consumers Market, Fashion, Story of the Month | Read More
Let’s Make Fashion Unique!
by Elena Sendona
It seems that nowadays women act as new-age cosmopolitan creatures, hybrids of globalization and an increasingly intimate connection to the fashion world. This is one of the reasons I call my blog Fashionality and that was the initial thought behind my evolving relationship with fashion...
March 30th, 2013 | Fashion, News | Read More
Essence of luxury: Belinda Brown stakes her claim to the title of Africa’s first female luxury perfumer
Belinda Brown
Essence of luxury: Belinda Brown stakes her claim to the title of Africa’s first female luxury perfumer
By James Brewer
Growing up in the oil-producing Niger Delta, young Belinda Brown and her friends would have to hold their noses as their village was among those hit by fumes from gas...
January 27th, 2013 | Accessories, Fashion, News, WISTA - Women in Shipping | Read More
Calliope enters the fashion arena
Chryanthi P. Lemos with Calliope in front of her creations
The Greek mind, irrespective of the situation in Greece or in the world’s poor financial markets, is always innovative and productive, fashion being over the last thirty years a field Greeks thrive too – shipping and tourism though...
December 23rd, 2012 | Charity, Fashion, WISTA - Women in Shipping | Read More
Oceanic power inspires vibrant creations by artist Misha Milovanovich
Misha Milovanovich
Memories of seaside days by the Adriatic lift the London fashion spirit. By James Brewer
Artist and designer Misha Milovanovich delights in looking back on a happy childhood spent by the Adriatic Sea, which she credits for giving a dramatic impetus to her creativity. These days Misha...
May 21st, 2012 | Charity, Fashion, Maritime Art | Read More
Corporate Look: A Woman’s Basics
by Elena Sendona
Growing up in a world less dominated by men but still driven by their ambition and will, women are usually told to dress like the opposite sex, in an effort to fit more into a leader’s costume. The so-called ‘power suit’ caries with it all these qualities required when somebody...
May 5th, 2012 | Breaking News, Fashion, WISTA - Women in Shipping | Read More
Six plus three ‘Universal Greek’ fashion designers
A full house at the Great Hall of the Hellenic centre, exceptionaly eager to see and listen fashion issues
The World might think that Greeks marvel only in shipping and trading with a bit of touristic flavour; that’s not true. Following the world’s unique classic business success in the Maritime...
March 19th, 2012 | Charity, Exhibitions, Fashion, WISTA - Women in Shipping | Read More
