Joelle Lifestyle - The World at Home

No trench coats, boots or heavy sweaters. You might want to accessorize your jeans with a new jewelry trend coming directly from Madrid. The few head pieces, or face chains designed by Carlos Diez for the Spring/Summer 2008 at Pasarela Cibeles show in Madrid could be your right pick.

Taking inspiration perhaps from Jackie O or even Audrey Hepburn, Mrs. Sarkozy chose to arrive in the London last week wearing a chic gray ensemble from Dior, which included a neat pillbox hat and full-skirted coat. The Times theorizes that the choice of Carla Bruni to wear Dior last week in London was a piece of strategic luxury marketing worth $2M.

It’s been ten years since the stars of Sex and the City first won over viewers with their cosmopolitan adventures in New York. With the help of computer technology, the four actresses have rolled back the years for photographs promoting a film version of their television show.

Body adornment is a universal art, practiced by Berber women covered with amulets and pendants, Indians sheathed in their bridal saris, Africans with highly codified headdresses, Geishas disappearing under their ghostly white makeup, and Maoris, their bodies sculpted with spiral tattoos.

Manish Arora label appeals to a wide cross section of individuals among them are the, smart urban women, professionals, socialites and movie stars. Numerous celebrities have sported his creations and he has a faithful following among the smartest names not just in India but also worldwide.

Yesterday, at Christie’s held the first ever auction in the US devoted to Chinese textiles, I have never seen so many Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indian elegantly dressed men and women walking around such selective amount of art pieces.

After working in a Paul Smith campaign which has given his career a series shot of mainstream worthyness set designer Gary Card created a big buzz challenging those rules. He is in the new issue of the AnOther Man photographed by William Seldem and styled by Nicholas Formichetti modeling amongst sets that he has created himself.

In the 1950s, art critic Harold Rosenberg, described the archetypal “action painter” as an artist who transformed his canvas into a modern-day arena wherein an epic struggle between man and material might unfold.

This Spring, phenomenal artist James Jean‘s latest collaboration with couture giant Prada has just been unveiled in the company’s flagship stores in NYC and Beverly Hills.