Joelle Lifestyle - The World at Home

Last Sunday I spent the day to the yearly Sunday with the Magazine , the first to be held in the new Times Center designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano.

Since Batik has been gaining more exposure followed by ethnic tribal trend safari chic look, several designers are using Ikat print in their 2008 Spring Summer collection.

Glamorous eccentrics are irresistible people. They are irreverent, occasionally impertinent, a tad mysterious, charming, often self-invented, good at applying eyeliner, and above all nonconformist. They are a fabulous confection of style, self-empowerment, and black patent sling backs. Everyone wants to be one, but how? The ubiquitous Simon Doonan style guru has the answer.

Straight men with inherent style are indeed a rare breed. So much so that others question their straightness if they look too good. Any man who likes ladies and can rock a super-slim Dior Homme suit and doesn’t compete with the girlfriend for mirror time is pretty much a character from a fairly tale.

Once the fashion industry’s awkward outsider, eco-friendly clothing has now become the cool new girl in school. Labels have exchanged scratchy, straw-colored hemp—once de rigueur for eco-friendly style—for sleek bamboo blends and organic denims so soft they even put some cashmeres to shame.

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.