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Accessories collection from Sofia Coppola for Louis Vuitton

Film director Sofia Coppola and French fashion house Louis Vuitton have a long cooperation history together: Marc Jacobs himself, the fashion house’s designer, calls Sofia a ”close friend”, while the director regularly presents elegant collections of accessories for the brand.

In occasion of the new fall fashion season Sofia prepared a new collection of bags in a conservative classical style.

As early as October 1st, Louis Vuitton boutiques will feature the new accessories. The film director specially created those items for this fall fashion season collection. The collection will also have Sofia’s popular designs for LV, this time in new colors. The prices will be $3,730 and $3,360 for SC Bag and SC Bag PM respectively.

Mariah Carey’s Signature Collection to Be Expected on HSN

Her private life Mariah Carey is trying to keep under cover, but there will always be something that she shares with us gladly. One of the best-selling singers means to make the same impact on the fashion world, and is now preparing a new collection to be sold at shopping network HSN.According to WWD, the collection will hit the channel at the end of November. There is no detailed information as yet, but we can expect pieces of jewelry priced at anything between $40 and $200, many of them carrying Mariah’s butterfly effigy. Also a choice of footwear from $70 to $170, and the final touch – the singer’s very special Luscious Pink fragrance, a limited edition. Will Carey treat us to a live appearance online in a promo video? We are ready for more information and more treatment.

Jeans Come out on Top As Best Value Clothes

A useful study looked into the comparative value women get when they buy different pieces of clothing. Researchers ran through all the items to be found in the wardrobe of an average female and calculated the cost-per-wear ratio for each of them.

Our habitual pair of jeans won hands down (or legs up?) in this wear-and-tear competition over other items showing an excellent average wear cost of mere 9p per one spell of service.

An ordinary pair of denims, experts inform, whose price hovers around £40, are put on 428 times on the average, which makes every wear worth exactly nine pence. Compared to a pair of leggings it works out a whole lot cheaper, since the latter come to 15p per wear! For although leggings generally cost in the vicinity of a paltry £9.97, their lifespan covers but 68 times, so eventually they come out nearly twofold more expensive.

As the survey of 3,000 Brits shows, the second best money-saving item of clothing is a t-shirt or a top that stays with us for more than two years, getting worn 218 times in toto and making us pay approximately 10p per every wear.

Jumpers make another good buy: with the average cost of £25.12 they give us a 228-time wear service during three years and a couple of months of their life, which comes to 11p worth for each time you put them on. The same figure goes for bras that work for us for 162 times, their one-wear cost staying around 11p.

Trousers are definitely more expensive (in the same relative estimation), each one of their 176 times of wear valued at 14p. Jackets that put you back for a sum of about £55 are found to be worn 575 times, which shows them almost as valuable as jeans at 10p wear cost.

Only pants can really compete with the denim winner with their 7p for every one of 100 times we pull them on.

All these results are courtesy of London’s Science Museum that issued a report in support of its ‘Trash Fashion: designing out waste’ exhibition.

Dominique Driver, manager of the Trash Fashion Exhibition, pointed out that “the fact that leggings have the highest cost per wear is indicative of the throw-away fashion culture in Britain today, which is causing more than a million tonnes of textiles to end up in landfill each year.” Whereas jeans turn up more expensive than leggings when we simply compare the price tags, as soon as you work out their wear cost you find that they can boast of giving the best value for their money over a longer lifespan.

Besides, women can get hold of the wear-cost principle and employ it every time they need to prove that they really made a bargain for, say 54p per wear.

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Scarlett Johansson and Mango Move Together into the Next Year

Mango’s Fall/Winter 2010/2011 collection is presented by Scarlett Johansson – which is hardly surprising considering their long-time successful collaboration.

The actress presents a wide range of designs from corduroys, tweeds and furs to flowing silks with just the right touch of grave intensity in the extremely feminine pieces of clothing.

It was Mario Sorrenti once again wielding the camera, the photographer Johansson is delighted to work with.

The venue of the photo shoot was one of Los Angeles’s expressional residences.

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Carlos Falchi Bags Fall-Winter 2010/2011

New-York designer Carlos Falchi dedicated his latest collection of stylish accessories to the kick-off of the fall-winter 2010-2011 fashion season. The key theme of this collection is luxurious leather of exotic reptiles.

Following the current trend, which brought most of the designers back to the classic style, the new Falchi collection stands out with its conservative shapes coupled with discreet luxury of exotic leather.

The harmoniously selected “fall” colors – gold, brown, rusty-red, mustard, olive – add distinct beauty to the fall accessories from Carlos Falchi. The colors strikingly resemble the variety of colors of fall leaves. From the point of view of diversity of models, the new collection can be regarded as one of the most complete ones; the collection offers everyday accessories for business women as well as evening clutches and even travel bags.