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Gucci is expanding their Eyeweb Sunglass Collection with the introduction of the new Gucci Eyeweb Ski Goggles. The unisex goggles come in either black or white with the signature red and green Gucci headband. But don’t think these stylish goggles sacrifice practicality for fashion; the eyewear features anti-fog lenses with Seal Ring technology.
Priced at $195, the goggles are available now at Gucci stores worldwide as well as select retailers and online at Gucci.com.
Will you trade out your sportier lenses for these high fashion goggles??

Treasure Hunt Cartier Beijing Yintai Center “pleasure life” flagship store Recommended reason: Cartier’s latest flagship store and the introduction of the latest concepts Event Boutique makes the shopping experience more technology-oriented, functional. Guide to visiting the shop: China’s largest wedding work area, service area, the distinguished VIP library and so on, everywhere reflect Cartier’s originality. Store as a whole which nestles at the magnificent walls of the Cartier logo below. Touch hearts intake counter of the treasures: the legendary jewelry, watches and accessories series of three works are the works of double-pick an empty exhibition space gives an unprecedented appeal.First appeared in mainland China Cartier boutiques guests exclusive elevator is perfectly integrated with the upper and lower space and harmonious whole. Most worthy of Jishang none other than “Event Boutique” This new concept of injection, making this boutique shop beyond the ordinary single business function, to be a truly multi-concept store: a flexible and open space, new design that can be moving furniture, for the first time equipped with audio-visual control room and hidden LCD screen, laser lighting and many other top-level audio-visual equipment will be in the twinkling of an eye the daily operating room, turned into fields to take part of the banquet hall, or will they share the moving Luxury Lounge not so much a luxury flagship store Mo better to say that here is a modern Science and Technology Museum.

No, it’s not still Christmas — but just as more companies are going GREEN for the environment, more companies are going RED in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

Fashion retailer H&M and Designers Against AIDS (DAA) recently launched“Fashion Against AIDS” which hits H&M stores in February 2008.

Rihanna, Ziggy Marley, Timbaland, Good Charlotte, The Cardigans, Rufus Wainwright and MANY others have designed their own shirts for the collection which range from LOUD to more understated.

The idea is to increase young people’s awareness of HIV/AIDS with affordable ware: T-shirts, tank tops and hooded sweaters that retail from about $15 to $40. Twenty five percent of sales will benefit global org, YouthAIDS.

Twelve million young people in the 15-24 age group are now infected with the HIV virus.

Every fifteen seconds someone in the 15-24 age group contracts HIV/AIDS.

“Supporting YouthAIDS through the Fashion Against AIDS campaign was a great way to encourage my fans to join me in the fight against HIV/AIDS,” says 19-year-old Rihanna.

David Yurman luxury jewelry designs have been for 25 years, his logo design — to distort the production of silver into a “rope” shape, is one of fashion’s most famous designs.David Yurman jewelry at Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus department stores, luxury goods are sold, while in some of the top upscale neighborhoods where the prevalence of small shops, such as Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive (Rodeo Drive is the fashion center , here Shops and to equate wealth and star, the film Pretty Woman (Pretty Woman) movie scene is within this context. Heung Cornell, Christine Dior, Tiffany and gucci and other world famous gather. too expensive It is hope of frightening away. each, diners have their unique architectural style.), New York City, Los Angeles. The world Supermodel Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, often with a David Yurman jewelry to participate in public activities.

Sybil with the help of his wife, David Yurman has become well-known jewelry designer, and jewelry has become king of the empire. The “rope” design in his jewelry can be seen everywhere, from his most famous cocktail ring, to the sections of the necklace, and earrings. His wife, Sybil, a professionally trained artist, she use her expertise in color will be expensive gemstone jewelry and secondary mixed together for the good works of the same pieces of jewelry, this year, the Pearl also appeared in jewelry.

From the LA Lakers to the World Series Champs, diamond rings aren’t just for the ladies to flash. Check out championship ring styles guys like Kobe Bryant and A-Rod flaunt for being the best in the biz.

Show-stopping diamond rings are usually the domain of the Liz Taylors and Paris Hiltons of the world. But sports heroes get their fair share of bling to fling when they receive their championship rings after winning big.

Last month, the Los Angeles Lakers were presented with their whopping diamond rings created by celebrity jeweler, Jason of Beverly Hills. The $30,000 jewel is made from 15kt gold to celebrate the team’s 15^th championship win and sports 14 diamonds surrounding a center gold trophy.

The New York Yankees will have to wait a few months for their 27th World Series championship rings to arrive, but last year the Phillies got to bring home a bling fest worthy of the title – a 14-karat white gold ring with a whopping 103 diamonds, totaling 3.84 carats.

Unfortunately, some sports stars have resorted to auctioning or pawning off their championship bling due to the failing economy (Lenny Dykstra recently sold his 1986 World Series ring for $56,762.50 at an auction in Dallas), but most stars covet the diamond like it was one of their own children – unless you’re Lakers Coach, Phil Jackson

“I don’t think any of them are wearable…” Jackson said, calling them “too gaudy, too large. You can’t shake hands with anybody.”

We’re sure we could find a few folks who would love to have that problem.

Michelle Graff, a friend and editor for the National Jeweler Magazine recently wrote an interesting blog post, ”Afternoon at the Museum,” on the incredible ”Olympia Diamond Collection” showing at the American Museum of Natural Historyhttp://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#compose in NYC.

Relating her visit to see these awe-inspiring gems to childhood memories of childhood fieldtrips to the museum, Michelle successfully draws readers into the lure and the splendor of these incredible gems!

So when approached by gemologist Joshua Sheby of New York-based Scarselli Diamonds Inc. about spending an afternoon in the museum’s Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems, I naturally jumped at the chance.”

A RARE gold medal discovered by a jeweller is going under the hammer.

The 20ct gold Life Saving Medal made by Tiffany & Co was uncovered in a pile of old gold by a jeweller in Old Swan.

Peter Edwards, of WJ Edwards on Prescot Road, found the rare medal in a leather pouch amongst broken gold jewellery.

After much research, he discovered the medal had been awarded to Alfred N Beavan, the captain of the steamship ‘Birka’ which sailed from Liverpool in 1911.

The medal was presented after Beavan rescued three seamen from their sinking ship ‘Theresa’ which was found in heavy seas 120 miles off St Michael’s in the Azores.

The seamen from Spain had set sail to fish off the North West coast of Africa but they arrived as shipwrecked mariners in New York onboard the Birka on 2 August 1911.

Peter Edwards, who runs the family business with his sister Margot Walker, said:“We found it in an assortment of old gold that we were going to get rid off, we spotted the leather pouch and couldn’t believe it when we looked inside.

“The pouch has protected the coin so it was perfectly preserved, we spotted it was by Tiffany & Co the old jewellers and I started searching on the internet. I contacted the Life Saving Benevolent Association of New York but it’s now the Seaman’s Mission and it was through them that we learned the medal had quite a history to it. It dates back to August 1911 which was a year before the famous Titanic sunk in 1912.”

The medal, designed by CH Lovett, is up for auction at Birmingham’s Fellows & Sons and is expected to fetch between £2,000-3,000.

It will be sold alongside an account of the rescue in the New York Times.

Stephen Whittaker, managing partner, Fellows & Sons, said: “This medal is unique and carries an interesting history. Currently there is a tendency for jewellers to scrap gold but I am delighted they spotted the potential interest of this medal for collectors both in the UK and the USA.”

How the medal ended up back in a jewellers in Liverpool is a mystery but Mr Edwards thinks the medal was pledged at his family’s pawnbrokers.

His family business dates back three generations, but Mr Edwards said the medal was the greatest find he knew of.

He added: “We get all sorts handed in, bits of old gold among false legs, pocket watches and compasses. Liverpool’s strong maritime history means we get a lot of navigation aids but we’ve never had a medal like this.”

PARIS — A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday.

Daul Kim was found dead Thursday by her boyfriend, who alerted French police, the official said. He declined to be named in accordance with policy.

Paris police were working under the hypothesis that Kim committed suicide, he said.

Kim’s agent, Alessandra Bertoldini of the Next modeling agency, said the model’s mother was arriving in Paris later Friday. She declined to elaborate.

Raised in Seoul and Singapore, Kim modeled in Asia before making her fashion week debut in Paris in 2007, modeling for top brands like Chanel, Dries van Noten and Maison Martin Margiela, among others, her Seoul agency, Esteem, said. She most recently appeared during Seoul fashion week in October.

Known for her thick mane of hair — sometimes dyed blond — and her quirky sensibility, the 5-foot-10 (178-centimeter) model was celebrated for her sense of style. She was featured recently in a commercial for designer Christopher Kane’s line of clothing for British retailer Topshop.

Kim also was an accomplished painter and video filmmaker who had a solo show of her artwork in Seoul.

Bloggers in South Korea mourned her death, speculating she felt the pressure of high-fashion modeling and a loss of identity.

In an Oct. 30 entry on her blog, Kim wrote she was “mad depressed and overworked,” and in another entry said “the more i gain the more lonely it is … i know i’m like a ghost.”

The last entry on her blog, dated Nov. 18, was titled “say hi to forever” and carried a video of the song “I Go Deep” by British singer Jim Rivers.

South Korea — which has the highest suicide rate among the 30 nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — has had a string of high-profile suicides over the past year.

Former President Roh Moo-hyun jumped to his death in May while embroiled in a widening corruption scandal and the ex-chairman of South Korea’s oldest conglomerate killed himself earlier this month. In 2008, top actress Choi Jin-sil committed suicide, following in the footsteps of a fellow actor. A young actress in one of South Korea’s popular soap operas also died by suicide.

As predicted, the rumourregarding Blake Lively as the new face of Victoria Beckham’sfashion line was all just a fanciful dream. A spokesperson for Beckham has dismissed yet another rumour which originated from the Daily Mail in as many weeks.

“I don’t know where this one has come from – other than from Blake being a fan of the Victoria Beckham collection,” her spokeswoman told Vogue.com. “She is not Victoria’s ‘muse’ and there is no ‘face of’ the advertising campaign.”

The Gossip Girl starlet became a fan of Victoria’s line after the pair met during New York Fashion Week. She and her pal Leighton Meester have worn pieces from the Spice Girl’s collections both on and off the screen. Blake was spotted just last month at the 2009 Angel Ball (pictured) wearing one of Beckham’s spring/summer 2010 tailored dresses.