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The front row of the press pre­view today was a who’s who of fash­ion journalism’s elite and included Anna Win­tour and exhi­bi­tion sub­ject, Miuc­cia Prada, they sat a mere three rows in front of me, Sally Singer, Hamish Bowles and Susy Menkes (in pur­ple from head to toe) two rows ahead, and every­one else was seated in ran­dom order to hear the open­ing remarks of cura­tors, Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton. Mr. Koda, Cura­tor in Charge, is always a plea­sure to lis­ten to, he wields the kind of author­ity that is com­pelling and unas­sum­ing at the same time. He is truly one of the very few “fash­ion insid­ers” who is authen­ti­cally inter­ested in what peo­ple think about fash­ion, rather than impos­ing his view­point and for­get­ting the pop­ulist influ­ence that style and trends absorb by osmo­sis. I do enjoy lis­ten­ing to Mr. Bolton as well; his view of the exhi­bi­ti

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Silver Charms bring more than good luck! To date Nina Designs has funded over $20,000 in microloans for women artisans in Asia, Africa and Central/south America. Economic independence is a key factor in escaping poverty. Thank you for helping us provide loans at 0% interest to women who are using their creativity to improve the lives of their families.

Siriporn is a young woman in Thailand who supports her parents through her jewelry designs. Can you recognize yourself in her description of the creative process? I walk slowly and survey the environment around me – even small grass flowers growing beside the road, the caterpillar on the tree branch. I have looked at them until they turn into butterflies. All of these serve as inspiration to create my jewelry.

Nilda Amaro Oscanoa used her loan to repair her looms. S

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It takes only minutes to make a necklace on Sheyna.com, but the necklace could last you a lifetime. Create a piece of jewelry (under $100) and send it our way by the end of the day today. You just might have the chance to win it. Instructions are here.

March 27, 2012

in: 99 designs, handmade jewelry, jewelry ad banners, jewelry graphic designers

Im a brand new user or www.99designs.com. I discovered the site thanks to Tim Ferris, who used the site to post a contest for his new book cover.

Heres how the site works: you post a contest for a design job need a business card designed, a site, a book cover or like in my case an ad banner for your business? All you need to do is post an ad aka a contest and depending on the price youre willing to pay thats how many designers will submit their entries. You rate them everyday, make comments about the corrections, etc. You can even create a poll with the designs and ask your friends to help you.

Rating and choices do take a lot of time. My recommendation would be to try and spend time to draft a very specific draft of what is it that you have in mind.

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Of all the weirdoes in the world, the one that fascinates me the most is the secretarial types. These are the ones that refuse to budge and change their styles even after serving their bosses for decades in the same company. Right with their ageing boss and their ageing skin, their sense of style gets pretty outdated too. If you were looking for something that would signify secretarial style, Yves Saint Laurents A Line Leather Skirts gotta be the one that u must buy.

It comes with hundred percent leather exteriors and hundred percent silk interiors. Perhaps it is to symbolize the leathery and rough disposition that a secretary is supposed to possess and also the silky and seductive interiors a secretary must possess in order to please the boss in every possible manner. The skirt is pretty long and boring too, just like it is meant to be. Somehow, I find this skirt pretty annoying in terms of style, inspiration and design.

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