Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

To all of our clients; Thank you for your shopping with us!
With our best wishes from all us working here at Farfallina.net, Happy Holidays!!!

Bracher Emden- THE BAG

For all of you out there that you love your bags (and we are plenty to have our own country and currency) we want to introduce the Bracher Emden handbags. Gorgeous, stunning, unique!!
Every single bag (and yes i own one) is made with different colour leather all stitched by hand..with a few (hundreds of Swarovski crystals & gems. Absolutely stunning.

I first found this bag at their shop (now closed) at Monmouth Street on Covent garden. Bad service but the bags.......all called my name!!! Now you can find them at Selfridges, Liberty, Bergdorf and Henry Bendel and some more stores.

If you want to be different this is THE BAG to carry!

www.bracheremden.com

We Love...Tom Binns

Tom Binns is an Irish designer full of anger. He directs this anger into his designs showcasing his creativity and boldness, while at the same time creating plenty of controversy. For example, he created a piece combining a flying toy plane with streaming nuts and bolts to express his thoughts on Boeing’s safety records. Binns studied jewelry design at Middlesex Poly. There he showcased his talents in the PX shop in Convent Garden. When he left college, he started working with Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood for their World’s End project. After this stint, he experimented with strech fabrics and manmade fibres as well as "junk" such as scrap metal, broken spectacles, bent forks, and light-bulbs. He found success in Europe, but felt that his work would be fully appreciated in the United States because of his belief that Americans are more open to new ideas. He is now based in New York but his goals still remain the same - "...I want to make people think, to challenge them. That is the function of art." www.tombinnsdesign.com

Roger Vivier - The stye Icon

Talented shoe designer, Roger Vivier designed extravagant, decorated shoes that he described as sculptures. He is credited with the invention of the stiletto spike heel by using a thin rod of steel encased in plastic that was able to support the wearers weight. He was described as the "Fragonard of the shoe" and his shoes as "the Faberge of footwear." Ava Gardner, Queen Elizabeth II and The Beatles were all fans of his shoes.

He designed shoes for Christian Dior between 1953 and 1963. During his time their he created a number of new heel shapes including the comma and the stiletto. Silk, pearl and bead trimmings, lace, paste, appliqué and jewels were all used to decorate his unique shoes.

In the 60s Vivier made silk-satin knee boots, outlined in jewels, and thigh-high evening boots in a black elasticised knit with beads. The most copied shoes of the decade were his Pilgrim pumps with silver buckles

Vivier's shoes are now highly sought after by museums all over the world. His shoes are on display at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Musée du Costume et de la Mode at the Louvre.

Visit at: www.rogervivier.com

Kenneth Jay Lane Jewellery now at Farfallina.net

Elle Magazine has called Kenneth Jay Lane "the hottest costume jewelry designer around," and Aileen Mehle (Suzy) has anointed him as "the most famous American fantasy jewelry designer of the twentieth century." Others call him simply "Jewelry's Living Legend".

Since the 1960's, Kenneth Jay Lane has designed fashion costume jewelry for many of the most celebrated and influential women in the world, including First Ladies Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush; and legendary actors, socialites and royals such as Princess Diana and the Duchess of Windsor. More recently, leading cast members of HBO's Sex in the City have worn Kenneth Jay Lane creations befitting their style-setting wardrobes.


Now you can find the Fall/Winter Kenenth Jay Lane Couture jewellery collection at Farfallna.net.

A must have for this season; We hope you will love them as much as we do!

Felix Rey Handbags now at Farfallina.net

We are please to inform you that a new range of the latest HOT handbags by Felix Rey have been added to our collections, here at farfallina.net.

Felix Rey in a NY based brand, known for their sexy bags and fashionable clutches. They have been loved and adorn the hands of many A-list celebrities from Paris Hilton to Jlo to the Sex & the City girls...and sold in the most prestigious boutiques and department stores around the world!

It's THE must have bag for any fashionable girl.

The Pearl

I thought it might be useful to give you some information about pearls, since we carry a few lines with Majorca & freshwater pearls. So let's start..

Freshwater pearls

Natural freshwater pearls are seldom perfectly round or even nearly round, more often than not they are baroque, slugs, or wings. Freshwater pearls are noted for their wide range of color, they can be found in white, silvery white, pink, salmon, red, copper, bronze, brown, lavender, purple, green, blue, cream, and yellow. Although white is the most common color, the most desirable are the pastel pinks, roses, lavenders, and purples. The different colors are a function of the mussel species, genetics, water quality, and the position of the pearl in the
shell. Generally, pearls assume the color of the shell in which they form. Freshwater pearls occur in mussels for the same reason that saltwater pearls occur in oysters. Foreign material, usually a sharp object or parasite, enters a mussel and cannot be expelled.

Cultured pearls

The birth of a pearl is truly a miraculous event. Unlike gemstones or precious metals that must be mined from the earth, pearls are grown by live oysters far below the surface of the sea. They are born from their mother oysters with a shimmering iridescence, luster and soft inner glow that is unlike any other gem on earth.

A natural pearl begins its life as a foreign object, such as a parasite or piece of sand, that by accident lodges itself in the oyster’s soft inner body where it cannot be expelled. In an effort to ease this irritant, the oyster’s body takes defensive action. The oyster begins to secrete a smooth, hard crystalline substance around the irritant in order to protect itself. This substance is called nacre. As long as the irritant remains within its body, the oyster will continue to secrete nacre around the irritant, layer upon layer. After a few years, the irritant will be totally encased by the silky crystalline coatings. The result — the lovely and lustrous gem called a pearl. Cultured pearls are formed by oysters in almost an identical fashion. The only difference is that man surgically implants the irritant — a small piece of polished shell — in the oyster rather than leaving it to chance, then steps aside to let nature and the oyster create their miracle.

You can find more information about all different types of pearls by visiting: http://www.style.com/trends/classic/081406

Welcome to Farfallina.net fashion blog spot

Let me start by saying a warm welcome to our new fashion blog spot.

We thought that this might be an exiting way to connect with you, so we can both find out more about each other. We want this to be the space for you to post your comments, interests and questions on everything related to fashion.

Whether this will be about designer clothes, collections, jewelry, accessories or plain shopping, this will be the place to chat.

Post your ideas, pictures or questions. And if you need any help to put an outfit together or to accessorize an existing one, just ask! We'll do our best to help you.

Our experience as fashion stylists, can come handy in moments of crisis!