you're the piece of gold that flashes on my soul.

litter, based out of san francisco has the most beautifully battered pieces that i never knew i wanted until now. they have the material to literally adorn a body from head to toe. headpieces, earcuffs, body harnesses and even jewelry for shoes. links and chains seem to be their specialty and that is more than fine with me, since i can't stop admiring each and every piece from the collection. as many items sold out, just as many new items appear. keep a look out...










photos via: littersf.com

Fashion Must-Haves of This Season. Fashion Spring-Summer 2009.

Here come nine most fashionable things of the Summer 2009. Fashionable clothes, shoes and accessories that you MUST have in your wardrobe this summer.

1. Heel-strap sandal booties.
This Fall and Winter we get used to booties. And now in summer neither fashion-conscious people nor designers want to part with them. As a result we have very open booties or very closed sandals. You can wear them on bare feet or with pantyhose. Sandal booties look very sexy and beautiful. Anyway this must-have is a real hit of the catwalks. Look for them in Yves Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Maison Martin Margiela, Paul Smith, Chanel and Alexander McQueen's collections.

Models Chanel and Bottega Veneta

2. Overalls.
This summer overalls will compete with our favorite dresses, all the more so fashion designers prepared for us many variants of the overalls. You can put on black classical overall going to your office, light coloured overall is good for party, short cotton overall is for beach. Interesting models of overalls you can find in Moschino Cheap & Chic, D&G, Missoni and Fendi's collections.

Matthew Williamson, Fendi and D&G's models

3. Stylish separate swimsuit.
Such swimsuits make silhouettes visually more graceful and this makes them very popular! But there is one disadvantage about them - sunburn will be quite fanciful. But designers of such trends as Agent Provocateur, La Perla, Topshop and Marc by Marc Jacobs are absolutely comfortable with that!

Models Melissa Odabash and Topshop

4. Sunglasses Ray-Ban Wayfarer.
Sunglasses Ray-Ban Wayfarer are "HELLO" from 80's. In 80's they were extremely popular in Hollywood. Let's remember "The Blues Brothers" with Daniel Aykroyd and John Belushi or "Rain Man" with Tom Cruise. Today the Ray-Ban sunglasses are favourite accessory of Hollywood celebrities such as Nicole Richie, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Mischa Barton and others.


5. Military style of jackets.
This thing became must-have in spring Fashion Week in Paris. According to streetstyle photos it is the most popular attire there. Duh! This thing underlines a figure very nicely!

3.1 Phillip Lim, Balmain, Topshop

6. Antique style dresses.
In new season ancient Greek goddess is a beauty standard for many designers and modelers. Asymmetric light dresses with complicated drapery are very popular. Versace, Valentino, Elie Saab and Lanvin offer us such chic attires.

Lanvin, Elie Saab, Versace

7. Torn jeans.
This season the condition of the jeans is much more important than its shape. This summer jeans style of 90's is very popular. Small and big holes, long and short. Many holes or just few of them - as you wish. Besides you can make this fashionable thing by yourself! Or you can find it in Balmain, Acne or House of Holland collections.


8. Bright shawls.
Here comes hippie and ethnic style! It keeps make us glad. This accessory will make any boring classical suit positive and summery. It can be tied up as a turban on your head.

Dior, Paul Smith, Missoni.

9. Wide bangles.
Wide bangles are extremely fashionable three summers running. However this season we can see wooden bangles not only plastic ones. Besides, this summer you can wear two or even three wide bangles on one wrist. It is very fashionable!

Plastic bangles Fendi, wooden bangles Bottega Veneta

Fashion Must-Haves of This Season. Fashion Spring-Summer 2009.

Here come nine most fashionable things of the Summer 2009. Fashionable clothes, shoes and accessories that you MUST have in your wardrobe this summer.

1. Heel-strap sandal booties.
This Fall and Winter we get used to booties. And now in summer neither fashion-conscious people nor designers want to part with them. As a result we have very open booties or very closed sandals. You can wear them on bare feet or with pantyhose. Sandal booties look very sexy and beautiful. Anyway this must-have is a real hit of the catwalks. Look for them in Yves Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Maison Martin Margiela, Paul Smith, Chanel and Alexander McQueen's collections.

Models Chanel and Bottega Veneta

2. Overalls.
This summer overalls will compete with our favorite dresses, all the more so fashion designers prepared for us many variants of the overalls. You can put on black classical overall going to your office, light coloured overall is good for party, short cotton overall is for beach. Interesting models of overalls you can find in Moschino Cheap & Chic, D&G, Missoni and Fendi's collections.

Matthew Williamson, Fendi and D&G's models

3. Stylish separate swimsuit.
Such swimsuits make silhouettes visually more graceful and this makes them very popular! But there is one disadvantage about them - sunburn will be quite fanciful. But designers of such trends as Agent Provocateur, La Perla, Topshop and Marc by Marc Jacobs are absolutely comfortable with that!

Models Melissa Odabash and Topshop

4. Sunglasses Ray-Ban Wayfarer.
Sunglasses Ray-Ban Wayfarer are "HELLO" from 80's. In 80's they were extremely popular in Hollywood. Let's remember "The Blues Brothers" with Daniel Aykroyd and John Belushi or "Rain Man" with Tom Cruise. Today the Ray-Ban sunglasses are favourite accessory of Hollywood celebrities such as Nicole Richie, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Mischa Barton and others.


5. Military style of jackets.
This thing became must-have in spring Fashion Week in Paris. According to streetstyle photos it is the most popular attire there. Duh! This thing underlines a figure very nicely!

3.1 Phillip Lim, Balmain, Topshop

6. Antique style dresses.
In new season ancient Greek goddess is a beauty standard for many designers and modelers. Asymmetric light dresses with complicated drapery are very popular. Versace, Valentino, Elie Saab and Lanvin offer us such chic attires.

Lanvin, Elie Saab, Versace

7. Torn jeans.
This season the condition of the jeans is much more important than its shape. This summer jeans style of 90's is very popular. Small and big holes, long and short. Many holes or just few of them - as you wish. Besides you can make this fashionable thing by yourself! Or you can find it in Balmain, Acne or House of Holland collections.


8. Bright shawls.
Here comes hippie and ethnic style! It keeps make us glad. This accessory will make any boring classical suit positive and summery. It can be tied up as a turban on your head.

Dior, Paul Smith, Missoni.

9. Wide bangles.
Wide bangles are extremely fashionable three summers running. However this season we can see wooden bangles not only plastic ones. Besides, this summer you can wear two or even three wide bangles on one wrist. It is very fashionable!

Plastic bangles Fendi, wooden bangles Bottega Veneta

Maseno Project II at Best of Italian - April 23rd

Maseno Project II is a charity fashion tour organized by the famous top model Mimmi Boa that aims to help a RL orphanage in a small village just outside of Maseno in Western Kenya.

In RL the Maseno Project is called the "Nest Rescue Center" (see http://www.nestrescuecenter.org) and is a self-funded community based project. They help support destitue orphaned children, and in special cases--blind, deaf and disabled children. Can you help provide some health care for them. Last year about 400K L$ were raised, this year we have raised more than 450K L$ yet and have a lot of shows scheduled through early May.

The staff of Best of Italian want to help this worthy cause; so, please join us for the Maseno Project Show, and be generous. Wonderful "one of a kind" outfits are to be auctioned . You can help RL children of the Maseno village; while gaining an original specially designed ONE OF A KIND outfit or gown. So mark the calendar for Thursday (April 23rd, 2009, from 13.30 SLT) and come join us, we await you! Don't forget!

To attend the show, tp to: http://slurl.com/secondlife/BEST%20OF%20ITALIAN/75/128/24

More informations can be found on these sites:

http://www.affaritaliani.it/economia/fundraisingnoprofit280309.html

http://www.slnn.it/piazza_italia/maseno_project_ii_al_best_of_italian.html

http://www.slnn.it/piazza_italia/moda_eleganza_e_charity_al_best_of_italian.html

http://lucianapinazzo.blogspot.com/2009/04/maseno-project-ii-al-best-of-italian.html

http://alicemastroianni.blogspot.com/2009/04/beneficienza-maseno-projec-ii-al-best.html

http://laura18streeter.blogspot.com/2009/03/lionskins-releases-zulu-skin-at-300pm.html

http://mamijewell.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/lionskin-at-azul-maseno-project

http://mamijewell.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/maseno-project-fashonshow-auction-today

http://iheartsl.com/2009/02/18/maseno-project-ii

http://aleidarhode.com/2009/02/18/maseno-project-ii

http://slnewspaperextra.blogspot.com/2009/03/maseno-project-in-second-life-helps-in.html

http://slgosee.ning.com/profile/mimmiboa

http://lucianapinazzo.blogspot.com/2009/03/elegance-sl.html

http://lucianapinazzo.blogspot.com/2009/04/parte-anche-litalian-international.html

http://lookelitemodels.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/look-elite-models-for-maseno-garments-of-hope-ii-2009

Third Night Selections ELEGANCE SL

The Best of Italian's Elegance SL Competition Is now at its third and final day of selections on April 20th at 1:30pm SLTime (22:30 Europe). The competition has raised the standards of typical beauty pageants in SL. ELEGANCE SL is not about beauty but about your sense of styling, your taste, your concept of "Elegance" and how you apply it in different circumstances.

The theme for the third night will be "Breakfast at Tiffany's," and with a theme like that you know it will be hot! which will be very entertaining for the crowd. There are 15 contestants who are waiting to blow the lid off and show SL how true elegance, fashion sense, and poise will count heavily in this competition. Only 5 girls per each night of selections are admitted to the finals that will be held on April 24 at 1:30pm SLTime.

The judges are some of the most recognized names in SL who have excelled in each of their various fields. In no particular order here are the judges: Annemarie Perenti (Owner of Best of Italian Style and Piazza Italia), Dahlia Joubert (Model for Evane, NOCTURNE, Made in Italy Fashion, Elegance and Event Manager for Best of Italian Style), Rusch Raymaker (Owner of AVENUE INC which is the umbrella company for AVENUE Models, AVENUE Magazine, AVENUE Models Academy, AVENUE Studio, and Stylissimo), Frolic Mills (Owner of THE BEST OF SL MAGAZINE, THE BEST OF SL BOULEVARD, BOULEVARD MODEL AGENCY, MISS/MR VIRTUAL WORLD ORGANIZATION, and BOSL AWARDS), Cherie Parker (Owner of Exclusive Studios), Suzi Phlox (Co-owner of LeeZu Baxter Designs), Dousa Dragonash (MBC News TV Reporter), Queen Watanabe (Manager of Bogart's Dance Club and Shops), and last but certainly not least Elettra Gausman (Owner of ORAGE Creations). If you are looking for a must see event, this is definitely one you don't want to miss!

For more information regarding BEST OF ITALIAN Style, please contact Annemarie Perenti- Best Of Italian Style Owner, or Dahlia Joubert - Best Of Italian Style Event Manager. Media wanting to interview or setup appointment with Annemarie please contact.

Dates: April 20, 24Time: 1:30pm slt. per eventVenue: BEST OF ITALIAN STYLESlurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/BEST%20OF%20ITALIAN/125/124/25

The Italian International Fashion Tour started

Thursday, April 16th 2009, in the beautiful land of France 3D officially started the Italian International Fashion Tour, the event from an idea of Annemarie Perenti (Best of Italian Style and Piazza Italia owner, above) that promote the italian fashion through Second Life.Agtaope Carter fashion Director of the Bestar and organizer of the shows.

Twenty italian designers present their outfits, shown on the most famous catwalks of SL by 26 international top models, a unique occasion to see the very best of italian style, so don't miss our next appointments:

- April 18th bythe japanese sim of As Know As (where there will be even the famous television SLTV to broadcast the show)
- April 22nd by the spanish sim of Barcelona Plaza Real
- April 29th by the american sim of Bogar's Jazz Club & Shop
- May 6th by the dutch sim of Modelx Dutch Beauty

And to give you an idea of what you could see, just take a look there, our lovely models in the backstage and on the catwalk of France 3D...

Boyish Style Saves Us From Girlish One. Fashion Tendency.

For those who are tired of ruches, frills and flowers, in other words for everybody who is sick of all the feminine style here comes BOYISH LOOK. It is really time to have a break and enjoy some fresh boyish things. But it doesn't mean total turning girls into men. It is just an alternative way to show the true you. Just run away from the girly body for fun, and enjoy the handsome simplicity of boys. The most audacious girls can change their long hair into classic men's short haircut. But you don't have to do that if you dont want to.



Try men's shirt with hot short shorts or skintight pants and suspenders. Do you like what you see? Boyish style is very hot and sexual.

Boyish Style Saves Us From Girlish One. Fashion Tendency.

For those who are tired of ruches, frills and flowers, in other words for everybody who is sick of all the feminine style here comes BOYISH LOOK. It is really time to have a break and enjoy some fresh boyish things. But it doesn't mean total turning girls into men. It is just an alternative way to show the true you. Just run away from the girly body for fun, and enjoy the handsome simplicity of boys. The most audacious girls can change their long hair into classic men's short haircut. But you don't have to do that if you dont want to.



Try men's shirt with hot short shorts or skintight pants and suspenders. Do you like what you see? Boyish style is very hot and sexual.

Glitter Chick. Rock Chick. Fashion Tendency 2009

If you are tired of ruches and frills try to change your style a little bit. There comes Glitter Rock fashion! Daring dresses and shoes decorated with strasses and crystals are very popular Trend. Distinctive rock headdresses this time are decorated non-typically with big rich strasses. You have to be a very brave person to dare to put on such attire, but if you do, people will be enraptured with you! So, don't be affraid and be fashionable woman! This is a good chance to feel yourself a Fashionable Rock Star!

Sparkling clothing and dazzling accessories in slinky, Jem and the Holograms silhouettes scream chic.

Tory Burch, Sequined silk crepe dress

Giuseppe Zanotti for Balmain, Studded boot, price upon request.

Marc Jacobs, Jeweled satin hat, $1,680

Express, Sequined vest, $98

running from the blind is not easy.

tis' a sin to covet, but i can not keep from lusting after these two items. that ring and those boots are exactly what i need for my wardrobe. i am making a promise to myself that when i travel to new york again..i will visit, bess. and i will also buy many beautiful pieces from, lia sophia.

song of the week.

the scottish trio, frightened rabbit once toured with death cab for cutie. if that isn't proof to just how great this band is, then taking a listen might be of more help. the opening lyrics to "head rolls off" is so powerful, but is downplayed later in the video showing a class of young children dancing around. this music video is so amaturely joyful in the best possible way.

ELEGANCE SL - First Night Selections

The Best of Italian's Elegance SL Competition will begin with a bang on April 13th at 1:30pm SLTime (22:30 Europe). The long awaited much buzzed about competition is set and ready to raise the standards of typical beauty pageants in SL.

The theme for the first night will be "Sex And The City," and with a theme like that you know it will be hot! There are 45 contestants who are waiting to blow the lid off and show SL how true elegance, fashion sense, and poise will count heavily in this competition. ELEGANCE SL is about your sense of styling, your taste, your concept of "Elegance" and how you apply it in different circumstances.

Elegance SL will have three days of judging contestants and one grand finale. The three days will include 15 contestants per day the dates are April 13th, 16th, and 20th each will be held at 1:30pm slt. The grand finale, where the winner is chosen, will be April 24th at 1:30pm slt. There will be an assortment of themes per each event date, which will be very entertaining for the crowd.

The judges are some of the most recognized names in SL who have excelled in each of their various fields. In no particular order here are the judges: Annemarie Perenti (Owner of Best of Italian Style and Piazza Italia), Dahlia Joubert (Model for Evane, NOCTURNE, Made in Italy Fashion, Elegance and Event Manager for Best of Italian Style), Rusch Raymaker (Owner of AVENUE INC which is the umbrella company for AVENUE Models, AVENUE Magazine, AVENUE Models Academy, AVENUE Studio, and Stylissimo), Frolic Mills (Owner of THE BEST OF SL MAGAZINE, THE BEST OF SL BOULEVARD, BOULEVARD MODEL AGENCY, MISS/MR VIRTUAL WORLD ORGANIZATION, and BOSL AWARDS), Cherie Parker (Owner of Exclusive Studios), Suzi Phlox (Co-owner of LeeZu Baxter Designs), Dousa Dragonash (MBC News TV Reporter), Queen Watanabe (Manager of Bogart's Dance Club and Shops), and last but certainly not least Elettra Gausman (Owner of ORAGE Creations). If you are looking for a must see event for the month of April, this is definitely one you don't want to miss!

For more information regarding BEST OF ITALIAN Style, please contact Annemarie Perenti- Best Of Italian Style Owner, or Dahlia Joubert - Best Of Italian Style Event Manager. Media wanting to interview or setup appointment with Annemarie please contact.

Dates: April 13,16,20,24
Time: 1:30pm slt. per event
Venue: BEST OF ITALIAN STYLE
Slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/BEST%20OF%20ITALIAN/125/124/25

Ruches and Frills Fashion. Womanly Trends.

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Seems like femininity is in fashion this season. Flippant trimmings of ruches and frills on spring dresses will make a romantic girl from any serious businesswoman. We can see light spring dresses with ruches and frills at Alberta Ferretti, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Moschino's and many other designers' Spring 2009 Fashion collections.

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1. Gray sundress Arden B. 2. Pink sundress Fendi

3. Marc by Marc Jacobs 4. Aquascutum 5. Wet Seal 6. Evening pink dress See By Chloé