What is Perfume

What is perfume? Perfume is made from either natural ingredients like the essential oils of plants or the musk of animals, spices and man made chemicals. The mixture of these ingredients are blended with an sd alcohol (which is a very pure form of alcohol) or oil.

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Shopping tip 101 Shopping tip One of the best ways to stay focused while shopping is to take a picture with you out of one of your favorite magazines. If you take an image with you, not only will it help you and a sales staff to pull together the look you want, but it will also help you stay focused on what you came to the store for in the first place as well as save money.
Source your magazines-meaning pull out the information that inspires you, put it in a binder and recycle the rest. I started doing this when I was in college and it has been a lot of fun. It also saves time and space.

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I love womens shoes. I have no idea why I love them as much as I do. It is a true obsession.

All the girls in my family seemed to be afflicted with it, thought some have it more then others.

I thought for the longest it was some weird little oddity that only my family had.

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A.F. Vandevorst	Ann Demeulemeester	Rick Owens

Goth Fashion Designer

A.F. Vandevorst

Husband and wife team, An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx have designed clothing since 1991. They started their company in 1998.

The A.F. Vandevorst's gothic fashion is a women’s ready to wear line . Known for their dualism style of soft layers and more structures deconstructed pieces.

Shirts and restyling of lingerie is fairly constant in the collections.

1991: An and Filip Graduated at the Fashion School of the Royal Academy of fine Arts Antwerp.

1991-1997: Filip is a freelance designer and stylist for magazine and TV. shows.

1998: They start their A.F. Vandevorst line and show in Paris.

1999-2006 they were busy with exhibitions’ for a few Museums: New York, London and Antwerp, create costumes for the plays “Alice in Bed” “Vec Markopoulos”, premiered their shoe line in Barcelona and launched their lingerie collection.

2008 celebrated their 10th anniversary. A F Vandevorst

Fashion Designer Ann Demeulemeester

Tailored asymmetrical, draped, unstructured and definately a dark goth fashion , all come to mind when I think of Ann Demeulemeester clothing.

Ann Demeulemeester is a graduate from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1981. She is associated with what is dubbed as the “Antwerp Six” ( a group of Belgium designers, Dries van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs , Dirk van Saene and Marina Yee ) these five other designers from Antwerp hoping to make it big in the fashion design world.

She was born in Belgium in 1958. She designed her first collection in 1988 1992 introduced her shoes and accessories at her first showing in Paris . 1996 she introduce her menswear collection alongside her women’s collection in Paris.

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Fashion Designer Rick Owens

Was born in 1962 in Porterville, California. He studied pattern making at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. He worked for various companies making sportswear until 1994, when he started his own label sold exclusively by Charles Gallay.

In 2001 he moved to Italy and signed with a company that produces his designs. His first scheduled show was to be a spring show in New York for the 2002 season, but it was cancelled after the terrorist attacks on September 11th. His first actual show was then a fall show in February 2002. He is known for his ultra-urban, raw edge attitude. He combines leather, asymmetrical zippers, stretch gauze tops and floating knit sweaters. The guy is the epitome of coolness.

He won the Perry Ellis Emerging Talent Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2002. In 2007, he was awarded a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award A F Vandevorst-urban style