Nigeria Celebrated its Fashion Week
16 Mar 2012

Fashion with African influence has been seen for a long while now, ranging from Yves St. Laurent collections in the 1960s to Proenza Schouler and Derek Lam collections for the Spring 2012 season.  But now African designers are using more and more their origins and international trends to attract the attention in the worldwide fashion industry.

The Fashion Week organized by the ARISE magazine in Lagos turned its second year with a special emphasis in African designers and those who has been inspired by Africa. Seventy seven designers offered several items that combined traditional cloths with international aesthetic styles; they transformed ordinary things into elegant items and were able to show a small sample of haute couture at a hotel transmuted into a fashion paradise isolated from the noise of Lagos, which certainly is a megacity.

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Jimmy Choo: Spring/Summer 2012 Collection [Pictures]
13 Mar 2012

Jimmy Choo: Spring/Summer 2012 collection. Usually, it’s normal to see the spectacular high-heel shoes and platform shoes of the British high fashion house Jimmy Choo, but in their Spring/Summer 2012 collection inspired by Iris Apfel’s inimitable style, they offer us a series of flat sandals with a totally ethnical touch that, at least, will be very appreciated by some women. But, don’t worry, in case you want to grow some inches with your Jimmy Choo shoes, you also have items with platform and heel that keep the ethnical style that is used in this wonderful collection for the next Summer.

Probably you have already seen the most iconic shoes of the fashion house Jimmy Choo in past collections; sure, maybe they are not the most conventional shoes in the world, but it doesn’t matter: You really want to wear a pair of those shoes… at lest one pair. Well, when you discover new creations of their Spring/Summer 2012 collection inspired by Iris Apfel -the nonagenarian fashion icon-, you will want your feet become covered and adorned with creations of this fashion house this Summer.

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French Designer Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Handbags – Summer 2012 Collection
11 Mar 2012

Well-known French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, who is a frequent fashion provider for celebrities such as Madonna and Kylie Minogue -and even he has made some costumes for Marilyn Manson-, has launched his handbags collection for the Summer 2012 season.

It’s not a very extensive collection but, with few products, it revives the most fashionable features of the 1950s with vivid colors that remind us of those good moments at a beach. Also, the collection includes some warm colors -which are great for the hottest season of the year- and the classic and always-in-fashion navy style. With that style, the designer has recently created clothing designs for both men and women, as well as several designs for accessories. In particular, in this handbags collection we are going to find a beautiful and traditional white handbag with blue stripes; however, there also some navy items with black stripes.

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The Most Expensive Collection of Italian Handbags in 2012
10 Mar 2012

Some days ago, Jill Milan, the brand of luxury accessories, presented their new collection for the Spring/Summer 2012 season in the city of San Francisco. It’s a collection full of glamour with the most luxurious products and exquisite details.

The collection includes evening handbags,  handbags for day wear, handbags for business women, and travel handbags. One of the co-founders of this successful company explained that, with this new collection, Jill Milan wants to include new colors and products targeted to those women who use quality handbags for the office and travelling. Usually, Jill Milan handbags have a lot of pockets inside of them to keep all things well-arranged in a safe way; this manner, you also will be able to pick your things easily. For example: Pockets for pens, keys, and cell phones.

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Spring Handle Bags 2012
6 Mar 2012

Never say never, especially with regard to fashion. If two years ago someone would have told that women were going to have their wardrobes full of  handle bags, it could make some people roar with laughter. Some women think that they are the most uncomfortable thing in the world in the first place. After all, why would you want to carry a bag that will occupy your hands all the time? And don’t mention thoses that come with zippers: Seriously, are they bags or dressing cases? And what about those with a large size? They look like a cover for a laptop!

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10 Trends for the Spring 2012 season
2 Mar 2012

With the arrive of good weather, it’s also time to renovate our wardrobe with new proposals for this Spring. And, as each season, what we saw a few months ago -on international runways-, is available now in a low cost version to be suitable for all of us, so we can wear looks following the latest trends. We are going to show you in advance what you definitely need to have in your wardrobe for next months:

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Spring Trends: Must-have looks
28 Feb 2012

Style manual to survive during the Spring season.

The Spring season is more and more close and, with new collections hitting the stores, it’s time to start to buy the items we will wear.

Fashion calendars are running at full steam. Fashion weeks in Madrid, New York, London, Milan, among others, allow us to see trends for next Winter in advance, but wait! It’s only February: Spring is starting next month… and next Winter is far far away, right? Here at NewClothing.CO, we want to add a touch of warmness so you can think in those beautiful days ahead and prepare your wardrobe by recalling the Spring-Summer 2012 trends that were showed on runways during past fashion shows… trends that will be “must-haves”; trends that have been included in almost every single fashion collection. Do you want to know them?

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Oscar de la Renta to start line of kid’s fashion for Spring 2012 season
26 Feb 2012

Oscar de la Renta to start a line of kid’s fashion for Spring 2012 season. The Dominican designer will become another of the important fashion creators who are going to design kid’s collections. The lines will be targeted to both boys and girls with ages between 18 months and 14 years. At the same time, Oscar will have the help of Catherine Monteiro de Barros to design clothing pieces for the collection. Do you want to know a little more about this?

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Spring-Summer 2012 Trends: Tangerine Tango is hot
24 Feb 2012

Once upon a time a color named Tangerine Tango. It was born as orange, but the Pantone gurus decided that “orange” was a very ordinary name for a fashionable color and they renamed it as Tangerine Tango.  With that name -which seems a name for a spy during the Cold War-, this beautiful color would be a celebrity in 2012…

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