What's the easiest way to make a boring outfit interesting and be functional in the fall/winter season? Hats! Anna sui has done a great job at updating the simple stocking cap. The caps feature feathers of different colors and size and beautiful jewels. Every cool girl needs one of these hats for this season. You'll be the coolest girl in the room for the smallest effort.
A great shoe to wear to all the fall events you have planned. It incorporates the embezzled shoe trend of the season. You could wear it bare during the warmer nights of fall or with opaque tights in the winter. 
These pumps look great and comfortable. You could wear them to work or a night out. This season we've seen an update on the traditional pump. This is a great way to look classic but fashion forward. 
Everyone needs a pair of booties this season. It's the perfect way to make an edgy look out of a basic pair of jeans. You can also wear these booties with a dress or skirt for a more dressy look. These booties also have buckles and cut outs on the side to make it out stand out from the other ankle boots you'll see this season. 
A light breeze whipped away the billowing black and white chiffon robes and Arabic headgear, revealing gilded, jewelled armour and crowns, at the Givenchy haute couture collection for autumn/winter 2009/10 in Paris this afternoon.
As two youths played the ‘karkabou’ – nomadic castanets which replicate galloping steeds on cobblestones – the models paraded on a wooden stage built, appropriately enough in a former stables, out in the 15th arrondissement.
Givenchy’s couturier and creative director, the young Italian, Riccardo Tisci – who is currently dressing Madonna for her “Sticky & Sweet” tour – took his inspiration from medieval queens and the robes of North Africa, updated with python, spike-heeled shoe-boots which would not last a second in the sands of the Sahara, and plastic embellishments.
The models were barefaced, their slicked-back hair semi-veiled in chiffon hoods and snoods which rested atop spiky, golden coronets. Their arms were encircled with gilded cuffs, their hands bristling with metal, knuckle-duster-rings.
The silhouette spoke of a sharply-tailored warrior-women or a more sensual harem-style seductress, who quite possibly had a dagger concealed in the folds of her sarouel-trousers or jet-jewelled belt.
The largely monochromatic palette was punctuated with dramatic gowns and trousersuits in a flesh-tone silk crepe, emblazoned with red and green spikes, cones and studs.
Folded peplums and pannier-effects on trousers and gowns echoed the olde-worlde nature of the silhouettes, in stark contrast to the modernist embellishments in cellophane.
The couturier, Christian Lacroix, fresh from his own emotion-charged showing, and the new designer at Emilio Pucci, Peter Dundas, were among the front-row guests.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/paris-haute-couture-week/5770688/Paris-Haute-Couture-Givenchy-by-Riccardo-Tisci-aw-0910-collection.html>Alexander, Hilary. July, 2009.
I love seeing couture shows, in comparison to the ready-to-wear shows, how the inspiration is much more tangible and obvious down to the runway set.
De Rigo Vision and French couture fashion and ready-towear fashion label Givenchy have announced the early renewal of the worldwide licence for the design, production and distribution of Givenchy eyewear.The partnership is now set to last until 2015 and continues a 10-year relationship between the two companies. Fabrizio Malverdi, president of Givenchy, said of the agreement: The contract renewal of an already successful collaboration between Givenchy and De Rigo will focus on the strategy for a highly designed and qualitative product.
"De Rigo seals Givenchy deal." Optician 238.6211 (2009): 8. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2009.
Can't wait to see Givenchy eyewear next to Versace and Prada at Lenscrafters.
IN the five years since he assumed the position of Givenchy's artistic director, Riccardo Tisci has become one of Paris's most influential designers, initiating a brand of hard-core chic that entails lots of metal and no eyebrows. (Hey, it's a look.) Now he's bringing back some of the house's best hits, with a small collection of iconic pieces, at lower prices.
The premier edition, which just arrived in stores, is based around the Bettina, a romantic white blouse designed by Hubert de Givenchy in 1952, and studs, which Mr. Tisci introduced in his breakthrough fall 2007 collection and hasn't yet grown tired of. For this collection, he has adorned pants, blouses, jackets, a dress and handbags in the stuff.
''Studs are emblematic for me!'' he effused in an e-mail message. ''They're rich and decorative, but with a slightly 'bad girl' edge. I feel they will always be a part of my signature.''
Sleeveless white
ruffled lace blouse, $840; black stretch
jersey leggings, $470; studded charmeuse blouse, $875; studded cotton gabardine
trousers, $860; all at Bergdorf Goodman
NewYorkTimes. An Encore of Lace and Studs. Nelson, Karen. Section ST; Column 0; Style Desk; Pg. 3.Nov 1, 2009
I love that he's paying homage to Hubert's Givenchy at cheaper price point. Although generally speaking, it's not that cheap at all.
Justin Timberlake is bringing sexy back -- again -- this time as the face for PLAY, Givenchy's new men's fragrance.
Available in both PLAY and PLAY Intense, some of the scents include top notes of bergamot and mandarin orange, middle notes of amyris wood, black pepper and coffee flower and bottom notes of vetiver and patchouli.
The ad campaign, photographed by Tom Munro, is inspired by Timberlake's life.
Find behind-the-scenes footage from the shoot here.
Prices range from $53 - $76 for the eau de toilette spray. PLAY is available at Macy's, Nordstrom, Dillard'sand Sephora.
Timberlake says he wears the scent, but tells People's StyleWatch: "The greatest scents in the world are pheromones. Just the actual smell of a person's skin."
JT is far from a newbie when it comes to appearing in ads. He's been in campaigns for Pepsi, McDonald'sand his denim line William Rast
Although I think Justin Timberlake is the sort of man you want to be the face of your fragrance line, I dont' think he really fits givenchy.
