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For those who missed the news yesterday, the retail chain H&M has revealed who is going to be the next designer collaborating with them and the designer is...(drum rolls) VERSACE!!!
Versace means glamour,excess,luxury!
I'm so exited! I alredy made room in my wardrobe! Can you believe the mass will have the chance to own a piece of history of fashion! It's a girl dream came true! I'm virtually already standing in the line outside the shop! This news are going to effect my sale expenses! I have to save for a Versace!
The collection will be in shops the 17th of November. There will be 40 pieces in the woman collection and 20 for menswear plus there will be a collection for home like bed sheets and pillows!
Donatella Versace is thinking big and she will patner with H&M even for a spring 2012 collection that will be available online only for those countries where H&M ships to the 19th of January (not Italy at the moment  H&M must fix this asap!).

In her new video Beyonce wears a fantastic Jean Paul Gaultier dress. In my opinion it would make an amazing swimsuit! Certainly not suitable to have a sunbath, a onepieces like that is definitely stylish. Here's some swimsuits with cut out details i've found to obtain a similar look! The DSquared2 one is the very beautiful yet the most expensive;you can buy it at shopbop.com but we can get the Asos one for as little as £10 or the H&M version at £14.99.
After choosing a swimsuit like that the only problem left is the flat tummy needed to wear it!
All of a sudden i want to workout more! :P
And you?Are you ready to hit the beach?


Nel suo nuovo video Beyonce indossa un incredibile vestito firmato Jean Paul Gaultier. Non credete che sarebbe un fantastico costume da bagno? Ecco una piccola lista di costumi che ho trovato per ottenere un look simile a quello di Beyonce. La proposta DSquared2 è sicuramente molto appariscente ma anche la più costosa raggiungendo un prezzo di $900, è disponibile su shopbop.com. Non preoccupatevi possiamo sempre acquistare il costume Asos per sole dieci sterline o quello firmato H&M per appena £15.
Rimane solo il problema della pancia piatta,indispensabile per indossare al meglio questi costumi!
Improvvisamente ho voglia di allenarmi di più! :P
E Voi? Siete pronti per la prova costume?

From now on Matter Of Style will be in italian too to conquer the heart of my own country readers too. First attempt to make the Lanvin at H&M necklace available in pink and in red.
This necklace is made with opaque beads and stamped pieces we don't have.
When i first saw the necklace i tought it was a little bit eccessive, the bold colors make it look a little naive and childish. I thought: how cute if it was opaque white and i discovered that these necklace are copies of Lanvin necklaces that were in origin white.

As promised i took today some pictures of details of lanvin dresses.
The first impression is that the fabrics used are different compared with the usual h&m ones.
They are all synthetic.
I'll talk about the pieces i've bought first.

• The pink ruffle dress.

The fabric used look like satin but it's not shiny.
Hems are all unfinished but they put a rigid ribbon in the borders. There is a small black ribbon belt attached to the dress.
The ruffle part has borders exposed in the skirt.
These dresses in my opinion fit bigger than usual,i would say a size bigger.

As you may have noticed i haven't blogged yesterday because i was out on a shopping mission:lanvin at h&m. It wasn't for me of course was for the chronicle...ehm....no one bealives that! I hit the city of Rome that was one of the selected one, of course is the capital!
I have chosen the shopping center instead of the city centre because i tought that women couldn't sleep overnight outside of a closed parking, i was wrong. They slept there and they had the bracelets distributed at 6 am in the morning. Ouch!
When i arrived (early but not enought!!)no bracelets were left. A big group of women came out of h&m with lanvin bags even if all other shops in the mall were closed.There were bouncers everywhere in the shop keeping people calm like there was Lady Gaga in the fenced area. The lanvin area was blocked off all sorrunded by women of all ages and the discontent could be felt. The H&M staff was constantly picking dresses from shelfs and giving them to people with that lucky bracelet while dissasembling shelfs.These women inside the box were waving dresses in front of the nose of those outside the cage.The exposition was dramatically decreasing. I asked if the stock was low and at 10 in the morning almost everything was gone and on a big poster i read:having the bracelet does not guarrantee the purchase.
I wanted to take home the zebra trench so i waited until the gateway was opened. What happened later i call it sparta. It was a battle really. All the women invated the fenced area like crazy, i had my hand stracthed while i picked the trench and missed to take the pink necklace. I grabbed a pair of shoes and then i got an idea:i'm going to exchange them with something else! I was there with my sister and cousin and we couln't leave without anything!
All the deluded women with nothing in hand guarded the empty shelf waiting if someone changed idea and left something.
I found myself pulling a hanger from one side and another girl pulling the other side, i left those hangers to maintain some dignity. A girl said me threateningly in roman:"Do you know that i've been here for 2 hours?" that sounds like this "Ah bella, io sto qua da du ore"
I thought: 2 hours? Lady i've been here since forever now
The following 2 and half hours were implied in speaking with other womens,in exchanging a dress with another until we got what we wanted, we managed to succeed!
When i saw the queue at first i tought we could not buy anything.
Finally we got to the cash desk, the cashier told me the jimmy choo's collection was even more messy and crowded, a old lady touching my zebra trench asked if i was buying it even if i was at the cash. We made that harmful payment but we were happy. With every dress we received a hanger, a garment cover and the paper bag.
We got a slice of pizza at the end, we totally forgot to have lunch!
Next i'm going to tell you everything about dresses, fabric quality, style fitting, i'll take some pics of my buys and then i'll tell you how to buy lanvin if you couldn't finding for you some low cost ebay listings.Stay tuned!

I was one of the lucky bloggers who could wear the Lanvin collection before the others, touch the fabrics, take the pictures, have them as a gift, neither Madonna or Jlo could have them in advance.
Ah ah I'm kidding. It's not true. We're not one of those fortunates but we do can wear Lanvin in advance, yes there's a way. Do it ourselves!
Why? Because it's fun! Because we can do it our way!Because it will fit perfectly!
My chosen dress from Lanvin collection is the black little black dress decorated with all those loops


This one!
Ok my passion for fashion is eating me and i want to get involved in the process of dress making. I want choose the fabrics, i want to draw patterns, i want to learn as much as i can the way i like it more, discovering step by step, resolving one problem at the time when a question arises. Call me crazy i can't stop myself.
So after a week searching for the fabric (you can find every patterned fabric you like but when you need black no one has it!) i managed to get my hands on a 1.5 meters of black wool a little acrylic in it that gives just a little bit of stretch.
I came home and it was time for pattern making.
This is a classic lbd sleeveless, this basic dress worked fine! It has 4 seams that define waist line.