Bringing you a wide selection of fresh, new fashion goodness, the Zalando Collection is the brand of choice for anyone wanting to look on-trend this summer! Ready for this season, Europe’s fastest-growing online fashion retailer is upping the game with its own new line of stylish clothes, shoes and accessories. The Zalando design team have once again proved their knack for tapping into the very latest fashion trends, and have successfully reinterpreted the best catwalk looks into clothing for your day-to-day wear. The Zalando Collection comprises three principal themes this season, giving you a wealth of options to choose from. There’s the Sci-Tec theme comprising a range of futuristic-styled sportswear. There’s the New Retro line which revels in mid-century fashion styles for a classy, sophisticated look. And lastly there’s the Modern Tribal range, replete with gorgeous ethnic prints for a provocative but stylish look this season.

The Zalando collection also includes a capsule collection from Berlin-based designer Bernadett Penkov, which is bursting with nude and neon tones, asymmetrical cuts, and daring straight-line forms. The range is truly inspiring, as one might expect from such an experienced designer! Bernadett Penkov is a graduate of the internationally-renowned fashion school ESMOD Berlin, and has enjoyed success with her innovative fashion lines on the catwalks of London and Paris. This is a line not to be missed! All in all, the Zalando Collection comprises almost two hundred items – including almost 70 pairs of shoes – which should be more than enough to satisfy any fashion-hungry customer this season. However, as always, the Zalando online shop is bursting with a whole host of seasonal lines from other designers as well: just take a look through the range of summer dresses in the online shop and indulge your fashion frenzy!

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As you can see they come in a range of different, yet lively, colours, and these are not the only colours they come in. They are also available in a nice milky brown and black colour. They may not look like the most functional underwear on the market, but they certainly appear to combine two winning attributes that a lot of women look for in a quality pair of thongs nowadays; that cool, mature, sexy look, that combines well with a comfortable, feminine feeling.

Alongside this picture, of stylish underwear, is a picture of one of the highly fashionable outfit’s by another major clothes designer: Goldsign. A beautiful white blouse over a beige coloured top and dark dye slightly flared jeans with brown heels to finish the whole outfit off. It really gives off that attitude of Miss Sophisticated!

The last, but not necessarily least, picture is a smashing blazer from By Malene Birger. With a pink tone and black lining, a jacket that would go well with a light white shirt and a short black skirt, pulling together that sophisticated, intelligent, and yet fashionable, look for this year.

With just these small tastes of what is in store for us this year, one can’t simply wait to see what the designers will be looking forward to introducing to us after the Summer term.

Adding a red shirt to a grey suit which consists of a pencil skirt and a blazer will undoubtedly look amazing, especially if little details such as a pair of red shoes are taken into consideration. In theory, it’s all about the colors you choose when putting an outfit together. Another winning combination would be a blue dress assorted with an orange waist belt. These colors look so well together and also add touch of modernism to the classy style work dresses. Choosing to go with prints, for example leopard print blouses, belts, shoes or even bags will also add a personal touch to the everyday look. Just make sure you’re not overdoing it. The blouse and shoes might have similar patterns, but the belt and bag should be neutral and blend in with the overall appearance.

Clothes shouldn’t be the only ones which personalize an outfit. Accessories such as jewelry, watches and maybe even hats can easily transform someone’s look, changing it from dull to smart.  Thinking about ways to mix and match colors and accessories will lead to amazing results. Have you ever tried matching your earrings to your shoes? It might look ten times better than you would expect. Or it might be the opposite situation. The thing is you never know until you try. Work wear for women is one of the hardest things to get right simply because there are so many varieties and options available. You might find lots of suitable combinations and can’t decide which one’s best. Well, the answer might be that they are all good enough for you to wear during work hours.  That’s what makes it so hard to decide.

One good tip is to dig deep in your mom’s closet and find those incredible vintage dresses from the 50’s, 60’s or 70’s. Though women’s workwear from that time may seem somewhat conservative, it is this that also makes them utterly chic. Wearing these outfits to work now, especially combined with some modern flair hair and accessories, will result in a trendy work attire. Also, the vintage 80’s shoulders pads will surely make a difference to your level of authority in the office!

However, it’s the fashion leading celebs that are keeping it alive. Of them all, Jessica Alba comes to mind  first and foremost. She has been spotted in green, pink and yellow. One almost has to wonder if she is not a secret promoter for s jean company, or got a deal on a crate of them. Then again, she looks so fetching in them, maybe its just because they work for her tiny frame, and outgoing personality.

I guess the jokes on us, we thought we’d never get to wear those bright coloured jeans again. Or at the very least by the time the trend came back around we’d never fit into that size again. Alas, the jeans have lived to see not yet another day, but from what we’ve seen at least another full summer. Will fashion wonders never cease?

During the 2012 New York Fashion week she made time to be present for the Ralph Lauren show. Her response to what she viewed makes us confident, if she can, she will be there for the winter runway production. What a match made in heaven, amazing designs on a spectacular muse. Can’t wait to see Wilde in more Ralph Lauren creations, and we bet Lauren can’t either. This is one reason we just can’t get enough of fashion week, no matter what country is hosting. Too bad there are only so many seasons, we could definitely get down with more catwalk excitement.

“Collagen is a protein that gives skin its firmness,” says Lesley Reynolds Khan, of London’s Harley Street Skin Clinic. “But as we age it breaks down and the result is fine lines and wrinkles.”

The skin is made up of three major parts – collagen, elastin and glycosaminoglycans. “Over 80% of the skin is made up of collagen. But collagen doesn’t respond kindly to the ageing process. Our natural supply breaks down and degrades as we get older due to greater exposure to sun damage and general ageing,” says Lesley.

“The look and feel of the skin goes downhill too. The skin is no longer able to develop healthy collagen supplies and what we have left is damaged skin that looks tired and wrinkled.”

However, there are ways to top up your levels of collagen and look younger for longer.

Collagen boosting creams

“Collagen can’t actually be absorbed through the skin as the molecule is too large,” says Lesley. So rather than counting on creams that contain collagen, it’s best to look out for skincare products that help encourage the production of it.

Nurture Skincare’s replenish collagen boosting serum works on this principle, using phytoestrogens from soy bean extract. These mimic natural oestrogen in the body, and so help replenish levels of collagen. It also contains ronacare to help prevent the breakdown of collagen and reduce the depth of those unwanted wrinkles. Apply beneath your usual moisturiser for an anti-ageing hydration boost.

Lesley Reynolds Khan is a skincare professional and beauty expert with more than 20 years’ experience in anti-ageing skin therapy

Thanks to her reign supreme on the HBO special presentation program Sex and the City, an education was laid out for females ready to splurge on themselves. The timing could not have been better, as it was a decade of self-indulgence and pampering to extreme levels. More than any of that, keeping up with the Jones’ was no longer the goal, but instead the aim was to over shadow those enviable neighbours.

Nonetheless, extravagance or not, the cult following of Carrie’s shoe collection, and the designers who produced her foot bling prompted a whole new world for the rest of us. While most of us will never slip on one of Louboutin’s  sparklerific Lady Peep stilletos, we will be showcasing shoe lines that have mimicked the Sheiks of Shoes, those big boys with names we still can’t be certain how to pronounce. Today, excess is not as admirable, but reasonably priced shoes that look like high end ones definitely is.

This appearance of Sandra’s, along with the huge success of Bumble and Bumbles’ ConcenStraight line, says to us that ultra straight hair is back with a vengeance. Thus, get ready to master it prior to those holiday party photos, and the New Year’s party ones too. Straighter the better seems to be the message here.

While you may not have heard of the new Straight line from Bumble and Bumble, you would have in the very near future I am sure if I had not brought it up. They are the recipients of many awards for the line, and it is being touted as the best new high-end hair care product of 2011. I admittedly have not tried the products yet, but as soon as I can get my hands on some, I am in like Flynn.

The critics say this line, which was manufactured with the intention of complimenting their in salon straightening treatment, has exceeded consumer expectations and in addition actually raised the bar for all brands to meet. That right there is why we love a competitive market. Keep up the good work Bumble and Bumble, we love overachievers.

Back in 1950, the starlet married the first of her husbands, Conrad Hilton (yep that Hilton – the original “Nicky”) They were wed in Hollywood, and they were a very attractive couple in their expensive garb and money is no object attitude. However, the silk gown that she walked down the aisle in was a gift from her film studio, MGM. The detail was minimal, but the basque waisted, off the shoulder number was a success of enormous proportions. Having been such a fetching blushing bride, we can see why she repeated the process over and over again. Still, this is the only one of her dresses that makes this list.

Eventually, we see a glimmer of hope to rev our motivation up again, and more often than not, it is found in tried and tested things such as heart rate monitoring. This has been proven to create results in a short amount of time when implemented correctly. Currently, I am working with this method of fitness training in joint with interval workouts that establish my target heart rate, and wondering why I ever moved away from this method.

To be technical, I am keeping up my oxygen level, which is mandatory for the fat I want to eliminate to be burned. This way nothing else gets used up, the fat is basically fueling the workout. To do this for yourself, just maintain your maximum heart rate between sixty and eighty percent while doing your intervals. It is fail proof, and truly easy to follow once you get the hang of it.