Bali Urutan ke 32 Kota Mode Dunia

New York kembali menduduki posisi teratas di peta mode dunia. Hal itu berdasarkan laporan terbaru Global Language Monitor (GLM), lembaga survei independen, yang meriset mengenai kota-kota mode dunia melalui media cetak, elektronik, juga internet. Selanjutnya, di urutan kedua ditempati Hong Kong, serta Bali yang berada di urutan ke-32 sebagai kota mode utama dunia.

Bekka Payack, koresponden mode untuk GLM Manhattan, mengatakan, naiknya kota-kota mode Asia ke peta mode dunia menunjukkan industri mode Asia semakin berkembang.

“Mode tidak lagi milik Eropa dan Amerika, melainkan sudah menjadi bahasa global yang ditemukan di hampir setiap kota utama dunia,“ papar Payack. Sementara, untuk kembalinya New York ke posisi puncak setelah pada 2009 tergeser oleh Milan, Payack menilai, itu karena kesuksesan Fashion Night Out sebagai promosi internasional New York Fashion Week.

Di Asia, kota-kota mode terbaik versi GLM mencakup Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Singapura, Bangkok, dan Seoul yang baru mendapat predikat fashion capital. Payack menyebutkan, Hong Kong dan Tokyo terutama, telah membuktikan diri menjadi pemimpin mode Asia lewat pekan mode enam bulanan. Dua kota tersebut menjadi kiblat tren bagi kota-kota mode Asia lain, sekaligus menarik perhatian pelaku mode internasional.

Mini Dress - A Popular Style With a History

The mini dress comes in and out of style. The first fashion brush with this style was during the nineteen twenties when flappers made the first of the short dresses really popular. Although they showed up on the scenes in the nineteen twenties they did not quite reach the heights that they did in the nineteen sixties.

There are some styles that are favored above other styles. The baby doll dress is considered one of the favored styles. The first time these styles made the scene was in the nineteen sixties they were worn primarily in floral patterns and psychedelic patterns. These styles and patterns are back in style again.

Shirt dresses that are short are also one of the favored styles. They are worn in all types of settings. They can be dressed down with a pair of sandals or dressed up with a pair of high heels.

There is a full range of materials to choose from and many different ways this types of dresses can be worn. Today a favored way to wear this type of dress is with a pair of boots.

You can find the perfect mini dress online. Shopping online is not only convenient but it is also a great way to compare styles and prices. You can shop any time of the day or night and will open yourself up to a world of options. You can search for the style that you are interested in and compare prices quite easily.

If shopping online is not an option than you can easily find some in local shops, however your options will be limited.

The cost of a mini dress is usually quite reasonable. The largest deciding factor in the price will be whether there is a designer label attached to the dress or not. Some designer types will be quite expensive but there are plenty of off the rack selections will be very affordable. Expect to spend anywhere from twenty dollars to one thousand dollars.

Retro Style

Retro is a culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, that has since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. The use of "retro" style iconography and imagery interjected into post-modern art, advertising, mass media, etc.

Today (in the 2010s); retro is used as an adjective to refer to styles of the 1970s and 1980s.

Origin

The word "retro" derives from the Latin prefix retro, meaning "backwards" or "in past times" – particularly as seen in the words retrograde, implying a movement toward the past instead of a progress toward the future, and retrospective, referring to a nostalgic (or critical) eye toward the past.

In the postwar period, it increased in usage with the appearance of the word retrorocket (short for "retrograde rocket", a rocket generating thrust in a direction opposite to that of a spacecraft's orbital motion) used by the American space program in the 1960s. In France, the word rétro, an abbreviation for rétrospectif gained cultural currency with reevaluations of Charles de Gaulle and France’s role in World War II. The French mode rétro of the 1970s reappraised in film and novels the conduct of French civilians during the Nazi occupation. The term rétro was soon applied to nostalgic French fashions that recalled the same period.

Shortly thereafter it was introduced into English by the fashion and culture press, where it suggests a rather cynical revival of older but relatively recent fashions. (Elizabeth E. Guffey, Retro: The Culture of Revival, pp. 9–22). In Simulacra and Simulation, French theorist Jean Baudrillard describes "retro" as a demythologization of the past, distancing the present from the big ideas that drove the “modern” age.