Fashion Salad

A great number of overseas orders of craftwork and gifts have been transferred to China, mainly from the EU and USA merchandise industry, multinational chain supermarkets, and professional distributors, etc.  Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and the World Expo Shanghai 2010 will also bring great business opportunities to the craftwork and gifts industry.

Popular Gift Ideas (Buying Trends)
Promotion Gifts - Complement Traditional Marketing Methods

The value of promotional gifts in today’s competitive marketplace can’t be underestimated. Many businesses nowadays turn to promotional gifts to help them enhance their brand awareness, improve customer loyalty and increase sales. Ideas for choice: Mug; Towel and so on.

Holiday Gift: Nurture Your Relationship
Holiday occasions or a special day for an individual bring us together, creating a chance for our relationships to grow. Gift giving in this case is indispensable to enhance the feelings or atmosphere. Personalized and engraved unique gifts especially make distinguished and memorable presents.
Ideas for choice: Sunglass; Watch and so on.

Fashion Jewelry Gifts - a Timeless Favorite
Since ancient times, jewelry Necklace has been one of the most popular gifts to give and to receive, and it still ranks among the top gifts as a universal, particularly pearls and birthstones. Almost everyone appreciates a birthstone, and it shows that you actually put some thought into the gift. Many people believe that wearing their birthstone protects them and brings them good luck.

Yiwu City: a Terrific Destination for Your Gift-purchasing Plan in China
China Yiwu is the largest mart for petty commodities. Currently, Yiwu has the largest wholesaling market around the world. In Yiwu gift market, you are surrounded by lots of gift ideas such as Oil Painting, Scarf.

Notable Domestic and International Gift Fairs
International Gifts & Home Decor Trade Fair
The largest fair of its kind in East China, was held in Shanghai every year, which can both serve the industry and add luster to life, creating a real buzz in Shanghai Mart.

Shenzhen International Toys & Gifts Fair

Sands Expo Center — The ASD/AMD Las Vegas Gift Expo

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Lingerie Parties have become very popular again. At one time, people imagined that lingerie parties were wild events, held only at the playboy mansion or at a swingers club. But there are many flavors of lingerie parties from very tame to very wild. A lingerie party can be an event that even your mother can attend.

One way to hold a lingerie party is to invite a representative from a lingerie boutique to present their products to you and your friends. You simply organize your friends and the boutique representative will organize the rest. While you as the hostess will usually get a free gift or a discount on your lingerie purchase, your friends will likely be expected to buy lingerie. This may not be the best event if your friends are students on a low budget. But this kind of lingerie party is relatively tame.

Another type of lingerie party is where you and your friends organize the event and everyone either brings their favorite lingerie to show off or take turns modeling the lingerie for the group. This is obviously only going to be successful if you and your friends are not very shy and feel comfortable performing for the crowd.

Still another option, if you have the budget for it, is to hire some models to do a lingerie fashion show for the group. It does not have to be very expensive to hire models, depending on where you live. There are many amateur models that would be available for such work for $20-$30/hour. However, a word of caution, freelance amateur models can be unreliable. It would be a pity to have your party ruined because the model you hired does not show up. If you go this route, make sure you have signed a contract in advance with stiff penalties if the model does not arrive.

Whichever type of lingerie party you organize make sure you have plenty of games, prizes and snacks in the lingerie theme. There are many resources available where you can get information about how to organize a lingerie party, including this website appropriately named Lingerie Party.

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We’ve found some videos of buyer Rich Morris as he takes you to NYC & talks with representatives from different designer lines carried at his store.

Get tips from Frankeys.com on what to wear and how to dress yourself in today’s hottest trends!  To learn how to  brush up on your style with the lastest fashions they have a Denim 101 section on skinny leg jeans & information on popular denim lines like Diesel, 7 for all mankind, Earnest Sewn, etc.

A Prayer before you go shopping……..
 
Armani 
Who art in Holts
Hallowed be thy shoes
Thy Prada come
Thy shopping done
On Bloor Street
As it is in Paris
Give us this day, our Visa Gold
And forgive us our balance
As we forgive those who charge us interest
Lead us not into Wal-Mart
And deliver us from Sears
For thine is the Chanel
The Gaultier, and the Versace,
For Dolce and Gabbana………..Amex.

How cool is this?!  Like.com is the first true visual search engine, where the contents of photos are used to search and retrieve similar items. Now you just nodded and went ah-ha, neat, but let me explain what that means in Shop-inese. It means you can take a picture of that Mischa Barton wearing cool earrings, run an image query and whallah! Like.com will return results showing similar earrings.

Or to the opposite end of that - if you enter a text query, like “brown chunky heel boots,” Like.com will convert that query and look for related image results.

The site launched yesterday returns results only for shoes, jewelry, hand bags and clothing, but more categories are coming soon.

I know it’s a bit geeky for fashion, but think of all the pretty things you can now find. And best of all Like.com is offering free shipping to the first 10,000 fashionistas.

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