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Calvin Klein lingerie is lovely and it's been available in this country for some time. But equally covetable are clothing and accessories from other branches of the worldwide CK empire. The jeans, the bags, the jewellery and other accessories all bear the signature sleek and classy style of the original collections. And they are now available in the new Calvin Klein store, just opened at 25 High St in Auckland. Besides all of this summer's clothing, the Calvin Klein range for next season - winter 07 - will also start slowly sneaking on to shelves here.
Telly goes stylish
Tonight at 8pm dedicated followers of fashion will be fiddling with their aerials and tuning into independent telly station Alt TV. That's when New Zealand's first television show devoted to fashion, style and beauty, and fronted by model Anna Fitzpatrick, will be on. The plan is to go behind the scenes of the local industry as well as report on glam international happenings. Tomorrow night's offerings include coverage of the opening of the Made and Runway boutiques as well as a bout of street-style spotting. Fashionably inspiring music videos will play throughout.
Cool glamour
It's cool, it's bling and it should be making an appearance at a beach near you shortly. Designers of the latest range of resortwear to be produced for the New Zealand market, Annamae Marshall and Catherine Sandelin, like to call it alternative glamour. "We've put a lot of thought into the designs," Marshall explains, "and we wanted it to be glamorous and resort-y but we didn't just want to do a whole lot of ethnic-style kaftans."
Adorably named Lily & Ming, the collection includes such bathing beauties as leopard-print bikinis with Dolce & Gabbana-style red sequinned flowers on them, black jandals with a diamante frosting, gold cowboy hats and gold beach bags. Prices are up to $169, and the range is currently being sold only by Marshall and Sandelin themselves. For a piece of this holidaymaking action, email info@lilyandming.com or call 021 996698.
Without sin
Original Skin is a relatively new organic skincare range created locally by aromatherapist and former model Keith Harvey. Viva provided some guinea pigs for this range and the growing legion of dedicated fans of natural skincare out there will be happy to know that the collection - with soothing-sounding ingredients like organic manuka honey, Bulgarian rose otto, organic rosehip and calendula - slots in nicely somewhere between the rich and very nourishing Trilogy range, and the somewhat less delicate but very efficacious Living Nature products.
Hitting the perfect middle note, Original Skin products, which start around $50 and go up to $90, are available only online but will be sold in selected chemists next year.
