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Getting ready for summer is exciting – it gives you a chance to start bringing some fun new items into your wardrobe. But hitting the beach isn’t just about bikinis. To really add flair to your look and stand out, you’ll want to add some jewelry to the mix. One great place to get ideas for good jewelry pieces for the summer is the Sports Illustrated 2011 Swimsuit Edition. Here are some of the best pieces featured this year – these are excellent ingredients for an eye-catching look this summer.

Ettika Braided Satin Cord Bracelet

Ettika’s braided satin cord bracelets are excellent for matching with brightly colored clothes or bikinis, making them perfect for summer time. The neon multicolored bracelets help you create an overall fun and spontaneous style. These bracelets are excellent for drawing attention without being overstated. You can also choose the charm that best suits your personality – this makes the bracelets a great talking point when people comment on them. Charms include crosses, hearts, skulls, feathers and wishbones, giving the bracelets a great versatility of meaning depending on the choice you make.

Dogeared 100 Good Wishes Necklace

If you’re planning to spend as much time as possible on the beach this summer, a 100 Good Wishes necklace makes the perfect statement. Dogeared jewelry is down to earth and hand made with a natural feel that works well for a beach lover. The necklace consists of 100 little beads on a thin chain, each representing a wish. This is appropriate both as a gift to yourself, to allow your summer to bring all the positive experiences you hope for. It also works well as a gift to a close friend. It’s a great way of expressing to someone that you appreciate them and want the best for them in life.

Summer is a time for personal growth and development – it’s a time to party, meet new people and move forward in life while enjoying yourself. This is the positive, life-affirming attitude reflected in the 100 Good Wishes necklace.

Dogeared Not-to-Worry Wood Bead Bracelets

These simple and elegant bracelets are perfect for stacking and are ideal if you like heavier, thicker bracelets. There are a handful of colors to choose from, so you can combine them as you like to mix and match with your wardrobe. Like the 100 Good Wishes necklace, the not-to-worry wood bead bracelets are all about giving off an aura of positivity, fun and love.

If you take a “don’t worry, be happy” approach to summer and to life in general, a not-to-worry bead bracelets is an essential jewelry item to express your personality and attitude. While other people are sweating the small things in life, your bracelets will remind you not to take anything too seriously and to take any problems that may arise in your stride. Like the 100 Good Wishes necklace, stacked bead bracelets are also a great look for the beach.

Expressing Your Summer Personality

Jewelry can say a lot about you, even more so than clothes in some cases. Every piece of jewelry has a meaning or a story behind it. People often overlook the role jewelry can play in meeting new people – often it’s jewelry that catches a stranger’s eye and sparks a conversation that can lead to a new friendship or summer romance.

The featuring of these jewelry pieces in such a huge publication as Sports Illustrated shows that understated, handmade jewelry is the way to go this season. Get your hands on your own Ettika jewelry pieces from ZeeBerry today.

Cartier established their business on 1847 in France. Cartier glasses are very popular brand of sun glasses and are often hard to find on sale. At initially Cartier was started with their luxury watch and jewelry. Cartier is also famous in manufacturing leather goods, accessories and fragrance. After some years they entered in to the making the spectacles in 1968. These spectacles called as Cartier sunglasses and Cartier eye glasses. They are a few of the most expensive designer glasses in town ever. As their glasses are distinctively design and it can never find a similarity between two different pieces of the glasses. These glasses are normally looks like a rectangular or butterfly shapes. Many retail stores carry Cartier glasses but hardly ever put them on sale due to the high demand.

Cartier eyeglasses have recently been creating waves in the market with their wide range of designs for both men as well as women. The Cartier sunglasses are popular among men as well as women. They are the perfect combination of function and superior style. The Cartier sunglasses are designed to perfection, they have very stylish looks but at the same time they are not whacky and very loud.

Why the Cartier glasses are very popular in the world wide? These glasses are well known spectacles in globally. If you wear these glasses, you will be looking a professional man in the society. Why should a store lower the price on a product when it is already selling well at it is present price. These spectacles are very reasonable prices to the consumers. And also you will never get any difficulty problems with these glasses. In competitive market many other glasses are introduced. Why the consumers are opting only Cartier glasses? These type of questions are normally comes into the human being mind. When a retail store becomes loss with the glasses, at this situation the retailer should give the discounts to consumers. Even if it would good for the customer, auspiciously for customers, they do not have to rely on retail stores to find good deals on Cartier glasses.

The Cartier sunglasses are designed such that they suit every person who wants to wear them. They have great choices of frames for men as well as women. The Cartier eyeglasses are perhaps the only designer glasses that are attractive yet are not those that attract a lot of attention. The makers of Cartier sunglasses know the difference in the styles of men as well as women. The women’s glasses are designed mainly having plastic frames and the handles are usually adorned with stones or you can get them plain as well whereas the men’s glasses are made mainly out of metal frames and have very little or no designs on them at all.

Each of the spectacles will be impressed with a distinct serial number on the holy place of the glasses. This is the only way to clarify that the spectacles is reliable. Cartier glasses are looks like very professional way. There are a few online options that customers can take advantage of to search Cartier sunglasses on sale. These glasses are perfect combination of function and better style. They also have great options of frames for men as well as women. If you want to be a proficient person in humanity then you should only one chance to choose Cartier glasses? They are stylish and however are not those that attract a lot of concentration. Some online retailers will run end of season sales to clear out their stocks of sunglasses as well as eye glasses.

The Cartier sunglasses are worth an investment as once you get a pair of these sunglasses you can use them for years together and they will protect your eyes the same way. The material used to make these glasses is of superior quality so it won’t fade away and your sunglasses will look as good as new even after years of using it. No one will ever be able to guess how old your sunglasses are. Cartier sunglasses can be worn during any season, the visibility is great with these sunglasses and the lenses are of superior quality and provide excellent protection for your eyes. In winter you can use the sunglasses even while skiing. If u need a pair of sunglasses while driving then these are the perfect ones for you as they have excellent visibility.

A good pair of designer sunglasses provides you with good protection for your eyes, good visibility, and a great style that suits your face. The normal sunglasses too might have great style but the UV protection and the visibility are poor as compared to the designer sunglasses. Go ahead and grab your pair of Cartier sunglasses today, its definitely worth an investment.

The invisible high-heeled shoes are the brainchild of Andreia Chaves, who is a footwear designer who lives in Milan, Italy. Raised in Brazil, South America, Chaves has drawn her inspiration from contrasts that she has experienced from living in a bustling city like Sao Paolo, which has led to the conception of the amazing footwear designs that she creates. Apart from that, she is inspired by nature, geometrical forms, and urban textures. However, these invisible shoes are remarkable as they are not just a pair of shoes but are a work of art and a lot of hard work that has gone into creating these one-of-a-kind shoes.

These shoes are now available for sale in Asia and Europe – though at a very high price. Andreia Chavez has already launched her first studio collection of shoes (including the awesome Invisible Shoes) during the Mercedes-Benz fashion show held in New York in February this year. At present, the shoe series designed by Chavez are commercially available in three different styles in which she has used leather and 3-D printing techniques.

The invisible shoes are wedge heels that are entirely covered by fragmented mirrors that provide an optical illusion with each step that is taken with it. It works just like a chameleon as the mirrored shoes take the color of the surrounding environment, thus blending in so well that the shoe is completely lost to the background. Therefore, if you step into a grassy area, then the shoes appear green and if you step into sand, then they appear brown. The mirrors are aligned on to the shoe at different angles, which makes this optical effect happen so perfectly that the heels are nowhere to be seen and the wearer looks taller. The faceted mirrors are placed at such an angle – especially on the heels – that they look apparently flat as they reflect all that surrounds them. Andreia Chavez has a keenness for making shoes with unconventional materials along with a certain geometrical composition that makes her footwear appear like a mathematical art form rather than simple shoes.

This unique pair of shoes is a study of optical effects that give footwear the quality of total immersion within the surroundings. These shoes are limited edition products and a very futuristic design that will truly astonish the onlooker. Chavez has a great eye for creativity and using modern techniques to provide fashionable, modern, and comfortable footwear that creates a solid style statement. It would be great to see people donning her shoes, as now her merchandise is available in various retail outlets that have been opened by her in Asia and Europe.

These amazing hand-made invisible heels provide a triple function – they protect the feet, give the shoes a blending quality with the environment, and make the wearer look taller too. Apart from that, they would really look amazing on Lady Gaga as she has a penchant for unique things.

Fashion is full of trends. From platforms to ponchos, most of us can admit to falling into the pitfalls of a mindless trend now and again. In the past, looking fashionable meant following a set of rules and definitions. In order to fit in, one was required to dress within the parameters of a certain style, or abide by the rules of fashion set forth by the media. However, I believe that the styles and designs of the future will not hold to these rigid standards. In the past, these standards have set aside something that today’s style hungry can no longer live without: Personality. I believe that contemporary design is headed into a period of unpredictable originality.

Contemporary designs are beginning to reflect the public’s desire to look original. Rather than have clones upon clones of a handful of well known styles, the clothing and accessory options available in stores has grown dramatically over the years. In the past, the most popular styles were limited to a few ‘personalities’ as far as schools of dress. Emo, preppy and skater are different terms that come to mind when I think of old designs. While the stores that cater to these various tastes still exist, they have grown and no longer cater to the very specific crowds they used to. Consumers that would limit themselves to one store or another are breaking out of their shells and trying something new. The kids with closets full of polo shirts are trying on a pair of skate shoes or a studded black tank top. As the rainbow streaks of last season fade, wardrobes look less like single store catalogues and more like a fantastic hodgepodge of fashion.

Personally, I see this change in contemporary design as a reflection of the inner working of society. In the past, people felt required to live by certain labels or fit into certain categories. If they were not defined by the label in their sweater, who were they? With style icons like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry leading the pack with their ‘be who you are’ anthems like ‘Born This Way’ and ‘Firework’, how could you not internalize their messages? With explicit permission from the biggest celebrities on the scene today, it is cool to not want to look cool. In short, it is fashionable to not listen to fashion and be yourself. By listening to your heart and going for designs that look good to the individual’s eye, design has been thrown for a loop.

In terms of clothing itself, the demand for unique pieces can be seen in the success of stores like Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie. With designs like no other, consumers save their hard earned cash to look like no one else, owning that one-of-a-kind piece they covet. Online shopping, away from the crowds of style following shoppers, has also changed contemporary fashion. From the comfort of your own home, there is no salesperson telling you to go for one style or another. Shoppers are no longer required to bring along a friend for moral support as they navigate shelves and racks of clothing. No approval is necessary as one browses online. Browsing turns into buying and, after a few weeks shipping time, there is a new design piece waiting on the doorstep. By taking the judgmental looks of others out of the equation, modern design with a unique twist has been able to flourish.

Design of other things, such as house wares and home décor, has also taken a turn for the more unique. More than that, consumers are worried about the conditions under which their house wares and appliances have been made. Gone are the days when one could purchase goods made with devotion to domestic labor. We have gotten over the shock of a ‘Made in China’ sticker, but what chemicals could that label harbor? With lead paint being found in things like children’s toys and food, among other alleged toxins, more and more people are opting for products made in natural environments. The green movement sparked by modern day hippie Al Gore’s documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is going strong some years later. Somewhat branched off from the initial worries of global conservation, consumers are clamoring for products bearing labels like ‘organic’. Fabric is made from recycled materials, as well as design pieces like cell phone cases and mixing bowls. If it can be reused, it is being reused by today’s generation.

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Another issue influencing contemporary design is the economy. The effects of the recent economic turmoil are far reaching, with a hand in the pocket of every nation. Not a single household is unaffected by the harsh economic times. Due to the fact that more and more people are losing their expendable income, once used to buy the latest, greatest design pieces, companies have to be smart with their marketing and products. Luxury has no place in this new world of frugality. Anything more than necessary is viewed as wasteful rather than special. Instead of creating a new line of luxury items, designers are rethinking their collections and making them more affordable for Jane Doe. Gone are the days of bling and Hummers. The gas conserving Prius is king of the road, for as many miles as it can squeeze out of that gallon of expensive gas. Those expensive diamonds and other gems are being swapped, or tragically sold, for inexpensive costume pieces. Business is booming for low-end stores like Forever 21. Initially trying to bring expensive contemporary design to the masses, commercially available designs in these stores are the new dictators of fashion in the best possible way. Culture is no longer fixated on the exclusive but the original.

Contemporary design has gone through many transformations over the years. From finding its appeal to more sensual tastes, shortening skirts in the 20s to preparing for years of economic difficulty, contemporary design reflects the personalities of the times. In a world of unique individuals, style is more one-of-a-kind than ever