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I love the fact that Dior allows his little compacts to be his trademark Lady Dior handbag.  This is just one piece of this collection, as stated above and while they are not all like this, I think that making the compacts a collectible item as well is something that is unique and while it does allow the designer to overcharge for the makeup, it is all about the status.

Whenever I pull out my Christian Dior makeup for a touch-up, I swear, people are looking at me all over the place.  First they are probably wondering how I can afford something that like and next they are wondering where they can get it!

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If you take a mechanical watch into a strong magnetic field, some of the parts in the movement become magnetized which causes problems; typically the watch will start to run quite fast and require demagnetization. The hairspring, made of an alloy called Nivarox, is particularly susceptible. A watch is normally considered “antimagnetic” (DIN 8309) if it can ignore 4,800 A/m. This works out to about 60 gauss, or 6% of what the new Rolex is rated for. Rolex achieved the superior rating of the Milgauss by encasing the movement in soft iron, which is known as a Faraday cage. They also introduced a new hairspring material, Parachrom-Blu, which is unaffected by magnetism. Quite an achievement!

The Milgauss model has an interesting history. It was introduced in 1954 for people who worked in environments with strong magnetic fields: power plants, research labs, etc. As you might suspect, that’s a pretty small market, further crowded by the IWC Ingenieur, the Patek Philippe Amagnetic, and the Omega Railmaster, all of which had similar magnetic resistance. The Milgauss was the slowest seller in the Rolex lineup, and was sold for about 20 years before being removed from their catalog.

The Milgauss comes in the new, slightly larger case size of 40mm, with the 3131 movement. There are white and black dial versions available, both with a nifty and surprisingly modern lightning shaped second hand and ‘ROLEXROLEXROLEX’ around the face on the chapter ring. (As Christian noted, for better or worse, the new models are more heavily branded than their predecessors.) One difference between the two versions is that the black dial has a sapphire crystal that is slightly green at an angle, as you can see from the image gallery on their site. List price on both is rumored to be $5,900.

One word of caution: for the new model, Rolex also lists “medical imaging” as a target market, but a bit of math reveals this to be disingenuous. Current MRI systems start at 0.3T and go up to 5T. Even the smallest of those is 3 times the rating of the Milgauss, so don’t take your new watch into the MRI!

I used to work in a couple of physics labs, so I like seeing reintroduction like this. Nowadays, the IWC Ingenieur and Ball Engineer are the only competition for mechanical watches designed to function in strong magnetic fields. Compared to the competition, the Milgauss adds an elegant face, first-class movement, the unique second hand, and the green sapphire crystal. I’ve never considered a Rolex before, but if I do, it’ll be the black-faced Milgauss.

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Luxury Travel, the premiere online luxury travel company has recently launched www.luxurytravelvietnam.com, the one stop portal for the finest accommodation the Indochina has to offer. Hundred of luxury hotels, Luxury Travel is set to redefine standards of quality affluent living.

Luxury Travel has a database of hundreds of Indochina’s best hotels, luxury resorts and packages that cater to your every whim and desire, offering the best in intercontinental luxury travel experience.

During these turbulent economic times, it is natural that consumers want the best value for their money. Luxury Travel guarantees lowest rates and great deals on luxury accommodation for holidays especially tailored to suit the clients’ needs and convenience, so they can experience pure, decadent living without lowering their standards and within their budget.

Luxury Travel has an easy- to- use online reservation system and the customers can book and pay online for their luxury accommodation.

In addition, it offers a convenient online option that allows users to alter travel arrangements and cancel hotel reservations. Luxury Travel and its strategic global distribution systems travel partners have streamlined the real-time rate and inventory reservation process.

This ensures that all reservations and cancellations are transferred directly to the hotel’s automated system. Clients can even speak to friendly customer service staff for travel advice or change of itineraries.

Apart from online reservation, Luxury Travel also provides traditional client travel services, and has developed unique luxury travel guides.

With hundred of articles and reviews and a travel blog www.luxurytravelvietnam.com/blog , Luxury Travel offers a wealth of travel literature to its readers, so they can make the most of their holiday and make informed decisions about their choice of holiday packages and hotels.

Luxury Travel is an all encompassing online travel guide focused exclusively on luxury travel, services and destinations. With thousands of informative articles and unique insights provided by an in-house team of luxury travel and lifestyle experts, Luxury Travel is visited by more than 3 million affluent readers every month.

For more than 5 years, Luxury Travel Company has been sending individuals and clients of leading businesses to some of the world’s most exotic destinations. Luxury Travel is another step towards ensuring that its clients can enjoy the best of the best in luxury travel.

Luxury Travel is offering a super summer savers 2009 for savvy luxury travelers who book last minutes Vietnam holidays on the internet.

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This collection is filled with all sorts of bustier dresses with lampshade mini skirts, jewel-encrusted vests and of course a bustier top that was paired with some high-waisted jeans that are encrusted with all sorts of big and beautiful jewels. Now of course, that was not all that was in this collection but I have to say that this specific collection reminded me a lot of the fifties and I am absolutely into the fifties style of clothing.

So if you are looking for something that is a little bit different but totally in right now, come on, they just showed this collection last week!  You need to check out Dolce & Gabbana’s latest collection, I promise that you will absolutely love it!

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The tight leather pants that have been seen on and off the runway for the past few seasons continued to make an appearance at Gucci, although they were sometimes passed over for up-to-there platform boots that simply disappeared under thigh-grazing tunics.

Gucci took a hard look this season, using a mainstay of black and charcoal intermingled with shades of red, fuchsia, turquoise, vivid blues, plums, purple as well as forest green.

Much of the collection focused on contrasting not only skinny pants with wide shoulders and flowing tops, but fabrics as well. Feathers, furs, velvet, leather, silk, patent leather as well as an array of shimmering sequins all made an appearance in the same outfit and sometimes even in the same item of clothing, as in a pair of patchworked leggings.

Metallics made an appearance in everything from tops to leggings and helped the overall hard fashion look. Accessories had metal studs and details, which helped complete outfits as accessories were not often present on the runway.

Slicked back and ironed flat hair combined with overdone eyes and bright red lips accentuated the models’ 80’s style stained cheekbones. Shoes were the higher than high platforms seen on red carpets and runways all over the world. To further the hard dark image, the runway was black and the models often wore oversized sunglasses.

The world may be a hard place, and Gucci’s fall/winter collection certainly fits in.

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Yes, the Fleur de Lys is a humongous Beverly Hills mansion, but on top of that, it is considered the most expensive estate in the world and pop star Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon are making a bid to buy it, according to Zillow.com.

It is listed for sale for $125,000,000 by Joyce Rey of Coldwell Banker Previews International.

According do The Real Estalker, the faux French pile sits on 5+ acres of choice real estate and measures a boo-teek hotel-sized 35,046 square feet.

In addition to a dozen or more rooms filled with a freighter-full of exceedingly expensive 18th century furniture, there are 12 bedroom and 15 bathrooms, a ballroom, 2 kitchens, a massage room, and a 50 seat movie theater, a three bedroom manager’s house plus staff quarters for 10 or more.

The over the top day-core features Italian marble walls, French limestone floors, gold embossed leather wall coverings and more gold was used for leafing the moldings than is held in Fort damn Knox.

Surrounding the mansion are rolling lawns, ornamental gardens and mature trees, a 3,000-square-foot manager’s house, staff quarters for 10 people, a spa and pool with a pavilion, a championship tennis court, and a lavish garden folly.

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