A round-up of the latest fashion and beauty accessories to hit the market
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BLV a scent for the free innovative spirit. The combination is unique and maddening, closing a magic circle of cold passion. Ginger, the core ingredient of BLV gives it its strikingly icy yet fiery character around which all other ingredients evolve into an unexpected olfactory linear square. Bvlgari BLV, a cold passionate fragrance for an unexpected woman.
In line with this concept, a competition is being run for the most creative photograph of the Blv perfume. So, feel free and unique to come up with the most artistic visual and see what awaits you.
A panel will select the four most impressive articles and the first three winners will receive respectively, a Bvlgari watch, a Bvlgari wallet and a Bvlgari scarf.
The deadline for submitting your entry is December 15, 2000.
Face off
Jaquline, the well-known American brand, has made beauty care convenient and easy for today's woman with a range of new and easy to use depilatories. Hypoallergenic and not tested on animals, Jaquline products are characterised by convenience in use and safety in application.
The Jaquline Beauty Care Range includes:
Creme Bleaches with New Formula in 1 and 4 oz. packs: The new formula contains aloe vera and added moisturising ingredients to give you a clean and clear complexion. Simple and easy to use, it comes with a powder activator, creme and spatula.
Peel Off Masks: Specially formulated to clean the pores of your facial skin, the mask extracts grime and oil leaving your skin fresh and glowing.
Wax Strips: Convenient and simple for today's working woman. The special formulation in the strips remove hair from the roots. It also helps delay hair growth thus keeping your skin smooth for weeks after use.
Creme Hair Removers with New Formula: The best and safest way to get rid of unwanted hair from your limbs. The creme is dermatologically tested and comes in different variants to suit personal preferences - Fresh Lemon, Fresh Rose and Avocado Oil.
Creme Facial Hair Removers: Specially designed to remove facial hair softly and gently. The only facial hair remover in the market enriched with Aloe Vera leaves your face smoother than ever before.
Piece of art
Every new Dalissime, Parfums Salvador Dali's latest creation, bottle is the rebirth of art itself. The creation of the new Dalissime bottle was inspired by one of Salvador Dali's 1946 works: Christmas, which made the cover of Vogue magazine.
The equilibrium of the ruined arch, a kind of geological architecture, was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's work The Adoration of the Magi which can be seen at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Dali admired the masters of the Italian Renaissance and often refers to their works in his own.
One of the highly original characteristics of Dali's Christmas is its stereoscopic effect: When one superimposes the right and left halves of the painting, a woman's face appears.
Inspiration for the bottle's design stems from the painting's main element, the arch's column: Chin, mouth and nose toped by a composite capital derived from Corinthian architecture. The bottle is partially sculpted in frosted glass which effectively highlights the famous Dalinian nose and mouth.
The fragrance is subtly tinged with an appetising touch of apricot. Peach and apricot are married to a refined and subtle note akin to raspberry. A touch of davana, somewhere between plum and prune, and the head notes invade your senses.
Transparent, oriental, the heart notes are a delicate touch of litchi suddenly encountering lily, so well married to Bengal rose and insolent narcissus which brings out the fragrance's character. The end notes are a veritable homage to the mystical Dali: Sandalwood and Tonka bean mixed with more sensuous notes such as musk.
Wait and watch
The new diamond watch collection from Raymond Weil has been launched. Raymond Weil's alignment with music reiterates that each timepiece is rhythmic, in tune, and inscribed with passion and elegance.
Shown during the launch were diamond watches out of four collections: The top-of-the-line Parsifal, ladies line Tema, fashionable Don Giovanni and elegantly classy Chorus collection.
The Parsifal Rectangular is based on the legendary medieval knight "Parsifal". The Jewelled Parsifal Rectangular comes with an exquisite match of noble materials mother-of-pearl, diamonds and steel. Straight-lined forms, softened by meticulously rounded edges complement this fashionable design.
All-steel for men, the Parsifal Rectangular lends shine to the case and bracelet, while the dial, decorated with Roman numerals and index figures, strikes in pure white. The bezel is punctuated with the collection's eight distinctive studs.
A perfect marriage of discreet elegance and the avant-garde, Don Giovanni features a Satin-Diamond timepiece, whose gently curved, rectangular case is accentuated by a bezel set with 38 impeccably aligned diamonds. Complementing the dial are two rows each of five diamonds as hour markers.
The Chorus is a timepiece that marries elegance with art. Circular and oval watch faces with an array of diamonds make an exquisite design. The mother-of-pearl dials sport a diamond for each hour, making the piece timeless.
Get a grip
The world's first bespoke pen, with a barrel that can be adjusted by the owner to give the most comfortable 'tailor made' grip, no matter how they like to hold it, or what size the hand, is being launched by A.T. Cross.
Called the Morph pen, it lives up to its name by having a unique soft-touch, expandable barrel that can be gradually transformed from being a conventional cylindrical shape to become an innovative, ergonomically comfortable triangle.
Key to this metamorphosis is a cleverly designed internal mechanism controlled by a moveable band on the barrel. This can be turned to give precision adjustment, transforming the shape to give whatever grip most suits the pen's owner.
Matching this futuristic mechanism, the pen also introduces a completely new 'rocket ship' profile, which tapers sharply from the top and features an innovative floating ball mechanism in the clip, which helps it slide smoothly over any type of fabric.
The Morph pen comes with a new ultra-smooth broad point ball pen refill and is available in a selection of colours, including Electric Blue, Mars Red, Jet Black and Quicksilver (brushed aluminium). It's packed in an eye-catching aluminium box designed to match its rocket ship shape.
Feel the sensation
Sensations is an invitation to demonstrate tenderness to oneself for the replenishing of body and mind. Sensations is a fragrance experience. It arouses all the senses: Just feel, just smell, just touch.
The fragrance, a sheer oriental, is joyous and luminous. An olfactory experience based on four bases: The floral facet of nettle flower brings joy and luminosity like a breath of fresh air; the cereal milk accord expresses the nourishing side and brings comfort; vanilla, amber and musk brings sensuality; and warm woods for serenity.
The bottle's roundness is evocative of well being and femininity. The double circle translates the concept of inner beauty being projected outward. The soft touch glass effect reinforces the sensual, tactile pleasure facet. The folding box, a sparkling metallic echo of the fragrance's co
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