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Online fashion games are a great way to develop and express your sense of fashion. If you love fashion models, like Gisele and Tyson Beckford, and hot fashion brands like Hotkiss, or PointZero, you’ll love playing online fashion games. At GirlSense you can design your own eBoutique, and develop your own fashion line. Once you create your own eBoutique, you can sell items to other girls for virtual money. It’s cool, free, and loads of fun.

The really cool thing about GirlSense fashion design games is that you can design an entire an eBoutique from scratch. It feels incredibly real, as if you were opening a fashion boutique at your local mall. And you know what? If you think about it that way, you’ll get a lot out of playing online fashion games.

With the GirlSense fashion design games, you get to design everything in the virtual store: the floors, the furniture, the accessories, the mannequins, and, of course, the fashions.

The choice of furniture is incredibly important. When you play online fashion games you want your eBoutique to look as real as possible. You also want your choice of virtual furniture to reflect the mood of the clothing line. I am going to offer you some examples.

If you are going to design cute party clothes, then maybe you want to have a comfortable sofa for girls to lounge in – just like in a real party. If you want to create beach wear, then maybe a wooden bench will reflect the mood that you are looking for. That’s because you would probably find a bench at the beach. A bench would also work if you were creating a fashion design game that was inspired by the countryside. Think of a girl cycling down a country lane in a pretty floral dress, and taking a break under an oak tree, where there is a bench. Can you think of more examples when a bench would work in an eBoutique?

If you are thinking of fashion design games with retro fashions inspired by the 1960s and 1070s, you might think of adding a bubble chair to your eBoutique. These cool items are great for lounging in, and you can sometimes see them in real fashion stores that sell retro items.

These are just some examples of how you can think creatively about your fashion design games. You can follow the same process with wallpaper, floors, and accessories. Other girls will probably enjoy your eBoutique, and buy more items from you (with virtual money of course).

SPRING FASHION 2008

Part One – The Racing Season

It’s time to drop the heavy winter coats and kick off the furry boots. Spring is here! In the fashion world, soon the darker hues of grey and navy will be replaced with splashes of bright colours and floral prints. The onset of spring marks the beginning of Melbourne’s racing season, also known as the urban fashion parade. This year, forget cheap and tacky polyester and nylon-laden dresses. Look your hottest in a classy silk gown hand-made by a selection of fine local seamstresses and boycott the Chinese sweat shop products.

Spring fashion is traditionally known for its vivid colours and floral-based prints. For Spring 2008, experts are predicting that the main “ins” for the season are bright-on-dark floral designs, washed-out denims, and unique mixtures of pastels with bright colours. The Spring Racing season will be launched this year at the 2008 Melbourne Spring Fashion Week. For racing fashionistas who plan to work the upcoming Melbourne Cup and Spring Racing carnival circles, an extensive range of fashion wear awaits.

Major fashion labels already have their racing season clothing on display. However, for the fashion-smart girls who want to stand out and truly be unique at this year’s Spring Racing Carnival, specially tailored dresses are the way to go.

The latest spring colours and designs have already caught up with d’Italia, a Melbourne exclusive designer fabric store which directly imports its fabric from Italy and France. It currently boasts a range of new Spring-based prints in silks, linens and French laces. In line with the anticipated trends for the season, bright geranium pinks, blue violets, dandelion yellows, Hermes oranges and tomato reds are plentiful. To create multiple effects, the available colours can be found in a silk burnout fabric. This unusual and clever mix of silk woven in a combination of sheer chiffon/georgette and solid satin creates a visually stunning designer’s dream.

For the girls wanting more sleek than sedate, a range of metallics are also in store. The selection of crystal silvers, oyster/pewters, and glossy golds are a foreseeable upcoming trend, which will soon diversify the Spring collection for the year.

Go to d’Italia’s store and get yourself a completely unique and perfectly fitted dress or suit that will simply stun the boys.

Men’s catwalk exploded the runway with fireworks emanating from designer collections at Paris Fashion Week. The week just got over on 29th of June lightening the sartorial load on the ramp with ultra light fabrics. Bold prints, harem pants, slim fitted trousers, tailored look and beefy sailor looks ruled the runway. Cuts came through at Hugo Boss from a 1980′s take on tailoring. The German suit maker also sent out a collection fit for the beaches of a chic French beach resort. Heavy metal sequins covering several well-cut jackets sparkled like scales. The looks were eye-catching, but gave even style maverick Adrian Brody look.

Colour took centre-stage at the Paris-based Japanese label Issey Miyake, as designer Dai Fujiwara sent out Turkish-inspired harem pants and short suits in turquoise, ceylon and Persian blues; embellished with geometric mosaic designs and eye-popping tulip prints. Triangles and hexagons woven into a cotton fabric turned a generously cut summer jacket into a delicate mosaic.

This time, translucence was the key for Calvin Klein. The opening outfit set the tone- a transparent onyx parka over Lycra shorts, in keeping with what has become the Zucchelli tradition of extreme sportswear. If the designer’s signature collection was an exercise in adult restraint, this outing felt like an experiment in quirk. Emporio Armani show cased wrinkly things, scaly designs, burgundy leather mesh, sober suits, and lots of orange, deluxe oriental fabrications; long johns, models on BMX bikes and a tiny child in pinstripes.

Givenchy adopted for a flying wedge of his peers and gave the clothes a ferociously sexy athleticism using high-performance fabrics in a mosaic like print founded on the star motif. The short-over-leggings silhouette was predominant in his version of a sports uniform.  John Galliano as bizarre as ever, showcased the usual wall-to-wall spectacle, with an unusual cast of thousands, painted and garbed to resemble anyone but themselves. Separately all pieces are wearable. The theme was Napoleon’s rise and the Napster being a character that Galliano effectively identifies with the show’s arc.

Massimiliano Giornetti is known for his expertise in sublimating his inspirations into the grander design of Salvatore Ferragamo. This season he was influenced by the colours and textures of Africa but in transforming his impressions, he managed to produce a collection that was unutterably Italian. The recipe for the new Lanv in collection this season was Lightness, colour, desire and a lot of work. A tiny bow on a neckline, another at the waist, kimono-cut shirts, high-waist khakis, a green coat in what looked like crepe, puff sleeves, shorts in tie silk are the feminine flourishes that distinguished the label.

This time Yohji Yamamoto show cased simple clothe with little details. The palette, fabrics, silhouettes were much the same as always- black, indigo blue, linen, cupro and oversized. But the designer had slipped in a little subtext, his name written in Cyrillic script inside the breast pocket of jackets. The audience for Raf Simons’ show was sitting in a beautiful garden, looking at a snake or at least a snake printed on a pair of jeans. The belts woven around the bodies of the be suited Adams were also serpentine. The logo on the backside of the jeans was with the snake coiling in an S shape.

The design included knit torso with cloth jacket shoulders and jackets whose sleeves were slashed open like something from the Renaissance. The unlocking key of Stefano Pilati’s latest enigmatic collection was the T-shirt he was wearing when he took his bow. Pilati introduced the collection with a short film made by director Samuel Benchetr it. Yves Saint Laurent jackets were cutaway, low in front, higher in back, which gave an illusion of urgency, like the models were leaning forward. Over all, it was a fun and colourful voyage to menswear fashion at the Paris do.