Monday, 6 February 2012

Brett Stettner - Four Important C’s Before Selling a Diamond

Stettner Diamond Investments offers a complete and extensive knowledge of fine jewelry and diamonds. The Stettner Promise is a commitment to deliver the highest standard of service by Brett Stettner whilst enhancing the relationships that have built his professionalism in the industry. Here are the 4 important C’s to know about the diamond. They are

1.    Clarity
2.    Color
3.    Cut
4.    Carat

Clarity refers to the amount and location of flaws and blemishes when viewed under 10x magnification. The GIA rates clarity grades from Flawless to Imperfect 3. “Inclusions,” considered birthmarks, may be presented on some diamonds. The fewer the inclusions, the more brilliance the diamond since these inclusions can interfere with the light passing through.

Colors are graded from totally colorless to light yellow. Diamonds come naturally in every color. However, most people prefer diamonds in the white range. A colorless diamond is favored since it allows more light to pass through causing it to be disperse as the color of the rainbow.

The Diamond’s Cut is determined by the proportions of it as opposed to its shape (round, pear, princess, etc.). A diamond’s brilliance and scintillation is dependent on the cut and polish of the diamond’s facets. The idea is to allow the maximum amount of light through the top then reflecting and dispersing it back.

The Carat weight is the weight of a diamond measured in carats. This is the standard unit of weight for diamonds and other gemstones. Carats are divided into 100 points. For example, a 50-point diamond weights 0.50 carats. As the carat weight increases, so does the rarity and the price. The carat weight is the easiest of the four C’s to determine but two diamonds of the same weight does not mean they will have the same value.


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Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Australia day celebrated by five designers

Five of Australia’s most promising young designers showcased their collections to New York’s top tier press and fashion industry executives on Australia Day.

It was an opportunity for Michael Lo Sordo, Kym Ellery, Magdalena Velevska, Christopher Esber and Kym Ellery to present their Autumn/Winter collections to some of the most influential U.S. buyers.

The event was the finale of the Australian Five program, a joint effort between Woolmark and the Australians in New York Fashion Foundation (AINYFF).

“The Australian Five is focused on bringing the best of Australian design and putting them in front of New York’s best fashion editors, stylists and buyers,” Woolmark CEO Stuart McCullough said. “The people who have come together to support this project are a testament to the value of both Australian designers and the Merino fibre in the international market,” added Rob Langtry, Global Marketing Director of The Woolmark Company.

At the event were AINYFF's Malcolm Carfrae, Richard Christianson and Julie Anne Quay; Victoria’s Secret model Shanina Shaik, daughter of the former Australian Prime Minister Katherine Keating, Aussie actor Emma Lung, photographer Sante D’Orazio, Argentinian model and ‘It girl’ Tati Cotliar and Calvin Klein designer Kevin Carrigan.

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Thursday, 12 January 2012

How to dress up in fringe dress?


Fringe dress is well-known as evening dress; as such they require coupling with garments like footwear, jewelries, and outwearing to make up the total fashion technique. Here are some advices. The designer fringe dresses are the resolute dresses for many well-known celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Beyonce. In fact they are the dresses that make up the fringe fashion in the urban.

 Short Fringe Dress with Net Socks
Since fringe dress like flapper fringe dress is a wonderful festivity dress, then how can you fail to spot up to couple them with sexy and imposing net pant socks. The socks are making your fringed dress turn out to be the un-refuse outfits for guys. 

Fringe Dress and High Heels
The dress is an stylish part that most excellent outfit high heel like gold high heel. The fringe dress for example, is presenting a splatter of beautiful pink creates the high heel turn out to be an simple choice to female, sexy and delightful.  

Fringe Dress and Diamond Earrings
Although fringe dress is a iridescent piece that not at all discontinues alternating for every event; Still you can make it more unblemished and good-looking with the assist of stylishness and prominent jewelry pieces.

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Friday, 30 December 2011

Plan your own style of homecoming dress

Most young girl will eagerly wait for thrilling time of the year homecoming and they like to present herself in a perfect manner. If your desire dresses is not found then plan to design your fitted homecoming dresses by yourself at affordable prices. Many magazines will provide sources of ideas for the appearance you want to accomplish. After finding the elements for your desire dress, next step will be to make outline of the dress. 

The outline design must be in different styles and mainly the designed style should suits to your body style. It can be supportive to try on different styles at department stores. Now you can modify your sketches with some designs to create the flatters looks. After you have created your outline and design of desire dress give it to perfect professional dressmaker and they will stitch dress as your wish. Enjoy your homecoming in your own designed fitted dress.

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Friday, 16 December 2011

Select perfect cocktail dresses for black tie occasions


Most women choose the cocktail dresses for to dress up in cocktail parties and in semi-formal occasions. The length of these dresses varies depending on style and material of the costume. The height of these dresses varies from short and long. When it is short dress then it is said to be tea length and long dress is said to be ballerina dress, this type of dress also falls on the category of evening gowns category.
For cocktail parties, ballerina dress are better suits for this type of occasions and tea length dress is better suits for semi-formal occasions or black tie occasions. In mid century this kind of dress was said to be late afternoon. The men wore the suits for formal occasions and women worn afternoon skirts for this events. Only short dress was said to be cocktail dress, later as the technology develops the long dress was designed for dancing costumes.

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Sunday, 11 December 2011

America’s next zenith model “Lisa D’ Amato”

Lisa D’Amato sauntered away with the “America’s Next Top Model All Star” peak on Wednesday night, but she persists she does not recognize what occurred with finalist Angelea Preston who was ineligible on the ending for causes that were not completely clarified. 

She also said that she doesn’t know what happened on Thursday and also she added all this are rumors. Lisa hit out member “Top Model” inspects, the Allison Harvard for the title on the CW show and she said that she felt Allison Harvard was her main competition all season long.

 She also said that she and Allison were going head to head in provisions of who got the first calls out on pictures and who won the most challenges.  She said that it is a kind of this sealed validation of being real and accurate to you and working truly hard.

She also accredited Dr. Drew for helping twist her life approximately after a new turn on “Celebrity Rehab.”

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