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Some key summer fashion items, including shirt-dresses, pedal pusher shorts and peasant skirts, are simple enough to call for dramatic accessories. As a result, bold shoe designs are top sellers, with customers favoring natural wedges and ladylike flats. Look for shoes with bright colors, jewel embellishments and beading to add interest to an otherwise simple outfit key shoe styles for Summer 2006 include Grecian-inspired sandals with up-the-leg strap details; wedges with cork, wood or jute heels; sandals with macramé women uppers; shoes adorned with flowers, studs or colored stitching, and ones with metallic finishes.

The trend for men’s loose-fitting, baggy jeans is a bonus for crime-fighters, report police in Stamfort, Connecticut in the USA. A number of fleeing felons have reportedly been tripped up when their oversized pants slipped below their hips. While this trend may be helping police to catch cook, it makes searching them harder. “They’re able to wear jeans, sweatpants, long johns and boxers”, say one police officer, “so if I’m looking for a small item it makes it a little bit more difficult”.

For men’s fragrances, cool is out and warm is in, report industry experts. Cool fleeting scents are giving way to longer-lasting potions that contain ingredients like amber, musk and vanilla. Some of the most popular scents today combine fresh, tangy smells with sensual undertones, woodsy center and fruity top notes of mango pineapple centers, and fruity top notes of mango, pineapple guava.

Former Miss China DuJuan is turning heads in New York, signalinh the international fashion world’s growing acceptance of Asian models.  Since appearing with Australian model Gemma Ward on the cover of Vogue China’s premiere issue last September, Du has graced Paris and Italian Vogue too.

In Milan and paris earlier this year, she sizzled on the catwalks at Marc jacob’s Louis Vuitton show, and at the hermes, Yves Saint Laurent, Bottega Venata shows. Editors at Style.com and W Magazine’s website named her as one of autumn’s top 10 new faces. The lastest wave of Asian models includes Korean-Ameriacan Hye Park and Japan’s Anne Watanabe.