Sunday, July 31, 2011

Lynn Lewis Launches Namesake PR Firm...Be sure to "Like" us on Facebook!



Founded

2011
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About
Savvy, smart, connected and proven all define Lynn & Associates Public Relations, a leading independent public relations agency with an international reach.
Description
Lynn & Associates Public Relations (LAPR) is a leading independent public relations agency with an international reach. Specializing in media relations and special events marketing, LAPR caters to the high-end luxury goods, restaurant and spirits, home and design, beauty and fashion, and corporate and real estate industries.
Mission
Operating from Miami, Tampa and London, Lynn & Associates Public Relations is uniquely positioned to provide clients worldwide unprecedented media contacts and placements to create brand awareness and advance their business goals.
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lynn@laprandevents.com
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Clothes Hound Rocks Raleigh: Hottest New Fashion Boutique Opens Flagship Store at Brennan Station with Howling Reviews


RALEIGH -- Leading online fashion retailer, Clothes Hound, the trendy e-boutique started three years ago by NC State University grad, Bryce Batts, 31, opened its first brick-and-mortar store at Brennan Station Shopping District, carrying hard-to-find, celebrity-driven, designer brands at affordable prices.
The online shopping destination turned 1,300 sq. ft. fashion boutique at Creedmoor and Strickland is complete with 'hound's den' and plasma TV for the guys, doggie food and water bowls for the pups, and a champagne and cupcake station to indulge while shopping the season's hottest fashions without breaking the bank.
"We are thrilled to open our flagship store at the Brennan Station in N. Raleigh, where local residents and visitors alike come to enjoy the tasty restaurants, great communities and most importantly the shopping!" said Batts. "Our versatile collection of the hottest trends and hard-to-find, celebrity brands is sure to impress the fashion-forward shoppers in Raleigh."
Retailing from $35 to $150, the store is a one-stop-shopping destination for the season's hottest trends in women's apparel, handbags, jewelry, accessories and shoes - including hard-to find brands like Gentle Fawn, Naked Zebra, Free People, and French Connection, as well as celebrity-driven collections like Lauren Conrad's Paper Crown.
ABOUT CLOTHES HOUND

Having a keen eye for design and MBA to boot, , Bryce Batts opened Clothes Hound with one clear vision -- to offer the latest trends in women's clothing at affordable prices. Bryce hand-selects hard-to-find brands for the fashion-forward woman who appreciates style. Designers include Paper Crown by Lauren Conrad, French Connection, Naked Zebra, Free People, V Fish, Gentle Fawn and many more. shopclotheshound.com

Sasha Sparkles at Daytime-TV: GKhair Beauty Guru, Sasha Polit, Offers Viewers in Over 100 Markets Across the Country "Sexy Summer Hair Tips to Stay Cool All Summer Long"!

Friday, July 15, 2011

Sasha Polit: Summer Hair Trends

It's time to talk hair here at Daytime so we wanted to find the latest trends to make your tresses their most beautiful. Sasha Polit from GK Hair will visit us to talk about hot locks for both men and women this summer. Some things Sasha will be discussing:
1. Faux Bob
a. Go from long to short and stay cool all summer long
b. Get perfect beach waves with super trendy 4-in-1 iron
2. Taming Treatment 
a. Protect your hair from summer heat, salt water, chlorine 
b. What's in and what's out for sexy summer hair color
3. Men and Styling 
a. What's hot and what's not for guys 
b. How to style for a cool look all summer long

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

This Day in History: Bikini Introduced in 1946!



Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders sport their favorite bikinis in Key West


On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. Parisian showgirl Micheline Bernardini modeled the new fashion, which Reard dubbed "bikini," inspired by a news-making U.S. atomic test that took place off the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean earlier that week.
European women first began wearing two-piece bathing suits that consisted of a halter top and shorts in the 1930s, but only a sliver of the midriff was revealed and the navel was vigilantly covered. In the United States, the modest two-piece made its appearance during World War II, when wartime rationing of fabric saw the removal of the skirt panel and other superfluous material. Meanwhile, in Europe, fortified coastlines and Allied invasions curtailed beach life during the war, and swimsuit development, like everything else non-military, came to a standstill.
In 1946, Western Europeans joyously greeted the first war-free summer in years, and French designers came up with fashions to match the liberated mood of the people. Two French designers, Jacques Heim and Louis Reard, developed competing prototypes of the bikini. Heim called his the "atom" and advertised it as "the world's smallest bathing suit." Reard's swimsuit, which was basically a bra top and two inverted triangles of cloth connected by string, was in fact significantly smaller. Made out of a scant 30 inches of fabric, Reard promoted his creation as "smaller than the world's smallest bathing suit." Reard called his creation the bikini, named after the Bikini Atoll.
In planning the debut of his new swimsuit, Reard had trouble finding a professional model who would deign to wear the scandalously skimpy two-piece. So he turned to Micheline Bernardini, an exotic dancer at the Casino de Paris, who had no qualms about appearing nearly nude in public. As an allusion to the headlines that he knew his swimsuit would generate, he printed newspaper type across the suit that Bernardini modeled on July 5 at the Piscine Molitor. The bikini was a hit, especially among men, and Bernardini received some 50,000 fan letters.
Before long, bold young women in bikinis were causing a sensation along the Mediterranean coast. Spain and Italy passed measures prohibiting bikinis on public beaches but later capitulated to the changing times when the swimsuit grew into a mainstay of European beaches in the 1950s. Reard's business soared, and in advertisements he kept the bikini mystique alive by declaring that a two-piece suit wasn't a genuine bikini "unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring."
In prudish America, the bikini was successfully resisted until the early 1960s, when a new emphasis on youthful liberation brought the swimsuit en masse to U.S. beaches. It was immortalized by the pop singer Brian Hyland, who sang "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini" in 1960, by the teenage "beach blanket" movies of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, and by the California surfing culture celebrated by rock groups like the Beach Boys. Since then, the popularity of the bikini has only continued to grow.