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MAISON LUIGI BORBONE PRESENTA Club Borbone Le nuove forme del femminile ALTA MODA ITALIANA A/I 2024 MERCOLEDÌ 3 LUGLIO ORE 19:30 SCALEA “CARLO MOSCA” SS PIETRO E PAOLO, ROMA EUR
Luigi Borbone dedica questa collezione a ROMAETERNA raccontando il suo immaginario racchiuso tra il sogno e la realtà dell’Alta Moda.
Con lo sfondo del tempio monumentale dei Santi Pietro e Paolo e la sua cupola emisferica, tra le più imponenti di Roma nel punto più elevato dell’ EUR adornano la Scalea Mosca corpi femminili disegnati da reti scintillanti costruite per vivere in un club come una diva che ballava allo Studio 54 o al Piper con mille versioni di una Couture e di un mondo che sta ricomparendo.
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Morfosis f/w 2018-19: il fascino dei contrasti, come in un film noir
Ci vuole un guizzo intellettuale per scoprirne il segreto, certo, ma l’essenza è tutta già racchiusa nel nome: Morfosis. Senza alcun vanto, chi è avvezza agli studi classici avrà già intuito: la metamorfosi è innanzitutto una disposizione d’animo verso le cose in continuo mutamento, le atmosfere mai fisse, la vita che ci scorre intorno e le evoluzioni infinite che tutto questo, con noi infilate dentro, può godere.
Applicata alla questione della bellezza, poi, in particolare quella da portare indosso attraverso gli abiti, l’evocazione della metamorfosi diventa persino un atto generoso: e divertito.
Perché tutto s’impernia sul proprio punto di vista sul mondo, o sul guardaroba che per una donna è un mondo altrettanto importante: vestire è una forma d’espressione profondamente personale, il gusto è questione intimamente individuale, e la capacità d’interpretazione attraverso i capi d’abbigliamento diventa un’occasione di trasformazione quotidiana, un esercizio di scelta all’interno di un caleidoscopio di possibilità, un esercizio di stile e di styling sempre nuovo.
L’importante è sentire fino in fondo la grande libertà che una collezione, nata su questa visione quasi filosofica del fare moda, concede con le sue creazioni.
Dopotutto, la predilezione principale della fashion designer e fondatrice del brand Alessandra Cappiello va da sempre verso una direzione ben precisa: l’elogio dell’imperfezione, intesa come spazio di libertà di sperimentazione sull’originalità, naturalmente!
La collezione a/ 2018-19 è un invito rinnovato a prendere parte al percorso di metamorfosi della visione del brand dedicata alla sua donna, che qui trova il suo riflesso in un’epoca del secolo scorso assai peculiare: ovvero gli anni del cinema noir.
Chiudete gli occhi e immaginate quelle atmosfere composte di luci e ombre che giocano con i contrasti, gli ambienti densi di tinte scure e intriganti, le penombre che mentre operano una distorsione della realtà ne regala una lettura perfetta a modo suo: ecco, ed ora immaginate un’icona fra le tante, ma forse la più celebre per l’abilità a fare del contrasto una peculiarità della sua immensa bellezza, ovvero Marlene Dietrich.
Ecco, ora spegnete la tv immaginaria e riscoprite il lato umano serbato nella diva: è lì che Alessandra Cappiello va a cogliere l’ispirazione vera per questa collezione, ovvero nella personalità forte eppur profondamente femminile, nella sensualità innata eppur consapevole, che la caratterizzano nel suo quotidiano fuori dal set, fuori dal linguaggio simbolico con cui è stata catalogata, ma dentro la libertà d’espressione del suo modo di essere e di apparire.
Or dunque, è questa la traccia sulla quale è nata una collezione di un’eleganza peculiare, in bilico tra l’appeal mascolino dei completi con la giacca e la femminilità intima dei dress lievi. Un’eleganza fatta soprattutto di quell��autenticità che si esprime nei contrasti dei materiali, tra le trasparenze fiorite e l’opulenza dei velluti, ma anche nelle lunghezze variabili degli abiti, una volta mini e una volta maxi, nei tagli dei pantaloni, ora affusolati come lo spirito urban suggerisce, ora ampi e piombanti a terra come le atmosfere retrò evocano, nella mutevolezza dei volumi, ora netti come nel cappotto dritto, ora rigonfi come nel piumino dall’allure couture.
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TradeStation EasyLanguage Can Make It Easier To Trade Stocks
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) - Shares of Goldman Sachs Group touched the 200 day moving average on Monday which failed. Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ARNA) - Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. falls back to the 200 day moving average in pre market ($3.99). The boutiques was all over the place and great for day trading. PS5 stock looks like it might be coming back to the UK this January. As noted earlier, the numbers are coming right at HEXO. However, I would be shorting this stock right now with a tight stop at $150. Baidu does not have any major resistance until $90 right now. Goldman Sachs has now put in a major long term bottom and is in a new uptrend. However, the financials appeared to make a short term top and pulled back a little. Cisco Systems remains a strong buy for the long term below $21.50 as I have been saying for weeks now.
FAS was up about 3.5% on Wednesday and is now trading around $21. Ford Motor Company (F) - Speaking of Ford, the stock has hit a double top in the $6.50's and is trading down Thursday despite a strong market. Rakers believes uses for those tools will increase, so he raised his target for the stock price to $625 from $605. You will want to look at past data, patterns that can identify the current trends as well as predictions of how the market is moving. So many things exist that you can use today to change the way you live, your business or just the vehicle you are using. FAS went down slightly on Tuesday as the stock market gave way to some profit taking. Another ultra-popular stock that could get creamed in 2021 is enterprise analytics company MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR). The stock market is a fast-paced, tedious industry, where you have to invest hours and hours to get yourself ahead and to understand the market.
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U.S. Stocks End Lower As Earnings Season Begins - WSJ
The company said Tuesday that it hoped to figure out whether it would be able to resume the trial within a few days. Bitcoin has been a powerhouse lately, rallying 60% in just a few short months. Wilshire 5000 index will rise 6.7% over the coming 12 months. The equity holders' required rate of return is a price from the company's view because if the company does not deliver this expected return, shareholders will simply sell their shares, causing the price to drop. That is the biggest drop since 2007. The seven-day rate fell 351 basis points to 8.11 percent. The one-day repurchase rate dropped 384 basis points, or 3.84 percentage points, to 7.90 percent as of 9:33 a.m. They will require a higher rate of return for the investment that has greater risk. Though that is lower than the trendy boutique market’s historical average return of around 10%, it would be a far better outcome than the decline that many on Wall Street worry will be the result of the Fed dialing back its stimulus program. Markets remain jittery and every headline that comes across the tape about the timing of the Fed's QE taper will result in a risk-on or risk-off reaction.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will now have resistance located $9.19. 57 per lb. How much will you be required to add to your margin account to replenish your maintenance margin? This gives you a "reasonable price" valuation, from which you want to buy 20% or more under for a margin of safety. Past research has shown that insider buying is far more significant a signal than insider selling. On the other hand, if an insider puts up his own hard earned cash to buy the shares of his own company, it's a far more significant indicator. Square Inc, a stock which I traded during the March pandemic was my best performer so far. Full-service stock brokers, discount stock brokers, bank-based stock brokers, and everyone claiming to be the best broker you can have, so which one do you actually go for? Let's go through the points one at a time.
HempFusion is a board member of the US Hemp Roundtable, and HempFusion’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Probulin Probiotics, is one of the fastest-growing probiotics companies in the United States, according to SPINs reported data. Current economic data may look ominous, with unemployment nearing 15%, consumer spending in a ditch and famous companies such as J.C. But I believe that it is not difficult to invest in the stock market, like any other skill, it can be learned with sufficient knowledge about companies and with some analysis. If you want to continue to grow and build your success, you need to be reactive to changes in the online market and have an appreciation of how it can be exploited to your advantage. China’s benchmark money-market rates retreated from records after the central bank was said to have made funds available to lenders amid a cash squeeze. It could be some negative COVID-19 news (i.e., a new strain), a stutter in vaccine deployment, bad economic data, or an increase in interest rates.
However, stocks are not out of the woods in the near term. However, insider activity and sector internals do not suggest that the global economy is turning down, which is bullish. In addition, market internals are not highly atypical of a severe downturn in the economy or rising systemic risk. Unless the picture deteriorates, the current combination of insider buying and sector internals suggests to me that the stock market is due for a period of pullback and consolidation, but the outlook is no disaster. However, my analysis of market internals indicate that the current weakness is likely to be just a minor correction. However, the investors were also warned by the market against exhausting their funds or buying aggressively at a lofty price. 27587 contracts put long - Means they took bearish positions after the today market move. Inventory prices move in developments - an upward and a cut down development.
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Humble Student Of The Markets: March 2021
The Dow Jones Futures started the day higher and after opening in the green, the Dow Jones and boutiques Market average went into the red. The three major indices extended their declines Monday afternoon, and the Dow dropped more than 650 points, or 2.2%. Shares of Coca-Cola and Boeing lagged, and nearly every component in the 30-stock index was in the red. Note that I have attempted to incorporate the effect of commodity price declines and currency devaluation in the base-year operating income, choosing to value the company, using the depressed income from the last 12 months. As with country risk, the currency risk dragon has turned on investors and the last few weeks has seen a meltdown in the value of the Brazilian currency. It is also undeniable that currency movements in your favor will make a bad investment into a good one, just as currency movements against you can turn a good investment into a bad one.
While the immediate effect of a currency decline is that your investment in these companies will be worth less in US dollar terms (simply because of the translation effect), it is debatable what the effect of a weakening currency will be on both companies over time. With a 3.5 inch screen, movies are far superior to previous Apple products, and there's real time e-mail delivery similar to a corporate Blackberry but without the extra fees involved. With Vale, there are two Doomsday scenarios. With Lukoil, there is the Putin wild card, where the troubles in Ukraine expand into Poland, Hungary and the rest of the old Soviet empire. Conversely you will find the markets are flat when there are no aspects in a few hours. If your historical perspective is restricted to just the last few years, the current price of iron ore (about $75/tonne) is low but extending that perspective to cover a longer time period (say 20-25 years) may suggest otherwise.
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How To Retire Early And Live Your Life To The Fullest
unique boutique s rose Monday as investors considered positive developments around a coronavirus vaccine candidate, and eyed a flurry of newly announced mergers and acquisitions among major companies. S&P (Standard and Poor’s) 500 Index: The index is based on the market capitalisation of the 500 leading publicly traded companies in the USA. Right now, the rest of the world is looking to the USA for leadership under President Obama. Like I have been saying for weeks now, I feel BAC will hit a new 52 week high soon at $19.10. You have to think ahead, make some plans and spend time in prepping your plants from before to transport it in time during the move. Referring to our Indian Market, we had tough time for past 45 days as similar to global markets and no ray of hope seen yet. When DCT started trading on the NASDAQ this past August, the stock closed its first session at $40 per share - after opening at $27. Using the RSI as a tool in trading could be powerful and helpful in enhancing a stock trader.
The stock market looks strong after the health care bill sell off was short lived. AIG must hold $35 or another sell off could occur. American Intl Group, Inc. (AIG) - Shares of American Intl Group, Inc. continue to be a great buy under $34 as long as you keep a tight stop at $33.20. American Intl Group, Inc. (AIG) - Shares of American Intl Group, Inc. broke down through $33.20 Tuesday morning which is bearish. Saskatchewan, Inc. broke down through $125 support on Thursday. Resistance for Thursday is located at $4.67 as well as $4.96. Resistance is located at $35.38, I think you can buy AIG for a trade when the stock breaks above this level. A break above this level would be bullish for a trade. I will most likely trade FAS or FAZ at the open as I always do! As with any type of investment platform, the more you learn properly the more successful investors will become. All eye will be on the upcoming FDA meeting in late April.
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QUOTES-Investors Assess Outlook As Democrats Poised To Capture US
An inflation-driven increase in interest rates is net negative for boutiques s, but a real-growth driven increase in interest rates is a net positive. That will translate into higher treasury bond rates (my guess would be 3.5%), with a proportionate increase in earnings growth (at least in steady state) and an equity risk premium of 5%, splitting the difference between pre-crisis and post-crisis periods. The treasury bond rate rose slightly over the week, at odds with what you usually see in big stock market sell offs, when the flight to safety usually pushes rates down. Others have to sell because their financial positions are imperiled, either because they borrowed money to buy stocks or because they fear irreparable damage to their retirement or savings portfolios. Note that winner stocks continue to win, in both time periods examined, in the first twelve months after the portfolios are created, though those excess returns fade in the months thereafter.
SEBI approved share market advisor ensures steady quarterly returns on the investment in multiple portfolios. He would be looking closely at quarterly sales figures due out early next year. Looking at the myself now, I feel more accomplished, fulfilled intrinsically than I was one year ago. Looking over the last year, it is bonds that have suffered a bad year, while stocks have done well. While the S&P 500 had a particularly bad week, the rest of the world felt the pain, with only one index (Colombo, Sri Lanka) on the WSJ international index list showing positive returns for the week. In fact, Asia presents a dichotomy, with the larger markets (China, Japan) among the worst hit and the smaller markets in South Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines) showing up on the least affected list. You can see, even from this limited list of scenarios, that to assess how stock prices will move, as interest rates change, you have to also make a judgment on why interest rates are moving. Most of these breakouts will have minor pullback at best and just go up for 2 to 6 weeks before having a reaction. JAZZ should be on all traders radars for the next two weeks at least.
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Exploring Online Marketing In Relation To Creating Wealth From Home
Ancient Coins can also be bought directly from the Microsoft Store. Princess dresses and equipment moved to this front nook of the store. The Ships of Fortune update added cats: Ragamuffin, Mau, and Wildcat, whereas the last pets got here with the Vaults of the Ancients update, including three species of canines: Alsatians, Whippets, and Inus. Reopening final month, Chrissie and Jules Aplin of The Phoenix boutiques mentioned it's "actually great to be back open again", with stock ranging from furnishings to books and clothes. VAN WERT - Dairy Barn emporium and Harvest Happenings is scheduled for 11 a.m. 8 p.m. Sunday and Monday, 9 a.m. Open for drive-thru pickup 11 a.m. We are additionally attempting to get Swaffham Town Council to get a statue in the city as it is important to have something that might be there for a very long time and which can help individuals realise what he did for the city.
Mrs Allen is the good-niece of Carter and mentioned she wish to see a statue built for the archaeologist as part of the centenary celebrations in two years time. It’s type of like running a zone protection on a family; they’ll eat you up on man-to-man coverage. Offering our readers free access to incisive protection of native information, food and tradition. Tutankhamun's emporium, located in the market Place, has a bistro serving Egyptian food akin to tagine and lamb. Most of his childhood was spent in the market town, whereas a few of his relations are buried there. The preliminary replace included Monkeys and Parrots, whereas the Seabound Soul replace added the Marmoset and Cockatoo. The Disney Music emporium is having a Birthday Blowout Someday Sale on Wednesday, June 24th, together with the launch of a number of new merchandise. Manage Offers in order to indicate the sale of the day on the home page.
“I’ve been informed by just about everybody across the nation that take-out was difficult and never profitable, however I had to give it a strive in order to hope to outlast the shutdowns and our government’s bungled response to the pandemic,” Boudreau stated over e mail. Canon proprietor Jamie Boudreau made the choice not to reopen at limited capacity based on the bar’s smaller measurement mixed with the uncertainty of the approaching months. Compounding this resolution is the ever-looming presence of this year's tumultuous events. Walking into Canon is surely a distinct expertise than before. Our workforce will probably be following all safety protocols to ensure a protected dining expertise. Along with your camera wholly equipped with polarizing filters, all of the reflections in your images which obscure the defining lines, as in reflections from water, metallic and glass surfaces might be lowered favorably bettering the intensive hues of the sky and foliage. Mixed media jewellery incorporating pre-fabricated textiles, textile strips created by stitching beads collectively, leather, cord, rope, and metallic.
Northern Virginia is among three areas throughout the country that may benefit from a Housing Equity Fund being created by Amazon. It is simply individuals being snowflakes. These kinds of TVs offers the newest options by which people can connect with internet and might entry World Wide Web, social media platforms, Skype and so many more features. The bar is providing service two methods - a walk-up takeout window with booze and prepared-to-eat meals available for on-line pre-order and a walk-in mercantile selling glassware, booze, limited entrees to accompany alcohol purchases and extra. Warpigs Brewing ‘Four Phantoms’ Popup Bar (August three - 5, 2018): Come rejoice the first anniversary of the legendary beer collaboration of 3 Floyds & Mikkeller. Inslee not too long ago tightened restaurant and tavern guidelines, prohibiting bar seating and reside music. Inside the lobby is a seating area with a Tv for watching films and enjoying video games, as well as an area for enjoying chess. Mr Allen has produced some hieroglyphics for the partitions at the location as effectively. He knows they have been working arduous through the pandemic as properly.
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Wet Markets And Food Laws In India: What Is Needed To Make Sure Safety And Hygiene?
While cash spent on in-house or inner cybersecurity functions is anticipated to grow 7.2% every year to 2026, international spending on exterior cybersecurity services and products is projected to extend by 8.4% annually over the same period. What’s extra, nearly 90% of households who personal stock accomplish that by means of a tax-deferred retirement account, that means they can’t access the cash until they attain retirement age, except they pay a penalty, Wolff mentioned. In a submit-COVID-19 world, cybersecurity is as crucial as Internet entry itself. The worldwide cybersecurity boutiques near me is at the moment price $173B in 2020, rising to $270B by 2026. By 2026, 77% of cybersecurity spending shall be for externally managed security companies. Cybersecurity now dominates the priorities of each organization as each adapts to a post-COVID 19 world. That is what Zero Trust Security was designed for, and the post-pandemic world is its acid take a look at and crucible. To study extra about how zero belief works, make sure to watch Forrester Principal Analyst Dr. Chase Cunningham’s video, Zero Trust, in Practice here.
It’s not that top-development stocks don’t promote off in a market crash, however they recuperate extra quickly and rally more furiously after a crash. But latest moves within the markets apparently have compelled Gross back to delivering his month-to-month market outlooks, not to mention the conclusion of his authorized dispute with his neighbor, which included his blasting of the “Gilligan’s Island” theme track. Policy sources have stated that the central financial institution will scale again help for the economic system in 2021 and cool credit development however that fears of derailing a restoration from a pandemic-induced stoop and debt defaults are probably to stop it from tightening any time quickly. Rising property values benefit homeowners but make it more durable for aspiring residence buyers to break into the market, mentioned Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Tax Policy Center, a joint enterprise between the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. Because most customers accumulate the vast majority of their wealth by their houses, a rise in property values can present a extra substantial enhance to household wealth than a inventory market rally, said William Emmons, lead economist on the St. Louis Fed’s Center for Household Financial Stability. “Consumers are a lot more cautious,” she mentioned.
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Carry a small bottle of hand sanitizer with you, and use it steadily. If you aren't able to scrub your arms, use an alcohol-primarily based sanitizer. We're proud to serve our community on this important service, and we're monitoring the scenario and health advisories intently. Like grocery shops and different meals retail shops, farmers boutiques near me s serve an essential function as an important source of contemporary vegetables and food staples for our neighborhood. It is our agency conviction that farmers markets are essential to community meals security. We are communicating with our workers and market distributors regularly to reinforce health and safety precautions. With increasing issues in regards to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Manitoba , we take your health and security very significantly. Stocks have been slightly lower Monday as considerations over a brand new Covid-19 pressure within the United Kingdom countered hope for Congress passing a coronavirus stimulus deal. The fluctuating costs of the stocks dynamically mirror the traders to assist them make prompt choices about the shelf life of the stock.
6. Selecting Best Stock Tips for business - Choosing the proper to invest is a very powerful side of stock trading. At this point, we'll keep our farmers’ market open until in any other case directed by officials, and we encourage everyone to remain wholesome, inventory up on recent meals and pantry items, and help your native producers. Farmers markets present direct access to healthy, nutritious foods, whereas additionally supporting the livelihoods of local farmers, meals makers, artisans, and chefs. The variety of instances has been rising rapidly in many European international locations, and whereas authorities don't appear ready to return to the tough restrictions on public life that they imposed in the spring, the brand new wave of the pandemic threatens the financial outlook. We're limiting the quantity of people getting into at any given time. We're advising our distributors and staff to remain dwelling if they feel sick, and we're waiving cancellation fees for any vendors who need to cancel. Eating freshly ready, wholesome food is one of the best methods to maintain our immune systems robust when we'd like it most. While we love the group gathering side of our market, throughout this time, we request that you simply choose up the gadgets you need for healthy meals, and not linger.
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U.S. Jumped To A Record Sunday
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Stock Market Analysis: 01/17/11
If a company is doing well, i.e, they are marking profits or are making greater profits, prices of a unique boutique can go up. In practice though, splitting shares has no material long term effect on the company doing it - and nor should it - and rarely does much for liquidity. The theory of stock splits is that by making shares "cheaper" it increases liquidity and enables more people to own shares. The main effect a stock split has is to allow short term investors to make good quick profits based on the typical rise of the pre-split share price and then dump the shares before the stock splits. What allures them in the first place is the possible of escalated ROI (Return on Investment) in a short span of time. If you are after a good long-term investment now could be the time to buy and of course short term investors will be having a ball with this stock. Albeit glowing lights are all the more much of the time utilized as a part of private lighting applications, some business lighting installations likewise utilized this innovation.
If you have reached the point in your business adventures where you find yourself in need of a new office, then it’s time to give yourself a high five. A profit down from last year nonetheless but a result that shows promise for better to come and a well managed business in very troubled times. This is somewhat offset by a small increase in customer numbers, significant for the company as they have been losing customers over the last year or so. Bad if you bought at the peak of the buying frenzy over the last year but good if you are the patient little tortoise just peeking out from under your shell again. The main reason I bought this company is its status as a near monopoly in a fast growing sector that is protected by the capital outlay and political problems that another port competitor would face, so it has a great little competitive moat around it. OccuLogix Inc. (TEAR) - Shares of OccuLogix Inc. were on fire Thursday after the company released positive news. Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) - Shares of Cisco Systems, Inc. broke through $22.52 resistance on Monday.
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Maria Callas
Maria Callas wearing a black crepe wool dress by Biki, photo by Richard Avedon, Milan, 1955.
Elvira Leonardi Bouyeure, with the artist name Biki, was one of the most noted names of the ‘50s fashion scene in Milan. Granddaughter of Giacomo Puccini, the majority of her affluential clients were tightly connected to the famous La Scala opera theatre and the Milan’s culture circles. Style-wise, in her designs we can notice the elegant Milan lines meeting the luxurious haute couture influence of the Alta Moda of Roma school, coming together in a mesmerizing symbiosis.
Maria Callas was her most famous client. The Milanese seamstress carries out an important transformation of the singer's style: "She weighed almost a hundred kilos, she was dressed like a “sciuretta” (Milanese slang for a mid-class lady). In one season she became a diva. "The first time Biki saw Maria, she was enlightened by how much beauty to hear her sing, how disappointed she was in her appearance, so much so that she was able to tell her that she would never look after her. IN 1953 after six months, Maria loses thirty pounds and is ready. Suddenly Biki's criticisms are put aside and she devotes all her knowledge to it.
Biki will design dresses, jackets and coats with shapes and fabrics that enhance the qualities of that body and hide its defects. The boat necklines will disguise the powerful décolleté, the long gloves will be contemplated by structured dresses, pleats and draperies will be designed specifically to lighten the figure - beloved by Biki herself - will carry it upwards and give it an even more elegant air, a string of pearls if it is undecided on the accessory it will be the perfect solution, the shawl to accompany it in delicate and distinct movements. Each garment of the singer is numbered and detailed notes explain how to wear each outfit and with which accessories.
Thus the Image that Maria deserved is born, in tune with her majestic voice, to the point of making her a real Diva ... in all aspects of her personality and her life.
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