Collezioni Close Up: Leather & Fur

WWD.COM captures news and trends as they happen, providing fashion, retail and beauty industry leaders worldwide with 24/7 access to the information and tools they need to run their business.

Shopgids.nl is a 'social shopping' site and focuses on the nicest shopping addresses in The Netherlands. These addresses are collated by Shopgids and its content partners: Yes, Viva and Flair.

There is also an important area set aside for shop owners and users; they can add relevant addresses. Users can create their favourite shopping route, print it out and take it into town.

On Shopgids.nl there is place for eating, drinking, sleeping and doing. Spot a Shop is aimed at women between 20 and 30 years old and was set up in March 2008.

Prim articulates a vision of fashion through the prism of art. Each of its lavish full-page photographic excursions into the many-layered world of fashion conjures up unique expressions of stylistic sensibility. The fabulous photography coaxes up moods varying from the nonchalant and introspective, to the edgy and disaffected, to the extravagant and risqué. The aspiration of the photographer is seemingly lifted from mere craft to the rarified realm of art. Demonstrating sensitivity, finesse, and artistic flair, the photography itself can command the distinction of being artful and worthy of visual interest rivaling the subject of its very own lens. Each issue of Prim spotlights innovative and daring designers, photographers, and artists who are pushing the envelope of contemporary fashion into the mysterious unknown. Prim has that aura of mystique that devotees of fashion covet.

Deliciae Vitae: for men of the world In 1983, aged 18, I approached one of Europe’s leading publishers of adult material with my idea for a stylishly superior men’s publication. I knew there was a market for an international magazine that was classy, luxurious and sexy but which was fundamentally not about porn. I mean if that's all you want you can get it anywhere, right? They laughed me out of the building...

Another 18 years on, the culture of photography and publishing has come a very long way. Having worked as a fashion designer for much of the intervening period I've been struck how much fashion, and particularly fashion photographers have embraced sex and sexuality in advertising and editorial fashion shoots for men and women.

Ultimately, as the fashion industry knows very well, it's the image - the way someone (or something) is photographed - that makes them desirable. The medium - as they say - is the message. Which explains why certain fashion photographers have become as famous as film directors.

Deliciae Vitae is an independent bi-annual publication, of deliberate, unashamedly luxurious excess. Autonomous and unconstrained in a world of ever more increasing conglomerate fashion.

In this, its first issue, beautiful women from across the globe are photographed by the very best fashion and art photographers to give pleasure to the most sophisticated of palates. But such sophistication is indulged just as much by fine writing. So look out for features on the eternal sexual chemistry of champagne, the elitist joys of supersonic travel or the return of the ultimate pop playboy Bryan Ferry. Deliciae Vitae is not meant to appeal to everyone. But then, you're not everyone, are you?

PLANET is an independent culture and lifestyle magazine focusing on art, fashion, music, film, travel, the environment, and design - all from a uniquely eclectic and international perspective.

Like contemporary culture itself, PLANET defies simple categorization. They are both sophisticated and bohemian. Smart and sexy. Hedonistic and socially aware.