Lunar and Far Out

I'm not normally into fashion round-ups, summaries and re-caps that fashion media relies on so much to disseminate information out there in easy-to-digest bitesize chunks, because I never seem to have the foresight to 'summarise' in my head.  I'm a simple child I am... give me obvious pointers and FINALLY, I'll maybe put two and two together and form a coherent strand in my head. 

In this case, I've put one and one and one together to make a 'round-up' of jewellery collections that have all been flying to the moon, travelling through back to art deco/nouveau times and then landing back down on Earth in a heap of dusty, dry arid-heated craters.  It makes a whole lot of sense to simple me when it's some space odyssey/desert adventure.  The interesting (as well as comforting) thing is that despite all three designers taking their jewllery on far-flung journeys with slightly similar inspiration points, the actual execution of their collections have all taken very different turns...

Carianne Moore - Have written about milliner, accessories AND jewellery designer pushing it forward with her headgear but her latest collection I feel has pushed her jewellery MOORE and I'm thinking it's the 'lunar' influence that has done the trick.

Title: "Lunar Nights" S/S 10

The Blurb: "Miss Moore introduces her ‘Lunar Nights’ S/S10 collection of futuristic Jewellery, Handbags and Hats inspired by her love for 1920’s Science Fiction. Influenced by fictional stories of life beyond the stars and the 1920’s organic design movement inspired by nature, ‘Lunar Nights’ collection is a science fiction story"

Materials: Dragonscale, painted stingray, Swarovski crystals, wood panels, straw, antique brass, pearl

Colours: Malachite green, spinel blue, citrine yellow.(I just had to put these in because it really makes me think about the way I need to define colours... )

Estelle Deve - This is French-born, Australia-based Estelle's second collection but looking back on her first collection you wouldn't think it was the same designer's work because Lunar Mare is such an escalated progression from the first, by ramping up the level of strong simplicity in the pieces.  Deve's e-shop is also up and running to buy the S/S 10 collection if you fancy these tubular beauties.

Title: Lunar Mare S/S 10

The Blurb: "Lunar Mare is a ceremony of cinematic space odysseys (depicted in movies such as Dune and Stargate), aesthetics of centuries old African tribes and Grecian myths. The end result is surprisingly submerged in decorative elements of the Art Deco movement. Each unique concoction is named after a location of the moon, the closest celestial body that stands between our Earth and infinity."

Materials: Leather, clear resin, precious gold-plated pewter.

 

 

MANIAMANIA - I've never seen the inspirator film of this collection 'The Holy Mountain' but after flipping through their stunning lookbook, I'll definitely go and seek it out.  Designed by stylist Tamila Purvis and Melanie Kamsler, this is Australian label ManiaMania's first collection.  These are definitely pieces that require severe piling on with minimal clothing foundations (maybe not AS minimal as the lookbook suggeest...) but I love that how the images are sort of making me actually run into the desert completely starkers but fully adorned.

Title: Real Life Awaits Us S/S 10

The Blurb: "The range is integrally inspired by director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain, a 1973 surrealist film collaboration with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the symbolic story of a spiritual quest for cosmic enlightenment."

Materials: Molten metal, calcite crystal, metal beads, silver and soft leather.

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Fed Takes No Action, Citing Signs of Moderate Growth

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Fed Takes No Action, Citing Signs of Moderate Growth
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that it was closing the books on 2011, maintaining its existing efforts to increase growth but adding no reinforcement amid evidence that the American economy was chugging back toward health.
The central bank will enter next year as it entered this one, in a stance of hopeful exhaustion, optimistic the economy is gaining strength, worried about setbacks and doubtful it can do much more to hasten recovery.
Equity investors, who have been the major beneficiaries of the Fed’s efforts to help growth, immediately responded with disappointment over the absence of any clear hint of new windfalls. Major market indexes recorded quick drops, reversing early gains. The benchmark Standard &Poor’s 500-stock index fell 0.87 percent on the day.
But the Fed left open the possibility that it would take additional steps next year, including an expected effort at improving public understanding of its goals and methods to increase the impact of its policies and disarm its critics.
The Fed’s policy-making committee said its optimism about the economy was tempered by the persistence of unemployment, the blighted housing market, the deceleration of global growth and the risk of a European crash.
“The committee continues to uggs boots onsale  expect a moderate pace of economic growth over coming quarters and consequently anticipates that the unemployment rate will decline only gradually,” it said in a statement. “Strains in global financial markets continue to pose significant downside risks to the economic outlook.”
The decision was supported by nine of 10 members of the Federal Open Market Committee. Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, once again dissented, arguing that the Fed should act immediately to help growth, fulfilling its responsibility to help the millions of Americans who cannot find jobs.
Notwithstanding the nervous twitching of stock markets, the committee’s decision to do nothing was widely anticipated. One analyst joked that the most exciting thing about the statement was the timing of its release about three minutes ahead of schedule. Another titled his note to clients, “Dull Dull Dull.”
“You could almost call it a yawner,” said Eric Stein, a fixed-income portfolio manager at Eaton Vance, a Boston investment firm. “But I think we’ll see something bigger come January. The center of the committee, despite the fact that U.S. growth is looking stronger, they’re always going to err on the side of doing more.”
The dynamics of the internal debate also will shift next year. Four of the seats on the policy-making committee are held on a rotating basis by the presidents of the Fed’s regional banks. Three of the current four have argued that the Fed already has done too much to stimulate growth, creating the largest bloc of dissenting votes on the committee since the early 1990s. Only one of their replacements is regarded as similarly likely to break ranks with the Fed’s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke.
“It certainly suggests that as we go into the new construct, you will have a more accommodative committee, a bit more proactive,” said Steven Ricchiuto, chief economist at the broker-dealer Mizuho Securities USA.
Mr. Stein and other observers said they were eager to read the fuller description of this meeting that the Fed will publish on Jan. 3 because the committee had planned to discuss on Tuesday possible changes in the information that it provides to the public, including a forecast of its likely decisions about short-term interest rates.
The January meeting affords a convenient opportunity to announce such a change. Mr. Bernanke is scheduled hold a news conference after the meeting, on Jan. 25, and the Fed will release its regular forecast of other economic data.
Fed officials say such a forecast could bolster growth modestly, reducing borrowing costs for businesses and consumers, by convincing investors the central bank will keep interest rates near zero for longer than expected.
The impact would be limited because such a forecast most likely would cover three years, running through 2014, and asset prices based on investor expectations on interest rates already reflect an assumption that the Fed will keep rates near zero through the end of 2013.
Articulating its goals and methods also could help the Fed to justify any new efforts to aid growth. But such efforts, viewed as inevitable by many Fed watchers earlier this year, become less likely as the economy improves.
The statement reflected the Fed’s increased optimism, describing “some improvement” in labor markets instead of “continuing weakness.” And the Fed now appears to view the struggles of foreign economies as the greatest risk.
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The December meeting convened on the third anniversary of the Fed’s decision to hold short-term interest rates near zero, a policy it has said that it plans to continue through at least the middle of 2013 and possibly longer.
The meeting also was held on Mr. Bernanke’s 58th birthday.

Bankitalia: ricchezza delle famiglie italiane in calo

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Le famiglie italiane restano più ricche e meno indebitate che nel resto dell’Europa, ma si sono impoverite negli ultimi anni. È questa la fotografia tracciata da Bankitalia nel supplemento al bollettino statistico su “La ricchezza delle famiglie italiane”. Secondo i dati diffusi oggi da Via Nazionale, infatti, alla fine del 2010 la ricchezza complessiva, in termini reali (a prezzi costanti) è diminuita dell’1,5% rispetto alla fine del 2009. E se si torna all’inizio della crisi finanziaria, cioè dalla fine del 2007 – quando è stato raggiunto il massimo di 8,9 miliardi – il calo della ricchezza è stato del 3,2 per cento. La ricchezza netta complessiva a prezzi correnti, invece, è rimasta invariata tra la fine del 2009 e quella del 2010.
Il trend negativo prosegue anche nel 2011
Le stime preliminari sul 2011, suggeriscono i tecnici di Via Nazionale, confermano poi la tendenza negativa. È vero, sottolinea infatti Bankitalia, che «nel primo semestre 2011 la ricchezza netta delle famiglie sarebbe leggermente aumentata in termini nominali (0,4%) per effetto di un aumento delle attività sia reali (1,2%) sia finanziarie (o,4%)», ma «tenuto conto dell’andamento degli indici di prezzo» nei primi sei mesi dell’anno «si conferma unan moderata tendenza flettente della ricchezza netta in termini reali».

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Agli italiani piace il mattone
Alla fine del 2010, secondo i dati di Bankitalia, la ricchezza lorda delle famiglie italiane era pari a circa 9.525 miliardi di euro, corrispondenti a poco meno di 400mila euro in media per famiglia. Le attività reali rappresentavano il 62,2% della ricchezza lorda e le attività finanziarie il 37,8 per cento. Sempre a fine 2010 le passività finanziarie, pari a 887 miliardi di euro, rappresentavano il 9,3% delle attività complessive. Alla fine del 2010, circa la metà della ricchezza della famiglie era detenuta in abitazioni (circa 4.950 miliardi di euro). «In termini nominali – emerge dai dati Bankitalia – la ricchezza abitativa è aumentata dell’1% rispetto alla fine del 2009 (-0,5 per cento in termini reali). L’aumento delle attività reali (1,1%) è stato compensato da una diminuzione delle attività finanziarie (0,8%) e da un aumento delle passività (4,2%)».
Ricchezza concentrata in poche mani
La ricchezza delle famiglie italiane, si legge poi nel report di Bankitalia, è concentrata nelle mani di pochi, con il 10% dei nuclei familiari più ricchi che possiede quasi la metà (45%) della ricchezza complessiva. «La distribuzione della ricchezza è caratterizzata da un elevato grado di concentrazione: molte famiglie detengono livelli modesti o nulli di ricchezza e, all’opposto, poche famiglie dispongono di una ricchezza elevata». Alla fine del 2008, spiega Via Nazionale, «la metà più povera delle famiglie italiane deteneva il 10% cento della ricchezza totale, mentre il 10% più ricco deteneva quasi il 45% della ricchezza complessiva».
Cambia il portafoglio: più liquidità, meno titoli di Stato e azioni
Il calo della ricchezza ha inoltre determinato un cambio di rotta nei portafogli finanziari delle famiglie italiane: più liquidità, meno azioni e meno titoli di Stato, in particolare italiani: Secondi i dati di Via Nazionale,le famiglie hanno premiato i depositi in conto corrente e il risparmio postale, le cui quote di ricchezza finanziaria sono ulteriormente cresciute rispetto al 2009 (rispettivamente di 0,2 e 0,4 punti percentuali). Rispetto al 2009, invece, la quota di ricchezza detenuta in titoli pubblici italiani si è ridotta di quasi un punto percentuale così come quella detenuta in azioni e partecipazioni (un punto percentuale), completamente ascrivibile alla riduzione della quota di titoli italiani. Per Bankitalia è continuata, invece, la «ripresa, seppur debole, della ricchezza detenuta dalle famiglie in fondi comuni d’investimento dopo la caduta del 2008».
Bene il confronto con l’Europa
Nonostante il calo della ricchezza, però, Moncler Outlet gli italiani vincono il confronto internazionale. Le famiglie della penisola mostrano, infatti un elevato livello di ricchezza, pari, nel 2009, «a 8,3 volte il reddito disponibile, contro l’8 del Regno Unito, il 7,5 della Francia, il 7 del Giappone, il 5,5 del Canada e il 4,9 degli Stati Uniti)». Continua a restare basso anche il livello di indebitamento: l’ammontare dei debiti è pari all’82% del reddito disponibile (in Francia e in Germania è di circa il 100%, negli Stati Uniti e in Giappone é del 130%, nel Regno Unito del 170%).