Hermes new Speaker of the House Metro Crest

  Lisa Urban Hermes, a leader of the award-winning rooms, was appointed president of the Metro Crest Chamber of Commerce, a strong coalition of leaders in Carrollton, Addison and Farmers Branch areas are committed to the promotion of business and education.


Hermes creates Tracy Eubanks, a contribute to a new momentum and enthusiasm for the house create credited Metro Crest leaders. Eubanks took a position as CEO of Metro Crest Social Services.

Eubanks said, "It is of utmost importance to us that we not only someone with years of experience in management and to find in the room, but also someone who could take the excitement that our members create and build on it."

He added: "I know that this room is in good hands and I look forward to working with Lisa and our collective team Metro Crest for our community."

Hermes has previously served as vice president of the Lewisville Area Chamber of Commerce, where she led the financial management and strategic planning efforts, and manages all special events, including golf tournaments, conferences and lunch.

She worked closely with the Director of Leadership Committee to improve the curriculum for Lewisville leadership program and also worked with regional leaders to plan Denton County Days.

Before that Hermes was as President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Rowlett, where they set up the first job fair in Rowlett, expands the government's program deals with new events and supervised local grassroots campaign ShopRowlettNow.com the store. Hermes 101 and 202 also serves on the Chamber of Commerce McKinney as Director of Communications and Public Policy, where she planned and organized Candidate School, a program the best program of the new Government House Affairs named Commerce Executives of Texas in 2007.

Hermes is no stranger to the economy and society, she was also chief editor of Inside Collin County Business and editor for Star Community Newspapers. She is a graduate of the Institute for Organizational Management and Leadership McKinney.

"From a strategic point of view, the room is a great place and well equipped for significant future growth," said Jamie Robertson, president of Capital Bank Plain Carrollton and 2013 President of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Metro Crest. "Tracy gave the room a new life with a solid foundation and we know that Lisa's extensive experience and ideas will help us to continue and expand the mission of the room with a fresh perspective and innovative approach. Having Lisa lead our team will be directly benefit those that space on a daily basis is. "

Hermes uses Metro Crest Room at an exciting time. In 2012, under the direction of increased Eubanks, new membership by 55 percent, sales rose by 49.9 percent and the room was 117 percent more profitable.

New programs and revitalized traditions have a new energy in the room, which is active in a Business Lunch and Learn seminars, networking events, galas prices and educational opportunities inspired. Events and initiatives such as the Forum for Women in Business, Celebrate Metro Crest! Allow Breakfast and seminar center Lunch and networking events, members and guests the opportunity to meet with fellow leaders in community building networks and creating opportunities for mutually beneficial business relationship.

"The Crest Metro Chamber is a dynamic organization. I am delighted to join the team as we continue the positive momentum that Tracy, the board and staff have created in the past two years," said Hermes. "I had the chance, members who already long-time supporter of the room to get to know and the history of the organization. I am looking forward to develop Metro Crest and we build members and the programs and services it provides to the economy. "

Louis Vuitton sheath dress Olivia Palermo

  Olivia Palermo fashion skills to pull one else can. I've learned the hard way when I ordered the peach jacket Zara last week and I found myself drowning in derision.

Still, it's hard not to look at each style of movement total admiration. Last night was no exception. The petite brunette rocked a structured shift dress with funky pockets and an oversized Peter Pan collar for the opening of the Louis Vuitton store in Germany. gold bracelets and a necklace were coordinating accessories for the event. Polish red and smoky eyes captivating explanations of striking beauty.

Perhaps we will never know what her powers to work in a position on it, but someone please cut the top of his secrets foundation flawlessly!

Fashion Means Business | Garance Doré and Scott Schuman

  NEW YORK, USA - The Business of Blogging is an important issue for a long time on BoF. While

many have treated as nothing more than a novelty or a fad in the media, bloggers, we were

proud of the choice to sit and watch with the most influential bloggers in the industry as

they gain publicity and monetization of their profession. And our first interview with the

inimitable Susie Bubble, we have shown that for some influential voices, blogging is a serious

matter indeed, and there are many ways to monetize a blog mode.

Back in 2005, long before the social media revolution has changed the fashion industry swept,

a fashion enthusiast company began named Scott Schuman to share photos on a blog called Simply

The Sartorialist, after the success of the Design Sponge blog from outside the fashion

industry, which has served as inspiration. Of course, Mr. Schuman could not believe that he

now gives rise to a widespread phenomenon called "street style", which has been an integral

part of the experience of the week to lead the fashion.

Today, Mr. Schuman is a photographer published successfully, having sold more than 100,000

copies of his first book, and works what is described as a media company producing niche

books, events, products and partnerships is of course the Sartorialist website itself. As if

to underline its longevity, it remains the number one blogger in the regular style 99 fashion

blogger ranking, despite losing all pinching his heels.

But the story is not all. It would be too easy.

A few years later, in 2008, Mr. Schuman Garance Doré met for the first time in Paris. She

blogs to share with his illustrations online experiments and the two became fast friends.

Schuman immediately saw the potential of women and Doré are encouraged to reach beyond their

comfort zone and start taking photographs. As it turns out, Schuman has a smart bet and the

divine Ms. Doré quickly developed into one of the most prominent (and internationally

recognized) bloggers in the industry, with a unique perspective of his own. She earns her

living from a combination of advertising revenue and co-brand and has recently focused on the

content of the video, for which she was operated to create the luxury conglomerate PPR and

Sportswear a series of short films for the change in name of the group Kering , the action

will take place in June.

Today Schuman and Doré are partners in life and business partners. Was jointly CFDA Eugenia

Sheppard Media Award prices last year, she also won the respect of an industry that now she

has embraced - and fashion blogs in general.

Thus, in the final days of the campaign Voice Webby Award for the people, we greet all our

brothers in blogs, Diane Pernet, fashion blogger original and Susie Bubble, the last names to

reach the summit, Emily Weiss of Into the Gloss, and Leandra Medine, aka The Man Repeller.

These are our latest examples of how fashion is serious.

Aragon Joyce Chanel top

  Imagine, like any other day in your life, you wake and get ready to go to school. You have 14 years.

Dresses are eaten breakfast packed backpack. The clock is ticking. You are late. Your mother takes forever.

What's taking so long?

Suddenly, your stepfather tells you they do not wake up. A little freaked out, you storm into her bedroom and found her unconscious. Call 911 and emergency personnel arrive. After reviving your mother to wheel it away, but not before she tells you "do not miss school because of it."

You do not know, but in two short months after being diagnosed with lymphoma, sleepless nights and a series of operations, your mother is dead.

Your best friend is gone.

What do you do?

Chanel Joyce Aragon is a warrior - a Don named, yes, but a warrior at heart. Wednesday, surrounded by 60 of his closest supporters, the older signed on the dotted line, accepting a scholarship, volleyball for the Golden Eagles of the University of Southern Mississippi play.

Stories of athletes to sign on the dotted line to play at a higher level are not clear. But Joyce is certainly. And everyone knows the old gym Aragon, who came to celebrate his personal milestone.

There was cake, lots of black and gold, laughter, pictures, and a very important speech, when Joyce those who knew of its closer than blood, sweat and tears of the past three years, told God lives dedicated and especially his mother.

Yes, they found the unconscious that morning in November. One who died of cancer on 20 December 2009. The same they never really had a chance to say goodbye.

The joy in the gym was far died only three years ago by the sadness in the hospital room where they lie next to his mother in a coma, brandy, lying with her daughter next to her was - if even thought to pick up a volleyball was stupid .

"It was so surreal," Joyce said, recalling the death of his mother. "It's as if I did not think it could happen. When my best friend, my mother just died."

Joyce said that his mother had for a few years before doctors discovered ill several tumors in his brain - this time his mother was sicker than the normal days. And Joyce said his disbelief in hope and positive outlook doctors her mother was rooted, got them and their family.

Well mother, Joyce became a hermit, bitter world. His first year at Aragon was struggling with young people to make sense of the horrific tragedy of life.

The only thing that was kept out of his desire to fulfill one of his mother's last wishes was to play Brandy Chanel, volleyball. So in autumn 2011, Joyce has black and red for the Dons, and once again, changed his whole life on.

"I started playing volleyball for my anger," Joyce said. "That's what they wanted to play (the mother) to me. I did not want to play volleyball. My mother wanted me to play."

Joyce once stepped on the volleyball court, there was no denying his incredible athletic. In the 5-9 sophomore has the ability to jump to much higher blocks had met. And its ability to defend was strange for a girl of her size.

"It is certainly the most athletic in this area for some time," Young said Kelsey Stiles, Aragon assistant head coach and club Joyce.

Ah yes, style coach. It is here that we come to a triumphant very important part of the story of Joyce. So she decided to join the volleyball team, it was always somewhat distant Joyce unfolds on the season. And it is only the chance for a conversation in the first part of the season donations Joyce took a step toward healing has.

Stiles recalls: "One day, she just kind of looks at me ... We were on the bench and she is sitting next to me and said." Do you hear something really sad? And this is the first time that they had actually spoken to me instead of me coaching her, and I said. "Of course, we are in the middle of a game, but whatever"

Joyce Stiles went on to say a trip pending Chico, to mourn the death of his grandfather.

"She said," Can you imagine losing your daughter and your husband in the same year? "

Joyce spoke of his grandmother, who both lost in the same year.

The chance of the conversation was to instruct its choice Stiles is the first step on the road to Joyce. She said she did not know exactly what led them to do, but sometimes there are higher powers involved that can not be explained.

Both near and grew was sister like. Joyce Stiles took under his wing and brought them to the Team Xtreme 650 Club, where they play ground Joyce Gross athletic ability.

But few know how to style an influence on Joyce's life.

Less than a year after this conversation on the bench Aragon, Stiles father was diagnosed with cancer. Three months later he died. And a pillar of hope Stiles was the girl from San Mateo, knew exactly what style, 24 years went by.

"I felt as if she was a role model," Joyce said, "someone I could turn. When my mother died, she was there for me. So I have a feeling that when his father died, I for they had to be there I have to be ready to get up and I said Kelsey.. "Looking for you"

So help Stiles and his family navigate through the difficulties of loss, Joyce turned the corner of his own healing. His extended family has grown by Stiles and his church. Joyce was a belief in God restored. And hours in the gym, Joyce was one of the most complete players in the Peninsula Athletic League - anchoring the attention of a handful of volleyball programs.

"When my mother died, it made me more mature," Joyce said. "He showed me that life is a very different picture. Watching my mother, she was a single mother, so she had to mature quickly. So that showed me that times are tough, they help you grow as a person. I had to do to help me. My mother wants me to. "

And his mother stressed the importance of education - to play by signing Southern Miss Joyce performs another of his mother's will.

"I think this kid is so strong, it drives me literally every day," Stiles said, further, the importance of the guard Joyce, Barbara Barley. "The things they had to overcome in the situation, I mean a handful, I'll tell you, but by what they experienced to go -. 14 years, they fought, and see where it is now, and if they can handle it, it can overcome that, "Why can not I do this, this and this? "

"Everything is possible," Joyce said. "I know that now. My mother died when I was 14, and I refuse to go but everywhere, to the top."

And a steady increase in the NCAA Division I is not hard to imagine that someone with a fighting spirit like Joyce.

Muslim Turkish fashion designers Chic Style

   In Istanbul, on a recent Friday it was time to send the page proofs Ala magazine to the printer. Ala, the "most beautiful of the beautiful" is the first publication of the fashion world for conservative Muslim women not his office as a bastion of traditional Islam feels means. Spoke only models, photo shoots, deadlines and accessories.

Zeynep Hasoğlu, new editor of Ala, sitting behind a huge desk, his brown eyes magnified with black eyeliner and mascara. She is wearing a black blazer with matching pants, small weighted by a massive rhinestone necklace base levels. the heels complete her outfit, a look that many of his readers want. "We try to international fashion for women, without our values ​​to mediate," Hasoğlu said. She wanders through her iPad as she describes an unmet need for rich women, money to burn, but little understanding of how to spend it. You know nothing about Islamic designers know, because the Muslim fashion is a word of mouth industry.

Ala., launched in 2011, is the leading provider of these women want. It has models scarfs with well-designed outfits in the latest colors. A recent article titled "looooooong skirts!" Provides guidance in the design of rock and mix and match. Section A recurring visit Istiklal street, the promenade of central detail on the European side of Istanbul to photograph women in fashion, but conservative. As many readers of Ala, they sport sleeves that revealed falling at least until the middle of the forearm and no bare leg. But with their headscarves, they wear jeans and boots or skirts and jackets close to the body.

Taha Yasin Toraman Etesettür.com started 15 months ago. It is for Turkish hijab, the veil worn by Muslim women practitioners. The website sells black cloaks that cover the entire body and tight jackets that hug the waist. "There are many sites that offer online sales in Turkey, but there was none for conservative women," Toraman said. He launched a website in English in August for the rest of the Muslim world.

The fashion industry in Turkey has its critics, who denounce the idea that conservative women wear modern clothes flattering. Women should prefer to avoid attracting attention to themselves, as Islam calls. Women dress has long been a controversial topic. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern secular Turkey in the 1920s, Turkish women are not invited her hair. Following a military coup in 1980 temporarily checked the rise of Islamist parties, the government banned the headscarf for students and staff. The ban was partially lifted in 2010.

Under Sunni Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has a decade of prosperity, has witnessed the birth of a Muslim middle class. It is widely used in the media that nearly 60 percent of Turkish women wear a head covering now reported. Mehmet Dursun CEO Armine, the leading distributor of Islamic way of Turkey's cornered the market on a local scarf nine years ago before it. A single brand for the Muslims of the middle class The dealer has a line of home clothes, shoes, handbags and soon in the same factory that makes Michael Kors bags are made. Armine clothing and accessories are sold in stores in 1400, including the United States, the Netherlands and the UK. Gross revenue in 2012 was $ 56 million. "I want to be conservative Hermes on the line more," Dursun said.

The only thing missing in the fashion scene in Turkey is branded designer: The majority of working in relative seclusion for retailers as Armine. An exception is Filiz Yetim, manufacturer of wedding dresses for the modest. Yetim, one day in April, wearing a beige scarf, a black blouse into a pencil beige long skirt with floral appliques and gold and silver bracelets, designs clothes, a scarf, full sleeves have hidden, and a floor length hem. Average prices range from $ 4,000 to $ 5,000 for a cheap handmade products. Yetim says that they charge more in time. "In two years, this vision of the personal way is prepared, and ask ourselves what is there," she said.

Kruger is the new face of Chanel Beauty

  The French luxury house has chosen the actress for her Allure perfume advertising campaign in 1996 and again for the Campaign Bag Paris-Biarritz in 2007.

Now an ambassador for Chanel, Kruger before a new advertising campaign for the beauty to be introduced this year.

In a statement Chanel welcomed "the elegance and beauty of nature," the actress said that they were attracted by their "cosmopolitan spirit and artistic background."

Diane Kruger hit by Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld