Football star David Beckham has been successfully persuaded by his popular wife to enter the world of fashion. According to reports, former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has convinced her husband to launch his first ever men’s line of sharp suits and evening wear under her fashion label. These products are said to be fitting in time for winter fashion collection which will be launched later this year.
Sources revealed that the 35-year old football icon has already started working on a collection for Autumn/Winter 2011. The source added that Victoria has been persuading her husband for quite some time and eventually the hunky football player relented.
Victoria believes that her husband has the eye for fashion and it would be fitting for him to make use of this talent. She already hired a team of employees to work with him on the new line.
Men’s fashion has taken the backseat all these years due to the increasing interest in the women’s side with clothing lines offering the most diverse and colourful products. Classically, mens fashion has revolved around basic suits, shirts, ties, etc, and with not much imagination invested in more casual wear. However, men are increasingly expressing an interest in the desire to look good when they go out, so the male fashion industry has seen a surge of designers branching out in this line of business to meet the growing demand.
Islamic Design House Managing Director Harun Rashid said that even though they are creating a larger number of male fashion lines these days, they are still creating these products that would still target the female population. Rashid said that men rarely buys for themselves and their wives or girlfriends will end up to be the ones to do this rather daunting task, and this is despite online-shopping become much more common-place.
Islamic Design House has been designing products that have both the East and Western culture embedded in every item. The company hopes that their initiatives will bear fruit in the near future.
A group of academics at an Irish university are scheduled to develop a line of smart clothes that will surely help the elderly with their daily activities through the aid of technology.
According to reports, the researchers from the University of Ulster are now looking into making hi-tech smart clothing where they could place electronic devices into the clothing that will provide valuable information such as the heart rate and timetables when the bus will arrive and many more. The project is set to last for three years.
The New Dynamics of Ageing Program is said to be funding the research and the team will get valuable assistance from a number of universities based within United Kingdom.
The Computer Science Research Institute in the University of Ulster is currently working on “assistive technologies for independent living and healthcare monitoring.”
Professor Bryan Scotney said that intelligent data analysis will take place once the technology is finished. The user-friendly smart clothing will feel as comfortable as the ordinary ones.
One of the teams helping this undertaking is the Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology group at the University of Wales.
