Available for auction, Princess Diana’s classic gown designed by Catherine Walker using chiffon is catching all eyeballs at ebay. Starting from today, the charity auction organized by WEtv runs till 22 August.
Celebrating the dual-purpose to memorize her charismatic style, the sales generated through this auction would go to America’s Promise Alliance.

After gaining Diana’s contribution for the upbringing of the destitute children in her living years, the alliance (a national non-profit organization) is still the concern for Diana’s soul.

During the earlier auction of Diana’s gown in June 1997 at Christie’s Auction House, WE tv was the privileged owner of the three of the 80 gowns auctioned. The present auction is to conserve her reminiscence.

Albeit starting bid is $125,000, all bidders have to pre-qualify.

Via ebay

Magic and comfort level cannot be restricted to Rock Stars as the Italian designer ‘Roberto Lazzeroni’ is a prospective candidate geared up to reap the rocky benefits. The creative blood flowing within him is well-depicted through his innovative fabrication of products inviting all eyeballs.

Lately, the designer promises luxurious nap by offering an exotic Big sleep bed. The name says it all. The very feel of the bed takes you to the other planet leaving you in a dreamy mode there.

The enticing nature of the bed is a complete package satisfying your curiosity and encouraging you in making a good deal. Surrounded with a fully padded fence, the cushioned-feel of the bed makes offers complete sleep and takes you away from your worries.

The tidiness of the bedding doesn’t require hard-efforts as the fully detachable cover allows you to clean the dirt within no time. Am sure there, by this time there will be a queue who can easily spend a dough of $ 6,275, which is a pretty justifiable price to buy this luxurious comfort.

Via Born Rich

If you want to celebrate the birth ceremony of your one-year young kid in an elite manner, then only read further; otherwise free feel to move to my previous post or wait for next one.

This 18th century wooden cradle clad with gold plates and embedded with a total of about 2,000 gems of diamond, ruby, emerald is displayed at the “Treasures of the Topkapi Palace and the Magnificent Ottoman Dynasty” exhibition in Tokyo.

Besides this, around 140 treasures from the residence of the Ottoman Empire, the precursor to the Republic of Turkey, including the cradle are exhibited.

The occasion is to celebrate the birth of Prince Hisahito on 6 September 2006 to Princess Kiko, the wife of Japanese Emperor Akihito’s second son Prince Akishino.

These riches will be on for demonstration from 1 August to 24 September.

You must have heard of numerous Kitty dolls in the market but I am sure this Hello Kitty Selection, event happening at the Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo is news for you.

Ready to add-on to the list of expensive toys of your kids, this expensive Hello Kitty doll, made of 62,000 Swarovski crystal glasses, is modeled after Japanese traditional “Fortune-Inviting-Cat” figure. Around 800 unique Hello Kitty products are on sale.

To give you the feel of the dolls and other exciting products, just jump down:

The doll on left is retailed at 8 million yen ($66,115) and on right will cost you1, 575,000 yen ($13,016).

At bottom are cosmetics boxes sold at 367,500 yen (US$3,037) each.

With the upcoming new gadgets or updated version of the old models, one cannot overshadow the beauty of age-old and conventional. To exemplify this, today we have a Bell & Howell model 2709 motion picture camera available for the auction on 25 July 2007. Mind you, this is not an ordinary camera as it has an established reputation of personal movie camera used for Charlie Chaplin for the screening of his numerous classic films.

All set to invite all eyeballs, Samantha Ryan, Christie’s saleroom assistant poses with the camera. The expected amount generated out of its sales is $140,000 - $180,000.

So, are you planning to buy one? Well, if you cannot afford to grab it then at least respect this camera by visiting the Christie’s auction hall for window-shopping only.

Sony lately unveiled its surround sound chair-Za at the design exhibition scheduled in Tokyo.

The chair is escalated with two huge speakers on its head. The leather made couch offers an elite experience to its customers by providing them with the private theater ambience for music, games and movies.

This technology-driven piece called PHOTON, a solar panel system is designed for those who love technology to the extent that now they desire to wear technology.

The great mind behind this portable device is of architect Kari Sivonen. The manufacturing of the product is done by Clothing+, an established Finnish company having a maintained portfolio in delivering rational clothing. But this invention has hit the market a bit late for the mountaineers who are already there and are regretting the technology drawbacks that doesn’t allow them to charge there dead batteries of phone and camera.

PHOTON is displayed at the SAUMA, a travelers’ exhibition by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York. A single stroll at the exhibition will put you across numerous (more than 20) innovative and modern designs from Finland.

Venue: Los Angeles Architecture and Design Museum
Date: Till 28 August, 2007

From LA, the exhibition will move to Helsinki and Paris in 2008.

This introduction of a new elite product is a value addition to my earlier updates. So dear friends, I am considering that you know Christie’s New York auction that are in news for long.

Also, the products displayed at Christie’s auction are inviting eyeballs. So, here is one more. Designed by Diego Rivera, the “silver metal headboard” is expected to fetch up to $40,000 during the Christie’s New York auction “Maria Felix: La Dona” on 17-18 July 2007.

Measurements: 51 inches (height) by 85 inches (width)

Now give me the honor to introduce you with some insights about this designer product. The work was made for Maria Felix, the iconic Mexican movie star nicknamed “La Dona,” and belonged the estate of Felix. And who knows, you might be the one to fit it right in your living room.

So, Are you ready to join the queue?

Technology is getting cooler every day. Every new day makes the mobile phones all the more chic and denser when it comes to features and functions. The latest in the league of these lavishly featured devices is the Connect, designed by James Zhang. Connect is a chic and flexible device that’s capable of metamorphosing into various forms depending upon the application you fit it into.

The OLED touch screen technology gels with the E-paper to help this device in transforming from a mobile phone to computer and from multimedia player to watch all this happens not only at the virtual level but also in its physical appearance.

All you need to do is just press a one of the six Mode Keys and you can choose a particular function without getting lost.

If all this was not enough to make Connect a hot property and add to it the applications like the badge and the necklace and you have a device that’s much more than personal productivity, and creates a scene apt enough for physical interaction between individuals. Sounds interesting!!

Via: Yankodesign

A gift for your Ferrari obsessed man cannot get better than Dunhill’s provenance cuff links that are designed with the noble aim to give an ode to the iconic Maranello Ferrari 250GTO.

Any man who is madly in love with the enchanting coupe would do anything to have these exclusive and exquisite jewels adorning his suit. Add into their appeal the fact that these cufflinks are carved out of the Aluminum metal panels from the original 1962 Ferrari 250GTO and they become the most valuable possession for a collector’s treasure.

Just grab the pair now and you won’t ever require an accessory better than this to flaunt your style and riches! Priced at a crisp, only limited quantities of these jewels are available in selected Dunhill outlets across the world so hurry up before the stocks vroom away!

Via: LuxuryLaunches