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Fashion Trends 2008: A new year heralds new fashion trends, but deciphering the good from the bad, and 2008's new look from a 2007 has-been, is never an easy thing. Clothing and accessories for Spring and Summer 2008: what to wear and what not to wear. Fashionising.com tracks the 2008 fashion trends girls should be investing in, those you should be avoiding, and they key looks you just can't miss. We're also tracking 2008's hair trends, click here to read that.Dan Agency It was only ever going to give way to a more traditional style: 2007's pob hair style and trend has given way to the bob in 2008, and it's perfect for the year.

Amazingly versatile, there are so many ways to wear the pob this year that you're going to be perfectly on trend but still 100% unique. When I was eight I decided I’d be a writer and by age 10 I was publishing — writing, editing, illustrating, and distributing — a muckraking magazine on playground scandals.

When I was 20, I was published in the bestselling book series Written in the Dirt, I wrote for fashion bible WWD, I was hand-picked to write for one of the largest anti-spyware firms in the world (Enigma Software Group, Inc.), and I had a couple of columns with Top Button, a fashion dot-com with one of the largest subscriber-bases in the business.
And faster still: I co-founded a non-profit publication while I was 16 (Tyro still prints today), and between editing the high school newspaper and participating in televised press conferences for LA Youth, I was twice published in the national Teen Ink, and regularly contributing to local publications — all before I could legally see rated-R movies.
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This penchant for using materials in unexpected contexts and combinations came to be known as a defining characteristic of his genius. In 1964, without any formal training, Armani designed a line of menswear for Nino Cerruti. Encouraged by his partner Sergio Galeotti, Armani left Cerruti and in 1970 became a freelance fashion designer and consultant. He soon made his mark. In 1973-74, at the prestigious Sala Bianca fashion show in Florence, he presented to great acclaim bomber jackets that treated leather as a regular, everyday fabric. In 1975, Armani and Galeotti started their own company, Giorgio Armani S.p.A., and founded the Armani label.

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If you're more traditional wear it as a natural accompaniment to the revival of 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s fashion trends (think Catherine Zeta Jones in Chicago). Or go the other end of the spectrum with something far more modern: a longer, blunt cut bob like the one sported by Hana Soukupova (below left)