Fashion Week is an circumstance that is organized in countries every year. It lasts for about a week. It offers a great platform to several existing and budding designers to showcase their talent and skill. Many designer houses also display their collections in these style hebdomad events. In fact, style circumstance hebdomad is a wonderful artefact to catch the glimpse of latest in style clothes. It enables the industry understand ‘what’s in’ and ‘what’s out’ for the season. Buyers, filmmakers, style corporate, professionals, and women love to watch these shows ‘live’ or on television.

Fashion shows are greatly worshipped by style conscious men and women. Any woman who wants to look bonny and elegant turns to fashionable dresses and outfits. She gathers information on latest style from these events, which are featured on television. The popular style capitals are London, Milan, Paris, Rome, Melbourne, Tokyo, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, New Delhi, and Mumbai.

Women look gorgeous in beautifully designed clothes and it boosts their power, professionalism, confidence, authority, strength, and standing in the business as substantially in academic fields. It is very essential that both men and women should be right dressed for their work, meetings, businesses and another networking events. It is momentous for respect, development, and growth.

In order to let people understand what is unexceptionable and what is not, style hebdomad events are organized. Lakme Bharat Fashion Week is one the most popular style events organized in India. Emerging designers along with veteran designers from across the land move in this event. Besides designer clothes for women, these style events also focus on men’s collection as substantially as accessories.

Some of the high and ingrained style designers who move in these Indian Fashion hebdomad events include Abdul Halder, Anamika Khanna, Arjun Saluja, Digvijay Singh, Gayatri Khanna, Gurpreet Pia Fleming (bian), Lina Tipnis, Manish Malhotra, Neeta Lulla, Narendra Kumar & Manish Gupta (Westside), Rahul Mishra, Sabyasachi, Tarun Tahiliani, Vikram Phadnis, Virtues (Ashish, Viral, Vikrant), Wendell Rodricks, to name a just few.

Until the economy tanked, most people had either forgotten about or never heard of layaway programs. A program that looked like it had gone beyond the way of the horse and buggy. Well layaway in general and layaway online in particular have come roaring back into style to rescue both consumers and retailers alike.

As credit card limits have been slashed or done away with altogether, a serious problem started to occur. Retailers couldn’t sell and consumers couldn’t buy which is a dangerous situation in a consumer driven economy. From a retailers standpoint, inventory piles up and prices have to be slashed to move or returned. From a consumers standpoint, well, the poor just get poorer. Products can’t be purchased. Repairs can’t be made. Groceries become the priority and the new refrigerator, washer, dryer, those things just have to wait. There is simply no way to buy a high ticket item.

Now layaway on line has brought this program back into style. Many major purchases can be made through layaway from diamond jewelry and cars, to school clothes and computers. This has helped the account receivable for the retailers and has helped the budget of many a consumer.

“Don’t open a shop, unless you like to smile.” This Chinese proverb seems to be finding many quality takers when it comes to online shopping. There were no second thoughts ever on the importance of having a smiling customer and the fact has only been accentuated over the years.

If online shopping is a buzzword, it is consumers who have inflated the air surrounding it and created the aura. But as it goes, privileges are accountable for responsibilities and truly so the onus lies on online shoppers to identify and segregate from the myriads of online shopping websites, the one which is apropos to their needs, fair in its deals and believe in transparency rather than obscurity of information. Phew!!! Is it too much to ask for or can be attributed as a fair amount of attentiveness on the part of online shoppers. The answer does not lie in spontaneity but demands observation, comparison and above all patience which needless to say lie in the domain of consumers.

There are certain key questions that a consumer needs to answer before deciding on an online shopping website to buy a product (viz. gifts, clothes, gadgets, mobiles) or services. How safe are the information which he is putting in while registering or shopping with a website, the quantity and quality of retailers listed, how competitive are the deals offered (here one needs to compare it with other websites for discounts and cashbacks) and last but not the least how true to its words that website is?

When one thinks of Makola in Accra, one thinks of a market rather than a mall. However, Makola Shopping Mall predates its fashionable cousins at East Legon and at Tetteh Quarshie by almost 20 years.Unlike A&C and Accra shopping malls which trace their origins to western style high street shopping; Makola has emerged out of an authentically African market trading tradition. Shop keepers and stall holders live together in a happy confusion and a few mobile traders still weave their way through the throngs of shoppers hawking their wares. What Makola does share with its upmarket relations is convenience. Shoppers are able to access a wide range of consumer goods in one central location.

Makola Shopping Mall boasts two car parks, one behind the shopping centre and another tight but shady one beneath the complex. The cost of parking underground is GHS1.75. This might seem a bit pricey but there is no time limit and you have the reward of returning to a cool car after a few hours of bargain hunting. Although the building has been designed to be breezy, this is not an air-conditioned mall and trekking through the maze of corridors over 3 floors can be hot work.

So who should go to Makola Shopping Mall? Well, this is hands-down a women’s domain. Everything the lady wants for her personal care and upkeep is available in massive quantity at this consumer’s paradise. The shopping mall caters for every type of woman for every occasion and the whole place is awash with colour. Plastic hair decorations, traditional Ghanaian glass beads, copper jewellery, batiks and waxes all jostle side by side in brash splendour. Wigs, bags, shoes and toiletries galore, crowd together in an almost obscene abundance.The business woman will find as much, if not more, to meet her needs at Makola as in the newer, shinier shopping malls. For a start, there is no other place in Accra where the shopper has a choice from as large a range of business suits. For about GHS100 you can walk away with a brand new European or American tailored suit that is fit for the boardroom. Heals B, Sandio’s and Lenec Boutique all specialize in formal wear. Aside from suits they have a good selection of designer clothing for evening occasions and weddings etc.

Anyone needing cosmetics should look no further than Makola Shopping Mall. This is a haven for the beauty conscious lady. There are stalls stacked high with makeup, perfume and hair care products which range from cheap goods to exclusive designer names. You get the sense that the sellers are veterans in the trade and can be seen expertly advising on products and applying makeovers to prospective buyers. Makola Shopping Mall is also the home of Sleek Cosmetics and their group of glitzy air-conditioned shops, most reminiscent of the modern shopping mall experience, dominates a section of the lower level.