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True to tradition, Fruits & Passion is offering a whole host of fragrant gift ideas, including body care rituals, fine perfumes, home fragrance products, great finds for the kitchen and a wide selection of ready-to-gift decorative box sets. From grandma to the kid’s fave teacher, those hard to please males to the perfect hostess gift, something to inspire the home chef or just a little something extra to have on hand - one thing is certain: Fruits & Passion delivers for Holiday 2009 quality, originality and sheer aromatic pleasures at affordable and do-able price points.

What’s new

Fruits & Passion Holiday 2009 Seasonal Collection Cranberry Love

Fruits & Passion continues to come up with amazing, innovative products – and their new scent Cranberry LOVE is a perfect example! This exquisite berry fragrance with enveloping ambered notes was designed especially to imbue holiday essence and is featured in five body care products to please every gift recipient.

Exclusive fragrances

Fruits & Passion Holiday 2009 Fruity Foaming Bath Collection

Once again this year, Fruits & Passion is excited and delighted to feature its seasonal classic scents - Winter Berries, Gui-Mistletoe and Orange-Cinnamon. These three exclusive fragrances breathe an air of festivity into any environment for true holiday appeal and are offered for a limited time in an array of home fragrance products.

The countdown to Christmas begins on November 1, 2009, at Fruits & Passion boutiques worldwide, which all will be chuck full of the newest selection of unique, original, and beautifully packaged gifts ready to go. Fruits & Passion products are also sold in over 2000 department and specialty stores nationwide.

Every Fruits & Passion purchase for Holiday 2009 is the gift that keeps on giving. The Company is donating a portion of its sales of the new Winter Berries Foaming Hand Soap to local US charities. This exclusive new product will be available to purchase for a special price throughout the holiday season.

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About Fruits & Passion
Today, Fruits & Passion is spreading joy around the world. With an extensive network of over 170 retail stores in the United States (five stores: Aventura, Las Vegas, Natick, Scottsdale, Thousand Oaks), Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, thousands of customers from Dubai to Paris, Beijing, Las Vegas, Cancun, Montreal and beyond are discovering the sensation of well-being that our delicious fragrances can bring to their daily care rituals. Visit: www.fruits-passion.com

We’re loving the new face of Herbench, Carla Abellana. Check out the Rosalinda star’s scorching campaigns for the trendy fashion brand. We wanna see more of Carla!!!

Rio Crocs

Every passers by who passed by this side of Greenbelt 5 on a faithful 30th of April 2009 was either left starstruck or stumbling towards only one boutique. And it’s no surprise why they were in such a hurry, much less stumbling.

Crocs leaves die-hard fashionistas dumbfounded once more after introducing suprisingly comfortable high heels at their Spring Summer ‘09 Collection Launch. These state of the art heels are called Rio Crocs, and are just one of the many new designs intended for those who aren’t willing to sacrifice style for comfort.

Now if the shoes didn’t catch your attention, I’m sure a certain Brent Javier did. Not to mention, host Juddha Paolo got him to model some shoes on the spot! Okay girls, I’m sure you’re all saying that you should have gone to Greenbelt that night =)

The night’s main event, however, was the walk off contest among girls and boys of all ages, all with their eyes on the irresistable prize: a 12-pair giveaway of Crocs! What a way to treat your feet! Truly, A Shoe for Every You (or her haha). And I quote the babe who bagged it all, “My feet won’t hurt anymore!”.

Photographs by June Carlo Reyes

Visit http://www.crocs.com.ph to make your feet happy!

A beach babe at heart, Katrina finds herself at home with beach accessories

Bench Body has redefined “single” with a new endorser, two-time holder of FHM’s sexiest, Katrina Halili. 

Katrina Halili, with her own campaign, is making this year’s summer sizzling!  “Single and Hot”, she confidently models for top brand a range of styles from cute to sultry, sophisticated to comfortable. There is definitely something for everyone. 

Sexy Katrina shows she can carry the rock star look

Polka dot princess in yellow polka dot combination bikini set

Katrina shows her winning attitude

With this campaign, Bench sends out a message to all the single men and women:

Don’t let society fool you. Being single is not the end of the world. It’s a blessing in disguise, giving you more freedom to reinvent yourself, more opportunity to better your knowledge, more chances to pursue a career, and more time to pamper yourself until you’re smoking hot! 

Do log on to www.benchtm.com for more of Katrina Halili and Bench Body. 

Calling all certified footwear fanatics and self-confessed shoe-aholics! You can now indulge in your appetite for couture shoes as Res|Toe|Run, the country’s first and only restaurant-inspired multi-brand shoe shop, celebrates the birth of a delectable shoe shopping experience with its array of juicy luxury footwear treats.

Res|Toe|Run is a multi-brand footwear store in a unique restaurant setting.

 The three words constituting the concept have an equally interesting background:

1) RES -represents the comfortable casual footwear line

Laid-back, casual sneaks

2) TOE - includes toe-flaunting sandals, peep-toes and flip-flops

Sexy, comfortable wedges

3) RUN - is made up of active and athletic-inspired shoes

Colorful, funky kicks

So put your best foot forward and walk on air with Res|Toe|Run shoes. Visit their botiques located at Trinoma, Glorietta, Robinson’s Ermita, Robinson’s Galleria, Gateway and Ayala Center Cebu.

Camille models her own creations

Most people who know Camille Co by heart would most definitely agree that she’s got the whole package. While she graduated with honors just this March from the Ateneo de Manila University, Camille’s social life never suffered. Career-wise, fashion has always been part of her life that she has been asked to model for several events recently. This petite young lady takes her numero uno passion up a notch by launching an online clothing boutique with her older sister.

“We decided to name it Coexist because we don’t just live for fashion, we breath fashion,” she says.

Young and hip, Camille is absolutely a breath of fresh air. Check out http://coexistonline.multiply.com/ for the whole collection.

With reports from Kevin Tsai

Here’s another deep dark thought I keep in mind before hitting the shops…

2. There’s a reason why things end up on the sales rack.

A. ) It’s the end of the season and next season’s clothes are coming. In short, palaos na. Chances are it’ll end up with still the tag on in your closet. Unless you want to save for the next time it comes around again, steer clear of anything that says “so last season!”

B.) It’s so ugly and horrific that no one else wants to buy them so they’re trying to get rid of it as profitably as possible.

C.) They might look OK but quadro-check inside and out if there’s any damage. For example, button(s), stitches, stains, cut, zipper…CHECK EVERYTHING!!!! There’s a chance they can’t sell it for the original selling price ‘coz there’s something wrong with it.

I’m not saying the sales rack is evil, in fact, I do get good deals out of it. I just want to make sure you get your money’s worth for real and a good deal, not just let the store thing you did.

hearts,
Effin Ellie

Basics and prints come out to play in Bench Body’s summer offering. Bold and small, thick and narrow… it’s all about a game of contrast in colors, prints, and details that will surely be a feast for the senses.

Angelica Panganiban: sexy and sultry

JC pushes the limit this summer

Bold is beautiful: Francine Prieto proves such a cliche

Rafael Rosell in his hottest

(And don’t forget to mention the billboards that cause traffic along EDSA!   —Ed.)

 Despite my crazy collection of accessories, I just couldn’t help it…

I accompanied my mom to 168 to get some cheap gadget she bought fixed…haven’t been there a long time, almost forgot that 168 is a bargain hunter’s heaven…despite the stench of armpits. :-s

A hundred pesos  a piece (2.08$), 80php(1.67$) for a minimum of 6. 
Colorful Thai - India-ish style bangles mimicking hand painted glass jewelries.

I wanted more but I didn’t wanna be the one who got greedy eyes and be labelled as the gal who got more than a dozen of the same thing.  Even though you can take note that they’re not exactly the same. 

Oh well, justify thyself, come on, it’s summer,  we need new summer accessories.

I bought a lot of other stuff but maybe I’ll post ’bout ‘em next time. =)

Hearts,
Effin Ellie

Every woman and man has his or her own deep dark secrets when it comes to shopping.  It’s fine time I get to share some of  mine! Before entering war, I keep the some dark thoughts in mind…

1.  Cheap is ok.  Imitations never.  I don’t look down on the thought of anything being from tiangge or even ukay-ukay (after sending it to a million trips to the laundry of course)  but buying a fake is a totally different thing.  There’s nothing worse than being labelled as a wannabe AND support the dirty industry of piracy at the same time.  Yes! It’s still piracy!  So say no to buying fake LVs or Lacostes or whatever.  Buy affordable stuff with good designs and be labelled as the one who’s good at great finds, not good at being a fake.

Hang on for the next dark thought Effin Ellie keeps in mind!

Yours not-so-truly,
Effin Ellie