Palanquin in Red Swarovski Crystals • Bollywood Star Weds!

September 2008 - When Bollywood star Salman Khan decides to become married, a lavish golden palki or palanquin, decorated with red Swarovski crystals is waiting for his bride. His friend and jewelry designer, Punita Trrikha, has prepared the unique bridal transport and wants to preserve it for Salman. “Salman bhai is like a brother to me. I have designed jewellery for most of his films and this palki that I have made is also for him. I want that whenever he gets married, his bride should sit in it. This will be my gift to him,” Trrikha explained to an Indian News Service recently.

News Item - New York - Roberto Cavallii will open up his first and second nightclubs in the Fall 2008. Called the Cavalli Club, the first one opened in Dubai. The club' original design included an Italian restaurant, sushi bar, wine bar and of course a lounge. Guests were expected to be able to dance around a suspended platform occupied by DJs and dancers. The floors was designed as black quartz, the walls are designed with Swarovski crystals. The gold-colored glass windows were designed by Roberto Cavalli, of course. The second club opened in Florence, Italy, at the end of 2008. Make sure you wear your Cavalli Sunglasses!

News Item - The Wizard of Oz opened at London's Royal Festival Hall in late July 2008. The lead DOROTHY stepped out in footwear studded with red Swarovski crystals. Both Dorothy's Ruby Red Slippers were designed in Swarovski Siam crystals and Glinda, the Good Witch of the East, will be adorned in among other colors, "crystal" color Swarovskis. Costumers love the round green Wicked sunglasses we offer for the Emerald City act in the play, Wicked, while other fans of crystal adore our Swarovski Crystal Sunglasses. It's cheaper than hauling off to London!

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December 2008 - The Swarovski company is all over NYC for Christmas -- it's a very Swarovski Christmas in Manhattan. For one thing, there is the Swarovski crystal star right on top of the Rockefeller Christmas tree. The tree is unveiled during the first week of December each year right in the middle of the city. Thousands of people watch the ceremony live and hundreds of thousands more watch it on local NYC TV.
Not to be undone -- ever -- are the Radio City Rockettes whose uniforms are bejeweled with even more thousands of pure Swarovski crystals! Ah, but Swarovski does not have one of the city's winter crown jewels -- the famous Times Square New Year's Eve 'Ball' is manufactured by NYC's favorite Irish crystal manufacturer -- Waterford Crystal!

November 2008 - - San Francisco based designer Yves Behar designed a beautiful chandelier using Swarovski crystals. Shown to the left in the peridot color offered by the Austrian crystal company, the chandelier sculpture is called the "Nest".

The 12" Nest weighs 600 pounds and used high tech Flatlites and 7500 crystals and costs $88.000. Originally unveiled at the Salon del Mobile in Milan, Italy. Smaller Nests are also available from Swarovski: A 220-pound version for $13,000 and a Mini Nest that weighs 66 pounds for $5.500. How many do you want?

October 2008 - A one of a kind Swarovski-encrusted Scrabble game board and tiles appeared in October 2008 on ebay as part of a worldwide auction for charity. The crystal-covered Scrabble board was commissioned to celebrate the Diamond Anniversary (60th Anniversary) of the Hasbro board game. Earlier in the month celebrities such as Jimmy Kimmel played a game of Scrabble on the board, which features 30,000 Swarovski crystals.

Swarovski encrusted Scrabble board auctioned on ebay


October 2008 - SkinJam is coming to the United States. SkinJam is a custom made film especially made to cover ordinary electronic gadgets such as cellphones, radios and laptops with a beautiful and durable decorative film. The company is based in Asia and is rolling out its business throughout Asia, the United Arab Emerites, South America and North America. The company claims the thin films will last up to 5 years and removes easily without damage to the device. A wide range of designs are available including some crystallized cellphone skins that feature Swarovski crystals.
October 2008 - Olympus teams up with Swarovski to dress up its camera. Olympus’s limited edition Stylus 1040 Crystal digicam to features a diagonal stripe of 98 Swarovski crystals on the sliding lens barrier. The jeweled camera features face-detection autofocus and autoexposure to provide Intelligent Auto mode detecting the five most commonly used scenes and adjusts settings, which is really handy because fashionistas don't generally have time to focus on such details when taking pictures at a party for their myspace page! Filed under: Crystal Covered Camera

August 2008 - Did you know that the Disney company and Swarovski have teamed up to create limited edition mp3 players that have been decorated with colorful Swarovski crystals? They are only being offered in Japan with a limited edition run of just 500 players.

disney's swarovski covered mp3 player comes in many color combinations

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