In true music industry fashion, there were those fun and quirky outfits from the likes of Nicki Minaj in a black beaded jumpsuit with red corset outlines and Rita Ora who also wore a beaded jumpsuit.
At most markets and at the foot of major monuments, you can also purchase traditional costumes of minority tribes, such as beaded headdresses laden with bells or bangles and leather sandals, woven sacks, and the universally-worn longyis (tubular sarongs).
Each is accented with Persian carpets, glass-beaded chandeliers, and Jacuzzis equipped with urns full of bath salts from the Dead Sea, as well as a welcome pitcher of lemonade sweetened with rose water.
Last year, InStyle magazine ran a picture of supermodel Naomi Campbell with a beaded Hello Kitty bag.
Thus, her collection was filled with many beaded cocktail numbers and elongated evening gowns in pale blues, lilacs and greens plus pops of oranges.
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For fall, she gets a black-and-oyster lame dress, a metallic tweed suit and a jet-black silk and wool gown with a beaded back, cutout bodice and mermaid hemline.
Florence Welch was all covered up in a fully beaded emerald green gown with monochromatic spikes on the sleeves custom made for her by Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy.
Most recently, she wore a black lace dress with pannier-like detailing on the hips from Tom Ford and a flowy chiffon dress worn with a beaded blouse for the premiere screenings of Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Help, respectively.
Givenchy designer Ricardo Tisci punched up his beaded, Art Deco gowns with exposed zippers, chains and lots of leather.
Some members of Team Skunk decorate "road kill" skunks with Mardi Gras-style beaded necklaces.
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Feminine beaded tops over boy shirts were paired with punky skinny pants adorned with zippers as Taylor explored Frank Lloyd Wright and the Lower East Side of the 1980s.
As expected, Basso turned up a supremely uptown collection but he raised it several notches higher than usual sending out fur coats spliced with crocodile leather (could you get anymore luxurious than fur mixed with croco?), delicately beaded frocks, and brilliantly hued fur stoles and jackets.
The show ended with Madonna and Cee Lo Green in jet beaded robes singing Like A Prayer accompanied by a choir.
"Not very long ago I would have said a man would wear a beaded bracelet in only a casual way, but now with so many on offer, they seem to be available for every occasion, " he adds.
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