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Les Voiles de Saint Barth Mag­a­zine, Gaas­tra Sail­ing Fash­ion 2012

Dip into the magic world of Saint Barth…just about 21 km² large, the French Caribbean island is one of the most exclu­sive sail­ing areas world­wide and for many inter­na­tional celebri­ties an open secret as a lux­ury hol­i­day para-dise. Firmly fixed in the sail­ing regatta cal­en­dar 2012, the VIP island Saint Barth will be in the spot­light of inter­na­tional sail­ing teams and yachts dur­ing the Les Voiles de Saint Barth Regatta 2012 – anew with Gaas­tra Sports­wear as the offi­cial part­ner on deck.

Inspired by the exclu­sive spirit of the Caribbean regatta, the spe­cial play of sea colours and the sweet ‘Savoir Vivre’ on St. Barth, Gaas­tra presents the lat­est mar­itime sail­ing fash­ion col­lec­tion ‘Les Voiles de Saint Barth’. Par­tic­u­larly sporty and func­tional, the Sports­wear line sets sails and nau­ti­cally ele­gant, the Gaas­tra Bre­ton line – avail­able for Gaas­tra Women, Gaas­tra Men and Gaas­tra Kids. Turn over a new fash­ion leaf and get inspired by the brand­new Les Voiles de Saint Barth Mag­a­zine includ­ing the lat­est Gaas­tra Fash­ion Trends 2012 and by the Caribbean sail­ing par­adise island St. Barth! 

Fash­ion Trends 2012, Gaas­tra Spring Sum­mer Collection

The lat­est Spring Sum­mer Fash­ion Trends 2012 freshly arrived! Gaastra’s mar­itime sail­ing fash­ion jour­ney leads from the Ital­ian Riv­iera to the Caribbean par­adises Antigua and Saint Thomas this sea­son. Dis­cover the sporty Dolce Vita Feel­ing of the newest ‘Ital­ian Rivera’ line in sweet pas­tel colours as pis­ta­chio, vanilla and straw­berry com­bined with nau­ti­cal stripes or mille­fleur prints and an exclu­sive navy colour com­bined with shades of white within the Capri Regatta line – the whole time­less clas­sic Gaas­tra Bre­ton Col­lec­tion shines with Ital­ian Riv­iera Style, sub­tle ele­gance and a rich mix of materials.

The Gaas­tra Sports Col­lec­tion set sails this sea­son anew as casual and func­tional sail­ing fash­ion on all lon­gi­tude and lat­i­tude lines: The lat­est Gaas­tra Antigua Col­lec­tion anchors as fash­ion­able sports­wear with inno­v­a­tive mate­ri­als tested in the Gaas­tra Pro Sail­ing Cloth­ing Gear and is full of pas­sion. For the tra­di­tional nau­ti­cal colours red, white and blue are dom­i­nated this sea­son by an intense red. This year as well, you don’t have to break sweat, for ultra light and breath­able Gaas­tra jack­ets will keep you dry, com­fort­able and good-looking. The first fash­ion trends 2012 from the Gaas­tra spring sum­mer col­lec­tion for Gaas­tra Women, Gaas­tra Men and Gaas­tra Kids are now on deck in the offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop. Where will your jour­ney lead you?

Gaas­tra Bag Lee­ward for free, Gaas­tra Spe­cial Offer only today!

Do you already have all Christ­mas presents? Shop Gaas­tra Fash­ion, Sports­wear or pro­fes­sional sail­ing cloth­ing com­fort­ably in the Gaas­tra Online Shop and you will receive a spe­cial gift for free on top only today: The wind– and water­proof sport and travel bag Gaas­tra Lee­ward in navy or roy­al­blue worth 59,95 €!

Set course for Christ­mas presents in the Gaas­tra Online X-Mas Shop and with an order worth 250 € or more you will get the Gaas­tra Bag made of durable nylon taffeta for free! Add your favourite items to the bas­ket, with reach­ing the min­inum order value your Christ­mas gift will auto­mat­i­cally appear, just add it to your bas­ket. Only today and only as long as the stock lasts one present more under­neath the Christ­mas tree!

Gaas­tra fash­ion com­pe­ti­tion novem­ber 2011, Search & Win!

Win­ter made itself already com­fort­able: Time to warm up! Exclu­sively for our Gaas­tra Blog reader, there is a spe­cial cud­dly item from the Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop to win at the Gaas­tra Search & Win com­pe­ti­tion novem­ber. Search, find and win! You’ve found that Gaas­tra prod­uct? Great! Then send us the name of the prod­uct pic­tured and already you will take part in our novem­ber fash­ion com­pe­ti­tion – the cor­rect answer goes via e-mail to denis@gaastraproshop.com 24^th novem­ber 2011 mid­night at the lat­est. This way you come to the Search & Win Tour in the Gaas­tra Shop:The win­ner will be informed at the end of the con­test next week and announced in the blog. Good luck!

Scheep­vaart­mu­seum Ams­ter­dam re-opening octo­ber 2011 with part­ner Gaas­tra, wiki­me­dia, author S Sepp, GNU Free Doc­u­men­ta­tion License

After four years of wide-ranging ren­o­va­tions, the breath­tak­ing new Scheep­vart­mu­seum reopened: Queen Beat­rix as the guest of hon­our graced the National Mar­itime Museum with her royal atten­dance, arriv­ing in style on her ship De Groene Draeck (‘the Green Dragon’) to the open­ing fes­tiv­i­ties on the first of octo­ber. Gaas­tra is proud being one of the offi­cial part­ners of Scheep­vaart­mu­seum, con­tribut­ing with its spon­sor­ship to social involve­ment and to the re-opening of the his­tor­i­cal house and in addi­tion — to the per­fect, mar­itime look: Because the com­plete staff of Amsterdam’s new his­tor­i­cal beauty is dressed by Gaas­tra! So don’t won­der while vis­it­ing, whether you are in a lately opened Gaas­tra Store Of course you’re in the new Het Scheep­vaart­mu­seum, Nether­lands trea­sure chest with one of the world’s largest col­lec­tions of nau­ti­cal art and arte­facts of five centuries.

Set sails to mar­itime his­tory within the 12 new exhi­bi­tions, mar­vel at mas­ter­pieces of ‘The Paint­ings’, dis­cover the hall of ‘The Globes’ with four cen­turies of car­tog­ra­phy or pro­ceed to ‘The Glass, Sil­ver and Porce­lain’ exhi­bi­tion and get to know fur­ther­more with your own eyes the meta­mor­pho­sis, the whole Arse­nal build­ing (1656) has under­gone with a new par­cours and a glam­orous roofed new inte­rior court­yard. How the sea has shaped our cul­ture, espe­cially the Dutch, you can dis­cover the refresh­ing new way since octo­ber 2^nd 2011 in the Scheep­vaart­mu­seum of Ams­ter­dam, opened seven days a week from 9:00 to 17:00 hrs just as the museum shop, where you can exclu­sively call a spe­cial Gaas­tra Poloshirt, we cre­ated in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the National Mar­itime Museum, your own! And if you’d like to know, why there would be ‘No Face­book with­out the Dutch’, then we rec­om­mend you watch­ing this enter­tain­ing ‘Sea­mail to Mark Zucker­berg’… 

Het Scheep­vaart­mu­seum, new roofed inte­rior court­yard 2011, NEY+Partners architects

Het Scheep­vaart­mu­seum Ams­ter­dam, National Mari-time Museum Nether­lands, reopen­ing octo­ber 2011

VOC ship, Het Scheep­vaart­mu­seum Ams­ter­dam, Sea­far­ing His­tory Dutch

Het Scheep­vaart­mu­seum Ams­ter­dam, Ney+Partners archi­tects, new roofed court­yard reopen­ing octo­ber 2011

Gaas­tra Women Win­ter­jacket Win­drose, Gaas­tra season’s Best­seller, www.gaastraproshop.com

Autumn already appears from its brisk side: Good, that many Gaas­tra cus­tomers have already wrapped up warmly with the Gaas­tra women win­ter­jacket Win­drose! This spe­cial Gaas­tra jacket from the lat­est Women Autumn Win­ter Fash­ion 2011/12 presents in the ‘Time­less Edi­tion’ as a styl­is­ti­cally con­fi­dent and timeless-fancy com­pan­ion in cold sea­sons and is our Gaas­tra Online Shop Best­seller by now!

No sur­prise – for this high-value Gaas­tra win­ter­jacket wears many fash­ion­able and max­i­mally pro­tect­ing high­lights in and around itself: Real down fill­ing, high wind– and water­proof qual­i­ties as well as a detach­able hood with large gen­uine rac­coon trim. The knee-lenght Gaas­tra women win­ter­jacket Win­drose in black, navy, mocca or beige is impres­sive every­where and at the same time a mar­vel­lous, plain-coloured com­bi­na­tion all­rounder. Whether com­bined with the Gaas­tra Denim Skirt Mined or with the vogu­ish Gaas­tra women Pullover Make Way with V-neck and flocked print. Fash­ion­able com­bi­na­tion ideas won’t face head­wind in this down-filled winterjacket!

Do you know this fash­ion­able Gaas­tra product?

New month, new win­ning chance in your Gaas­tra Blog! Which prod­uct are we look­ing for this month? Set sail for your Gaas­tra Search & Win Tour and reveal us the name of the Gaas­tra prod­uct you see on this pic­ture. You’ve found it? Congratulation!

Then sim­ply send an e-mail with your cor­rect answer until thurs­day, 20 octo­ber 2011 to denis@gaastraproshop.com mid­night at the lat­est and yet you will par­tic­i­pate in this month Gaas­tra Blog com­pe­ti­tion with the chance in win­ning this spe­cial Gaas­tra item in your wished sized! At the end of the con­test we will inform the lucky win­ner via e-mail and announce her or him in the com­men­tary box of this blog entry. Good Luck!

Kids Fash­ion Fall Win­ter 2011-12 by Gaas­tra, www.gaastraproshop.com

Vivid colours with neon-accents, fash­ion­able stitch­ings, cud­dly fur col­lars and tested wind– and water­proof kids win­ter­jack­ets: Gaas­tra enchants even our small ones with big fash­ion with its lat­est Kidswear Trends for fall-winter 2011/12. This sea­son, the course leads us to glow­ing colours in shin­ing yel­low and orange, as well as royal blue and in spe­cial fir sprigs – in these trendy colours our sweet­hearts will be appar­ent for sure. At the same time, they enjoy per­fect pro­tec­tion at any wind– and weather con­di­tions, like in the 5000 mm watercolum-tested Kids Ski Jacket ‘Edi­tion 0035′ from the Lim­ited Edition. 

Glam­orous appears the Col­lec­tors Edi­tion with warm­ing fleeces, hood­ies, sweats and shapely kids win­ter­jack­ets like the Kids Win­ter­jacket ‘U’ Shot’ in vivid fir sprigs colour. Soon-to-be sea­men will really feel com­fort­able in the lat­est Gaas­tra Sail­lors Edi­tion for kids: Solid mate­ri­als pro­vide our kids fash­ion 2011/12 a nat­ural nau­ti­cal look and even prove ‘cap­tain qual­i­ties’ like in the very ele­gant Kids Win­ter Coat ‘Thole’ made from high-quality ital­ian wool and equipped with an high-fastening stand-up col­lar. Be ready before the win­ter is and shop com­fort­ably in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop with the largest assort­ment of fash­ion­able Gaas­tra Kidswear!

Search and Win!

As a Gaas­tra Blog reader, you have this month in sep­tem­ber anew the chance to take part in our monthly Search and Win Com­pe­ti­tion: Which prod­uct hides on this detail pic­ture? Find it out by eas­ily brows­ing the cur­rent assort­ment in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop! If you would like to win that spe­cial and fash­ion­able Gaas­tra item we are search­ing for, then sim­ply send an e-mail with the cor­rect name of it to denis@gaastraproshop.com till Wednes­day, the 21^st sep­tem­ber mid­night at the lat­est (incom­ing answers beyond this date can not par­tic­i­pate). The win­ner will be informed per­son­ally and then announced in the com­men­tary box of this blog entry next week. Have fun and Best of luck on your Search & Win course!