Sydney Fashion Festival 2011: Myer’s Big is Beautiful controversial show. Hélène Rochas, the French elegance icon, died at 84. A New Beginning is the theme of San Francisco Fashion Week 2011, that is taking place this week from Monday through Sunday. Bay Area is hosting San Francisco Fashion Week 2011 The San Francisco Fashion and Merchandising Alliance (SFFAMA) tried to redesign the…
…with the most original events, from tarot-card readings at Christian Louboutin to homemade charity cookies baked by model Karlie Kloss at DKNY. New York Fashion Week is followed by London on September 14-18, Milan on September 19-25 and Paris on September 27 to October 3. The semi-annual New York Fashion Week, branded Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in 2009, is held in February and September of each ye…
…proud to support Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival, Sydney and invites you to join us for our Big Is Beautiful Fashion Launch. The show will feature the very latest trends in plus size fashion for sizes 16 to 24. It’s fashion designed for real women with a fuller figure. For Spring Summer 2011 Myer is excited to be re-launching Big Is Beautiful and introducing Leona + by Leona Edmiston and both bran…
Ireland Baldwin attended the Jeffrey Fashion Cares 10th Anniversary fashion show 2013 in New York on Tuesday. As she has already joined the fashion elite at only 17, the 6’2′ beauty showed that she’s ready to be taken seriously in a black sheath dress and matching blazer. Ireland Baldwin attended the Jeffrey Fashion Cares 10th Anniversary fashion show 2013 in New York Ireland Baldwin, daug…
…stop paying a special church tax All Germans who are officially registered as Catholics, Protestants or Jews pay a religious tax of 8-9% on their annual income tax bill. The levy was introduced in the 19th Century in compensation for the nationalization of religious property. “If your tax bill is for 10,000 euros, then 800 euros will go on top of that and your total tax combined will be 10,8…
…dded event at London’s Savoy hotel. The double win follows a momentous year for Stella McCartney, most notably her Team GB kit designs for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Among the winners of the 14 other awards recognizing talent across the fashion industry were Erdem, Nicholas Kirkwood, Roksanda Ilincic and JW Anderson. Cara Delevingne was named Model of the Year, and Alexa Chung was once a…
The Vanity Fair International Best Dressed List in full: 1. Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince William, British style icon 2. Jessica Chastain, U.S. actress, star of The Help and Coriolanus 3. Bill Cunningham, 83, New York Times street style photographer 4. Léa Seydoux, French actress and model, appeared in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris 5. Jay-Z, aka Shawn Corey Carter, rapper, songwrit…
…iet pills, daily colonics and laxatives are the weapons of choice for many, while metabolism boosting injections have also crept onto the scene. Disclosing what goes on behind-the-scenes, the 5′ 10″ beauty told Fox News healthy models turn to “HCG injections that go with a 500-calorie diet plan to T3 thyroid injections that… speed up their thyroid function, which results in a fas…
Jewish and Muslim groups living in Europe have joined forces to defend circumcision for young boys on religious grounds after a German regional court ruled it amounted to bodily harm. A joint statement says the practice is fundamental to their faiths and calls for it to be awarded legal protection. The ruling by the Cologne court – also criticized by the Israeli parliament – does not…
…t’s unrealistic to expect online clothes shoppers to have the time or inclination to take a series of highly accurate body measurements of themselves. The new system makes it all very easy.” The 18-month project Body Shape Recognition for Online Fashion is being developed in collaboration with body-mapping specialists Bodymetrics and digital creative agency Guided. The research builds on pre…
Kristen Stewart was in good spirits as she arrived for the Spring/Summer 2013 Balenciaga ready-to-wear show at Paris Fashion Week. Kristen Stewart, 22, stayed loyal to the French-based fashion house with an outfit by the designer Nicolas Ghesquiere. She went for a chic biker look in floral-patterned monochrome jeans, ankles boots, loose black top and a yellow leather jacket. The actress is also a…
…nd [had] numerous sexual affairs”. Vladimir Putin, 59, a former Russian President who is expected to return to power next year, headed Soviet intelligence operations in the East German city from 1985 to 1990. The files were discovered by BND expert Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, author of several books and papers on the spy agency. Lyudmila Putin once damned her husband with faint praise by confidin…
by 0.8% in the first quarter, slightly worse than analysts had expected. The economy shrank by 0.7% in the previous quarter. Compared with the same a quarter a year earlier, the German economy grew by 1.7%. The German economy returns to growth in the first quarter of 2012 with a better-than-expected 0.5 percent rise in GDP The German statistics agency Destatis said growth was due to a rise in exp…
Germany’s army will in future be able to use its weapons on the country’ streets in an extreme situation, the Federal Constitutional Court says. The ruling says the armed forces can be deployed only if Germany faces an assault of “catastrophic proportions”, but not to control demonstrations. The decision to deploy forces must be approved by the federal government. Germany’s army will…
A young man who turned up in Berlin last year saying he had been staying in woods for years is a Dutch 20-year-old who was living in the Netherlands until last September, German police say. According to German police, his Dutch stepmother identified him from police photos. His real name is said to be Robin. The boy called himself “Ray” and was dubbed the “forest boy” by Ge…
Karl Lagerfeld’s age has long been a mystery, but the Chanel designer has finally revealed that he is 77. Inviting people to play a guessing game, Karl Lagerfeld held a 70th birthday bash in 2008 and a party celebrating his 79th four years later. In an interview with Paris Match the white-haired Chanel creative director stated that his real birth date is September 10, 1935. Karl Lagerfeld said th…
…modelling an incredible and revealing gown at the Project Runway 2013 Spring Collection. Following the success of last night’s shenanigans, Heidi Klum tweeted: “We shot the @ProjectRunway Season 10 finale today! Was a great show…but, you have to wait till Oct 18th to see it!” The fashion show will become Project Runway’s series ten season finale. Alongside Jennifer Hudson and Nin…
…f style and flair in front of the camera has made her one of the most prominent names in fashion, walking in an impressive 31 shows in September after being described as the star face of autumn/winter 13 by British Vogue,” they said. The 20-year-old model, who also bagged a small role in this year’s remake of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, has not stopped working in 2012 – most recentl…
…like that. “So because I thought my experience was beautiful I wanted to share that.” Kim Kardashian tweeted afterwards: “Just left The Lorraine Show with @KourtneyKardash. Was a lot of fun! Now 15min nap time.” The girls, who will be joined by younger sister Khloe on Saturday for a signing at Westfield London from 12:30 p.m., have had a busy few days in London as they promote their new fash…
British plus-size women’s fashion and lifestyle magazine SLiNK cover features a 3D photograph of gorgeous Australian model Bree Warren, a UK size 14, which is the minimum requirement for all models featured in the publication. The cover of SLiNK magazine’ seventh issue shows Bree Warren – who works for Models 1+ and has just finished her journalism degree – wearing a furry Marim…
Israel passed a law banning models from advertisements or fashion shows if they measure less than 18.5 on the body mass index (BMI). The new law is part of an effort to promote health for women of all sizes, and to stop glorifying the ultra-thin. “Beautiful is not underweight,” says Rachel Adato, one of the creators of the bill. In recent years, much attention has been paid to how wo…
…ack Friday 2012: An A to Z of the most stylish sales AEROPOSTALE The brand fronted by Chloe Moretz is taking 60% off everything apart from fragrances and beauty on Black Friday. BANANA REPUBLIC (from 12 a.m. on Friday) Banana Republic will be offering 40% off everything all day. Stores will also be open on Thanksgiving Day. Banana Republic Factory Stores will feature 70% off everything from Novem…
…are here to stay. Nude tights, ballet pumps, a maxi dress and a black or nude clutch bag are also among the modern must-haves every women should own. But while they might have been staple items in the 1980s, straight-leg jeans and simply knee length skirts are no longer considered as classic clothes. It wasn’t all change though, as black trousers, cardigans, a simple white blouse or shirt and the…
Last night it emerged that three German football players were using drugs in the 1966 World Cup final. A newly-unearthed letter obtained from historians at Berlin’s Humboldt University revealed that three unnamed German football players had been tested positive for a banned stimulant at World Cup 1966 final. The letter is dated November 29, 1966 and was written by the Yugoslav chairman of F…
German Development Minister Dirk Niebel who sent home a big Afghan carpet free of charge aboard an intelligence service plane has drawn criticism from opposition politicians. A spokesman for Minister Dirk Niebel says the customs duty required for the carpet will be paid. Dirk Niebel bought the 30 kg (66-pound) carpet for himself in the Afghan capital Kabul, the Spiegel news website reports. It co…
Why penguin can't flyScientists say they have found an answer to why the penguin is unable to fly. Researchers believe that the bird's underwater prowess may have cost it its ability to…
Apple among America's big tax avoidersApple has been accused by US Senate of being "among America's largest tax avoiders". A Senate committee said Apple had used "a complex web of offshore entities" to avoid…
Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1 billionYahoo's board has approved a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion, US media reports say. The acquisition is expected to be announced as early…
Google told to clean up auto-complete results in GermanyGoogle has been ordered by a German federal court to clean up the auto-complete results its search engine suggests. The court said Google must ensure terms generated by…
Google Glass: Ten features and ways to use itGoogle has revealed for the first time what view users will get through its “Project Glass” wearable computer. 1. Google Glass responds to voice commandsGoogle Glass…
Samsung announces 5G mobile network technology developmentSamsung announces it has developed technology that could sit "at the core of 5G" - the successor to the 4G mobile-communications standard. The Korean company says its…
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