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Dos and Don’ts of Celebrity Travel Styles
The great artist Noel Coward once observed, “Why do the wrong people travel when the right people stay at home?” If you’re one of those traveling afar this summer, thank your lucky stars. And pay close attention to 10 dos and don’ts that reveal the travel habits and styles, rightly or wrongly, of America’s celebrities.
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Ready-to-Wear Goes Austere…and Weird
The news regarding London Fashion Week can only be summed up in one word: disturbing. Has the fashion world finally been tamed to cater more exclusively to bourgeois/nouveau riche tastes? Or have designers finally wised up to the idea that Seventies-style fashions (an oxymoron if ever there was one) can be used for inspiration but not as outright archetypes?
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Policing the Fashion Police
The Fashion Police blog looks to be an old-fashioned irreverent take on a world that’s long been known for taking itself far too seriously. The blog’s subtitle says it all: “Fighting crimes of fashion and solving style dilemmas.” But is the blog fashion ownage or failage? Could it be that the Fashion Police take themselves and their mission every bit as seriously as those they skewer?
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Recycled, Reused and Redesigned: Clothing for a New Century
Recycled clothing has become something of a commodity these days. Practically everyone — from thrift shops to activist organizations to a designer with a household machine that could recycle and re-make clothes — wants us all hopping onto the latest recycling bandwagon. Is recycled clothing a timeless fashion statement? Or just another faux fad?
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African Textiles Make Their Way onto the Fashion Runway
African textiles have long demonstrated a unique artisanship and not-easily-replicated patterns, varying throughout the years in reflection of the continent’s rich but vacillating history of turmoil and peace.
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