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FASHION News, May 02, 2013

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The fashion for trends
The Guardian
It may come as a surprise to those who know what I look like now to realise that I was once a fashion editor. This has not left me with any particular dress sense, but if you've ever worked on fashion in clothes, you recognise it easily elsewhere ...
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Centerville Fashion Show Recap
Cincinnati.com (blog)
The shops are seriously fabulous, and I can't wait to take a trip up there to shop more often (it's actually just about 20 minutes north of West Chester!). Below are a few pics of some of the looks from the fashion show (clothes are all by the ...
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Sarkodie outdoors clothing line, hopeful of blissful fashion future
Myjoyonline.com
Several Ghanaian celebrities took time off Saturday to troop to the Aphrodisiac Nite Club in Accra to support Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie as he outdoored his fashion line. The rapper, who has already etched his name on the local and international music ...
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Myjoyonline.com
Bike fashion: Ditch the spandex for new commuter clothes
Minneapolis Star Tribune
From boutiques that carry commuter-friendly clothing lines to hip bike hangouts with craft beer and coffee, every corner of the local cycling scene has a pit stop for people with a fashion sense. “It's not a bunch of bike geeks anymore,” said Luke ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Victoria Beckham's secret to designing clothes: I get naked
New York Daily News
Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham has an interesting way to get the creative juices flowing — she gets naked. Speaking at last weekend's Vogue Festival in London, the 39-year-old revealed stripping is a key part of her design process.
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New York Daily News
Virtual changing room
China Daily
The fashion industry is increasingly using 'augmented reality' to market its products. AR allows customers to try on clothes and accessories virtually, before deciding their purchase. Tiffany Tan provides the details. After two hours of scanning booth ...
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China Daily
'Benetton' clothes at Bangladesh site
The Australian
Spanish retailer Mango has also admitted that it placed an order for sample items in the Rana Plaza building, while AFP also found clothes in the rubble bearing labels for the US-based women'sfashion line Cato. The Clean Clothes Campaign pressure ...
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Duchess Kate waits (for maternity clothes): Do you? Moms mull pregnancy fashion
Today.com
“I remember going into client meetings and just wanting to get up because my clothes were just so tight,” says Susan Cho, a New Jersey based mother of two who launched Fourth Love, a maternity line featuring pieces you can wear during and after your ...
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Bulletproof Clothes For Children? Are You Kidding?
Care2.com (blog)
Miguel Caballero is a Columbia-based company that is best-known for its high-fashion bulletproofclothing line for celebrities and political figures, but now it is turning its attention to school children in the United States. Grade school body armor ...
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Indian fashion industry needs to go far: Ritu Kumar (Interview)
New York Daily News
"The earlier eras primarily designed clothes reflecting society favourites or period dressing. In today's films, designers are creating theme-based clothes for stars and creating the right mood. Fashion is cyclic and comes back and this is the reason ...
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Shoppers find it hard to find ethically made fashion
News & Observer
Very few companies sell clothing that's so-called “ethically made,” or marketed as being made in factories that maintain safe working conditions. Ethically made clothesmake up a tiny fraction of 1 percent of the overall $1 trillion global fashion ...
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News & Observer
DJs concerned over Mango's factory fire deaths - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Mango has been recognised for revolutionising the global fashion industry, alongside brands such as Zara and Top Shop, by providing fast, affordable and accessiblefashion to the masses. Mango shifts about 30,000 pieces of clothing an hour in stores...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Politics And Fashion in Pakistan
Wall Street Journal
She returned to Lahore in the late 1990s, and set up her label “Sublime by Sara” just as ready-to-wear fashion was about to boom in Pakistan. Mid to high-end ready-made clothes are a recent phenomena in Pakistan. Women used to have their clothes made ...
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Bangladesh disaster puts pressure on fashion stores
Pakistan Daily Times
On Saturday a handful of people protested in front of Primark on London's Oxford Street, with placards reading “Never again” and “Cheap clothes = sweat shops”, “Primark's shame” or “Lovefashion, hate sweatshops”. Gareth Jones, who works in social ...
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Museum showcases Chinese new roles in fashion industry
China Daily
The diverse aesthetic sensibilities represented in their clothes are complemented by video and text presenting the designers' perspectives on fashion and their heritage. The other exhibit, Shanghai Glamour: New Women 1910s-40s, reveals several modern...
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China Daily
Clothing may provide solution to urban air pollution
Fibre2fashion.com
One of the recent examples of clothing designed with positive impact on environment is 'Catalytic Clothing' which can be used as a catalytic surface to purify air. Catalyticclothing is the brain child of Helen Storey, Professor of Fashion Science at ...
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Top 10 ethical places to shop for children's clothes
The Guardian
If ever there was a time to look more closely at labels when you shop, it's now. The Bangladesh factory collapse, in which at least 380 people died, is a stark reminder that many of the clothes we buy from major retailers, supermarkets and high-street ...
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The Guardian
Alber Elbaz: Fashion is about 'fantasy'
Contactmusic.com
Discussing what attracted him to the profession, he explained: ''It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion ... I want them to be able to get into a car, to be able to have dessert, to ...
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Contactmusic.com
Fashion trends that are passé this summer
Times of India
No anti-fit clothing. Unlike the past few years, this summer is all about dressing inclothes that fit you right. This means one has to steer clear from any of those loose-fitting dresses and tops. Kaftans are no longer in vogue, nor are any of those ...
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Times of India
Kids Fashion Jungle Brings Upscale Resale to Washtenaw County
Patch.com
Kids Fashion Jungle came to be when after taking our children's clothes to "larger" children's resale stores, we found that we were only receiving pennies for the brand name clothing we had to offer them. On top of that, the stores were extremely ...
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Guinea pigs with a passion for fashion embrace new pet clothing range
Metro
Pampered pet guinea pigs will always be able to look their best thanks to a wacky new clothing range for the furry rodents. Pet owners can now kit out their four-legged friends in an array of colourful outfits which are proving a hit with customers ...
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NBA Fashion: Is Kobe Bryant borrowing LeBron James' clothes?
CBS sports.com (blog)
The shirt in question is a Givenchy green and paisley airplane print T-shirt. You can purchase one here for roughly $565, if you would like to jump past the jersey stage of fandom and want to start wearing the same casual clothes. The sizes range from ...
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IRISH WOMEN ARE ADDICTED TO FASHION SHOPPING
Fashion.ie
Over half of Irish women buy new clothes every month with 1 in 4 admitting to spending €1,000 - €2,000 on their wardrobe each year according to new research*. The survey conducted by Pembroke Communications into Irish women's style and beauty habits ...
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Fashion.ie
Designer Zoe Alexander offers maternity S/S clothing line
Fibre2fashion.com
The new spring/summer designer maternity clothes collection made in the UK is now available from British brand Zoe Alexander UK, but with a difference. For pregnant women with a passion for fashion, the SS 2013 range embraces catwalk flair with ...
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Fibre2fashion.com
The Shirt You Don't Have to Wash—and Other Clothes that Rarely Get Too Dirty
Yahoo! Movies (blog)
Bishop, 24, whose family owns the Pendleton Woolen Mills in Oregon ("Fashion is in my blood, I guess you could say," he told Shine), created and trademarked the "Cotton-Soft" wool fabric after six months of working with mills around the world. Then he ...
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Yahoo! Movies (blog)
Fast Fashion Brand Uniqlo Insists It's Not a Fast Fashion Brand
Racked
Here's how the press release put it: "In LifeWear, nothing is left to chance and none of these garments should be seen as disposable 'fast fashion': Uniqlo's clothing is made for life, in both senses of the word." Really?>> In some ways, that's an ...
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Lorraine Courtney: Sweat shop tragedy horrified me but I'm as addicted to ...
Irish Independent
Fast fashion has made us into a new kind of shopper: a shopper that considers discount clothing so addictively cheap and disposable that we impulsively buy items with little concern as to whether we actually need or even want them. But the inconvenient ...
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Irish Independent
Women 'Spring into Fashion' for fundraiser
San Jose Mercury News
The winter sweaters and boots have been put away, meaning it's time to "Spring into Fashion" and enjoy lighter, more comfortable clothes. Since Los Gatos is something of a mecca for women's fashions, it's appropriate that local boutique owners who also ...
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Sustainability Alliance Promotes a Sea Change in the Fashion Industry
San Francisco Chronicle
Otis College of Art and Design collaborates with leading apparel brands to inspire new ways of thinking about clothes and how they are made. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 29, 2013. Otis College of Art and Design is launching the Otis Sustainability ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
The Khan of High Fashion
Wall Street Journal (blog)
This is almost a natural progression as his father and grandfather designed clothes for royalty. Mr. Khan was born in India in 1958. He grew up listening to his father talk about colors, sitting in the workshop watching the sewing of embroideries and ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
H&M to Bet $130 Million on India
Huffington Post
Everyone knows the fashion industry is glamorous and known to be a big business -- however, if there is one thing the industry is behind on, it's being environmentally conscious. For the longest time, designers and well known clothing companies have ...
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Dhaka collapse raises questions on where we get our clothes from
ITV News
But while we are perusing our favourite fashion chains, do we ever really think where our clothes are made? The Rana Plaza collapse once more highlights the dark side of the UK fashion industry where clothing retailers source from low price economies, ...
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ITV News

Victoria Beckham 'Strips Naked' When Designing Clothes ... - MTV UK
Victoria Beckham has revealed the secret behind her fashion range… stating that she designs theclothes in the nude!Speaking at ... Watch MTV News on the hour every hour on MTV - Sky Channel 126 and Virgin Channel 311. Share: Email ...
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Finding Your Fashion Style - Fashion News
Girls and teens want to look sharp and fashion forward. Fashion trends change every season, but there are certain basic items of girls clothes that everyone.
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