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A new ethical wardrobe for recessionary times? - 02/06/2009

PARIS (AFP) - If the trendspotters have it right, recession is helping the fashioning of a new politically-correct wardrobe, a trend labelled "Slow Wear". Much like the Italian-born "Slow Food"...

1980s blast from the past at Gaultier's show - 01/29/2009

PARIS (AFP) - In today's despondent climate, it was a reminder of heady days, when top models were fashion's golden girls. The audience at Jean Paul Gaultier's couture show on Wednesday for next...

Hard times reflected in Paris men's fashion - 01/26/2009

PARIS (AFP) - A chill wind of economic reality blew into the four-day Paris men's fashion shows winding up Sunday as designers went for the wearable to weather recessionary times for Autumn/Winter...

Asterix the Gaul to outlive his creator - 01/09/2009

PARIS (AFP) - Asterix, the pint-sized Gallic warrior and comic-book hero, is to outlive his creator under a deal with the 81-year-old illustrator Albert Uderzo announced by his publisher on Friday....

Karaoke most irritating gadget in Britain: govt survey - 01/09/2009

LONDON (AFP) - Timeless, classic songs wrecked by tuneless, howling drunks: the karaoke machine is the most annoying gadget in Britain, a survey for the government found. A TNS Omnibus poll for...

Serbia struggles to root out copyright piracy - 01/07/2009

BELGRADE (AFP) - At makeshift stalls in underground passages, peddlers hawk copied films, music and software from briefcases, ready to make a hasty getaway in Serbia's crackdown on rampant copyright...

Vogue editor biggest fashion flop of 08: Time - 01/04/2009

NEW YORK (AFP) - She may be the world's top fashion guru, but Vogue magazine's US editor Anna Wintour still managed to make last year's biggest fashion blunder, Time magazine says....

Website saves fashion faux pas at Obama inauguration - 01/02/2009

NEW YORK (AFP) - A new website hopes to save guests at president-elect Barack Obama's inauguration balls from the ultimate fashion faux pas -- wearing the same dress as someone else. ...

Tom Cruise 'deeply moved' by Hitler movie - 01/01/2009

BERLIN (AFP) - US actor Tom Cruise was "deeply moved" by playing the would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler in the movie "Valkyrie," he said in an interview with a German magazine released on...

French fashion designer Ted Lapidus dies at age 79 - 12/29/2008

PARIS (AFP) - Fashion designer Ted Lapidus, whose career soared in the 1960s and 1970s with the unisex and safari look, died Monday at age 79 in a hospital in Cannes on the French Rivera, his...
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