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Tinsley Mortimer Does Hair Metal Chic for Samantha Thavasa (Fashion Wire Daily)
Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:03:00 AM CST
Fashion Wire Daily - Tinsley Mortimer launched her latest collection for Japanese handbag company Samantha Thavasa on Tuesday, July 20, at the store's New York boutique on Madison Avenue to a crowd that delighted in her fall lineup, a girly take on '80s-inspired bags and clutches that would be just as home at a hair metal arena rock show as they would on the set of "Gossip Girl."
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Sex workers put on fashion show to fight AIDS (AFP)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 1:13:18 PM CST
AFP - Sex workers sought to raise awareness about discrimination and AIDS with a colourful fashion show on the margins of the world AIDS conference on Wednesday.
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The "Salt" Premiere Shakes Up Hollywood (Fashion Wire Daily)
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:45:00 AM CST
Fashion Wire Daily - Collective sighs of relief echoed down Hollywood Boulevard as Brad Pitt joined his superstar partner Angelina Jolie at the massive premiere of her new action flick "Salt." Jolie looked gorgeous as always in a skimpy black beaded minidress, but Pitt looked positively stunning after months of sporting a mountain man grizzle of facial hair that obscured his handsome visage.
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Choppering Away from "The Extra Man" Premiere (Fashion Wire Daily)
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:03:00 AM CST
Fashion Wire Daily - When you're a big movie star, it's easy to whisk away from your movie premiere: just ask Katie Holmes. The actress is currently working in Toronto on the History Channel miniseries "The Kennedys," in which she will bring Jacqueline Kennedy back to life, but her latest flick was premiering in New York City on Monday, July 19. So what's a girl whose husband Tom Cruise makes $25 million per movie to do? Just hire a helicopter, of course.
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George Clooney radiates cool on witness stand (AP)
Friday, July 16, 2010 11:37:08 AM CST
AP - It's no wonder the Italian businessmen claimed George Clooney was behind their fashion line — the actor knows how to wow an audience whether he's on the red carpet or the witness stand.
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Partying for a Cause at the "Inception" Premiere (Fashion Wire Daily)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:09:00 PM CST
Fashion Wire Daily - What made the huge Hollywood premiere of "Inception" on Tuesday, July 13, different from most? It wasn't that it was staged at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard; that's been the spot where movie premieres have happened since 1927. Nor was it having a huge movie star like Leonardo DiCaprio head across the street to the screaming crowd, signing autographs and posing for photos with adoring fans, for that's been done, too.
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The iPhone 4's biggest problem is not its antenna (Appolicious)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:33:00 AM CST
Appolicious - If Apple (AAPL) continues to sidestep the growing iPhone 4 antenna furor, it risks losing its grip as America's premiere tech company. Also in today's App Industry Roundup, experts are starting to talk about an iPhone 4 recall.
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Stella McCartney to design British Olympic kit (AFP)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 5:02:19 AM CST
AFP - Fashion designer Stella McCartney will oversee the design of the athletes' clothing for the British team at the 2012 London Olympics, it was announced on Wednesday.
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China tycoon bids to be Prada's biggest shareholder (AFP)
Monday, July 12, 2010 1:24:06 AM CST
AFP - A Chinese tycoon has been quietly buying up shares in Italian fashion house Prada SpA in a bid to become its largest shareholder, his company confirmed Monday.
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Michalsky: Conservationist Chic (Fashion Wire Daily)
Sunday, July 11, 2010 9:04:00 AM CST
Fashion Wire Daily - Local fashion star Michael Michalsky staged Berlin's biggest bumper fashion event on Friday, July 9, with a multiple runway show, opera performance and mini sketch from the local equivalent of a Broadway show.
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Naomi Campbell will testify at war crimes trial (AP)
Sunday, July 11, 2010 4:15:30 AM CST
AP - Fashion model Naomi Campbell says she will testify at the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor.
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Creative, fanciful couture at Franck Sorbier (AP)
Thursday, July 8, 2010 1:34:33 AM CST
AP - Franck Sorbier proved that in couture, it's creativity and technical savoir faire — and not deep pockets — that really count. The veteran Frenchman's fall-winter 2011 show in a tiny hall lent to him by Sotheby's auction house, was at the opposite end of the spectrum from the big-budget megaproductions put on by luxury conglomerates. But the collection didn't suffer for it — au contraire.
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The naked and the dead at Paris couture (AP)
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 6:28:14 PM CST
AP - Haute couture is all about dressing up — dressing way, way, up, in fact, in made-to-measure garments that cost as much as a new car. But Jean Paul Gaultier reversed the equation Wednesday, sending out burlesque star Dita Von Teese, who peeled off layer after wildly expensive layer till she was stripped literally to the bone.
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Lohan's future on hold until jail, rehab are done (AP)
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 2:44:53 PM CST
AP - Lindsay Lohan's future includes a new fashion line, two new movies, some time in jail and another stint in rehab.
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Norwegian chess prodigy turns to fashion catwalk (AFP)
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 11:32:23 AM CST
AFP - Chess star Magnus Carlsen, the youngest player to ever top the International Chess Federation (FIDE) rankings, has ventured into modelling.
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Paris haute couture stitching up new markets (Reuters)
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 10:41:11 AM CST
Reuters - Designers of French haute couture are finding the tastes and pocketbooks of emerging market clients have been a boost for dwindling sales as they spread their commercial nets beyond wealthy Westerners.
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Fashionable dreams in Pakistan's turbulent Baluchistan (AFP)
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 10:04:33 AM CST
AFP - Mehtab Kanwal embroiders a women's tunic, dreaming of a prosperous future as a fashion designer with a boutique -- albeit in one of the most turbulent and forgotten parts of Pakistan.
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Lion with pearl centerpiece at Chanel fashion show (AFP)
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 5:07:44 PM CST
AFP - A monumental lion, teeth bared and one front paw resting proprietorially on a giant pearl, held centre stage, its golden coat caught in the setting sun under the glass dome of the Grand Palais.
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Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh Chanel! (AP)
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 4:49:45 PM CST
AP - A several-story-tall golden lion — a modest homage to Chanel founder Coco, a Leo — presided over the luxury giant's over-the-top fall-winter 2011 haute couture display Tuesday, where models in sequin-covered sheath dresses and cropped jackets emerged from inside a giant pearl to trace figure eights between the towering feline's oversized paws.
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Chanel's Lagerfeld goes for glitter in couture (Reuters)
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 4:42:51 PM CST
Reuters - Under the glass roof of Paris's Palais Royal, fashion house Chanel roared to life on Tuesday with a glitzy show of haute couture that hinted at the spectacle and opulence of Romanov Russia.