Wednesday, May 23, 2007

SmÅll chÅnge, big updÅte

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20 May 2007

NECKLACE, £8, Diva at Miss Selfridge, tel: 01277 844157 PUMPS, £19.99, Aldo, tel: 020 7836 7692 BELT, £59, Fenwick, tel: 020 7629 9161 RING, £10, Aldo, tel: 020 7836 7692 BAG, £18, Dorothy Perkins, tel: 0845 121 4515 read more...
Watch your step: fashion industry told to ‘grow up’ over models’ health and safety
Hadley Freeman Deputy fashion editor
The Guardian
22 May 2007

The fashion world was issued with a firm command yesterday to “just grow up” by the woman in charge of cleaning up an industry which has come under heavy fire for its use of size zero models. Lady Kingsmill, chair of the Model Health Inquiry — an... read more...

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

He was the ‘King of Fashion’
Samantha Critchell Associated Press
The Nation
15 May 2007

Paul Poiret was a pioneer in modern fashion, doing away with the corset and embracing the notion of personal style. He was among the first to use draping in dressmaking and he had no problem putting pants on women. So, why have so few people heard of... read more...

Thursday, May 10, 2007



No safe cigarette, Imperial CEO says
MIKE KING THE GAZETTE
The Gazette
08 May 2007

The country’s largest manufacturer of tobacco products insists it’s a socially responsible corporation even though it’s chief executive officer twice told a Canadian Club of Montreal luncheon yesterday that a safe cigarette doesn’t exist. “As a... read more...