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Month: August 2016

  • Burkina Faso bans big buttocks beauty contest

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    The government of Burkina Faso has banned an annual beauty contest for women with the biggest buttocks, saying such events are sexist. Adverts for this weekend’s third edition of ‘Miss Bim-Bim’, carrying an image of two fully clothed women with exaggeratedly large behinds, provoked an outcry on social media. “Our role is to do everything…

  • Google: bomber jackets are in, see-through clothes are out

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    If you don't already own a bomber jacket then it might be time to invest, since, according to Google, it is emerging as one of the key fashion pieces of the year. The search engine has just released its Fashion Trends 2016 report highlighting the current style fads in the US and the UK, and…

  • Sonia Rykiel, queen of post-60s Paris chic, dies at 86

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    Sonia Rykiel, the influential French designer who helped shape the contemporary woman's wardrobe, died on Thursday at the age of 86 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. The pioneering Rykiel was a fixture in the industry for half a century, launching her own fashion house in 1968 buoyed by the Swinging Sixties craze in…

  • Rihanna shuns fashion week for second Fenty x Puma instalment

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    Rihanna's debut Fenty x Puma show was one of the hottest tickets at last season's New York Fashion Week, but the star is shunning the catwalk for the Spring/Summer 2017 season. The singer and designer will instead opt to unveil her new collection via a series of pop-up stores in New York a few days…

  • Lena Dunham and Jemima Kirke chill out for new lingerie campaign

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    Lena Dunham has teamed up with her “Girls' co-star Jemima Kirke to star in lingerie brand Lonely's new campaign. Photographer Zara Mirkin shot the actresses in Brooklyn, New York, for the candid campaign, with portraits posted on Lonely's Instagram account showing the pair hanging out in ordinary-looking bathroom setting, while modelling some of the label's…

  • UK Vogue documentary to air on September 8

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    Vogue has announced the dates of its upcoming documentary, “Vogue, Absolutely Fashion: Inside British Vogue,” reports British Vogue. The first of the two-episode series will air on BBC Two on September 8 at 9pm.

  • Johanna Ho collaborates on Puma capsule collection

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    Hong Kong-based designer Johanna Ho is the latest designer to add her personal touch to Puma, reports Women's Wear Daily, as she creates a 26-piece capsule collection for the brand. The designer used a selection of vintage Puma tracksuits to create the collection, which includes t-shirts, tracksuits and footwear. Items will retail for 2,300 Macau…

  • French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel dies aged 86

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    By Astrid Wendlandt PARIS (Reuters) – French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, known for her brightly colored striped sweater dresses, has died at the age of 86, the owner of the fashion label she founded said on Thursday. “It is a sad day but Sonia Rykiel leaves behind her an extraordinary legacy,” Jean-Marc Loubier, chairman and…

  • Sonia Rykiel’s best catwalk moments

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    Sonia Rykiel, the Parisian fashion designer who shook up the French style scene, has passed away at the age of 86. Rykiel burst onto the scene in the late 1960s, and remained the darling of the Parisian fashion world even after Parkinson's disease forced her to take a backseat in 2007, leading to her daughter…

  • ‘Queen of Knitwear’ Sonia Rykiel dead at 86: family

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    French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, the so-called Queen of Knitwear, died on Thursday at the age of 86 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease, her daughter told AFP. “My mother died at 5:00 this morning at her home in Paris from the effects of Parkinson's,” Nathalie Rykiel said. The pioneering Rykiel was a fixture…