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Donatella Versace to release a book on the luxury fashion house
Fashion designer Donatella Versace is to release a book detailing the history of her career and the Versace brand reports WWD. The 336-page tome will tell Donatella's story of the brand, starting from 1997 when she took over the artistic direction of Versace after the tragic murder of her brother and the brand's founder Gianni. The…
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Was ‘Iceman Otzi’ a Copper Age fashionista?
The 5,300-year-old Alpine mummy known as the Tyrolean Iceman died wearing leather clothes and accessories harvested from no less than five wild or domesticated species, a DNA analysis published Thursday revealed. Frozen solid after being fatally wounded by an arrow in the back, the brown-eyed, Copper Age nomad, nicknamed “Otzi”, was discovered in 1991 in…
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Zombies out, cool tech in: Climate comics sketch new vision of warmer world
By Laurie Goering LEEDS, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thanks to the success of Hollywood disaster films, from “Waterworld” to “The Day After Tomorrow”, it’s not hard to imagine an apocalyptic future as climate change takes hold. If you don’t have any jeopardy, you don’t really have a plot,” said James McKay, an engineer who…
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Children: Paris fashion’s latest must-have accessory
“Don't put your daughter on the stage,” Noel Coward, the great chronicler of the follies of fashion, once warned in his song “Mrs. Worthington”. French designer Franck Sorbier dressed up half a kindergarten class as little tsarinas with fez-like pillbox hats and red fur trimmed cloaks as a colourful contrast to the mourning weeds of…
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WME-IMG and CFDA Facing $10M Lawsuit for "Usurping" New York Fashion Week Trademark
The agency and CFDA conspired to steal the trademark after Mercedes-Benz pulled out as sponsor of its annual fashion event, a lawsuit claims.
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False Positive Mammograms Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer
A study conducted at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that false positive mammograms are linked to a slightly increased risk of breast cancer. To assess cancer risk after false positives, researchers reviewed data on over 2.2 million mammograms performed in almost 1.3 million women aged 40 to 75 between 1994 and 2009.…
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The British Fashion Council has chosen latest NewGen sponsorship recipients
The British Fashion Council announced eight recipients of the NewGen scheme Wednesday, December 2.
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Texas Law Leads to More Self-Induced Abortions
A Texas law that took effect in 2013 has resulted in more women trying to self-induce abortion, according to a study released on Tuesday. The study was conducted by the University of Texas Population Research Center, Ibis Reproductive Health, the University of Alabama-Birmingham, and the University of California at San Francisco. The law, aimed at…