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Swedish retailer H&M has announced that it will open their first stores in Georgia in 2017. Founded in 1947, H&M is known for offering affordable high fashion pieces as well as focusing on sustainable production, and already boasts more than 4,200 stores in 64 markets including franchise markets.
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H&M to open first stores in Georgia
By Umberto Bacchi LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Women's rights activists in Georgia have urged the country's Olympic Committee to pick a more liberal design for its female athletes, criticizing the official outfits for next month's opening ceremony at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games as archaic. Inspired by the national costume, the outfit has been a major talking point in the former Soviet republic over the past few days, with many taking to social media to complain it projected the wrong image of the nation abroad. “It's very archaic and conservative,” said Baia Pataraia from the Georgian Women Movement.
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Georgia’s conservative Olympic outfit scorned by women’s rights activists
