Donatella Versace to release a book on the luxury fashion house

October 19, 2016 By creative

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 book has been written in collaboration with fashion curator and professor at the IUAV University of Venice, Maria Luisa Frisa, and W Magazine's director Stefano Tonchi.

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Was ‘Iceman Otzi’ a Copper Age fashionista?

August 18, 2016 By admin

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 the Otztal Alps between Italy and Austria. A team led by Niall O'Sullivan, a researcher at the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Italy (and University College Dublin), put nine samples from Otzi's leather accoutrements under the microscope to determine their origin.

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Zombies out, cool tech in: Climate comics sketch new vision of warmer world

July 6, 2016 By admin

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 runs a centre for low-carbon technologies and bioenergy at the University of Leeds, in northern England. “If everything’s going well, there’s not much dramatic tension.” But McKay, who for 20 years has moonlighted as a creator of comics, thinks he has found a way to overcome that: through publishing “graphic novels” that paint a picture, in drawings and stories, of a better future.

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Children: Paris fashion’s latest must-have accessory

July 6, 2016 By creative

“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 his aristocratic Russian black widows. After the trendsetting French brand Vetements set jaws dropping with their silk Manolo Blahnik stiletto waders that reach right to the ribs on Sunday, John Galliano went full rubber Wednesday.

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WME-IMG and CFDA Facing $10M Lawsuit for "Usurping" New York Fashion Week Trademark

July 6, 2016 By creative

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

December 2, 2015 By publisher

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. They discovered that women who have abnormal mammogram results may be at increased risk for developing breast cancer even when follow-up tests fail to detect tumors.

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The British Fashion Council has chosen latest NewGen sponsorship recipients

December 2, 2015 By admin

The British Fashion Council announced eight recipients of the NewGen scheme Wednesday, December 2. 

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Females and Felines Are Top 2015 Instagram Stars

December 2, 2015 By publisher

Or be Taylor Swift. All of the Top 10 most-liked images of 2015 on the social media platform featured women, including pop stars Beyonce and Selena Gomez, according to an Instagram list released on Wednesday.

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Texas Law Leads to More Self-Induced Abortions

November 17, 2015 By publisher

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 restricting abortions, has caused longer wait times, more clinic closures, and lower access to services.

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