Russian babushkas break stereotypes with fashion shoots

In Russia, elderly women are usually expected to forget about fashion and watch their grandchildren. Not 71-year-old Olga Kondrasheva, who is fighting stereotypes by modelling for a glossy magazine. “I'm over 70 now but my life is just beginning and it's so interesting,” says Kondrasheva, slim and sporting wavy white hair, a few minutes before a studio photoshoot for the Russian edition of Cosmopolitan magazine in central Moscow.

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Chanel puts on the Ritz at Paris fashion show

The legendary French fashion label Chanel paid hommage to its founder Coco Chanel Tuesday with a show at the Ritz in Paris. Pillbox hats with netted veils, long woolly jumpers and scarves, tweed suits glittering with gorgeous inlay and pearls aplenty, you half expected Mademoiselle Chanel to appear for afternoon tea with one of her ne'er do well aristocratic lovers. The redoubtable designer spent a large part of her life living in a suite in the swish hotel, including most controversially during World War II, when a German intelligence officer, Baron Hans Gunther von Dincklage, shared her bed.

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Lily-Rose Depp, Cara Delevingne shimmy down the catwalk for Chanel

Cara Delevingne made a catwalk comeback on Tuesday when she starred in the 2016 Chanel Métiers d'Art show in Paris. The supermodel, actress and Karl Lagerfeld protégée, who has been focusing on her movie career recently, appeared early on in the show at the city's newly re-opened Ritz Hotel. While it was return to business as usual for Delevingne, some models — notably Lily-Rose Depp — were making their runway debut for the house.

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Gigi Hadid crowned model of year at Fashion Awards

LONDON (Reuters) – American fashion model Gigi Hadid was crowned international model of the year and designer Alexander McQueen named best British brand at the 2016 Fashion Awards on Monday night. The fashion industry's top designers, models and celebrity fans braved chilly winter weather in London to walk the red carpet at the Royal Albert Hall. Hadid, 21, beat her younger sister Bella and fellow models Kendall Jenner, Adwoa Aboah and Lineisy Montero for the top modeling award. …

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Fashion World Turns Out in Force to Remember Photographer Bill Cunningham

Anna Wintour, Ralph Lauren, Naomi Campbell and others attended a Carnegie Hall memorial celebrating the life of the original ‘street style’ photographer.

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H&M Foundation launches second Global Change Award for a greener fashion future

As of Thursday, the second edition of the award, which will see €1 million in grants handed to brands with bright ideas about how to make fashion greener, is open for applications. There are three separate categories: ‘Circular business models', covering ideas on how to reuse, repair, share, digitalize or extend the life of products, ‘Circular materials', looking for ideas on new fibers, recycling techniques, and leather substitutes and ‘Circular processes', focused on new methods.

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Brutally honest eBay post for wedding dress prompts surprising outcome

LONDON — Finding out the love of your life has cheated on you is one thing. But then having to foot the bill for the divorce? Well, that's a whole other level of awfulness. SEE ALSO: Fitness model Chontel Duncan shows us the messy side of motherhood This is the terrible situation Samantha Wragg of Chesterfield, UK,  is facing. And she's taken to eBay to sell her wedding dress. The product description of her ivory Art Deco dress is likely the darkest one to ever grace the site.  “Great condition but needs dry cleaning before wearing to get rid of the stench of betrayal,” reads the product's description.”If you want a dress that is full of bad memories and shattered hopes and dreams then this is the one for you,” it continues. Wragg apologized for the lack of photos of the dress, admitting that when she found out her husband was living with another woman, she burned and permanently deleted everything with his “disgusting” face on it.  “I didn't have time to get it dry-cleaned myself before my cheating scumbag of a husband decided to call an end to our marriage,” wrote Wragg.

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Colombian designer makes fashion business bulletproof

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – Miguel Caballero's designs are not just chic, they could save your life. The Colombian fashion designer, who makes lightweight, bulletproof clothing for dignitaries including the King of Jordan, says he has a 'survivors club' of 20 customers who owe their lives to wearing his garments. “My greatest satisfaction is not earning business, it's saving lives,” Caballero, who founded the company bearing his name 21 years ago, told Reuters following a fashion show on Friday with models strutting down the runway as at any other.

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Designs revealed for new Yves Saint Laurent museum in Marrakesh, Morocco

Architectural designs by French firm Studio KO have been released for the upcoming museum dedicated to designer Yves Saint Laurent and his work, the “mYSLm” (Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech). Yves Saint Laurent had a long and public love affair with Morocco, buying the Jardin Majorelle gardens in 1980 with his life and business partner Pierre Bergé, after falling in love with the city of Marrakesh in 1966. From Autumn 2017, a new museum will accompany the garden on the Rue Yves Saint Laurent outside the medina walls of Marrakesh.

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From bioluminescent dresses to emoji pins, Intel struts its stuff at Fashion Week

Intel has a problem. Hell, the entire computer industry has a problem: It’s woefully unhip. Bill Gates, bless his brilliant mind, helped form an image in America’s collective unconscious of what programmers should look like, a mental picture hasn’t shifted from the pocket protector despite the fact that most modern tech CEOs dress like ordinary folks — think Mr. Roger Federer, not Mr. Rogers. Still, gadgets are for geeks … right? Not so fast, explains Intel

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