Beth Ditto drops second fashion collection

Singer Beth Ditto has unveiled her second fashion collection for plus-size customers. The Gossip frontwoman has built upon the success of her first season collection, taking inspiration from her own wardrobe to create 11 statement pieces such as structured shift dresses and a cocoon-shaped wool coat, alongside more relaxed, everyday styles such as boxy white t-shirts and sequin-embellished sweatshirts. Fabrics such as denim, silk and jersey underline the collection's relaxed attitude, while a loose makeup-inspired theme sees several of the pieces decorated with 3D eyelashes or prints depicting eye pencil shavings and spilled nail polish.

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Is the Victoria’s Secret show sashaying to Paris?

The label and its army of 'Angels' is rumored to be heading to the French capital for the 2016 edition of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, WWD reports. In fact, a Paris show wouldn't be the brand's first time in France — its 2000 show was held in the city of Cannes on the Cote d'Azur. Victoria's Secret has become a global household name partly thanks to the success of its fashion shows, which each year include a group of supermodel-status 'Angels' alongside its bevvy of catwalk stars.

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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 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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