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10/04/2015 12:52

Designer Patricia Zanger offers stylish tips for best hat at the Kentucky Derby

Kentucky Derby is right around the corner and tradition dictates every lady and/or gentleman must have a very fashionable hat. So yes, it’s time to consider what to wear out to the Portland Meadows that is if you aren't traveling to Louisville to enjoy a day at the horse races. Bonnet Boutique...

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08/04/2015 14:14

Faster fashion: 'If a trend comes, we need to have it on our site in under a week'

There is a fashion that fashion likes to ignore. Here is one of its imaginary clothes rails: a pair of crocheted white shorts, a fringed suedette jacket. Flick, flick. A maxi skirt slashed to the thigh, tops with backs or fronts cut out. Each item costs £20 or less and its main ingredient lies...

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04/04/2015 14:10

Confessions of an Online Binge Shopper: It All Started with a Suede Coat

At some point during New York Fashion Week, for reasons I still don’t totally understand, I decided I desperately needed a suede coat. After hours of discouraging research online, my quest led me to Etsy where I finally found and purchased a burnt orange one with a tie belt for $120. Even though I...

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02/04/2015 12:52

5 Ways To Dress Like A Parisian And Nail it

It's the minimalist girl's dream wardrobe, featuring classic pared-back pieces with chic tailoring aplenty. And better still, it's totally achievable and totally wearable. So if you want the ultimate Parisian-girl style, then look no further: here's how. Your Need-To-Know-Gal: Emmanuelle Alt If you...

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31/03/2015 13:40

Tabatha Southey: Asking Fran Lebowitz about fashion is just looking for trouble

It’s a lot lighter a lot longer here in Toronto these days – giving people a good chance to see just how ridiculously freezing everyone is. Yet optimists still insist there will be a spring, followed by a summer, which is why, dear men who may be reading this, I want to take a minute to tell you...

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27/03/2015 13:59

J J Valaya channels Russian chic at Amazon India Fashion Week

In Pragati Maidan’s cavernous halls, on the first day of the newly rechristened Amazon India Fashion Week, a scene was building. J J Valaya – India’s proud tsar of bridal wear – was about to unveil a mint new A/W 2015 poet collection steeped in Russian leitmotifs, from the collection’s name,...

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25/03/2015 12:45

5-year-old's makeup tutorials spark outrage

Danna Gomez wields a mascara wand like a pro and knows the exact method for creating the illusion of high cheekbones - but this new YouTube star is only five years old. And the precocious make-up expert, from Colombia, is at the centre of a debate that such a young child should be offering beauty...

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23/03/2015 12:05

Why is the hijab so controversial?

Though millions of women around the world wear veils and hijabs, it is still a topic of controversy and misunderstanding among many. Dr Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi, a researcher at the Petroleum Institute, has started a project to explore the perceptions of the veil among Muslims and non-Muslims in the...

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20/03/2015 13:38

the Royal Navy has got a 'cool' new uniform for the first time in 70 years

Seventy years is quite a while to wait for a wardrobe overhaul – when it comes, it had better be worth it – but that's how long it has been, roughly, since the Royal Navy last had its uniforms revamped. However, after a three-year trial period – appropriately enough on HMS Daring, as well as other...

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18/03/2015 13:42

Here are the 2015 CFDA Fashion Awards nominees

The winners will be announced on June 1. It’s impossible to say yet whether there will be another major fashion moment on the red carpet at the 2015 CFDA Fashion Awards following Rihanna’s much talked-about sheer Adam Selman dress. But one thing is always for sure at the CFDAs – it will be a...

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