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He's got it The Guardian | Get ready for funkyzeit as Austria's greatest fashionista arrives on the big screen this week. But how would Bruno advise Gordon Brown, style Obama and deal with the BNP? We found out | 'Message to Gordon Brown – lose ze grimacing' … Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/AP | ...
Imelda Marcos: The best and worst life Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines — In true Imeldific fashion, she glided down a red carpet, surrounded by little girls in white dresses carrying bouquets of roses and trailed by tuxedo-wearing violin and flute players who rendered her favorite love song. | In a frantic, fuchsia terno designed by Oliver Tolenti...
China doll Irish Times 12Portrait of a LadyA taste of AmericaThrills and spills | WOMEN: In the West, the Barbie doll symbolises particularly superficial form of consumerism, but in China, it has become associated feminist movement that is challenging long-established patr...
Imelda Marcos: The best and worst life Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines — In true Imeldific fashion, she glided down a red carpet, surrounded by little girls in white dresses carrying bouquets of roses and trailed by tuxedo-wearing violin and flute players who rendered her favorite love song. | In a...
My Life In Travel: Jeff Banks, fashion designer The Independent | First holiday memory? | Going to Valley Farm Holiday Park in Clacton-on-Sea with my parents. I grew up in Catford, south London so going to Clacton - some 60 miles away - was an enormous distance. I'll never forget the excitement going on the train...
Photographic tales of the Silk Road Sydney Morning Herald | IN THE turbulent opening years of the 20th century a talented Russian photographer, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, persuaded Tsar Nicholas II to commission a magnificent record of the diverse cultures of his vast empire. | Travelling on a railcar provide...
Miuccia Prada: The reluctant fashionista CNN | (CNN) -- She's the antithesis of the typical fashion designer, preferring to step away from the adulation of shows and flashy parties, yet from behind the scenes, Miuccia Prada h...
Ladies of the pageant The Star | Ever wondered what happened to previous Miss Malaysia Universes? Do they fade into the background or do they go on to better things? We look in on six former queens and a runner-up. | What happens to beauty queens when the limelight has faded and t...
Museum and Gallery Listings The New York Times | ART Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Neue Galerie | ‘Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin’ | 'Dancer With Raised Skirt,' a 1909 woodcut on paper by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, is among the works featured in this exhibition, ...
BBC executives' hotel lifestyles: only the finest will do The Guardian | Corporation's senior managers spend tens of thousands of pounds sampling the best of the global hospitality industry | BBC director of Vision Jana Bennett stayed at the Palazzo Versace on Queensland’s Gold Coast, one of the world’s few six-star...
Triple Treats of Selecta Ice Cream Designed by 3 Top Chefs Journal Online Especially crafted for discriminating gourmands, Selecta Gold Series represents Selecta’s most luxurious offering yet: a line of extra creamy premium ice cream designed to provide a truly opulent experience. Made only from the finest ingredients available, the three flavors that compose the line—Chocolate Truffles, Hazelnut Brownie and Berry St...
Snatching Big Names, Aesthetics Aside The New York Times | LONDON - The surprising success of the contemporary art sales at Sotheby's on June 25 and at Christie's on Tuesday has again confirmed that the art market operates as if the buyers had never heard of the recession. Interestingly, it also puts its performance in a new perspective. Skip to next paragraph Blog | ArtsBeat | The latest on the arts, co...
