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  • Dr. Kavuru Sambasiva Rao takes over as Textiles Minister

    Dr. Kavuru Sambasiva Rao took over here today as the new Union Minister for Textiles. After assuming office, Sambasiv Rao said the Ministry will do everything possible to provide employment to poor sections of society, increase exports and do justice to cotton growers and handloom weavers. He also hoped to raise textile exports to 50 billion dollars by the year-end from the present 34 ...

  • Serena Williams shows off glamorous side for Burberry fashion show

    Serena Williams was spotted looking absolutely stunning at the Burberry fashion show on June 19. The tennis star flaunted her toned athletic physique in a figure-hugging dress as she arrived at Kensington Gardens in London to attend the menswear show, the Daily Express reported. The five-time Wimbledon champ donned a hot pink outfit, which she teamed up with a trench coat, a signature Burberry ...

  • Helen Mirren new face of Marksamp Spencer

    Award-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren is said to be the new face of lifestyle and fashion brand, Marks amp; Spencer. The 67-year-old was spotted shooting for brand's new ad campaign at London's St Katharine's Docks, here, Sunday, alongside TV personality Katie Piper, who is also believed to be starring in the advertisement, reports femalefirst.co.uk. It would be the first fashion campaign ...

  • 50pc fashion industry workers unhappy with jobs

    More than half of the workers of the fashion industry are dissatisfied with their jobs, a new survey has revealed. More than 1,300 workers in different disciplines with various degrees of seniority and expertise, were surveyed in a poll conducted by recruitment firm 24 Seven, only 48 percent of the employees have said that they are satisfied with their current position which is 51 percent last ...

  • Australian fashionistas mourn closing of Lisa Ho boutiques

    Australian fashionistas are mourning the closing of the Lisa Ho fashion house, which has dressed stars such as Olivia Newton-John, Jennifer Lopez and Elle Macpherson over the past three decades. Lisa Ho Group, which has total debts of some A$10.47 million ($9.91 million), handed over control of its operations to receivers earlier this month as part of its bankruptcy filing. The Lisa Ho ...


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Movie Review

Sugar & Spice

Sugar & Spice is a silly teen satire about a group of cheerleaders who decide to rob a bank in order to help their pregnant captain. There is something about the movie's premise that seems almost too close to the absurdities of actual news headlines. In other words, if I read about such a scenario in the paper tomorrow morning, I don't think I would be too surprised. ...

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  • iStyle Fashion on two wheels

    As you might expect, the fashion bike is a different beast altogether. Designers Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci led the way for the extreme bicycle, with creations that freewheeled into the headlines last year for their whopping price tags. This season, however, a slightly more realistic bar has been set, as brands such as Pretty Ballerinas, H&M and Red or Dead have teamed up with established ...

  • Lake Wales Photographer Dabbles in Fashion Shoots

    Inside a quiet subdivision of Lake Wales, Michael Flores sits on an L-shaped couch crammed into the corner of his living room . He's editing photos from his most recent shoot on a laptop. Aside from the cluttered corner, the room, tiled with vaulted ceilings, is practically empty, aside from a few studio lights, a screen, and a small table littered with pictures from an Instax ...

  • Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana sentenced to jail for tax evasion

    Italy Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have been sentenced to one year and eight months in prison for tax evasion of 200 million euros ($268 million).A Milan court also ordered the pair to pay a fine of 500,000 euros ($712,111) to Italy's national tax agency.Lawyers for Dolce and Gabbana, whose celebrity clients include Beyonce and Madonna, immediately said ...

  • Music Review Blue Monday at the Cotton Club

    Familiar sights and sounds greeted visitors to the Cotton Club in Harlem on Tuesday night. Stepping into the modern-day incarnation of that storied Prohibition-era nightclub, you heard swing standards brightly played by the Cotton Club All-Stars: ...

  • Missile manufacturer MBDA UK leads research effort

    French missile maker MBDA's U.K. unit is leading a British government research and development project to support innovation in aerospace technology. The geometry handling and integration project has $7.8 million in funding from the government's Technology Strategy Board and industry. The project brings together British organizations to develop improved modeling techniques to address ...

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