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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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Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) [Blu-Ray]

Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) [Blu-Ray]

Ari Folmans Waltz With Bashir is a film about the pursuit of memory, an elusive subject if ever there were one, and in his groundbreaking mixture of documentary aesthetics and both cutting-edge Flash and traditional forms of animation, Folman has found what may be the pe ... ...

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  • FRANCE Lafuma to axe 161 jobs amid net loss of EUR60m

    Outdoor clothing and equipment firm Lafuma is to cut 161 posts in France amid a first-half net loss of EUR60m. On a year-on-year basis, sales fell over 15% to EUR 103m during the half ended 31 March. The group is to cut 83 jobs at its surfwear brand Oxbow, almost two-thirds of the pay-roll and will entail the closure of a logistics centre. Oxbow accounted for more than half of the net loss ...

  • Apparel sales jump in May

    /enpproperty--> The China National Garment Association said on Wednesday that apparel sales in May rose 6.6 percent year-on-year, 5.5 percentage points faster than a month earlier. So strong are the inventories, the association said, that if all the garment factories closed there would be enough for three years. The China National Textile and Apparel Council cited two reasons for the high ...

  • Sainsburys boosts clothing sales through Tu brand

    Sainsbury's has seen a 15 per cent rise in the number of customers buying clothing, as its fashion sales head towards the 700m barrier. The UK's third-biggest supermarket chain said 7.5 million shoppers had bought at least one fashion item in the past 12 months, 1 million more than a year ...

  • 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 ...

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