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  • Colourful socks trending among fashion loving men

    Men are putting their best foot forward by kicking safe black socks to the curb in favor of bright colours and dashing prints. According to 33-year-old Roland Gonzales, who works in finance, socks are a way that he can stand out at work. The Brooklynite was spotted in Bryant Park flaunting a pair of pink and purple striped Paul Smiths that he wore at his wedding. "Everyone wears the same ...

  • Dr Dre Will.i.am and Alicia Keys Why tech manufacturers are going rock n roll

    Alicia Keys, the global creative director for BlackBerry, with Thorsten Heins, the BlackBerry chief executive, during the January launch of BlackBerry 10 in New York. Scott Eells / Bloomberg ...

  • Tesco’s clothing brand plans expansion

    London - The clothing brand sold by Britain's biggest retailer Tesco said on Sunday it planned to open more than 50 new franchise stores worldwide over the next five ...

  • J. Hyde Crawford Fashion Illustrator Dies at 82

    J. Hyde Crawford, a fashion illustrator who drew countless newspaper advertisements of women wearing high-end clothing, but who may have left his most memorable image on the mundane but must-have accessory known as the shopping bag, died on May 11 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 82. His death was confirmed by his husband, Charles ...

  • Tanzania Battling It Out in the World of Fashion

    Dynamic full of energy with a keen eye for beauty, Subira Wahure has taken on the fashion industry in the country by storm with a penchant for promoting the African touch in her creations. She has proven that fashion design is not a career reserved for people who have nothing better to do with their lives. Woman Magazine coordinator, Mariam Said interviewed Subira and the following are ...


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Summer of Sam [DVD]

Summer of Sam [DVD]

"Summer of Sam" finally lost me about two-thirds of the way through. As everyone probably knows, the "Sam" of the title refers to "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, the serial killer who terrorized New York for more than a year in the late 1970s, stalking people and shooting them with a .44-caliber handgun because, as he claimed at the time, his neighbor's dog told him to. ...

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  • CSIRO suggests robotics solutions to boost manufacturing competitiveness

    During National Manufacturing Week the CSIRO released a white paper detailing what might be done to lift the manufacturing industry out of its slump. "The concern we started when we started consultation was that we were on a totally different planet to everybody," said Peter Kambouris, one of authors on the paper, published by the organisation’s Future Manufacturing ...

  • Toronto factory sticks to its knitting – for 87 years

    Parkhurst Knitwear sells its hats, coats and sweaters around the world from its factory in Toronto, one of the last domestic knitting mills in ...

  • Fashion types bring flair to prince’s Connecticut polo match

    Many in the invitation-only crowd of about 400 who gathered to watch Prince Harry's team win the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup at the Greenwich Polo Club in Connecticut brought out their summer clothes, including white pants, floral sundresses and even some seersucker. Model Karolina Kurkova even wore optic-white shoes with her white-and-navy Carolina Herrera ...

  • Manufacturing clean technology solutions with Autodesk

    There are more than 1300 clean technology companies in Australia. The sector also directly employs more people than the automotive industry, if the Australian Cleantech Review, published in March, is accurate. The review also identifies "very significant" investment opportunities from north Asian countries and an increasing demand for clean technology solutions in industry, provided ...

  • Japanese manufacturers mood turns positive Poll

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's expansionary policy has generated more confidence in the economy. Increasing optimism among manufacturers was largely driven by exporting sectors, including electric and precision machinery, that have benefited from the weak yen. The mood in the service sector also picked up and was seen rising further as consumers drew confidence, in part, from a surge in share ...

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