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  • 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 ...

  • Kate Middleton voted top fashion icon

    The Duchess of Cambridge has been voted the 'fashion icon', while late Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn has emerged as 'icon of all times' in an online poll. StyleinView.co.uk, a one-stop shop for fashion, has conducted a poll of 2,000 people to find out who they considered the fashion icons of today and of all time. The Duchess of Cambridge, whose maiden name is Kate Middleton, unsurprisingly ...

  • Be polite respectful Caroline Winberg tells models

    Supermodel Caroline Winberg says models need to be professional to everyone if they really want to survive in the fashion industry. The 28-year-old also feels that models should have the ability to remain polite and respectful at all times. "I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work hard and be nice to everyone," femalefirst.co.uk quoted ...

  • Romeo Beckhams fashion sense wows Christopher Bailey

    Designer Christopher Bailey says it was a dream to work with 10-year-old Romeo Beckham, who he feels has an impeccable fashion sense. Victoria and David Beckham's son Romeo made his modelling debut for Burberry's spring-summer 2013 advertisement campaign. The shoot also starred supermodels Cara Delevingne and Edie Campbell. "He was an absolute dream to work with. Honestly, he is the sweetest, ...


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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

The unwieldiness of the title of Peter Weirs Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World owes to the fact that it takes its high-seas adventure yarn from two of Patricks OBrians popular series of books following the exploits of Capt. Jack Aubrey of the early 19th-century British Royal Navy. Embodied on screen by Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind), who has gained weight and grown o ... ...

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  • Marc Jacobs once termed Cara Delevingne a dwarf

    Actress-model Cara Delevingne hasn't always seen eye-to-eye with fashion designer Marc Jacobs because he once reportedly banned her from his show by calling the 5' 9" model a "dwarf". But now they are good friends. Jacobs banned the 20-year-old from appearing in his autumn-winter 2012-13 shows because he thought she was too short and looked odd amongst other models. Katie Grand, who helps ...

  • Fashions Victims An Artists Focus On Garment Workers

    factory collapse in Bangladesh . "The real fashion victims are not celebrities, but anonymous workers in poor conditions, in polluted countries," Dominguez, 36, told NPR afterward. "The images I saw [from Bangladesh] in the media of the limbs of the dead people under the rubble struck me so much, and I wanted to reproduce ...

  • PTT Asahi delays retart of Thai ACN plant

    "The plant which was shut in early-May 2013 for maintenance turnaround, was scheduled to restart in mid-June. This has now been resceduled to end-June", a PTT Asahi offical told fibre2fashion. Located in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, the plant has a production capacity of 200,000 ...

  • Fashion icon Diana Vreeland’s wardrobe up for grabs

    The trend-setting wardrobe of Diana Vreeland, legendary icon of the fashion world, will be up for grabs at the London-based Kerry Taylor Auctions on June 24, ...

  • Malaysia all set for maiden ready-to-wear fashion week

    Malaysia is all set for its first ready-to-wear fashion week, ‘The New Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week RTW 2013’, that will be held from June 19-23, 2013, at the Malaysian capital of Kuala ...

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