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Prada fashion blossoms in Shanghai
Actress Ma Yili. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Prada released the “Prada for Blossoms Shanghai” capsule collection with a private cocktail at Rong Zhai, Shanghai on Thursday. The set design team from the recent popular TV series Blossoms Shanghai created an exclusive setting characterized by curved mirror installations and vintage props, inviting guests to step into…
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There’s a New It Girl in Paris
In her debut, Chemena Kamali revives the Chloé Girl. For years the Chloé Girl was effectively another, more branded, version of the It Girl. You know: the sort of person for whom the word girl was less a judgment on age than a state of mind; the sort of person with a cool, somewhat careless…
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Was John Singer Sargent also the first celebrity stylist?
London CNN — In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and refined taste to be immortalized on canvas, Iselin instructed a maid to follow her into the drawing room…
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QubicGames brings Sculpt People and DIY Fashion Star to Switch today
QubicGames has announced that they’re bringing both Sculpt People and DIY Fashion Star to Switch today. Sculpt People will be priced at $5 while DIY Fashion Star is $8. In Sculpt People, mold the head, carve the details, and decorate your work with different sprays and accessories! Make your sculptures unique by adding fun accessories…
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Sargent and Fashion: Tate Britain’s new show ‘spectacular’ but ‘myopic’
John Singer Sargent was an artist who “clearly loved clothes”, said Francesca Peacock in Prospect. His world “was one of lavish haute couture and costumed dress”: an in-demand painter of society portraits, Sargent (1856-1925) specialised in likenesses “of society beauties in miles of silk” and “serious canvases of serious men” – themselves often no less…
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Do a circular economy and fast fashion go together?
As illustrated earlier, textile production is a complex process, and recycling involves retracing several steps in the production chain and, to some extent, repeating them. Consequently, there isn’t a single recycling strategy; end-of-use textiles can re-enter the process chain at various points (i.e., as fibers, polymers, or monomers), requiring at least part of the process…
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The Kate Moss Fashion Moment That Made The Brits Cool
“Some models would just not look right in them, you can’t imagine putting some of the clothes on Linda Evangelista or Nadja Auermann or whoever would have been on the scene at the time,” noted Knight later on. “So Kate had both the attitude and the physical side of it, which made her perfect for…
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The Easterseals Fashion Effect
Jenn Cook and Emily Young have more than style on the brain for the nonprofit’s biggest fundraiser. It’s exactly the kind of thing nonprofits want to see: newcomers falling in love with the mission and longtime supporters staying involved over the years. And that’s exactly the duo Easterseals Arkansas has in Jenn Cook and Emily…
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Augusta University celebrates Black History Month with a fashion show
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Treasure hunt: what to wear to a car boot sale
Faux leather bomber jacket, £290, essentiel-antwerp.com. Dress, £35.99, zara.com. Cashmere hat, £90 by Sporty and Rich from net-a-porter.com. Lip balm, £23 by Summer Fridays from cultbeauty.co.uk. Suede mules, £140, clarks.com. Phone case with strap, £53, xouxou.com. Earrings, £85, thehoopstation.co.uk