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Fashion models organize to fend off abuses
2/8/2012 12:49:25 PM
AP - Models are more than just pretty faces. They're often overworked, underfed and underage independent contractors with little say when things go bad behind the scenes.
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Heels so high, sometimes the models fall down
2/8/2012 12:00:08 PM
AP - New York Fashion Week begins Thursday, and amid all those images of sleek models showing off the newest designer creations are sure to be a few pictures of something far less glamorous: Models falling down.
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Navy likely new black at New York Fashion Week
2/8/2012 5:05:12 AM
Reuters - Navy is likely to replace black on the catwalk when New York Fashion Week starts on Thursday, with experts expecting rich fabrics, waist-defining jackets and some 1920s-inspired styles sparked by movies like The Artist.
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Models form rights group ahead of New York Fashion Week
2/6/2012 4:15:40 PM
Reuters - Fashion models in the United States launched a rights group on Monday ahead of New York Fashion Week to seek workplace standards including backstage privacy to stop unauthorized nude photos and a program to provide confidential advice on dealing with sexual harassment.
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Gaultier channels Winehouse, stars shop for Oscars
1/25/2012 4:39:50 PM
AP - The final day of Paris's spring-summer haute couture week saw Jean Paul Gaultier serve up a cigarettes-and-all homage to late singer Amy Winehouse and Valentino show off the dazzling couture work of seamstresses who toiled for thousands of hours to create a lavish white collection.
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Glee's Lea Michele fills closet with Candie's
1/25/2012 9:51:08 AM
AP - Lea Michele is moving from a locker to a much bigger closet. She's the star of the new Candie's ad campaign, dubbed "Hanging at Home," shot at a private mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. The images show her poolside, in the kitchen, in a bed with satin sheets and in a walk-in closet, wearing a new outfit and pair of shoes in each one.
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Gaultier fetes Winehouse, Givenchy goes futuristic
1/25/2012 9:41:42 AM
Reuters - Jean Paul Gaultier delivered an ode to Amy Winehouse at his spring/summer 2012 haute couture show in Paris on Wednesday. The late pop singer's musical spirit and bad girl fashion sense were all over the runway.
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Chanel aims sky-high, and Armani courts A-list
1/24/2012 4:01:56 PM
AP - On day two of Paris's frantic three days of haute couture collections, Chanel took the fashion crowd to the skies and highlights included super-sexy, celebrity-filled Armani Prive.
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Dior shrugs off rumors at Paris Haute Couture show
1/24/2012 4:50:14 AM
Reuters - Christian Dior shrugged off talk about who might succeed John Galliano as the fallen star designer's stand-in enjoyed a well-received Spring/Summer Haute Couture show on Monday and seen roaring sales in spite of the global economic malaise.
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Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture
1/23/2012 5:16:50 PM
AP - France may have lost an A in its credit rating, but fashion seems to have won it back with a flourishing start to haute couture week — from the A-list celebrities to Dior's 1950s A-line silhouettes.
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Power of Europe's boardrooms captured in new book
1/22/2012 5:38:15 AM
Reuters - For 15 years, New York-based Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been making her mark with global art projects, covering subjects as diverse as Haute Couture fitting rooms in Paris, the gardens of Kyoto and the boardrooms of Europe's leading corporations.
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Power of Europe's boardooms captured in new book
1/20/2012 12:29:45 PM
Reuters - For 15 years, New York-based Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been making her mark with global art projects, covering subjects as diverse as Haute Couture fitting rooms in Paris, the gardens of Kyoto and the boardrooms of Europe's leading corporations.
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Chinese haute-couture steps up at HK Fashion Week
1/18/2012 3:53:29 AM
Reuters - China at one time may have been better known for fashion knockoffs than catwalk creations, but Chinese haute-couture is now finding its feet on the international stage -- even as it grows ever more popular with customers at home.
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Gucci's Poetically Fallen Angels
1/16/2012 12:44:00 PM
Fashion Wire Daily - Poetry is not traditionally the best paid of trades, though poets were certainly dressed as the chicest of success stories in the fall 2012 menswear collection of Gucci, staged Monday, Jan. 16, in Milan.
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Prada's Powerful Patrician Panache
1/15/2012 3:10:00 PM
Fashion Wire Daily - Entitled "Il Palazzo" and featuring a rarefied list of major league actors - Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, to name a few - the latest runway show by the house of Prada was a fashionable statement on the power of dressing, rather than just powerful dressing.
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Missoni's Anglo Gent Restoration
1/15/2012 2:46:00 PM
Fashion Wire Daily - There are few more pointedly family businesses in Milan fashion than the house of Missoni, which staged its fall 2012 men's collection on Sunday, Jan. 15, even if this season the fundamental influence was transparently not Italian, but British.
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Daisy Lowe, human blob cap Rio fashion week
1/14/2012 6:44:35 PM
AP - An It Girl and an orange spandex blob of writhing humanity capped Rio de Janeiro's five-day-long fashion week Saturday, lending a gimmicky end to the city's otherwise strong winter 2012 collections.
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Burberry's Sartorial New Gentility
1/14/2012 5:19:00 PM
Fashion Wire Daily - The true test of a design champion, like their equivalent in sports, is the ability to consistently turn out hit collections, fashion statements that both set a stylistic agenda and sell large numbers of clothes.
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![If you really wanted to get away from the global recession and economic blues then your best destination this month is surely a runway show by Dolce & Gabbana.]()
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Dolce & Gabbana: Bullion, Cashmere and Pajamas
1/14/2012 12:51:00 PM
Fashion Wire Daily - If you really wanted to get away from the global recession and economic blues then your best destination this month is surely a runway show by Dolce & Gabbana.
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