And we always thought getting free designer clothing was the real reason to become a soldier. BBC NEWS | Europe | Russian army scraps new uniforms A plan to replace Soviet-era Russian military uniforms with ones by a leading fashion designer has been abandoned because of a lack of money. The plan to bring in [...]
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Pope hits out at consumer culture also see ”Crimes of fashion” Pope Benedict XVI has attacked popular culture and consumerism in a formal address to tens of thousands of young Roman Catholics. The pontiff also warned that natural resources were being squandered, in the speech in Sydney, Australia. The pope [...]
Plato: For the greater good. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such [...]
Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71PARIS (AP) — Yves Saint Laurent, one of the most influential and enduring designers of the 20th century, empowered women by reinventing pants as a sleek, elegant staple of the female wardrobe. Saint Laurent, 71, died Sunday night at his Paris home after a yearlong battle with brain [...]
”Oshare-Kei” is a sub-set of Visual Kei that began to appear in Japan around 2001. Oshare means “stylish” or “fashionable”. (the literal translation is “fashion conscious”) Visual Kei is a music genre that began in the late 1980s and was popular during the Japanese “Band Boom” of 1988 – 1998. It was the vocalist of [...]
Visual Kei refers to a movement among Japanese musicians that is characterized by the use of eccentric, sometimes flamboyant looks. This usually involves striking make-up, unusual hair styles and elaborate costumes, often, but not always, coupled with androgynous aesthetics. Some sources state that Visual Kei refers to a music genre, or to a sub-genre of [...]
Visual Kei refers to a movement among Japanese musicians, that is characterized by the use of eccentric, sometimes flamboyant looks. This usually involves striking make-up, unusual hair styles and elaborate costumes, often, but not always, coupled with androgynous aesthetics. Some sources state that Visual Kei refers to a music genre, or to a sub-genre of [...]
Oh deary me. The Libian leader is wearing a silk embroidered button-up tunic strait out of a Bollywood romantic drama. Draped around his shoulders is a beach towel that would be the envy of any Campsbay moffie. Shading his steely gaze is a pair of 70′s pornstar sunglasses. He is wearing a fez at an [...]
This man (on the left wearing a fabulous vintage chiffon-lined Dior gold lamé gown over a silk YSL empire waist cocktail dress, accessorized with a 3-foot beaded peaked Galliano hat, and ruby slippers by Vivian Westwood, whilst clutching the staff that Charles Heston swung about in Moses) is worried that The Da Vinci Code might [...]
