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 is visiting the [...]
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 a manner [...]
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 cancer, [...]
”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 [...]
Paula is a quiet ladyboy who spends most of her time reading art journals and shopping for the latest fashions. Though many do not know this about her, she began her love of art as a young girl while working in a T-Shirt factory and helping the boss make exact copies of name brand shirts.
Her [...]
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 [...]
