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		<title>Russian army scraps new uniforms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 10:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold the Grey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And we always thought getting free designer clothing was the real reason to become a soldier. BBC NEWS &#124; Europe &#124; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope hits out at consumer culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold the Grey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS &#124; Asia-Pacific &#124; Pope hits out at consumer culture also see  &#8221;Crimes of fashion&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R.I.P. &#8211; YVES SAINT LAURENT</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSHARE-KEI EXPLAINED</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 17:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[”Oshare-Kei” is a sub-set of Visual Kei that began to appear in Japan around 2001. Oshare means &#8220;stylish&#8221; or &#8220;fashionable&#8221;. (the literal translation is &#8220;fashion conscious&#8221;) Visual Kei is a music genre that began in the late 1980s and was popular during the Japanese &#8220;Band Boom&#8221; of 1988 &#8211; 1998. It was the vocalist of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VISUAL-KEI EXPLAINED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 18:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MUSIC STYLES: VISUAL KEI</title>
		<link>http://www.abelarde.com/wordpress/2008/04/05/music-styles-visual-kei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRIMES OF FASHION &#8211; Muammar al Gaddafi</title>
		<link>http://www.abelarde.com/wordpress/2008/02/17/crimes-of-fashion-muammar-al-gaddafi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8242;s pornstar sunglasses. He is wearing a fez at an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRIMES OF FASHION</title>
		<link>http://www.abelarde.com/wordpress/2008/01/29/crimes-of-fashion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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