Fashion

Dior shrugs off rumors at Paris Haute Couture show (Reuters)

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 (AP)

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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Glee’s Lea Michele fills closet with Candie’s (AP)

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,...

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Gaultier fetes Winehouse, Givenchy goes futuristic (Reuters)

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 (AP)

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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French brand Courreges takes retro fashion online (Reuters)

Reuters – Courreges, the futuristic fashion brand of the 1960s, is poised to bring its vinyl boots and A-line mini-dresses back into vogue, relaunching the French name online.

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Look of old Hollywood glamour is a modern favorite (AP)

AP – In the Hollywood landscape of new, new, new, what really stands out is that today’s starlets still emulate the looks of classic screen beauties, including Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth, who ruled the red carpet in the 1950s.

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Power of Europe’s boardrooms captured in new book (Reuters)

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 (Reuters)

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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Luxury watches seek solace in glamour of bygone eras (Reuters)

Reuters – Simple elegance for debt-ridden Europe, glitzy diamonds and gold for booming Asia.

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Music

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Beauty

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