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Sloggi searches for New Zealand’s best buns

September 8, 2008/23.07

Sloggi, the international underwear brand, is on the lookout for New Zealand’s best male and female posteriors for the second annual Show Me Your Sloggi competition. The national winners get a trip to Paris to attend the international competition, and be in a chance to win a modelling competition, €15,000 prize money and bum insurance.    […]

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Perfectionism may be dangerous to your salary!

September 7, 2008/9.58

Women, power and money are topics that capture my interest immediately. Imagine my dismay when I read this very enlightening New York Times article that apparently girl power has not transferred successfully into the workforce. Apparently the culprits are perfectionism and having a thin skin among other things.     I personally think having a thick skin […]

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Jane Iredale photo competition winner announced

September 6, 2008/12.54

Jane Iredale has held a photographic competition in the lead-up to Air New Zealand Fashion Week. The brief: to design a high-fashion runway look in keeping with Fashion Week using the Jane Iredale product.    Katie Elliott of Essentially Skin, Whangarei, has won the competition, taking away $1,000 in Jane Iredale product, a luxurious night at […]

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Ingrid Betancourt announced by Association as Woman of the Year

September 5, 2008/12.06

The World Awards Association, presided by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mikhail Gorbachev, today announced the ?rst Women’s World Awards winner for 2008, Ingrid Betancourt. Betancourt, 46, the former Columbian presidential candidate, kidnapped in 2002 by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) and held captive in the Columbian jungle for six-and-a-half years, will receive the […]

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Ayo filming video in Rio

September 1, 2008/23.44

Another sign of our connected, global planet: New Zealand director Shona McCullagh of the Human Garden Agency directs Parisian artist Ayo in her latest video on location in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Images courtesy Human Garden.) You may also like Miss France and Scarlett Johansson among our most popular articles in ’11 An interview with […]

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