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The girl from Nefyn town

March 31, 2009/10.46

You could thank Whoopi Goldberg’s appearance in Sister Act for the early inspiration behind Welsh singer Aimee Ann Duffy’s rise to fame. With over 5·5 million copies of her début album Rockferry being sold worldwide, Duffy hails from the small North Wales town of Nefyn where she started singing in local bands, later appearing on a Welsh Pop […]

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1982 will be different as Ashes to Ashes’ next series begins

March 28, 2009/6.09

We’ve been patiently waiting for news of Ashes to Ashes’ second series for quite some time. This time last year, we had already talked about the series, the ’80s and the decade’s influence on fashion.    Last week was the first time we had heard much about the next Ashes to Ashes, aside from a […]

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Renault launches Laguna 3 ad campaign with Eric Cantona

March 23, 2009/10.18

Renault has launched a campaign for the Laguna 3 with former Manchester United football player Eric Cantona, using humour and targeting the internet as well as conventional media.    Called Le rencontre (The Encounter), the commercial is irreverent but manages to show the Laguna in a quality light.    The campaign breaks today in France […]

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Russian Fashion Week president, Alexander Shumsky, honoured

March 21, 2009/11.27

On the wires: the World Fashion Award for Professional Achievement in Moskva went to Alexander Shumsky, President of Russian Fashion Week, the largest fashion event in eastern Europe. Seventy-one-year-old designer Slava Zaitsev received the Lifetime Achievement Award. The event was broadcast by the Swiss-based World Fashion Channel.    We suspect that we will hear far […]

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Supermodel Elle Macpherson cast in CW’s Beautiful Life

March 20, 2009/8.21

Above: Elle Macpherson in one of her earlier roles, in the 2001 mini-series A Girl Thing, with Kate Capshaw. Supermodel Elle Macpherson will play the head of a modelling agency and a former 1980s model in the pilot of the CW’s new drama, Beautiful Life.    Macpherson will have a recurring role in the new […]

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Anna Sui, NYFW fall–winter 2009–10

February 18, 2009/23.09

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E. Y. Wada, NYFW fall–winter 2009–10

February 16, 2009/12.03

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Miss Sixty, NYFW fall–winter 2009–10

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Akiko Ogawa, NYFW fall–winter 2009–10

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Calvin Klein men’s, NYFW fall–winter 2009–10

February 15, 2009/21.51

Calvin Klein’s menswear show for fall 2009 could boast Kanye West, Jared Leto, Chace Crawford and Patrick Wilson among the celebrities present. You may also like New York Fashion Week spring–summer 2013, day two: leisurely femininity Anna Sui, NYFW fall–winter 2009–10 Max Azria, NYFW fall–winter 2009–10 Michael Kors, NYFW fall–winter 2009–10 Milly by Michelle Smith, […]

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