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Spring colors for your lips

Apr 20, 2012

The biggest makeup trend for 2012 is well-moisturized, glowing skin to accentuate your lips with point colors. Try orange, peach tone lip colors this spring to add brightness and fun to your face, make-up artists say.“Peach tone lipstick is the ‘it’ product for this season. However, you need to skip other colors when applying point color lipsticks. Use only eyeliners and mascara to complete your doll-like eye look,” said Lee Jin-soo, chief make-up artist for Hera.The androgynous look from the 20
From bling to diets, image shapes French campaign

Apr 18, 2012

PARIS (AP) ― Should you judge a book by its cover? France’s presidential candidates certainly think voters do, and more than ever have tried to get their political message across through their image.With unemployment and economic woes topping voter concerns, incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy has sought to change from a Rolex-wearing president with a supermodel wife to a more humble, discreetly dressed man listening to the needs of the people.Almost conversely, Francois Hollande ― the Socialist who tops
Tinted gold passes for precious stones

Apr 11, 2012

MEDELLIN, Colombia (AFP) ― All that glitters is gold under a new thermochemical process developed by Colombian engineers for colour-tinting the precious metal to make it look like sapphires, rubies or emeralds.The tinting can increase the value of gold by a factor of five, meaning the chemically-altered precious metal is likely to appear in jewellers’ display windows worldwide soon, according to University of Antioquia engineers.“It does not involve painting the gold or covering it with some mat
‘Little Paris Kitchen’ spells success for young British chef

Apr 11, 2012

PARIS (AFP) ― From au pair to television chef of the moment, Rachel Khoo has come a long way since she landed in Paris from London six years ago, armed with schoolgirl French and a love of cooking.With a bestselling recipe book and BBC series, “The Little Paris Kitchen,” now under her belt, the 31-year-old looks well placed to be the next big thing on the television chef scene. Or rather, the next small thing.For Khoo’s new-found fame comes courtesy of the micro-restaurant which the bubbly brune
Designers show mixed bag of goodies

Apr 11, 2012

Organza, dots lend light mood to dark palettes of winter monthsGlobal warming, or more accurately, global climate change must have been on the minds of many designers presenting their fall/winter collections during last week’s Seoul Fashion Week.Never mind the unseasonably cold and windy weather ― the gusty wind knocked out a wall of a tent at Olympic Park that housed the press room ― the audiences were treated to some delightful lightness afforded by the use of organza, fine silk, punched fabri
Colorblocking makes a bold spring style statement

Apr 6, 2012

A model displays a creation by a group of Kyrgyz designers 'NAH' during a Fashion Week in Bishkek, on April 4 2012. (AFP)Most of us can pair one bold color with another -- it just takes a little confidence. But colorblocking, that’s more of an art, and it’s one to be mastered this spring season.The highest standard of colorblocking was set by Yves Saint Laurent, who transferred the graphic, pop-ar
Seoul Fashion Week off to lackluster start

Apr 4, 2012

Lack of big buyers and little media attention brings down event, but some menswear collections shineThe unexpected April sleet and gusty wind hindered some from visiting this season’s Seoul Fashion Week, but the biggest disappointment so far is the lack of influential buyers and press. The number of visiting foreign buyers is 37, and press 16, which is about half the size of the previous season. Up until about five days before kick-off, organizers said that Jay Bell, vice president of U.S. depa
Fashion guru to bring look of Italy in July

Apr 4, 2012

Italian fashion figure Alberto Scaccioni to showcase some 20 Italian brands in SeoulSome are able to express themselves through clothing while others simply find their dresses a uniform or a shelter, said Alberto Scaccioni, chief executive officer of Ente Moda Italia. Ente Moda Italia is an Italian company which organizes fashion trade fairs abroad to help the globalization of small and medium sized Italian enterprises.“I think that the real challenge for us who work in the fashion system is to
Paris show bets on green, sustainable luxury

Apr 1, 2012

PARIS (AFP) ― Luxury and sustainable development may sound like polar opposites, but green pioneers gathered at a Paris show at the weekend were betting on a cleaner, fairer future for the industry.Created in 2010, the four-day Paris event, dubbed “1.618 Sustainable Luxury,” brought together some 40 firms, inventors and foundations, that aim to reconcile luxury with ethics and environmental good practice.One of these was Bruno Pieters, a Belgian fashion designer who in January launched Honest by
Seoul Fashion Week features new designers at new runway

Mar 28, 2012

The nation’s 12-year-old fashion week is being reenergized this season with a new organizer and venue, and a lineup of designers that includes several new names.Co-hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government and global fashion consulting company IMG, Seoul Fashion Week will showcase 2012 FW collections at Olympic Park’s World Peace Plaza in Bangi-dong, southeastern Seoul, in the first week of April. The event will be held in four tents set up at the park, with a tent each dedicated to Seoul Collecti
Revamped Seoul Fashion Week changes venue to Olympic Park

Mar 28, 2012

Seoul mayor to model at Donation Runway The nation’s 12-year-old fashion week is being reenergized this season with a new organizer and venue, and a lineup of designers that includes several new names.Co-hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government and global fashion consulting company IMG, Seoul Fashion Week will showcase 2012 FW collections at Olympic Park’s World Peace Plaza in Bangi-dong, southeastern Seoul, in the first week of April. The event will be held in four tents set up at the park, with
Rainbow of denim is shading spring style

Mar 26, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) ― Your attention, please: One of the easiest ways to spruce up your wardrobe this spring is with a splash of color. It doesn’t have to go on your lips or over your shoulder ― and not across your chest, either. This season, the place for bold color is on the bottom.Colored denim and, by extension, every other kind of pants and trousers in hues as bright as the rainbow are a key look in stores at every end of the shopping spectrum. Part of the pervasiveness is that it’s pretty democr
Kashmir scientists clone rare cashmere goat

Mar 16, 2012

Scientists said Thursday they have cloned a rare Himalayan goat in Indian-controlled Kashmir, hoping to help increase the number of animals famed for their silky soft undercoats used to make pashmina wool, or cashmere.The March 9 birth of female kid “Noori,” which means “light” in Arabic, could spar
Louis Vuitton-Marc Jacobs exhibit: It’s the bag, stupid

Mar 12, 2012

PARIS (AP) ― “Fashions fade, style is eternal,’’ Yves Saint Laurent once said.An immutable fashion list must include the Ls Vuitton bag, on display demurely but proudly in Paris’ Decorative Arts Museum like the historical artifact it should be.The bag pattern was first patented in 1877 but it can still be seen ― almost unchanged ― on the Parisian boulevards more than 130 years later. This is thanks to house founder Louis Vuitton, and since 1997, creative director Marc Jacobs.Both their stories a
Chanel and McQueen entice fantasy in Paris shows

Mar 7, 2012

PARIS (AP) ― With only one day to go, the final furlong of Paris’ roller coaster nine-day long fashion week has produced strong and fantastical ready-to-wear offerings from the houses of Alexander McQueen and Chanel.Inspiration for the collections spanned the terrain, and beyond ― from a cosmic ice palace to the organic depths of the earth.Sarah Burton further consolidated her position as one of the most imaginative designers working in the French capital, with a weightless flight through textur