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Memo to Milan's Furniture Fair : "Design has to be fun"
Sebastian Herkner, the 27-year old German designer, studied product design at the Academy of Art and Design Offenbach am Main. Since graduating in 2007 he has also a teaching assignment at the Academy and after setting up his own studio he's well on the...
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Dancers of Africa : Faces of Africa"
Dancers of Africa: For the past six years, Antoine Tempé has followed Africa’s greatest contemporary dancers. By getting ever closer to his subjects, his unmistakable style dives deep into the dancers’ vital energy. Caught in mid-motion, Tempé’s dancers...
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World's Sexiest Beaches 2009
The Baths, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands The turn-on: Virgin Gorda's hidden coves and sandy stretches are far from the body-shot crowds that plague parts of Jost Van Dyke and Tortola. One of 60 islands in the British Virgins chain, Virgin Gorda...
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How the economy is treating you ?
" How the economy is treating you ?" Aside greetings,the ever first question asked when you ran into friends or relatives. When its comes to portray the current enocomic crisis we have been brought in the english lexicon never seemed so vast and fully...
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Cycling Style from Portland to Bengladesh
This month, Fader 's creative director published a fashion story that i found quite innovative and brilliant, specifically, when all the glossy- fluffy magazines are debt loaded and on the verge of collapsing.The story features a global snapshot of cycling...
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One of the reason why the newspaper's business is dying.
Instead of buying several costly advertsing pages in the us media landscape for their new campaign,the French water brand Evian has partnered with BETC 4D and launched a website site evianliveyoung.com Called "Live Young" and directed by the award-winning...
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Michael Jackson Memorial
Stevie Wonder's tribute was the greatest performance for the entire event.When he started talking about MJ we did have the feeling that he really knew what its feel like to lost someone you care. + more Michael Jackson Gone Too Soon Clinton Gala 1992...
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Whitney Houston new's song - I Didn't Know My Own Strength
"Is withney back?" a question remaining since this morning the most coveted one inside the social media sphere.At first sight, those who used to love withney for her powerfuls ballads will simply say "j'adore" even if she has not reached the same level...
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My Favorite Fourth of July Menu
Caramelized Goat Cheese salad Roasted red beets, baby arugula,Pine nuts, Medjool Dates, Country croutons Hanger Steak frites Grilled Black Angus hanger steak, Hand Cut Fries sauce au poivre, Blue Cheese or chimichurri Chopped Mediterranean Salad Romaine...
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Smart & Successful: only when you decide.
An hope-loaded story written by NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof gave us few tips on how to win the war on poverty. A study has identified 3 groups whom have been unusually successful. The Asian-Americans whom represent 20 % of students at Harvard. One-third...
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Design me a "Black History Museum"
David Adjaye, the celebrated Tanzanian-born London-based architect has created the winning design for The National Museum of African American History and Culture, left, also includes the Freelon Group, Davis Brody Bond and SmithGroup.The project scheduled...
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"Comme des Garçons Marks 40 Years"
Comme des Garçons is marking its 40th anniversary by bringing out a guerrilla-style, temporary brand called “Black” that epitomizes the style, the inventiveness and the originality of its founder, Rei Kawakubo. Here is an inside look at Mrs. Kawakubo’s...
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Live-let-live The summer !
Albeit deep, deep recession and no explicit recovery indicator in sight, there's still some wealthy buyers with no options but burning cash : " We worth it " à la Upper-east-side in a sneering manner would they say when asked.As Us Treasury Secretary...
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In Those Jeans
"The economy may be tight,sales of premium brand jeans climbed 17% in 2008 and continued a smaller increase into this year"as Newser reported this morning. Even if cutting back is widely held as de rigueur, i truly fell in love with a pair of blue stoned...
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Milton Glaser
A documentary about the NY designer refuses to ask difficult questions Milton Glaser Directed by Wendy Keys At Cinema Village Runtime: 73 minutes Milton Glaser, the designer and artist, has shaped our perception of modern New York City more than any other...
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Best Dressed Real Man ?
E squire has recently released online, the Best Dressed Real Man survey where readers could send pictures of themselves and throw out some cheesy arguments on why they could considered such as Style Icon. As you could guess a majority of theses guys tried...
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Daper / Reversible JAcket / Petar Petrov
In comfy -chic's mood when it comes to dress up theses times, a white stripped reversible jacket from Petar Petrof (russian.?)caught my eyes. Unsuprisingly, my favorite style match is a white Yohji Yamamoto shirt under a silk painted jacket, all coupled...
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PTwalkley
Follower on my Twitter, PTwalk caught my eyes when redirected to his website.I said to myself "again, another dude who's playing twitter as a PR tool ".Even if it could reveal efficient , most of the time it's " bored folks sending you boring links...."PT...
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Crazy about Stan's Kenya
15 songs presented in 15 different ways and showcasing a creative & unique voice from Kenya, telling stories of love, pain & joy, all in a package everyday people can relate to, Its Etno, Soul, Jazz, Latin, Reggae, Funk & Urban, magical local music with...
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Amid gloom,Christopher Bailey as kept its wheels rolling
Burberry, the 150-year-old British luxury brand most famous for its distinctive check pattern, has recently experienced a resurgence.The brand credits much of its new a la mode image to creative director Christopher Bailey. Men collection- Spring Summer09...
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Conficker Dominates This Week's Hot Google Searches
Surprisingly, as reported on the HuffingtonPost, the Conficker computer virus rocked the nation this week ,being the #1 rising Google search of the last seven days, according to Google Insights for Search.A virus that targets Microsoft Windows, and it...
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Green Home : Table from Restoration Hardware
Restoration Hardware has restored a coffee table.The wheels still function, so perhaps you could still use it help transport heavy objects. An early American 1900s industrial original once used to transport furniture, fabric and supplies across the factory...
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Uncle Sam chatting with Iraq
As the medias are hyperboling Iraq and the rising death counting in the papers.It's quite uneasy to connect with a country to which we are paradoxically and inextricably tied. Deller - a 42 well-known in Britain for his intense video and performance pieces...
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Stylish moms
Today's Top Story UNDER THE INFLUENCE Mommie Dearest Our fashion friends pay homage to their stylish moms. In honor of Mother's Day on Sunday, we asked our R29 inner circle as well as our fave fashion friends to fess up with their most beloved vintage...
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Basel : Amig gloom, One niche is doing Well !
As Twitter-reporters are feedind us since the last two days on how amazingly crazy watches were designed, for my part i've been wondering if luxury analysts were right - or laying ground another public relations scheme - undoubtely saying that luxury...