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Models find success acting

May 21,2012 05:09 AM
In recent years, she's been watching others walk the runway at Fashion Week shows including Rag & Bone and she's been the face of Christian Dior's J'adore perfume. The 6-foot-2 Kutcher dropped out of the University of Iowa, where he'd planned to study ...
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Drugmakers pledge transparency to tackle credibility problem in journals

May 21,2012 05:09 AM
... view of industry-sponsored studies,” said an article in May's Mayo Clinic Proceedings, co-written by 11 drug industry representatives and medical journal editors. Make public all clinical results — even negative findings — in a timely fashion.
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Rugged devices, RFID and cloud computing join fight against counterfeiting

May 21,2012 05:09 AM
The use of rugged mobile devices in production and services industries allied with the cloud and RFID are contributing to major advances in industries from food to pharmaceuticals and fashion beating the threat of counterfeit goods.
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Fashion retailers to reduce store space by 6.6 million sq ft

May 21,2012 05:09 AM
Fashion retail space is predicted to reduce by 4000 stores in the UK by 2015, according to research by Conlumino. The study by retail research specialist Conlumino found that, in order to maintain profitability, around 3900 individual fashion shops ...
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Featured Jobs: Sound Alliance, The Iconic, Kirrily Johnston

May 21,2012 01:53 AM
They are looking for someone who is in at least the second year of tertiary study in Fashion Design or a recent graduate. You must also be motivated, reliable, hard working and eager to learn about all facets of the fashion industry.
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Nudity, magazines and plus-size models

May 21,2012 01:53 AM
It's not a particularly great departure for the plus-size genre; in the past few years we've seen several plus-sized models be “embraced” by the mainstream fashion press, but their access to the annals of fashion magazines has been largely restricted ...
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The Sunday Profile: Adnyani Dewi, Photographer and Full-Time Mom

May 21,2012 01:53 AM
Dewi wanted to continue studying photography after school, but didn't know of any good photography schools in Indonesia, so she chose a fashion school instead. Another thing that influenced her decision was the Jakarta traffic.
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Jakarta Globe

Manhattan Tenants Pay Top Office Rents for Midtown South

May 21,2012 01:53 AM
Tech Hub New York is the fastest-growing US technology hub, according to a study released this month by the Center for an Urban Future. While information technology employment in the city grew by 29 percent since 2007, securities industries jobs fell ...
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Fashion Guessing Game Part 1

May 21,2012 01:53 AM
So with that in mind I present to you a new game that I will throw up on my blog to make fashion a little more fun. The object of the game is to guess what random thing is in the picture and then see if you were correct. The rules are simple. 1. Study ...
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Wanna Lose Weight? When You Eat Is as Important as What You Eat

May 21,2012 01:53 AM
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies found that mice limited to eating during an 8-hour period are healthier than mice that eat freely throughout the day, regardless of the quality and content of their diet.
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Counsel & Heal
Mon, 21 May 2012 09:24:05 GMT

Fashion retailers to reduce store space by 6.6 million sq ft
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Fashion retail space is predicted to reduce by 4000 stores in the UK by 2015, according to research by Conlumino. The study by retail research specialist Conlumino found that, in order to maintain profitability, around 3900 individual fashion shops ...

Sun, 20 May 2012 04:38:42 GMT

A Design for Life
Agenda Magazine
When I was 16 I went to Switzerland to study at an American high school and after I graduated I went to Paris to study Fashion. Then I transferred to New York where I continued and finished my degree at Parson's School of Design.

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:47:07 GMT

The Frisky

“Duh” Of The Day: Women More Likely To Buy Clothing Seen On Models Their Own Size
The Frisky
However, a recent study might provide companies with just the motivation they need to change their ways: women spend a lot more money when they see clothes on models and mannequins with body types similar to theirs. Here's the lowdown…

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Wed, 16 May 2012 20:13:18 GMT

Normal sized models sell more clothes according to study
Fox 59
There has been a lot of controversy on what size fashion models should be. Now a new study says women are twice as likely to buy clothes when they're modeled by a quote 'normal sized' model. By Fox59 There has been a lot of controversy on what size ...

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Wed, 16 May 2012 15:24:54 GMT

Students behind SCAD Fashion Show ready to rock runway
Savannah Morning News
Fashion major Eduardo Calvo came to SCAD from Madrid, Spain. “It's funny because fashion was a rather unpredictable choice of study that I urged to pursue my senior year of high school out of the blue,” he says. “My parents and friends are neither ...

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Wed, 16 May 2012 14:54:13 GMT

TheGloss

Thin Models Actually Don't Make Most Women Buy Clothes
TheGloss
A recent study (and hopefully also your own capacity for critical thought), however, suggests that may not be the case: most women are actually more likely to buy clothing modeled on someone similar in size and shape. Because obviously.

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Wed, 16 May 2012 13:35:17 GMT

Bloginity (blog)

Nicola Formichetti: I cleaned windows
Bloginity (blog)
The legendary style creative worked his way up the clothing industry from the bottom without having a game plan. Now a respected international stylist and designer, the 34-year-old dropped out of studying fashion at university after one week and spent ...

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