| Sudan: Girl Lashed 50 Times Over a Skirt A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan said Friday she was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent by the authorities in the north. nytimes.com |
Velvet underground The trends from the latest international fashion weeks have yet to trickle down to stores here, but there is one key look you can wear right now: velvet.The soft, sumptuous fabric is a foil to previous season's obsession with... nzherald.co.nz |
Trelise unruffled as author mocks fashions of the rich Her trademark designs involving opulent frills helped Trelise Cooper establish a multi-million-dollar fashion empire.But her elaborate dresses - and the women who wear them - have been ridiculed in the latest book by one of New... nzherald.co.nz |
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Why chastise Naomi? Granted, Naomi Campbell is not very nice or clever. But I really don't see why the beautiful, sullen, 'dotish' airhead becomes the empty vessel into which the world tosses its scorn. It has nothing to do with her race - Campbell will... nzherald.co.nz |
White shirt looks set to be everywhere next year Sometimes the simplest of garments brings out a display of virtuosity in designers more effectively than anything more obviously sensational in flavour. You can, for example, tell an awful lot about a creator's aesthetic from the... nzherald.co.nz |