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China is the place where jaw-dropping inventions are developed. This time, the mega power that continues to impress us claims its experts have come up with a new kind of fabric that can clean itself, while exposed to sunlight.
Once fully tested and implemented, this product could be adopted by the global fashion in... |
15 December 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Around the winter holidays, the fashion industry is usually blooming. Unfortunately, profits still depend on the skin and fur of misfortunate creatures.
Right before the Christmas frenzy takes over, numerous PETA supporters from Anchorage, Alaska to Norfolk,Virginia, will try to convince a large segment of buyers t... |
29 November 2011
07:40 GMT |
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They say any kind of publicity is good publicity but, as far as Abercrombie & Fitch is concerned, the saying doesn’t always apply. After Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was repeatedly pictured wearing A&F clothing, the company offered him money to stop doing that. While other brands would pay excell... |
18 August 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Chanel is giving a whole new meaning to the term “fashion victim.” A considerably large number of dresses, tops and scarves, all made from pure silk, have been recalled because they’ve been deemed highly flammable. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a warning that several items... |
3 August 2011
16:41 GMT |
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At the beginning of last year, high-end clothing brand St. John terminated the endorsement contract with Angelina Jolie, saying that she was too much of a celebrity and was “overshadowing” the brand. Kate Winslet is now the latest face and body for St. John.Shots from the latest campaign have long emerged... |
22 July 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Gone are the days when you could walk into a store, pick out some of the items you liked the most, try all of them on and then, if you could afford them, buy them. In Australia, a series of retailers are asking for a $50 fee to try on items.There’s good reason behind the decision, the Daily Mail informs: some c... |
20 April 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Konami Digital Entertainment Inc., the publisher that is probably best known for publishing the Metal Gear Solid series, has announced that it is working with musterbrand LLC in order to create a complete clothing line based upon the video game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, which was launched exclusively on the Pla... |
5 April 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Earlier this month, a new product came to media attention because it promised and boasted of the ability to revolutionize the fashion industry. Fabrican or “clothes in a can” is everything it says it is – and even more, one reviewer says. Hearing of Dr. Manel Torres’ invention and especially o... |
30 September 2010
14:31 GMT |
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Shopping for clothes is fun but making your own can be even more fun, especially if you’re spraying them on. “Clothes in a can” is precisely what Fabrican aims to make possible.The brainchild of designer Dr. Manuel Torres, the Fabrican is a spray-on fabric that is applied to the body, where it insta... |
16 September 2010
15:21 GMT |
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As announced earlier this month, Disney star Selena Gomez has been working with K-Mart on a line of back to school clothing. The items included in the collection are stuff that Selena herself would wear, therefore she has made sure her personal style is imprinted on them, as she reveals for Women’s Wear Daily. ... |
30 March 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Researchers at the Cornell University announce the development of a new type of cotton fiber, which has the ability to conduct electricity just as well as metal wires can. The thing about this innovation is that the textile fabrics remain light and soft to the touch, which means that they can be worn inside regular T... |
10 March 2010
18:01 GMT |
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The upscale department store in the UK, Selfridges, has come under serious fire these past few days after discontinuing all ranges for plus-size women without as much as bothering to let them know. Today, customers can find at the flagship Oxford Street store a size 16 at best and only if they’re lucky and pati... |
21 December 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Fans looking to own a piece of Megan Fox or at least an item that was once worn by her on the set of the blockbuster movie “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” have now the chance of their life. iCollector is auctioning off clothing items that Fox donned for the second movie in the franchise, and those i... |
13 October 2009
06:07 GMT |
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It’s not uncommon for stars to pay exorbitant amounts of money on things that they only get to enjoy or use just once. Obviously, clothes are also included on that list of items. Three-year-old Suri Cruise, daughter of famous Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes, for one, is living celebrity ... |
2 October 2009
14:11 GMT |
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The Tommy Hilfiger Group has announced Tommy Hilfiger for iPhone, a downloadable, mobile shopping application available through the App Store. Developed in partnership with Art Technology Group, Inc., the app gives consumers the convenience of purchasing Tommy Hilfiger products on the go. “Our customers are al... |
2 October 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Finland-based Patria Aviation Oy is currently one of the few companies in the world seeking to create personal satellite-communication antennas out of textile materials. Its instrument is roughly similar to the one members of Enterprise used in the Star Trek series. A simple touch of a badge was enough to open a comm... |
29 September 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Following the scandal that American Apparel got caught in a few weeks back, when the entire online community and the media – including regular customers – criticized a series of ads that looked more like hotline commercials than as part of a promo campaign for a clothing line, CEO Dov Charney’s name... |
29 July 2009
07:23 GMT |
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They say there is nothing – or close to nothing – women know how to do better or enjoy more than shopping. According to a new survey by OnePoll and cited by the Daily Mail, it seems they, whoever that may be, might have been wrong, since it’s not the shopping itself that women enjoy, but rather the... |
22 July 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Newborns are not easy to communicate with – for the obvious reasons, of course. As he was watching a documentary on babies and how mothers often fail to see when their temperature is rising, or do so with delay, Chris Ebejer came up with the idea of creating a suit that would do precisely that. Now, six years l... |
18 June 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Ulster, in the United Kingdom, are currently engaged in a three-year effort to construct electronic devices and high-tech clothes that will have the potential to make the life of senior citizens a lot more pleasant in their golden years. The fabrics will be endowed with numerous types of ... |
2 June 2009
06:31 GMT |
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Admitting that you’re a couple of pounds heavier can be hard but, for many women, it’s downright impossible, even if no one’s asking them to say it out loud. A new survey conducted by Special K has revealed that women generally go into weight gain denial and continue spending money on smaller sized ... |
6 May 2009
15:11 GMT |
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The piece of legislation may seem to be a bit redundant to the casual observer, given the fact that going about in the mountains being equipped with nothing more than a bag pack can have its risks. For one, even the slightest fall has a chance of causing extensive damage to various parts of the human body, as well as... |
10 February 2009
13:41 GMT |
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According to the latest tendencies on the catwalks, it would seem that designers have already come to a conclusion in terms of fashion in the near future: there's no need to go anonymous in the cold season, or the next one for that matter. All you need are some winter and spring print clothes or accessories to c... |
8 December 2008
12:17 GMT |
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Trendsetters worldwide have already announced what's hot for 2009. The famous dandy manifesto is again to be written and signed, as, come next spring-summer season, fashion trends will shift once more. The sumptuous elegance that was so characteristic to Oscar Wilde’s writings will be reinvented and transf... |
3 December 2008
08:11 GMT |
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Ever since the problem of “vanity sizing” was first brought to the public attention, it has been considered an interesting topic as it concerns us all, as well as the way we think and feel about how we look. Discussions on the subject, much debated already, have so far led to pointing the finger at the pr... |
26 November 2008
08:06 GMT |
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The fall-winter 2008/2009 season is just kicking off, and all that we hear stylists talk about is what to wear and how. On the other hand, when we do get a reference to bad choices, it’s not only regarding items that have gone out of style/trends. Things can actually go worse than that. Wearing a fashionable fr... |
26 November 2008
03:19 GMT |
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I am sure everyone has had to deal at least once with the now old paradox: a wardrobe full of clothes and nothing to wear. Come to think of it, some of us go through this each morning. You will probably say that this is mostly a matter of mood, because it's practically impossible for it to happen, but ... |
14 November 2008
07:11 GMT |
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On a diet, but the weight doesn't seem to go down fast enough for your liking? Don't worry too much: you're already working hard to change your dietary habits, you're running and exercising, all you have to do now is be patient.However, if that piece of advice simply doesn't work for you (in ... |
14 June 2008
05:59 GMT |
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It's hard to believe, but a few simple tests will help you confirm it: anyone can look a lot slimmer than they really are by using a few wardrobe tricks. This is not an encouragement to throw your healthy eating plan out the window and start relying on clothes to make you look slim.Remember that while clothes wo... |
13 June 2008
11:58 GMT |
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If anyone asks us to visualize a beach, nine times out of ten (or maybe even ten out of ten) we'd come up with an idyllic vision of lonely palm trees, blue lagoons and knights in shining armor. However, the truth is that the more insecure we feel about our bodies, the more the idea of putting on a flimsy swimsui... |
12 June 2008
09:15 GMT |
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The manufacturers of the new ThruVision camera say that the device is not able to reveal physical body details of the scanned subject, but if I were you, I wouldn't believe anything the manufacturers say. They could have just as well said that the ThruVision camera can cure AIDS, but until the ultimate test, we ... |
10 March 2008
04:11 GMT |
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Wired reports the Radiation Shield Technologies of Miami has just announced its latest invention, Demron, the new standard in personal radiation protection, which should be known as the world's first nuclear radiation-blocking fabric. Just to get the idea of how huge this is, you should be aware of the horrific ... |
13 December 2007
13:41 GMT |
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This end of the year was bombed by some fashion games. Usually we barely have one/year, but not now. Anyway, from games like Fashion Fits, Fab Fashion, Fashion Story and others I chose Fashion Craze.First, because I thought that it is a little tiny bit different than the others and second I liked the graphics better.... |
7 December 2007
08:57 GMT |
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Paris Hilton has jumped on the charity bandwagon - probably because someone in her entourage has whispered to the blonde heiress that there's only so many times the newspapers will write about you if all you do is get drunk, climb fences and walk into pee. I mean, dumb chique is definitely last season. So the he... |
21 September 2007
06:55 GMT |
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A new generation of smart clothes will be embedded with small electronic devices and circuitry that will be able to monitor the health of the wearer by constantly recording the pulse and respiratory function, while being washable and reusable.At least that's the vision of future intelligent suits, as seen by r... |
5 July 2007
11:14 GMT |
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Bratz Rock Angelz will empower fans of the wildly popular line of fashion dolls to explore their own "passion for fashion..." in a unique interactive adventure game. Fans will be immersed in the Bratz World as they embark on a series of voyages in search of intriguing stories to inspire and create their very own fash... |
4 July 2007
10:29 GMT |
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Some people have a hard time quitting smoking (other people just don't want to) and others forget that long exposures to sunlight can be hazardous for their skin. Fiona Carswell, graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University and a User Interface Engineer for Apple, Inc, has ... |
24 May 2007
05:28 GMT |
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The clothes are in fact a gold-yellow dress and a metallic-denim jacket and contain cotton fabrics coated with nanoparticles that give them functional qualities never before seen in the fashion world. The designed clothes can prevent colds and flu, never need washing, destroy harmful gases and protect the wearer fr... |
3 May 2007
05:34 GMT |
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Despite the incredible variety of clothes today, in terms of shape, size, texture, color, it seems that we never find the right clothes anymore. While many shopping addicts love wandering from mall to mall and store to store, most people have a really hard time finding the right clothes.Don't you hate it when ... |
30 April 2007
08:56 GMT |
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Have you ever bought clothes without actually trying them first? Maybe it's time you do so. Intellfit's Virtual Fitting Room at Philadelphia airport offers a free service that lets you get the perfect fit without the hassle of trying the clothes. Philadelphia Airport is the first one in the U.S. to host Int... |
30 March 2007
08:50 GMT |
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