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Prada piggybacking on Kolhapuri footwear

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 Fashion companies release new collection and bring new styles and designs at least four times a year, making it competitive as new designs compete for the attention of the consumer. Have you ever thought where the inspiration is coming from? The companies are free to create, inspire, even imitate, but what happens when the designers run out of ideas.  A recent controversy surrounding Italian luxury Prada, puts spotlight on how global fashion giants engage in India – a country whose rich artistic traditions have often suffered because of its inability to cash in on them. Prada got into trouble in June after … Continue reading Prada piggybacking on Kolhapuri footwear

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Prada buys Versace for $1.4bn

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Luxury fashion brand, Prada Group has acquired crosstown Milan fashion rival, Versace from the U.S. luxury group, Capri Holdings Ltd, (parent company of Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo) for $1.38 billion. Capri Holdings is restructuring after a failed merger with Tapestry (owner of Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman), which was blocked by the US Federal Trade Commission in last November. The deal includes Versace’s debt, is a big discount to the $2.15 billion debt that Capri, then known as Michael Kors, paid for Versace in 2017 when the Versace family and Blackstone sold it.  The acquisition strengthens Italy’s position in … Continue reading Prada buys Versace for $1.4bn

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Stay Productive, motivated, and Happy

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How many times you have set New Year resolutions only to break them within days. People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. Renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions, doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone-call. He urges to transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now, by calling them atomic habits. Clears reveals how these minuscule changes can grow into such life-altering outcomes. … Continue reading Stay Productive, motivated, and Happy

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The Savoy luggage porter got inspired to start luxury Gucci brand

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Founder of Gucci, Guccio worked at London’s The Savoy as a luggage porter and elevator operator.  The young porter gained direct access to the tastes and needs of elite travelling customers, escorting them from floor to floor. He met global elites like Winston Churchill, whose accessories inspired him to start his own brand. Many celebrities  worldwide are fans of this brand, including rapper 2 Chainz,  who once said, “ When I die, bury me inside the Gucci store”.  Inspired by his experience and powers of observation, Guccio Gucci  when he was 40 years old, established his eponymous artisanal luggage atelier, … Continue reading The Savoy luggage porter got inspired to start luxury Gucci brand

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Underwear that safeguards, exposes, embarrass, excite, amuse and shame us

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Stories are woven into fabric of our most personal garments from the first loincloths to the intricate layers of shapewear. The concealed world of underwear is capable of expressing individual desire and also aspects of society at large. Undergarments both safeguards and exposes, reflecting our hopes and experiences, Underwear can embarrass and excite, amuse and shame us. In India you tighten your langoti  which translates to “tighten your loincloth” similar to English saying Grid your lions or Japanese saying Fundoshi o shimete Kakaru translates tighten your lion cloth. Freelance writer Nina Edwards sets out to explore and evaluate the purpose, style … Continue reading Underwear that safeguards, exposes, embarrass, excite, amuse and shame us

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Seductive pursuit of beauty myth: Ladies in black knickers, corsets, cosmetics

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Are you in front of the dressing table history, a place where your dreams come true, doubts, self-harm and hopes. Who determines which shape is currently “all the rage”? How to custom, colour, class and sex fit into the picture/ Virginia Nicholson explains how advances made by feminism collided with the changing shape of desirability. The pain is Gladys’s botched surgery on her nose, Dorothy, whose skin colour lost her an Oscar, Beccy who took slimming pills and died, and the radioactive corsets. The New Women who discovered freedom by bobbing their hair, the boyish, athletic “ Health and Beauty” … Continue reading Seductive pursuit of beauty myth: Ladies in black knickers, corsets, cosmetics

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The Secret of aging

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All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. Coleen Murphy, a leading scholar of aging,  show how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. She explains that the study of model systems, particularly simple invertebrate animals, combined with breakthroughs in genomic methods have allowed scientist to probe into molecular mechanisms of longevity and aging. Understanding the fundamental biological rules that govern aging in model systems provide clues about how we  might slow human aging, which could lead in turn to new therapeutics and treatments for … Continue reading The Secret of aging

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Design of intimacy and desire are changing as more women watch porn

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/ Porn is an inescapable part of the environment we all share and should be talked about honestly. Dr. Fiona Vera-Gray is one of the leading feminist academics working on sexual violence and she has a decade’s experience in the frontline anti-violence against women movement. When we think about porn today, we still mostly think about men. Men as the producers, and the consumers. Women as the product. Most women aren’t talking  to each other about what they do and don’t do with porn- not really.  And when we do talk about it, we are divided into unhelpful binaries. Porn … Continue reading Design of intimacy and desire are changing as more women watch porn

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L’Oreal heiress becomes first woman to amass $100 bn fortune

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Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, L’Oreal heiress becomes first women to amass $100bn ( £78.5bn; €90.1bn) fortune according to ranking of di richest Pipo for di world. L’Oreal is the world’s largest cosmetics company’s which owns a wide portfolio of brands from Lance to Maybelline  which had more than £32.99 billion ( $42billion, €38 billion) in sales in 2022. Earlier this year L’Oreal bought Australian brand Aesop in a $2.5billion deal beating the previous record brand acquisition by the French beauty giant $1.7 billion purchase of YSL Beauty in 2008. Bettencourt  Meyers as the 12th richest person, just ahead of Makes Ambani … Continue reading L’Oreal heiress becomes first woman to amass $100 bn fortune