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Susie Rushton: Beauty Queen
<p>Suntans are bad news, aren't they? They're technically unhealthy, make you wrinkly and, on top of that, are morally dubious (now that, according to Which?, eight year old kiddies are sneaking onto the electric beach in order to look bronzed in the playground). Think of Nicole Kidman, Tilda Swinton, dead-eyed Irish Jenny from The Apprentice...okay, maybe not her. Pale is gorgeous. Tanning is for Posh Spice. Fine. Then, the unthinkable happens. The sun comes out. In Britain! Before you can say malignant melanoma, we're up on the roof, in the park, grilling the gams, blithely taking our chances with the UV rays whenever possible - as evidenced by the spiralling numbers of skin cancers here.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/113dc6a/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Susie Rushton: Beauty Queen&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susie-rushton-beauty-queen-829860.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Susie Rushton: Beauty Queen&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susie-rushton-beauty-queen-829860.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
All that glisters: Behind the scenes at V&A's jewellery gallery
<p>It is impossible not to gaze at Cartier's diamond-adorned Manchester tiara from 1903, and not want to reach out and stroke its brilliant, garlanded curves and swirls. Under the watchful eye of Richard Edgcumbe, jewellery curator at London's Victorian & Albert museum, who is showing me round their collection, however, this is strictly verboten without wearing sterile gloves. These are a far cry from the silk versions that its original owner, the Duchess of Manchester, might have worn. "No, these aren't very glamorous," Richard agrees, snapping a glove, "but jewellery isn't just about glamour, it's a declaration of love and loss, of faith and hope."</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/113dc6c/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=All that glisters: Behind the scenes at V&A's jewellery gallery&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/all-that-glisters-behind-the-scenes-at-vas-jewellery-gallery-829096.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=All that glisters: Behind the scenes at V&A's jewellery gallery&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/all-that-glisters-behind-the-scenes-at-vas-jewellery-gallery-829096.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/8554793397/f/3803/c/266/s/18078828/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/8554793397/f/3803/c/266/s/18078828/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Agyness Deyn: Smells like Deyn spirit
<p>Talk to people about Agyness Deyn, learned people, people who know about these things, and they will tell you that she is not like other models. She is kookier, funkier, funnier. They have a point. There are few cheekbones, after all, that can grace both the cover of Time and Grazia, which is why, though she has only been publicly recognisable for a year, a year and a half tops, she is already being talked about in terms of her iconic-ness.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/113dc6b/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Agyness Deyn: Smells like Deyn spirit&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/agyness-deyn-smells-like-deyn-spirit-829093.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Agyness Deyn: Smells like Deyn spirit&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/agyness-deyn-smells-like-deyn-spirit-829093.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
Pixel perfect: Why you shouldn't believe your eyes when it comes to those glossy images
<p>If Oscar Wilde were alive today, he would doubtless still be basking in the glory of his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Never has society's pursuit of youth and beauty been so voracious, after all. And never has technological intervention - from plastic surgery to anti-ageing cosmetics - been available to so many so early in their lives.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/112c4bc/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Pixel perfect: Why you shouldn't believe your eyes when it comes to those glossy images&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/pixel-perfect-why-you-shouldnt-believe-your-eyes-when-it-comes-to-those-glossy-images-829196.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Pixel perfect: Why you shouldn't believe your eyes when it comes to those glossy images&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/pixel-perfect-why-you-shouldnt-believe-your-eyes-when-it-comes-to-those-glossy-images-829196.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/8540545376/f/3803/c/266/s/18007228/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/8540545376/f/3803/c/266/s/18007228/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Sex and the City: A dazzling entrance - but does their story have a happy ending?
<p>SJP wore a green tulle and feather dress by Alexander McQueen and a Phillip Treacy hat. The sun shone brilliantly, and the young, almost exclusively female crowd swooned happily. The most keenly anticipated London premiere of the year did not disappoint.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/10e9297/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Sex and the City: A dazzling entrance - but does their story have a happy ending?&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/news/sex-and-the-city-a-dazzling-entrance--but-does-their-story-have-a-happy-ending-826993.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Sex and the City: A dazzling entrance - but does their story have a happy ending?&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/news/sex-and-the-city-a-dazzling-entrance--but-does-their-story-have-a-happy-ending-826993.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
All-American dreamers: this season designers have gone west for inspiration
<p>Backstage at the Chanel spring/summer 2008 show, the designer Karl Lagerfeld is explaining the American Dream theme behind his latest collection for the label: "It was the inspiration of this famous couple, the Murphys, in Europe, Villa America, the house in the South of France," he says. "It was when Americans and Europeans were very inspired by each other, the days of Fitzgerald and Hemingway and all that. I think that was the best time ever."</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/10c02ef/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=All-American dreamers: this season designers have gone west for inspiration&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/allamerican-dreamers-this-season-designers-have-gone-west-for-inspiration-826119.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=All-American dreamers: this season designers have gone west for inspiration&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/allamerican-dreamers-this-season-designers-have-gone-west-for-inspiration-826119.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7701174125/f/3803/c/266/s/17564399/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7701174125/f/3803/c/266/s/17564399/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Suit you, sir: The art of male attire
<p>The bow-ties are suspended, symbolically, in a glass case like butterflies. One is white and fluffy like a kitten; one is made of fake pearls; one is in a kind of delicate pink and white tartan. The most startling is deep turquoise and edged with fur. Do people - men - wear such things? Yes, apparently they do.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/10bfe12/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Suit you, sir: The art of male attire&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/suit-you-sir-the-art-of-male-attire-826262.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Suit you, sir: The art of male attire&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/suit-you-sir-the-art-of-male-attire-826262.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
Susannah Frankel: Ready To Wear
<p>Ladies, ladies. You've read the warnings. You've seen the end results. But still, the minute the sun comes out, the British female (and male) population transforms, overnight, into an army of lobsters. An army of boiled lobsters. Time was, sunscreens were an inferior product. Anyway, we all thought, a couple of days looking and feeling as if we'd been exposed to nuclear fallout would seem like nothing once the burn disappeared and turned into a deep, mahogany brown...</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/10bfe11/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Susannah Frankel: Ready To Wear&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susannah-frankel-ready-to-wear-826121.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Susannah Frankel: Ready To Wear&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susannah-frankel-ready-to-wear-826121.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7701173986/f/3803/c/266/s/17563153/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7701173986/f/3803/c/266/s/17563153/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Hold on to your watches, gentlemen, as more women are opting to wear large, chunky men's models
<p>For the trend-conscious woman, the face has to be right and size matters. As men's watches grow larger and flashier, women are abandoning feminine timepieces in favour of oversized blokes' models.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/10ac038/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Hold on to your watches, gentlemen, as more women are opting to wear large, chunky men's models&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/hold-on-to-your-watches-gentlemen-as-more-women-are-opting-to-wear-large-chunky-mens-models-825931.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Hold on to your watches, gentlemen, as more women are opting to wear large, chunky men's models&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/hold-on-to-your-watches-gentlemen-as-more-women-are-opting-to-wear-large-chunky-mens-models-825931.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
Sweatshop chic is so last year as fashion goes ethical
<p>The fashion world is turning its back on "cheap chic" and the sweatshops that made throwaway high-street fashion a reality.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/10ac037/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Sweatshop chic is so last year as fashion goes ethical&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/sweatshop-chic-is-so-last-year-as-fashion-goes-ethical-825922.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Sweatshop chic is so last year as fashion goes ethical&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/sweatshop-chic-is-so-last-year-as-fashion-goes-ethical-825922.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7701172652/f/3803/c/266/s/17481783/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7701172652/f/3803/c/266/s/17481783/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Lights, cameras, fashion: Designers reveal their cinematic inspiration
<p>Cinema has always helped to define notions of glamour and style. From Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy (Breakfast at Tiffany's) to Catherine Deneuve in YSL (Belle de Jour), some of the medium's most memorable moments are revered as much for the costumes as for the acting.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/10ac036/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Lights, cameras, fashion: Designers reveal their cinematic inspiration&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/lights-cameras-fashion-designers-reveal-their-cinematic-inspiration-823458.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Lights, cameras, fashion: Designers reveal their cinematic inspiration&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/lights-cameras-fashion-designers-reveal-their-cinematic-inspiration-823458.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
Strike a pose: China's street style
<p>As the finishing touches are made to the Olympic venues, across Beijing another temple to sport is rising from the ground. Or rather, a temple to sportswear in the form of a colossal Nike shop. International shops and malls are springing up in the city faster than a 100m sprinter.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/10981f6/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Strike a pose: China's street style&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/strike-a-pose-chinas-street-style-823580.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Strike a pose: China's street style&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/strike-a-pose-chinas-street-style-823580.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7701171471/f/3803/c/266/s/17400310/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7701171471/f/3803/c/266/s/17400310/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Stiletto sales go sky high as Paltrow kick-starts craze for towering heels
<p>The actress Gwyneth Paltrow has made a career combining extraordinary glamour with equal measures of clean-living, down-to-earth charm. She is perhaps as well known for her appearances in films such as The Talented Mr Ripley and The Royal Tenenbaums as she is for her love of macrobiotic food, penchant for bizarre names (she and her husband, Coldplay's Chris Martin, called their daughter Apple) and her determined refusal to play the Hollywood superstar.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1069284/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Stiletto sales go sky high as Paltrow kick-starts craze for towering heels&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/stiletto-sales-go-sky-high-as-paltrow-kickstarts-craze-for-towering-heels-822825.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Stiletto sales go sky high as Paltrow kick-starts craze for towering heels&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/stiletto-sales-go-sky-high-as-paltrow-kickstarts-craze-for-towering-heels-822825.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
Picture Post: Red-carpet superheroes... and villains
<p>It's the Oscars of the fashion industry, but if the looks on parade at Monday's Costume Institute gala in New York were anything to go by, that industry is in a sorry state of disarray.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1051b31/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Picture Post: Red-carpet superheroes... and villains&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/picture-post-redcarpet-superheroes-and-villains-821978.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Picture Post: Red-carpet superheroes... and villains&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/picture-post-redcarpet-superheroes-and-villains-821978.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7701163673/f/3803/c/266/s/17111857/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7701163673/f/3803/c/266/s/17111857/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Wear with flare: Prada sets the tone with brilliant bell-bottoms and sculpted sandals
<p>Moody, n'est-ce pas? And well it might be. This, after all, is a straight-off-the-catwalk look courtesy of Miuccia Prada. Here's what she had to say backstage after her show in Milan last September, with regard to a fashion moment that is rather darker than might be expected, given that this is the summer season, traditionally a time of high spirits and blithe prints and colours to match: "This is the first time I've gone soft. There is nothing straight in this collection - like there is nothing straight in nature."</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1022d7b/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Wear with flare: Prada sets the tone with brilliant bell-bottoms and sculpted sandals&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/wear-with-flare-prada-sets-the-tone-with-brilliant-bellbottoms-and-sculpted-sandals-821057.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Wear with flare: Prada sets the tone with brilliant bell-bottoms and sculpted sandals&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/wear-with-flare-prada-sets-the-tone-with-brilliant-bellbottoms-and-sculpted-sandals-821057.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
When in the red, wear black
<p>A mid the credit crunch crisis and bleak talk of a slide into global recession, coupled with the news that house prices have suffered their worst decline in over a decade, the extravagance and excess of high fashion might have been expected to provide a little light relief.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/100ef94/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=When in the red, wear black&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/when-in-the-red-wear-black-820865.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=When in the red, wear black&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/when-in-the-red-wear-black-820865.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7201066782/f/3803/c/266/s/16838548/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7201066782/f/3803/c/266/s/16838548/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Versace: I want to relaunch my country
<p>Santo Versace made his parliamentary debut in Rome this week: very much the new boy despite his immaculate suit. "The only time I was here before was on a school trip, 48 years ago," he confessed. He emerged after his tour of the place looking sobered. "This place needs a real regeneration," he was heard to mutter. "I don't say Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but almost..."</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/100eb89/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Versace: I want to relaunch my country&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/versace-i-want-to-relaunch-my-country-820698.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Versace: I want to relaunch my country&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/versace-i-want-to-relaunch-my-country-820698.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
Alexander Brenninkmeijer: C&A man strikes back
<p>It was perhaps inevitable that Alexander Brenninkmeijer would make a name for himself in fashion, although the minimalist aesthetic of his chic brand, Clemens en August, was probably not what his relatives might have expected. Brenninkmeijer's family was behind the German textiles and fashion retail giant C&A, which throughout the 1970s and 1980s pioneered cheerful fashion at everyman prices before Topshop got in on the act (and before C&A unexpectedly closed all its UK stores in 2001, after running up huge debts).</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/100eb88/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Alexander Brenninkmeijer: C&A man strikes back&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/alexander-brenninkmeijer-ca-man-strikes-back-819310.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Alexander Brenninkmeijer: C&A man strikes back&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/alexander-brenninkmeijer-ca-man-strikes-back-819310.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7201066729/f/3803/c/266/s/16837512/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7201066729/f/3803/c/266/s/16837512/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Susie Rushton: Beauty queen
<p>Crème de la Mer started it all, early in the decade. Then, we wanted Eve Lom, La Prairie, Natura Bissé. Anti-ageing serums boasting ingredients including caviar, crushed diamonds, even exotic snake venom. Next came the pseudo-scientific "cosmeceuticals". While boom times have seen men buy ludicrously outsized LCD tellies, so the gender stereotype goes, cash-flush women have been splashing out on ever-more expensive skincare.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/ffabfb/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Susie Rushton: Beauty queen&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susie-rushton-beauty-queen-817040.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Susie Rushton: Beauty queen&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susie-rushton-beauty-queen-817040.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
Kiss me Kate: Agent Provocateur's new campaign
<p>"Let them eat Kate" screams the tag line to the final image in the latest Agent Provocateur campaign, in which the Kate in question - that'll be Moss - is photographed in crimson underwear holding great slices of wedding cake in her clenched fists while scantily clad bridesmaids frolic all around. In the background, the artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, cast as a pair of screaming popes, lie defeated and deflated - literally trampled underfoot by the most famous model in fashion history.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/ffabf9/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Kiss me Kate: Agent Provocateur's new campaign&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/kiss-me-kate-agent-provocateurs-new-campaign-817039.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Kiss me Kate: Agent Provocateur's new campaign&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/kiss-me-kate-agent-provocateurs-new-campaign-817039.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7201065445/f/3803/c/266/s/16755705/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/7201065445/f/3803/c/266/s/16755705/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Dougie Hayward, tailor who dressed stars of the 1960s, dies aged 73
<p>It was the height of the 1960s and London had it all. The most glamorous actors, the hippest pop stars, the most famous photographers - even the coolest villains. Yet apart from sharing the most swinging city on Earth, this new breed of classless celebrities had something else in common.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/fb2830/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Dougie Hayward, tailor who dressed stars of the 1960s, dies aged 73&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/dougie-hayward-tailor-who-dressed-stars-of-the-1960s-dies-aged-73-818054.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Dougie Hayward, tailor who dressed stars of the 1960s, dies aged 73&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/dougie-hayward-tailor-who-dressed-stars-of-the-1960s-dies-aged-73-818054.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
Sales surge 90 per cent at internet retailer Asos despite consumer slowdown
<p>Asos, an internet retailer initially set up for customers who wanted to look like their favourite film stars, was feeling stellar itself yesterday as it shrugged off the consumer slowdown to double sales last year.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/f99f18/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Sales surge 90 per cent at internet retailer Asos despite consumer slowdown&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/sales-surge-90-per-cent-at-internet-retailer-asos-despite-consumer-slowdown-817359.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Sales surge 90 per cent at internet retailer Asos despite consumer slowdown&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/sales-surge-90-per-cent-at-internet-retailer-asos-despite-consumer-slowdown-817359.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/6652550260/f/3803/c/266/s/16359192/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/6652550260/f/3803/c/266/s/16359192/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Susannah Frankel: Ready to Wear
<p>George at Asda are dumping Coleen McLoughlin in favour of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. And this is clearly not a cheap publicity stunt cashing in on the latter's ruthless occupation of this country last month throughout which she brought the entire British media, salivating, to its knees.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/f87ca2/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Susannah Frankel: Ready to Wear&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susannah-frankel-ready-to-wear-816473.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Susannah Frankel: Ready to Wear&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susannah-frankel-ready-to-wear-816473.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
e-male order: Buying clothes on the net is no longer just for girls
<p>Internet shopping might always have suited the reluctant male shopper - he could stay seated, beer in one hand, keyboard at the other, and shop from the comfort of his armchair at any time of day or night. However, it is only recently that men have outpaced women in their use of online shopping.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/f8000f/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=e-male order: Buying clothes on the net is no longer just for girls&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/emale-order-buying-clothes-on-the-net-is-no-longer-just-for-girls-816474.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=e-male order: Buying clothes on the net is no longer just for girls&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/emale-order-buying-clothes-on-the-net-is-no-longer-just-for-girls-816474.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/6652546904/f/3803/c/266/s/16252943/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/6652546904/f/3803/c/266/s/16252943/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Susannah Frankel: Ready o Wear
<p>George at Asda are dumping Coleen McLoughlin in favour of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. And this is clearly not a cheap publicity stunt cashing in on the latter's ruthless occupation of this country last month throughout which she brought the entire British media, salivating, to its knees.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/f8000e/mf.gif' border='0'/> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Susannah Frankel: Ready o Wear&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susannah-frankel-ready-o-wear-816473.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Susannah Frankel: Ready o Wear&link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susannah-frankel-ready-o-wear-816473.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>
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