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How do I look? Afrika Bambaataa, Musician, age 51
<p><strong>I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes.</strong> My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places. I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching Bewitched and The Wizard of Oz, which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/17ad16e/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/how-do-i-look-afrika-bambaataa-musician-age-51-870598.html&link=How do I look? Afrika Bambaataa, Musician, age 51" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/how-do-i-look-afrika-bambaataa-musician-age-51-870598.html&link=How do I look? Afrika Bambaataa, Musician, age 51" 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/13833280878/f/3803/c/266/s/24826222/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13833280878/f/3803/c/266/s/24826222/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
The Ten Best Blouses
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The Ten Best Blouses
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Martin Margiela: Fashion's invisible superstar
<p>In the early spring of this year, The New York Times's influential style biannual, T magazine, ran a feature extolling the Belgian designer Martin Margiela. "Even after 20 years in the business, Martin Margiela is still the most elusive figure in fashion," it read, "which might explain why designers feel so free to thumb through his archives for inspiration." In an unprecedented move, this brief and unusually direct text was illustrated by five catwalk outfits courtesy of Marc Jacobs, AF Vandevorst, Junya Watanabe, Herm&egrave;s and Prada, above which were printed images of the Margiela originals that had clearly, well, let's just say "inspired" their work.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1755ed7/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/martin-margiela-fashions-invisible-superstar-868562.html&link=Martin Margiela: Fashion's invisible superstar" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/martin-margiela-fashions-invisible-superstar-868562.html&link=Martin Margiela: Fashion's invisible superstar" 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/13663627456/f/3803/c/266/s/24469207/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13663627456/f/3803/c/266/s/24469207/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Shopping Bag: Walls have ears you know
<p>Look at this. It's a new wallpaper by the young Swedish designer Lisa Bengtsson, who has only recently emerged on to the British design scene.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/174af1a/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/interiors/a-hrefhttpblogsindependentcoukindependenttalkingshopindexhtml-targetblankshopping-bag-walls-have-ears-you-knowa-842275.html&link=Shopping Bag: Walls have ears you know" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/interiors/a-hrefhttpblogsindependentcoukindependenttalkingshopindexhtml-targetblankshopping-bag-walls-have-ears-you-knowa-842275.html&link=Shopping Bag: Walls have ears you know" 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/13663606082/f/3803/c/266/s/24424218/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13663606082/f/3803/c/266/s/24424218/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Shopping Bag: Greetings to you
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Dorian Leigh: 'Supermodel' of the 1940s
<p>An icon whose look and style defined the fashion world of the 1940s, Dorian Leigh is widely regarded as having been the first "supermodel". In 1946 she appeared on seven Vogue covers, and over the next six years was on more than 50 covers of such magazines as Life, Look and McCall's. In the early 1950s, she featured in a series of famous images for Revlon's "Fire and Ice" campaign promoting nail-polish and lipstick ("For you who love to flirt with fire; who dare to skate on thin ice"), ravishingly shot in a jewelled dress and red cape by Richard Avedon.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1729c3e/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dorian-leigh-supermodel-of-the-1940s-866904.html&link=Dorian Leigh: 'Supermodel' of the 1940s" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dorian-leigh-supermodel-of-the-1940s-866904.html&link=Dorian Leigh: 'Supermodel' of the 1940s" 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/13381311453/f/3803/c/266/s/24288318/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13381311453/f/3803/c/266/s/24288318/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Jasper Conran: Designs for life
<p>When the designer Jasper Conran, then a precocious pretty-boy aged 19, emerged on the British fashion scene three decades ago Vogue proudly pronounced that he could be our own Calvin Klein.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/171ccbc/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/jasper-conran-designs-for-life-866763.html&link=Jasper Conran: Designs for life" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/jasper-conran-designs-for-life-866763.html&link=Jasper Conran: Designs for life" 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/13381285055/f/3803/c/266/s/24235196/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13381285055/f/3803/c/266/s/24235196/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Susannah Frankel: Ready To Wear
<p>For all the flak directed at the British for their impoverished sense of style, a hefty dose of Anglophilia is rarely a million miles away from the collective fashion consciousness. Here, then, we have Dolce &amp; Gabbana's witty and pretty take on that theme. Their younger D&amp;G line was nothing if not an unabashed homage to the wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II, not dressed for affairs of state but wearing the kind of clothing she is best known for when walking her Corgis at Balmoral. And jolly nice she looks, too.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/171ccbb/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susannah-frankel-ready-to-wear-866762.html&link=Susannah Frankel: Ready To Wear" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susannah-frankel-ready-to-wear-866762.html&link=Susannah Frankel: Ready To Wear" 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/13381285054/f/3803/c/266/s/24235195/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13381285054/f/3803/c/266/s/24235195/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
It's in the jeans: Classic labels lose to celebrity brands
<p>They have hugged cowboys' bottoms since 1870. In the 1980s, Levi Strauss jeans became the must-have denims, when Nick Kamen shed his in a launderette for a TV advert. But now the company is looking threadbare, having recently suffered a 98 per cent drop in profits. Classic cowboy labels such as Wrangler and Lee are struggling to hold their own in a market that has become dominated by designer brands and "delebrity denim" carrying the names of celebrities such as Victoria Beckham.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/170662b/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/its-in-the-jeans-classic-labels-lose-to-celebrity-brands-866488.html&link=It's in the jeans: Classic labels lose to celebrity brands" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/its-in-the-jeans-classic-labels-lose-to-celebrity-brands-866488.html&link=It's in the jeans: Classic labels lose to celebrity brands" 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/13381240060/f/3803/c/266/s/24143403/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13381240060/f/3803/c/266/s/24143403/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
&#163;300m: Fashion king's art collection in sale of century
<p>The fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent amassed an art collection that is renowned as one of the most fabulous in private hands. It includes works by Old Masters and contemporary greats, among them Picasso, Mondrian, Warhol, Matisse and Goya, to name just a few.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/170662a/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/163300m-fashion-kings-art-collection-in-sale-of-century-866479.html&link=&#163;300m: Fashion king's art collection in sale of century" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/163300m-fashion-kings-art-collection-in-sale-of-century-866479.html&link=&#163;300m: Fashion king's art collection in sale of century" 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/13381240059/f/3803/c/266/s/24143402/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13381240059/f/3803/c/266/s/24143402/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Swimsuits: How to get back in one piece
<p>Hemlines may rise during times of economic uncertainty, but this summer there is more fabric involved in swimwear than we've seen for a long time. After years of the string bikini's tyrannical poolside reign, the one-piece swimsuit is finally enjoying its moment back in the sun as a fashionable holiday wardrobe staple.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1706629/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/swimsuits-how-to-get-back-in-one-p.html-864654.html&link=Swimsuits: How to get back in one piece" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/swimsuits-how-to-get-back-in-one-p.html-864654.html&link=Swimsuits: How to get back in one piece" 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/13381240058/f/3803/c/266/s/24143401/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13381240058/f/3803/c/266/s/24143401/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
How do I look?: Ali Gabut Youngblood, Musician, age 25
<p><strong>I'm half black, half Philippino. I was born looking pretty unique.</strong> No one can ever tell what nationality I am. I play off that. I wear whatever makes me look thinner. It's hard to shop in the UK. I'll see something but it's always one size too small. In the States you get plus-sizes; there are a lot of happy chubby people there. I'm a UK size 16. People think I look great naked! Why bother wearing clothes at all?</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/16f0d0d/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/how-do-i-look-ali-gabut-youngblood-musician-age-25-864609.html&link=How do I look?: Ali Gabut Youngblood, Musician, age 25" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/how-do-i-look-ali-gabut-youngblood-musician-age-25-864609.html&link=How do I look?: Ali Gabut Youngblood, Musician, age 25" 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/13381196185/f/3803/c/266/s/24055053/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13381196185/f/3803/c/266/s/24055053/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Susie Rushton: Beauty Queen
<p>It's a nation synonymous with sun, sangria and soccer champions. But cutting-edge beauty? Almodovar's movies might've done great things for Spanish arts, but the Technicolor eyeshadow of his female leads (not to mention the transvestites) never looked particularly sophisticated to foreign eyes. But it is this very nation, from where I've often brought home a tan but rarely so much as a mascara wand, that is fast gaining ground on the dominant French, Japanese and American brands in the billion-pound global beauty industry.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/16f0d0f/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susie-rushton-beauty-queen-864544.html&link=Susie Rushton: Beauty Queen" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/susie-rushton-beauty-queen-864544.html&link=Susie Rushton: Beauty Queen" 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/13381196184/f/3803/c/266/s/24055055/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13381196184/f/3803/c/266/s/24055055/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Mary Portas: There&rsquo;s something about Mary
<p>These are lean times for retailers. The modern consumer rarely needs to go shopping - rather, he or she wants to go shopping; and once recession bites, "retail therapy" can look about as desirable as that never-used gym membership.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/16f0d0e/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/mary-portas-therersquos-something-about-mary-864536.html&link=Mary Portas: There&rsquo;s something about Mary" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/mary-portas-therersquos-something-about-mary-864536.html&link=Mary Portas: There&rsquo;s something about Mary" 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/13381196183/f/3803/c/266/s/24055054/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13381196183/f/3803/c/266/s/24055054/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Shopping Bag: Cushioning the Blow
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Shopping Bag: You will always need a plate
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Cleavage: how low do you go?
<p>There's nothing more disheartening than hearing someone complain that there aren't enough designs in the shops for "older people". The same whine was heard at Marks &amp; Spencer's AGM, when some old bat, trying to account for the slump in shares, declared that "The clothes are not suitable for our age group. The dresses are too low on top and they don't have sleeves. They just show too much cleavage and at our age we can't wear that sort of style." It seems that for M&amp;S shareholders, cleavage is, after a certain age, absolutely out.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/16d38ef/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/cleavage-how-low-do-you-go-864961.html&link=Cleavage: how low do you go?" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/cleavage-how-low-do-you-go-864961.html&link=Cleavage: how low do you go?" 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/13307394782/f/3803/c/266/s/23935215/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13307394782/f/3803/c/266/s/23935215/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Christie Brinkley settles divorce case
<p>Christie Brinkley's lurid divorce trial came to an abrupt end Thursday when lawyers for the supermodel and her fourth husband reached an out-of-court settlement that gives her custody of their two children.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/16c94c9/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christie-brinkley-settles-divorce-case-864563.html&link=Christie Brinkley settles divorce case" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christie-brinkley-settles-divorce-case-864563.html&link=Christie Brinkley settles divorce case" 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/13307374956/f/3803/c/266/s/23893193/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13307374956/f/3803/c/266/s/23893193/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
Levi's profit plunges 98 per cent as young shun its jeans
<p>Levi Strauss's second-quarter net income plunged 98 per cent because of weak sales of Dockers and Levi's. The company - which began making its famous jeans in San Francisco in 1853 and which is one of the world's largest brand names in clothing - is considering moving its headquarters and all 1,000 employees across the Bay Bridge to Oakland to save money.</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/16bfed2/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/levis-profit-plunges-98-per-cent-as-young-shun-its-jeans-863998.html&link=Levi's profit plunges 98 per cent as young shun its jeans" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/levis-profit-plunges-98-per-cent-as-young-shun-its-jeans-863998.html&link=Levi's profit plunges 98 per cent as young shun its jeans" 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/13228091610/f/3803/c/266/s/23854802/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13228091610/f/3803/c/266/s/23854802/a2.img" border="0"/></a>
The Ten Best Summer Jackets
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The Ten Best Summer Jackets
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The Ten Best Wellies
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Shopping Bag: Take a glimpse online
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Skin deep: Why it's time TV faced the truth about beauty
<p>From Grand Designs and Property Ladder to The F Word and Celebrity MasterChef, a cursory scan of the schedules reveals that our national obsessions are well represented on television. Food is omnipresent. Fashion and interiors get a fair chunk of airtime. But where are the witty, entertaining programmes that explore beauty, a &pound;3bn-a-year industry in Britain, and a daily preoccupation for most of the fe-male population?</p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3803/s/1672d75/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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/skin-deep-why-its-time-tv-faced-the-truth-about-beauty-861127.html&link=Skin deep: Why it's time TV faced the truth about beauty" 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=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/skin-deep-why-its-time-tv-faced-the-truth-about-beauty-861127.html&link=Skin deep: Why it's time TV faced the truth about beauty" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div>

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Fashion Today And Yesterday
By Rich Christiansen
With the death of Louis XIV and the coronation of Louis XV in 1715, a new style called rococo blossomed across Europe. Although the term was later used in a derogatory manner, suggesting excess and frivolity, it generally refers to a high achievement in that represents the height of French culture. Though France was already the well-renowned leader in by the reign of Louis XIV, the rococo period confirmed the country’s reputation as a worldwide leader in the world of fashion. After the initial popularity of rococo, the styles changed, and the French Revolution in 1789 seemed to create a new modernization in clothing styles reducing rococo into the much more stark fashions of neoclassicism in style. The radical change in clothing style is one of the most dramatic such shifts in the history of fashion.

During the seventeenth century new and ornate men’s fashions continually appeared, but by the time of the eighteenth century the styles had become much more refined. The typical French court apparel included a coat, which gradually became more fitted and added a waistcoat and breeches, a white shirt, a cravat, and a pair of silk stockings. Brilliant colors and intricate embroidery were increasingly important adornments. Cloth for jackets was often embroidered before being tailored so that men could choose their favorite patterns and then order the suit cut and sewn to size.

Despite the fact that Rococo began in the exclusively ornamental arts, the method showed unquestionably in painting. Painters used graceful colors and blissful forms, decorated with cherubs and myths of love. Some works show a sort of wickedness or contamination in

8 makeup mistakes
Come on, you know you've made them <br/><br/> A favorite black-humor scene from the 2002 Jennifer Aniston movie "The Good Girl" is when Retail Rodeo employee Cheryl (Zooey Deschanel) provides a makeover for a 60-ish customer at the Texas drugstore. Her finished, garish work recalls the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec, a look that she trumpets as the latest trend from France called "Cirque du Face."<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?a=bXsXsJ"><img src="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?i=bXsXsJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?a=yNpWuj"><img src="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?i=yNpWuj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?a=93dGWJ"><img src="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?i=93dGWJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?a=9kxZ6J"><img src="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?i=9kxZ6J" border="0"></img></a> </div>
Older models in demand
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Mackinac sailors spill style secrets
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Straighten up with anti-humidity treatment
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'Sex and the City' romper shines its star
Leave it to Carrie Bradshaw to discover one inventive way to close the gap between jeans waistbands and shirts: In "Sex and the City: The Movie," she wears the "We're on a Break" romper by lingerie label The Lake & Stars (copying a Victorian phrase for a woman who is skilled in the bedroom).<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?a=t66uEJ"><img src="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?i=t66uEJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?a=cwxdAj"><img src="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?i=cwxdAj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?a=mzpzKJ"><img src="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?i=mzpzKJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?a=mCzedJ"><img src="http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~f/chicagotribune/fashion?i=mCzedJ" border="0"></img></a> </div>
19th Century look meets 21st Century world
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A Grand Slam winner&#8212;in attire, at least
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the behavior of their subjects. Landscapes were idyllic and often illustrated the laid-back jaunts of patricians.

On the eve of the French Revolution, striped patterns became very popular, and the desire for elaborate embroidery seemed to tail off and the favored fabric shifted from silk to much more simple cotton. The youth adopted new fashions that defined the age, some dressing in black coats to be seen as outlandish. The only thing, it seems that could end the reign of high-fashion rococo dress was the leveling of the French Revolution.

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