He has only been around for one year and already he knows how to party like the rest of us, if not more! Christina Aguilera and her husband Jordan Bratman threw a birthday bash for their son Max. Max turned one on January 12th and they celebrated Saturday afternoon with the theme Where the Wild Things Are. If you are not familiar with the theme, it is from a book where this boy, Max, one day pl ...
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Katy Perry came straight off stage after hosting the 2008 MTV EMAs to talk to MTV News - and spoke about how she pleased she was with the night. “I’ve loved it was so fun! I made it through… I’m excited and I hope that it looked good.” Perry continued: “I’m still breathing heavily because of the 12 costume changes - I’ll have the 13th for the afterp ...
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Amy Polumbo Miss New Jersey is being blackmailed over some photos taken from her Facebook site. A mysterious blackmailer wants her to turn in her crown or the photos will go online, but the plucky pageant winner’s not giving in to the demands. The first Facebook scandal! The pictures include one showing what Polumbo said was her boyfriend apparently biting her breast through her shirt, anot ...
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November has brought us a superb photoshoot on Gotham magazine featuring Beyoncé with creations of Calvin Klein in the first image. Chanel's black coat edged with fur, while signing Atelier Versace dress bustier in a multicolor. The Indian tunic is Naeem Khan, while wool jacket and hat are vaguely spanish from the Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto. Beyoncé is notoriously tight-lipped ...
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The kimono maternity top has a wide neckline with a crossover empire shape top. The length falls to below the hip and has side slits, so its perfectly designed to accommodate your growing bump. I adore this maternity design's multi functionality and strong graphic presence. Wear it open or closed, belted or unbelted. It works as a cardigan all year round, Vanessa The Style Facts: Maternity Kimon ...
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Rei Kawakubo (b. 1942), established the high fashion house Comme des Garçons in Tokyo in 1973. She is untrained as a fashion designer, but studied fine arts and literature at Tokyo's prestigious Keio University. After graduation, Kawakubo worked in a textile company and began working as a freelance stylist in 1967. Emerging from an economic and industrial boom in Japan in the 1960s, Japane ...
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Yohji Yamamoto was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1943. He studied Law first (Keio University, 1966) and then studied fashion in Tokyo (Bunka College, 1968). During that time, he also started making clothes for his mother and her friends. Emerging from an economic and industrial boom in Japan in the 1960s, Japanese artists, designers, and architects found inspiration in the fusion between American p ...
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Takada Kenzo was one of seven children and developed an interest in fashion through reading the magazines of his sisters. Born in Himeiji City, Hyogo Prefecture, he quit Kobe University to try to become one of the first male students at Tokyo's Bunka Fashion College (Bunkafukuso Gakuin). After some six months, he was finally accepted to the prestigious college and the kind of determination that ...
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The appearance of Western clothing and fashion during the Meiji era (1868 1912) represents one of the most remarkable transformations in Japanese history. Since the United States' 1854 treaty allowing commerce, negotiated by Commodore Matthew Perry, the Japanese have enthusiastically and effectively borrowed and adapted styles and practices from Western countries. Until then, Japan had isolated i ...
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A turban or hat made of elaborately wrapped, finely woven fabric adorned the heads of women as early as the Sumerian civilization, which began in 3000 BC. The Sumerians lived inthe fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in modern-day Iraq. Skilled weavers used their own hands and machines called looms to make the delicate, lightweight fabrics that turbans required. Sumerian sculptu ...
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A historical record of Indian clothing is difficult to trace. While there is an abundance of sculpture and literature dating from the earliest periods of civilization in the Indus Valley (which flourished along the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan) around 2500 B . C . E ., scholars have had difficulty dating the changes in clothing styles and naming the variations on certain styles over time. An ...
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From 3000 to 300 BC, a fringed shawl was a typical garment.Unlike modern-day shawls that are worn over the shoulders and head, the shawls of Mesopotamia were wrapped around the hips like long skirts or wrapped around the torso with one end tossed over the left shoulder, covering the body to the feet like a dress. Whether worn as a skirt or a dress, shawls were held in place with belts tied in the ...
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Tattooing is practiced on the Japanese islands, in the Jomon period (c. 10,000 - 300 B .C . E .). Similarly scarification, the art of carving designs into the skin, has been practiced since ancient times in Oceania and Africa to make a person's body more beautiful or signify a person's rank in society. c. 3100 B .C . E . Egyptians weave a plant called flax into a light cloth called linen and made ...
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As with many other elements from the life of prehistoric humans, little can be known about the nature of footwear at that time. Archeologists, scientists who study the physical remains of past cultures, have discovered fragments of leather shoes and foot-wrappings from a variety of different locations that give some insight into how prehistoric peoples protected their feet. The oldest known shoes ...
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Ancient Egypt is one of the most studied and best known of the early civilizations. With its great pyramids and temples that have survived to the present day, and with the fascinating mummies found in tombs filled with riches and lined with hieroglyphs, or picture drawings, ancient Egypt provides a fascinating historical record. Tracing its roots to about 4000 B . C . E ., the civilizations that ...
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The blending of various cultures has become the hallmark of Indian civilization up to the present day. Over the years, nomadic tribes and other invading peoples have continued to shape Indian civilization. The Mauryan Empire, which flourished in 250 B . C . E . and dominated northern India for about140 years, had a large army, complex tax system, and an organized government. After witnessing the ...
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We start our fashion history month with the Roman Empire the most powerful of the ancient empires. It is belived that this outstanding civilization rose from humble origins as a city in central Italy. At the height of its power, the Roman Empire stretched from Spain in the west to present-day Syria in the east, and from Egypt in the south to Britain in the north. The story of the rise and fall o ...
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The cothurnus was a distinctive boot typically worn by hunters, horsemen, and men of authority and power in ancient Rome. Made of leather, the boot was pulled on to the foot and laced all the way to the top. It could reach as low as mid calf and as high as the knee. The portion of the boot that covered the lower leg was very close fitting. The boot could be very distinctive, with cut leather ...
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Do you think your underwear is uncomfortable, think again? Subligaculum was a form of underwear worn by both men and women in ancient Rome, it was one of the most basic garments. It was very similar to the perizoma, a tight-fitting pair of shirt pants, worn by the Etruscans, a pre-Roman society that inhabited the central part of present-day Italy, and the Etruscans in turn appear to have adapt ...
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The paduka also known as the khadaun, kharawan, and karom is the simplest type of Indian foot protection. At its most basic, a paduka is a wooden sole with a knob that fits between the big toe and the second toe. The wearer grips the knob between his toes to keep the sole on the foot. First worn by mendicants, or religious men, padukas have been part of Indian costume since at least the seventh c ...
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