For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Sober workaday chic and theatrical extravagance battled for the hearts and minds of the fashion glitteratti on Sunday, day five of Paris' marathon fall-winter 2010-11 ready-to-wear displays.
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In Paris: Practical clothes vs. crazy ones (AP via Yahoo! News)
Brussels, Feb 18 (DPA) High speed train services between Brussels and London are to be suspended until Feb 22, as a result of Monday's crash involving two Belgian commuter trains that killed 18 people, a spokesman for the Eurostar company said Wednesday.
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Riccardo Tisci wowed with a tight collection of couture creations.
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Paris Haute Couture: Givenchy spring/summer 2010 collection (Daily Telegraph)
Fashion's undisputed king, Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel, served up an haute couture collection fit for royalty on Tuesday, with dangling trains adding a regal touch to everything from classic tweed skirt suits to slim cocktail dresses.
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Chanel delivers couture fit for a queen (3news)
French Pres. Sarkozy added details to the "Grand Paris" urban renovation plan designed to modernize the city by 2025.
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Sarkozy Pushes Strongly for 2025 ‘Grand Paris’ (The Epoch Times)
PARIS -- Many in Britain and the United States are in mourning for what's taken as the suicide of the American (or Thatcherite, or Chicago-school) model of capitalism, accompanied by the non-interventionist state that hands the national economy over to business and financial leaders to run.
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As smash-and-grab capitalism collapses, the French economy shines (KFSM Ft. Smith-Fayetteville)
Kings, emperors, generals, and presidents have all tinkered with the city.
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Sarkozy's daring design dreams for a new 'Grand Paris' (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Ten proposals for a new master plan for Paris, all aiming to transform it into the first sustainable city, may just be the kind of brazen idealism the world needs.
Continue here: A new Paris, as dreamed by planners (International Herald Tribune)
These guys aren't chauffeured to Fashion Week like the female models; they take the Metro. With comparatively low pay, they get by any way they can, model Matvey Lykov says. It's a familiar sight at New York Fashion Week: The women who rule the runways arrive in chauffeured cars with darkened windows. They stop on 40th Street beside the Bryant Park tents and emerge like the clone girls in a ...
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Male models: from subway to runway (Los Angeles Times)
PARIS - Trains may be yesterday's technology, but you'd have a tough time selling that to the 2,000 people who jammed three buildings at the
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Model train show makes stop at Paris Fairgrounds (The Brantford Expositor)