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Iceland's Fashion Designers Flourish in the Downturn

Nov. 14, 2009
Budding fashion designers capitalize on Iceland's ailing economy to set up shop. How the financial meltdown has helped creativity flourish
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Thin models jeopardize London Fashion Week

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Fashion Week gets 'Peanuts' makeover

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Fashion Week launches Tuesday in New York

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Fashion Week kicks off Tuesday in New York with the lighting of the Empire State Building in “trendy shades.”

Editor banned from Italian fashion shows

ROME, April 22 (UPI) -- A U.S. fashion critic who provoked outrage with her criticism of Italian designers and their lines has been banned from covering some fashion shows in Rome.

Doctors, designers at odds on thin models

NORTHBROOK, Ill., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Fashion designers and eating disorder experts in the United States and abroad are at odds over too-thin models on the runway.

Actress asks Serb designers to avoid fur

BELGRADE, Serbia, April 17 (UPI) -- U.S. movie star Pamela Anderson, on behalf of PETA, has asked Serbian fashion designers not to use animal fur in their winter lines.

Tokyo to promote Japanese fashion

TOKYO, May 31 (UPI) -- Japan's fashion industry will stage a "Japan fashion week" in Tokyo this autumn to promote Japanese brands to the world. The event, which is scheduled to run from the end of October to the beginning of November, will be promoted as "a Paris collection wit

Fashion hopefuls get big break

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Some promising fashion designers will be getting the break of a lifetime in next summer's TV documentary series and contest called "Project Runway."
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch