From a lone shepherd in the great silence of the empty steppes to the champagne-sipping socialites of the big cities, no-one in Kazakhstan can escape a looming shadow.


Continue here: Shall we not say "crisis," Kazakhs wonder (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Everyone needs fashion accessories and many people think of handbags as accessories, but they are much more than that. To any woman, a handbag is almost an extension of themselves. Women keep handbags for different times of day and year ...

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Complete Your Look With The Right Designer Clutch Handbag

Victoria's Secret's angels have descended upon Miami Beach.

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Victoria's Secret has fashion show in Miami Beach (AP via Yahoo! News)

LOOKS LIKE A BUNCH OF DINOSAURS UP north is trying to knock everyone else back to the Jurassic period! Though it only moved up one position, from fourth to third place, this past week, Phu Kum Kao Dinosaur Museum did it in roaring fashion.

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http://www.bangkokpost.com/9destinations (Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news)

Last year at this time, Kathy Johnson and her husband travelled to London and Paris, where she spent about $2,000 (1,336.72 pounds) on a shiny, red Louis Vuitton shoulder bag and a matching charm without much thought.


More here: CORRECTED - In recession, ladies recycle last year's dress (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

I am standing in a palm-filled courtyard filled with bird song, two hours’ drive from the capital of Sri Lanka and what I'm seeing has restored my faith in fashion.

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As M&S goes eco with its lingerie, our fashion director checks out their green new factory in Sri Lanka (Daily Mail)

BLUE-blooded society girls, supermodels and the fashion elite jetted into Rio de Janeiro last week for a dose of the scintillating style that was behind the first ever Rio Summer event.


More here: When In Rio (British Vogue)

Charging for plastic bags may seem to be adding one more item to the green shopping list, but with useless spending going far out of fashion, the opposite might be true.


Continue here: What the rural French can teach New Yorkers (International Herald Tribune)

Swedish "fast-fashion" chain H & M made a big splash when it opened in Ginza in September and the line just to get into the store continues to be 30-minutes long. The company has added to its brood with a new youth-oriented store in Harajuku, kicking it off with a collaboration with Japanese label Comme des Garcons. On Nov. 8, the day of the store's opening, the CDG collection of polka-dot ...

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Fashion for the masses (The Japan Times)