BRUSSELS: Europe in a policy sea-change Wednesday offered more funds for more reforms to fledgling democracies in its backyard, spawned by the Arab Spring or lying on its eastern flank.
Slammed in the past for propping up despots and turning a (...)
From porcupine hats worn once-upon-a-time to bright silk socks and garters today, men it seems love dressing up.
Featuring old Papua New Guinea necklaces of human teeth and ivory nose-rings as well as the extravagant designer suits paraded in (...)
Jungle savior, noble savage, or green superhero? Tarzan s many mythical faces come under the microscope at a Paris show complete with sounds of the forest, and the hero s distinctive cry.
Tarzan s ululating call made famous by 1930s actor Johnny (...)
France threw out a challenge to Hollywood on Thursday as film giant Luc Besson announced the launch of a giant Cinema City to be built inside a disused power plant outside Paris by 2012.
To be called La Cite du Cinema (The City of Cinema), the (...)
If you don t know what s in your knickers, should you be wearing them? asks a short film showing at Paris lingerie show this week, the globe s premier underwear event.
After foods, cosmetics and street-clothes, the shift to organic has finally (...)
Take two of the world's top men's designers and ask what is special about their trade and the answer is "millimeters and microscopic detail .
Yet at the very high-end Paris couture houses of Hermes and Ungaro, neither Veronique Nichanian nor (...)
A hint of hard times hit the Paris catwalks as men's fashion week opened Thursday with designers going for the dark side, opting for austerity over extravagance.
The exception among the first of 46 shows to run over four days was France's Jean (...)
A year of revolt the world over, tumultuous 1968 also brought high drama to Cannes, the single time the film festival had to be cut short, with no one taking home a prize and no red-carpet finale.
As the film industry s paramount fest opens this (...)
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PARIS: Egyptians proudly say their Pharaohs invented furniture. And now the country s fourth biggest industry is seeking to come out of the woodwork and carve out a place on the global scene, with the help of the world s top (...)