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Paris Fashion Week’s Haute Couture features weird, wacky and wonderful designer clothing

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Paris Fashion Week’s Haute Couture features weird, wacky and wonderful designer clothing

Four days of the fashion world’s top designers displaying their most extravagant designs have come to an end, with flowers, balloons and live horses featured on the Haute Couture runways. Dior’s line by Maria Grazia Chiuri started the week for 2022-23 autumn/winter collections with simple and elegant design.  The stage set was created by Ukrainian artist Olesia Trofymenko, with a collection featuring everything expected by the average person from Haute Couture.  Some described Iris van Herpen’s collection as “futuristic” and like out of a “Marvel Movie”: They were not wrong.  The show, entitled “Meta Morphism”, was also a milestone for the…

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Tommy Hilfiger Is Returning to New York Fashion Week in September

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Tommy Hilfiger Is Returning to New York Fashion Week in September

The brand will show its fall 2022 collection in Brooklyn, marking its first runway show since the pandemic began. It will also be livestreamed on Roblox. Tommy Hilfiger is coming home. On Sept. 11, the brand will present its latest see-now, buy-now collection after a three year absence from New York Fashion Week. The show, taking place in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighbourhood, will unfold in the metaverse, too, livestreamed on gaming platform Roblox. The digital show will also include avatars dressed in the new fall styles. In the last few years,…

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Diesel will open its Milan fashion week show to the public

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Diesel will open its Milan fashion week show to the public

Italian luxury brand Diesel announced on Monday it plans to open its upcoming Milan fashion show to the general public, scheduled for this September. The Diesel Spring/Summer 2023 collection, under the creative direction of Glenn Martens, is slated to take place on September 21, as part of the Milan fashion week calendar. Now, in a company first, any person wanting to attend will have the opportunity to experience the show live on a first come, first serve basis, through an online registration process on the brand’s website. Registration opens September…

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Cannes full list of winners: Sweden’s Triangle of Sadness wins Palme d’Or

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Cannes full list of winners: Sweden’s Triangle of Sadness wins Palme d’Or

The prestigious film festival held at the French Riviera has come to an end as the nine-member jury gave out the awards for the 75th edition of this festival. The Swedish movie Triangle of Sadness won the glorious Palme d’Or, the biggest honour at the event. Meanwhile, the Indian movie All That Breathes won the L’Oeil d’Or for the best documentary. Triangle of Sadness was Ruben Ostlund’s portrayal of a class welfare comedy, which won the top prize. Multiple Korean movies also won awards for their movies. The awards were…

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Bad planning and errors, not fans, led to Champions League chaos, says report.

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Bad planning and errors, not fans, led to Champions League chaos, says report.

Faulty coordination, bad planning and multiple errors by French authorities were responsible for the chaos that marred this year’s Champions League soccer final just outside Paris, according to a parliamentary report published Wednesday that criticized officials for blaming English fans instead of acknowledging their own failings. The scenes of confusion and violence at the May 28 final between Real Madrid and Liverpool were described as a “fiasco,” and with Paris scheduled to host the Summer Olympics in two years, the report urged French officials to dispel doubts over the country’s…

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Cannes 2022: Celebs Walk The Red Carpet

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Cannes 2022: Celebs Walk The Red Carpet

The world’s biggest film festival, Cannes, is underway at French Riviera right now and every day, we are being treated to some of the best red carpet looks that we have seen so far, this year. Some of the most extravagant looks are coming from Leonie Hanne, who has been a regular attendee of Cannes since past few years. We have got to say, Hanne has got the hang of the memo and is serving up looks-after-looks, impressing us every time she is making an appearance. This year, for her…

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Weirdest films from Cannes 2022

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Weirdest films from Cannes 2022

After a two-year hiatus following Covid restrictions in France, the Cannes International Film Festival saw full seating capacity this year, befitting its 75th anniversary celebration. Actor Tom Cruise’s career retrospective and honorary Palme D’or, a Top Gun: Maverick promotional fighter-jet flyby, as well as the celebrity allure of red carpet appearances, made for some of the eye-catching spectacles that the Palais des Festivals had to offer this year. However, away from the glitz and glamour, the film festival had some of the wildest, most absurd titles among their Official Selection, reactions to which…

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Insights & Introduction to monkeypox virus

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Insights & Introduction to monkeypox virus

As of the United Nations bulletin on May 22nd, 2022, there have been 92 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases in 12 non-monkeypox virus endemic countries around the world since May 13th (Table 1 for details) as reported by the World Health Organization (WHO). So far, there have been no related deaths. Table1. Monkeypox cases in non-endemic countries reported to WHO from 13:00 on May 13 to 21, 2022. Source: Vazyme Biotech Co. Ltd. From December 15th, 2021, to May 1st, 2022 (as shown in Table 2), there have been four African countries with…

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WHO to hold 2nd emergency meeting on monkeypox as cases rise to 9,200: Monkeypox may be renamed for a ‘non-discriminatory’ alternative.

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WHO to hold 2nd emergency meeting on monkeypox as cases rise to 9,200: Monkeypox may be renamed for a ‘non-discriminatory’ alternative.

Monkeypox is set to be renamed, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced. It comes after a group of scientists said there was an “urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising” name for the virus, which has mysteriously spread outside Africa in recent weeks. A scientific paper released last week, signed by 29 experts, used the term “hMPXV” for the virus and called for a “speedy decision and adoption of a new name”. They said the continued reference to the virus “being African is not only inaccurate but is also…

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Liverpool chairman demands apology for French minister’s comments: UEFA apologizes to fans over ‘frightening and distressing events’ at Champions League final

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Liverpool chairman demands apology for French minister’s comments: UEFA apologizes to fans over ‘frightening and distressing events’ at Champions League final

Liverpool Chairman Tom Werner has demanded an apology from the French sports minister after she said fans with fake tickets and the club’s handling of their supporters were responsible for the trouble that marred Saturday’s Champions League final. The match at the Stade de France, which Real Madrid won 1-0, was delayed by more than half an hour after police tried to hold off people trying to force their way into the ground. Some fans, including children, were tear-gassed by French riot police. On Monday, sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said…

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