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• Alaska's Iditarod race starts with smiles, barks and protests

  04-03-2018 19:16
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - With light snow falling, spectators cheering and hundreds of dogs barking, sixty-seven mushers and their teams took off for a ceremonial 11-mile jaunt through Alaska's...
  
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• Balenciaga's big idea: this season's fashion will benefit UN charity

  04-03-2018 18:07
  Influential designer Demna Gvasalia unveils a collection with fashion as ‘tool of communication’Fashion’s most influential designer is sick of putting meaningless graphics on T-shirts. “I am tired of making prints for the sake of prints,” said Demna Gvasalia, backstage at his Balenciaga show in Paris on Sunday. “At this stage, if I do a T-shirt or a jersey it needs to have something more to it.” Continue reading...
  
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• Givenchy gets gritty as Poiret is relaunched in Paris

  04-03-2018 15:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - In a low-key Givenchy hoody, actor Idris Elba bucked this week's trend and brought some rare A-list star power to Paris Fashion Week on Sunday.Here are some highlights ......
  
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• 'Fatherland' no more, German equality czar pens gender neutral anthem

  04-03-2018 14:43
  BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's equality czar wants to remove words like "fatherland" and "brotherly" from the country's national anthem, following Canada and Austria in adopting gender neutral phrases.
  
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• Flipping magic: on the turtle trail in Barbados

  04-03-2018 08:00
  Watching turtle hatchlings make it to the sea is just one of many good reasons to visit Barbados in low seasonTwilight. We’re having dinner, and staring into the sea when the black shadow of a stingray passes through the water in front of the hotel where we’re eating. There’s something sinister about the stingray’s passage: like watching the cape of Count Dracula. Several people get up from their tables to peer at it. Related: Barbados holiday guide: the best beaches, res
  
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• Joe Trivelli’s preserved food recipes

  04-03-2018 07:00
  Nothing fresh? There’s treasure to be found in the dried and pickledIt can be hard to know what to cook during the “hungry gap”. At the River Café, where I am head chef, we are in the midst of broad beans, asparagus and peas from Italy; but in the veg box left on my doorstep at home, such signs of spring are lacking.I wish I had spent the summer pickling and storing seasonal abundance as my southern Italian forebears would have done. Such is the delight of discovering, i
  
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• I’ve been replaced by another woman and the pain is killing me | Dear Mariella

  04-03-2018 07:00
  A young woman who thought she had everything mapped out perfectly is suddenly on her own – and the jealousy is unbearable. Mariella Frostrup says it’s hard but it’s time to look to the futureThe dilemma A year ago, my partner of 12 years (fiancé of five) told me he wanted to end our relationship. We had bought a house in my dream town and just sent out wedding invitations. I found myself, aged 26, living with my parents – the beautiful future I had planned stripped
  
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• Boudicca armour, chiffon nuns’ habits... It must be love, Westwood style

  04-03-2018 01:03
  Vivienne Westwood and her husband, Andreas Kronthaler, celebrate their quarter-century together with a ‘homage’ showA portrait of a marriage was presented at the Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood fashion show in Paris on Saturday, and it wasn’t a conventional one. There were brides wearing ruffled white gowns with thigh-high lace-up boots, and nuns’ habits refashioned in chiffon, and models wearing Boudicca breast plates. There were also three young male podium dan
  
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• The edit: metallic earrings

  04-03-2018 00:55
  Gold, silver – or both at once! Mixed metallics are where it’s at when it comes to earrings. And the more abstract they are, the betterContinue reading...
  
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• How to wear…Stripes – in pictures

  04-03-2018 00:50
  Whether horizontal or vertical it’s all about adding a stripe to your wardrobe next season Continue reading...
  
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