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• Prada eyes strong military silhouette, with whimsy

  13-01-2019 23:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MILAN - Nowhere is the transition in the fashion world more evident than during the menswear preview shows in Milan taking place on the second of three days Sunday.Only in ......
  
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• All the rage: Beijingers vent their stress in 'anger room'

  13-01-2019 19:55
  It took Smash customer Qiu Siyu just a few sharp blows with a baseball bat to wreck what looked like an old car radio, after which two friends battered telephones, audio speakers, rice cookers and...
  
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• John Richmond returns to Milan with co-ed collection

  13-01-2019 19:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MILAN - Nowhere is the transition in the fashion world more evident than during the menswear preview shows in Milan taking place on the second of three days Sunday.Only in ......
  
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• The Marie Kondo wars: how Netflix’s clutter consultant is sparking domestic unrest

  13-01-2019 16:30
  The Japanese expert has a show that aims to help us streamline our lives. But it is just as likely to end up sowing discord among couplesName: Marie Kondo.Age: 34. Continue reading...
  
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• Beef-friendly Nebraska eyes regulations on the word 'meat'

  13-01-2019 15:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LINCOLN, Neb. - More than four months after Missouri became the first U.S. state to regulate the term "meat" on product labels, Nebraska's powerful farm groups are pushing for similar ......
  
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• Menswear evolves in new ways at Versace and Marni in Milan

  13-01-2019 14:05
  Donatella Versace stressed men’s ‘greater freedom to express themselves’, while Francesco Risso celebrated ‘the new youth’“Daring” is how Donatella Versace describes today’s man – or at least the man who wears Versace. At the brand’s menswear show in Milan on Saturday evening, the designer showed a heady mash-up of textures, prints and palettes to the soundtrack of Supermodel (You Better Work) by drag queen RuPaul – highlighting t
  
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• Here’s Your Design Style According To Your Zodiac Sign

  13-01-2019 13:00
  Your zodiac sign can say a lot about your personality and preferences. Depending on where the stars were in the sky at the time of your birth, your design style may be bold and messy, neat and organized or somewhere in between.
  Look up your zodiac sign below (or the sign of someone you love) to check out the sign’s favorite design style. It’s a great way to find the perfect gift for someone or help yourself define the best design style for your personality.
  March 21 – April 19
  
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• A vegan yoga retreat in Dracula’s back yard, Romania

  13-01-2019 13:00
  In countryside not far from the castle of Vlad the Impaler, an idyllic break offers a gentle route to wellness with five days of yoga and meditation• Away with words: a fiction-writing retreat in DevonIt’s early morning in Transylvania and the sun’s shining on a group of yogis making shapes on the wooden veranda at Akasha Wellness Retreat. With pine and beech-covered hills rolling to the horizon, snow-capped mountain peaks and a soundtrack of cow bells and cockerels, it’s
  
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• Iceland's Northern Lights: Beautiful sight, risky drives

  13-01-2019 12:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  AKUREYRI, Iceland - Police in Iceland have a warning for visitors: Beware our roads in the winter.Spending a clear winter night under an Arctic sky lit up by spectacular streaks ......
  
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• Bulgaria's ancient Plovdiv celebrates as European culture capital

  13-01-2019 11:56
  Bulgaria's southern city of Plovdiv kicked off its year as an European Capital of Culture with a lights and music show on a 30-meter high tower in the city center and fireworks that attracted...
  
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• 25 holidays to reboot your life

  13-01-2019 08:00
  From yoga to surfing to pool therapy, Yorkshire to Sardinia to Poland, find yourself on an amazing retreatWhere to go on holiday in 2019 – the hotlistEva Wiseman visits a traditional ‘wellness island’ reinvented for the 21st-century traveller Continue reading...
  
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• Sweat out your angst with an old-school face steam

  13-01-2019 07:00
  They might sound a bit 1980s, but facial saunas are something to rely on in an uncertain worldThe crossover to 2019 has been a big one. It enabled reminiscing and reflecting, as well as looking at lots of pictures of fantastic and mad times along the way. In our digital era, we see our faces a lot and trying to work out what you think of your face can be confusing. On some days mine will be puffy and tired with all the tears and giggles that spout out of it. Other days it’ll look bright an
  
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• Nigel Slater’s chocolate chip snack recipes

  13-01-2019 07:00
  Chocolate chips in cakes and cookies will see you through to lunchtimeI hold great store in stopping, mid-morning, for a break. And by that I don’t mean coffee at my desk. I mean actually stopping and moving elsewhere, if only for a few minutes. The half an hour or so in which I drink coffee and eat something small and sweet probably has its heart in the communal Swedish fika, but is different in that I usually take my break alone, as I invariably write until midday.There will be coffee, a
  
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• I’ve left my damaging childhood behind me, but why do I feel guilty? | Dear Mariella

  13-01-2019 07:00
  You must delve into your own past, Mariella Frostrup tells a social worker who has no contact with her own familyThe dilemma I’m 28 and was born and raised in a northern mining town. I went to university quite late in life, trained to be a social worker and now work in child protection, which I love. When I went to university, I left that old life completely and had a few great years. I now don’t have anything to do with my family. My current job makes me realise the effect my childh
  
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• Great pinot noirs, but not from Burgundy

  13-01-2019 07:00
  Look beyond France if you wish to savour the grape’s silky charms without paying a king’s ransomHans Baer Pinot Noir, Pfalz, Germany 2016 (£6, Tesco) While some of us are struggling through a dry January, the British wine trade has an altogether more appealing tradition: tasting a pre-release of the latest vintage from Burgundy. This is the home of that most sensuous of red grapes, pinot noir, which makes glorious wines, the best of which are, alas, also among the world’s
  
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• Fifteen menswear brands you need to know about

  13-01-2019 07:00
  Swedish underpants, Scottish watches and bed-to-supermarket shirts… Here are 15 menswear labels you should take note ofBorn from a skate brand background, Aries has enjoyed a cult following for years. Subversive graphics embody anti-fashion youth movements and trash culture. Price-wise it occupies the sweet spot between top-end high street and designer. The hand-printed tie-dye T-shirts and the Cerne Abbas giant motif fleece designed with artist Jeremy Deller are among our favourites. T-s
  
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• Beauty tips: dusty eyes for winter

  13-01-2019 07:00
  Get the sultry feline look with artfully smudged eye makeupIf you’re not so much leaping into the new year as dragging yourself grimly through the winter, then the dusty eye is for you. At Roberto Cavalli, models wore a feline eye with black liner across the top, and brown along the bottom lash line, with brown smudged gently up across the lid and down below the lashes. Rather than the vampy sexiness of a charcoal smoky eye, this adapted version suggests a more subtle exhausted elegance.1.
  
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• Imperial Treasure, London: ‘deadens the soul’ – restaurant review

  13-01-2019 06:59
  What’s worse than a £100 crispy duck in a smart new Chinese place? Half a duckImperial Treasure, 9 Waterloo Place, London SW1Y 4BE (020 3011 1328). Starters £12-£36. Main courses £18-£100+. Peking Duck £100. Desserts £7.50. Wines from £38There is an assumption that the more you spend on an experience, the better it will be. I am forever guilty of such a delusion, borne more of hopefulness than stupidity. Few things give the lie to this better
  
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• The edit - Chunky women's trainers

  13-01-2019 00:45
  From suede sneakers to bejewelled platforms, women’s trainers have never had such pizzazz Continue reading...
  
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