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NO APOLOGIES: Adele doesn’t look great despite being big – it’s an essential part of it.
Adele is a phenomenon. The double Grammy-winning singer has matched music sales records previously held by Madonna and the Beatles. Her second album debuted at No 1 in the US charts and hit the same spot in 17 other countries. She’s made the best cover version of a Bob Dylan track. And she’s only 22.
So what else is interesting about this British-born pop singer? Let me see. She has lovely auburn hair. She has a beautiful, pouty mouth. She has skin like a porcelain doll. She works a liquid eyeliner even better than Amy Winehouse.
Cleavage wrinkles? Dutch inventor has the answer
Posted by: Abbey Strutt
April 12th, 2011 >> Fashion Consultant
TOP SECRET: Rachel de Boer with her invention, Le Decolletage.
Rachel de Boer finally told some friends a secret she’d kept for years — she slept with stuffed socks sewn between the cups of an old bra to prevent cleavage wrinkles and smooth out her neckline.
Three years later, a professionally designed and manufactured version of that same contraption is sold in 150 lingerie shops across the Netherlands and Belgium, approved by a research institute and getting interest from retail outlets in Germany, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Britain and France. <
Bronwyn Williams checks out this year’s creations by fashion design stars of the future at the iD international emerging designer awards in Dunedin. By Daniel Tobin
DARK DESIGN: Marie Kelly’s collection is ironically entitled “Look into my eyes”. 
SEEING SCULPTURES: The powerful three-dimensional pieces of Sarah Mok.
Despair has led to joy for a Massey University graduate who won entry to a prestigious fashion competition in Italy for her collection inspired by depression, on show at the iD International Emerging Designer Awards in Dunedin last night.
DISGRACED: British designer John Galliano.
French fashion house Christian Dior is in no hurry to replace disgraced designer John Galliano as it relies on existing teams for new collections, its head said.
Dior, one of the biggest brands within luxury goods group LVMH, sacked Galliano earlier this month following publicity over a video of him shouting abuse in a Paris bar and saying he loved Hitler.
Dior Chairman and Chief Executive Sidney Toledano said the company was studying possible replacements and the brand’s creative development had not been interrupted.
PALE PEACH-PINK CONFECTION: A 1940s trousseau nightgown for sale at Saturday’s annual Methodist Social Services heritage linen sale.
It started life as about two yards of pale peach-pink crepe de chine, a delicate length of romantic cloudy-sheer sheen. It finished as a trousseau nightgown, floor length, with every stitch of work in it painstakingly set by hand.
Glenys Groucott, vintage clothing expert for Palmerston North’s Methodist Social Services’ annual heritage linen and clothing sale, points out the narrow bias-cut bands finishing the V-neck edge and forming the gathered-in hems of the short puffed sleeves.
CATWALK LOOK: City Chic fashion show for size 14 plus models during this month’s L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.
The L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival is all about glamour, but unlike most red- carpet fashion events, this one isn’t just for the style police.
A front-row seat at a festival show costs A$95 (about NZ$130) and tickets are available to anyone willing to pay for them.
The festival, now in its 15th year, may be for the people, but it’s still taken seriously. The celebrities are in attendance, wearing their sponsored frocks and smiling for the cameras, and the shows are extremely polished.