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Care of your pashmina
Cleaning your pashmina is not difficult. Although it is often stated that pashminas should only be dry cleaned we have found that hand washing with a gentle fabric soap is fine. Take care with the pure wool pashminas especially; the silk in the silk blend pashminas makes them less prone to damage. Dry naturally, not in a tumble drier. It is fine to press or iron them when dry; again, treat them gently as you would any wool product. If you wouldn't do it with a fine wool jumper. don't do it with your pashmina!
If you should get any difficult stains on your pashmina you can search for information about cleaning wool products on the internet - there is much advice to be had!
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So we wanted to do all the dirty work for you by testing out all the latest self tanning products.
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- Shopping in Singapore: A Guide for the Mall-Adverse
I spent last week in Singapore attending the city’s Audi Fashion Festival. To conclude my coverage, I offer you an abbreviated guide to shopping in the city. Shopping for the mall-adverse, that is. Because Singapore—which to me, feels like a cross between Vancouver, Las Vegas and, well, Asia—is filled with malls. If you live in a place that doesn’t have Forever 21, Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, etc.—or the internet—you might want to visit those malls. But for most of us, a mall is a mall is a mall. These are shops you won’t find anywhere but Singapore.
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- Get Ready for the New Season of Arrested Development with Our Fun Shopping Guide
We’re counting down the seconds until we can watch season four of Arrested Development, which hits Netflix at midnight PST on Monday!
To celebrate, we put together a little shopping guide based on some of our favorite Arrested Development gags–because while it’s fun to dress up in costume, we also don’t mind buying things that we can wear again.
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- Dressing The Americans: Disguises, Mom Jeans and Making Kerri Russell Look Bad
While Game of Thrones (which I don’t watch. Sorry!) may be the more popular TV obsession in this office/the world, a few of us have also gotten sucked into The Americans on FX–and not just because of the drama-filled plot twists between the CIA and Russian spies. The (early ’80s) clothes, hair, and Kerri Russell’s overall flawlessness, are also pretty awesome to watch.
We got the inside scoop on the costumes, hair and makeup from the show’s team.
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- Song of Style’s Aimee Song on Keeping her Day Job, and Getting ‘Burned’ by Competitive Bloggers
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We caught up with Song in L.A. to talk platforms (heels and social media), parents, and the challenges of life as a personal brand.
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- A Closer Look at Cannes’s Red Carpet Hair Chameleons
There’s been a never-ending parade of sleek celebs making their way down the Cannes red carpet over the past two weeks, and many have made the trip multiple times.
Check out all the red carpet repeaters and their many, many hairstyles–through rain, flashbulbs, UV rays, and countless cans of Elnett.
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- Street Style: Payton Likes Her Outfits Latex-Free
Name: Payton Swenson
What do you do? I’m a prop stylist and interior decorator.
What’s currently inspiring you? Fueled Collective.
What would you never be caught wearing? Latex.
If you could go on vacation right now, where would you go? On my honeymoon in Belize with my husband!
What’s your biggest vice?
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- Nicole Kidman Didn’t Wear Anne Hathaway’s Discarded Valentino, More Jewelry Stolen From Cannes, and Georgia May Jagger Does L’Officiel
JK! In spite of reports saying otherwise, Valentino says the ivory gown Nicole Kidman wore at Cannes yesterday was not the one Anne Hathaway ditched right before the Oscars. {US Weekly}
Cannes someone call security? A $2.6 million necklace went missing from Swiss jeweler de Grisogono’s 20th anniversary high jewelry collection on Tuesday, just days after $1 million-worth of jewels were reported stolen from the film fest. {WWD, Subscription required.}
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Speaking of Gisele, her younger sister Gabriela also attended the launch of the BLK DNM campaign to show some sibling support. {HuffPo}
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- Willam, Detox, and Vicky Vox Front Their First Ever Cosmetics Campaign, Give Us Makeup Advice
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- CBS Goes Undercover in Bangladesh, Finds Shockingly Unsafe Factory Conditions
Following a slew of deadly factory accidents in Bangladesh–one of which took over 1,000 lives, most apparel brands seem to at least be reconsidering the environment in which their goods are being produced.
Meanwhile, in Bangaladesh, American merchandise is still being manufactured in unsafe, unethical factories, CBS News has recently discovered.
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- The Weirdest Questions From Kate Upton’s Live Twitter Chat Yesterday
To promote Kate Upton’s first-ever Vogue cover, the mag let the social media-savvy model take over its Twitter feed to answer questions live.
Like any good Twitter event, it had a hashtag: #AskKate. And, as you can probably predict, people had some very, um, interesting questions for the model–like, ones involving blimps, kangaroos and zombies.
Upton was a good sport about it all, and even answered some of the stranger questions–though we suspect she may stay away from Twitter for a few days after this. And also possibly change her phone number and the locks on her house.
Read on for the weirdest questions.
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- See All the Looks from the Endless Red Carpet at Cannes
We don’t know what it is about the Cannes film festival, but the star studded event always manages to produce the most glamorous red carpet year after year. (Okay, maybe we do know what it is: the palm trees, that French je ne sais quoi, every international celebrity you can think of…)
Click through the gallery to see what everyone wore.
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- UN Backs Woman Suing Prada for Sexual Harassment
Former Prada employee Rina Bovrisse’s four-year-long legal battle with Prada Japan over alleged sexual harassment and discrimination has come back into the news recently, when Prada countersued Bovrisse for damaging its image, and a Change.org petition was launched to persuade Prada to drop the countersuit.
Now, the United Nations has weighed in.
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- Julianne Moore Hilariously Explains Her ‘Toemageddon’ Moment at Cannes
We gasped out an empathetic “Ouch!” when we saw pictures of Julianne Moore on the Cannes red carpet with her pinky toes looking mangled in a too-narrow pair of platform stilettos. But it apparently wasn’t as bad as it looked.
Moore went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to talk about the now-infamous shoe shots seen ’round-the-world, which she hilariously dubbed “Toemageddon.”
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