MILAN - Gucci’s Alessandro Michele unveiled on Wednesday a loud and proud ode to the 1980s on the opening day of the latest Milan Fashion Week, with big bangs, square suits and enough sequins to drown a disco. It’s yesterday once more at Gucci. - AFP/VNA Photo Michele burrowed further into his love for the bookish chic that has led the once-flagging house to enjoy white-hot success since he took creative control in 2015. In a smoky near-darkness pierced by flashes of light, Gucci showed off a Spring/Summer 2018 collection that, along with fringed foreheads, had plenty of large round glasses, satin and even a striped and shiny track suit. The idea guiding the show, according to Michele’s notes, is a refusal "to turn the page and stubbornly dwelling on a narration that consolidates on the beauty of … [Read more...]

The eighth German Film Festival has closed in the central province of Đà Nẵng. Nine films were screened in big cities throughout Việt Nam, including the opening festival movies, 24 Weeks and Millennials. Director and actress Anne Zohra Berrached. The movies featured Anne Zohra Berrached as film director and leading actress. Born in 1982 in Erfurt, East Germany, Berrached won a degree in social education, with a focus on psycholgoy. Then she worked as a drama teacher in London for two years. She began to study directing at the Film Academy in Baden-Wurttemberg. In her third year, she completed her first feature film, Two Mothers. The movie premiered worldwide at the 63rd International Film Festival in Berlin in 2013. Her second feature film 24 Weeks also premiered at the Berlinale in 2016. It … [Read more...]

Undeniably, fast fashion brands are enjoying great success in one of the two largest cities in Vietnam. However, while they are toasting success, local retailers are stepping back in the game. Fast fashion brands are taking the market by storm, prompting Vietnamese brands to adapt strategies RELATED CONTENTS: French fashion giants ban ultra-thin models Fashion show to honour women of all sizes Domestic brands held at gunpoint by international fashion brands Vietnamese fashion brands lose ground amid foreign arrivals Vietnam leatherware makers make a mark International fashion brands target VN market Garment manufacturers feel pressure from foreign fashion brands Not just a trend As a passionate trend follower, Thuy Linh (26), a PR staff at Le & Brothers Co., Ltd. admits she usually spends … [Read more...]

HCM CITY - South Korean girl group T-Ara will host a concert in HCM City on November 4 to mark 25 years of diplomatic relations between Việt Nam and South Korea. South Korean girl group T-Ara will host a concert in HCM City on November 4 to mark 25 years of diplomatic relations between Việt Nam and South Korea. - Photo courtesy of the organiser The group, consisting of Qri, Eunjung, Hyomin and Jiyeon, will perform songs from their latest extended play What’s My Name? released in June. They will also present their hits, including TTL (Time to Love), Bo Peep Bo Peep, and Roly-Poly. Vietnamese pop stars Noo Phước Thịnh, Soobin Hoàng Sơn and Tóc Tiên will join the group at the 7th Military Gymnasium in Tân Bình District. T-Ara debuted in … [Read more...]

Champion Dash 2017 promises to be an energetic outdoors sport event and a chance for participants to test their limits and receive valuable awards. Champion Dash in Hanoi will take place on October 21, 2017 in Ecopark Inspired by obstacle course races from all around the word, designed by experts specialising on holding outdoors adventure sports events and terrain engineering, Champion Dash will provide participants with a chance to physically and spiritually challenge themselves to overcome diverse trials throughout the race. Participants can challenge themselves by overcoming diverse obstacles Followed by the success in Ho Chi Minh City in April, Champion Dash 2017 in Hanoi will take place in Ecopark. The capital’s young and … [Read more...]

LOS ANGELES: Record-setting horror film It dominated the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend, accounting for nearly three times the combined ticket sales of the next two films, final figures showed on Monday (Sep 18). The world premiere of It on Sep 5, 2017 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. (Photo: AFP) The Warner Bros film, based on a Stephen King novel and starring Bill Skarsgard as a creepy clown who terrorises a sleepy Maine town, earned an estimated US$60.1 million for the three-day weekend, bringing its domestic total to US$218.8 million in only two weeks, according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations. Trailing far behind were two new releases, American Assassin from CBS Films/Lionsgate, at US$14.8 million, and mother! which took in just US$7.5 million in ticket sales … [Read more...]

TORONTO, Canada: Martin McDonagh's darkly hilarious drama "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" won the Toronto film festival's audience prize for best picture on Sunday (Sep 17), giving it a leg up in the race for the Oscars. Frances McDormand is joined by (from left) Sam Rockwell, Martin McDonagh and Graham Broadbent at the Toronto premiere of 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'. (AFP/Rich Fury) The rage-fuelled film stars Frances McDormand as a frustrated and grieving mother, Mildred, who antagonises police (Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell) while trying to call attention to a lack of progress in the hunt for her daughter's killer. Months have passed without an arrest in the murder case, so she commissions three signs with controversial messages for police along a road leading into the fictional Missouri … [Read more...]

RIO DE JANEIRO: Lady Gaga said on Thursday (Sep 14) she had been hospitalised in "severe pain" and was pulling out of Brazil's Rock in Rio festival, which she was due to headline this weekend. Lady Gaga attends the 'Gaga: Five Foot Two' premiere during the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival at Princess of Wales Theatre on Sep 8, 2017 in Toronto, Canada. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images/AFP) The US superstar, who revealed on Tuesday that she suffers from the chronic disease fibromyalgia, had been due to open the festival on Friday in Rio de Janeiro. "I was taken to hospital its not simply hip pain or wear & tear from tour, I'm in severe pain. I'm in good hands w/ the very best doctors," she tweeted. "Brazil, I'm devastated that I'm not well enough 2 come to Rock in Rio. I would do anything 4 u but I have … [Read more...]

PARIS: A host of French-owned fashion labels spanning Christian Dior to Saint Laurent pledged on Wednesday (Sep 6) to ban ultra-thin models from their advertising and catwalk shows following repeated scandals about anorexia and mistreatment. A model presenting a creation by French designer Gaspard Yurkievich during the Spring/Summer 2007 ready-to-wear collections in Paris. (File photo: AFP/ Francois Guillot) French holding companies LVMH and Kering, which own dozens of top brands between them, unveiled a charter "to ensure the well-being of models" which will also outlaw the hiring of girls under the age of 16 to wear adult clothes at shoots or events. In May, a French law requiring models to present a doctor's certificate attesting to their health and was introduced to try to tackle the problem of the industry promoting … [Read more...]

NEW YORK: Taylor Swift's vengeful new track topped the US singles chart Tuesday with the year's highest one-week sales, halting the historic reign of global sensation "Despacito." Screengrab from Taylor Swift's music video "Look What You Made Me Do". "Look What You Made Me Do", a dark dance track that is the first single off Swift's upcoming album "Reputation", pushed "Despacito" to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week through Thursday. The pop superstar's song has broken the one-day streaming record on Spotify - to which Swift recently returned after a high-profile boycott. Tracking service Nielsen Music said "Look What You Made Me Do" had the second highest number of streams ever over all platforms, trailing the 2013 viral dance craze track "Harlem Shake". "Look What You … [Read more...]