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CULTURE, FASHION / January 4 2012 9:46 AM

Dirty Clothes? Let the Sun Do Your Laundry

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If you’ve ever hung your laundry out to dry or streaked your hair with lemon juice, you already know sunshine is a natural oxidizing agent. According to a story on Mashable, Mingce Long and Deyong Wu, scientists from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in China have leveraged this intel and devised a special cotton material that can clean itself when left under ordinary sunlight.

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CULTURE / November 7 2011 10:00 AM

Fei Fei Sun’s Guide to Shanghai and Designers to Watch

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About three years ago, Fei Fei Sun was just a gal about China, hangin’ with her boyfriend in Shanghai. Several Paris Fashion Week video viewings later, and she’s got the bug to wear it all; to be there in it. Fortunately her razor sharp jawline and chameleon abilities have allowed just that and she skyrocketed her to the fashion stratosphere.. Her first season out, she walked 30 shows without knowing a lick of English. Which I suppose proves the point that you can get by on just your good looks (and in this case, polite, intuitive silence and a fearsome smize). If you turn the tables and find yourself in Shanghai without knowing a damn word in Chinese, check what Fei Fei Sun advises you eat, see and shop in her city.

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FASHION / November 2 2011 12:49 PM

THE DAILY GASP: Beijing Fashion Week’s 20 Most Gasp-Worthy Looks

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Now that fashion is decidedly shifting East where consumers are all too happy to spend billions on luxury goods, while the rest of the world downsizes and economizes, it would make sense that Beijing Fashion Week would emerge as a viable player in the global fashion week arena.  If Milan, London and New York can’t play nicely, Beijing might come out of nowhere to usurp them from their thrones, especially considering these 20 gasp-inducing looks that poured down the runway.

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FASHION / May 18 2011 6:51 AM

Gap Minds Its Sales Gap

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On the heels of dismissing chief designer Patrick Robinson, Gap Inc. is addressing the gap in international and online sales — which are growing rapidly and expected to make up 30 percent of revenue by 2013 —  and North American sales — which…not so much.

Gap Minds Its Sales Gap

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