Word: fashionable
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...games at UCL is attracting the attention of some of London's major museums, including visits from collections officials at the British Museum, the Fashion Museum and the Imperial War Museum, says UCL collections review assistant Subhadra Das. "I think they're finding it quite liberating," she says. "We're in a lucky position being a university collection, because we can talk about things that maybe bigger museums feel they...
...October 2008 meant cranes across the country came to a halt. A broken economy has led to rock-bottom rents. And while the new lows may have hit local landlords hard, it enabled a kind of tenant once prohibited from the high-traffic destination to move in - emerging fashion designers. "Creativity doesn't stop when the money goes," says Runar Omarsson, co-owner of Nikita, a street-wear line that caters mainly to skate- and snowboarders. "It is important to look at what we have and make something out of it. There are valuable things here, and we hope...
Instead of pressure, students in the graduating class of the country's Academy of Fine Arts fashion school feel utterly liberated about entering the job market after the crash. "Before it was 'What are you thinking going into design?' " says Rakel Solros as she put the finishing touches on her homework for the week - a jet black evening dress. "It may be harder to get the loan now, but everyone is prepared to do much more and make something real happen...
...string of success stories has transformed a design scene once considered frivolous - back when banking was choice - into one of the few sectors driving Iceland out of its economic quagmire. In September, the Ministry of Industry bestowed its first million-dollar grant to a fashion house, Andersen & Lauth. The company's creative director, Gunnar Hilmarsson, was also recently crowned chairman of the year-and-a-half-old Design Centre. Although it was created before the crash, Hilmarsson explains that the center - which is a government-sponsored platform for exhibitions and seminars - took on a new life once the money disappeared...
Regardless, she said, there will likely be negative reaction in the Muslim world. It's delicate, she said. "The President's going to have to make clear that it's not intended to be in any fashion disrespectful of the act of worship...