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The Fashion Library

The-fashion-library.com is a brand new online fashion magazine and fashion directory, which launched on the 1^st of April 2011 aiming to be South-Africa’s favourite online fashion destination.

The team at the fashion library make it their business to know what is hot and happening in South Africa and on international shores especially in the fashion industry. They share with you the latest trends, so your cupboard & calendar stays in the loop.

They also have a special category called “street fashion”. Under this category they photograph fashionable people on the streets of South Africa. Fashionnecting you.

Every Friday they choose one fashionable item that they love!  This you will find under the “Fashion Friday” button.

Making Headlines is a gossip & trends page, where they bring you the latest news, hot of the press.

Go ahead and celebrate life and its beauty with them: www.the-fashion-library.com

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Zoo City Bares: Book-Inspired Art With Heart

A South African author went beyond mere cover art and illustrations when she teamed up with a local design and animation studio to create tangible art works relating to the themes in her latest book.

For her second novel, Zoo City, writer Lauren Beukes and the am i collective studio in Cape Town collaborated with local illustrators to create five distinct, 40 centimetre high, vinyl Bares.

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Gaga’s Gala

The New York Costume Institute Gala falls on the first Monday of May and is hosted by Vogue. It is the premier party for aspiring fashionistas and those lucky enough to attend allow us an insight into who Fashion currently believes is a la mode.

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Watch Oscar-Winning And Nominated Animated Shorts ...

If you have some bandwidth to burn and some Internet cap to spare, may we kindly direct your attention to some uplifting and amusing (and Academy Award-winning!) entertainment.

The five delightful and utterly brilliant films that all competed to win this year’s Oscar for the Best Animated Short Film (one of our all-time favourite categories) have been made available online where you can watch it for free! (Update: Seems that we are now down to four. One film has, for some unknown reason, since been made unavailable.) You can even watch the short that strutted away with the big prize, Logorama.

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The Oscars – fashion’s friend or fashion�...

The Oscars have arrived.  Lauded as one of the highlights of the fashion season by the Hollywood elite, but are they?  When we think of haute couture do we just mean dresses and tuxedoes?  I don’t think we do.

The Academy Awards is one of the most watched events on television and dwarfs the viewers of the Prêt-a-Porter shows that have recently preceded them. Savvy designers therefore know that to get their dress on the back of a nominated actress is worth more than any spectacle and fanfare of a fashion show.

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Review: The Grand

‘I am not a huge fan of Camps Bay to be honest. You fight for parking. You fight for a seat. It is all Ed Hardy, Guess and silicone. Normally if you are in good company you can have a good time anywhere, but unfortunately the company I find  in Camps Bay are hardly your run of the mill chilled South Africans!  These are the guys with unquenchable thirsts, wallets that never run dry and loud – in taste and volume.

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