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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 fashionâ€...

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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The death of Lee Alexander McQueen

Lee Alexander McQueen’s untimely death has left a gaping wound in the side of the fashion industry. Forcing us, me in particular, to question how and why someone who was so successful and so young felt the need to take his own life. When I think of the clothing McQueen created I see no signs of the sadness that must have lain behind the designs.

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What Will Be The Most Beautiful Object In South Af...

If you’ve always harboured the desire to judge a beauty contest, here is your invitation to do so.

But instead of being presented with a handful of bikini-clad lovelies parading down a runway, the finalists in this pageant include a curvy coffee table, a fluidly designed Flow ring and an elegantly shaped barstool that pays homage to the skillful art of… riding an ostrich.

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The web and fashion

As I begin this fashion blog I want to start by examining fashion’s relationship with blogs and bloggers. Those of us who read blogs know the power they have to seduce us with new ideas and entice us into trying new things. I would argue that most fashion observers would read three to four blogs a day to get an idea of the ‘mood of the moment’. What is a better creative start to the morning than the ramblings and observations of an impartial street savvy individual?

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Found: The Perfect Pair Of Jeans

The perfect pair of jeans ought to be a bit like a great bra. (Sorry, boys. But really, trust us.)

It must fit perfectly, yet not feel restrictive. It must be comfortable. It must magically hide or at least diminish your worst assets while simultaneously enhancing your best (or non-existent). It must be flattering (read: make especially female wearers look as long-legged and thin as possible). Surely that’s not too much to ask, is it?

As it turns out, jeans that fulfil all those requirements – and then some -  actually do exist!