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THE 1st Shanghai Fashion Week, organized by the city government, is running from October 25 to 30. With this event, Shanghai will have an International Fashion Festival in the spring and a Fashion Week in the autumn, the two events seen as important steps in catching up with other international fashion centres.
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- JC dazzles in colours
THE Italian fashion brand JC Collection debuted its Spring/Summer 2004 collections last week, reasserting its commitment to high-end elegance.
- GRI's stylish Shanghai debut
THE latest trends this fall and winter, from nine designer labels promoted by Global Retail Inc (GRI) last week, are definitely colourful, flamboyant and sexy.
- New elegance
Jooi Fashion, Accessories and Lifestyle Design presents its new Autumn/Winter collection in Shanghai, with elegant kimonos in shiny light colours and luxury handbags in remarkable shapes. The style of the designer Trine Targett is purely minimal but distinguished with subtle details, such as bows or flowers. For more details visit the website www.jooi.com
- Palette of life
THE 1st Shanghai Fashion Week, organized by the city government, is running from October 25 to 30. With this event, Shanghai will have an International Fashion Festival in the spring and a Fashion Week in the autumn, the two events seen as important steps in catching up with other international fashion centres.
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- Killer image
Women smokers are to pay the price in France, where smoking is often associated with images of beautiful women, with female deaths from lung cancer set to rocket in coming years, a study showed recently.
- Sweet luck: copper-rich chocolate
MILLIONS of people are obsessed with chocolate for its softness and sweetness, but few know that chocolate is also rich in one trace element - copper.
- Business alchemy
"WE believe in the research and development capabilities of China, since an increasing number of Chinese researchers are returning from education in the US and other Western countries, " said Rob Armstrong, vice-president of Discovery Chemistry Research and Technology at Eli Lilly during his recent visit to the company's Shanghai partners.
- Eating snails can kill
SYDNEY - While escargot is the pride of French cuisine, eating common garden slugs or snails can be fatal.
- Blood donations encouraged
SIX locals were awarded "Blood Donation Magnolia Awards" by the city's Blood Administration Office last weekend. Each recipient of the honour had donated more than 10 litres of blood in past years.
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- Mystery tour to the 'navel of the world'
EASTER Island is remote. Located 3,700km off the Chilean coast, the closest inhabited island is Pitcairn Island, 1,900km to the west. Before the airport was built around 30 years ago, a boat came from Chile once a year. You couldn't get much further away from the rest of the world.
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- International acrobatics
International award winning acrobatic programmes from nine countries will come together in one show in Shanghai Circus World. The programmes from overseas display a higher artistic level, compared with domestic acrobats. A Spanish show presents a passionate love story through acrobatics with music with a heavy Spanish flavour. An American "Swing in the Air" show combines ballet art with acrobatics. A large number of pieces are done in the air - exciting and risky.
- EXHIBITIONS
Chinese scenery
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Chamber Music
- The best of the West
AN unprecedented number of world art masterpieces are on show at the Shanghai Art Fair with works of sculpture occupying a prominent position.
- Decorative touches
THE Shanghai Art Fair has laid great importance on the involvement of ordinary citizens.
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