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Online MBA: The Business of Fast Fashion
The Business of Fast Fashion ‘Fast Fashion’ refers to clothing and accessories that are designed to reflect current industry trends, yet produced using less expensive materials to ensure a low price tag. For the last two decades, clothing retailers like … Continue reading
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Tagged Culture, Economics, Environment, fashion, manufacture, Politics, Urban
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Ugh!! Cockroaches!!
Originally posted on Lois Elsden:
I was surprised to read correspondence in the national press that poetry is no longer popular with young people? Really? Have the writers of these reports, or the pronouncers of these statements taken the trouble to properly investigate? Certainly there are…
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Originally posted on thereluctantcritic1:
The alchemist has two restaurants in manchester one on New York Street near Piccadilly Gardens and the other in the Spinningfields area just off Deansgate. Situated on the main square green (where they have an outdoor…
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Originally posted on City Jackdaw:
Birds. I like birds. I am not a birdwatcher, and try to refrain from twitching. But when out and about I try to take notice of what is around me, whether I am walking along…
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Originally posted on Black Cat Originals:
I love a bit of shopping, me. Sometimes I even have to leave my bank card at home when I go out just in case I spend all my hard-earned cash. So when I…
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Originally posted on retropnaraic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6cvCafcPGQ Playing the Building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal…
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Originally posted on FieldNotes:
From the Rubble of World War Two began project ‘Devil Mountain’; the spy tower – Tueufelsburg – built by the US with compliance from the UK to hack and transfer USSR intelligence. Built in 1955, Tueufelsburg represented…
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Originally posted on Americas South and North:
When I was in Brazil, I’d occasionally encounter people who repeated the Freyrean idea that Brazil isn’t racist in the ways the US was due to the greater variation in skin-color in Brazil…
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Originally posted on Postcard Memory Palace:
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Sweet Dreams by Kirsten Lepore
Originally posted on saltyslugs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1GyJpnTN1I I particularly love this sweet little stop-motion. A frosty cupcake dreams of sailing away from his sweet frosted-covered world. He makes a sailboat out of sugar cubes and crash lands onto a vegetable island, where…
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