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Fashion is about setting trends.
It is also about studying the art behind it, understanding the finer detail that makes fashion as much an art form as the Impressionists and Surrealists, so beloved for their intimate artistic expression of the time.
Fashion design graduate Venie Tee took an unusual route in her studies that shows clearly how artistic impulses can take a girl much further in the world than is usually associated with art students.
From the humble beginnings of learning to draw and sew at a local design institute, Venie has since scooped the Malaysian International Fashion Award (Mifa) and is about to start her own clothes label in Malaysia.
But life is not just about fancy sketches, threads and buttons for Venie.
Interestingly, she had dropped out of the last year of a three-year high school course at a private Chinese school to pursue what she really liked - the arts!
Looks like following traditional education routes is not always the best way to get ahead.
The 27-year-old had then pursued a BA in Fine Art with Central St Martins College of Art and Design, a prestigious art school in London which boasts of designers like John Galliano, Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen among its celebrity alumni.
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India's fashion designers may not yet have worldwide recognition but their fresh ideas - and the country's booming economy - are turning the heads of foreign buyers.
"It's an exciting time to be here. There's a serious buzz about India.
The wealth here is growing. It's the same for fashion," said Patrick Hanly, commercial director for British style emporium Harvey Nichols.
Mr Hanly is one of dozens of buyers from the world's top department stores in New Delhi last week for the Indian capital's seventh fashion week, at which nearly 80 designers unveiled their autumn-winter 2006-07 collections.
"India is a big buzz right now. It needs to be investigated," said Chantal Rousseau, who works for U.S. chain Bloomingdales.
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Corn on the ... bod? This week, at the Biotechnology Industry Organization convention in Chicago, Ford fashion models will strut down a catwalk in dresses by designers like Oscar de la Renta made of fabric produced from corn kernels.
Called Ingeo, the material is "thin and comfortable" and "doesn't stretch or rip," says Melissa Sack of Moral Fervor, which is launching an Ingeo T-shirt line.
Armani is putting an Ingeo knit shirt in its spring-summer 2006 collection.
"But the main reason we're using it is it's sustainable."
Unlike nylon and polyester (oil-derived synthetics), Ingeo is made from a renewable crop: animal-feed corn, of which U.S. farms produce about 12 billion bushels annually.
There are downsides, however. The fabric is machine-washable but can melt if ironed; it costs a bit more than cotton or polyester.
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Men's fine clothing leader Z is as in Zegna.
Behind this ultimate letter, the noblest of the alphabet, lies a unique world. The world of a family, a brand and, above all, a style with resolute elegance: the Zegna style.
It is also the world of a contemporary man in love with authenticity, but firmly rooted in today's era: the Zegna man.
Zegna has created a fragrance in his image: Z Zegna.
One year after its appearance in the select club of essences that mark the spirit of the times, the fragrance creates a new event with a prestigious limited edition: Z Zegna design by Ducati.
For the first time, because they share the same values of boldness and high standards, two great Italian names have joined forces to create an exceptional object.
For the first time, a fragrance offers its bottle to the inspiration and know-how of a legendary designer: the Ducati brand, renowned since 1926 for the incomparable aesthetics and performance of its motorcycles.
An exceptional bottle for an exceptional encounter.
Even more high-tech, even more creative and even more masculine than ever, the Z Zegna bottle created by Ducati catches our eyes and caresses our fingers with its incredibly pure lines.
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Diamond designer Shlomo Cohen, who in 1982 was credited with developing the Princess Cut, has created and patented "The Vinci Diamond," a 62-facet, pentacle cut, which incorporates the precise ratios of the Divine Proportion.
The idea behind Divine Proportion or the Golden Ratio is based upon the relationship of three lines of which the longest is 1.618 times the length of second longest, which in turn is 1.618 times the length of the shortest line.
The combinations of the three are the basis for everything that is perfectly proportional. The ratio is considered divine because it is repeated over and over in nature.
"I have been studying the geometric possibilities offered by the Golden Ratio since 2001, which is before I ever heard of Dan Brown or The Da Vinci Code," Cohen said.
"Interestingly, like Dan Brown, I was inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's study of the human body, the Vitruvian Man, and discovered that the artist had adopted the Golden Ratio to emphasize the understanding that symmetry denotes beauty," he said.
Cohen created The Vinci Diamond with the assumption that the stone would be "aesthetically more pleasing if it conforms to the ratios of the Golden Ratio."
The design concept is also widely used in art and architecture.
But for Cohen the design of the 62-facet The Vinci Diamond presented a
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