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CLOTHING 
October 30, 2018 How ‘90s Clothing Brands are Using Retro Designs to Entice Millennials
THOUGH HE’S ONLY 21, Dom Hadley owns nearly 30 pieces of vintage Tommy Hilfiger clothing, a collection he’s cultivated over the past four years. Yet many designs from the brad’s ’80s and ’90s heyday have eluded the college student from Liverpool, who also runs a YouTube channel dedicated to vintage clothes. So the news, this […]
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CLOTHING 
August 3, 2018 Dear clothing manufacturers – fat women want clothes that fit their curves not bigger versions of your original designs
Plus-size clothing aren’t always made to fit (Picture: Mmuffin for Metro.co.uk) I love high street clothes shopping. The obsession began from the first rite of passage trip sans-mum with a few fellow 16-year-old friends round the local mall (OK, so it was a tiny Berkshire shopping centre, but Clueless had just come out). Since then, […]
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HOME & GARDEN 
November 14, 2017 Inside the ‘spaceship’ house in Highgate longlisted for Grand Designs: House of the Year
The house looks as if a spaceship has docked in north London, wedged in between the houses on either side CREDIT: NICK KANE If you go down to Highgate Wood today you’re sure of a big surprise. On a leafy lane just behind the Tube station it looks as if a spaceship has docked in north London, […]
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CLOTHING 
November 15, 2016 Amsterdam Company Designs Clothes for Your Office Chair
0 Okay. We know this one sounds crazy, but bear with us. An Amsterdam design company has taken a new approach to refurbishing chairs, including the ones in your office. If they’re still in good shape but you just can’t stand the site of them any more, don’t toss them. Just dress them up with a […]
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NEWS 
March 17, 2016 The Monk Who Inspired Steve Jobs, Influenced Apple’s Designs
Robert Palladino’s name appears nowhere in Steve Jobs’s lengthy authorized biography, but he had an enduring influence on Jobs and the business empire he erected. Jobs sat in on Palladino’s calligraphy class at Portland’s Reed College, which eventually inspired the elegance for which Apple computers are renowned, the tech icon recalled in his famous 2005 […]
