Online retailer Curtains Made Simple has recently expanded its product range to include five brand new designs from Cath Kidston – Dinosaur, Footie, Tea Rose Stripe, Butterflies and Greenwich Rose as well as introducing the Floral ...
The Clean Clothes Campaign, along with labor rights organizations in Bangladesh and around the world, calls for immediate action from international brands following the fire in Dhaka Bangladesh, which cost the lives of seven more women ...
The international flavor of luxury fashion, high end evening wear makes its way to Lakmé Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2013, with Naeem Khan debuting in India with his exquisite collection. In a move that reinforces Lakmé ...
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Upbeat housing forecasts, including a projected 22-percent increase in single-family housing starts for 2013, made for a giddy International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. Our editors and analysts were among the 60,000 or so attendees there ...
Tags: housing forecasts, Home Trends, construction
The secondary sale investment follows after Rakuten led a $100m round last year. According to TechCrunch, the funds from SV Angel will be put towards buying secondary shares in Pinterest. SV angel co-founder, David Lee, told TechCrunch ...
Tags: secondary shares, Pinterest, investment
Energy prices are continuing to rise for people up and down the country, meaning that households need to find new ways of trying to reduce the amount they spend each month. With the economic outlook looking increasingly difficult, people ...
Tags: energy prices, LED lighting, Heating Costs
A new year invariably brings a host of new fashion trends, meaning every fashion journalist, blogger and aficionado is now scrapping to try and tell the world what their predictions are. The wonderful diversity and wealth of opinion in the ...
Marks & Spencer (M&S) is to open a very different type of store this Thursday when a two-day Oxfam pop-up Shwop Shop is unveiled at its flagship Marble Arch store. The Shwop Shop will be a one-of-a-kind secondhand store that will sell the ...
Tags: M&S, Oxfam pop-up Shwop Shop, flagship Marble Arch store
Rachel Stevens is to become the first celebrity face of the Next ‘Petites’ range. From January 2013, her images will be featured in all 550 stores nationwide and in the UK’s only glossy hardback home shopping ...
Smack Sportswear, the leading brand of custom team and beach active apparel, was viewed by over 30 million people on ABC’s hit primetime reality series, The Bachelor. Smack Sportswear debuted its 2013 line of bikinis, boardshorts ...
Tags: Smack Sportswea, ABC, beach active apparel, hit primetime reality series
You are not going to win this one without a lot of effort and unpleasantness. I would explain that I prefer cleaner rooms, but if my child wants to live like this, OK, except for a couple of rules: No food or liquids that could attract ...
Tags: Toys, Room, Constant Disaster
Vanessa Paradis is the face of Conscious at H&M this spring, wearing pieces in the campaign that are both on-trend and also more-sustainable. It is all part of H&M’s ongoing commitment to a more sustainable fashion future, showing ...
The best washers in Consumer Reports' tests are frontloaders, thanks to their superb performance and efficiency. But they require a lot of bending over to load and unload laundry, unless you spring for the pedestal available with some ...
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Over 250 students moved into the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani’s new dorm facilities. The apartment-style rooms are spacious, modern, fully furnished, and located at the heart of the university’s new 169-hectare campus. ...
Tags: Dorm Facilities, AUIS Students, campus
The annual show season can leave some of us longing for the relative comfort of the office. Based on his own experience – but also the invluable advice of others – Lewis Tyler gives some tips on how to survive the show with ...
Tags: Toy Fair, Tips, survival tips