Word: fashionization
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...forerunner for brands like PopMalaya and Team Manila can be found in Hong Kong's G.O.D. This fashion and homeware label - the initials are a homonym of the Cantonese phrase "live better" - was founded in 1996. From the beginning, G.O.D. took images of proletarian Hong Kong - tenement frontages, old movie posters - and applied them to clothes and accessories, articulating a prototypical Hong Kong identity just as the city was in the throes of decolonization. "Fashion and dress [have] always been part and parcel of social change," says Yeoh Seng Guan, a communications professor at Monash University Malaysia, "both in terms...
...Pilgrim! label. The 28-year-old says that if Bangkok has identity issues they are not cultural but to do with market perception - it is seen as "the place where you buy silk and cheap wholesale." She would like it to be "a true player on the fashion front" instead...
...your fashion idol? Jecca Galeas, HOUSTON...
...girlfriend dresses nice, so she's my fashion idol. If she really hates something I'm wearing, she'll be very vocal about it. My weight fluctuates, and I'll try to hang on to clothes that probably aren't right for whatever weight I'm at. She'll be very quick to point that...
...made new friends. There's frenemy Heidi Montag, with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Spencer Pratt, the social-climbing Laddie Macbeth who drove a wedge between her and Lauren; Audrina Patridge, Lauren's less confident wing woman; Whitney Port, her levelheaded confidante and co-worker at a fashion-p.r. firm. Over three seasons, the four and their dream life made The Hills MTV's most popular show...