Word: florals
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...season in which femininity, floral prints and a softer silhouette rule the runways, TIME salutes the female voice in fashion. --By Kate Betts
Seventy percent of the flowers sold in floral shops and supermarkets throughout the United States and the developed world are produced on plantations in Colombia, Ecuador and Kenya. The companies that own these plantations or outsource work to them often deprive workers of rights and proper wages. According to the Center for Research and Advisory Health, a non-profit social medicine organization that has worked in Latin America since 1979, the average floral worker in Colombia makes 58 cents per hour—far below the national poverty line. Job security is also often nonexistent: workers are hired...
...PRADA In the fall, trendy girls wore Prada's riding boots (from $925) with floral silk dresses. We don't know what they'll pair them with next year, but we do know that the boots are a classic and won't go out of style anytime soon...
...distribution," says Andy Palmer, account director at London-based ad agency St. Luke's. The company is trying to wean itself off the plaid; less than 15% of its wares now carry it. But will that stop thugs from buying counterfeit items that rip it off? A new floral print planned for next year might see to that. Think Twice Before Merging Five years after Daimler-Benz and Chrysler merged, the transatlantic deal is still under fire from investors. A U.S. court will this week begin hearing charges that the marriage was wrongly billed as a "merger of equals...
...delightful items for toddlers and tweens include tights in bright stripes and floral patterns, embroidered jumpers, cute suede clogs and these winter boots. Note: the shearlings, far right, come only in toddler sizes...