IN THIS SLIDESHOW, the Daily Telegraph picks out the runway looks that best incarnated the French saying, "Il faut souffrir pour être belle." — "To be beautiful one must suffer.":
"Bizarre trends from men's fashion week, spring/summer 2012" [Daily Telegraph], Photos from various agencies (June 24, 2011)
It seems far too early for Spring/Summer 2012 fashion weeks; in fact these are only for men's apparel. The outfits here — some of which are fairly conventional for the extreme aesthetic of the catwalk and some of which, like the giant green egg in the first slide, verge on the extraterrestrial — appeared in the Paris and Milan showings.
Monday, 27 June 2011
Mythdusters: The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
IN HONOUR of Seven Sleepers' Day, observed today here in Germany: The day itself is founded on the old Catholic myth of the sleepers at Ephesus and like a religious Groundhog Day it is traditionally considered as a harbinger of the weather for the following seven weeks:
Cave of the Seven Sleepers, Turkey (1987)
by user Kpisimon, via Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons Attribution 3 Unported License)
TO BE honest, I'm fond of the tale in a secular way because I'm very fond of sleeping, especially at epic lengths if there are no particular responsibilities to fulfill and therefore relaxing is in order.
Cave of the Seven Sleepers, Turkey (1987)
by user Kpisimon, via Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons Attribution 3 Unported License)
TO BE honest, I'm fond of the tale in a secular way because I'm very fond of sleeping, especially at epic lengths if there are no particular responsibilities to fulfill and therefore relaxing is in order.
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