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Fashion gets real

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In today's fashion fix, we reveal which designers will be dressing the athletes for the London Olympics. Then fashion embraces reality; we're showing you the plus-size photoshoot that celebrates real women and a viral video poking fun of model perfection. Plus, discover which luxury brands are teaming up with iconic artists.

CULTURE CRITICS
People Who Know How to Say 'No' - and People Who Don't
06/03/2013 - CULTURE

People Who Know How to Say 'No' - and People Who Don't

In Pablo Larrain's "No," dictator Augusto Pinochet's iron fist is no match for a silly slogan and a rainbow logo. The fact-based story of Chile's 1988 referendum on the dictator is wry and sly. In "Spring Breakers," by Harmony Korine, four college students in bikinis get quite an education. And the Festival Touts-Petits Cinema is training the next generation of film-goers to sit still and enjoy the show.
The late, great Cesaria Evora
05/03/2013 - CULTURE

The late, great Cesaria Evora

Today our music critic Amobe Mevegue brings us the posthumous album of the "Barefoot Diva", Cesaria Evora. He also tells us about the French DJ David Guetta's new video dedicated to Western Africa, and the new release from French pop star Tété.
Jan Fabre, Warrior of Beauty
04/03/2013 - CULTURE

Jan Fabre, Warrior of Beauty

Jan Fabre’s Parisian latest exhibition at Galerie Templon shows a magnificent series of marble sculptures representing brains and two reclining figures – a tribute to E.C. Crosby et K.Z. Lorenz.
War, punk and glamour in photography
01/03/2013 - CULTURE

War, punk and glamour in photography

France’s 24’s photo critic, Siobhán Silke pays tribute to two photographers who died this week; the French war photojournalist Olivier Voisin and red carpet snapper Willy Rizzo. She’s also talking about the punk performer Linder whose work is on show at Paris’ Museum of Modern Art and the "Circulations" festival which is dedicated to young European photographers.
Eternal Youth: Books that Bring Us Back to Childhood
28/02/2013 - CULTURE

Eternal Youth: Books that Bring Us Back to Childhood

Today our book critic Sylvia Whitman focuses on something we all have in common: childhood. She discusses three books that tackle the subject in very different ways, most of them exploring the dark side of childhood: a tragicomic novel set in an Irish boarding school, a graphic novel by a classmate of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and a study of how parents cope with out-of-the-ordinary offspring.

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