12-04-2015, 01:30 AM
On another shoot I was chatting to one of the top Australian models during lunch. She had just moved to Paris and was sharing a small apartment with another model. I asked her how that was working out. "I get a lot of time by myself actually," she said, picking at her salad. "My flatmate is a 'fit model', so she's in hospital on a drip a lot of the time." A fit model is one who is used in the top designer ateliers, or workrooms, and is the body around which the clothes are designed. That the ideal body shape used as a starting point for a collection should be a female on the brink of hospitalisation from starvation is frightening.
Former Vogue editor: The truth about size zero | Fashion | The Guardian
The air in Beijing is so polluted that breathing it does as much damage to the lungs as smoking 40 cigarettes a day, says a new study.
China air pollution far worse than thought: Study
Google has a new feature in its Chrome browser for mobile that it thinks could save mobile data by up to 70%. How? By automatically stripping out images from web pages.
Google's Data Saver Mode saves up to 70% of mobile data by not loading images - Business Insider
When Steve Nison says candlestick charts are telling him not to buy stocks, people might want to listen. Nison is widely known as the person who introduced candlesticks to the West. He has an M.B.A. in finance, but he started focusing on technical analysis — more than 30 years ago while at brokerage E.F. Hutton. In the late 1980s, while at Merrill Lynch, Nison met a Japanese broker who used terms like “doji” and “harami” in conversations with clients. Intrigued, he wrote a short article for Futures magazine on the more than 200-year-old Japanese technique in 1989.
The ‘candlesticks man’ says he’s not buying stocks - MarketWatch
The cobbled streets of Stockholm may be cold and snowy during winter, but Europe’s fastest growing city is one of the world’s hottest startup hubs and a magnet for international talent. Home to fewer than one million people, Sweden’s capital is the birthplace of Skype, Spotify and Mojang; only Silicon Valley boasts more billion dollar companies per capita, according to investment firm Atomico.