| Fashion Week | Scenes from Day One
A woman's best bet for spring fashion success? It's still the dress. But the spring 2008 styles shown at Wednesday's opening of New York Fashion Week were more loose and feminine than the ladylike, polished fall fashions now in stores. BCBG Max Azria showed sheer, flowy dresses while Abaete turned to '40s-inspired sheaths and halters for the collections shown at Bryant Park. New York Fashion Week lasts eight days, previewing the spring-summer looks of 60 designers for fashion editors, retail buyers and stylists. Dresses have been a strong trend the past three fashion cycles, but what started with short, boxy shifts in the spring morphed into shirtdresses for fall. It seems next season's shape — at least in early shows — is a loose sheath, one that glides over an hourglass shape without sticking to it.
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Lam Dong authorities have recently constructed two traditional Ma and K'Ho stilt houses inside the Lam Dong Museum located on the Winter Villa hill on Hung Vuong road, Da La city for preservation and exhibition purposes. For a week, old people who still remember the design and architecture of the original Ma stilt house were invited to Da La city to take part in construction works. Restoration of the two stilt houses cost local authorities VND120million (US$7,500). According to the museum, in the near future, another ethnic stilt house, that of the Chu Ru ethnicity, will also be constructed on the Winter Villa hill. (Source: Tuoi Tre) Hue graduates 20 more imperial court music artists The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has ended a two-year imperial court music training programme for 20 musicians from the three provinces of Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Tri and Quang Binh. The programme was sponsored by UNESCO and delivered by leading experts and professors in the field like Tran Van Khe and To Ngoc Thanh. The 20 graduates were conferred vocational training diplomas in imperial court music. (Source: Tuoi Tre) Exhibition extolling women's beauty opens A nude photo exhibition about women titled Conical Hats and Silk by photographer Tran Huy Hoan has recently opened at Mosaique Livingroom, 23 Ngo Van So, Hanoi.
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