30 is the new black

In the September 2009 issue of US Harper’s BAZAAR, an interview appeared with Karl Lagerfeld, creative director of the Chanel fashion house, answering interview questions in the persona of legendary designer Coco Chanel.

When asked the question “Your clothing liberated women in the 1920s. Are you still a feminist?” Lagerfield ‘channeling’ Coco said “I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.”

But why is it that feminism and fashion seem to be mutually exclusive?

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Gym rage is on the rise, and whether you’re about to do your first spin class or you’re a regular in the weightsroom, Gillian Nalletamby gives you some tips to help you play nice in the gym.

Arriving at the gym 40 minutes before a popular spin class was about to commence, I found to my dismay that every bike had been accounted for. Tensions rose and a fight broke out when one person accused another gym member of stealing their bike.

So how do you stop gym rage from occurring (and I’m not talking about steroid abuse) and what is the proper gym etiquette to endear you to your fellow gym members?

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Looking for a new post while still at your old one takes skill, writes Gillian Nalletamby.

Finding a new job is hard work. It’s like going into battle – a battle of wits, that is. Job searching takes discipline, determination and just a little bit of stealth and cunning. Here are some tips from a trained veteran to get Operation Job Search under way and get you job ready.

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Waiting for a train, I was confronted by a guy I dated in my mid 20s. All of a sudden, my dating life flashed past my eyes and it wasn’t pretty. As I desperately tried to remember why we stopped dating, I was interrupted on my trip down memory lane when he said to me that I didn’t like him because he was a nice guy. However, this is where men make the majority of their mistakes. Women want to be with nice guys but men need to redefine what they think a ‘nice guy’ is.

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As 17 year old Cassi Van Den Dungen, the runner up of Australia’s Next Top Model, turns down a lucrative contract with local agency Priscillas and international agency Elite Models and walks away from modelling as fast as her four inch heels will take her in favour of staying with her labourer boyfriend, it makes me question my choices in life.

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People say that there are not a lot of single, heterosexual men left over the age of 30. That’s true if you are standing in Oxford St in Sydney or Commercial St in Prahan which kind of dampens your perspective. I think it is probably more accurate to say that there are not a lot of eligible heterosexual men in this town that you can bear to give a second look and want to bring home to meet mother. Or are we as most of the women’s magazines incessantly pointing out, just going to the wrong places? I decided to test this theory and joined a gym, which was deemed one of the right places to meet eligible men.

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US clothing retailer American Apparel has been accused of using pornographic images to sell their clothes.

It didn’t take long to find examples of the images that are in question such as the landing page for their lingerie line.

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