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GOP
Though he did not show up for the Fox News hosted debate last night, Donald Trump was still the elephant in the room and talk of the show with candidate Cruz even opening with a joke that included insults to all onstage “I’m a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly, and Ben, you’re a terrible surgeon.” Without Trump, the debate was relatively a bore. Trump had requested Fox contribute $5 million to his charities in exchange for his attendance, which the network turned down. The Donald’s event, which was also attended by Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee, reportedly raised $6 million for U.S. military veterans.
SNIPPETS
• Bank of Japan in an effort to stimulate the economy, cut interest rate to below zero-negative interest rates. “In adopting negative interest rates Japan is reaching for a new weapon in its long battle against deflation, which since the 1990s have discouraged consumers from buying big because they expect prices to fall further.”…
• Two panhandlers, Kim Pindak and Sam Phillips, have been awarded $1,500 by jurors at a civil trial after a judge ruled Cook County sheriff deputies violated their rights to beg for money at Daley Plaza…
• Three inmates that broke out of a California jail are still on the lam with reports that they might be living out of a van. Nooshafarin Ravaghi, a 41-year-old jail teacher acquainted with alleged escape mastermind Hussein Nayeri, helped the three break out and she was arrested Thursday. Nayeri and two other inmates, 43-year-old Bac Duong and 20-year-old Jonathan Tieu, sawed through a metal grate over a plumbing tunnel and sliced through more metal and rebar to reach an unguarded section of roof, where they rappelled down with bed linens…
•The Zika virus is spreading at an alarming rate with babies of women who have been infected with the Zika virus during pregnancy at risk for microcephaly, a rare birth defect characterized by a small head and brain. The World Health Organization now forecasts that there could be 3 million to 4 million cases of the mosquito-borne virus in the Americas. At the moment, there is no vaccine against Zika though researchers are scrambling to find one.
ENTERTAINMENT
Leonardo DiCaprio met with Pope Francis yesterday gifting him a copy of a book about 15th-century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, featuring a painting – Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights; they talked about their shared environmental concerns…Warren Buffet will appear as an advisor on the upcoming Celebrity Apprentice hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger …Oh man, though we loathe to, we have to keep some of you posted on the tangled Kardashian clan web. Now TMZ is reporting recluse Rob Kardashian is dating and not just couch crashing with Blac Chyna, former KK best friend, who has a kid with Tyga, who dumped her for Kylie Jenner, Rob’s half sister, man! Curvy Barbie, short Barbie…Mariah Carey and James Packer attended the G’Day USA gala dinner in LA…Steve Harvey’s 19-year-old stepdaughter Lori Harvey is dating 21-year-old DUtch soccer player Memphis Depay who plays for Manchester United with a four-year contract worth a reported $40million, ayeee!
FASHION
Ahead of their NYFW show in February, Tommy Hilfiger brand will setup “instapit” a photography space for instagram content creators at its fall women’s fashion show…Many niche fashion brands are rethinking the whole fashion collection presentation model including Tracy Reese who will forego the typical runway show and instead premiere a short fashion film, “A Detroit Love Song,” alongside a small presentation on models for her upcoming fall 2016 collection…Joe’s Jeans completed the merger of Hudson Jeans and Robert Graham to create a new company called Differential Brands Group Inc. and Michael Buckley will be the CEO.
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
*images via: AP, vogue runway
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Giambattista Valli SPRING 2016 COUTURE
