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While this year’s Oscars may have gone to the Slumdogs, everyone was a winner on the red carpet when it came to show-stealing looks in fashion and beauty. While we’ve already gone ga-ga over the gorgeous gowns that floated from the carpet to the stage on all of Hollywood’s stunning starlets, everyone knows that an Academy Award ensemble isn’t complete without an equally glamorous up-do. After all, a girl’s got to look just as breathtaking in her close-ups! From elegant swept-back styles like Best Actress winner Kate Winslet’s to chic side buns like Marisa Tomei’s and loose and tousled half-down waves like Jessica Biel’s, award show-worthy hair may look like a million bucks, but according to Frederic Fekkai stylists Renato Campora and Adir Abergel, creative coifs like these don’t need to cost an arm and a leg — in fact, you can even do it yourself with the right products and tools! First, vote on your favorite Oscar hairstyle below, then click “Read More” to see how you can achieve these red-carpet ravishing looks at home with tips straight from the pros!
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Kevin’s got a great piece in the April Blueprint, entitled Design and the Depression. Here’s the (bitter) sweet spot:

But the Bring-On-The-Slump crowd are equally self-indulgent. Recessions are marked by bankruptcies, mass unemployment, house repossessions and general misery, not by moral renewal. A mean-spirited Puritanism lies behind those beckoning recession.

Their outlook reveals a shocking detachment from economic and historical realities. The recessionistas just don’t get it, they have not grasped the depth of the economic crisis we face. This is no mere downturn, blip or ‘natural correction’; it’s a process that will last years. It could inflict a terrible toll on the profession. No doubt these commentators come from the kind of backgrounds that weren’t blighted by previous busts, but few practising designers and architects will be able to maintain such glorious indifference in the face of the coming havoc.

The prospect facing young designers is particularly bleak. Ian Cochrane, director of Tice group and former managing director of both Fitch and Landor Europe, recently gave a clue to what might happen. He recommended that design agencies should consider a three-day week, and advised design students to ‘get out of this business… [which] does not need you’.

Read the whole thing here.

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