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My inbox is flooded with invites for all the great events taking place in New York City for Fashion's Night Out, the global shopping night that takes place on Sept. 10. Anna Wintour will sign T-shirts, the Olsen twins will judge karaoke, etc, etc... But what about Boston?

There are just a few things happening in here. Neiman Marcus in Natick hosts a party from 6 to 9 with stylists, beer tastings, and trend presentations. Saks Fifth Avenue at the Prudential is going rock and roll with live music, a denim fashion show, and a 15 percent off shopping pass for the night. There are a smattering of other events that you can read about here. But it would certainly be nice to see more stores have fun with the night next year. Boston is not New York, but we have plenty of stylish and creative folks who could easily pull together some creative events.

Award winning photographer Paolo Pellegrin has documented many of the world's danger zones from Lebanon to Kosovo and Rwanda to Haiti.

In 1995, his stunning reportage on AIDS in Uganda received the World Press and the Kodak Young Photographer Awards.

The Italian-born snapper has published six books, of which -- "As I Was Dying" -- brought together his moving images of human suffering in war zones and in natural disasters.

Now, the 46 year-old Pellegrin, who joined Magnum in 2005, has curated and shot this year's edition of the photo agency's fashion magazine called "Storm."

The end result is a raw and ghostly vision of the future of our planet through a collection of eerie landscapes from New York to Iceland and Siberia and unconventional fashion shoots.

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Fashion Gala: From Mithuns, Helens to Hrithiks, Katrinas - one could find the entire first year of  The Amity School of Communication, Noida, dressed as filmstars in tune with the theme of their Freshers’ Party, which was “Bollywood Bizarre”. The event kick-started with a performance by the western music club and was followed by an In-house Jazz performance. The chief attraction of the day was a spoof on former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and a play by the Dramatics Club called Punjabi Julius Caesar.

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They say spending time with young people keeps you young yourself. Rubbish. I've just spent a day with four teenagers, and I feel about 95. There is nothing like discovering exactly how ancient you appear to the youth of today to put paid to fanciful notions that one is still – as we said in my day – down with the kids.

Example. I asked Will Spratley, 15-year-old music and drama enthusiast, whose style he admired. He pulled out his copy of NME, and flicked to an article about Gorillaz. "I think Damon Albarn looks good," he said. And then he added, helpfully, "He's the lead singer of Blur." Thanks for the tip, son. Ouch.

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The Fashion East show is one of the highlights of the London Fashion Week schedule. Showcasing some of the newest, most exciting designers around, it has already propelled the likes of Jonathan Saunders, Richard Nicoll, Meadham Kirchhoff, Gareth Pugh, Holly Fulton and Michael van der Ham on to stardom.

This morning the Fashion East team has revealed which three designers will be showing with them come September. So who's made the cut? ELLE favourite Heiki Salonen will be returning to the catwalk with a Native American-meets-skater collection. And joining him will be newcomers Simone Rocha, who has just graduated from Central Saint Martins, and Felicity Brown who has worked for Alberta Ferretti, Mulberry, Lanvin and Loewe. Our fashion week excitement starts here.

If the seat does have to come out of the car, said co-author Lindsay Wilson, parents should make sure their babies are always strapped in. Wilson and Dr. Shital Parikh, both from the orthopedics division of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, reviewed five years worth of data from a national U.S. surveillance system to find records of babies less than one year old that were taken to the ER for car seat injuries.

From 2003-2007, almost 2,000 babies in the sample - so about 43,500 in the entire U.S., the authors estimated - were brought to the ER for a car seat injury. Most of those injuries happened when babies fell out of their car seat or were in the seat when it fell off a table, counter or shopping cart.

Head or neck injuries were most common, especially in the youngest babies, who were also more likely to go to the ER. About half of the injuries happened at home. There were only a few car seat-related deaths recorded in the authors' sample, so they weren't able to calculate a national estimate.

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The mob of shopaholics can move online. The boutiques aren’t dead, but fashion websites like 99labels.com, exclusively.

In and  have come up in India, offering the convenience to buy an Armani at 2 am. They offer product-shots from every conceivable angle and luxury at a discount.

Ishita Swarup, 42, along with friends Anchal Jain and Ankur Prakash, set up the online shopping club 99labels last December.

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With former supermodel Viveka Babajee committing suicide, the fashion industry is again in the news for all the wrong reasons. Experts and the fashion fraternity, however, feel that the incident is not a reflection on the industry but on how you personally deal with a situation.

According to psychiatrist Sanjay Chugh depression can hit anyone at any point in time, at any stage in life. "It perhaps gets more noticed amongst certain sections or groups due to one`s social status in society. It has nothing to do with a specific profession," Chugh told reporters.

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A number of leading designers here in Jamaica and in the Caribbean have had very successful debuts of their fashion lines. From the recently concluded Caribbbean Fashionweek, three female designers stood out on the runway. All three had varied looks and feels but one thing was common to them - they were all Jamaican.

Lisa Walton, a Jamaican native who resides in New York; Ashley Martin, the region's first singer/actress/fashion designer; and Keneea Linton, one of Jamaica's premier female fashion designers. The trio who are three of the most promising designers out of Jamaica, the Caribbean's fashion capital, spoke to The Gleaner about what was in store for the fashion industry in Jamaica and what they had to offer as three women in a harshly competitive industry.

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Less than a week after the curtain fell on the third instalment of Fashion Week Trinidad and Tobago (FWTT), countries as far off as China and Canada have highlighted the event on news websites. The international exposure has FWTT chairperson Dianne Hunt glowing with excitement.

’We’re excited. We’re at the office and buzzing because we’re just pulling through everything. We just can’t believe we’ve hit Milan, Paris, New York...This year it is quite phenomenal with the amount of attention we’re getting. I think that type of media coverage is quite encouraging.’

Some of the sites which have showcased the designs include the Wall Street Journal, BBC, Toronto Sun and Xinhua News. She described the show as very challenging but says it was a labour of love. She added that all the players involved in the show were people who have been working in the industry for over 20 years.

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