At night, there are no lights there, but to the north bright collections define the towns CNN made famous — Tallil, As Samawah, Basra, Al Kut, Al Amarah, Karbala, and, of course, Baghdad.
There was nothing wrong with the sexy, bright summer collection, based on animal prints that promoted the leopard and the tiger to sexual prowlers on pushup-bra tops and cheeky club dresses.
From 'The Impulse Society' by Paul Roberts (Bloomsbury £18.99) By Charlotte Philby Light show The bright new collection from Bert Frank includes Shear, a 1930s-inspired mountasktask light; Riddle, a double articulated wall lamp; and Arbor, a rectangular number made from clear acrylic rods.
"Well, hello there," cooed Moody after the group opened with Masse's "Bird Song," one of seven tunes they played from Bright Morning Stars 13-songg collection about love and loss.
The recent backlash against Victoria's Secret's "Bright Young Things" collection of lingerie geared toward teenagers is part of a larger design trend that has less to do with the over-sexualizing of girls than it does with manufacturers enforcing a youth-obsessed fantasy of women as remaining in perpetual adolescence.
Some of the best pieces in this bright-eyed collection were everyday tunics in crepe with flap panels that could be left alone or tied around the body.
Similarly, Hakaan, as the Turkish designer is known, brought nothing visible from Byzantine culture into his bright-white collection of modern clothes, which made it look as though his voice came from fashion's echo chamber.
I can also recommend Green Babies (www.greenbabies.com), an American company whose bright, colourful collections include one called Boy o Boy featuring snakes, horses and rhinos, and O! Angels with little printed gowns for small people.
HITTING THE SHELVES Ushering us briskly toward spring, Uniqlo introduced two bright new collections this week: its colored denim in seven different hues ($29 for shorts to $49 for full-length jeans), and its collaboration with the Irish designer Orla Kiely ($13 for scarves to $40 for tunics and dresses).
