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Knitted Sleeves

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FASHION - I saw the knitted sleeves below on a website and my immediate response was I WANT THEM! I don't care if they make it look like I have Popeye arms. I also don't even know what they're called. I just know I must have them!

Boycotting Peter Nygard

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FASHION - Its not often I discuss boycotts, but in this case I am making an exception. Peter Nygard is a 67-year-old Canadian fashion designer known for marketing to women in the 25 - 35 range, supporting breast cancer research and his playboy lifestyle. But what you might not know is he routinely treats his workers like slaves, abuses labour laws, skips out on paying for work permits, uses sweatshop labour in his factories... and his sex life involves 16 year old girls. Sometimes younger. According to former staff Peter Nygard routinely has wild sex parties, has a staff member who is charge of luring young women with promises of being on the lookout for supermodels but in reality he's just looking for a roster of young girls to have sex with. Some of them allege he's raped or sexually abused them. In one case Peter Nygard admitted the one girl had been living on his wallled estate in the Bahamas and that she had been there since she was a teenager. She had basically been hel