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Relaxnews If the shows that have taken place so far during Paris Fashion Week are anything to go by then accessories will be strong for Autumn/Winter 2016. Chunky jewellery is an easy and modern way of keeping a look on point, as proven byLoewe, whose spiral bangles were layered and heaped upon the models’ wrists. The house also went big ...

AFP Paris fashion has rediscovered its taste for rebellion with designers playing fast and loose with the old rules of couture. The mould-breaking French label Vetements — the new darling of the fashion press — staged a show full of teenage revolt and defiance in a cathedral late Thursday, while American Rick Owens flirted with the law by completely shrouding ...

ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business Building upon its dependable repute of acting as a fertile ground for facilitating industrial deals and MoU pacts, ISNR 2016’s Business Connect team is all set to arrange more than 3,000 meetings between government, private sector buyers, and exhibiting companies in the forthcoming edition. This is a nearly 60 percent growth over its 2014 edition, ...

RITIKA SHARMA / EMIRATES BUSINESS By creating one-of-its-kind dedicated platform for TV and film content industry to buy, sell and explore co-production business opportunities for the Arabic market, 22nd edition of CABSAT 2016 has rung a bell. Although the industry recognises the fact that content is the king in the world of media and entertainment, not much has been done ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business A new advertising competition for the brightest young creative minds in the Middle East has been launched to highlight one of the world’s most under-diagnosed diseases. The Young Lynx Print Competition, a feature of the upcoming Dubai Lynx Festival, March 6-8 at Madinat Jumeirah, will call upon advertising executives under the age of 30 to come ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Codemotion, one of Europe’s largest tech conferences devoted to developing an ecosystem of innovation in coding, will arrive for the first time in the UAE on 1-2 April, offering a unique platform for pioneering developers and technical talents to meet and discuss the latest trends and advances in the field. Codemotion is now a regular feature ...

Bloomberg Qatar’s AA credit rating was affirmed by Standard and Poor’s, which cited the nation’s ample natural gas reserves and an infrastructure investment program as drivers of continued growth. The country is standing out amid the spate of downgrades S&P has issued for energy exporters whose credit outlooks have worsened on plunging oil prices. The rating company has already cut ...

Bloomberg Potential supply cuts have the price of metallurgical coal — the kind used to make steel — poised to do something it hasn’t done since October 2013: Rise. The benchmark contract for the coal may gain by a few dollars in the second quarter amid speculation that China is curtailing supply amid high costs, Mark Levin, a coal analyst ...

Bloomberg What is the oil rally running on? “Gasoline!” cry bulls. “Fumes!” cry bears (and the odd headline writer). To find out who is right, it is worth comparing this rally with the one that happened almost exactly a year earlier. The similarity doesn’t end there. This chart shows what happened with oil prices at the start of this year ...

Washington / AFP US employers defied a global slowdown and pumped up hiring in February, fending off worries about financial market turmoil and the oil industry crash. The Labour Department reported that companies and government authorities added a much better-than-expected 242,000 jobs last month, and the figures for the previous two months were revised higher. Steady growth in consumer spending ...