| Spring comes early at Fashion Week
Responding to enthusiasm for seasonless shopping, many designers who presented their spring lines Friday at New York Fashion Week incorporated materials like wool, cashmere and even fur. Liz Claiborne's spring line will be available in February, said vice president of design Richard Ostell. .
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Lam Dong authorities have recently constructed two traditional Ma and K'Ho stilt houses inside the Lam Dong Museum located on the Winter Villa hill on Hung Vuong road, Da La city for preservation and exhibition purposes. For a week, old people who still remember the design and architecture of the original Ma stilt house were invited to Da La city to take part in construction works. Restoration of the two stilt houses cost local authorities VND120million (US$7,500). According to the museum, in the near future, another ethnic stilt house, that of the Chu Ru ethnicity, will also be constructed on the Winter Villa hill. (Source: Tuoi Tre) Hue graduates 20 more imperial court music artists The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has ended a two-year imperial court music training programme for 20 musicians from the three provinces of Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Tri and Quang Binh. The programme was sponsored by UNESCO and delivered by leading experts and professors in the field like Tran Van Khe and To Ngoc Thanh. The 20 graduates were conferred vocational training diplomas in imperial court music. (Source: Tuoi Tre) Exhibition extolling women's beauty opens A nude photo exhibition about women titled Conical Hats and Silk by photographer Tran Huy Hoan has recently opened at Mosaique Livingroom, 23 Ngo Van So, Hanoi.
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