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Prague Fashion Week is now underway. This annual event aims to raise the
profile of the Czech fashion industry and showcase talented designers, who
will be parading their work at various venues throughout the city.
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Do you know which part of Prague is slowly turning into the city's fashion
quarter? How many hours of their work day do Czechs actually work -and
what do they do in the meantime? And why is the Labour Minister waging a
war against cyber sex? Find out more in this week's Magazine with Daniela
Lazarova
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MagazineHelena Fejkova-leading Czech fashion designer
Helena Fejkova is a well known name in this country - she is a leading
Czech fashion designer whose models make a statement at any gala evening.
Seeing her showered with bouquets on the big night, you'd think her life
was all champagne and roses - but of course it is a lot of hard work and a
feeling of responsibility for her employees.
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MagazineCzechs and fashion
While Czech supermodels wow the fashion crowds in Paris, London and Rome,
here in the Czech Republic teenage models of lesser repute -but great
promise- are also strutting down catwalks sporting the latest fashion
trends.What is the Czech fashion scene like more than a decade after the
fall of communism? Have Czechs become more fashionable and fashion
conscious? This week I talked to Mrs. Anna Nandradzi, an image consultant
who recalls queuing up all night to get her hands on a Western fashion
magazine in the days of the Iron Curtain. And we began by discussing the
spring trends:
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Current AffairsMuseum of decorative arts hosted sewing workshop
On the final day of an exhibition of contemporary textile design and fashion from Britain called Fabric of Fashion, on Sunday the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague organized a creative workshop, where mainly young participants gathered to design and create new models for themselves. Alena Skodova was there and has this report:
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One on OnePetr Hlavacek - a man obsessed with shoes
Shoes. Leather shoes. Plastic shoes. Big shoes. Little shoes. Old shoes. New shoes. Tennis shoes. Walking shoes. Running shoes. High-heeled shoes. Sensible shoes. Silly shoes. Prehistoric shoes...Petr Hlavacek, Associate Professor of Shoe Technology at Zlin's Bata University, knows every last detail about them - why we wear uncomfortable shoes, why women spend longer in shoe shops than men, and why a pair of 5,000-year-old shoes could hold valuable clues for the future of footwear. Join him in conversion with in this week's One on One. More
