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Letter from PragueCzechs still embracing carpe diem philosophy
Czechs are in the throes of a shopping fever. Fourteen years of a Western
lifestyle have not sated people's urge to buy and buy some more. Few
people need an excuse but if you do there is always some reason - the
Christmas shopping season now starts in October - then come the New Year
sales and then Easter is just around the corner.
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Current AffairsPrague's Na Prikope Street places 18th in Main Streets of the World survey
Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the Champs Elysees in Paris, London's Oxord
street - these and other swanky avenues regularly finish at the top of a
survey called Main Streets Across the World, published annually by real
estate consultants Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker. The latest
survey out this week has shown Prague's own Na Prikope Street has made it
to the top 18. Jan Velinger spoke with Jonathan Hallett, the head of the
Prague branch of Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker. He began by
asking the realties expert whether Na Prikope Street's placing had come as
a surprise, or was instead part of a continuing trend.
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MagazineMagazine
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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Current AffairsThe Cesky sen hypermarket: the Czech dream that didn't come true
For the past couple of weeks, advertisements all over Prague have heralded
the opening of a new hypermarket called Cesky sen, or the Czech Dream. The
opening was advertised for Saturday, May 31, at the fairground in the
Prague quarter of Letnany. But while hundreds of people turned up there
expecting to discover their dream hypermarket, they didn't find it.
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Press ReviewPress Review
A mix of headlines on the front pages - Mlada Fronta Dnes leads with a new
opinion poll claiming support for Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla has
fallen from 75 percent in September to just under half that today.
Meanwhile Lidove Noviny says flat prices have risen by 25 percent in the
first quarter of this year. And Hospodarske Noviny warns of a brain drain
to Brussels as the nation's finest look for new jobs with the European
Union.
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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
