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Fashion, sustainability take center stage as Oscars traditions return
The celebs are out and able to glitter once more. Hollywood Boulevard is cloaked in purple after final 12 months’s ceremony was held downtown in a nook of an unlimited practice station.
“This is among the most essential purple carpets we have seen in a few years,” WWD fashion director Alex Badia mentioned. “A return to life was we all know it and a return to glamor. The return to life.”
Favorites have emerged throughout a sequence of earlier award exhibits and Will Smith has gained all the massive ones for enjoying the daddy of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams in “King Richard.”
“I am discovering myself with my consideration on the hearts and the expertise of the folks round me reasonably than whether or not or not my title will get referred to as,” Smith mentioned.
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Troy Kotsur earned the primary ever Oscar nomination for a male actor who’s deaf, and the movie “Coda” has emerged as a number one contender for the highest prize of Finest Image. It is a feel-good movie that appears to suit what the occasions require.
“We have now realized many issues and one in every of them is now we have to take pleasure in life and now we have to rejoice one another,” Badia mentioned.
“Persons are actually actually excited to stand up and get out of their houses and exit and see different folks and looking out on the silver linings of how we will make a distinction,” mentioned Suzy Amis, founding father of RCGD International.
Name it ‘trend ahead with care.’ It isn’t fairly enterprise as common on the world’s most essential runway which will not be almost as crowded because it was in 2020, lower than a month earlier than the pandemic hit.
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“Throughout the previous few years we have skilled quite a lot of tribulations so having one thing optimistic to construct in direction of is precisely what all people wants,” mentioned Samata Pattinson, CEO of RCGD International.
Final 12 months, Eyewitness Information leisure reporter needed to chat with Suzy Amis Cameron by Zoom, however this 12 months, they might see first-hand Oscar attire produced from recycled supplies, and older clothes worn once more.
Name it ‘couture with a conscience.’ Every of the attire are a part of an initiative supported by the academy referred to as “Pink Carpet, Inexperienced Gown,” a more moderen Oscar custom.
Sustainability is again middle stage and again in particular person.
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FILE photograph: View of the Chicago Hearth Division, the third largest municipal hearth division in america of America, within the Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2014.
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago hearth officers mentioned two ladies have been discovered lifeless in an Englewood house after a home hearth.
The fireplace broke out Tuesday night at a home within the 7200-block of South Wolcott, Chicago hearth officers mentioned.
The fireplace was struck out at about 9:10 p.m., CFD mentioned.
After the fireplace was out, firefighters discovered two grownup feminine victims lifeless within the wreckage.
It was not instantly clear if the ladies died within the hearth or earlier than the fireplace. No additional particulars have been launched.
The Chicago Hearth Division has not but commented on any potential causes for the fireplace or mentioned in the event that they consider it was suspicious.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (WLS) — Three ladies and their households had been good strangers up till the second tragedy introduced them collectively within the aftermath of Highland Park’s July 4th parade.
As Thanksgiving approaches, they’re united in goal and in gratitude for probably the most primary of all issues: life.
“I believed I used to be going to die,” Highland Park capturing survivor Liz Turnipseed mentioned. “That I used to be going to put there and I used to be going to bleed out and I used to be going to die.”
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“I used to be on the parade with my three grownup kids, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old grand child,” mentioned Debra Baum, with the Highland Park Gun Violence Mission. “Our complete household may have been worn out.”
“July third I had 70 folks at my home and the following day our life bought flipped the other way up,” capturing survivor Lindsay Hartman mentioned. “So I simply know for me, I am attempting to take pleasure in it and never spend an excessive amount of time previously.”
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For Lindsay, not spending an excessive amount of time previously means internet hosting Thanksgiving for 30. Liz, who was one of many almost 50 folks injured that day, nonetheless wants a cane to get round, so she’ll be catering the meal and having her complete household fly in. Debra shall be coming along with the identical household she was with on July 4.
“There are numerous households in Highland Park that do not have folks with them this Thanksgiving due to what occurred,” Baum mentioned. “It is a very weighty realization.”
However there’s additionally gratitude for random issues and other people, like for the proper strangers who took in Liz’s 3-year-old daughter for a few hours after she was shot. And the neighbor she’d by no means met earlier than who lent her a step stool for her mattress.
Turning ache into goal is what unites these ladies now as they foyer for an assault weapons ban in Congress. As a result of whereas life for them won’t ever be the identical, it does transfer on.
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WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden administration is but once more extending the pause on federal scholar mortgage funds, a profit that started in March 2020 to assist individuals who have been struggling financially because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a supply conversant in the plan mentioned.
The Division of Training will announce it’s extending the freeze one other six months with the primary funds due two months after June 30, the supply mentioned, until a Supreme Courtroom resolution on the president’s scholar mortgage aid program comes first.
The administration had beforehand mentioned the latest extension could be the final, and funds have been scheduled to restart in January.
However the administration had additionally meant for its scholar mortgage forgiveness program to start canceling as much as $20,000 in debt for low- and middle-income debtors earlier than January. This system has but to be carried out because it faces a number of authorized challenges.
This story is breaking and can be up to date.
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