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My studio is in the 9th Adornment, which is about 5 Km away.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Beadwork Adornment which is a allotment of apparel adornment is aswell in appeal these days.
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Designers Adore Adornment for Fall Peter Stigter & Jonas Gustavsson Emilio Pucci, long known for its prints, pushed more embroidery and detailing for fall, including this intricately embroidered dress, shown during Milan Fashion Week.
The Runway Shifts to Lavish Ornamentation Ray A. Smith 2011
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Adornment is everything; what leads men on in their never-ending chase after female beauty is less a matter of biology than of art and performance.
William T. Vollman's Exploration Of Female Beauty In 'Kissing The Mask' (New York Review) 2010
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Adornment is everything; what leads men on in their never-ending chase after female beauty is less a matter of biology than of art and performance.
William T. Vollman's Exploration Of Female Beauty In 'Kissing The Mask' (New York Review) 2010
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Last week Elyse Zorn Karlin, a jewelry historian and editor-in-chief of Adornment, The Magazine of Jewelry and Related Arts, gave a fascinating presentation about first ladies and their jewelry.
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Author Linda Grant, an award-winning British novelist and journalist, searches the far reaches of humanity in her book of ruminations on clothing, which is subtitled, "The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter."
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Blacks are a litmus test the others can learn from::::Everything they like is bad for you:::: 1. Vanity 2. Adornment 3. SEX SEX SEX 4. Looking "cool" 5. The wealthy/celebrity tools in this society serves as their role models.
DesignerBlog Will 2008
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So she furnished the house and dressed it, hanging the curtains over the doors and burning aloes-wood and musk and ambergris and other essences till the whole place recked with the most delightful perfumes: after which the Adornment of Qualities donned her finest dress and decorations and sat talking with her maids, whom she had left behind when journeying, and related to them all that had befallen her first and last.
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Now it happened, by exceeding good fortune, that her husband was abroad at a bride-feast in the house of one of the merchants; so Zayn al-Mawasif, the Adornment of Qualities, adorned herself with the fairest ornaments and repaired to the
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