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2013
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See the rise of fashion films at the Dressing the Screen exhibition
Presented by the British Council, a special section at this exhibition has been dedicated to up-and-coming British female filmmakers like Amanda Boyle.
Socialites get glammed up for 'Rock and Royalty' W!ld Rice gala
Called 'The (Very) Royal Ball', the guestlist boasted an attendance of Singapore's high society with socialites such as Susanna Kang and Sharel Ho, and former Miss Singapore Universe Rachel Kum, who were glammed up in their most creative gowns and costumes.
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Despite the honour and attention it would bring to her work, the award would not change the decision she announced earlier this year to retire from writing.
50 years after her death, Paris remembers Edith Piaf
Edith Piaf will be remembered in the working-class Paris neighbourhood that produced one of the world's greatest, and most tragic, performers.
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Long-lost Orson Welles film showing in Italy
The last known screening of the film was in the 1960s and the reels lay undiscovered in storage in Italy for 30 years.
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Above: Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
Murakami, Munro, Alexievich are Nobel literature favourites
Alice Munro of Canada and Belarussian Svetlana Alexievich were also given a fair chance of winning a prize that has historically been awarded to literary icons.
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