Elements of Victorian fashion are coming back into fashion as designers get sentimental
By Suzanne S. Brown
It's fashionable to deride Victorian style as over-ornamented, cloyingly sentimental and uptight. But it's also unabashedly feminine, and that's why a new generation of women is falling for its charms.

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The fashionable Victorian woman cut quite a figure in the high-necked, full-fronted, bustle-backed styles of the day.

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The book and movie, `Memoirs of a Geisha,' are credited with igniting a merchandising frenzy and inspiring new ranges of fashion accessories
By Marylin Johnson
The film Memoirs of a Geisha, which opens in Taiwan Jan. 13, tells the story of a poor Japanese girl who goes to work as a servant in a geisha house and ends up learning the art of the geisha.

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A new exhibition that addresses contemporary social phenomena may have bitten off more than it can chew
By Susan Kendzulak
Globalization has been a trendy theme in art exhibitions ever since the seminal 1990 traveling exhibition Cities on the Move (COTM) which highlighted the rapid urbanization of Asian cities.

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By Bradley Winterton
Not many new DVD releases appear in December, so I'll take this opportunity to offer an overview of some of the more enjoyable opera DVDs I've encountered over the last few years. Enthusiasts need not write in with complaints about what's omitted -- there are already more opera recordings on DVD than anyone not possessing a fortune could manage to collect.

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